Teachers

Professor REBECCA CRANE PhD is an experienced mindfulness teacher and has been personally exploring meditation for over 40 years. She is the former director of the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice atBangor University and is a trustee for The Mindfulness Network. She has written Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Distinctive Features, co-authored Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy with People at Risk of Suicide, and co-edited Essential Resources for Mindfulness Teachers. She graduated from the Bodhi College Teacher Training in 2022.

Regina Enders hat als Krankenschwester in einer psychosomatischen Klinik mehr als 20 Jahrelang Menschen in emotionalen Krisen begleitet und seit 2007 dort auch Achtsamkeit vermittelt. Seit 2009 unterrichtet sie MBSR-kurse und hat dafür 2018 auch einen B.Sc. in Psychologie erworben. Eine ernsthafte Meditationspraxis mit zahlreichen Retreats pflegt sie seit 1996 und ist neben Akincano und einigen Vertretern der A.Chah-Tradition von Lehrern wie Carol Wilson, S. U. Tejanyia, Tsonkyi R. und der Bodhi College-Fakultät beeinflusst. Von 2014-2022 war sie auch in der Ausbildung von MBSR-lehrern beteiligt. Ihre Ausbildung zur Meditationslehrerin hat sie am Bodhi College erhalten. 
Mehr unter: www.regina-enders.de

River Wolton is a Community Dharma Leader authorised by Gaia House Teacher Council, and has completed Dharma Teacher Training with Bodhi College. A former Derbyshire Poet Laureate, she has led writing and arts projects for many years, and is an activist in the LGBTQI+ community.

ROBERT M. ELLIS is the founder of the Middle Way Society and the author of a number of books on Middle Way Philosophy – including the introductory Migglism and the more detailed Middle Way Philosophy series. His most recent book, The Buddha’s Middle Way: Experiential Judgement in his Life and Teaching was published by Equinox in 2019, with a foreword by Stephen Batchelor. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy, is an experienced teacher, and was formerly a member of the Triratna Buddhist Order. He now regularly leads retreats for the Middle Way Society.

SOPHIE BOYER has been practicing meditation for 20 years during her time providing nursing care. After years spent in hospices, she became more interested in exploring silent meditation retreats in Europe, and in the US and spent 2 years in Myanmar as a Buddhist nun. She has been trained under the guidance of Martine Batchelor and completed the Bodhi College Dharma Teacher Training. She also took the MBCAS instructor training program (mindfulness based cognitive approach for seniors). She currently offers meditation sessions for an oncology ward in Geneva and mainly offers retreats in France. 

STEPHEN BATCHELOR is a Buddhist teacher and writer known for his secular or agnostic approach to the Dharma. Formerly a Buddhist monk in the Tibetan and Zen traditions, he is the translator and author of several books including Buddhism Without Beliefs, Living with the Devil and Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist. His most recent  book, After Buddhism, was published by Yale University Press in 2015. He lives in southwest France with his wife Martine.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR has been practicing Buddhism since 1972. Throughout this time he has been concerned to find ways of articulating the Dharma in a language that speaks to the conditions of modernity. This has led him to dispense with elements of Buddhist doctrine that he considers artifacts of ancient Indian culture with limited relevance to the world we inhabit today. In recent years his approach has become increasingly pragmatic: he is concerned primarily with whether a teaching works rather than whether it is true. He encourages a secular approach to Buddhism that challenges religious dogma and the unquestioned authority of priests. He envisions a Dharma that values equality, critical reflection and personal and communal transformation. As well as being a scholar, translator and writer, he works as a photographer and collagist. The integration of the imagination and the creative arts into Dharma practice is of particular importance to him. A co-founder of Bodhi College, he is the author of Buddhism without Beliefs, Living with the Devil, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist, After Buddhism, and Secular Buddhism. His most recent book is The Art of Solitude. (www.stephenbatchelor.org)

Thimo Wittich begann 2008 mit der Meditations- und Yogapraxis. Seit 2010 studiert und praktiziert er bei Akincano Marc Weber im Atammaya Köln. Er absolvierte zwischen 2018 und 2022 das Committed Practitioner Program und das Teacher Training Program am Bodhi College sowie das Level 1 Training der MBSR Teacher Education am Mindfulness Center der Brown School of Public Health in den USA. Zur Zeit assistiert Thimo seinen Lehrern in Retreats und Online Kursen in Deutschland und den USA.

WALTER YOUNG began practicing Insight Meditation in 2008. Having graduated as a Community Dharma Leader in 2017, he now supports the CDL trainingprogramme as a mentor. He was a trustee for Gaia House from 2014-2018 and currently runs Insight North East, a sangha based in Whitley Bay. Prior to his retirement in 2020, he was a social worker and served as a director for various companies, including Team Fostering, a social enterprise based in the North of England. As a trainer and consultant, he has supported governments and NGOs in South America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia with the implementation of family-based care.

YUKA NAKAMURA has practiced Buddhist meditation in different traditions since 1993, has a PhD in Developmental Psychology and is a certified MBSR-teacher. Trained as a Buddhist meditation teacher by Fred von Allmen she teaches meditation at Beatenberg (Switzerland), Gaia House (UK), Insight Meditation Society (Barre, MA) and other places. Yuka offers MBSR-courses and MBI-trainings at the CFM Zentrum für Achtsamkeit (CH). www.yuka-nakamura.ch