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Martine
Batchelor lived in Korea as a Zen nun under the guidance of Master Kusan for ten
years. She co-edited Buddhism and Ecology and compiled Walking on Lotus
Flowers: Buddhist Women Working, Loving and Meditating. She is a guiding teacher at Gaia House (a nonsectarian Buddhist centre)
and lives in Totnes, Devon. See "Very Good Dharma Friends",
an interview with Martine and husband/teaching partner Stephen in Insight Meditation
Online. |
Gaia House
West Ogwell
Newton Abbot
Devon TQ12 6EN
United Kingdom
tel (01626) 333613
gaiahouse@gn.apc.org |
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Barbara
Brodsky has been practicing meditation since 1960 and teaching worldwide since
1989. She has dual roots in the Buddhist and Quaker traditions. Within Buddhism, her
focus is in vipassana practice and also in pure awareness practices drawn from Dzogchen
teachings. She has been profoundly deaf for 24 years; living with silence has
greatly influenced her life and teaching as have years of active involvement in
non-violent action for social change. She is the guiding teacher of Deep Spring Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Barbara
is married and the mother of three children. |
Deep
Spring Center
3455 Charing Cross Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
USA
tel (313) 971-3455
info@deepspring.org |
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Anna
Douglas is a founding teacher of Spirit
Rock Meditation Center, teaching both there and at Insight Meditation Society. She has
a background in psychology and the arts, and in addition to fifteen years of vipassana
practice, she has studied with teachers in the Zen, Advaita and Dzogchen traditions. |
Spirit
Rock Meditation Center
5000 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard
Woodacre, CA
U.S.A.
office tel (415) 488-0164
fax (415) 488-0170 |
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Christina
Feldman has been studying and training in the Tibetan, Mahayana and Theravada
traditions since 1970, and teaching meditation worldwide since 1974. She is
co-founder and a guiding teacher of Gaia House
in England, author of Woman Awake! and has co-authored Stories of the Spirit,
Stories of the Heart. |
Gaia
House
West Ogwell
Newton Abbot
Devon TQ12 6EN
United Kingdom
tel (01626) 333613
gaiahouse@gn.apc.org
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Gaia House, a nonsectarian Buddhist
centre in Totnes, England, is home to numerous resident and visiting female teachers who
feature frequently on the retreat
schedule. These include the following teachers: Christina Feldman,
co-founder and spiritual director of Gaia House (Tibetan, Mahayana & Theravada), Martine
Batchelor (Zen), Ursula Fluckiger (vipassana), Sharda Rogell
(vipassana), Debbie Shapiro (various), Mary Thanissara (Western Buddhism),
and Yvonne Weier (vipassana). |
Gaia House
West Ogwell
Newton Abbot
Devon TQ12 6EN
United Kingdom
tel (01626) 333613
gaiahouse@gn.apc.org
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Clara Luz Ibaņez first trained in
Vipassana and Zen for ten years, then continued her studies in Vajrayana (Kagyu/Nyingma).
She was confirmed as a teacher by her main Lama, HH Shenphen Dawa Norbu Rinpoche, with
whom she worked to establish the first Nyingma center in Spain. After coming out as a
woman, Clara left that organization to teach general Mahayana and meditation, with special
emphasis on practising heart-compassion and with Kwan-Yin as guide and inspiration.
Also a transpersonal therapist, yoga teacher and reiki healer/master, Clara teaches at Karuna Centre, where she also
leads meditation retreats and human potential workshops. |
Clara
Luz Ibaņez
PO Box 56
25080 Lleida
SPAIN
Tel. c/o Karuna 973.272.485
E-mail clara-luz@usa.net |
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Cecilie
Kwiat has studied and practised within Theravada and Vajrayana since 1965, and
was appointed by H.H. the 16th
Karmapa to be the first resident teacher at the Karma Kagyu Centre of Toronto (North
America's largest Kagyu centre at the time). She now lives, teaches and leads
retreats in Calgary, Canada. Cecilie is also my beloved first teacher, so I can
personally recommend her very highly! See her take on the subject of women in western Buddhism (in a 1991 interview). |
Cecilie
Kwiat
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
E-mail ckwiat@telusplanet.net |
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Toni Packer is a
former Zen teacher who left the tradition behind. She also spent time listening to
Krishnamurti talks. Toni is the founder of Springwater
Center in rural New York state, and the author of The Work Of This Moment and
The Light Of Discovery. Toni works simply and directly, without methods,
practices, rituals, or dogmas. Her emphasis is on awareness, insight, and open
being. She offers retreats at Springwater, and also in
Europe and California: see her teaching calendar for
details. |
Toni
Packer
c/o Springwater Center
7179 Mill Street
Springwater, NY 14560
Tel (716) 669-2141
Fax (716) 669-9573
E-mail: spwtrctr@servtech.com |
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Marcia Rose has been studying
and practicing Buddhist teachings, meditation and related disciplines for many years,
primarily in the Theravada and Tibetan Buddhist traditions with Asian and Western masters.
She teaches worldwide and is an Associate Teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in
Barre, Massachusetts. Marcia lives in Taos, New Mexico and guides a weekly
class/sitting group there when she is not on the road teaching. |
Marcia
Rose
HCR 74 - Box 22215
El Prado, New Mexico 87529
U.S.A.
Tel (505) 751-2132 (voice mail)
marciar@laplaza.org |
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Sharon Salzberg has practised
and studied in a variety of Buddhist traditions since 1970, and is best known for her teaching retreats on intensive awareness
and lovingkindness practice. (Read Tricycle magazine's interview with her in The Dharma of Liberation.) In
the UK, Sharon frequently leads retreats at Gaia
House in Devon. See A
Wind Through the Heart, her conversation with Alice Walker on lovingkindness, from the
January 1997 Shambhala Sun. |
Contact
address:
Insight Meditation Society
1230 Pleasant Street
Barre, MA 01005
U.S.A.
Tel (978) 355-4378 |
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The Springwater Center for Meditative Inquiry
is a nonsectarian center on over 200 acres of land in rural western New York state.
Founded by Toni Packer, the Center offers retreats with Toni and others, as well as
opportunities to come outside of retreat times as a guest or volunteer. There are no
rituals or ceremonies, activities are optional, and the approach is simple awareness,
without methods, techniques or dogmas. Books, tapes, and newsletter available. |
Springwater Center for Meditative
Inquiry
7179 Mill Street
Springwater, NY 14560
Tel (716) 669-2141
Fax (716) 669-9573
E-mail: spwtrctr@servtech.com |
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Taraloka is a
Buddhist women's community and retreat centre which holds a year-round program of events
and retreats varying in length from one day to two weeks. It is part of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, a movement founded
in 1967 to establish Buddhist principles in the modern world, drawing inspiration from the
whole of the Buddhist tradition as well as from Western art and culture. Taraloka's
aim is to help women from all walks of life to contact and realise their potential. |
Shropshire
United Kingdom (England)
No mailing address available
100073.3502@compuserve.com |
