Teachers

His Holiness Gyalwang Karmapa

In 1985, a boy named “Apo Gaga” was born into a nomadic family in eastern Tibet. In 1992 that boy was recognized as the Seventeenth Karmapa. His biography can nevertheless properly be said to start some eight centuries earlier, according to the tradition in Tibet that enlightened masters (“tulkus“) can reincarnate in order to extend … More →

Upcoming Programs: Chöd Empowerment and Teachings by His Holiness Gyalwang Karmapa,

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 →

Upcoming Programs: Naked Mind, Warm Heart: a Dzogchen Retreat,

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 →

Upcoming Programs: Death & Dying: Phowa & Zhitro,

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 →

Upcoming Programs: Chöd: Cutting Through Fear, Fixation and Clinging, Opening the Gate to Space: Advanced Vajrayana Retreat, Kapala Level I Training: Feeding Your Demons, Kapala Training Level II: Feeding Your Demons, Prajna Paramita Teachings, Dakini & Simhamukha Retreat, Green Tara Retreat, Authorized Teachers Symposium, Dzinpa Rangdröl Ngöndro, The Chöd Fest, Naked Mind, Warm Heart: a Dzogchen Retreat, Kapala Training – Level II, Death & Dying: Phowa & Zhitro, One Month Practice Pilgrimage to India,

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 →

Upcoming Programs: Dharma for the Sake of Life on Earth,

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 →

Upcoming Programs: Living in Awareness,

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 →

Upcoming Programs: Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism, Dzinpa Rangdröl Ngöndro, The Chöd Fest,

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 →

Upcoming Programs: Kapala Training Level I: Feeding Your Demons™, Family Retreat and Teen Vision Quest,

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 →

Upcoming Programs: Feeding Your Demons™: Kapala Training Level I Part Two, Three Yana Retreat, Sutrayana: Life and Teachings of the Buddha, Buddhist Meditation for Beginners,

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 →

Upcoming Programs: Chöd,

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 →

Upcoming Programs: Three Yana Retreat, Mahayana: Vast View and Awakened Heart, Vajrayana: The Yab Yum Mandala,

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 →

Upcoming Programs: Kapala Training Level I: Feeding Your Demons™,

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 →

Upcoming Programs: Chöd,

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.

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 →

Upcoming Programs: Yoga and Meditation Weekend,

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 →

Upcoming Programs: The Total I Ching,

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 →

Upcoming Programs: Yantra Yoga & Harmonious Breathing,

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 →

Upcoming Programs: Kapala Training Level I: Feeding Your Demons™,

Sudakini Kaery Davies, BA, PGdipDMT, RDMP

Sudakini is a registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist since 2002, following many years as a professional dancer and teacher. Her work as a dancer and therapist has been deeply informed by her Buddhist practice of 23 years. Sudakini sees clients for 1:1 work as well as holding groups; she has been authorized to teach Feeding Your Demons … More →