Teachers
Adzom Rinpoche
Adzom Rinpoche is the incarnation of Adzom Drukpa’s son, Pema Wangyal, and is also an emanation of great 18th century terton, Jigme Lingpa. Adzom Rinpoche began his studies at age 5, undertook full-time retreat at age 11, and began teaching at 13. Now at 31, he has thousands of Tibetan and Chinese students. He has left … More
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Tsoknyi Rinpoche III was recognized by His Holiness the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa as the reincarnation of Drubwang Tsoknyi Rinpoche II. He is a renowned master of the Drukpa Kagyu and Nyingma traditions and also holds the Tsoknyi lineage, which is based on Ratna Lingpa’s termas. Since 1991, Tsoknyi Rinpoche has been teaching students worldwide in the Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. His … More
Chagdud Khadro
Chagdud Khadro met His Eminence Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche in Nepal in 1978, became his wife in the US in 1979, and remained his devoted student for twenty-three years. At the time of her ordination as a lama in 1997, Rinpoche invested her as the future Spiritual Director of Chagdud Gonpa Brasil. Since Rinpoche’s Parinirvana in … More
Lama Tsultrim Allione
Lama Tsultrim Allione, author and international teacher, founded Tara Mandala with her late husband David Petit in 1994. Tara Mandala was inspired by a vision she had of a Western retreat center while living in the Himalayas in the 1970s, and today Lama Tsultrim serves as its spiritual director and resident teacher. Lama Tsultrim was … More
Khenpo Ugyen Wangchuck
Khenpo Ugyen Wangchuck is one of the rare Bhutanese monastics of an advanced level who is willing to teach full-time in the West. Khenpo has studied and practiced Buddhism since the age of 7, and in 2001 he completed a nine-year course in Buddhist studies, receiving a Master’s degree (MA) in Buddhist Philosophy from the … More
Ösel Dorje
Ösel Dorje (Costanzo Allione) has done almost four years of solitary retreat, and has completed five ngöndros, chöd, several kinds of deity yoga, and the highest Dzog Chen practices. Ösel Dorje’s root teacher is Adzom Paylo Rinpoche, under whose guidance he has done his retreats. He is particularly fond of the practice of ngöndro (the foundational practices) and … More
Charlotte Rotterdam
Charlotte Rotterdam is a teacher, organizational leader, and consultant/coach with a strong commitment to helping others foster creative growth, self awareness and spacious presence in all aspects of their lives. She has been teaching and guiding meditation and Feeding your Demons nationally and internationally for several years, and is Adjunct Faculty at Naropa University. … More
Debra Quayle Travis
Debra Quayle Travis has been on the Buddhist path for almost thirty years. She has a firm foundation in the Theravadan tradition and, while living in Asia in 2005 and 2006, she began her study and practice of Vajrayana. She has taught many meditation classes and retreats to students in a variety of settings, including … More
Karla Jackson-Brewer
Karla Jackson-Brewer is an advanced student of Lama Tsultrim Allione and has been practicing Tibetan Buddhism for the past 22 years. She has traveled to Tibet and assisted Lama Tsultrim in teaching Chöd for the past 11 years. She is an entrepreneur and the co-founder of Sine Qua Non: Allies in Healing – an integrative … More
Ellen Booth Church
Ellen Booth Church (Yeshe Choepel) is a 25-year practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhist teacher, meditation coach, former board member of Tara Mandala, and an accomplished educator and author of many education books and articles for parents and teachers. She is a former professor of Education at the State University of New York and is currently an … More
Pieter Oosthuizen
Pieter Oosthuizen is an entrepreneur and CEO of Paracelsus Labs Inc, a start-up focused on launching a new organic consumer brand. In the past Pieter has brought innovative leadership to institutions such as Naropa University where he held the position of Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, overseeing the School of Extended Studies, and Tara Mandala Buddhist … More
Chandra Easton
In 1996, Chandra’s strong interest in Buddhism led her to Dharamsala, India, where she studied Buddhist philosophy, meditation and Tibetan language at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, founded by H.H. the Dalai Lama. Later, she received her degree in Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara where she focused on Buddhist Studies and translated … More
Scott Blossom
Scott Blossom is a Traditional Chinese Medical practitioner, Shadow Yoga teacher, and Ayurvedic Consultant. He has been studying yoga for over eighteen years and teaching for twelve. His primary teachers are Zhander Remete, founder of Shadow Yoga, and Dr. Robert Svoboda, Ayurvedic physician and scholar. To learn more, visit www.shunyatayoga.com.
Joanna Macy Ph.D.
Eco-philosopher Joanna Macy PhD, is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. A respected voice in the movements for peace, justice, and ecology, she interweaves her scholarship with five decades of activism. As the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, she has created a ground-breaking theoretical framework for personal and social … More
Anam Thubten
Anam Thubten spent much of his childhood and young adult life in a Nyingma monastery in Tibet where he received the benefit of extensive academic and spiritual training from several teachers. After arriving in America in the early 1990’s, Anam Thubten began to teach the Dharma at the request of others and today teaches extensively … More
Monica Mesa
Monica Mesa is the founder and creative director of YOGA FOR THE PEACEFUL, a soulful green community yoga studio, as well as YOGA ROCKS THE BUTTE WINTER FESTIVAL in Crested Butte, Colorado. She is an assistant, mentor, and teacher trainer in Shiva Rea’s Samudra Global School for Living Yoga and is featured in her TV program, … More
Stephen Karcher Ph.D.
Stephen Karcher, Ph.D., is an internationally known scholar, writer, translator, graphic artist and an initiated master diviner. He has taught and lectured on the Yijing and divination in the US, Great Britain, France, Spain, Switzerland and South Africa. As Research Director of the Eranos Foundation (Ascona, Switzerland) he pioneered a depth psychological approach to divination. Major publications … More
Fabio Andrico
Fabio Andrico, was born and raised in Italy and is an internationally recognized expert on the unique tradition of Tibetan Yoga known as Yantra Yoga from the lineage of the renowned Tibetan translator and Dzogchen master Vairocana. Fabio studied directly under the Tibetan great Dzog Chen master Chogyal Namkhai Norbu who in turn learned this … More
Lama Tsultrim Allione via live remote
Lama Tsultrim Allione, author and international teacher, founded Tara Mandala in 1994. Inspired by the vision of a Western retreat center while living in the Himalayas in the 1970s, Lama Tsultrim founded Tara Mandala with her husband David Petit, where she is now the spiritual director and resident teacher. Lama Tsultrim was one of the … More
