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 …
Mira Riddiford
“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
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 …
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 …