We look forward to welcoming Rev. Myogen Kathryn Stark, MA, MDiv., to Stone Creek on March 9 as our guest speaker. A Dharma heir in the Suzuki Roshi lineage, Kathryn has been practicing in the Soto Zen tradition since 1990 and is the founder of Sonoma Valley Zen.

She received priest ordination in 2003 from Santa Cruz Zen Center Abbess Sobun Katherine Thanas and Dharma transmission in 2013 from Shosan Victoria Austin, Dharma teacher at San Francisco Zen Center. She holds Master of Arts and Master of Divinity degrees in Buddhist studies with a specialty in Buddhist chaplaincy from the Graduate Theological Union and Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley. For the past 14 years, she has worked full-time as a hospice chaplain and is currently working at Providence Memorial Hospice in Santa Rosa. In 2016 she started Sonoma Valley Zen, which she has been the guiding teacher for. She feels it is a honor and a privilege to mentor and encourage others who wish to study and practice the Bodhisattva Way in the tradition of Soto Zen.