Dainin Wendy Lau

Sensei Dainin is an emergency medicine physician and Zen priest. She received Dharma Transmission from Roshi Joan Halifax Jan 2025. She teaches Roshi Joan’s G.R.A.C.E. compassion process, as well as offering physicians methods to meditate, maintain equanimity, and thrive in the high-burnout environment of healthcare. She is also a co-director of Upaya’s Nomads Clinic, which provides indispensable treatments and services in remote, high-altitude villages of Himalayan Nepal. Her book, Inner Practice of Medicine, compiles the lessons that she has been gathering throughout her time as a doctor and teacher of doctors.

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