Teachers Collective
Show Me Dharma Guiding Teacher
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.
Show Me Dharma Teachers Collective
Terry Furstenau has been a member of the Show Me Dharma sangha since 2001 and the teachers council since 2004. He has served on the Board for 5 years. He has led Insight Dialogue and Dharma Contemplation groups for the sangha. He currently teaches the “Introduction to Meditation” classes for new and relatively new students. His teachings reflect retreat experience and study with Eastern and Western Vipassana teachers, Advaita Vedanta, Dzogchen, Insight Dialogue and the non-dual teachings of Adyashanti, Richard Miller and Matt Flickstein.
Robert Hodge has been a member of Show Me Dharma since 2002. His main teachers have included Ginny Morgan and Matt Flickstein. He has attended numerous retreats including those led by his teachers and also 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 by Helen Palmer and David Daniels and has conducted workshops on The Enneagram and Mindfulness.
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 and participation in Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leaders training program have helped her practice unfold.
Joe McCormack has practiced insight meditation since 1995. He has been a member of the Show Me Dharma Teachers Council since 2002. Joe leads an insight meditation group in Jefferson City, and has taught insight meditation to prison inmates since 1998. His teachers include Ginny Morgan, Phil Jones, and Matthew Flickstein. In January 2008, he completed the Community Dharma Leader training program through Spirit Rock Meditation Center. In his dharma instruction, Joe draws from traditional Theravada Buddhist teachings, Zen and Dzogchen practice, Advaita teachings, and the Diamond Approach. He is also trained as a psychologist and practices psychotherapy in Jefferson City.
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 been practicing meditation practice since 1989. She has taught Vipassana meditation since 2002 and completed the Community Dharma Leader Training through Spirit Rock Meditation Center in January 2008. 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 completed work for her certification to teach Mindfulness from the Center for Mindfulness in Massachusetts. 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).
Beth Shoyer has been practicing insight meditation for about 10 years. This has included teaching and mentoring from Ginny Morgan and retreat experiences in Vipassana and Insight Dialogue practices. She began teaching for the Sangha in 2002. She has also received training for teaching Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction from the Center for Mindfulness in Massachusetts and has been teaching MBSR since 2001. Most recently she has been mentored by Florence Meyer. As a teacher, psychologist, and parent, she has the intention of weaving the dharma into all realms of life.