Deborah Templeton

Deborah Templeton (aka Middleton) is a writer of short fiction and contemplative performance texts. Her writing life is closely linked to her practice as a Kripalu yoga teacher, and a meditator, and she has shared her contemplative approach to creativity in workshops and presentations in the UK, United States, Mexico and China.  Her writing includes Tender Light in Rift Patterns (Audiobulb) with the composer, Monty Adkins, Borderlands commissioned by IOU Productions (UK), and The Dreaming of Trees (Leonora Press) for the Taller de Investigación Teatral (Mexico). She leads the Mindfulness and Performance research project at the University of Huddersfield, and has published academically on Buddhism and contemporary performance practices, including in the Journal of Global Buddhism (Middleton & Plá, 2018). 

Deborah’s contemplative study and training includes: shamatha-vipashyana meditation with Archarya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen, and Mudra Space Awareness with Mitra Lee Worley, during a sabbatical spent as Visiting Scholar at Naropa University (2010); Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training (2012); the Meditating with the Body 5-month intensive programme with Reginald Ray (Dharma Ocean) (2017/18); and numerous meditation, meditation-in-movement, and contemplative pedagogy workshops, retreats, and symposia.