Sandra Maitri has been a Diamond Approach teacher for 31 years.

She leads groups in the San Francisco Bay Area and in the United Kingdom. In the early seventies, she was a student of Claudio Naranjo, MD, in his original SAT group along with Hameed Ali (A.H. Almaas), founder of the Diamond Approach. She has studied with various Eastern and Western spiritual and psychological teachers, focusing especially on Insight and Tibetan Buddhist meditation.

She is the author of The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul, and The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues: Finding the Way Home. In her spare time, she paints and writes.

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For more information, see Sandra’s website: www.sandramaitri.com.

Jill Davey became a student of the Diamond Approach in 1999 and has been a teacher since 2014. She is currently teaching in the US, Asia and Australia, and sees students privately in the San Francisco Bay Area and with international students online. She is a part of the Diamond Approach Online team, which brings the teaching of the Diamond Approach into the broader world.

Jill has also been a yoga teacher in the Iyengar tradition since 2000, and has an experience and interest in many forms of movement and body awareness, which she brings to her teaching and to retreats. 

Blanchefleur Macher has been a student of the Diamond Approach since 1993 and a teacher since 2009. She has been a presenting teacher in California Diamond Heart 10, has assisted in groups in the US and UK, and has served on a subcommittee of the leadership council of the School. She has a private practice in Marin.

Prior to becoming a Ridhwan teacher, Blanchefleur served as a teacher and guide in the Sufi tradition for over 30 years. A former midwife and interior designer, she has 3 sons and 4 grandchildren and lives in Marin County with her husband of 40 years.

Steve Waldrip has been a teacher in the Diamond Approach’s Ridhwan School since 2004 and a student of Hameed Ali and Karen Johnson, the founders of that work, since 1986. He is on the faculty of the European Seminary, assists annually in several retreats abroad and maintains a private practice from his home on the central coast of California. 

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For 22 years Steve was a hospice chaplain. Together with his wife, Christine Price, and other co-leaders they host the annual workshop, “No One is Getting Out of Here Alive: Choices in Living and Dying”, offered through Full Circle, a Tribal Ground project.

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He also has a background in outdoor education and was formally a senior staff instructor at NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School). He is interested in the practice of open-ended inquiry and appreciates how group participants bring different energies and qualities to a circle and how that evolves, creating a unique field, as they work together.

Doriena Wolff has been a student of the Diamond Approach since 1997 when she came to the USA from the Netherlands. In 2014, she became a Diamond Approach teacher.

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She started her private therapy practice in Amsterdam in 1992 and currently lives and works in San Francisco. Doriena is a certified Somatic Experiencing practitioner. Her ten years in improvisational theater and movement in her native country is a foundation and inspiration for her work. 

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She loves the ignition of inquiry and how this has the potential to open us up to being more real and embodied on this planet and with each other. What it means to be a human being at this present moment in time is a question that is deeply alive for her.

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More information about Doriena can be found at www.dorienawolff.com.