Melissa Moore, PhD., has been a student of Shambhala since 1979. She has an MA in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University, and she has been teaching internationally since 1994. She was empowered as an Acharya in 2013.  She Co-founded and continues to offer The Karuna Training, a 2-year professional certificate in Contemplative Psychology.  Karuna training is offered now in 7 Countries and in the United States in Berkely, Seattle, Albuquerque, Baltimore, and Las Angeles. Melissa’s teaching is experiential and this brings people to a non-conceptual appreciation of the dharma.