Sarah Lionheart teaches yoga and meditation in Cheshire (Disley and Stockport), Derbyshire's High Peak (Whaley Bridge) and Manchester.
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Sarah Lionheart teaches yoga and meditation in Cheshire (Disley and Stockport), Derbyshire's High Peak (Whaley Bridge) and Manchester. She has been a yoga and meditation teacher as well as a retreat leader since 1989. She holds a British Wheel of Yoga Recognised Teacher’s Certificate but was trained in India in the 80's and teaches yoga 'in the Deepest Sense'. She is well known for her in-depth workshops and retreats and is much in demand thoughout Britain and Ireland.
Her own teacher, Rob Nairn says 'Sarah is a qualified, authentic and experienced meditation teacher.'
About Sarah
Sarah is a practicing Tibetan Buddhist connected to Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland.
Brought up in the Roman Catholic tradition, Sarah began to be interested in meditation whilst a graduate student at Stanford University, USA where she completed her Masters Degree. She began her training in meditation in 1986 whilst working towards a PhD.on ‘Spirituality and Consciousness’ at Durham University, UK. This led her to intensive study and training within Hinduism and eventually she went to India as a nun, where she studied under several teachers and was taught on a one to one basis. On her return to England, she studied and lived with Christian contemplatives and worked for the Westminster Interfaith Programme whilst leading retreats and continuing her own yoga and meditation training with such teachers as Fr Bede Griffiths, Sri Vandana Mataji and Sister Ishpriya Mataji, Ruth Burrows, Fr Raimon Panikkar and Fr Laurence Freeman.
Now her main teachers are Akong Tulku Rinpoche, Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche, and H.E. Tai Situpa within the Karma Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. She attends courses at Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery, Scotland and spends some time each year at Sherab Ling Tibetan Monastery in the Himalayan range in India, which is the seat in India of H.E. Tai Situpa. Sarah tries to spend two months each year in retreat. Sarah lives in Derbyshire's High Peak and is married with two children.
She is a recognised tutor of the British Wheel of Yoga and leads inservice training days around the country for the British Wheel on the topic of Meditation and Mindfulness.
She teaches a four weekend course on meditation and mindfulness at Samye Ling Monastery starting each Autumn and also has a parallel course in London starting about the same time.
Sarah also teaches a course called 'Tools for a Calmer Life' twice a year at Samye Ling where she brings her 20 years of training and experience of meditation and mindfulness training together to teach how to learn to change the mind and over come unhappiness.
Sarah is one of the founding members of Kagyu Samye Dzong Manchester which in January 2009 found a building to serve as its new centre.
She is well known for her engaging teaching style which is full of humour and stories and also for her warmth and kindness to her students.
She leads a meditation practice group each Sunday night in Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire and in Stockport leads a mindfulness training group mainly for people with M.E. Two more courses which Sarah runs locally are 'The Mindful Way through Depression' and 'HERE FOR NOW, Living Well with Cancer Thorugh Mindfulness', both of which are eight week courses.
Sarah is currently engaged in creating greater understanding between the Christian contemplative tradition and the meditation tradition of Tibetan Buddhism by bringing together experienced practitioners of both in order to practice and share their experience and understanding. A slect group from each tradition will be meeting on Holy Isle off Arran in Sept 2009.
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Counselling, Hatha Yoga, Meditation, Yoga
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