Kagayaki Karen Morris, Sensei is an ordained, transmitted teacher in the Soto Zen Buddhist lineage of Dainin Katagiri. She is on the faculty of the Buddhist Education Institute, Indian Creek Zen Hermitage, Ottawa, IL. and co-founder of the Two Rivers Zen Community in Narrowsburg, N.Y.; psychoanalyst in private practice in Montpelier, VT.; a volunteer public educator on the subject of the commercial sex industry and its impact on domestic minor sex trafficking and sex tourism with children; facilitator of social dreaming matrixes in retreats, workshops, and conference spaces. She is an award-winning writer and poet. Her recently published volume of poetry, Nothing Happened Last Night, is from Finishing Line Press (2024).
Seiso Paul Cooper, Sensei is an ordained priest and a transmitted teacher in the Soto Zen lineage of Dainin Katagiri; Member of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association; American Zen Teacher’s Association; Co-founder and former guiding teacher: Two Rivers Zen Community in Narrowsburg, N.Y.; Lincoln Zen Center, Lincoln, Nebraska; Faculty: Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Psychotherapy and California Institute for Integral Studies, Former Dean of Training: National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis; Faculty, training analyst, supervisor: Institute for Expressive Analysis, Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; Member Vermont Association for Psychoanalytic Studies; Award-winning author: Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism: A Realizational Perspective (2023), Zen Insight, Psychoanalytic Action: Two Arrows Meeting (2019), The Zen Impulse and the Psychoanalytic Encounter (2010); private practice in Montpelier, Vermont.
Barre Zen Meditation Center Kokyoji, (Eternal Mirror Temple) 