Pema Chödrön has been played on NTS in shows including Kisses in My Ears w/ Eliza, featured first on 25 June 2018. Songs played include Being Present.

Ani Pema Chödrön (1936 -) was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in New York City. She attended Miss Porter’s School in Connecticut and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. She taught as an elementary school teacher for many years in both New Mexico and California. Pema has two children and three grandchildren.

While in her mid-thirties, Ani Pema traveled to the French Alps and encountered Lama Chime Rinpoche, with whom she studied for several years. She became a novice…