Patti Mitchell
About the Teacher
Why study with them?
Patti Mitchell is an ordained Zen priest, a retired hospice nurse, and a yoga teacher. She is inspired by those beings who embody practice in a warm, open-hearted, non-hierarchical way, honoring all beings and traditions as equal and unique.
As a yoga teacher, Patti specializes in working with both cancer patients and those in recovery from addiction. In 2020, she retired from a twenty-three-year career in hospice nursing.
Patti was ordained as a Soto Zen priest in the Shunryu Suzuki Roshi lineage in December 2016. She has completed two three-month monastic training periods at Tassajara mountain monastery. Her heart teacher is Christina Lehnherr, a former abbes of the San Francisco Zen Center. She originally took Bodhisattva vows in the Tibetan Dzog Chen tradition in 1977 and had practiced in the Vipassana tradition for a number of years before finally finding her seat in Zen.
As a yoga teacher, Patti specializes in working with both cancer patients and those in recovery from addiction. In 2020, she retired from a twenty-three-year career in hospice nursing.
Patti was ordained as a Soto Zen priest in the Shunryu Suzuki Roshi lineage in December 2016. She has completed two three-month monastic training periods at Tassajara mountain monastery. Her heart teacher is Christina Lehnherr, a former abbes of the San Francisco Zen Center. She originally took Bodhisattva vows in the Tibetan Dzog Chen tradition in 1977 and had practiced in the Vipassana tradition for a number of years before finally finding her seat in Zen.
