Roshi June Ryushin Tanoue is a Zen Buddhist priest and the co-founder of Zen Life & Meditation Center based in Chicago, IL. June Roshi is also a Kumu Hula (Master Teacher of Hula) and the founder of Halau I Ka Pono, the Hula School of Chicago. For more information about June Roshi and the Zen Life & Meditation Center, please see the following links:

https://www.zlmc.org/

https://www.lionsroar.com/the-hula-sutra/

We talk about the connections between hula and Zen practice, maternal family histories and the sacred feminine, recognizing Kaiona (the Hawaiian goddess of the lost) as a Buddhist bodhisattva, islands of coherence, the honesty and beauty of Pele’s destructive anger, and following your bliss.