Camille Hykes has been a Dharma Teacher with Natural Dharma Fellowship since 2016. From 2016-2021 she served as Co-Director of NDF’s Margha Program with Bob Morrison (Dharma Teacher and dear Dharma brother) until his passing. From 2021-2024 Camille served as Director of the Margha Program, a two-year program that offers alternating year-long training in natural meditation and practices of Bodhicitta.
Teachers and sources of inspiration for Camille Hykes include Nyoshul Khenpo, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Lama Willa Blythe Baker, Lama Liz Monson, Charles Genoud, Anam Thubten, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Khangsar Tenpa’i Wangchuk, Hameed Ali (A.H. Almaas), and Lama Surya Das. Camille has been training in the Nyingma and Kagyu traditions of Himalayan Buddhism since 1995, with an emphasis on Dzogchen, Mahamudra, and practices of bodhicitta. She takes to heart the songs, teachings, and stories from the lives of great masters of awareness. Direct experience of the sacred nature of Mother Earth has been an essential illuminating teacher for her throughout her life.
Since 2008 Camille has been training in the work of the Diamond Approach, an open-ended path of inquiry into the immediacy of our experience. She is an authorized teacher of Gesture of Awareness, a unique means of exploring presence through the body amid so-called ordinary experience. Gesture, it may be said, is a kind of dance of inquiry.
In light of growing up in the Deaf community, Camille has felt drawn to question hierarchies/concepts of power through nearly all of her life and is deeply committed to social and environmental justice.
