Teachers

Chris Pleim

Chris Pleim is a senior teacher in the Buddhist lineage of the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. He has also studied intensiv...

Mathias Pongracz

Mathias Pongracz has been a student of both the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (since 1983) and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche (since 1991), as well as studen...

Shari Price

Sharon Price is a retired project manager who spends half the year in retreat in rural Nova Scotia. She attended Vajrayana Seminary in 1982 at Bedford Spring...

Timothy Quigley

Timothy Quigley has been a student in the Shambhala lineage since 1991. Mr. Quigley recently served as the Interim Executive Director and Director of Practic...

Betsy Railla

Betsy Railla grew up in the woods of West Virginia, enjoying hours outdoors and environmental activism. Inspired by Turning the Mind into an Ally and a very ...

Iris Ramos

Iris Ramos is a Shastri or senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist meditation tradition. Shastri Ramos was appointed to this position in 2012 and has been a...

Richard Reoch

Richard Reoch is the President of Shambhala. Raised in a Buddhist family in Canada, he has devoted his working life to defending human rights, protecting the...

Ella Reznikova

Ella Reznikova , originally from Ukraine, is a teacher in the Shambaha Tradition, a conflict mediator, a translator, and the Scholarship Manager at Karmê Ch...

Anyen Rinpoche

A rare teacher in this modern age. Anyen Rinpoche was raised by a family of yak herders in the high forested mountains of eastern Tibet, a place with almost ...

Changling Rinpoche

Changling Rinpoche was born in 1977 in Kalimpong, India. At the age of ten, he was recognized by His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and Penor Rinpoche as t...

Venerable Khandro Rinpoche

Venerable Khandro Rinpoche is a teacher in both the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Born in Kalimpong, India, in 1967, she is the daughter ...

Lodro Rinzler

Lodro Rinzler is a teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage and the author of five books on meditation including the best-selling "The Buddha Walks into a B...

Esther Rochon

Esther Rochon is a writer from Montréal. She has been teaching Buddhism and Shambhala Training since the 1980's and has translated several texts into French...

Irini Rockwell

Irini Rockwell, MA, is founder, director, and principal coach/trainer at the Five Wisdoms Institute . The Five Wisdoms have been the vehicle to bring togethe...

John Rockwell

John Rockwell has been on the path of dharma for 50 years. He met Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1975 and studied and practiced the Buddhist and Shambhala te...

Claudette Rodrigue

Claudette Rodrigue is about to retire after many years of graphic design practice. She came to meditation and Shambhala twenty years ago, and was soon to bec...

Janet Romaine

Janet Romaine is a Buddhist teacher and meditation instructor, who has been teaching Shambhala Training since 1980. She is a now-retired professor of busines...

David Rome

David I. Rome is the developer of Mindful Focusing, an integration of Eugene Gendlin’s Felt-Sense Focusing and Buddhist mindfulness-awareness practices ( h...

Kelsey Root-Winchester

Kelsey has been practicing yoga since childhood and is a lifelong meditator. She is registered through Yoga Alliance and has studied many types of yoga. Sh...

Eve Rosenthal

Eve’s journey with the dharma began in 1973. She met Chögyam Trungpa that same year. Originally from New York City, she was Resident Director of Shambhala...

Madge Rossinoff

Madge Rossinoff began her life-long study of Shambhala Buddhism in 1975, with the renowned Buddhist meditation master, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche,  Since his...

Frank Ryan

Frank Ryan began studying Shambhala Buddhism over thirty years ago in Chicago. He has served as a teacher, meditation instructor and administrator at Shambha...