Ordained Priest, Bright Way Zen
Domyo studied and worked as a wildlife biologist before beginning Zen practice at Dharma Rain Zen Center (DRZC) in 1996. She spent five years practicing intensively as a lay person, and then was ordained as a Zen monk in 2001 by Gyokuko Carlson Roshi. The first seven years of Domyo’s monastic training were spent in full-time residential practice at DRZC except for a practice period at Tassajara monastery and time spent practicing at Great Vow Zen Monastery in Oregon.
On October 18th, 2010, Domyo received Dharma Transmission (authorization to teach in the Soto Zen lineage) from Gyokuko Carlson Roshi. She was a full-time staff member at DRZC from 2000 until the fall of 2011, when she resigned in order to focus her Dharma work on Bright Way Zen, a group on the westside of the Portland metro area she started in 2008. Bright Way Zen has grown into a vibrant Sangha, and Domyo works part time as its executive director, general administrator, and one of its guiding teachers. She is also the author of Idiot’s Guides: Zen Living, and produces weekly episodes on the Zen Studies Podcast.