Teachers

Geri Amori

Geri Amori has been a student of the dharma since 2006, supporting fellow students in the roles of coordinator, meditation instructor, and teacher.  In addi...

John Ankele

John Ankele has studied and practiced in both the Shambhala and Zen Buddhist traditions and has been a teacher of Shambhala Training for the past 12 years. A...

Jane Arthur

Jane has been a member of the Shambhala community since 1997.  She has held many leadership positions in Shambhala, including the Director of the Boulder Sh...

Dale Asrael

Dale has taught as Core Faculty at Naropa University since 1992, in the M.A. Buddhist Studies, Contemplative Education, and Counseling programs, and is an Up...

Calryn Aston

Calryn Aston has been a student of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche since 1997 and has been teaching across the Colorado Front Range and New Mexico since 2003. She ho...

Agness Au

In 1975, Agness Au became a student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the renowned and brilliant meditation master and Tibetan Buddhist teacher. As an artist and ...

Michael Baime

Michael Baime, M.D., is the founder and Director of the Penn Program for Stress Management at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, which has tr...

John Baker

John Baker has been an active student and teacher of Buddhism for more than 54 years. A close disciple of Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, he co-founded Naropa Un...

Barbara Bash

Barbara Bash is a calligraphic artist who mixes Buddhist sensibility with brush and ink. Her contact with Ch ö gyam Trungpa guided her into a deeper play wi...

Wendell Beavers

Wendell Beavers is a Meditation Instructor and has been practicing meditation in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage since 1985. A dancer, choreographer and thea...

Erika Berland

Erika Berland was an early student of Chogyam Trungpa and is a senior teacher in the Shambhala Lineage. A co-founder of the MFA Theater: Contemporary Perfo...

Frank Berliner

Frank Berliner is a core faculty member at Naropa University, where he teaches Buddhist and Western humanistic psychology. A long-standing student of Chögya...

Maggie Bernstein

Maggie Bernstein has been a member and student in the Shambhala community for over 25 years. Until recently she was on the staff of Karme Choling as Shambhal...

Imre Berty

Imre has been a member of the Shambhala Community and meditation practitioner for over 20 years and is father to three children. He has studied non-violent c...

Walker Blaine

Walker Blaine has studied and practiced in the Shambhala tradition for 35 years. For the last ten years, his primary focus in the community has been backgrou...

Mark Blumenfeld

Mark Blumenfeld  became a student of Shambhala in 1979 when he began studying with Chögyam Trungpa, Shambhala International’s founder. Sakyong Mipham Rin...

Jenny Bondurant

Jenny Bondurant has been a meditation practitioner and student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche since 1980, and she has completed the traditional Three-Year Retr...

James Boorstein

Jim Boorstein started his kyudo practice in 1991 with Kanjuro Shibata XX and Marcia Shibata. He was designated an instructor by Shibata Sensei XX in 1994. Ji...

Emily Bower

Acharya Emily Bower started practicing in the Shambhala community in 1987, the year that Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche passed away. She met Sakyong Mipham Rinpoc...

Bill Brauer

Bill Brauer has been a member of the Shambhala community for 50 years and was once the Executive Director of Karmê Chöling. He has taught extensively on Sh...

David Brown

David Brown is the Executive Secretary to the Sakyong, Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche. A student of Shambhala Buddhism since 1976, Mr. Brown has been the secretary t...

Lance Brunner

Lance Brunner is an experienced teacher in the Shambhala-Buddhist tradition, having directed Shambhala Training and contemplative arts programs and retreats...