Keith Rowan

Keith Rowan is an Elder of the Wangapeka. Keith Rowan met and travelled with the Ven. Namgyal Rinpoché, his principal teacher of dharma, over 25 years ago and, he says, “…I haven’t been the same since.” From that time he has also been taught and inspired by many other wonderful teachers and friends in many countries, particularly Chimé Shore, Tarchin …

Chimé Shore

Lama Karma Chimé Shore founded with friends the Wangapeka Study and Retreat Centre, and the Origins Centre, near Perth, in Western Australia. Karma Chimé was one of the first teachers Ven. Namgyal Rinpoche empowered to teach. He has studied and taught for over 30 years and received ordination in the Theravadan and Vajrayana traditons of Buddhism. He has studied with …

Lama Mark Webber

Lama Mark Webber (Lama Yongdu Chokyi Gyaltsen) has been studying and teaching Buddha Dharma (the Teachings of Liberation) and meditation for thirty-four years. He was born in 1956 in Toronto and he started practicing meditation at the age of 16, through a strong interest to understand consciousness, primarily using the mind to study the mind. In the following year he …

Bonni Ross

Bonni Ross is based at the Wangapeka Study and Retreat Centre, New Zealand. Conscious development of spiritual community has been a lively part of the engagement she, with her partner Matthew Eades, has with students in Canada and New Zealand. Bonni and Matthew have extensive experience working in the world and this, plus idiosyncratic senses of humour, informs a practical, …

Tarchin Hearn

Tarchin Hearn, with his companion Mary Jenkins, have devoted decades of their lives to help establish the Wangapeka as a centre filled with people doing the deep work of unfolding. Tarchin and Mary are both Elders of the Wangapeka, and Tarchin gives retreats annually at the centre. This biography is from Tarchin’s website Green Dharma Treasury which has teaching articles …

Ven. Namgyal Rinpoche

  Ven. Namgyal Rinpoche taught and empowered many of the Wangapeka Teachers and Community. He inspired into existence the Wangapeka Study and Retreat Centre.   Ananda Bodhi left the East in 1962, teaching at the London Buddhist Vihara and founding Johnstone House in Scotland, which he gave to Chogyum Trungpa who renamed it Samye Ling. Anandabodhi returned to Canada and …

Ven. Sayadaw U Thila Wunta

Venerable Sayadaw U Thila Wunta was born June 28, 1912 in Wekalaung, Mon State, Burma to the Ngyein family. His parents named him Botaya “one who loves the dhamma.” He began his training at the Wekalaung village monastery school in 1919 and at the age of 15 he took the vows of a samanera or novice monk, and was given …

Western Meditation Retreat – tools for your life right now with Mira Riddiford

  Friday June 9th – Friday June 16th 2017 For centuries, Western Mystical traditions have taught ways of working with key life concerns, these meditations provide healing and understanding for thriving in daily life. Throughout time, spiritual traditions have recognised the value in humanising and personifying subjects. For instance, Greek civilisationhonoured Pan as a way of nourishing laughter, playfulness and feeling connected to nature; and Huntress Artemis for her …

Compassionate Relating: The Power of Compassionate Communication with Kath Mitchell and Mark Schrader

Friday 23 June – Tuesday 27 June 2017 We are always in relationship, we are constantly communicating both verbally and non-verbally with friends, partners, whanau, colleagues, shop assistants, pets and other creatures, earth, food, breath, sleep, our minds… everything. Our question is: How can we be with all this and keep a sense of well-being? This course is for anyone interested …