Gene Bobker

Westchester Meditation Center Board Member and Senior Teacher

Gene Bobker met Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche as a student at University of Colorado the summer of 1971. She attended the 1974 Seminary and became a meditation instructor in 1976. In the late seventies she became a teacher at the New York Shambhala Center and also served as director of the center from 1977 to 1982.  In 1982 she staffed the Bedford Springs Seminary, and later served as Practice Department coordinator in New York. She has been teaching at Westchester Meditation Center for ten years.  Genie is an educator in the Westchester public school system.

She has led mindfulness/awareness training for educators in school and camps, and has taught meditation to students in classroom settings. Genie is a mother and grandmother.