Early Life
Reginald Ray was born in New York City in 1942 and raised in Darien, Connecticut and from a very young age found Tibet compelling. In 1962, Ray traveled through Japan, India, Laos and Nepal, though he was unable to enter Tibet due to the Chinese occupation. After this first direct encounter with Buddhist cultures, he returned to Williams College in Massachusetts where he had been an undergraduate and majored in religion. One of Ray’s primary teaching areas is in somatically grounded meditation. This interest began in his late teens, in Europe, at the encouragement of an early mentor, the post-war welfare worker, Charlotte B. MacJannett. She introduced him to the work of Gerda Alexander, the famous German-Danish somatic teacher, and also to Edmund Rochdieu, a Swiss psychologist and direct student of C.G. Jung.
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