Teacher Biographies

Deep Spring Center Trained Teachers

Dorothy Ann Coyne has been a student and practitioner of yoga and meditation since 1971. Mother of four and grandmother of five, she is a certified Kripalu Yoga teacher and a senior teacher of meditation for Deep Spring Center. Dottie and her husband Bernie have been offering their home, "Sunnyside," in Brooklyn, Michigan for workshops and retreats since the 1980s.

 

Lou Weir has been doing "inner critic" work for more than 10 years in the Ridhwan School's Diamond Approach to Realization (A.H. Almaas); he is currently in their 7-year teacher training program. He has been a meditation student for over 15 years. He works as an attorney in Brighton and Ann Arbor.

 

Ann Barden is a teacher of Vipassana Meditation. She has been practicing Vipassana and teaching for many years. Her greatest interest is in the core teachings of the Buddha – suffering, the cause of suffering, and the end of suffering – and how those are experienced in our lives today. She aspires to realize, and teaches in support of the realization of others, the freedom from suffering that is promised in these teachings.

She has taught meditation through the Ann Arbor Adult Education program, in various classes and retreats through Deep Spring Center in Ann Arbor, and at the Meditation Center of San Miguel in Mexico. She has trained with Barbara Brodsky of Deep Spring Center and with Matthew Flickstein of the Forestway. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.