Founders & Contact
YeShey Palmo
Meditation Instructor & Co-founder
YeShey began her meditation practice and journey in 1992 and since has practiced meditation for thousands of hours. She has devoted her life to learning the spiritual and meditation practices as directed by her beloved teacher, His Eminence Ayang Rinpoche. YeShey has spent many years learning from masters from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition and Traditional Yoga in India, Thailand and South Korea, Canada and the United States; His Holiness the Dalai Lama, His Holiness the Karmapa, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche, Geshe Michael Roach, and Geshe Sonam Rinchen. Yeshey has completed many mediation and yoga retreats and currently spends over 50 days per year in silent retreat. YeShey’s primary meditation practices are Phowa, a Tibetan practice in the Vajrayana tradition, and Vipassana from the Burmese tradition of SN Goenka and Sivananda Yoga.
Yeshey holds a Social Sciences degree from the University of Winnipeg, Canada and is also a certified yoga professional and Yoga Acharya (advanced senior teacher) and has traveled extensively worldwide with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo on her international dharma teaching tours. She currently resides in North Vancouver, British Columbia.
“Yeshey has the patient conscientiousness needed in a good teacher as well as a delightful sense of humour to make the learning not too hard. I trust her completely …” Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Simone Riml
Co-founder & Mindful Living Coach
Simone combines her unique skills as a professional yoga and meditation instructor with the technological and organizational expertise she acquired during a fifteen-year business career. The result is a spiritually based, highly effective method that enables her to help her clients create mindful personal lives and successful professional careers.
Meditation is the basis for building a serene, productive foundation during this process of development. In connection with a dedicated meditation practice, other tactical elements include the creation (or reorganization) of personalized administrative and technical systems to maximize the efficiencies of one’s personal time and effort. The process utilizes Microsoft Office to its fullest extent while also helping to identify a structure that will allow for more free time and enhanced creativity.
A customized yoga practice may also serve to amplify the overall benefits of the mindfulness program.
Simone is a certified Kundalini Yoga and meditation teacher. She has been practicing for fifteen years and teaching for the last ten. Simone’s worked with senior and executive levels of management in organization, marketing and administration for international and local organizations. She holds a Social Sciences degree from Simon Fraser University and a Marketing Management Certificate from BCIT.