David Hope
David Hope has been a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche for the past 40 years. He helped establish the London Shambhala Center in the early 1980’s. […]
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Jane Hope
Jane Hope was born in the North of England and studied Fine Art. She belonged to an experimental theatre group called the Exploding Galaxy who performed with Pink Floyd and […]
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Toni Imfeld
Toni Imfeld immersed himself deeply in meditation practice for the first time at the Dathün in 1984 and was fortunate enough to take part in the last Seminary under the […]
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Beate Kirchhof-Schlage
Acharya Beate Kirchhof-Schlage started meditating in the Shambhala Center of Hamburg Germany after her first child was born. She is now mother of 3 sons, a former theater worker and university […]
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Samten Kobelt
Samten Kobelt grew up near Zurich, Switzerland where he again resides since 2013. In 1984 he met the Shambhala teachings at Naropa University and started practicing. He met Trungpa Rinpoche […]
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Bartek Kociemba
Bartek Kociemba is a Shambhala Buddhist teacher and a visual artist from Poland. He started practising meditation in 2003 and has been active as a translator, meditation instructor, and a group […]
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Simon La Haye
Simon La Haye has been a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche for over 35 years, and has been teaching on the Shambhala vision during that time. […]
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Élise Le Goff-Maes
Elise Maes Le Goff is a seasoned endurance runner and triathlete. She also teaches yoga and meditation and is a teacher in the Shambhala lineage. She enjoys teaching programs that […]
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Franck Le Naourèse
Franck discovered the Shambhala teachings in Paris in 1991. They gradually transformed his life, bringing clarity and gentleness. As retired landscaping teacher he continues to practise meditation and to study […]
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Sid Liddall
Sid has been practicing in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition for 25 years. He works at Dechen Chöling, where he has two main roles of Land Steward and IT supervisor. This […]
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Valérie Limon
A French-English teacher in a vocational high school, Valérie has been living in Nantes since the summer of 2022. She began meditation and Dharma study through the Shambhala path at […]
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Adam Lobel
Adam Lobel, Ph.D, practices at the threshold of ecologies, Buddhist-inspired meditation and philosophy, contemplative education, and psycho-social political change. Adam is a scholar-practitioner of philosophy and religion, focusing on Dzogchen […]
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Sophie Maclaren
Sophie is a leadership consultant and coach specializing in meditation and the science of human flourishing. In this capacity she works globally with CEOs, senior leadership teams, and policy makers […]
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Barbara Märtens
Barbara Märtens has been a Shambhala and Buddhist practitioner for more than 40 years. Being a senior teacher within the Shambhala Community for many years , she is also the […]
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Martina Marx-Hunsdieck
Practicing Meditation in Shambhala since 1984. Longtime student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. Met Marcia Wang Shibata, Master of Shambhala Kado Rigden School of Ikebana in 1988 in Marburg and […]