Lama Lodro (Jeff Olson) resides and teaches in Whitehorse, Yukon, as well as at other centres in Canada and around the world. While ordained as Bikkhu Kiccañana he spent 5 years as the resident teacher at the Dharma Centre of Canada, a 400-acre retreatproperty in central Ontario. Lama Lodro has spent 14 years of his life in retreat, much of that time in Asia, working with various meditation masters. This includes a long relationship under the tutelage of Venerable Namgyal Rinpoche. As well as being a classically trained meditation teacher he is a master-builder and artist. His interests are wide and varied, from building design and construction to yoga, healing herbs, metaphysics and gourmet vegetarian cooking. He is particularly interested in developing methods that bridge east and west, so that classical Buddhist teachings can be incorporated into contemporary western lifestyles in meaningful and effective ways.