The BuddhaStiftung Team

Find out who is behind the BuddhaStiftung team and involved in the foundation’s work.

Jochen Weber

Jochen Weber is a Vipassana and mindfulness meditation teacher and an internist. In 2002, together with his wife Regina Tröscher, he founded BuddhaStiftung as a non-profit foundation and has managed it ever since.

A long-time practitioner in the secular Buddhist tradition of Stephen and Martine Batchelor, Sylvia Wetzel, and others. In the early 2000s, he was one of the first certified MBSR teachers in Germany after an extended training stay with Jon Kabatt-Zinn in the USA and a founding member of the MBSR Association.

Saskia Graf

Saskia Graf values a cross-traditional, universal approach to the Buddha-Dharma and therefore practices in the Theravada forest tradition, in Secular Buddhism, and in the Zen tradition of Felsentor. She is committed to the values of evolutionary-humanistic ethics, evidence-based scientific research, and a contemporary worldview for the well-being of all sentient beings and our environment.

Ulla König

Ulla has her roots in the Vipassana and Theravada traditions. She conveys the wisdom of Buddhist discourses with the aim of contributing to greater contentment, peace of mind, and connectedness.

In her courses, she combines somatic bodywork and trauma-sensitive mindfulness with Buddhist perspectives.

As a working mother herself, it is important to her that the teachings prove effective in everyday life and are directly experienceable.

Grit Kasper

Grit is a meditation teacher for the Independent Vipassana Meditation Group Heidelberg. She was trained as a Vipassana teacher by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, has two children, and works as a biotechnologist.

Ayda Duroux

Ayda is a doctor and MBCT teacher with many years of experience in pediatric intensive care and palliative medicine. Her particular interest lies in communication in the medical field and the personal challenges in healthcare. With this motivation, she studied at the University of Oxford and completed a Master’s in MBCT (Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy) in 2016.

Ayda has been practicing for over ten years and regularly participates in retreats focusing on secular Buddhism.

Ursula Gramm

Ursula is an MBSR and yoga teacher and translates for BuddhaStiftung. She is one of the leaders of the Independent Vipassana Group Heidelberg.

Joshua Harries

Joshua has been practicing Vipassana meditation since he was 19. After initial retreats in the tradition of S.N. Goenka, he sought a freer and more contemporary approach to the teachings.

Eventually, he found Ulla, whose approach embodies an everyday and pragmatic Buddhism for him. Her combination of clarity and contemporary relevance has shaped his practice ever since.

Joshua is involved in the organization and strategic direction of the BuddhaStiftung.