Teachers

William Ryken

Dapön Will Ryken has been a member of the Shambhala community since the 1970s.  A member of the Dorje Kasung since 1975, Will co-founded Shambhala Sun Camp...

David Sable

David Sable was the first head of organic garbage at Tail of the Tiger in Vermont, Trungpa Rinpoche’s first land center in North America in 1971. David asp...

Trudy Sable

Trudy Sable, Ph.D., became a student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1976. She began teaching in 1978, and attended her first Kalapa Assembly in 1979/80, rece...

Julia Sagebien

Dr. Julia Sagebien became a student of the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1973. She subsequently studied with the Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche. At the...

Lauren Sanford

Lauren Sanford grew up in a Shambhala Buddhist family and began meditating as a teen. After working at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environme...

Jill Satterfield

Jill Satterfield, founder of Vajra Yoga & Meditation, has been practicing yoga primarily in the Iyengar tradition for 30 years and teaching for 20. She has b...

Judith Saul

Judith A. Saul has over two decades of experience in mediation, facilitation, and training. She founded the Community Dispute Resolution Center, Inc. (CDRC) ...

David Schneider

Born in 1951 in Louisville, Kentucky, David Schneider was the first child of Marc, a Jew and engineer and Georgia, his southern Baptist sociologist mother. D...

Wayne Schoech

Wayne met the Vidyadhara, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in 1976 and has been practicing meditation ever since. He's taught meditation in prisons and at dharma ce...

Esther Seibold

Esther Seibold, Ph.D., is an experienced meditation teacher and has practiced mindfulness meditation for almost 25 years. Involved with Family Camp at Karmê...

Mark Seibold

Mark Seibold has been practicing and studying Buddhism for over twenty years. He is co-coordinator of the New Haven Shambhala Meditation Group and a member o...

Tom Semmes

Tom Semmes has been a member of the Shambhala community since 1987 and currently serves as the Nalanda Chair at the Washington DC Center. He has been teachin...

Marcia Shibata

In 1974 Marcia Shibata began her journey with Kado Ikebana and the Buddhist/Taoist path with Chögyam Trungpa. She went to Asia to learn Ikebana as it was to...

Kanjuro Shibata Sensei XXI

After the retirement of Shibata Sendai XX in October 2011, his adopted son, Shibata Kanjuro XXI, aka Nobuhiro Shibata, was recognized as the 21st in the Shib...

Toby Sifton

Toby Sifton, Rupön, has been serving as a Dorje Kasung since 2001. He has served as NYC Squad Khenchung, Dragon Regional Gesar, Trident Regional Commander a...

Judith Simmer-Brown

Judith Simmer-Brown is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, where she has been in the faculty since 1978. She h...

Laura Simms

Laura Simms met Chogyam Trungpa, RInpoche in 1978. She is a senior teacher of Shambhala Buddhism and Dharma Art. Professionally she is a storyteller and writ...

Fay Simpson

Fay Simpson has been the Artistic Director and cofounder of Impact Theatre since its creation in 1990. As founder of The Lucid Body , (initially developed at...

Susan Skjei

Susan Skjei is a consultant and educator specializing in transformative change, coaching, and leadership. Formerly a vice-president and chief learning office...

Tara Slone

Tara Slone is a second generation member of the Shambhala Buddhist Community. She has been an active member of the Dorje Kasung for close to fifteen years, a...

Annelies Smith

Annelies Smith is a yoga and meditation instructor and a somatic movement educator. For more than 17 years Annelies has been inspired to help people find out...

Craig Warren Smith

Professor Craig Warren Smith, became the first teacher of Mudra Space Awareness after receiving transmissions of the practice directly from CTR in the early ...