Community Dharma Leaders

Spirit Rock Meditation Center offers a Community Dharma Leader Program, which provides training and support for community leaders who are committed to and rooted in Dharma practice. This training, while embedded in the ancient lineage of Theravada, is designed to encourage creative, intuitive and innovative responses enabling these timeless teachings to be applied to our contemporary lives, offering us a path through the complex difficulties of our world in spiritual, social, political, cultural, interpersonal, and personal contexts.

 Valerie Roth

Valerie offers the teachings at AVS in the form of Dharma talks, weekly classes, and group discussions, and leads the monthly half-day retreats. She has also taught at Taos Mountain Sangha and Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha, as well as at the prison in Los Lunas, New Mexico.

Valerie can be reached at introclasses@abqsangha.org.

Kathryn Turnipseed

Kathryn Turnipseed has been practicing Vipassana meditation since 1994, sitting numerous intensive retreats at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS), Spirit Rock and the Mountain Hermitage. In 2012 she graduated from the Community Dharma Leader training program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Kathryn offers dharma talks, teaching meditation classes, daylong retreats and interviews. Kathryn has been a practicing member of Albuquerque Vipassana Sangha since 1997 and has served on the Board of Directors for the past seven years.

Kathryn can be reached at Kathryn@abqsangha.org.