07/19/2025
THIS SUNDAY (Tomorrow the 20th) Don't miss this event!
Rev. Myo-O Habermas-Scher
will be providing our dharma talk
In-Person at the Center and Via Zoom
Sitting starts at 9am!
Rev. Myo-O Habermas-Scher will give a talk entitled, "Where Are The Old Women in The Tea Shop?"
Rev. Myo-O Habermas-Scher has been practicing intensively in the Zen and Vipassana Buddhist traditions, for fifty years. She began Zen practice in 1975 with her root teacher, Dainin Katagiri Roshi, who established the Minnesota Zen Center in 1972 in Minneapolis, MN. In 2000 she was ordained in the Soto Zen Buddhist tradition, and she received Dharma Transmission from Rev. Dokai Ron Georgesen, head teacher at Hokyoji Zen Practice Community in SE Minnesota, in 2012. She is a mom to her daughter and grandmother to two little boys, 7 and 3 years old.
Myo-O is trained in a number of body-mind practices, including Qi Gong and Body Mind Centering™. She is the originator of VoiceWork™, a body-based voice training, which she offers in private practice and has taught at several colleges and universities. She was a professional modern dancer and choreographer earlier in her life. She was an interfaith staff chaplain at the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis for fourteen years, retiring in 2021. She recently retired from being an associate teacher at Hokyoji Zen Practice Community, and is affiliated with Clouds in Water Zen Center in St. Paul.
