Dr. Dvora Tzvieli
Spiritual Seeker
Dvora Tzvieli has been a student of spirituality ever since she remembers herself, but started her formal training in the dharma in 1991, and has been teaching the dharma to students since 1999.
She is a devoted student of her dear teachers Michael Roach and Christie McNally, and has been studying Asian Classics courses in New York and New Jersey since 1998, and since 2004 also at the Diamond Mountain University.
Dvora was born in Poland, grew up in Israel, and has been living in the U.S. since 1985. She is married with three beautiful children and two grand children.
Dvora has a Ph.D degree in Computer Science, and an M.Sc and B.Sc in Mathematics. She had taught Mathematics in Universities for many years, and had worked for 10 years as a researcher at the well-known Bell Labs.
For the past 10 years, Dvora has been devoting all of her time to the practice of dharma: studying, but mostly serving her many students through teaching, translation of ancient scriptures, and establishing a website with a complete set of recordings, readings and related materials of all ACI courses and meditation modules – all translated into Hebrew, and made available to all, free of charge.
In parallel, she enrolled as a full-time student at Diamond Mountain University, established by her beloved teachers, Michael Roach and Christie McNally.
This major undertaking, along with required intense work, did not allow for any income generating work. Dvora had funded all of this, including her many trips to Israel and Arizona, from her retirement savings, which by now have been mostly depleted.
Teaching Dharma
Dvora started teaching wisdom in 1999 in the US, and became a very beloved teacher who made a deep impact on many students. In 2001 Dvora started teaching also in Israel, her homeland, and was able to influence and transform the lives of many many people. She is visiting Israel three times a year, teaching courses in dharma, meditation, yoga, spiritual business, spiritual partners, and more. The circle of her disciples keeps growing, reaching now several hundreds of active students, many of whom seek her guidance on various issues.
Spiritual Leadership
Many of Dvora’s senior students are teaching as well, and now some 25 groups are operating throughout Israel, bringing the teachings of wisdom and love, through dharma, yoga, meditation and business to all parts of the Israeli society: adults and children, young and retired, parents and businessmen – everywhere.
Translation of ancient classics
Dvora is a very skilled translator of wisdom into Hebrew, weaving the spiritual wisdom into the holy Hebrew language, using both traditional and modern ways of expression. She had already translated numerous classic texts, prayers, poetry, and several books, among them: The Diamond Cutter, How Yoga Works, and more, and others are being worked on.
Most of her translations are being published free to all on the website that serves her growing student body, and printed by a special Book Press that her students have founded.
Utilizing the Media
A series of articles by Dvora about Meditation for Developing Compassion and about Spiritual Partners is published in a leading online daily newspaper for the past 2 years, with a lot of response from her audience, arousing public interest in those teachings.
Reaching out to people
With the help of her Israeli students, many of Dvora’s recorded teaching and translations are made available to interested students.
Practice
Dvora is an avid practitioner of the teaching in her personal life, attending classes, meditating, practicing yoga, and bringing the wisdom to daily life as well.
She loves to meditate and has spent more than 2 years in isolation, in meditation retreats. She is a serious student, and helps others with their studies.
Compassionate Service
Some of the impact of the teaching on her life has been gaining tranquility in the face of difficult circumstances, great generosity and strong compassion, resolving difficult relationships, and bringing happiness to everyone around her.
Peace Making
Dvora is dedicated to bringing peace to the Middle East. She has taught several peace workshops in Israel, and had arranged to teach yoga and meditation to a mixed group of Arabs and Israelis’ who all met on neutral ground in Larnaca, Cyprus.
She is on constant lookout and exploring opportunities to contribute to the creation of peace in the Middle East, and to world peace
Creating an International Spiritual Center in the Middle East
Along with her students, Dvora is working to establish an international spiritual retreat and study center in the Middle East.
An area had been identified, straddling the border between Jordan and Israel, and architects are busy planning the center.
The Great Retreat
Dvora is very enthusiastic about performing the great retreat, and considers it a main goal for her life. Her goal is to deepen her spiritual development so that she can be more effective in helping others, empowering them to have happy and meaningful lives, and lead them to personal freedom. 
Her retreat cabin is in planned to be built from adobe bricks, for stability, good insulation to minimize the need for heating. It is designed to be environmentally oriented, and to serve as a conducive space to do deep spiritual work.
For this she will need support, as she had used up her savings to fund her teaching activities and service in the U.S. and in Israel.
Thanks and Gratitude
Lastly, we would like to thank you for considering to support Dvora in her heart-felt desire to do this holy retreat, and in her sincere quest to help change the world and bring peace and happiness to all.
MAY YOU BE BLESSED IN ALL YOU DO,
MAY YOU GAIN LOVE, COMPASSION, AND WISDOM
MAY YOU BE ALWAYS HAPPY.
Dvora wishes to thank her Holy Teachers, for their immeasurable kindness,
And to her partner, Arie Tzvieli, for his continued and loving support,
Including his help in creating this proposal.
