Program
Inseparable Union
Friday, May 23 to Monday, May 26, 2025, with Agness Au
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- When
- Friday to Monday May 23 to 26, 2025
- Program fee
- $330.00
- Who can come
- All ages Under 18 with a parent or guardian registered for the same dates
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Agness Au
In 1975, Agness Au became a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the renowned and brilliant meditation master and Tibetan Buddhist teacher. As an artist and designer, she was initially moved by his interest in the arts and the Buddhist science of perception, but gradually began to see how perceiving and the artistic journey were deeply intertwined with meditation and post meditation practices. In 1985, Rinpoche be...
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Daniel Naistadt
Daniel Naistadt has been a teacher in Shambhala tradition for nearly 40 years. He began his study of Buddhism and far eastern religion as an undergraduate at Columbia College, and later as a graduate fellow at Columbia University. During his time in New York City, he met two of the most important people in his life, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and his future wife, Agness Au with whom he raised two sons. Daniel has ha...
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Erika Berland
Erika Berland was an early student of Chögyam Trungpa and is a senior teacher in the Shambhala Lineage. A co-founder of the MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Program at Naropa University, she is also a founding faculty of NU’s Mindful Compassion Course, Welcome: a secular training offered by CACE (Center for the Advancement of Contemplative Education) As a movement artist, she has taught workshops in numerous ...
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Wendell Beavers
Wendell Beavers is a Meditation Instructor and has been practicing meditation in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage since 1985. A dancer, choreographer and theater director; he founded the MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Program at Naropa University in 2004 and is a Naropa University emeritus professor. A founding faculty and former Director of New York University’s Experimental Theater Wing he has taught throug...
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