Starr Nolan
Saturday, June 14
10:00am - 12:00pm
Saturday, June 14
10:00am - 12:00pm
The Buddhist Practice of Patience: Transforming Suffering into Solidarity and Love with Zen Lay-Minister, Starr Nolan. Working skillfully with the emotion of anger as a practice of patienc. Drawn from the teachings of Norman Fischer and Dzigar Kongtrul.
Sunday, July 20
11:00am to 1:00pm
Shana Smith is an Assistant Teacher with Sanbo Zen International, and the guiding teacher of Florida Sanbo Zen. Her root teacher is Valerie Forstman Roshi of the Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She also studies with Henry Shukman Roshi, Ruben Habito Roshi, and Sanbo Zen Abbott Yamada Ryoun Roshi. Shana is also a RYT-500 yoga teacher and has been a yogi since 1992, which led her to a regular daily meditation practice at a yoga temple in 2002. In 2007, she took refuge in the Sanbo Zen Lineage with Valerie Forstman Roshi. Over the years, she has found a tremendous synergy between Yoga and Zen, and integrates the two in her daily, committed practice. Zen consistently informs, sustains, and inspires her life as a parent, writer, musician, teacher, and lifelong student.