Meet the CCN Teachers
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Dr. B. Alan Wallace
B. Alan Wallace is one of the world’s leading scholars, writers, and teachers of Tibetan Buddhism, and an outspoken advocate for a revolution in the mind sciences, one that will replace the current paradigm of materialist reductionism with a new paradigm based on contemplative methods of inquiry into the nature and potentials of the mind.
With more than 40 years of formal studies in the Indo-Tibetan tradition (including 14 years as a monastic) and prestigious degrees from Amherst College and Stanford, he is uniquely qualified to bridge the gap between modern science and the time-tested approaches to contemplative practice preserved by multiple lineages. A student of the Dalai Lama and many other renowned teachers, he authored and translated more than 40 books on the philosophy of consciousness, Tibetan Buddhism and applied contemplative practice.
Detailed biography: https://www.alanwallace.org/about-alan-wallace/
Books by Alan Wallace: https://www.alanwallace.org/writings/books/
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Michael Lobsang Tenpa
Michael Lobsang Tenpa (he/they) is a Tibetan Buddhist translator, meditation instructor, Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) teacher and student of EcoDharma. Born in Siberia, he earned BA and MA degrees in South Asian studies, worked in social media and eventually received ordination in Nepal, spending nine years as a Tibetan Buddhist monastic before switching to the path of a lay teacher/practitioner. In addition to years of Buddhist studies and translator work, he also trained as a secular ethics and mindfulness instructor in the Netherlands, the UK and the US.
Detailed biography: https://lobsangtenpa.com/about
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Dr Eva Natanya
Eva Natanya is a scholar of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, an academic lecturer, writer, translator, and retreat leader.
Following a nine-year career as a professional ballet dancer with both the New York City Ballet and the Royal Ballet of England, she earned an MA in Christian Systematic Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA, and a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia.
For over twenty years, she has studied meditation, yoga, and philosophy in both the Christian and Buddhist traditions with master teachers in the United States, England, and India.
She is the Executive Director and Resident Teacher of The Center for Contemplative Research. A scholar of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, Christian theology, and comparative religion, Dr. Natanya has served in many capacities as a spiritual teacher, academic lecturer, translator and editor of Tibetan texts, writer, and retreat leader.
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Glen Svensson
Glen has been a student and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 1995 and graduated from the seven-year Masters Program in Advanced Buddhist Studies of Sutra and Tantra at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa (Pomaia, Italy) in 2004.
Since 2005 he has taught and led meditation retreats in India, Europe, North America and Australia with a clear and structured teaching style emphasizing the integration of philosophical view, meditation and daily life conduct.
Originally from Australia, Glen attained a BSc in IT at the University of Queensland. After four years working in Brisbane, he spent the next eight years working and traveling around the world. Having ‘bumped’ into Buddhism during his travels (“I read a book about Buddhism and it seemed so logical and many things resonated extremely well with my innate beliefs”), he attended his first Dharma teaching in Dharamsala, India in 1995.
He completed the two following Kopan November courses in Kathmandu, Nepal and joined the seven-year Masters Program in Advanced Buddhist Studies of Sutra and Tantra at the Lama Tzong Khapa Institute (Pomaia, Italy). He graduated from the Masters Program in 2004 and completed his studies with an eight-month retreat at Oseling Center in Spain. Since 2005 he has taught and led meditation retreats in India, Europe, North America and Australia with a teaching style emphasizing clarity and stressing the integration of philosophical view, meditation and daily life conduct.
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Dr. Clara Seeger
A multi-cultural Londoner of Greek and German descent, Clara E Seeger (PhD, MAC AKC) is passionate about facilitating human flourishing through cultivating the mind by way of meditation, mindfulness, applied neuroscience and emotional intelligence.
As an ILM Accredited coach, corporate facilitator, speaker and author, Clara works with international companies and individuals across many sectors and countries, delivering mindfulness interventions, neuroscience-based leadership development, executive coaching, coach training, as well as meditation-based programmes to balance the mind for optimal mental health and to help clients experience authentic wellbeing above and beyond a narrow focus on leadership performance and effectiveness.
In addition to her deepening daily practice and her M.Sc in Neuroscience and Mindfulness, Clara has completed numerous mindfulness and meditation workshops, teachings and retreats, both online and in person, including MBSR, MBCT, Mindful Self-Compassion, Shamatha, Vipashyana, Dzogchen, the Four Applications of Mindfulness, the Seven-Point Mind Training, and many others.
She practises and studies under the guidance of Dr Alan Wallace.
Clara has developed her own coaching methodology, which integrates insights from ancient wisdom traditions, mindfulness, as well as modern neuroscience in a holistic way and is passionate about introducing the benefits and neuroscience of mindfulness to the corporate world, both theoretically and practically.
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David Oromith
David is a Buddhist contemplative, author, meditation guide and retreat leader. He has been practising meditation since he was 18 years old, specifically in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for 9 years, and has been a student of Lama Alan’s for the past 7 years and considers him to be his root teacher. It was during his time working in mental health services that he first trained as a meditation teacher.
Alongside his work for CCN, David serves as a meditation guide and retreat leader in the UK through his organisation, Samadhi. Since 2015, David has taught classes and workshops internationally in the UK, Spain, and Gibraltar, and across the world online. He spent two years in Spain focusing on his own study and engaging in retreat before returning to teach at the request of close friends.