Episode 40: Interview with Gretchen Miura, Dairyuji Temple, Akita (日本語サマリーあります）

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This week's guest is the amazing Gretchen Miura. I know I've had so many questions I've wanted to ask about her life in Akita!

 Gretchen is an American living on the Oga peninsula (Akita prefecture in the Tohoku region of northern Japan). She runs mindfulness weekend retreats at the Zen Temple Dairyuji with her husband Keno, who is a Zen Soto-shu priest. She also runs a handmade bento and eco friendly bags company called SORAbento.  

We talk about:

How Gretchen came to be in Japan

Her introduction to Zen Buddhism 

What it’s like to be the wife of a Buddhist priest

What mindfulness is

Her upcoming Mindfulness Retreat: June 14-16, 2019. Don't forget to mention you heard about it on the Transformations with Jayne Podcast!

Links of things mentioned in this episode:

Mindfulness Retreats at Zen temple Dairyuji
Websites - www.dairyuji-oga.com
instagram https://www.instagram.com/dairyuji_oga/
https://www.facebook.com/dairyuji.oga/

SORAbento Handmade bento bag company
www.etsy.com/shop/SORAbento
https://www.instagram.com/sora_bento/
https://www.facebook.com/SoraJapan4/

About Gretchen Miura: https://savvytokyo.com/living-the-zen-life-as-a-foreign-woman-in-an-old-akita-temple/