Shokuchi Deirdre Carrigan

Shokuchi Dierdre Carrigan

Shokuchi Deirdre Carrigan trained in Zen at San Francisco Zen Center for 20 years, including four practice periods at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and more than a decade of residential practice at Green Gulch Farm. She was ordained a Soto Zen priest by Tenshin Reb Anderson in 2010 and served as Shuso (Head Student) in 2014.

Shokuchi studied Yoga in the Iyengar tradition with Donald Moyer for two decades and completed The Yoga Room Apprentices Training Program in 1992. She has taught Yoga widely throughout the Bay Area, including at her own studio, Studio 610. Since 2002, she has offered Zen and Yoga retreats at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and Green Gulch Farm.

She currently lives and practices at Water Moon Guanyin Hermitage, New York City and teaches online Zen and Yoga classes, and is also a nationally certified Health and Wellness Coach. (NBC-HWC).