Jaune Evans a writer, photographer, Soto Zen priest and transmitted teacher with Everyday Zen and the Heart of Compassion Zen Sangha. Her experience of community service, compassion and creativity - the Bodhisattva Way - is the ongoing inspiration for Zen practice and teaching,
She has worked in philanthropy and public service for more than thirty years. Her work experience includes advocacy for human rights, public health, community well-being and healing initiatives, global and domestic Indigenous-led organizations, plus creative arts as ways of promoting civic responsibility, racial justice, ecological and social transformation.
Jaune also serves as a Commonweal Board member (www.commonweal.org), as well as a member of the Healings Circle Global Steering Committee (www.healingcirclesglobal.org).
She can be reached by email at jauneevans@gmail.com for practice discussions and spiritual counseling.
Wendy Johnson often co-teaches Heart of Compassion Zen Sangha.
She has been practicing Zen meditation for fifty years and has led meditation retreats nationwide since 1992 as an ordained lay dharma teacher in the traditions of Vietnamese teacher Thich Nhat Hanh and the San Francisco Zen Center. She currently also teaches at Upaya Zen Center (www.upaya.org).
Wendy is one of the founders of the organic Farm and Garden Program at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Marin County, where she lived with her family from 1975 to 2000. She has been teaching gardening and environmental education to the public since the early 1980s.
Wendy Johnson
Jaune and Wendy have known each other since childhood.