Shodo has belonged to the natural world for as long as she can remember. She grew up in northeastern Ohio, with long days outdoors alone in the woods and creeks and on the beaches of Lake Erie.
Along the way Shodo started one of the first battered women’s shelters, was a community organizer in inner-city Cleveland, was a psychotherapist for years, explored spirituality, practiced nonviolent social change, and finally entered the practice of Zen Buddhism. She has lived Zen for over forty years and taught for twelve. Shodo is her Buddhist name, and means “right path.”
Shodo has participated in long retreats, public sitting meditation as activism, and walking hundreds of miles, including leading the 2013 Compassionate Earth Walk along the planned northern route of the KXL pipeline. Mountains and Waters Alliance expresses her vision of humans working with the beyond-human world to heal and regenerate life on earth.
