Founders & Contact
Yeshey Palmo
Meditation Instructor
Drawing from long experience in Tibetan Buddhism and Yoga, Yeshey has been studying and practicing meditation as a means achieving lasting inner stability for 18 years. In this quest, she has spent thousands of hours practicing meditation and hundreds of hours in retreat.
Yeshey is dedicated to spiritual lineages that include some of Asia’s preeminent masters of yoga and meditation – The Karmapa’s of Tibet and Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh and has studied with and learned from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Reginald Ray, Ayanag Rinpoche and Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo.
Yeshey is a certified yoga professional and member of the faculty at Langara College Yoga Teacher Training and Advanced Yoga Teacher Training, coordinated dharma teaching tours and pilgrimages and travelled extensively worldwide withJetsunma Tenzin Palmo, has held the position of Executive Director of YogaBC, and holds a Social Sciences degree from the University of Winnipeg, Canada . 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
CoFounder & Mindfulness Trainer
simone@meditationvillage.ca
Simone combines her unique skills as a professional yoga and meditation instructor of the past 11+ years with the marketing 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.
Mindfulness is the basis for building a serene, productive foundation during this process of development to maximize the efficiencies of one’s personal time and effort to allow for more free time and enhanced creativity.
Simone is a certified Kundalini Yoga and meditation teacher. She has been practicing for fifteen years and teaching for the last eleven. 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.
“It isn’t about selling meditation anymore – we get it, we need to meditate - its about having a program that teaches the right thing at the right time, a daily practice that offers enough support to ensure success - all without having to visit a meditation centre or more realistically leave our homes, offices or iphones .” Simone