MEDITATION
Gen Pagpa
Gen Pagpa is the National Spiritual Director for the New Kadampa Tradition in South Africa and the Resident Teacher of Tushita Centre in Cape Town. His heartfelt and practical teachings are presented with warmth and humor, making them accessible to everyone. As part of his teaching duties as the Resident Teacher of Tushita Kadampa Meditation […]
Antony Osler
Antony Osler is a long-term Zen practitioner and teacher in the lineage of Zen Master Dae Gak of Furnace Mountain. He is also a former Zen monk and human rights advocate. Anthony lives with his family on a farm in the Karoo region of South Africa
Georgina Hamilton
Georgina Hamilton has been meditating for 45 years. She is the founder and steward of Bodhi Khaya Retreat and is deeply interested in the relationship between people, plants and land.
Talitha Gamaroff
Talitha is a yoga teacher based in London. Originally from South Africa, she moved to the UK on her own as a teenager to forge her path in the world. The next fifteen years brought training, career, creating through the expressive arts, building communities and an intense but beautiful awakening to her soul purpose, which […]
Eleonora Ramsby Herrera
Eleonora has taught yoga since 2008. She is a Senior Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance Professionals and registered as a 500-ERYT and YACEP through Yoga Alliance International. Eleonora is an accredited Yoga Teacher Training director – developing and running 200-hour teacher trainings in both London, Stockholm and Lisbon. Additionally, Eleonora offers CPD (Continuous Professional Development) […]
Desigan Pillay
Desigan Pillay, is an avid technologist and a volunteer teacher for the Art of Living (AOL) and International Association for Human Values (IAHV) organisations. Desigan has taught meditation to hundreds of people from all walks of life, from the homeless in Cape Town, ex-prisoners, drug addicts and school kids in the Cape Flats to CEO’s […]
Annewikke Pillay
Born and raised in the Netherlands, Annewikke Pillay is a volunteer teacher for AoL and IAHV, an Ayurvedic nutritionist, a Marma (Ayurvedic acupressure) therapist and a yoga teacher certified at the Sri Sri School of yoga, with experience teaching in prisons both locally and overseas. Shortly after quitting her job in the advertising and marketing […]
Kelsang Sangkyong
Buddhist Monk, Kelsang Sangkyong, has been teaching Dharma since 2010 in Johannesburg and Cape Town. He has a light joyful approach to sharing Dharma teachings. He teaches regularly at Tushita Kadampa Meditation Centre in Observatory, Cape Town. "We all have the potential for self-transformation, and a limitless capacity for the growth of good qualities, but to fulfill this potential we need […]
Gen Kelsang Namkhyen
Gen Kelsang Namkhyen is a Buddhist monk from the Netherlands who has been ordained for twenty years. Before becoming Resident Teacher of Tushita Kadampa Meditation Centre he taught extensively in the UK and The Netherlands. His explanations of Buddha's teachings are practical and easy to understand, allowing everyone to gain their own personal experience of […]
Michal George
is the creator of Being Present — a platform dedicated to the study of contemplative psychology and the practice of mindfulness. Michal has a keen interest in the role mindfulness plays in personal development and transformation. Graduating cum laude with BA (Honours) in Psychology from UNISA, he has also studied Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction at Stellenbosch University, and is […]
Emmanuel Vermeulen
Studying the course material for over a year, testing and helping to create the Earth School, Emmanuel is now training as a facilitator to embody all the necessary tools to closely guide students with confidence and give them the support they need. Living most of his life in Belgium, he brings another perspective and enriching […]
Charisse Louw
Charisse is a seeker who has spent time in the ashrams of India, temples of Japan and practiced with the spiritual leaders of many disciplines across our world. She is a lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch and has been facilitating healing circles, workshops and retreats for several years. Meditation, healing modalities and creative living […]