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  • Karin Hooijmans

    Karin Hooijmans

    Karin Hooijmans has a bachelor in Educational Studies and worked in the field of child and adults psychiatry, in particular with autistic children for many years. As a coach, she […]

     
  • David Hope

    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. […]

     
  • Jane Hope

    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 […]

     
  • Beate Kirchhof-Schlage

    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 […]

     
  • Samten Kobelt

    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 […]

     
  • Bartek Kociemba

    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 […]

     
  • Simon La Haye

    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. […]

     
  • Élise Le Goff-Maes

    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 […]

     
  • Sid Liddall

    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 […]

     
  • Adam Lobel

    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 […]

     
  • Barbara Märtens

    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 […]

     
  • Martina Marx-Hunsdieck

    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 […]

     
  • Jean Jacques Mathieu

    Jean Jacques Mathieu

    Jean-Jacques Mathieu joined the Shambhala centre of Leiden (Netherlands) in 2003 and moved near Dechen Chöling (France) in 2011. He began his buddhist studies following a course offered by a […]

     
  • James O’Neill

    James O’Neill

    James O’Neill is a long term teacher in the Shambhala community. He has been a psychoanalytic psychotherapist since 1990 with a practice in London. He is the author of UNDRESSING, […]

     
  • Alex Paterson

    Alex Paterson

    Alex is from Canada where he worked as an actor before moving to London and then Sweden, where he has been living for over 30 years. Alex founded the Shambhala […]