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Jason Adams (training for musicians)
Dmytro Ivakhnenko (English, Ukrainian, Russian)
Lawrence Ozenberger
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Jason Adams - Houston
Contact Jason to develop your skills as a musician with a teacher skilled in performance, teaching, and meditation.
Experience: Zen meditation and training in the Northeast at various centers beginning in 1990. Engaged Buddhism since 2000, and Vipassana training with Mary Rees and at Spirit Rock Meditation Center since 2009. Many daylongs and longer retreats at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and with Thich Nhat Hahn in the Boston area in 2001.
Biography:Jason has been practicing Zen, Engaged Buddhism, and most recently, Vipassana Meditation since 1990. He has been on several retreats, including a week with Thich Nhat Hahn and at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. In daily life he is a trumpet player and and teacher. Jason lives in Houston with his partner, Kim, and has three lovely and excellent children.
Jason also generously serves as a contact person regarding our Houston retreats.
Contact:
www.trumpetowner.com
Dmytro Ivakhnenko - Kiev
Experience: Dmytro has been practicing Buddhist meditation since 1998, translated over a dozen books from English to Russian, and compiled the first concise Pali-Russian dictionary. He holds diplomas in Practical Psychology and Mathematical Methods of System Analysis, is a Certified Process Facilitator (Transformational Processing Institute, Los Angeles) and is versed in modern developments in practical psychology, e.g. Hakomi and Symbolic Modelling.
Biography: Born in the family of cybernetician and psychologist, Dmytro combines the systemic study of Pali texts with the knowledge of modern developments in Psychology. Having started in 1998 the first Russian-language Theravadin website, he supports Theravadin community under the umbrella of Buddhist Educational Fellowship.
Dmytro lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine, and is also available via Skype.
Contact and Dharma Site:
Dharma Website
Other Sites
Lawrence Ozenberger - New Orleans
Experience: Larry has been exploring various meditation practices and forms of body work for most of his adult life. For eight years, he practiced in the Soto Zen tradition. After that, he devoted himself for a lengthy period to the practice of Aikido. He is currently serving as the Chief Instructor at an Aikido dojo in New Orleans. In 2007, Larry resumed his meditation practice in the Insight Meditation tradition. He has been a student of Mary Rees for several years and has been attending retreats with her and at the Insight Meditation Society and at Spirit Rock.
Larry lives in New Orleans. He leads a weekly sitting group that meets at the Aikido dojo and is available to meet with people individually in person or via Skype.
Contact and Community Website:
New Orleans Insight Meditation Website
New Orleans Insight FB