Guest teacher Ryuko Laura Burges, a lay-entrusted dharma teacher in the Suzuki Roshi lineage, will join us in person or online.  She teaches classes, lectures, and leads retreats in Northern California. A teacher of children for 35 years, she now mentors aspiring teachers. Laura co-founded the Sangha in Recovery Program at the San Francisco Zen Center and is the abiding teacher at Lenox House Meditation Group in Oakland. Shambhala Publishers will be offering her Buddhist children’s books, Buddhist Stories for Kids: Jataka Tales of Kindness, Friendship, and Forgiveness,  (December 2022) and Zen for Kids: 50+ Mindful Activities and Stories to Shine Loving-Kindness in the World (March 2023). Laura’s most recent book, Finding Our Way: Zen Awakening in Recovery, will be published by Shambhala in the Fall of 2023.

*Zoom link for this program: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82008151977