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Acharya Jenny Warwick
Ms. Warwick comes from the same lineage
of teachings as Pema Chodron and has been a teacher
of meditation since 1976. She and her husband Paul founded
the Kootenay Shambhala Study Group at Nelson BC. In 1980
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche appointed her to direct
the Shambhala Center in Vancouver, BC and from 1985-90 she served
as co-director of Karme Choling, a major
Shambhala retreat center in Barnet VT. This year The
Sakong Mipham Rinpoche, the spiritual head of
Shambhala, designated her as an Acharya, becoming
one of a few senior teachers given special responsibility for
the practice and conduct of Shambhala Buddhism. A resident
of Bellingham since 1992, Ms. Warwick has blended the principals
of gentle warriorship into her life at work as well as in her
roles of mother, wife, and daughter of elderly parents.
Paul Warwick
Paul
Warwick first met Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in December 1974 and
has studied and served within his organization since that time.
In 1976 along with his wife Jenny Warwick he became a founding
member of what is now known as the Nelson Shambhala Center, in
British Columbia. In 1982 he became the head of studies of the
Vancouver Shambhala Center. From 1987 to 1990 he served as head
of studies at Karme Choling, a large residential retreat center
in Vermont. He has taught at Seminaries in 1988 and 1990. In 1992
he became a founding member of the Bellingham Dharma Hall.
As a visiting teacher and meditation instructor he has taught
in numerous programs both in New England the West Coast and Canada.
He has a very good sense of humor, especially since retiring in
2003.
Craig Smith
Dr. Craig Warren Smith, director and
founder of Mudra
Institute, is a long time teacher of Buddhism and one of Chogyam
Trungpa Rinpoche's early students. He began teaching Mudra --
a mind/body awareness practice based on Tibetan Monastic Dance
training -- at Naropa Institute in 1974. Since then, he's worked
as a professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government,
as an advisor to the United Nations, Microsoft, Intel and health
care institutions, and is currently working with the governments
of Indonesia and Thailand to explore whether technology
can be used to aid in cultural and spiritual development, rather
than serving as an obstacle to it.
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