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Vanessa Zuisei Goddard is a writer and lay Zen teacher based in Playa del Cármen, México. Zuisei was in full-time residential training at Zen Mountain Monastery in Upstate New York and was a monastic for many years. In 2018 she received dharma transmission from Geoffrey Shugen Arnold Roshi, head of the Mountains and Rivers Order and abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery.

Zuisei is now the guiding teacher of the Ocean Mind Sangha, and works virtually with practitioners whose life circumstances preclude them from engaging more formal Zen training. She's the author of Still Running: The Art of Meditation in Motion, and the children’s book Weather Any Storm.