Teachers

Facilitator

Boaz Feldman first practiced meditation as a Buddhist monk in the tradition of northern Thailand 15 years ago. He is a Dharma teacher graduate from the Bodhi College with Martine and Stephen Batchelor as his mentors. Boaz is currently completing his Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) certification with the University of Bangor and has completed over 6 years of silent retreats with teachers such as Sayadaw U Tejaniya (Burma), Joseph Goldstein (USA), Rob Burbea (UK) and Patricia & Charles Genoud (Switzerland). He also trained as a clinical psychologist and founded NeuroSystemics, a Swiss-based charity which trains individuals, groups and communities in somatics and trauma-sensitive approaches globally.

Celeste Young began formally practicing Buddhist meditation in 2002. In 2011, she was invited to join the first teacher development cohort at InsightLA, where she’s served as a core teacher for the past decade. Celeste has maintained a strong interest in and commitment to long retreat practice over the years. She also teaches Insight Meditation retreats, works with individual students, and mentors new teachers globally. 

CHRIS CULLEN has practised and studied the Buddha's teachings since 1994 and has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats since 2010. He is also on the teaching team of the University of Oxford’s Mindfulness Centre, teaching Buddhist Psychology on the Masters course in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and running the mindfulness programme in the UK Parliament. He has a psychotherapy practice in Oxford.

CHRISTIN ILLEBORG is a meditation teacher and owner of Nordic Dharma. She offers mindfulness programmes and teaches insight meditation shaped to our Nordic living conditions. She leads silent retreats in Denmark and Sweden, teaches both individuals and companies. Christin has been practicing meditation since 2000 when her fascination with Buddha’s timeless teachings began. She has been involved in a Japanese tradition, a Tibetan and most recently in the Theravada tradition and Vipassana. In 2017, she completed The Committed Dharma Practitioners Programme at Bodhi College and in 2022 their training as a Dharma Teacher. Christin is also an educated film editor (DDF), yoga teacher and cognitive therapist.

CHRISTINA FELDMAN is a co-founder of Gaia House and a guiding teacher at Insight Meditation Society, Barre, Massachussetts. The author of a number of books, she has been teaching insight meditation retreats internationally since 1976. She is one of the teaching faculty of the CPP programme, dedicated to the study and application of the early teachings of the Buddha and is engaged in teaching the Buddhist psychological foundations of mindfulness to those training to teach mindfulness-based applications in England, Belgium and the Netherlands.

CHRISTOPH KÖCK was born in Vienna, Austria, and spent 17 years of his life as a Buddhist monk in the Theravadin tradition. He lived mainly in monasteries connected with Ajahn Chah in Thailand and the West. Currently he lives in Vienna, working as a psychotherapist in a private practice. He teaches Buddhism and meditation internationally, and is trained to teach MBSR and MBCT. www.christoph-koeck.at

CHRISTOPH KÖCK, geb. 1962 in Wien, lebte 17 Jahre als Mönch, vornehmlich in Klöstern verbunden mit Ajahn Chah in Thailand und Europa. Seit 2001 lebt er wieder in Wien, wo er auch als Psychotherapeut in eigener Praxis tätig ist. Langjährige internationale Lehrtätigkeit in Meditation und Buddhismus.
Webseite: www.christoph-koeck.at

Denis Bićanić Bratski ist Kultursoziologe und Philosoph (M.A.) mit langjähriger Tätigkeit im humanitären und sozialen Bereich; aktuell als Helfer in einem stationären Hospiz tätig. Er ist ausgebildeter Lehrer für „Achtsames Selbstmitgefühl“ (MSC) und zwischen 2018 und 2022 absolvierte er das „Committed Practitioners Programme“ sowie das „Teacher Training Programme“ von Bodhi College. 

GARY BORN Since retiring as a Director of a multi-national IT software company, Gary hastaught mindfulness, focusing on people with cancer and on health professionals. He also supervises other mindfulness teachers and mentors graduates of mindfulness courses. Gary is a graduate of the Community Dharma Leadership Programme led by Gaia House, and completed the Committed Dharma Practitioners Programme of Bodhi College in 2010. He has been practising Insight Meditation since 2001, and has been a Board member of the Buddhist Insight Network and Sitting Groups Coordinator for London Insight Meditation. Gary is married, with two grown-up sons.

GERIT STÖCKLMAIR is a microbiologist, psychotherapist and Body Movement Therapist, originally from Austria. Curiosity about the inner and outer world has put her on many journeys, and she has lived in England, Scotland and South Korea, before settling in Denmark, where she now lives. She has been practising meditation since 1994 and has been on extended retreats since 1998, mainly Vipassana, but also within the Zen and Triratna tradition. She graduated from the Bodhi College Teacher Training in 2022 and has an interest in personal development through body-mind-soul integration, which means you might also find her dancing on various occasions.
Gerit is also co-founder of Copenhagen Insight Meditation.