Sam Sokyo talks with Diana Kosei about living a life of vow, the distinctions between dharma practice and somatic therapy, harmonizing the coarse sensory body with the subtle, collective, and spiritual bodies, integrating Earth and indigenous wisdom alongside the Zen tradition, grounding through prayer and ritual in social action, embodied resonance in creative practice, and embracing everything in spiritual practice. 

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Kosei is a Zen priest, somatic therapist and practitioner of zen-based arts. Previously she worked as an epidemiologist and founded two nonprofits, one in the Bronx for food and social justice, and another in southern Oregon for arts and environmental action. She currently leads a sitting group in Ashland, Oregon focused on environmental and social action called Onestream Dharma and is the author of Watershed Redemption, winner of the 2017 Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature.  

Learn more at https://dianahartel.com Comment end