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Spiritual Director -
  Venerable Lama Sumati Marut


Spiritual Advisor -
  Lama Jesse Fallon


Founders
  • Khen Rinpoche Geshe
  Lobsang Tharchin

• Geshe Michael Roach
• Lama Christie McNally

Local Teachers
  • Bob Arnold
• Jillian Demeri
• Mary Kay Dyer
• Pattie O'Brien, PhD
• Margaret Redington
• Judith Ring
• Phil Salzman
• Julie Upton
• Larry Wolf

Visiting Teachers
  • Rick Blue
• Lindsay Crouse
• Camilo Cerro
• Cindy Lee
• Renee McNamara
• Shadi Mogadime
• David White


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Bob Arnold

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.
 
Jillian Demeri
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.
 
Mary Kay Dyer
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.
 
Dr. Pat O'Brien
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
 
Margaret Redington
Margaret Redington has been joyfully studying and practicing Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism under the guidance of her spiritual teacher, Lama Sumati Marut since 2006. She has completed the 18 Formal Study Courses of the Asian Classics Institute.
 
Judith Ring
Judith Ring feels blessed to pass on the lineage of her Heart Teachers, Lama Rick Blue and Lama Lindsay Crouse. Judith is in the process of completing the 18 Formal Study Courses of the Asian Classics Institute. She began Buddhist studies in the Theravadan tradition in 1987 and started studying ACI courses in 2007. She is Co-Founder of and a Partner at Equitas Group, a company which uses Buddhist principles to teach people how to manage their own money.
 
Phil Salzman
Phil Salzman has completed the 18 Formal Study Courses of the Asian Classics Institute and continues to study with Ven. Sumati Marut.
 
Julie Upton
Julie Upton has been a student of Buddhism since 2004 and yoga since 1992. She has completed all 18-core courses of the ACI curriculum and continues her Buddhist studies in the advanced program at Diamond Mountain with her teachers Geshe Michael Roach, Lama Christie McNally and Venerable Sumati Marut. Julie is a devoted student and teacher of Tibetan Heart Yoga and lives to share the wisdom that’s been passed on to her by her holy teachers.
 
Larry Wolf
Larry Wolf completed the 18 Formal Study Courses of the Asian Classics Institute in 2010. He continues his studies under the guidance of Venerable Sumati Marut and Lindsay Crouse. Larry teaches meditation and Buddhism in Cape Ann and Boston. During the day he works as a computer analyst. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science and a Masters in Business Administration, with a concentration in Finance.
 
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