Teachers

Geoff Crinean

Geoff has been a student of Buddhism and the Shambhala teachings for 38 years. He is a meditation instructor, a senior Shambhala teacher and student of Sakyo...

Benoît Côté

Benoît Côté has been a student of Shambhala Buddhism since 1976. For many years, he was a member and part of the teaching and administrative staff of Cent...

Andrea Darby

Andrea Darby is Shastri for the Shambhala center in Northampton, Massachusetts.  She is a learning disabilities specialist at a public school, with a profes...

Aaron De Long

Aaron de Long grew up working on fruit, flower and vegetable farms in southeastern Pennsylvania. A trained research biologist, he came back to agriculture th...

Elizabeth Dealing

Elizabeth is the Youth and Family Programs Coordinator at Karmê Chöling. She has a Master’s Degree in Waldorf Education and served as a Spanish teacher a...

Caroline Demaio

Caroline DeMaio has lived in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont since 1971. She started practicing meditation at Karm ê Ch ö ling, (then called Tail of the T...

Salvatore Demaio

Sal DeMaio is a real estate appraiser. He is also a dedicated banjo and guitar player and has worked with many bands in the Northeast Kingdom during the last...

Sara Demetry

Sara Demetry has been practicing meditation since 1998 and is an authorized meditation instructor. She moved from the Boston area to work at Karme Choling in...

Alexander DeVaron

Alexander deVaron began teaching in Shambhala in 1986. From 1991-1996 he lived at Karmê Chöling retreat center, working in the practice and study departmen...

Grace Dinapoli

As program director and instructor, Grace has held the practice of kyudo at Seiko Kyudojo since 2012. Along with classes for the Mukpo Institute, she offers ...

Candlin Dobbs

Candlin started practicing in 1986 and has been a technical writer and trainer for over 20 years. Since 2008, she has served as the project manager and train...

Gabrielle Donnelly

Gabrielle Donnelly, Ph.D. is a scholar and practitioner of creativity, social change, and innovation. Co-founder of Brave Space , Gabrielle works with method...

Andrea Doukas

Andrea Doukas has been a student of Shambhala Buddhism since 1973, and has served as Director of the Halifax Shambhala Centre and Director of the internation...

Jim Drescher

Jim Drescher studied the Buddhist and Shambhala teachings with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche from 1973 until his death in 1987. Since then he has continued to st...

Margaret Drescher

Margaret Drescher lives and works, with her husband Jim, at Windhorse Farm in Nova Scotia, Canada. They are the founders and directors of this 250 acre herit...

Marguerite Drescher

Marguerite Drescher is a visual artist and graphic recorder and facilitator trained in cultivating vivid expressions for learning. She is dedicated to living...

Suzann Duquette

Suzann Duquette has been a student of body-focused disciplines since 1974 and a student of Daoist Qigong in the lineages of Dr. Eva Wong since 2007. Suzann i...

Jan Enthoven

Jan Enthoven, Master Gardener, descends from a long line of Dutch fruit and vegetable growers. Interested in organic farming since childhood, Mr. Enthoven vi...

Diana Evans

Shastri Diana Evans has been a Shambhala Buddhist practitioner and teacher for over 30 years. She was a senior staff member at the Shambhala Mountain Center ...

Hylke Faber

Hylke Faber is an Axialent Conscious Business Teacher and Shambhala student. He is a senior principal of Axialent, a leadership and culture development compa...

Tune Faulkner

Tune Faulkner has been a student of Shambhala Buddhism for over 25 years. She lives in northern Vermont with her husband and two cats on 65 acres of land. Ab...

Gaylon Ferguson

Gaylon Ferguson, PhD, has practiced and taught Buddhism for over four decades. He received a doctorate in cultural anthropology in 1996 and taught at several...

Brett Ferrigan

Shastri Brett Ferrigan began as a student of Chögyam Trungpa, taking refuge in 1981, and completing Rigden Abhisheka with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.  Serving...