Roshi Shinko Ilia Perez

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  • Roshi Shinko Ilia Perez, after 20 years of training with prominent Zen masters, became a Zen Sensei in 2004 and a Roshi in 2014 both in the White Plum lineage. Since then she has been teaching and leading Sacred Feminine and traditional Zen retreats and is the Abbess of Maitreya Abbey and co-spiritual director of the Great Mountain Zen Center, both in Berthoud, Colorado. Shinko ordained as a Zen Priestess in 2006. She is the co-author of The Great Heart Way: How to Heal Your Life and Find Self-fulfillment and the creator and leader of Great Heart Way retreats. She is also author of The Zen Priestess and the Snake: A Woman's Path of Transformation and Healing Through Rediscovery of the Great Mother Tradition which is used as a textbook for her Buddhist Goddess Practices. She has led retreats in the Caribbean, Mexico, Spain and in several US states. Shinko was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and grew up in Madrid, Spain where she earned a MA in Archeology. She has two grown sons and two granddaughters.

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