Susannah Grover

Susannah became a student of Zen in 1969, and later was initiated into Tibetan Buddhism via His Holiness Karmapa XVI in 1977. Her Sufi teacher initiated her as a teacher in the Indian Chishti lineage in 1974.

Susannah was a lay midwife doing home births and at the same time was sitting with the dying as a hospice worker (1974-82). She was appointed to be the California State Psychiatric Patients’ Rights’ Advocate-Ombudsman, where her job was to defend the rights of both psychiatric patients and the elderly in locked facilities (1977-78). She later became a Doctor of Chiropractic, Craniopathy and Homeopathy in 1983 and ran her own alternative healing clinic near San Francisco (1984-2005).

Upon meeting the Oracle of Tibet in 1994, he requested that Susannah start teaching spiritual work. One of her teachers, Moriah St. Clair, who was the founder of Beyond Words and Pathways United, made Susannah her successor (2008).

Susannah was a student in the Diamond Approach (1986-2017), where she also trained as a teacher, and she taught groups in the U.S., Australia and Europe for 21 years, from 1996-2017. She resigned from the organization in 2017.

Susannah loves being at Ängsbacka, where she has also taught (2008-2019) and she was honored to be asked as a presenting teacher at the No Mind Festivals (2015-2019). She has also been mentored by a Biodynamics (TM) psychotherapist, and is a faculty member of ZIST Psychotherapy Training Academy in Germany since 2018.

Most of all, perhaps, Susannah experiences herself to be a witness to the Miraculous. This what she wishes for every participant in the group, as well.