Soryu Forall

Soryu Forall is the Head Teacher at the Monastic Academy in Lowell, Vermont. Forall was ordained in 1998 at Sogen Temple under the tutelage of the Zen Master Shodo Harada, and further trained at Hemis Gompa monastery in northern India; Xue Feng Si monastery in eastern China; and served as head monk at the Sariputta Ambedkar Monastery in southern India in the socially engaged tradition of Ambedkar Buddhism prior to founding the Center for Mindful Learning in his home state of Vermont. Dedicating his life to empowering youth and resolving social, economic, and environmental injustices, Forall has created successful curriculum for mindfulness in education, trained professional mindfulness teachers all over the world, worked with high level athletes and business people on using mindfulness for high performance. As Head Teacher at the Monastic Academy, he is grounding the next generation of awakened leaders in the Dharma to empower true service for a world in crisis.

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