On Wednesday May 24, Eisho and Jissan will give an in-person dharma talk at Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Center as part of the Spring Practice Period | Cooking Your Life.
Please join us at Bread Loaf Mountain or on Zoom. The dharma talk starts at 5:30pm. Please email us if you need the zoom link (the link is the same for all public dharma talks and ceremonies).
Jissan Michelle Nicolle, PhD, BCC is a professional chaplain, lay minister and novice Zen priest. She graduated from the Upaya Buddhist Chaplaincy program in 2015 and was ordained as a lay minister by Roshi Joan Halifax in 2016. Jissan is employed as a spiritual care provider at the Atrium Health Wake Forest Medical Center in Winston Salem, North Carolina. In 2019, Jissan happily made the commitment to deepen her practice and study of the Dharma as a novice priest with Sensei Joshin Byrnes of Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community.
Eisho Sinclair is a senior practitioner and a student of Joshin Byrnes. He is ordained as a novice priest with Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community.