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Author of Untangled
Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, MFA, LMSW, DMIN, is an author, Zen teacher, and Jungian psychotherapist who has devoted his life to the study and application of psychotherapy and Buddhism. After a decade working as a psychotherapist, Koshin co-founded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. The non-profit center offers contemplative approaches to care through education, carepartnering, and Zen practice.
Koshin is a great expert to speak to how posture affects your mood, as he incorporates this is his meditation teachings regularly!
His new book, Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion (Grand Central/Hachette, November 8, 2022), is a welcoming guidebook to finding expansive ease and joy through the Eightfold Path, one of Buddhism’s foundational teachings.