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Amy Hollowell

Amy Hollowell

Roshi Amy Hollowell is a French-American Zen teacher, poet and translator. Affiliated with one of the leading Zen lineages in the West, the White Plum Asangha, she is founder and spiritual director of Wild Flower Zen Sangha, a community of lay practitioners in France and in Portugal. A former journalist at the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times in Paris, she is the author of several poetry collections, including most recently Here We Are (Presse universitaire de Rouen et du Havre, 2015) and, with the French poet Sabine Huynh, Into the Turning: Emptyfull Poetry (Christophe Chomont Editeur, 2019). She leads Zen retreats and workshops as well as contemplative and creative writing workshops, in English and in French, throughout Europe.

 

Upcoming Teaching at Dechen Chöling

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Category Programme Date
  • Culture

Just This: The Art of Zen and Writing 21–27 October
 
 

Blog

  • 18 September 2023

    Coming soon, the “sit, walk and sing” programme

     
  • 18 September 2023

    Quote Of The Week

     
  • 14 September 2023

    Heritage Days on 16 and 17 September 2023

     
  • 12 September 2023

    Testimonial from a participant

     
  • 11 September 2023

    Quote Of The Week

     
 

Upcoming programmes

  • Kado-Ikebana: 5-day course.

    29 September 2023 – 5 October 2023

    With: Marcia Shibata

    Discover your true nature through Nature.

     
  • Kado-Ikebana: An introduction week-end

    30 September 2023 – 1 October 2023

    With: Marcia Shibata

    Kado, the Way of the Flowers.

     
  • Silent Mindfulness Retreat

    7 October 2023 – 14 October 2023

    With: Mathias Pongracz

    Open to all who commit with a week of mindfulness practice in silence, and especially to those who are practicing mindfulness based stress reduction.The retreat fulfills the prerequisites for attending the MBSR professional and continuous training.

     

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