Craig Smith

Director and founder of Mudra Institute is Dr. Craig Warren Smith, a longtime teacher of Buddhism and one of Trungpa Rinpoche's early students. He first taught Mudra at Naropa Institute in 1974 and contemplated Mudra applications as a professor of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and as an advisor to United Nations, Microsoft, Intel and health care institutions.

Greg Heffron

Teaching Assistant and web designer Greg Heffron was the co-director of the Bellingham Shambhala Meditation Study Group from 2003-2007. He received a Masters degree in Nonfiction Creative Writing from the University of Iowa in 2003. In his free time, if he isn't desparately clinging to the sides of cliffs, he is delightedly typing away on his iBook in one of Bellingham's many cafes.