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Bio

Dina Kaplan is founder/CEO of The Path and a certified meditation teacher who leads teacher training programs, retreats and meditations for brands, festivals, companies and conferences around the world. 

The Path has taught thousands of people to meditate around the world, runs meditation teacher training programs, and coordinates meditations for corporations, events and festivals including SXSW and Sundance. The Path also hosts the annual Mela retreat for executives in tech, business and entertainment.

Dina has studied and practiced dozens of meditation techniques, including Vipassana, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Vedic (or “mantra”) meditation, loving-kindness or (“metta”) meditation and more. Dina can guide meditations for sleep, stress, anxiety, compassion, peace, happiness, focus or to manifest specific goals. Dina has guided all levels of meditators from beginning to advanced.

Before founding The Path, Dina was co-founder and COO of the tech start-up Blip.tv in web video. Before Blip, Dina was an Emmy-award winning television news reporter for local NBC stations. Prior to reporting, Dina worked as an associate producer for MTV News and at the White House as Director of Research for the Office of the White House Counsel. Dina was named one of Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs and Fast Company’s Most Influential Women of Web 2.0. She has a column in Forbes.com and has written articles about living mindfully for the New York Times, today.com, Time Magazine’s Motto brand, Marie Claire, Medium, Town & Country and more.

Dina has taught classes at Columbia Business School, Columbia Journalism School, NYU’s Stern School of Business and NYU’s ITP program for engineers and designers. She has spoken and guided meditations at TEDx Athens, the Reykjavik Global Forum, Flow Japan, VALUEx Caspian (in Azerbaijan), SXSW, the World Economic Forum, Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit and dozens of additional events.

Short Bio

Dina Kaplan is founder/CEO of The Path and a certified meditation teacher who leads teacher training programs, retreats and meditations for brands, festivals, companies and conferences around the world. Dina has studied and practiced dozens of techniques including mindfulness, compassion, mantra, Vipassana and more. The Path has taught thousands of people to meditate including at SXSW, Sundance and other festivals and events.