Ginny Morgan lives in Columbia, Missouri. She is a guiding teacher for Show Me Dharma Center and the former President of the Board of Mid America Dharma, the emerging retreat center for the Midwest area. After working as a play therapist for acutely and chronically ill children for many years, she has shifted her focus to Dharma teaching, and to working exclusively for Dharma activities. She has studied with Ram Dass, Munindra-ji, Matthew Flickstein, and teachers from Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock Meditation Center.

Sangha Teachers

Terry Furstenau has been a member of the Show Me Dharma sangha since 2001. He has had retreat experiences with Ginny Morgan, Matt Flickstein, Bhante Gunaratana, Eugene Cash, Barbara Brodsky and others. His practice is primarily influenced by Vipassana and Tibetan Buddhist traditions.

Robert Hodge has been a member of Show Me Dharma since 2002. He has had retreat experiences with Ginny Morgan, Matt Flickstein, Phil Jones, Gina Sharpe, and others. He is trained in general internal medicine and is a professor of internal medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Bob is also a certified Enneagram Teacher in the oral tradition and has conducted many training sessions.

Kim James has been a member of the Show Me Dharma sangha since 1996. She has had retreat experiences with Pema Chodron, Ginny Morgan, Matt Flickstein, Bhante Gunaratana and others. She considers the mothers and babies that she has helped through the birthing process (over the last twenty years) to be among her most influential dharma teachers.

Tonda March has been practicing meditation since the early nineties. She has been influenced by the wisdom of several Western Theravadan teachers, including Ginny Morgan, Carol Wilson, and Gregory Kramer. In recent years, month-long self-retreats at Forest Refuge have helped her practice unfold. Tonda's spiritual practice has been enriched by having a benign condition called dystonia that occasionally causes unpredictable muscle spasms or body movements. Her practice has also been enriched by caring for a small household of elderly and decrepit, but uncomplaining, dogs who sometimes show up in her dharma talks. She is married and has two grown children.

Joe McCormack has been practicing vipassana meditation since 1995. He has taught insight meditation to prisoners at the Jefferson City Correctional Center since 1998. Joe is trained as a psychotherapist and practices psychotherapy in Jefferson city. In addition to the influence of dharma teachings in the Theravada tradition, he has been influenced by Advaita teachings and by the Diamond Approach teachings of A.H. Almaas.

Richard Reuben has been practicing vipassana meditation since 1999. His practice tends to emphasize the four noble truths and metta (lovingkindness) and how suffering is a gateway for compassion. He is a law professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law specializing in conflict resolution. He is married and has two boys, who remind him daily that parenting is an 18-year retreat, maybe longer.

Lynn Rossy has had a meditation practice since 1989. As a clinical psychologist at the University of Missouri, she directs the activities of the Mindfulness Practice Center on campus. She has been teaching Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Programs since 2001 and is currently working on her certification to teach Mindfulness from the Center for Mindfulness in Massachusetts. She has taught Vipassana meditation since 2002 and is will complete the Community Dharma Leader Training through Spirit Rock Meditation Center in January 2008. She has completed a 200-hour National Yoga Alliance Yoga Teacher Certification Program at Kripalu. She facilitated A Course in Miracles for 9 years (1991-2000).

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