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Roshi Barbara Salaam Wegmüller
Spiegel Sangha
Barbara Wegmüller, born 1952 married to Roland Wegmüller. Mother of five grown-up children. Grandmother of five grandchildren. With her large family and pets, she lives in Bern, Switzerland. With her husband she is the founding teacher of the Mirror Sangha in the Zen House of the Peacemakers.
Here the Spiegel Sangha meets for Zen meditation, days of mindfulness, workshops and retreats. From 1990 - 2001 she practiced meditation and dream interpretation in the lineage of Sufi teacher Irina Tweedie, with Annette Kaiser. In 1999 she met her teacher, Zen Master Bernie Glassman. After years of study and practice with him, she was empowered by him as a Dharmaholder of Zen Peacemaker circles and in 2011 as a Sensei - Zen teacher.
On October 30, 2015, she received recognition from Roshi Bernie Glassman Inka, as a Roshi - Zen Master.
After studies with Roshi Eve Marko, she was also empowered by her in 2008 as a Lay Preceptor, Teacher of Vows, to assist students on their path of Zen Peacemaker vows and to confer the vows.
Barbara also studied Tibetan Buddhist practice with Lama Tsultrim Allione. Since 2005, she has been part of the group of Spiritholders at the Zen Peacemakers retreat, in Auschwitz Birkenau. She leads street retreats and bearing witness retreats in the Zen Peacemakers tradition.
From 2016 - 2021 she was a member of the Board of Directors of Zen Peacemakers International - ZPI and she is a founding member of ZPO, the Zen Peacemaker Order in Europe.
Barbara Salaam trained stewards of Zen Peacemaker Circles in Europe for many years.
Today she leads workshops on the five Buddha families and the practice of Council.
Silence combined with Council and bodywork she offers in Zen Peacemaker retreats.
The fate of asylum seekers and emigrants is especially close to her heart. As a mother and wife, it is a special concern for her to support lay practitioners, to bring family life and relationship as a spiritual practice into daily life and to value it.
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Spiegel Sangha
Zumbachstrasse 28
Bern, Spiegel 3095