Anam Thubten/teacher
Anam Thubten is a founding member of WDM and is passionate about the wilderness retreats and the possibilities of chöd practice in support of the modern day meditator’s awakening. He lives in San Francisco, California with his wife and children.
Full biography is available on the teachers’ page.
Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel/teacher
Elizabeth is a founding member of WDM with a passion and long history of solitary retreat. She brings the Buddhist tradition of inquiry and self reflection to modern day practitioners. She lives and works in Crestone, Colorado.
Full biography is available on the teachers’ page.
Owsley Brown/president
logistics and finance/scholarship fund management
Owsley Brown III is a documentary filmmaker and social entrepreneur whose work explores and promotes cultural, spiritual and civic life. Owsley is the host and director of the Festival of Faiths and he serves on the boards of the Sustainable Food Alliance, Center for Interfaith Relations, and as an advisor to the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia. Owsley is a long time practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, studying under the guidance of Tsoknyi Rinpoche, attending annual solitary and group retreats in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and their three children. Owsley serves as scholarship fund developer and manager for the CDC retreats.
Tatjana Krizmanic Meyerowitz/vice-president
communications
Tatjana is a painter and meditator from Croatia. In 1988 through her work with Robert Morehouse, a student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, she was introduced to meditation and has been practicing and studying ever since. She is student of Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche and completed many 100 day solitary meditation retreats at Samten Ling retreat center in Crestone, CO. Tatjana’s enthusiasm for practice in wilderness and the beauty and challenges it brings led her to join WDM as a founding member. She lives in New York City.
Founding Members
Victress Hitchcock and Neil Hogan were among the founding members of Wilderness Dharma Movement. Though they no longer serve on the board, both continue to support the organization in an emeritus and honorary capacity, offering their enduring wisdom, experience, and guidance as part of WDM’s living legacy.