Zen Center North Shore Podcast
Religion & Spirituality
Shokuchi Carrigan returns as guest speaker for the Sunday dharma talk, where she will further explore some of the themes from her class series on the paramitas.
About the speaker:
Shokuchi Deirdre Carrigan trained as a student of Zen at San Francisco Zen Center for 20 years, including four practice periods at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and more than a decade of residential practice at Green Gulch Farm, where she served the community as Kitchen Manager (Tenzo,) Guest Program Manager (Shika), Conference Coordinator, and Assistant to Senior Dharma Teacher Tenshin Reb Anderson. She was ordained a Soto Zen priest in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi by Tenshin Roshi in 2010 and served as Shuso (Head Student) in 2014.
Shokuchi studied Iyengar Yoga with Donald Moyer for two decades, graduated from the Advanced Studies Program at The Yoga Room in Berkeley, CA, and has taught yoga since 1988, including Zen and Yoga retreats at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Green Gulch Farm, The Yoga Room, Yogasana in Brooklyn, New York, and in Ireland. In 2017, Shokuchi moved to New York City where she served as Head of Practice (Tanto), at Brooklyn Zen Center until COVID-19 closed the urban center. She is currently leading zazen and offering talks, dharma study classes, and yoga classes online, and continues to co-lead Zen and Yoga retreats. During this time of physical isolation, she is enjoying the opportunity to extend and deepen her study of dharma.
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