Teachers

Gerit Stöcklmair widmet sich seit 1994 der buddhistischen Herzens- und Geistesschulungunter verschiedenen Lehrern. Sie praktiziert und unterrichtet Vipassana- und Metta-Meditation und untersucht mit großem Interesse die Integration des Dhammas im heutigen Kontext der modernen Welt.Sie ist Mitgründerin von Copenhagen Insight Meditation, wo sie auch lehrt und arbeitet nebenbei als Integraler Psychotherapeut, Body Movement Therapeut und Psychotherapeut mit dem Schwerpunkt, Schock und Trauma.

JAKE DARTINGTON has practised Buddhist meditation since 1995. After training as a Dharma teacher with Christina Feldman, he started teaching in 2007. He has a background in Philosophy and Buddhist Studies and has trained as a teacher of MBSR/MBCT. Jake lives in Nottingham where he teaches mindfulness and Insight Meditation. 

JAYA RUDGARD began meditating in the 1980s and practised for eight years as a nun in theThai Forest tradition in England with Ven. Ajahn Sumedho as her teacher. She later trained to teach at Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock in the US and continues to teach Insight Meditation at these centres, at home in the UK and internationally. She is a member of the Gaia House Teacher Council. Jaya also teaches qigong. 

JENNY WILKS has practised in various Buddhist traditions since the late 1980s, and has an MA inIndian Religions. She has taught for several years at Gaia House, the Barn Retreat near Totnes in Devon UK, and local meditation classes. She trained in clinical psychology and works as an MBCT (Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy) therapist and trainer at Exeter University.

JOHN PEACOCK is both an academic and a Buddhist practitioner of nearly fifty years. Trained initially in the Tibetan Gelugpa tradition in India, he subsequently spent time in Sri Lanka studying Theravada. After doing a doctorate in philosophy, he taught Buddhist and Western philosophy and then Buddhist Studies at the University of Bristol. He went on to be Associate Director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre , co-direct the Master of Studies programme in MBCT(Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy) at Oxford University, and teach Buddhist psychology on the same course.  John is now retired from academia and continues to teach meditation, as he has done for more than thirty-five years.

Klaus-Peter Uhlenberg began practising Buddhist meditation and studying the Dharma in the1990s. Since 2007, he has been a regular participant in Akincano M. Weber's meditation and study courses in Cologne, and has been teaching himself since 2021. Klaus-Peter completed the Committed Practitioners Programme and the Teacher Training Programme at Bodhi College. After many years as a judge at the administrative court, Klaus-Peter is now retired. He lives with his wife in Cologne.

Klaus-Peter Uhlenberg begann in den 1990er Jahren mit buddhistischer Meditation und dem Studium des Dharma. Seit 2007 ist er regelmäßiger Teilnehmer von Akincano M. Webers Meditations- und Studienkursen in Köln, wo er seit 2021 selbst im Rahmen von Atammaya Köln unterrichtet. Klaus-Peter absolvierte das Committed Practitioners Programme und das  Teacher Training Programm beim Bodhi College. Nach langjähriger Berufstätigkeit als Richter am Verwaltungsgericht ist Klaus-Peter nun pensioniert. Er lebt mit seiner Frau in Köln. 

MARTINE BATCHELOR lived in Korea as a Zen nun under the guidance of Master Kusan for ten years. She is the author of Meditation for Life, The Path of Compassion, Women in Korean Zen and Let Go: A Buddhist Guide to Breaking Free of Habits.A Gaia House guiding teacher, Martine teaches meditation retreats worldwide and lives in Southwest France. Her latest work is The Spirit of the Buddha.

MARTINE BATCHELOR trained in South Korea as a Sŏn nun under the guidance of Kusan Sunim from 1975-84. Today her interests range from how meditation can be integrated into daily life to how Buddhism can engage with issues of social inequality, particularly those involving diversity and women’s issues. Her emphasis in teaching is, above all, practical: whether in psychology, ethics or meditation she is concerned to present what will make an actual difference in the quality of one’s life.  She is currently co-facilitating a three-year research project at the University of Caen that is studying the effects of meditation practice on the process of aging. She has written articles on topics as diverse as the Korean way of tea, Buddhism and women, Buddhism and ecology, and Zen cooking. The author of Meditation for Life, The Path of Compassion, Women in Korean Zen, Let Go, and The Spirit of the Buddha, she teaches meditation worldwide and lives in south-west France. (www.martinebatchelor.org)

NICOLE SCHOONBROOD is working at the Radboudumc Centre for Mindfulness as a senior trainer supervising the teacher trainer program for mindfulness teachers. Besides being a teacher trainer, she is an experienced supervisor, compassion teacher and Insight Dialogue teacher. She has completed the Dhamma Teacher Program at Bodhi College and is also guiding retreats.