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Bob Arnold has been studying meditation and sacred movement, including Tibetan Heart Yoga and Tai Chi, for more than 10 years. He is a graduate of the Yoga Studies Institute 300-hour teacher training and is a YSI Essentials Staff teacher of Tibetan Heart Yoga and the Classics of Yoga. |
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Jillian Demeri
is certified in Hatha/Vinyasa and children's yoga with over 300 hours of training at Lotus Yoga in Montclair, NJ.
She carries on a family tradition of yoga instruction started by her mother, Marley Hewins, in the '70s.
Jill is a student of Tibetan Heart Yoga and the highly inspirational Mahayana Buddhist teachings of Venerable Sumati Marut.
In addition to her yoga practice, she is a well known artist in the Cape Ann art community and owns and runs the JDemeri gallery in Rockport, MA.
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Mary Kay Dyer
has completed the eighteen formal ACI courses and participated in the eighteen advanced courses with her teacher, Venerable Sumati Marut. She has also received teachings from Geshe Michael Roach at Diamond Mountain and from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. She continues to offer the Dharma Essential courses at the Vajramudra Center and teachings on meditation and the practice at other locations. |
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Jesse Fallon is an enthusiastic student of Tibetan Buddhism in the Gelug lineage. He has completed the 18 Formal Study Courses of the Asian Classics Institute and continues his studies with Ven. Sumati Marut, Geshe Michael Roach, and Lama Christie McNally. |
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Pat O'Brien, Ph.D., is a Harvard Medical School trained immunologist and clinical research scientist who has been practicing meditation for 15 years and Hatha yoga for 12 years. Dr. Pat is a Baron Baptiste Certified yoga teacher. Dr. Pat teaches power yoga, beginners yoga, restorative yoga, Tibetan Heart Yoga classes and private therapeutic one-on-one yoga instruction. Dr. Pat’s clinical research efforts are ongoing and dedicated to the effects of yoga on health.
Dr. Pat has studied Tantra and meditation with Yogarupa Rod Stryker. She is a student of Lama Sumati Marut in the Tibetan Buddhist Gelukpa lineage. Dr. Pat has studied Tibetan Heart Yoga with its founders Geshe Michael Roach and Lama Christie McNally.
Dr. Pat's yoga teaching emphasizes connection with the true self and healing. Although educated in traditional medicine, Dr. Pat has long been passionate in her beliefs of the spirit-mind-body connection and the use of the ancient practices of meditation and yoga. For more information see www.theyogaclinic.com |
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Margaret Redington has been joyfully studying and practicing Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism under the guidance of her spiritual teacher, Lama Sumati Marut since 2006. |
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Phil Salzman has been an ACI-CA student since 2006, studying with Venerable Sumati Marut. He is working toward completion of the ACI Formal Study Course curriculum. He has taken Lifetime Lay Vows, Bodhisattva Vows and the advanced vows which he is currently studying with Venerable Marut. He has attended various teachings given by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. He is the President of ACI-CA. |
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Larry Wolf
completed the 18 Formal Study Courses of the Asian Classics Institute in 2010. He continues his studies under the guidance of his spiritual teachers, Venerable Sumati Marut and Lama Lindsay Crouse. |
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