Andrew Getz has been practicing insight meditation for thirty years, including four years when he was ordained as a monk in Thailand and Burma. During this time he practised with a variety of teachers including U Pandita of the Mahasi Meditation Center in Burma, and spent a period of time in the monasteries of Ajahn Buddhadasa of Thailand. He has been a long term student of Christopher Titmuss and has also co-taught with Christopher at both Spirit Rock Meditation Center and The Insight Meditation Center. Andrew is a nurse and was trained as a mindfulness-based stress reduction instructor by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, he has taught MBSR extensively in numerous healthcare and community settings to adults, teens, and healthcare providers. He was the co-founder of The Lineage Project, and Youth Horizons, two organizations that provide mindfulness-based programmes to incarcerated teens. Recently he has been teaching retreats and daylongs in Chicago. He is also a student of the Diamond Approach of A.H. Almaas. He has a special interest in integrating Dharma practice into contemporary daily life.

Asaf Federman has studied and practiced Buddhist meditation since 1998. He began with practicing Vipassana Meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka and since 2000 has been studying and meditating with Christopher Titmuss. Asaf holds a BA degree in Philosophy and an MA degree in Buddhist Studies from Bristol University where he still reads Pali with Dr. Rupert Gethin and practises Samatha meditation. He participated in the first and the second Dharma Facilitators Programmes in Europe and in the UK, and occasionally gives talks and day workshops. Asaf is married, resides in Bristol, and visits Israel regularly.

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Bryan Tucker grew up in New York City in the 1950’s. During the counterculture, antiwar, and civil rights movements of the 1960’s, he developed an interest both in social justice and Eastern spirituality. He began practicing vipassana meditation in 1975 as a student of Ram Dass, the author of “Be Here Now.” He trained under several Asian and Western teachers during periods of long retreats at Mahasi Sayadaw’s meditation center in Burma, Gaia House in England, and the Insight Meditation Society in the U.S. In 1998, he began teaching vipassana in India under the guidance of Christopher Titmuss. He has assisted on and taught his own retreats and one-day sessions in India, France, Israel, the U.S., and England. He lives in Boston, USA, where he has also been a social worker and music teacher

Carol Perry has practiced insight meditation since 1974 and is a member of the Insight Teachers' Circle, Australia (ITCA). She co-founded Dharmananda organic farming community (Australia) in 1972 where she continues to live. Carol teaches retreats and dharma workshops with members of ITCA.
She works as a dispute mediator and a Mind/Body psychotherapist (Hakomi method). She has a developed a workshop aimed at bringing mindfulness to conflict which she teaches in Australia and overseas.

Caroline Forbes lives in France, close by to Le Moulin a retreat centre in Dordogne, where she is involved in service work and as part of the community there. She’s restoring/renovating an old house in the village and teaching English locally. She also speaks French.
Her husband’s death in 1989 was the turning point of her life and an invitation to awaken; to develop an interest in deeper matters, the mystery, the world of Spirit. There followed workshops, training, therapy and a 4 month stay at the Findhorn community in Scotland, which developed a wish to live differently, to follow the longing, ‘to uncover the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin’.
Since 1992 she has sat retreats and followed teachings in Vipassana, Tibetan and Zen traditions, in Europe and Asia. She has a passion for South Asia, and has lived and worked in India, Pakistan and Nepal and has continuing links there.
The annual Bodhgaya retreats in India have also been her home many years, as yogi then manager. She receives much joy and inspiration from contributing to the dharma in this way. She has participated in Christopher’s Dharma Facilitator Programmes.
Caroline has shared the Dharma through facilitating discussion groups on the Yatra and offering support to participants of retreats and other dharma events.

Dave Adair was first introduced to Buddhism while on a two-year trip around the world. Intensely ignorant of all things spiritual, he attended a 10-day retreat in Dharamsala, India, where, he was sure, he didn’t learn a thing. It did open the door, however, to a world outside of his experience. That door came flying open three years later, in 1995, when Dave attended Christopher’s annual retreat in Bodh Gaya. After resisting every aspect of the teachings, light finally dawned. Since that time, Dave has attended several of Christopher’s retreats, both in Bodh Gaya and in California, and is a big fan of the Sarnath program in Sarnath, India, and the Dharma Yatras in France. Practice for Dave comes more from reflection and integration in daily life than in formal meditation. His favorite book, which offers endless inspiration, is “I Am That” by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

Ellaya Ayal Mor has been practising Dharma for the past 13 years or so. She experiences the path as being a long, ongoing, very beautiful process of unfolding, maturing, and deepening. She has spent extensive time in India, sitting retreats with Christopher Titmuss and other teachers, she has participated in the first Israeli DFP, is currently enrolled in the second one, and is an active member of Tovana, the Israeli insight association. Ellaya is a storyteller by profession and regards stories and storytelling to be an integral and inseparable part of her path. She finds stories to be powerful teaching and healing tools, that have the capacity to reflect life on its many levels and nuances, enhancing beauty, mystery and wisdom.

Eran Harpaz, who was born in Israel, has been practising insight meditation and Buddhist teachings for the last decade in Asia, Australia, Europe and Israel, where he resides at the moment with his partner and their 3 years old daughter. While Christopher Titmuss is a main teacher and inspiration for him, Eran has been inspired and practised with many others as well. Eran is Tovana's (Israeli Insight Meditation Society) co-ordinator and Svil-ZAhav`s (Middle Way- non-violent peace organisation) co-founder. His vision and main focus is the creation of an authentic culture of liberation in the 21st century for the West and Israel in particular. He wishes to see the sharing of the essential message of the Buddha's teachings free from religious-cultural influences of Asian societies in order to keep the bare teachings authentic, radical and simple spirit alive.

Gail Aylward, deeply disillusioned with her conventional life in London, left her job and home and in 1993 and went to India to give birth to her first child in the Himalayas. She was introduced to Dharma practice in Bodhgaya, the following year, and has embraced it ever since. Returning to Europe with her partner Martin, they co-founded Tapovan, a retreat centre in the French Pyrenees emphasizing meditation practice integrated with daily life. She has spent the last 11 years raising her 2 children, living and working amongst Dharma teachings and practice, attending retreats in Asia and Europe, whilst organizing a variety of different Dharma events. These include Christopher's first European Dharma Facilitators' Programme, in which she also participated, the European Dharma Yatras and nature retreats. Gail has shared Dharma through facilitating discussion groups in and out of retreat situations and offered ongoing support to visitors to Tapovan for the last 11 years.

Hans Gruber has engaged in Old Indian and Tibetan studies and European History at Hamburg (M.A.), followed by three years of a full-time course and practical trainings in journalism. He writes articles for magazines and newspapers. He also translates books for a new Buddhist publisher. He has written the chapter on Buddhism in the Harenberg Lexikon der Religionen (an encyclopedia of the world religions), and the Kursbuch Vipassana: Wege und Lehrer der Einsichtsmeditation (Fischer Taschenbuch, 2nd edition). This book is an overview on the main approaches, representatives and Pali sources of the awareness or insight practice vipassana. Hans follows a “Middle Way” between scientific precision, journalistic form and his old practice of meditation. He gives talks and occasionally day-workshops, guides an evening course at a Buddhist centre and is a regular contributor to the Dharma Faciltators Programme in Germany. He has participated in meditation courses with several vipassana-teachers and is an old friend of Christopher. His German Website www.buddha-heute.de is devoted to the question “What does Buddhism in the West mean for today?”

Hans Gruber, along with Asaf Federman and Jenny Wilks, is an advisor on the Pali texts of the Buddha for the Living Dharma Programme.

Jenny Wilks has been involved with Dharma practice since the late 1980’s and is a former member of the Western Buddhist Order. Since 1999 her practice has focused on insight meditation; she has sat retreats with several vipassana teachers, and has participated in the Dharma Facilitators’ Programme since it began in 2002. She has attended Christopher’s Bodh Gaya and Sarnath programmes in India and was an assistant teacher at Sarnath in February, 2005 and on the Dharma Yatra in France in July. Jenny has an MA in Indian Religions and has studied Pali, the language of the ancient Buddhist texts. She lives in Totnes in England, where she leads meditation days at the Sharpham Centre and is a visiting teacher to the Barn Retreat Centre. Jenny works as a clinical psychologist supporting people with cancer, and has had training in mindfulness-based therapy which she teaches to healthcare staff and patients.

Jose Luis Reissig was born and raised in Buenos Aires (Argentina). After getting a PhD in molecular biology from Cal Tech, he dedicated himself to research and teaching in that area, in Latin America, Europe and the USA – where he emigrated with his family in 1967. In the late 70s, prompted by the breakdown of his marriage, he embarked in a spiritual search. In 1982 this search led him to India where he met Christopher. About seven years later, he trained with him to teach the Dharma. He has been teaching since 1990 at a variety of institutions, including IMS (Barre, Mass.) from 1991 to 2002 both with Christopher and in the Family Retreat. Nowadays he teaches primarily for a sangha based around Rhinebeck, in the Hudson Valley, where he lives with Raquel. They hold weekly sittings at their home, and weekend retreats nearby.

Kali (Franciska von Koch) offers workshops, meditation retreats and individual consultations. She teaches the Dharma and Insight meditation more frequently since 2002. She also teaches Living Essence, (a dharma psychology tool), and Voice Dialogue, transformational psychology. She has been teaching in India with Christopher, Jaya and others and she offers her own weeklong retreat in India, Rishikesh yearly. Kali lives and works in Sweden and she has been teaching retreats in Estonia since 2004. From 2005, she gives retreats together with Leela Sarti and they offer a dharma summer camp in the Swedish woods. Apart from a life long love-relationship with the Dharma and the spiritual quest, Kali is a fully certified spiritual counsellor and minister with the Living Essence Foundation, and she has been assisting Arjuna the founder of The L.E.F, in education. She has more then 15 years of experience in private clinic, using Voice Dialogue and Inquiry, and she has been practising Insight Meditation since more then 20 years. www.dharmanow.com

Ken Streat travelled to India in 1976 and spent the next seven years travelling. His background in Vipassana was with SN Goenka and other teachers in The U Ba Khin tradition in India and Burma. His inspiration for enquiry has come from the teachings of J Krishnamurti, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Ramana Maharshi and Tony Parsons. In 1985 Ken and his partner Siggi came to Devon to be managers at Gaia house. They have stayed near by and from 1985 to 2005 Ken was a trustee of Gaia house. Ken and Siggi have two (almost grown up) children. Ken works as a furniture maker.

Lila Kimhi has been following the Dharma since 1998, in Israel, India, Thailand and the States. She began her practice with the teaching of Goenka-ji, and her experience includes long periods in the east, in Buddhists monasteries and centres with Christopher and various teachers, as well as exploration of non-dual teaching with Ramesh Balsekar in Bombay. Lila has been actively engaged in the past years in the development of the Sangha in Israel, and in organizing and participating in walks for peace with the Palestinian community through 'Middle Way'. Leela participated in the first Dharma Facilitators Programme in Israel from 2002 - 2004. She has been involved in teaching the Dharma in Israel for the past two years, and assisted in the teaching with Christopher and other teachers in Bodh Gaya, and in the 14-day Dharma Gathering in Sarnath, India, 2005. Lila holds a BA degree in Psychology and now is writing her thesis in Indian studies and Sanskrit for the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Linda Gutierrez was born in 1947 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she grew up. After graduating from the University of New Mexico she lived and studied in London for three years. During the next eighteen years she lived and worked in New York City. It was during these years that she began an inner exploration of self through psychotherapy. In 1989 she moved to Majorca, Spain with her husband, Eduardo, and soon after was introduced to Dharma teachings, practices and vipassana meditation by the sangha active there. She sat many retreats in Spain, Gaia House in England and Switzerland. Eventually she and her husband helped to organize vipassana retreats in Majorca. During the past six years she has lived in a community/ecovillage in Italy. Because of this experience she has become aware of the great need for communication skills. She and Eduardo continue to explore community life in Italy.

Lotta Ekelund first came in contact with Dharma and Vipassana meditation while travelling in Sri Lanka at the age of 19. It felt right and heart opening from the beginning, even though the path hasn't always been straight. Over the years she has participated in many retreats, mainly in India and Sweden with teachers as Goenka, Joseph Goldstein, Christopher Titmuss, Jaya Ashmore and others. Lotta lives in Stockholm, Sweden where she has been involved in organising retreats for many years. Bringing Dharma into action is an area of great interest, which she has explored through her work making documentary films about environmental issues, human rights and other areas. The aim of this work is to inspire people to feel more care and connection with nature and each other.

Michal Cohen, 37, from Israel, has followed the Dharma for the past 15 years. She has practised and studied in various centres and monasteries in India, Japan, Nepal and Sri Lanka, as well as Israel. To deepen her practice she has spent periods in self-retreat lasting from three months to one year. Michal has also explored the Buddha’s teachings as revealed in the early texts and their application to daily life. She has been teaching Dharma practices for the last three years in retreats, dharma study classes, workshops, such as spiritual support at the end of life, and weekly meditation classes. Michal participated in the Dharma Facilitators Programme in Israel from 2002 – 2004. She assisted in the teaching at the 14-day Dharma Gathering with Christopher and other teaches in Sarnath, India in February, 2005. Michal has a Masters degree in special education and worked for 15 years in the field of learning disabilities.

Muriel Bansard, met Buddhism in 1993 during a 9 months trip in India, Nepal and Asia. Back in France, she went on exploring Dharma in local groups and sitting retreats with Christopher Timuss and Yvonne Weier in Majorca and Gaia House. After the birth of her daughter, she practised in Tapovan, a meditation centre in the forest of the Pyrenees and contributed in setting up the French Dharma Yatra which gathers more and more people every summer since 2000. In 2004-2005, she participated in the Dharma Facilitators Program in England.
She puts a big emphasis on putting Dharma teachings into practice in the everyday life through considering our respect and care towards people and environment as an important way of meditating.

Nadamo has a deep longing for an awakened life. In 1982 he took a bus from Berlin to India and this was the beginning of a long journey through many countries for nearly fifteen years. He was living in India for 6½ years.
His first 10 day retreat happened with Goenkaji in Hyderabad (1983 in India) and it was a nightmare. So he needed a few years to recover before meeting Christopher 1987 in Bodh-Gaya. Since then life has become easier and easier until it became a joy to be here.
Nadamo was greaty influenced by teachers of Advaita like Ramana, Gaia, Mooji and Papaji from Lucknow, who was a real jewel, seldom to be found. Living a long time in Dharamsala he was also touched by the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan traditions. He practised with Christopher and other teachers of the Insight Meditation Tradition for more than 24 years in Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Europe.
The regular participation in the DFP since 2002 deepened Nadamo's  understanding of the dharma and unfolded its beauty.
Nadamo is the Dharma Audio Distributor for Christopher's dharma talks and inquiries.
He is an active member of the local Amnesty group and guides regular meditation sittings at his home.
One of his favorite books is: 'I Am That' by Nisargadatta Maharaj!

Nicole Stern *1967 from Germany began to immerse herself in spiritual and meditation inquiry in the age of 21 – deeply touched and inspired by her mother’s wisdom to handle her own death. After a bank training and studying psychology, she entered management consultancy offering a holistic vision. For three years, Nicole became co-founder and co-director of a German non-profit institution for personal development and psychotherapy. Currently she is working as a freelance business consultant.
In 1998, she started Zen training in Germany and at the Zen Mountain Monastery in Colorado, USA. From 1998 Nicole spent the every winter in India practising and studying the Dharma and Non-Duality teachings. She is writing a book on awareness and sexual energy. Nicole has given courses on mindfulness of eating, nutritious diet through the application of the application of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
Since 2005 she is teaching with Christopher on retreats in Germany, France and India. Her hearts request in working with groups and individuals is to remind of an existential trust and cultivating presence. On her retreats she is offering everyday life based and creative gates of Dharma practice. www.nicolestern.de

Nicole is the coordinator of the Living Dharma Programme and gives organisational support to Christophers international work.

Radha Nicholson teaches the cultivation of wisdom and compassion through insight. Her teachings focus on inquiry and non-duality. Radha first met Christopher in India in 1975 where she participated in extended retreats. She was one of the founding members of the Australian community, Bodhi Farm, where she lived for 13 years. She is a guiding teacher for Bay Insight, Byron Bay and is a member of the Insight Teachers Circle Australia. Radha teaches retreats regularly in Australia: see www.dharma.org.au. She also teaches with Christopher at Dharma gatherings in India and Australia and taught on the 2005 Dharma Yatra in France. She is a Registered Psychologist with a private practice in Bangalow near Byron Bay where she lives with her partner. She has three sons, a daughter, and grandchildren.

Rakefet Bar-Kama (Sandhya) 48, has been actively engaged in spiritual practice since 1986. She spent 7 years in residence at the Kripalu Yoga Institute in the US (www.kripalu.org), where she practiced meditation and yoga, bramacharya (celibacy), seva (service) and bhakti (devotion) under the guidance of her teacher Yogi Amrit Desai (Gurudev), and taught Vipassana meditation and personal development workshops.
Over the years she has explored Buddhist, Hindu and Native American approaches to spirituality in the US, India and Israel, where she currently lives. She has been involved with Tovana (www.tovana.co.il) in Israel since 2002, and is teaching with Tovana, with Akoda (www.akoda.org.il), and other centres She has been a peace activist and the coordinator of Middleway – a movement for peaceful and Dharmic approach to peacemaking (www.middleway.org).

Reni Ovadia was born in 1954 and is a mother to three sons. She worked as a publishing writer, a clinical psychologist who engaged with severe mental patients. Reni taught in post graduate programs of psychoanalytic therapy. In 1998 she attended her first Vipassana (Goenka) retreat. Deeply experiencing the radical, vital, curative power of Dharma, she has since become engaged in Dharma studies and practices. Reni strives to bring their fruits both to her teachings and in her work with people who suffer.
She is an active member of Tovana (Israeli Insight Meditation Community), a member in PsychoDharma (therapists from different schools of methods who jointly explore the implications of Dharma to their professional practices), and engaged in the Dharma Facilitators Programme in Israel offered by Christopher, an inspiration and a mentor.
She vision one day a mental health hospital founded on the Dharma, and a lively supportive Sangha community enriching its influence within Israeli society and world wide.

Rick Lawrence In 1977 after boarding a Magic Bus at the age of 17, Rick was immersed in the adventure of overland travel to India. After taking refuge in the chaos that is India, he rested on a 3-month intensive retreat in Rishikesh, north India. Confronted by the ghost of himself and planning to escape numerous times, he began his journey with Meditation and Inquiry. Since 1981 he has explored teachings in India, Thailand, Australia and Europe. Rick has participated in the Dharma Facilitators Programme for the past three years and has been teaching on the international Yatra (Pilgrimage) held in France every July. He was a trustee of Gaia House meditation centre for a number of years. and lives in Totnes, Devon, UK with his family. Amongst others, he has explored the teachings of J. Krishnamurti, Ramana Maharishi and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. He has a passion for exploring 'what is'.

Roger Stalder was born 1972 in Switzerland. Setting out as a seeker of wisdom in 1997 he eventually sat a vipassana retreat in Bodh Gaya, India. Since then time in meditation, study and listening to teachings in monasteries, ashrams, meditation centres and nature followed and continue. Soon he discovered that he wasn't in search of a new religion or belief system. His interest and inquiry lie more in teachings and practices to understand how to live a life with integrity and wisdom. The non-dual teachings of different traditions serve him well. Especially in the Dharma of the Buddha he finds tools for a deep understanding and the potential to live an awakened life. Nowadays he is involved in different Dharma activities and is engaged in bringing an understanding of the Dharma to daily life and to social, political and environmental issues. He lives together with his partner and child and works as a gardener with mentally disabled adults.

Simona Salewski, originally from Germany, has been living and practising the Dharma mainly in India and Europe since 1994. In 1997 she discovered Insight Meditation and since then has been a student of Chistopher Titmuss. After many years of practising yoga, she started teaching yoga in 2002. Her first visit to India inspired a six month walk with a daypack through the Himalayas, living in temples, Tibetan Monasteries and caves. She highly values the homeless life and living simply. Simona is very closely connected with Tapovan, a retreat centre near Bordeaux, France and has co-taught on the Dharma Yatra in 2004 and 2005. In the last year, Simona has been living mainly in the U.K. working as a carer.

Tineke Osterloh, teaches Dharma and insight meditation on retreats, workshops and evening classes. She also works as a Dharma counsellor in individual meetings. Between 1992 and 1994 she lived at Gaia House, Devon, England. Here she met Christopher Titmuss, who became her teacher and mentor. He invited her to start teaching the Dharma in 1996. The following year she moved to South Africa where she lived and worked for two years at the "Buddhist Retreat Centre" near Durban. She has also been trained in Process-Oriented Psychology (Arnold Mindell) and feels much inspired by the teachings of Krishnamurti, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and Joan Halifax-Roshi. Tineke lives together with her partner and their two small children in Hamburg, Germany. For more information, please look at her website: www.tineke-osterloh.de

Uschi Stehmann, who received her Masters Degree in Education from the University of Münster, Germany, practised, explored and taught the Dharma in many creative ways for 20 years. A passionate nature photographer and gardener, her way of teaching is down to earth, practical and points to the direct experience and understanding of interconnectedness. She taught nature and wilderness retreats in Europe and Canada for more than a decade and practised with Christopher and other teachers of the Insight Meditation Tradition for more than 15 years in Europe and India. An active participant in the Dharma Facilitators Program since its beginnings in 2001, she continues to deepen her understanding of the Buddha Dharma. She lives with her husband Christoph in Paderborn/ Germany and near a remote village in the north Canadian wilderness.

Vernon Castle was born and raised in southern California during the 1950’s and 1960’s. A consciousness of impermanence was very much a feature of those years, not only with the farmland around turning into suburbs and freeways but with the death of many of his loved ones. The deep wish to awaken can certainly arise from the mysterious invitations in our unfolding lives. For him, the joy he felt out in the wilds of the Yosemite was counterpoint to the grief and hurt of unexplained loss. The genesis of his spiritual searching was, it seems, to somehow reconcile the light and the darkness of the heart. He flew into the late 60’s “counterculture” of California which invited but didn’t satisfy. He tried his hand at meditation and devotional practices but didn’t have the maturity or discipline to make good use of them. In 1974 he began a journey from Southeast Asia back to London, overland. It was the turning point of all that has happened since. He was introduced to vipassana at a fertile mind moment in the mountains of India, in spring of 1975, by a young Theravadan monk now known a Christopher. For the last 30 years the Dharma has been his true refuge and his compass. Every two years he set aside at least 6 weeks for a personal intensive retreat, usually at Gaia House in England. He remain deeply grateful for the teachings.