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Serve on the Advisory Council for the Jewish Meditation Center of Brooklyn +
From 2008 until May 2010 I did volunteer Reiki massage therapy work at the Ashland community hospital. +
Mostly I help people on individual basis. +
In 2011, I led a twelve-day seminar on the theory and practice of shamatha and the four immeasurables, according to the instructions of B. Alan Wallace, and with his authorization. The seminar was requested and organized by Fray Ricardo Villarreal Acosta, OP, and was hosted by Domus Vitae, an interfaith meditation society in Mexico City, Mexico. The seminar was by donation only, and I received compensation for travel and living expenses, with all other proceeds going to Domus Vitae. +
Worked on stupa - Santa Fe, NM, 1986<br>
Worked on many Lama Visits with many different teachers.<br>
Sponsored Tibetan artist for Gompa. +
Building Stupas and Statue's, rolling mantras ,making tsa-tsa's and tormas +
I currently work in the community as a massage therapist, and volunteer my time to people doing non profit work, like the Trich Learning Center (TLC). +
Nearly 25 years of work in the fields of clinical social work; family intervention; addictions; advocacy; couples therapy; teen counselling; mental health therapist with adults; case management and counselling with autistic and mentally handicapped people. +
In my free time I tutor Rinpoche's grandson Orgyen, age 11, in Tibetan language translation and computer inputting/editing. +
Volunteer Work:
The American Red Cross, National (2005-2009)
One H.E.A.R.T. Tibet (Health, Education and Research in Tibet) (2006)
English Teacher, Dharamsala, India (1998)
Yong Ling School, Dharamsala, India (1998)
Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity Clinics, Calcutta, India (1998)
Danda Bazar, Nepal (1998)
Island Ventures, Cebu Philippines (1998)
The American Cancer Society, Pittsburgh, PA (1990)
Please see general resume for more detailed information. +
Building stupas; Inviting Lamas and serving; Working on Lama visits, many capacity +
Community service
* 2009 Donated fitness services for a charity auction for Bronx youth project meant to help with education of underprivileged youth.
* 2009 Video project for local TV and web. I worked with a clairvoyant dharma teacher in Manhattan. He answers people questions for free. He had a TV show and I put him on the web. His advice was good in my opinion because it was applicable to people's lives but also infused with dharma knowledge. His name was Amitabha and he is the most clairvoyant white person I've ever met and I respect his generosity.
* 2008-2009 Taught free yoga and kickboxing at Lulu Lemon in Manhattan
* 2008-2009 Taught free yoga for small groups in Brooklyn and NYC in an attempt to help urban people sit still and calm-down.
* 2008-2009 Performed Acro-Yoga (partner acrobatic yoga) at charity events including NY Giants player's non-profit the McQuarters Foundation and free family events in McCarren Park Brooklyn.
* 2007-2008 Helped friends and yoga colleagues raise money for people in Cambodia living in landfills. Assisted with publicity of the fundraiser project, helped with sales of (and purchased many) environmentally friendly goods which proceeds went to cause. Also offered services for donations and performed Acro-Yoga at events. The main woman I assisted raised $20,000. She taught me a lot about fundraising and motivation, it was very inspiring.
* 2007 Assisted my Aunt Uncle in organizing environmental activists together to help market Ãbeing green' and make environmentally friendly alternatives readily available to the public. I met with the groups about marketing, multi-media ideas and web site designs.
* 2006 Taught 14 years in an after school program in the Mission San Francisco. The students were having problems in school. I taught them video production and editing. The idea was to cultivate interests in them that were not things like gang violence or drug sales, which were there former habits. I had 5 students and saw progress in each of them.
* 1999 Students for a free Tibet: NYU Club. Researched, distributed information.
* 1991-1995 Ecology Corps
Participated in and organized environmental community activities involving water
testing, trash clean up and the plan and planting of a wetland behind our middle
school.
Community service
⢠2009 Donated fitness services for a charity auction for Bronx youth project meant to help
with education of underprivileged youth.
⢠2009 Video project for local TV and web I worked with a clairvoyant dharma teacher in +
Between working and doing dharma related volunteer work, I had little time for other community work. +
Animal shelter service and care of animals: walking them, assist with care in animal shelters and rescue centers. +
Periodically volunteering at a foodbank to distribute food to those in need. +
1995 â 1996 Sharing completely the life and work with handicapped people in a Rudolf
Steiner community (Dorfgemeinschaft Lautenbach, Germany), working time 16 hours a
day, 6 days a week +
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During my time as Student Body Chair at Rangjung Yeshe Institute I was able to raise funds for a street dog care program, and I was also able to raise funds to support the maintenance/educational costs for an orphanage in Boudhanath. +
During my time as Student Body Chair at Rangjung Yeshe Institute I was able to raise funds for a street dog care program, and I was also able to raise funds to support the maintenance/educational costs for an orphanage in Boudhanath. +
