About Ryan Oelke

Meditation & Dharma Teacher

Ryan is a co-founder of Buddhist Geeks, founder of Awakening in Life, a Buddhist Geeks teacher, and a Senior Teacher in Judith Blackstone’s Realization Process (Meditation, Embodiment, Healing Ground, Trauma Repair). Ryan also has an MSEd in counseling psychology and 20+ years experience in meditation, particularly in the Tibetan Buddhist and Dzogchen lineages.

Snapshot

• Co-Founder and Teacher at Buddhist Geeks
• Senior Teacher in Judith Blackstone’s The Realization Process
  • All three areas of RP: Nondual Meditation, Healing Ground, Embodiment
  • Certified in Advanced Trauma Repair
• Founder, Teacher at Awakening in Life
• MSEd Counseling Psychology
• 20+ years of meditation practice and study
• Speaks Spanish – Certified Advanced in ACTFL
• Former: Founder, CEO of PowerUp Productions
• BA Spanish, Music Performance, Sound Engineering
• MA Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Language (partial)

Approaches and practices I use:

 That being said, here are the general approaches and techniques I incorporate as needed:

• Buddhist Geeks Guide and Approach
  • Six Ways of Meditating
  • Phases of Insight
  • Waves of Wakefulness
  • Social Mediation
• The Realization Process
  • 50+ exercises from all three primary areas of practice: Meditation, Embodiment, Healing Ground, and Trauma Repair
• Awareness Training, Dzogchen
  • Teachings and Practices I co-developed in our Buddhist Geeks Awareness Training
  • Teachings from Dzogchen and inspired practices and guidance
• Counseling/Psychology (Master’s Degree)
• Integral Dharma
  • This is the larger framework within I work, inspired by Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory
  • Practices and teachings from our Integral Dharma Training at Buddhist Geeks