Introduction to Zen Focusing – Zoom Course
Time: Friday evenings 5:30 – 7:30pm Eastern Time
(online on zoom)
Course Dates in 2025:
March 7, 14, 21, 28
April 4, 18, 2025
With Roshi Paul Genki Kahn and Roshi Monika Genmitsu Kahn
6 classes and a practice session with a mentor in between classes, students will get access to The Zen Focusing Manual
Zen Focusing is a meditative, body-centered (somatic) way of awakening to, reintegrating and healing wounded and split-off parts of ourselves that many spiritual practices do not address, but bypass!
Zen Focusing is based on the work of Eugene Gendlin, a philosopher and psychotherapy theorist and practitioner who worked with Carl Rogers at the University of Chicago. We have created Zen Focusing as one of the 8 Zen Garland Order Core Practices to integrate psychological ways of working into our Zen path.
One of the leading Zen masters of our time, Roshi Paul Genki Kahn augments traditional Zen practices with modern psychology, philosophy, science, and socially engaged service to marginalized communities. He has developed a thorough and profound holistic approach to Zen practice that offers personal and inter-relational development for skillful living in the world. He is Co-founder with his wife, Roshi Monka Genmitsu Kahn, of the International Zen Garland Order. Along with his duties as the Spiritual Director of the Zen Garland Order and the Ancient Oaks Zen Community, Roshi Genki maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Savannah.
Roshi Genmitsu is a Zen Master Teacher and Zen Buddhist Priest. Together with her husband Roshi Paul Genki Kahn she is the co-founder of the Zen Garland Order, the Ancient Oaks Zen Community and the Practice of Zen Focusing. Originally a Swiss mountaineer she is also the lineage holder in Zen Garland’s Red Path Zen trained and transmitted by Grandfather Shook Sings-Alone Roshi.
Genmitsu works as a professional Compassionate Bereavement Care Counselor and Family Services Coordinator for the MISS Foundation and the Selah Carefarm, providing services and aid to traumatically bereaved families in their difficult grieving process.
