Zen Mind, Hula Mind

Zen Mind, Hula Mind
Saturday, May 17, 2008 from 11 AM – 2 PM

How do you bring a genuine spiritual practice into your daily life, in a world that increasingly distracts, fragments and shortens your attention? How do you still the mind enough to see the sacredness of everyday life? Where is spirituality in the practice of hula? Join Sensei Robert Joshin Althouse and his wife, Kumu Hula June
Kaililani Tanoue as they explore these topics in a workshop weaving together meditation and hula.

Sensei Robert Joshin Althouse is the Abbot of the Zen Community of Oak Park — Empty Sound Temple. An ordained Zen Buddhist priest and fully empowered Zen teacher in the White Plum lineage, Rev. Althouse received transmission from Roshi Jikyo Nicolee McMahon in 1999.

June Kaililani Tanoue is a Kumu Hula, a master teacher of the Hula. She studied with Kumu Hula Michael Pang on the Big Island of Hawaii. She also studied la'au lapa'au, Hawaiian spiritual healing with herbs, with Henry Auwae. She has an MPH, Master of Public Health, from the University of Hawaii, Manoa. As well as teaching hula classes at the Zen Community in Chicago, Kaililani also teaches hula in New York City. She is also an ordained a Zen Buddhist priest.

Suggested contribution of $30 will go towards the building of a hula mound in the new Japanese Zen Garden at the Empty Sound Temple grounds in Oak Park, IL.

To register, email kaili AT zencommunity DOT org or call 630-697-9655