About Rigpa Hudson Valley
At Rigpa Hudson Valley, meditation - learning to work with one’s mind – can be an answer to our mental and emotional ills and dis-ease.
When we are distressed, the main result we are looking for is a release, so that we can immediately feel better. Usually, we try to plan how to ‘deal with’ the effects of distress when it returns.
Meditation is not only a way to relieve distress, stress, anxiety, pain, and suffering; with meditation we can explore their causes. Then, we can look at how to remove these causes.
TOM ANDREWS - LOCAL TEACHER
Tom Andrews has practiced and studied Tibetan Buddhist meditation for over 25 years. He met Sogyal Rinpoche in 1999, and began instructing in 2001. He has attended retreats with Sogyal Rinpoche in the US, Lerab Ling in France, and Germany. He was formally authorized as a teacher in the Nyingma tradition of Rigpa by Mindrolling Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche.
He is the current Rigpa US Public Curriculum Mgr. He has worked to develop and present Rigpa courses. He led courses with Rigpa NYC for many years, before beginning to teach in Westchester. He has led several national online courses with Rigpa since the covid pandemic.