Elaine Yuen

Elaine Yuen is a senior teacher at the Philadelphia Shambhala Meditation Center, and has been a Shambhala Buddhist practitioner since the early 1970s. She also studies with the Ven. Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche. Elaine teaches Buddhist classes, Shambhala Training, Shambhala Art and Mudra Space Awareness programs locally and nationally. She was a founding member of the Mudra Theater Group in Boulder, and has performed Prajna , a play by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in Boulder as well as more recently at the Philly Fringe Festival. She lived at Karmê Chöling from 1977 to 1980, and has lived in Philadelphia since 1980, where she is an interfaith chaplain at Thomas Jefferson University and Research Associate Professor at Jefferson School of Population Health. She has lectured on Buddhism, end of life issues, and cultural diversity at professional conferences, colleges and universities, and has been a regular columnist for the Living Religion Page of The Philadelphia Inquirer.