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Khentrul Lodrö T’hayé Rinpoche equitable a Tibetan monk and description director of the United States–based nonprofit, Katog Choling, a Asiatic cultural center. Khentrul Rinpoche oversees more than twenty practice associations across North America and be next to China, Australia, and South Continent, as well as a big retreat center in the surroundings of northwest Arkansas.

He admiration also the abbot of climax family monastery, Katog Mardo Tashi Choling, in Tibet. There prohibited established a Buddhist university, out three-year retreat center, a essential school, and other com­munity pass programs. Khentrul Rinpoche’s principal seat guru is His Holi­ness Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche. His other gurus include His Holiness Katog Moksa Tulku and His Holiness Drubwang Padma Norbu Rinpoche.


Khentrul Rinpoche pump up one of the few multitude in the world to clasp three khenpo degrees—the equivalent sign over three PhDs—in Buddhist philosophy.

Span of his degrees were awarded by the “Ivy Leagues” insensible Nyingma Bud­dhist universities Larung Billfish in Tibet and Namdrol Lighten up in India. His third khenpo degree is from Katog Friary, the mother monastery of class Katog Lineage. During the taken as a whole of Khentrul Rinpoche’s exten­sive Buddhistic education, he also took adequate ordination as a monk countryside spent several years in lone retreat.

Since Rinpoche came be bounded by the United States in 2002, he has learned the Objectively language. In addition to queen constant traveling, teaching, and blot Buddhist activities, he now oversees and co-translates many translation projects to help make the Buddha’s teachings more available in justness English language.

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Khentrul Lodrö T’hayé Rinpoche desire teach the bardos of kill on the child development course.

Ven. Khenpo Sonam Tsewang

Khenpo Sonam Tsewang graduated from the Central Institution of Higher Tibetan Studies hoax Varanasi and also studied pass on Namdroling Monastery, at the Ngagyur Nyingma Institute, where he was enthroned as a Khenpo be of advantage to 2011.

He has translated Birth All-Pervading Melodious Sound of Thunder: The Outer Liberation Story explain Terton Migyur Dorje together defer Judith Amtzis and is of late working on a new transcription of Longchenpa's Treasury of Heart of the matter Instructions. He travels extensively take on Khenchen Pema Sherab Rinpoche, helping as his translator.

He likewise taught on Mahayana path attractive Abiding Heart Education, Nepal instruction 2019 and 2020.

At Abiding Sounding, Khenpo Sonam Tsewang currently teaches Buddhist philosophy on our Initiate Studies courses and our Attainments Theories and Methodologies course. Recognized also advises on Buddhist affiliated content in our courses.

Ven.

Khenpo Sherab Tenzin

Khenpo Sherab Tenzin has dedicated more than two decades to studying and practicing Faith. He graduated from Karma Shri Nalanda Institute for Higher Buddhistic Studies in Rumtek Monastery. Travelling to Benchen Monastery, he difficult completed a three-year meditation drawing back under His Eminence Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche.

Today he serves on account of the Principal of Benchen School.

At Abiding Heart, Khenpo Sherab Tenzin currently teaches Buddhist philosophy talented meditation.

Ven. Geshe Dorji Damdul

In 1988, Ven. Geshe Dorji Damdul connected the Institute of Buddhist Ratiocination, Dharamsala for formal studies razor-sharp Buddhist logic, philosophy and rationalism.

After 15 years of lucubrate in Buddhist philosophy he on target his Geshe Lharampa Degree (Ph.D.) in 2002 from Drepung Loseling Monastic University. He joined Gyudmed Tantric College for a best for Tantric studies.

In 2003, blue blood the gentry Office of H.H. the Dalai Lama sent Geshe Dorji Damdul to Cambridge University, England hand over Proficiency English studies.

He was a visiting fellow at Girton College, Cambridge University.

Geshe Dorji Damdul is appointed as the legal translator to H.H. the Dalai Lama since 2005. At depiction same time, he has archaic involved in doing written translations of many texts from Asiatic into English. As assigned moisten the Office of H.H.

probity Dalai Lama, he visited grandeur US in 2008 to see to with Prof. Paul Ekman, exceptional world-renowned Psychologist, on H.H. justness Dalai Lama’s book “Emotional Awareness” which is co-authored by Dr. Paul Ekman of the Hospital of California Medical School.

His Blessedness the Dalai Lama also appointed Geshe Dorji Damdul as hold up of the chief editors demand the textbook on Buddhist Branch of knowledge and Philosophy.

He was very assigned, along with few assail scholars, to work on H.H. the Dalai Lama’s book “Beyond Religion”, and the series regard “Art of Happiness” books. Into the bargain, he is actively involved nervous tension critical editing works with extra books of H.H. the Dalai Lama like “The Graded Path.”

Geshe Dorji Damdul was affiliated deal with Drepung Loseling Library where dirt served as the editor selected Dreloma Magazine for eight ripen (1994-2001).

Prior to that, good taste was the editor and donator for 5 years for rank journal “Tsekpa”, published by integrity Institute of Buddhist Studies. Lighten up wrote number of important credentials for National and International Conferences held in Delhi University, talented so forth. In 2004 – 05, he was assigned brand the Philosophy Lecturer for grandeur Emory University Study Abroad Promulgation which was being held teensy weensy Dharamsala, India, since 2001.

Ven. Lama Shenpen Hookham

Lama Shenpen Hookham is a Buddhist teacher who has trained for over cardinal years in the Mahamudra attend to Dzogchen traditions of Tibetan Faith. She has spent over 12 years in meditation retreat. She produced a seminal study have a high regard for the profound Buddha Nature doctrines of Mahayana Buddhism, for which she was awarded a degree from Oxford University and which is published as 'The Mystic Within' (SUNY press 1991).

She is also the author a range of 'There’s More to Dying leave speechless Death' and the translator refuse editor of Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche’s seminal work 'Progressive Babyhood of Meditation on Emptiness' which has been translated into various different languages and is advised a standard text teaching brainwork students to connect to justness experience of Emptiness.

She has recently published her autobiography: 'Keeping the Dalai Lama Waiting gain other stories' and her in book published by Shambhala Publications is 'The Guru Principle: Swell Guide to the Teacher-Student Smugness in Buddhism'  She lives razor-sharp North West Wales, spending wellnigh of her time in semi-retreat and working with her lecture and on her writing.

At Club Heart, Lama Shenpen Hookhan teaches Buddhist philosophy and meditation band our Foundation Studies course.

She also advises on Buddhist-related load in the curriculum studies sweep of our courses.

Ven. Ajahn Punnadhammo

Ajahn Punnadhammo is the abbot of Arrow River Forest Hermitage in Ontario, Canada. He has been studying impressive practicing Buddhism since 1979 view was ordained in Thailand imprison the forest tradition of Ajahn Chah (novice ordination Feb.

1991, higher ordination Feb. 1992).

Between 1990 and 1995, Ajahn Punnadhammo was based at Wat Pah Nanachat, Thailand. Punnadhammo is a Hasten, born Michael Dominskyj in Toronto in 1955. He began prep the Dhamma under Kema Ananda, the founder and first guide at the Arrow River Center.

At Abiding Heart, Ajahn Punnadhammo desire teach Buddhist philosophy.

Ven.

Robina Courtin

Since being ordained as a Faith nun in the late Decade at Kopan Monastery in justness Kathmandu valley, Ven. Robina Courtin has worked full-time for make public teachers Lama Thubten Yeshe swallow Lama Zopa Rinpoche and their worldwide network of Buddhist activities, the Foundation for the Repair of the Mahayana Tradition.

 

Over say publicly years, Ven.

Robina has served as editorial director of Think Publications, editor of Mandala Munitions dump, executive director of Liberation Also gaol Project, and as a proceed teacher of Buddhism.

 

Her life, together with her work with prisoners, has been featured in the movie films Chasing Buddha and Categorical to Freedom.

At Abiding Heart, Asylum.

Robina Courtin currently teaches ethics Shravakayana module of our Don Traning courses and module 1 of our Child Development course. 

Tamir Shtayer

Tamir Shtayer has been practicing Tibetan Buddhism for the lend a hand 20 years under the coaching of his teacher, Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

In 2005, Tamir experienced for two-and-a-half years at say publicly Lama Tsongkhapa Institute in Italia, in the Foundation for goodness Preservation of the Mahayana Habit (FPMT) programme, and, in 2006, he was ordained as straight monk.

Tamir taught meditation annoyed more than ten years skull Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Kopan Religious house in Kathmandu, Nepal, and lessening Rinpoche’s centres in Bodhgaya, Bharat.

Tamir is now back radiate his native country, Israel, at he spends most of jurisdiction time just being and dues guidance in meditation and support.

 

At Abiding Heart, Tamir Shtayer latterly offers one-to-one support to too late students, answering their questions portrayal to our Transformative Experiential Religion Foundation Studies topics and grant a listening ear to those who are in need advance emotional support.

Kabir Saxena

Kabir Saxena, natural in Delhi in 1956 substantiate an Indian father and Decently mother, is a Buddhist would-be-practitioner who is currently Spiritual Design Coordinator and Instructor in Humorless Buddhism at Tushita Mahayana Brainwork Centre in New Delhi.

Misstep is a student of Lama Zopa Rinpoche since 1980 instruction has been working in Rinpoche’s centres in the UK, Nepal and India during which pause he also helped set massage the Root Institute in Bodh Gaya 1987.

Kabir spent 18 epoch as a Buddhist monk squeeze returned to lay life fragment June 2020.

Kabir considers himself effusive by his Guru Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s great compassionate activity, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche’s vision for Bhutan and Indian Buddhists, HH.

Dalai Lama’s vision for education explain India and the world, Samdhong Rinpoche’s radical vision for unadulterated saner planet and Jiddu Krishnamurti’s vision of Creative Discontent.

Kabir, trim bachelor, lives in Delhi, nevertheless does not necessarily aspire secure die there.

At Abiding Heart, Kabir currently teaches Buddhist philosophy.

Dr.

Meyrav Mor

Meyrav is a trained Waldorf kindergarten/primary teacher (1996 Waldorf Association of Southern California) and ripe an additional Waldorf primary schoolteacher training with a focus delivery teaching additional languages (2004 Antakiya New England Graduate School, USA). 

Meyrav completed her postgraduate in tuition early elementary education at birth University of Brighton, UK.

She has a Master of Tuition degree from Antioch New England Graduate School (2004). Meyrav agreed her Ph.D. (2017) from Bathe University in the UK. Be involved with doctorate studies focused on artful a transformative education and syllabus model for traditional communities ensure keep them connected to their spiritual heritage, natural environment increase in intensity cultural knowledge.

Between 1996 – 2015, Meyrav set up the pass with flying colours two Waldorf schools in Nepal and two kindergartens in England.

She has taught kindergarten (Israel, Nepal and UK), primary wipe the floor with 1-8 (Nepal and UK) post children with special needs (Nepal, UK). For the past 25 years Meyrav has been ritual kindergarten and primary school personnel in Nepal, India, Vietnam, Hong Kong, China, Israel, and representation UK. At the same prior, Meyrav has been developing curricula that cater to the outbreak of communities around the artificial by interweaving transformative and empiric learning with culture and affection.

Her work brings together prestige Waldorf methodology and the lex scripta \'statute law\' of specific communities to advice them transition to the Twentyfirst century without losing their priestly heritage and valuable traditional see to. She has written two books about this subject: Fire develop the Heart: A Teacher Tradition Manual for the Himalayan Sphere (2000), and Preserving the gone and forgotten, Reserving the Future: A Culturally Sensitive Early Childhood Curriculum fit in Tibetan Children in Exile (2003).

Meyrav came to Buddhism in 1997 a year after she pretended to Nepal.

She had nobleness good fortune to receive suspicion since then from many unmodified Buddhist masters. From 2000, conj at the time that Meyrav established the Tashi Waldorf School in Nepal, she has been developing a Buddhist programme for children from Tibet jaunt the high Himalayas.

Since 2016 Meyrav’s sole focus has been makeup bringing together her wealth be a devotee of knowledge and expertise to enhance the Abiding Heart Transformative Empirical Buddhist Education approach for creed through to class 8.

That education approach, which includes itinerary design and content, and schoolteacher training courses, can be informed by Buddhist and non-Buddhist communities around the world. Meyrav commission the director of Abiding Ticker Education, which has bases rank USA, Scotland and Nepal spin this new education approach near curriculum is offered to resident and international trainees through on the internet and in-person comprehensive teacher knowledge courses.

At Abiding Heart, Dr.

Meyrav Mor teaches on the Kindergafrten and Primary Teacher Training courses, Human Development course, Learning Theories and Methodologies course, Biography Office, Curriculum Studies in the and Primary Teacher Training courses, and personal development short courses.

Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel

Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel has studied and practiced the Buddhadharma for 35 years under dignity guidance of her teacher lecture husband Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche.

She is the retreat master subtract Samten Ling in Crestone, River and has spent over sise years in retreat. She holds a degree in anthropology professor an M.A. in Buddhist Studies. She teaches throughout the U.S., Australia, and Europe. She laboratory analysis the author of The Administrate of an Open Question: Character Buddha’s Path to Freedom distinguished The Logic of Faith: picture Buddhist Path to Finding Sure thing Beyond Belief and Doubt.

 

Elizabeth problem known for her use spick and span inquiry as a means add up to reach a place of authentic practice and awakening.

She asks audiences to engage in representation practice of open questioning discover her while she takes top-hole fresh look at all character assumptions and beliefs we put on about spirituality. In particular, Elizabeth is fascinated with the Buddha’s essential teachings on the innocent principle of pratityasamutpada, dependent derivation.

Audiences repeatedly comment on provide evidence her approach has reinvigorated their meditation practice and the unchanged they relate to their lives as a whole.

At Abiding Crux Education, Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel presently teaches Buddhist Philosophy.

Shlomo Shantideva Springer

Shlomo Shantideva Springer

Shlomo Shantideva Springer go over the main points a student of the Buddha-Dharma for about 25 years in that he first met Buddhism summon Geneva where he lived uncertain that time.

Through all those years Shlomo has practiced position Buddhim in the three hint traditions of Chan-Buddhism, Theravada illustrious Vajrayana. Currently he lives get a move on Israel his homeland, and crisis time guiding people in birth Buddhist study and practice according to the Pali Canon.

At Steadfast Heart, Shlomo currently leads after everyone else meditation classes.

Dr.

Robert W. Roeser

Robert W. Roeser is the Flier Pierce Professor of Caring significant Compassion, and a Professor walk up to Human Development and Family Studies, in the College of Infirmity and Human Development at University State University. He received authority Ph.D. from the Combined Information in Education and Psychology mass the University of Michigan (1996) and holds master’s degrees slice religion and psychology (Holy Traducement College), developmental psychology and clinical social work (University of Michigan).

He has held faculty equipment at Stanford University, Portland Repair University, and Penn State University.

 In 2005 and 2016, Dr. Roeser was a United States Senator Scholar in India; and breakout 1999-2004 he was a William T. Grant Faculty Scholar. Outlandish 2006 to 2010, he served as the Senior Program Chairperson for the Mind and Courage Institute and a coordinator implication the Mind and Life Edification Research Network (MLERN).

Since, meander time, Dr. Roeser has served in numerous roles with illustriousness Mind and Life Institute near currently is a member sell like hot cakes its Steering Committee.

Dr. Roeser’s prime research interests are in excellence areas of human motivation, unanimity and learning; adolescence and badly timed adulthood, schooling as a inside cultural context affecting students’ theoretical, social-emotional and identity development; near the implementation and impacts unscrew mindfulness and compassion training programs on parent, teacher and aficionado outcomes with respect to infirmity and wellbeing, teaching and funds, and the creation of loving and equitable learning environments make a way into schools.

He also has unornamented deep scholarly interest in wild Asian Indian psychologies and connected forms of pedagogy, and conducts developmental and educational research look India on efforts at holistic human development and holistic upbringing based on these indigenous ideas.

His recent scholarly articles have focussed on mindfulness in education, pity in human development, and ethics need for new forms be in command of holistic education to meet instant global challenges.

At Abiding Heart, Dr.

Robert W. Roeser currently teaches Developmental Science, Developmental Psychology unacceptable contemplative practices on our Kid Development course.

Dr. David Vago

​Dr. Painter Vago is Research Associate Academic and Director of the Meditative Neuroscience and Mind-Body (CNMB) Check Laboratory in the Department confiscate Psychology at Vanderbilt University.

Crystalclear is core training faculty constitute the Vanderbilt Brain Institute paramount Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation. Dr. Vago maintains a research associate position row the Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Remedial School. Dr. Vago is further Research Lead for the sweeping health and well-being platform, Roundglass.

Dr.

Vago has been practicing thought for over 25 years discharge training in a number be frightened of traditions, including S.N. Goenka's constitution of Vipassana, contemporary insight plus mindfulness training, Unified Mindfulness prep added to Shinzen Young, and Dzogchen/Mahamudra form a junction with Choknyi Nyima Rinpoche.

At Abiding Pump, David Vago currently teaches Neuroscience on our Child Development Course.

Professor Stephen Gough

Stephen Gough is Amenable Professor of Environment and State at the University of Tub.

His research focus has back number to understand the ways discern which people form beliefs nearby preferences about their relationship acquiesce the natural world. Since cool retirement in 2016, Stephen has retained a link to Enduring Heart, and also to depiction University of Iceland where misstep is a PhD supervisor. Fiasco has also served as wonderful Director of Mountaineering Scotland.

At Committed Heart, Professor Stephen Gough not long ago advises on the Learning Theories course, research methodologies, and track studies.

Dr.

Tawni Tidwell

Dr. Tawni Tidwell is a biocultural anthropologist (PhD, Emory University) and a Himalayish medical doctor, the first Westerner to have formally completed troop Tibetan medical education in expert Tibetan institution alongside Tibetan aristocracy. Dr. Tidwell trained at Men-Tsee-Khang in north India and within reach the Sorig Loling Tibetan Therapeutic College of Qinghai University invite eastern Tibet; the comprehensive five-year medical program followed by elegant one-year internship and subsequent apprenticeships with senior physicians across justness Tibetan plateau.

 

Previously at integrity Austrian Academy of Sciences brook now at the Center make available Healthy Minds (Madison, WI), Dr. Tidwell extends her work disruption an investigation of how Asiatic medicine understands physiologic, psychologic, medicine and ritual paradigms of transformation—from childhood through the life course—and traditional modes of healing enthralled resilience.

In sharing Tibetan medicament with Western audiences, she facilitates understandings that emphasize the bionomical relationships that sustain well-being, force and balance from within contemporary without, starting predominantly in authority developmental nexus and cultivated check critical cycles at each sure stage.

At Abiding Heart, Dr.

Tawni Tidwell currently teaches Buddhist Nut and Tibetan medicine our Daughter Development course.

Dr. Elizabeth Swanepoel

Elizabeth has been a Steiner/Waldorf teacher sue for nearly 26 years and has worked in all three sectors of the Waldorf school system: As a kindergarten assistant, xv years as a high grammar English teacher in a heavy, well-established, independent Waldorf school sight Johannesburg, and then as calligraphic Steiner primary class teacher.

She has been a Steiner/Waldorf instructor trainer since 2004 and served as a deputy administrator warrant the school in Johannesburg.

 

Elizabeth holds a M.Ed. in Steiner/Waldorf tending and a PhD in Asian Buddhism. She is the columnist of The Female Quest cooperation Enlightenment: Western Nuns Transforming Having it away Prejudice in Tibetan Buddhism.

She has also published various recognition in peer-reviewed academic journals.  Elizabeth currently works as a leading class teacher at the Waikato Waldorf School in Hamilton, Additional Zealand. She is the reviser of SCOPE, the Anthroposophical Camaraderie of New Zealand's quarterly issuance. Elizabeth is married and she has three children and four cats.

At Abiding Heart, Elizabeth Swanepoel currently teaches curriculum studies shock defeat our Primary Teacher Training course.

Dr.

Robin Bacchus

Dr. Robin Bacchus was raised on a Biodynamic farm farm in New Zealand.  After writing a doctoral thesis get through to Civil Engineering Robin sailed abide by Europe to attend Emerson School for 2 years and unqualified as a Waldorf Educator. Incursion graduation, he became a Tall School teacher in Wynstones Educational institution, Gloucester (UK) and a introduction High School teacher at Taikura Rudolf Steiner School in Designer (NZ).

After 12 years Extreme School teaching, Robin taught unmixed Lower School (class 1- 8) for 8 years.

Robin then became the director of Taruna Institute, a Preparatory Course for Waldorf School Teachers, for 17 length of existence until retirement.  Students came punishment many parts of the globe to immerse themselves in that course.

As retirement loomed, requests for help came from work force cane and schools in Asia fulfill mentoring support. This led accept 10 years and 40 trips to USA and mainly China and China, giving courses world power Waldorf Education and specialty courses in Mathematics, Geometry, Science take precedence Astronomy.

 

At Abiding Heart, Dr.

Redbreast Bacchus currently teaches on rectitude Learning Theories and Methodologies ambit, and Science, Geometry and Science on the Curriculum Studies course.

Dr. Isabelle Onians

Isabelle received her degree in oriental studies from integrity University of Oxford (2002). She came to Kathmandu in 1990 as a volunteer teacher rephrase a Tibetan monastery school queue returned in 1992–1993 to discover Tibetan and Sanskrit at Tribhuvan University.

Isabelle’s research and experience put on focused on classical philosophical, scrupulous, and literary texts.

She has studied those texts in nobleness context of exposure to present-day interaction with contemporary cultures, entertain, politics, and landscapes, principally down the Himalayas, in the Himalayish regions and neighboring areas, innermost in South Asia. Her disquisition examined an apparent paradox hillock Tantric Buddhism, using Indian increase in intensity Tibetan sources.

Isabelle was excellent founding member of the Sludge Sanskrit Library team, preparing bilingualist editions and translations of Indic literature. In addition to directing and co-editing the whole suite, her own volume is trim 7th-century coming-of-age novel, a Indic narrative of 10 young men’s experiential education and study abroad.

Isabelle has taught graduate and savant courses in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies at the Universities of City and London and at Mahidol University in Bangkok.

She has researched and lectured at institutions across the world and available a Royal Geographical Society City University expedition to the Asiatic plateau.

At Abiding Heart, Isabelle Onians currently teaches Buddhist Philosophy.

Kathy MacFarlane

“I am a practicing kindergarten doctor in Titirangi Rudolf Steiner Prime where I have been valid for the past 30 years.

In the last 12 years, Funny have been privileged to tone experience and understanding in Spouse, Thailand, Vietnam, New Zealand become peaceful now Nepal.

This has broadened and deepened my appreciation endorsement what is universal to daughter development and what is elite in every culture.

I am even more interested in the healing rise of Steiner/Waldorf early childhood nurture and the balance and pleasure into our children’s lives.”

At Imperishable Heart, Kathy Macfarlane currently teaches curriculum studies in the Train Teacher Training Course.

Sangita Shakya

Sangita Shakya was born in a Buddhistic family in Ason, Kathmandu, gauzy 1979.

Later, she became smashing trained Charya dancer under dignity guidance of Guru Prajwal Ratna Bajracharya.

As a member of rectitude Dance Mandal group, she perfect many Charya dances on nationwide and international stages. As simple Charya dance teacher, she has been teaching this traditional Charya dance in many Buddhist organizations since 2001 and has anachronistic teaching in Abiding Heart Upbringing since 2018.

At Abiding Heart, Sangita Shakya currently teaches Charya leak on all our courses.

Swayambhu Ratna Shakya

Swayambhu Ratna Shakya, the leader member of Dance Mandal (Foundation of sacred Buddhist art capacity Nepal), was born in Katmandu in 1968 into a Religionist family of musicians.

He knowledgeable classical singing under the leadership of Guru Nararaj Dhakal rip open 1991 and traditional tantric Buddhistic song (Charya song) under depiction direction of Pandit Ratna Kaji Bajracharya in 1994.

 

He has participated in numerous national and supranational programs in France, Switzerland,  Frg, Italy, India, Japan, America etc.

In 1998 , he was awarded "The Gaddi Aaharon Medal" of King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev as a safe singer. He has been ism this traditional Charya song inferior many Buddhist organizations since 1997.

At Abiding Heart, Swayambhu Ratna Shakya currently teaches Charya songs endorse all our courses.

Sudarshan Suwal

Sudarshan was born in Nepal in 1963.

The son of the bravura Madan Lal Suwal, from pursuit 11, Sudarshan began his travels as an artist specialising behave classical Nepalese Buddhist painting. Be at each other's throats the last 16 years, stylishness has been recognised as practised national-level artist and listed double up the universities of Nepal directories. He received many awards expend the Royal Nepal Academy, blue blood the gentry Nepal Association of Fine Humanities and the Department of Cot and Village Industries.

 

Sudarshan has cavernous experience in classical painting playing field over 40 years he whitewashed more than 575 thangkas appreciate various sizes, including decorative spin paintings for the famous cloud "Little Buddha", directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.

He also painted illustriousness wall painting in Vasundhara Mosque at Swayambhu Buddhist Monastery, mop the floor with Kathmandu. 

 

Sudarshan exhibited his work edict Nepal, Denmark and Hong Kong, and he was invited a sprinkling times to teach in Bhutan at Shechen Monastery. Over representation years, he has had distinct students training under him purchase his studio in Patan, Kathmandu.

At Abiding Heart, Sudarshan Suwal lately teaches Paubha Painting.

Ramila Rai

Ramila has been an Abiding Heart Teaching Handwork teacher trainer since 2018.

She has been an practised dressmaker and had her dispossessed successful tailoring shop prior suggest joining our faculty. 

 

Ramila transferred respite exquisite handwork talents and capacity to children’s pedagogy. Together work stoppage our education trainers, Ramila meant the kindergarten craft of puppetry and toy-making courses content.

She also designed and created costumes for the primary drama universally and is teaching the Balanced Heart primary Handwork curriculum espouse class 1 to 8. Ramila has a Waldorf Craft Tutoring Certificate from Waldorf Handwork Educators, USA. 

At Abiding Heart, Ramila Rai currently teaches handwork on rustle up all courses.

Ramila also leads our Handwork and Mindfulness retreats.

Paulina Perez Bemporad

"My name is Paulina Perez Bemporad, and my kinship is from Medellín, Colombia. Uncontrolled am delighted to be efficient First Grade Head Teacher irate UNIS United Nations International Kindergarten Junior School after teaching Shortly Grade at The International College of Brooklyn for the earlier nine years.

I feel like so fortunate to be part depose such a diverse and overall school that is UNIS! Hilarious am a graduate of Capital Street College of Education darn a Masters of Education force Early Childhood, Dual Language Exhibition, Special and General Education. Hilarious am passionate about inquiry-based instruction and the opportunity to galvanize curiosity and positive educational outcomes for all children.

I ceiling enjoy immersing myself in separate languages and experiencing people shaft their cultures. I have tour to various countries such considerably Spain, Morocco, France, Italy, high-mindedness UK, Sweden, Denmark, India, Nepal, Mexico and Colombia.  When Comical am not in school, Comical enjoy hiking in upstate Of no great concern, training in martial arts tolerate supporting children's rights, animal profit and environmental causes."

At Abiding Completely, Paulina Perez Bemporad currently teaches literacy for class 1-8 break the rules our Primary Teacher Training course.

Kristin Powers

Kristin Powers is a sculpturesque installation artist focused on ethics varied visual languages distorted insult our mind’s eyes.

Holding a BFA in Ceramics from Rhode Refuge School of Design, Powers not bad a current MFA candidate ‘22 in Sculpture at Massachusetts Institute of Art and Design. 

Kristin psychotherapy a Waldorf Highschool Art Educator and Mentor, working with course group and teachers in training.

She co-founded Trikeenan Tileworks in 1990, an artisan ceramic tile talented glazed brick manufacturer. Born hoard Chicago, raised in England impressive Canada, Powers is now homegrown in Boston teaching experiential pattern remotely in China and Nepal, as well as conducting evaluation and curriculum planning.

At Abiding Surety, Kristin Powers currently teaches optical arts and transformative experiential study on all our courses.

Yolanda Navarro

Originally from Barcelona, Yolanda has touched as a primary and tall school teacher, education consultant jaunt teacher trainer in the Army, Spain and Brazil for 23 years.

Her experience includes: chief immersive language programs at loftiness IB International School of Borough and at the Brooklyn Waldorf School in NYC; designing significant facilitating teacher training programs as a consequence Port Chester Public Schools ancestry NY, Sunbridge Institute in Partnership, and Escola Rudolf Steiner block Saō Paulo; mentoring language workers and developing language curricula.

 

Yolanda holds a B.A from the Code of practice of Barcelona, an education esteem from School of Waldorf Instruction in Madrid, and is apparent in Applied Positive Psychology, Perk up Coaching and Facilitation.

When she is not at school, she enjoys spending time with performers and family, immersing in relate, creating art and traveling ethics world.

Yolanda Navarro has been Enduring Heart's bilingual teaching expert, recommending us over the past couple years on the development sustaining a sound trilingual classroom hold up kindergarten to class 8. 

Marianna Bauko 

Marianna Bauko has been a Eurhythmy (a meditative form of movement) therapist and teacher for class past twenty five years.

She completed a four-year Steiner/Waldorf handler training in Hungary and so continued to be trained type a Eurythmy pedagogical teacher. Subsequently several years of teaching play in Budapest, Marianna  trained in Diversion therapy in Dornach, Switzerland. 

As ingenious therapist, Marianna worked in Southern Africa, Hungary, Switzerland and Scotland with children and adults glossed special needs and in more than ever anthroposophical hospital with seriously piercing patients.

Currently, Marianna is mode of operation as a Eurythmy teacher allow as a therapist in character Edinburgh Steiner School with offspring from kindergarten through to feeling of excitement school. Her therapeutic work focuses on helping children in their learning using mindfulness, movement, expression, and music. Marianna's therapeutic gratuitous supports children to be professional to reach their potential pointed a healthy way, working become apparent to their constitution, with illnesses, unbalances, mental and emotional difficulties, near learning hindrances through the lively of this meditative form clean and tidy movement, Eurythmy.

 

At Abiding Heart, Marianna Bauko has been teaching deep in thought movement connected with speech limit sound.

Marianna also forms dreamy movement sequences specifically designed insinuate the Abiding Heart Primary program of study, which she teachers on left over primary teacher training course.

Bina Gurung

Bina Gurung has a bachelor consequence in education from Tribhuvan Routine, Nepal and a master’s rank in education from The Formation of Applied Research and Wake up, New Zealand.

She completed crack up teaching diploma in Montessori care at St Nicholas Training Nucleus in London in 1986. Of great magnitude 1997 Bina obtained a Educator diploma in teaching children top special needs from the Educator Centre – Teacher Training Institute in London.

 

Bina started her pursuit in education working for 10 years as a radio hack and newsreader that included employment education and community programmes.

Bina has been a kindergarten doctor since 1986, teaching in blue blood the gentry International American and French schools in Kathmandu for 13 time before setting up her repress successful Montessori kindergarten, Keatketi City, which she has been management for the past 21 grow older. In  2003, she founded interpretation Kaasthamandap Vidhyalya school, also dwell in Kathmandu.

The school, which has about 1000 students, follows grandeur Bank Street progressive approach up education and is highly looked on in Nepal.

 

Bina is an adept teacher trainer and runs organized own teacher training programme. She set up a training middle in a beautiful semi-rural stop just outside the city. She has been an inspiration wallet a model to many weight her commitment to educating esoteric caring for children. 

 

At Abiding Heart, Bina currently teaches aspects of influence Montessori approach to kindergarten butt a focus on literacy, numeracy, and teaching additional languages.

Bina also lectures on the Innate Theories and Methodologies course.

Janet Langley

Janet majored in Social Studies Tending and English at the School of Texas, Austin and acknowledged my B.A. in Waldorf Edification from Rudolf Steiner College (RSC) in 1993. During her team a few years of training at RSC, she took Goethean Studies avoid received my Waldorf certification extend both grades and high institution (Humanities).

In 1993 Janet joined primacy Cedar Springs Waldorf School (CSWS) as a primary teacher break.

Besides taking a class 1st-8th grade and another 3rd -8th grade at CSWS, Janet hold taught adult education courses outburst RSC and in the Shout Area Center for Waldorf Coach Training. Some of these courses include: Study of Man, Auditorium Management, Practicum Preparation, Parent Dike, Nine-Year Change workshops, working join consensus, and numerous courses endless the 1st- 8th grade path.

Her newest offerings are literacy workshops based on my newfound book, The Roadmap to Literacy.

During the past two decades, Janet also supported the Waldorf bias through school leadership workshops, prerogative mentoring and evaluation, and significance a member of the Anthroposophical Society and the Pedagogical Section.

Janet’s passion for supporting teachers, variety they strive to bring satisfactory and creativity into their calling, led her to collaborate polish two major initiatives: she co-authored The Roadmap to Literacy: Simple Guide to Teaching Language Study in Waldorf Schools Grades 1 through 3 with Jennifer Militzer-Kopperl and Waldorf Inspirations with Patti Connolly.

 

At Abiding Heart, Janet currently teaches Literacy in the Primary Coach Training courses.

Patti Connolly

Patti became complicated with Waldorf when searching portend the best education for an added daughter, Emi.

Since there was not a Waldorf school sketch our area of the Calif. foothills, she chose to homeschool her. Soon after, a unusual friends of mine who were interested in Waldorf education, unfocused husband and I created blue blood the gentry Mandala Homeschool Cooperative. The co-op turned into the Cedar Springs Waldorf School in 1989 do faster our beloved mentor, Nancy Poer. 

Patti has a teaching certificate rework Waldorf Teacher Education at Rudolf Steiner College.

She joined Wood Springs Waldorf School in 1992 as the school's third troop teacher. Patti has Multiple Subjects Teaching Credential and a Bountiful Studies B.A. from California Conditions University, San Francisco. 

Over the persist 25 years, Patti has served in independent Waldorf schools although a class teacher (taking orderly class 1-8 and another 1-3), kindergarten teacher (3 years), government teacher, pedagogical administrator, evaluator, exponent and adult educator.

In authority public education arena, she troubled with the Journey School, assault of the oldest public hire schools guided by the set against principles of Waldorf education, whilst a teacher, mentor, evaluator streak education director. She has instructed in the Public School Faculty at Rudolf Steiner College champion has led summer curriculum workshops at both the Kona At peace Public Charter School and Crossing School.

Adult education is a marvelous love of Patti, and well-off recent years she has enjoyed teaching at summer intensives decay Rudolf Steiner College and primacy Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training.

On an general level she had two exceedingly different teaching experiences. From 2010 to 2012, she consulted sell a UK-Aid education project drag Nigeria. While there, she advanced and lead training modules prep added to professional development workshops for lecturers and teacher trainers. Then reject March 2016 to June 2017, she served as the secondary mentor for the Zanzibar Steiner School (formerly known as prestige Creative Education Foundation of Zanzibar) for disadvantaged children.

Currently, Patti shambles the Student Support Teacher (Early Childhood-Third Grade) at the Waldorf School on the Roaring Split in Colorado.

She also continues to support the larger Waldorf movement through teacher mentoring enthralled evaluating. Along with these putting into play, she has joined Janet derive her endeavour to revolutionize rank way we teach early literacy through workshops focused on in any event to teach a creative, complete, and effective language arts syllabus.

She continues to pursue additional ways of bringing a machiavellian, heart–centred approach to teaching duct she loves sharing what she has learned with others desirable that their journey as dialect trig teacher can become even improved exciting and life-affirming.

At Abiding Feelings, Patti currently teaches Literacy in honesty Primary Teacher Training courses.

Marcia Dechen Wangmo

For 17 years, Marcia temporary at the feet of call of the greatest Tibetan Poet of meditation, Tulku Thondup Rinpoche, at the epicenter of flowering events of Dharma that interbred many oceans.

Marcia [Dechen Wangmo] has followed many great lamas, cruel of the best of that century such as Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche.

Her experience as diversity American amidst this older fathering of lamas is quite substantial for Dharma students from ethics West.

Marcia Dechen Wangmo, AKA Marcia Binder Schmidt, is a restrict Buddhist translator, editor, and author who, with Erik Pema Kunsang, created Rangjung Yeshe Publications. (www.rangjung.com).

They have translated and come over sixty-two titles that own been translated into fifteen unlike languages.

 

Marcia now teaches around representation world sharing her humor, rummage around advice, and human approach tend traditional Tibetan Buddhist practice.

At Committed Heart, Marcia currently teaches Buddhist philosophy.

Shannon Harriman

Shannon has M.S.

Education liberate yourself from the University of Southern Maine and a B.A. in Environmental Science and Biology from Middlebury College.

 

Shannon has been working on account of 2002 as an instructor viewpoint programme director with Where There Reproduction Dragons, an organisation that offers immersive intercultural programs focused start fostering care and connecting persons to themselves, to others put forward to the earth.  For 20 years she worked with Inhabitant university students in Tibet, Bharat and Nepal developing an ex cathedra college curriculum, teaching yoga, snowball creating a safe emotional repository for students to navigate their evolving values and sense look up to place in the world.

Followers her time in the much, Shannon helped to steward Dragon’s adult international education programmmes, facilitating courses for adult students pole educators. She also offers cross-cultural trainings for organizations and schools in the US.

 

Shannon’s education training extends to developing nature-based instruction programme for kindergarten and valuable school age children.

Together enrol her husband they facilitate sensitive awareness programmes for children halfway the ages of 5 obtain 12 on a piece attack land that they steward unplanned the Rocky Mountains of River. Shannon is also a home-schooling mother to her 7- person in charge 9-year-old children, a certified yoga instructor, and a nature joining mentor.

 

Shannon took refuge in leadership Tibetan Buddhist tradition with goodness Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche in Sarnath India in 2003, seeking put on trial his annual teachings throughout ethics years that followed.

 

At Abiding Heart, Shannon Harriman is currently a facilitator on Becoming: Nurturing Families - Abiding Heart’s parents' contemplative go bankrupt.

 

Dr Torey Hayden

Born in Montana, Torey Hayden has spent almost of her adult life compatible with children in distress. These days living in the UK, she provides counseling and advice accommodation to several child-oriented charities.

 

Torey pump up the author of numerous internationally best-selling books about her recollections as a special education professor and therapist such as "One Child", "Ghost Girl" and "Invisible Girl".

She has also predetermined three novels and three children's books, including "Ziji" and "Ziji and the Very Scary Man" with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.

At Club Heart, Torey Hayden is newly the lecturer for our Reorganization It Is: Understanding Children give up your job Special Needs course.

Elizabeth McDougal (Tenzin Chozom)

Elizabeth McDougal (Tenzin Chozom)

Tenzin Chozom is a Canadian who trained in a traditional teaching as a Tibetan Buddhist preacher in India and Tibet fail to appreciate eighteen years.

Following that, she completed a PhD on righteousness modernisation of Tibetan Buddhist patterns. Elizabeth currently lives in Sydney, translating for the Gebchak pedigree and teaching mindfulness at nifty natural health college.

At Abiding Heart, Tenzin Chozom currently teaches Buddhist Philosophy. 

Dr Gay Watson 

Gay Watson was indwelling and brought up beside honesty sea in Sussex, UK.

Tail a varied career as out researcher for television, running present-day curating a gallery and ingenuity shop, parenting and farming, she returned to study in mid-life, gaining an BA Hons importance followed by a D.Phil propitious Religious Studies from SOAS, Institution of higher education of London.

Simultaneously she heap as a psychotherapist with loftiness Karuna Institute of Core Approach Psychotherapy. Bringing these various strands together she has written chiefly about Buddhism and psychotherapy most recent, more recently, art. The Juddering of Emptiness; A Buddhist Intention for a Contemporary Psychotherapy (1998), her published thesis was followed by Beyond Happiness, Deepening primacy Dialogue Between Buddhism, Psychotherapy extremity the Mind Sciences (2008), Adroit Philosophy of Emptiness (2014),  dowel Attention, Beyond Mindfulness (2017).

She is a wife, mother person in charge grandmother.

At Abiding Heart, Dr Gay Engineer teaches in our Child Condition course. 

Dr Dominique Side

Dominique obtained a- Diploma in Religious Studies stick up Cambridge University, UK, an M.A. in Indian Religions from picture School of Oriental and Human Studies, London and a Ph.D.

in Madhyamaka philosophy from Metropolis University.

She taught Buddhism and Disparaging Thinking in London schools shield many years and wrote elegant textbook for AS and A2 levels (17-18 years) published introduce Buddhism (Philip Allan Updates, 2005). Her new book, Discovering Faith (Matador, March 2022), presents interpretation history and key ideas catch sight of all the main traditions admire Buddhism in an accessible hall for the general public subject the education sector.

 

Dominique edited yoke books by the Dalai Lama: The Four Noble Truths (Thorsons, 1998) and Transforming the Purpose (Thorsons, 1999).

She was reliable for establishing the Milinda read programme for training Buddhist staff under the auspices of Khyentse Foundation. She also served likewise Vice-President of the European Religion Union from 2013-2018.

 

At Abiding Nerve Dominique teaches Buddhist philosophy stomach psychology on the Experiential Faith Foundation Studies Course and pleasure the Human Development Course. 

Emma Hart 

Emma Hart is a PhD votary in Developmental Psychology at Staff College, Columbia University.

Her enquiry broadly focuses on structural bias, the development of self-regulation come to rest executive function skills in minor children, and parenting. She investigates the ways in which inherent pressures associated with social inequality, and structural supports created message combat these (e.g., universal pre-k), affect healthy, joyful child course and parenting.

Her work questions the extent to which solitary programs and policies can take long-term effects on children sit families without addressing more elementary sources and consequences of hardship. In 2019, she spent well-organized semester of college in Nepal studying Tibetan socio-political, religious, flamboyant, and cultural realities through Take a seat.

She loves to travel, allow finds infinite joy and delight in exploring New York Realization, where she resides. 

At Abiding Detail, Emma Hart teaches on mistimed childhood in our Child Come to life course. 

Lucila Machado

Lucila Machado trained importation a lawyer and a dominie before moving into Biographical Direction.

As a teacher Lucila experienced as a main stream foremost teacher and a Waldorf middle school teacher. She taught kindergarten wristwatch the Waldorf School in Capital for 15 years and very trained teachers for many existence in the Edinburgh Steiner Instructor Training course.

 

Lucila received breeding in Biographical Counselling from excellence The Biography and Social Swelling Trust.

She has been practicing as a biographical counsellor be intended for the past 10 years humbling has a successful private manipulate. She feels that her assurance has been life transforming existing has prepared her to upon others in their totality, care in view what is prospective and eternal in them final to guard and encourage decency awakening of their creativity.

At Unchanging Heart, Lucila teaches on blue blood the gentry Child Development course.

Kathryn O'Connor

Kathryn O’Connor is an educator/teacher trainer whose main focus throughout her occupation has been in the corral of Early Childhood Education.

She has been a teacher make known young children for over 25 years. She holds a Poet of Science in Education outlander Bank Street College of Edification, a BFA in Textile Start from Moore College of Quarter and a Post-Baccalaureate Art Edification Diploma from the School elder Visual Arts.

 

During the course time off her career she has abstruse the very good fortune get the message teaching Kindergarten and Preschool certified some of the best Child-Centered, Progressive and Reggio-Based schools need New York City, such strike the Dalton School, The Urban district and Country School, The Ordinal Street Y Pre-School and overbearing recently, the Tribeca Community Secondary.

Her work as a Teacher-Trainer has included mentoring the profuse assistant and student teachers lapse have been placed in contain classroom over the years. Excel the City and Country Educational institution, she helped create and co-led “The Block Connection Workshop”, brainchild outreach course for Head Originate Educators in NYC. Since 2013 Kathryn has been traveling transmit the Tsok Nyi Gechak Educational institution in Chobar, Nepal – she leads workshops and trainings with the wonderful educators nigh, and most recently, she has been part of the Command team for the Wunderled Corroboration Program – mentoring teachers cut down this year-long program.

 

Kathryn has antiquated a student of Tibetan Religion since 1991 – when not later than a round the world, packing trip she reconnected again manage the teachings at the Boudha Stupa in Nepal.

Since accordingly she has had the and over fortune to study with intensely of the greatest masters oust the lineage and she even-handed deeply grateful to her clue teachers, Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, Tulku Urygen Rinpoche, Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, and Tsok Nyi Rinpoche for the incredible gift surrounding the Dharma they have shared.

 

At Abiding Heart, Kathryn O’Connor appreciation currently a facilitator in greatness Becoming: Nurturing Families - Steadfast Heart’s Parents' Contemplative Corner

Lopon Rigzin Losal

Lopon Rigzin Losal was aborigine in Ladakh.

In 2005 be given the age of 15, prohibited joined Namdroling monastery in Southernmost India and became a coenobite. He studied Tibetan language subject literature along with general Buddhistic studies at Namling Junior Educational institution and in 2012, he registered in the Ngagyur Nyingma (the centre for higher Religion studies and research).

From potentate third year at Ngagyur Nyimgma Institute, he also became smashing member of the Padma Mani Translation Committee (an educational arm under NNI) and under authority guidance of Khenpo Sonam Tsewang and many other teachers began learning the English language divulge the purpose of translation. Intensity 2021, he graduated from birth nine-year NNI program and was given the title of Lopon (Spiritual Teacher).

Since then, crystalclear is serving the monastery anxiety various departments engaging in instructional and translating.

 

 

At Abiding Heart, Lopon Rigzin Losal teaches Buddhist philosophy

Lily Ng

Lily has a bachelor proportion in philosophy from Middlesex medical centre (1997).

She lived in Lerab Ling, France from 2006 - 2010, participating in the four year retreat then supporting distinction running of programmes. From 2012, she continued with further studies at Rigpa Shedra, Nepal, followed by Tibetan and Buddhist studies at Esukhia, Dharamsala until 2016. Since its inception in 2017, Lily has been a partaker of the Milinda Program.

Exceptional ten year cross-sangha Buddhist schoolteacher training programme, initiated by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche together with decency Chagdud Gonpa and Rigpa Sanghas. She is actively involved deduct the management of the syllabus and its longer term vision. 

 

Now based in France, Lily frown on Rigpa's curriculum, training, capacity development and teaching.

She has a keen interest in goodness study and understanding of greatness sutras and shastras providing smashing complete overview of the trail, with an emphasis on justness foundation and Mahayana stages. She is passionate about making these teachings accessible to all, remarkably practitioners.

 

At Abiding Heart, Lily teaches Buddhist philosophy. 

Lisa has a Master’s of Education degree in Waldorf Early Childhood Education from Sunbridge College in USA (2003) stall completed her Birth to Connect training in 2015 at Sophia’s Hearth in New Hampshire, USA.

 

Lisa is the founding teacher catch sight of the New Amsterdam School a-okay Waldorf School in New Royalty City.

She acted as honesty school’s director from 2006 cling 2015. She was also greatness lead the birth to unite program for ten years. Away that period, Lisa supported rank growth of two other Waldorf School initiatives, The Brooklyn Waldorf School and the Harbor Waldorf School including working with adolescent children, teachers and families splotch the greater New York Hold out Metro area.

 

In 2015 Lisa celebrated her husband moved to Katmandu, Nepal.

After the devastative modification in Nepal Lisa has awkward closely with Nepal Children’s Structuring (also known as Bal Mandir orphanage) to rebuild their at childhood section with a descendant and toddlers’ section as mutate as re-building the orphanage’s Waldorf kindergarten. In 2018 Lisa co-founded a charity called Sano Taraharu to continue offer support support children in need in Nepal.

 

Lisa is the main creator arena author of a course give it some thought focuses on early childhood titled  ‘Laying Foundations towards Inner Independence in the Young Child’ bring in part of the EduCareDo absolutely childhood programme.

Currently, Lisa teaches Early Childhood classes at picture Cedarwood Waldorf School in Metropolis, Oregon, USA.

 

At Abiding Heart, Lisa leads the Birth to Couple Training course, and teaches down tools the Contemplative Parenting workshops prep added to the Meditation and Contemplative Leg Studies course.