BIC has a leadership council that supports the sangha in its growth and offerings to the community. This committee consists of members who attend events regularly, share a commitment to the well being and development of the Sangha, and are willing to give some time and energy to its maintenance.
Current Council Members:
- Mary Corelli
- Megan Higgs
- Rose Toth
- Sandy Kindt
- Suzanne Colón
We love participation, feedback loops, and input.
Mary Corelli is delighted to teach and participate in the Insight Sangha. She began her Buddhist practice in 2009 in the Zen tradition and branched into Vipassana over the years. She graduated from the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield in 2020. She is also a mother, a mental health therapist, and a writer.
Mary offers teachings, guided practice and discussion one Thursday a month. She also shares leadership of the Dharma Center’s MindSpace group – our under-40 meditation community (Tuesdays at 6:15)
Megan Higgs is so grateful for the sense of refuge she has found within the Insight Community sangha and loves volunteering mainly with planning and facilitating events. She is passionate about practice being a place of experimentation and exploration, both on the cushion and within daily routines and relationships, particularly as a parent. Her journey in a two-year Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher Certification Program started this month (April 2025)!
Rose has practiced in the Buddhist tradition intermittently since the 1970’s when she sat with Ram Das (in Hindu tradition) in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her practice has become more dedicated after moving to Bozeman and discovering the Insight Dharma group that met in someone’s attic. Rose’s practice solidified after a car accident injury in 2013–the same year the Bozeman Dharma Center officially opened in a new building where various Buddhist traditions could practice under one roof. She has participated in many retreats, and consistently in the Thursday Insight Sangha, sometimes stepping in as leader.The BDC’s programs, retreats and the incredible dedicated, wise and loving community of Buddhist practitioners has supported her breadth and depth of practice. Rose helps with occasionally leading the Kindhearted Awareness Sangha, and volunteers in other ways throughout the year.
Sandy joined the BIC leadership council because of her gratitude and philosophy:
“To teach is to show. You can’t teach what you don’t know. You can’t
guide where you don’t go. And you can’t grow what you don’t sow.”
~~Kevin Hall
Through Antioch University-New England and Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Sandy completed a year long Mindfulness for Educators study in 2011.
Also in 2011, Sandy studied with Jon Kabat-Zinn Ph.D. and Saki Santorelli Ed.D. and
completed “Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in MInd-Body Medicine: A 7-day Professional Training”.
Sandy has attended 4-16 day silent retreats and participated in Buddhist book
studies.
Suzanne is the lead facilitator for the Tuesday morning Brahma Vihara group (Kindhearted Awareness). She helps maintain our website and coordinate visiting teachers. She has stepped back from teaching on Thursday evenings to work with chronic illness, tend to aging parents, and enjoy some writing and retreat practice.
Suzanne has been meditating in the Insight (Vipassana) tradition since 1992 and has been a member of the Bozeman Insight Community since moving here in 1998. She completed Sprit Rock’s Community Dharma Leader training in 2017. She is a trained Mindful Self-Compassion Course (MSC) teacher and has completed the first year of Somatic Experiencing (SE) training so that her teaching can be trauma-informed and supported by nervous-system regulation tools. She’s a parter of 30 years, a mom of two adulting kids, a writer, a recovering hoarder of art supplies and a pickle ball drop-out.
