Ellis Widner is a retired journalist with some 30 years of
meditation, practice, study, and teaching experience. He has
studied with, and attended retreats with lineage masters in
the Vajrayana, Mindfulness, and Zen traditions and was the
English language editor for several Tibetan translations.
Ellis also has taught meditation in the Arkansas prison
the system through Compassion Works for All and is a past
President of the board of the Ecumenical Buddhist Society of
Little Rock. He was co-founder of an Oklahoma organization
that raised funds to support programs for people with AIDS
and did caregiving training in Arkansas to work with people
with HIV/AIDS and Alzheimer’s.
Ellis can be reached at ewidner@uams.edu