Dale
Asrael
dasrael@naropa.edu |
303-546-3522
University Professor
Core Faculty
Programs
MA in Religious Studies: Indo-Tibetan Buddhism - Core Faculty
Master of Divinity - Core Faculty
BA in Religious Studies - Core Faculty
MA Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling
- Core Faculty
MA in Religious Studies: Contemplative Religions - Core Faculty
Education
MA, Contemplative Education, Naropa University
BS, Communications, Northwestern University
Dale has taught in the field of contemplative education for more than thirty-five
years, with a career spanning early childhood education through high school and university.
Her career at Naropa began in 1991, where she has focused on contemplative training
for counselors, therapists, chaplains, and working teachers. Her chapter, “The Love
of Wisdom Puts You on the Spot” appears in
Meditation in the Classroom, soon to be published by SUNY Publications. Dale is an
Acharya (Senior Teacher) in the lineage of Naropa’s founder, Ven. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche,
and Sakyong, Mipham Rinpoche and is an
Upadhyaya (Buddhist minister). In addition to her teaching at Naropa, she leads meditation
retreats and dharma programs internationally, and trains meditation instructors. Dale
has been appointed by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche as the Dean of Meditation Instructors
for Shambhala International, responsible for the training, supervision, and support
of all meditation instructors. Dale is a practitioner of the ancient contemplative
body-mind practice Q
igong and has been appointed to teach in the Xiantianwujimen and Xiquan lineages by Daoist
lineage holder, Eva Wong,