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High Country Retreat
​Teachers

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Victor von der Heyde
has been practising meditation for thirty five years.  He's spent over two years in total in silent retreats and has taken dharma teaching roles since the mid 1990s. He was co-founder of Sydney Insight Meditators and of the Bodhgaya Development Association. He also trained in Gestalt Therapy and worked for years as a counsellor. His main teacher was Rob Burbea from Gaia House in the UK.

Victor writes: These days my passions in teaching - and practice - include  ethics, exploring the various responses to climate breakdown and the ways that we get often stuck with particular concepts of self and world. And stuck with particular meditation practices. My intention is to open up freeing and soulful possibilities for people.

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Suzie Brown
has been practising meditation for twenty years and is co-founder of the Melbourne
Insight Meditation Group. Her teachers have included Subhana Barzaghi, Carol Perry and James Baraz. She has also practised with and supported the Sri Lankan born Buddhist yoga teacher Channa Dassanayaka. Suzie trained in both Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and has been teaching mindfulness since 2010.
She developed Mindfulness for Parents courses and workshops and she has a mindful parenting blog and e-course, called Feed the Parent.
Suzie has worked as a facilitator, trainer and educator for over a decade in the areas of environmental sustainability and organizational strategy. She has a young daughter and is founder of the group Australian Parents for Climate Action which works for a safe climate future for our children.

Sydney Insight Meditators acknowledges the Gadigal, Dharug and Dharawal peoples, the traditional custodians of the lands on which SIM is located. We acknowledge their ongoing connection to the land, water, sky, and animals. We pay our respects to the Elders, past, present, and emerging.
  • Home
  • Events Calendar
  • About us
    • About us, AGM & Constitution
    • Membership
    • Committee
    • Our History
    • Newsletter
  • Groups
    • Bondi Junction
    • Illawarra
    • Inner West
    • Newcastle
    • North Sydney
    • Northern Beaches
    • Northern Beaches (Avalon)
    • Online - Sky Sangha
    • Southern Highlands
    • Southern Highlands Inquiring Minds
  • Teachers
  • Resources
    • Martine Batchelor Workshop Recording
    • Secular Dharma Recording
    • Guided Meditations
    • Reading list
    • Deepening Into Stillness Recording
    • Audio files >
      • Stephen Batchelor, Sydney 2014
      • Winton Higgins, Four frontiers for Secular Buddhists 2014
      • Other audio links
    • Retreat Reflections >
      • High Country Retreat Reflections 25
      • High Country Retreat Reflections 23
      • High Country Retreat Reflections 22
      • NY Reflections 21/22
      • NY Reflections 19/20
      • DIS Reflections 2017
      • NY Retreat 2016
    • Teachers Reflections >
      • Winton Higgins. January 2018
      • Jonathan Page. May 2018
      • Gawaine Powell Davies. November 2017
      • Jill Shepherd. October 2017
  • Contact Us
  • List of Events
    • DIS 2025
    • Inner Rhythm of Being 2025
    • Mornings of Practice 2025
    • New Year 2025