Gretchen Newmark

After meditating for many years and experiencing teachers and methods from different Buddhist traditions, Gretchen Newmark met Lama Ole Nydhal in 1996 and, two months later, co-founded the Portland Diamond Way Buddhist Center. She works as a dietitian and counselor in private practice specializing in eating disorders. Gretchen also works as a spiritual director, a kind of counseling that focuses on spirituality. She has taught health related topics and hatha yoga for many years and began teaching meditation to beginners in 2000. Gretchen and her husband, Jim, have been happily together since 1982. She has been teaching in Diamond Way centers at Lama Ole’s request since 2006.

If You Have to Have Cancer, It’s Best to Be Buddhist

By Gretchen Newmark / March 11, 2009

Cancer is a name for many different diseases that share the characteristic of an uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. Many forms are survivable if treated early, but the name still commonly invokes fear. The best of many blessings

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