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Menpa Phuntsog Wangmo

Khewang (Tibetan for Honored Scholar) Phuntsog Wangmo (Ping Cuowangmu) received her advanced degree from the Lhasa University School of Traditional Medicine in 1988 after completing her five-year training program and two-year residency. During that time she studied with the Khenpos Troru Tsenam and Gyaltsen, two of Tibet’s foremost Tibetan Medicine doctors.

Menpa Phuntsog Wangmo had the exceptional opportunity of extensive clinical training under Khenpo Troru Tsenam for four years. Thereafter, she dedicated many years of work as a doctor of Tibetan Medicine in Eastern Tibet where she collaborated with and directed the implementation of A.S.I.A. the non-profit organization founded by Professor Namkhai Norbu. After that, she worked on behalf of A.S.I.A. setting up hospitals and training centers in the remote regions of Sichuan Province and Chamdo Prefecture.�

From 1997-2000, she has been the A.S.I.A. project coordinator in Tibet for the development of Gamthog Hospital in collaboration with expatriate personnel as well as the overall health coordinator and practitioner of traditional Tibetan medicine supervising health activities throughout the surrounding region of Chamdo Prefecture.
In 2007 she co-founded the American Tibetan Medical Association (ATMA), a national organization representing the Tibetan medical profession within the United States. Its mission is to preserve, protect, improve, and promote the philosophy, knowledge, science and practice of Tibetan medicine for the benefit of humanity.

In 2012 Menpa Phuntsog Wagmo was appointed the International Director of the School of Tibetan Medicine
She is currently in residence at the Shang Shung Institute of America, the international seat of the School of Tibetan Medicine, where she continues in her leadership as Director and International Director of the Institute’s national and international programs in U.S.A., Russia and Tenerife Spain.

Fabio Andrico

Fabio has been teaching Yoga internationally for over 30 years. He is famous for using great skill, clear precision, and delightful humor to help students deepen their practice and understanding of yoga.

Fabio began teaching yoga in the mid-seventies, when he studied Sivananda Yoga during a trip to India. In the following years, Fabio was exposed to many different yoga traditions. He ultimately met his teacher, Dzogchen Master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, and had the rare opportunity to learn the Tibetan tradition of Yantra Yoga directly from this lineage holder.

Fabio is both a Hatha Yoga and Yantra Yoga instructor, as well as an authorized trainer of Yantra Yoga teachers. He teaches Yantra Yoga internationally to groups of up to 700 participants in venues on six continents.

Fabio has appeared in yoga DVDs including BREATHE: The Perfect Harmony of Breathing; and Tibetan Yoga of Movement: Perfect Rhythm of Life Levels 1 & 2, received rave reviews in Yoga Journal, and collaborated on the book Yantra Yoga: the Tibetan Yoga of Movement and Tibetan Yoga of Movement: The Art and Practice of Yantra Yoga.

Elio Guarisco

Born in Italy on 5 August 1954 Elio Guarisco studies art and receives a Master of Arts degree. In 1974 he travels to India where he studies with Satya Narayan Goenka (1924-2013) the Theravada tradition of the Application of Mindfulness.
From 1976 to 1986, Elio lives in Switzerland learning the classical and spoken Tibetan language, and Buddhist Philosophy under a prominent philosphical adviser to the present Dalai Lama.

Later, invited by Kalu Rinpoche, Elio spent nearly 20 years in Darjeeling (India) working on the large Encyclopedia on Indo-Tibetan Knowledge known as Sheja Kunkhyab (Shes bya kun khyab) authored by Kongtrul Lodro Taye. For this project, he was the main translator for the following books: Myriad Worlds, Buddhist Ethics, Systems of Buddhist Tantra, The Elements of Tantric Practice published by Snow Lion Publications.
From 1986, having become a student of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, Elio works for the International Shang Shung Institute for Tibetan Studies, as the principal translators for the Ka-ter, the Dzogchen Texts Translation Project of the Shang Shung Institute of Austria.

For many years Elio also acted as the oral translator for a number of eminent Tibetan teachers, including the His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, as well as for eminent Tibetan doctors, and author a large number of translations.
Elio teaches Dzogchen meditation and mindfulness in various countries, and is a lecturer at the Bicocca University in Milan, and at the Accademy of Arts in Venice.

He, lives in Como, Italy, and divides his time between teaching and translating ancient texts