Kelly Boys
Lopön Chandra Easton
Bruce Tift
Bruce Tift, MA, LMFT, has been in private practice since 1979, taught at Naropa University for twenty-five years, worked in a psychiatric ward and as a family therapist with social services, and has given presentations in the United States, Mexico, and Japan and has made remote presentations in the UK, Korea, and Thailand. His book has recently been translated into Thai. A practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism for more than forty years, he had the good fortune to be a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and to meet a number of realized teachers. He and his wife, Reva, are now empty-nesters living in California.
Andrew Holecek
is an author and interdisciplinary scholar-practitioner whose work bridges dream yoga, dark retreat, and the art of dying with contemporary cognitive neuroscience. He is the Resident Contemplative Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, has completed the traditional three-year solitary retreat, and is the author of nine books including Dream Yoga and Total Eclipse of the Mind.
Jonny Miller
Jonny Miller helps founders and leaders cultivate calm and rewire their stress response. His course, "Nervous System Mastery," provides evidence-backed protocols to rewire human neurobiology, offering a life-changing toolkit designed to cultivate calm, upgrade resilience, and increase aliveness. His unique approach combines cutting-edge scientific findings with practical, accessible techniques.
Michael Taft
Michael Taft will outline the Tantric view of open mind and unconditional kindness. Michael's gentle approach will complement the energetic style Tummo demands.
From Zen temples in Japan to yogi caves in India, Michael has been meditating for over thirty-five years and has extensive experience in Buddhist and Hindu Tantric practices. Michael is the co-founder of the groundbreaking Alembic Center in Berkeley. Michael lives with his family in the Bay Area.
Peter McEwen's focus is to provide instruction and support for practitioners that are balancing the dizzying array of work and family commitments that modern life demands.
In a society that prioritizes output, meditation and mindfulness practices are often conflated with self-optimization. Instead, we can view meditation as a tool that reveals our immediate experience - discomfort and all - as a reliable source of well-being and problem-solving.
He has completed the traditional 3-year retreat curriculum of Vajrayana Buddhism. Since 2008 Peter has been a Dharma Gar participant under the direction of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche. Peter has engaged in daily Tummo practice since 2008 and has experienced vast benefit from the method.
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