Team of facilitators

Tenzin Osel Hita

Habit Alignment Key.

Talks, body activation and musician.

Tenzin Ösel Hita Torres, 36, is a radical freethinker, environmentalist, humanitarian, documentary filmmaker, musician, father, friend, lifelong learner, and former Buddhist monk of the 21st century.

Ösel is fluent in Tibetan, English and Spanish. He is fluent in French and Italian. He is learning Portuguese as his son is part Brazilian.

He has lived in India, Nepal, Canada, Switzerland, Brazil as well as Santa Cruz, California and Hawaii in the United States.

Christiane Leautaud

Yoga instructor

Christine likes to share Yoga sessions and somatic movement.

She trained as a Yoga Teacher with Dakini in Yoga Space and with Brigitte Longeville in Restorative Alignment.

She trained as Somatic Educator in Bodymind Movement with Mark Taylor and has already taken courses at the Himalayan Iyengar Yoga Center with Sharat Arora.

She has 9 years of experience teaching children at the Kuruwi School and loves to share the happiness that yoga has brought to her life.

Geshe Lobsang Dawa

Kwan Yin and the Lotus

Mexican, he learned the Tibetan language at the SARAH College of Advanced Tibetan Studies in Dharamsala, northern India, the residence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the center of the Tibetan community in exile.

He later traveled south to enter Drepung Loseling Monastery University, where after more than a decade of advanced studies he graduated as the first Spanish-speaking Gueshe (PhD in Buddhist philosophy) in history.

Now living in Mexico, sharing universal values

Kike Mantecon

Sacred sites and traditional medicine

Technician in Tourism Business and Activities.

Since he was 4 years old, when his grandfather Enrique taught him that we were all going to die someday, he began to be interested and concerned about life beyond life, the meaning of death and the importance of life on Earth. In 1999 he saw his first total solar eclipse, beginning a relentless race to be at total solar eclipses. Since then he travels the world in search of conjunctions and cultures, seeking to know and feel the most important telluric and power points of the Earth, as well as its cultures, customs and religions.

He has written two books, “Tibetan Earth in the Cat's Tomb” and “You Never Know”. Since 2006 he has been working with Tibetan lamas, translating for them and helping them as much as possible in their world peace tours to raise funds for their monastery. It has been the constant coexistence with these Tibetan lamas that has transmitted the essence of their teachings, more than the teachings themselves.

Karla Saenz

Coordination

Corporate and contracts lawyer. Certified by the International University of Valencia in Spain in Mediation and Conflict Management, predominantly in family and commercial matters. Mentor for young people professionally and personally at Swiss Re. Leader of the Philanthropy Committee at the same company.

Currently coordinator of the Thubten Kunkyab Buddhist group in Mexico City since July 2021. She is also part of the coordination of the Habit Alignment Key retreats in Mexico, the last one at the Shambala retreat center. Zitácuaro, Michoacan in April 2023. Seeker of harmony.

Cecilia Buzón

Neuroplasticity

Neuropsychoeducator, graduate of the University of California, Berkley. She specializes in trauma and resilience at the University of Buenos Aires. She is a professor with more than 2 decades of experience and coordinates her own school in Patagonia, Argentina, affiliated with Emory University, where she teaches teacher training workshops to implement social, emotional and ethical education in the classroom.

She recently shared with colleagues from all over the world the last SEE learning meeting with His Holiness Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India. (December 2022). She has been a facilitator of the Foundation for the Development of Compassion and Wisdom since 2012. She has taught courses in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, USA, France, India, Nepal, Russia and Mongolia.

Bengü Fetzer

Sustainable consumption and social media

Originally from Turkey, she lives in Nelson, New Zealand. She works as a program coordinator at the Chandrakirti Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Center.

He learned about Global Tree Initiative, an environmental organization founded by Tenzin Ösel Hita.

Bengu was naturally drawn to the Global Tree Initiative (GTI) because she loves nature photography. She is now a regional programme coordinator for programmes in New Zealand.

Georges Piette

Yoga

Born in France and raised in Brazil, Georges has made New York his home for over 40 years. He opened Yogis & Yoginis, a yoga studio in Park Slope, which was joined by the FPMT Shantideva Center, dedicated to the study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism.

Georges shares that “after many years dedicated to building the studio whose mission is to create a safe and inspiring space to grow the physical and spiritual practice, this place has made my life a joyful and meaningful one.”

Karla Dutsi (Akasha)

Yoga, meditation and coordination

Mexican. Dedicated for 12 years to international cooperation for development and to strengthening collaborative processes and the co-construction of actions led by civil society.

She discovered yoga and Dharma in her early 20s, which marked her life forever. For 16 years she has been a volunteer in the meditation group, Thubten Kunkyab MeditaCDMX of the FPMT Mexico. She is also part of the coordination of the Habit Alignment Key retreats in Mexico.

Since 2023, it has been promoting open and inclusive spaces for the practice of meditation, prana vinyasa and yin yoga for all people.

@akasha.espacio.mx @pride.yoga.haus

Arturo Fernandez

Sound experiences

Graduated from the Communication Sciences Program and the Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from UNAM. He has studied music independently and integrates music, body movement and mindfulness as a social and emotional learning process.

His musical career includes his participation as an instrumentalist in the UNAM Academic Choir, performing in the Netzahualcóyotl Hall, the Carlos Chávez Hall, the Simón Bolívar Amphitheater, and government and cultural centers in Germany, Austria, and Italy.

He is the founder of the Mexican fusion music project Calaveras de Azúcar and creator of the “Texturas Sonoras” project, an interdisciplinary concept in which live sound creation, with psychological tools and contemplative practices, are aimed at well-being and emotional management.

He is currently an ambassador for Sewhandpan, an Italian company that manufactures “handpan”, a contemporary instrument, called a “sound sculpture” with mystical melodic qualities.

Moya Mendez

Translation

Moya Mendez was born in London and moved to the Mexican Caribbean in 1986.

She discovered Buddhism in 1989 and joined FPMT in 2002. She started the Yeshe Gyaltsen center in Cozumel in 2007 and was the national coordinator of FPMT Mexico for several years, inviting great teachers such as Lama Zopa Rinpoche and His Eminence Choden Rinpoche, among many others.

She has translated for several teachers (Spanish-English) and has worked on different projects for the FPMT in Mexico, India, Nepal and London.

She now lives between Nepal, London and Mexico, studying and offering services. By profession she is an interior designer and offers architectural and construction services.

Christian Livramento

Translation

Cristian, a Mexican Brazilian, began his journey in dharma as a student and volunteer at the FPMT Center, Vajrapani Institute, in California in 2006. He volunteered for a

year and then joined the Maitreya Project Relics international tour where he had the amazing opportunity to travel to many

cities in North, South and Central America for 4 years.

He speaks perfect English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Since the first Habit Alignment Key retreat, he has been a translator in Mexico and this year he is happy to support again.

Marina Ortiz

Deep Ecology

Astrologer and floral therapist, dedicated for more than 30years to inner work and healing, with extensive experience as a facilitator of courses and workshops in Latin America and Europe.

Marina is inspired by the vision of a community of awakened beings at the service of the fabric of life.Her task has been to accompany processes of people and groups through the reconnection with the vital, with nature.

Luna

Vegetarian Chef

Nov 27 - Dec 1, 2024