This show is going on hiatus. I have taken a new job out west and I just won't have the time to keep it up.  This has been a life-changing experience and I am so grateful to all of you.  Yours, forever, in the dharma Ian ..read more

Reverend Teijo Munnich the is founder and Dharma Teacher for the Great Tree Zen Women’s Temple, the Zen Center of Asheville and she is the Dharma Teacher for the Charlotte Zen Meditation Society. Teijo studied with Dainin Katagiri Roshi from 1975 until his death in 1990. Teijo was ordained as a Zen priest in 1981and received transmission in 1989. In addition to training at Hokyoji (Catching the Moon Zen Mountain Center) in Minnesota, Teijo also received formal training at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in CA and Hosshinji in Obama, Japan. You can find out more by visiting the website for the G ..read more

Rev. Liên Shutt was born into a Buddhist family in Vietnam and began her meditation practice in the Insight tradition. In 1998, she helped create Buddhists of Color, one of the early meditation groups committed to supporting practitioners of color San Francisco Bay area. Liên began her formal monastic training in 2002 at Tassajara Zen Monastery and continued her monastic training in Japan and Vietnam. While she has placed her trust and faith in Soto Zen, Liên continues to enjoy the deep silence of Insight practices and has completed retreats in the U.S. and Thailand. She received dharma transm ..read more

Koen Vermeulen, JDPSN, began practicing with the Kwan Um School of Zen in 1992, frequently from Brussels to Paris for the monthly retreats.  He participated in a seven-week retreat in 1995 and a three-month Kyol Che in 1998. In 2013, Koen Vermeulen received Inka from Zen Master Wu Bong in Wu Bong Sah Temple in Poland. Currently, he is the Secretary-General of the Belgian Buddhist Union, which works to develop the recognition of Buddhism in Belgium, provide training programs in Buddhist philosophy and ethics, Buddhist counseling in the health sector, and with prison work. You can find out ..read more

Sosan Theresa Flynn is the current president of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association of North America. She is also the Guiding Teacher at Clouds in Water Zen Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. Sosan has studied and practiced Soto Zen Buddhism for the past 29 years, receiving dharma transmission (full teaching authority) in 2012 from Joen Snyder O'Neal. While she teaches on many aspects of Zen Buddhism, her special interest is the intersection of Buddhist practice and racial justice. Sosan has a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of St. Thomas and offers premarital and couple ..read more

Chimyo Atkinson began practicing Zen meditation in 1991. She was ordained by Rev. Teijo Munnich in 2007, received Dharma Transmission in 2015, and completed Zuise in 2016. She undertook her monastic training in both Japan and the United States. Chimyo served as Head of Practice at Great Tree Zen Women’s Temple and volunteered with the sangha at Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institute from 2015-2020. She has served on the board of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association since 2017 and helped to draft that organization’s standards for formal monastic practice. You can find out more by visiting the webs ..read more

Dojin Sarah Emerson began practicing Zen in 1996. She lived and trained at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and other sites of the San Francisco Zen Center from 1997-2007. She received Dharma Transmission from Abbott Konjin Gaelyn Godwin of the Houston Zen Center in 2015. She has a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She experiences Bodhisattva Zen practice as uniquely supportive to inquiring into challenging and transforming systems of oppression and is committed to centering anti-racism within the practice. Sarah has also worked for many ye ..read more

Zen Master Bon Shim (Aleksandra Porter) is the Regional Zen Master for the Kwan Um School of Zen in Europe. She began practicing with Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1978  and was given Inka, or permission to teach, in 1992. She received transmission in 2006. Today she serves as the guiding teacher of the Barcelona sangha and serves as co-guiding teacher of the Cambridge Zen Center when she is in residence. You can find her retreat schedule at https://www.kwanumeurope.org/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher https://www.theseekerstable.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Onl ..read more

Rev. Liên Shutt was born into a Buddhist family in Vietnam and began her meditation practice in the Insight tradition. In 1998, she helped create Buddhists of Color, one of the early meditation groups committed to supporting practitioners of color San Francisco Bay area. Liên began her formal monastic training in 2002 at Tassajara Zen Monastery and continued her monastic training in Japan and Vietnam. While she has placed her trust and faith in Soto Zen, Liên continues to enjoy the deep silence of Insight practices and has completed retreats in the U.S. and Thailand. She received dharma transm ..read more

Vanessa Zuisei Goddard is a writer and Zen teacher based in New York City. She trained full-time at Zen Mountain Monastery from 1995 to 2014, fourteen of those years as a monastic. In 2018 she received dharma transmission from Geoffrey Shugen Arnold Roshi, abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery and Head of the Mountains and Rivers Order. For the last ten years, Zuisei has been leading retreats and workshops on a wide range of teachings on Buddhism and meditation with special emphasis on the power of stillness and silence to transform our lives. Zuisei’s articles have appeared in Tricycle, Lion’s Roar ..read more