Teachers

Aaron Snyder

Aaron Snyder, Rupön has been a Kasung for 30 years. He has served as a Kusung to both the Dorje Dradul and Jampal Dradul, Rusung in Los Angeles, Commander o...

Basia Solarz

Basia Solarz, MAdEd, CAC serves as the inaugural Consultant for Communication and Conflict Competence for the award-winning Workplace Conflict Resolution Pro...

Janet Solyntjes

Janet Solyntjes leads programs and silent retreats in both the Shambhala tradition and in the MBSR-based style of secular mindfulness. She is a certified MBS...

Eric Spiegel

Eric Spiegel has been a student and teacher in the Shambhala tradition since his teens. He lived at Karme Choling for two years in his 20’s before going on...

Kit St. John

Christopher (“Kit”) St. John first went to Karme Choling in 1982 for one day of a sesshin led by Taizan Maesumi Roshi. He was a founding member of the Br...

Lisa Stanley

Lisa Stanley has been a practicing artist and teacher of fine arts for over thirty years. Her work has been exhibited nationally at venues such as New York U...

Michael Stephens

Michael Stephens has been a long-time student and teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage, and has been teaching programs for more than 20 years at Shambha...

David Stone

David Stone has been a Shambhala Buddhist practitioner since 1974 and currently serves as Co-Director for Teaching at the Shambhala Meditation Center of Chic...

Nancy Styron

Nancy Frumer Styron, Psy.D, J.D., is a pediatric psychologist in Boston, MA, and has worked at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute with children and families fo...

Tracy Suchocki

Tracy has been a member of the International Shambhala community for over 30 years and has raised three children, with her husband John, based on her underst...

Kate Summers

Kate Summers had the good fortune to encounter both Eva Wong and Shambhala in 2008. A licensed clinical social worker, she worked many years in community men...

Don Symanski

Don Symanski began the study of kyudo with the late Kanjuro Shibata XX, Sendai in 1980. He has been making yumi since 1991and continues to teach and inspire ...

Chris Tamdjidi

Chris Tamdjidi is the Director of Shambhala Europe. He served as the finance director of Shambhala Europe from 1998, and the Co-Director of Shambhala Europe ...

Vicki Tansey

One of Canada's leading pioneers in the art of improvisation, Vicki Tansey, dancer, singer and visual artist, has been performing and teaching for over 40 ye...

Ann Taylor

Ann Taylor has been a student of Shambhala for many years.  She has spent the last decade primarily involved with Shambhala’s family and children’s prog...

Bob Taylor

Special Operations Commander Bob Taylor, Rupön s a student of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and has been a Dorje Kasung for over 30 years. He first learned kasung...

Aarti Tejuja

Aarti Tejuja (she/they) is a spiritual life coach, ritualist, sacred space facilitator, youth mentor, and social justice advocate . Aarti is trained in the A...

Cara Thornley

Cara Thornley, a teacher in the Shambala tradition, has led the spring dathuns at Karmê Chöling for the past 4 years.  She also teaches classes in the Way...

Steve Tibbetts

Steve Tibbetts began studying and practicing Tibetan Buddhism with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1975. He worked for Naropa University's Study Abroad programs ...