Apprentice Teacher
Celeste Young
Celeste Young first came to Tara Mandala in 2017 for Kapala I at the invitation of a friend and never looked back. Today she is a student in the Magyu program, an Apprentice Teacher, and serves on the Mandala Committee for the Northern Sierra Sangha. She is a graduate student in the Master of Divinity […]
Gretchen Donovan
Gretchen Donovan is a longtime meditator and has been teaching yoga for over 25 years. She met Lama Tsultrim in 2016 and joined Magyu shortly afterwards. She is an apprentice teacher at Tara Mandala, a Certified Feeding Your Demons Facilitator and an active member of the San Diego Satellite Sangha learning and discovering the gifts […]
Ven. Dr. Myodo Jabo
Venerable Dr. Myodo Jabo is a Buddhist Priest and Zen Master in the Five Mountain Zen Order. A meditator since 1998, she has been teaching the Buddhadharma and meditation since 2008 and was ordained as a Priest in 2013. She founded Single Flower Zen Center in Claremont, California in 2014. Roshi Myodo is currently the […]
Khandro Noble
Khandro Noble has been a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism for almost twenty years and a dedicated student of Lama Tsultrim since 2010. Khandro serves as a Kalyanamitra, or spiritual friend, for the Tara Mandala community and leads the recently formed Tara Mandala satellite sangha in her home of Tucson, Arizona. It was in a bookstore […]
Regina Bommer
Regina Bommer, born in 1963, works as an organizer and has been on the move internally and externally for as long as she can remember. She learned various therapy methods such as breathing and body work, NLP and talk therapy. For a while she also studied numerology, astrology and tarot. She has been meditating regularly for 35 […]
Cary Twomey
Cary Twomey, (Rangshar Karmo Khandro), was raised in a Catholic family. She was introduced to Eastern meditation and the spiritual practices of Paramahansa Yogananda in her late teens, and immediately felt she was home. At age fourteen she begin a committed yogic and meditation practice in his Self-Realization Fellowship Lineage, which she has since continued. […]
Brenda Proudfoot
Before finding Tara Mandala, Brenda was the owner/instructor of a yoga studio in California for 17 years. During that time she studied Yoga and Buddhist philosophy, practiced Shamatha and Pranayama, and worked individually with a Buddhist teacher. Brenda taught weekend yoga retreats that included asana, pranayama, meditation and silence. She also worked with students individually on […]
Dana Price
Dana Price DOM, L.Ac. (Pema Khandro) has been practicing Tibetan Buddhism for over 20 years and has been devoted student of Lama Tsultrim Allione since 2009. She started her vajrayana path studying under the guidance of Lama Lodru Rinpoche of Kagyu Droden Kunchab based in San Francisco and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche of Tergar International. Dana […]
Heike Andrea Müller
Heike Andrea Müller is a gestalt therapist and certified Feeding Your Demons® therapist in her private practice in Würzburg, Germany. She started meditation in 1989 and encountered Buddhism in 2005. For several years, she studied Buddhist foundations and Green Tara practice, mainly with Sylvia Wetzel. After spending three months on her solo pilgrimage in India and Nepal, […]
Christine Ho
Christine (Kunzang Khandro) fell head first into the deep pools of the Dharma when she met Lama Tsultrim and Chod in 1996. She took refuge with Lama Tsultrim and has received many teachings and blessings from her, such as the chod, FYD, and dakini practices, as well as the ngondros (foundational practices) of the longchen […]