Teacher: William Ryken
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William Ryken
Will Ryken first connected to Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and the Buddhadharma in Boulder, Colorado in 1972 and that was it. He lived at Karme Chöling for two years and then was Director of Dorje Khyung Dzong for another two years, returning to Boulder until moving to Florida in 2006. Will co-founded the Shambhala Sun Summer camp in 1984. He has been teaching in prisons for the past twenty years and is currently a mentor for a gentleman on death row in Angola state prison in Louisiana. He currently lives in Ruskin, Florida with his wife Paula Bickford. They both teach and play at the St. Petersburg Shambhala Center as well as teaching and Assistant Directing Shambhala programs around the world.
William's Courses
Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior. Part 1 How to Be a Warrior Book Study
" It gives me tremendous joy to present the principles of Shambhala Warriorship and to show how we can conduct our lives as warriors with fearlessness and rejoicing, without destroying one another. In this way, the vision of the Great Eastern Sun can be