Marcia Wang Shibata

In 1974, Marcia Shibata became a student of the Buddhist and Kado Way with Chögyam Trungpa. In 1980, she went to Japan to study the discipline as it had survived to date, and remained there until 1985.

She endeavored to understand and teach how Kado-Ikebana practice could be a portal to innate wisdom-mind, through the diligent practice of forms, meditation practice, and studying the laws of nature through the Buddhist/Taoist view and by observing and studying nature directly. Since 1985 to the present day, Ms Shibata has taught Ikebana supported by meditation practice, both in the US and Europe.

In 2003, she was given permission to open a fresh school of Ikebana in which the laws of Dharma are revealed, through the consecration and blessings of the son of Chögyam Trungpa, Jamgon Trinley Mipham. Since this time the School has flourished, recently settling in Prague as its first official physical location.