News from the Main Hall It has been a great opportunity for lots of pats up here for me! One day we had two classes of 12 and 13 year-old Steiner school kids overnight. They were having a great time exploring the centre’s grounds and playing lots of games. They also learnt meditation from Jaime and like magic 17 kids calmed …
Living Buddha, Living Dharma, Living Sangha or What’s the problem? What can I do? What can I realise? How can we help? (a modern Buddhist’s response to a Donald Trumpian world) by Tarchin Hearn, Feb. 2017 Click here to read in PDF format Late afternoon sun and it’s hot. With passing rainless days, everything has been drying out. Browning hills. …
Cecilie Kwiat is a meditation teacher with skill in crafting traditional meditation techniques to accommodate individual needs. Cecilie considers herself to be a Buddhist practitioner rooted in North American culture. Since the mid 1960’s when she met her first Buddhist teacher – then known as the Venerable Ananda Bodhi, later recognised by the late Holiness, the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa and …
Jonathan has been practicing yoga, meditation and buddha-dharma since 2003 and teaching since 2011. His foundational practices have been Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga (in the tradition of Shri K. Pattabhi Jois) and vipassana meditation (in the tradition of S.N. Goenka). In 2013 he began working with the rich teachings and practices of Vajrayana and has more recently begun a study of …
Jaime is an explorer of Buddha Dharma with a particular appetite for working with young adults aged 18-40. He is a trained Wilderness Rites of Passage guide, Work That Reconnects facilitator and experienced teacher of Open Floor movement practice. Jaime is a graduate of a three year school of mindfulness/meditation who went on to spend another three years as the resident …
“With Mindfulness, an inner strength can be engaged and nurtured when we become accepting of life. This realness supports the health of our minds, bodies and hearts. We allow the present moment to enliven and nourish us. Given time this turns from a dry training into the fulfillment of a deep yearning for peace.” Mira Riddiford is a meditation teacher …
Jangchub Reid has been a teacher of meditation since 1973. He trained in the practice of mindfulness and studies on Dharma in 1975 with his main teacher, Ven. Namgyal Rinpoche, master of the main Buddhist traditions. Jangchub studied Social Anthropology at the University of Auckland and Religious Studies at the University of Canterbury in his native New Zealand. He was …
