Julian Daizan Skinner
British Rinzai Zen Buddhist Rōshi in the Zendo Kyodan lineage
- Expertise : Buddhist
- Languages : english
- Website : https://zenways.org/
JULIAN DAIZAN SKINNER is a well-known British Rinzai Zen Buddhist Rōshi within the Zendo Kyodan lineage. He has received Dharma Transmission in the Sōtō tradition of Zen. Roshi is also known as the founder of the Zenways Sangha and resident teacher at Yugagyo Dojo within London, United Kingdom. Skinner also worked as a scientist in the pharmaceuticals industry. He then began to study Sōtō Zen under Rev. Given permission to enter full-time monastic training as a postulant in 1989, he was then ordained as an unsui or novice monk on 4 April 1991. Reflecting on his time at the monastery, he wrote, “For fourteen formative years I studied with him the Daishan Morgan, before continuing elsewhere with Rinzai Zen.”
Over several years of strict training within Japan and the west, Roshi then received Dharma Transmission and permission to give teachings in both the Rinzai and Soto lineages of Zen. Daizan has also undergone training as an enlightenment intensive master with Lawrence Noyes, a leading student of the creator of enlightenment intensives, Charles Berner. Roshi also received Inka from Shinzan Miyamae Roshi of Gyokuryuji, who continues to study.
Skinner’s Zen study incorporated yoga practice and has also studied yoga within Europe, America, and Asia. He brings this wide range of yoga experience in sharing a practice that combines physical challenges with mental and spiritual development. Daizan is registered with the Yoga Alliance at the 500-hour level and then registered with the Independent Yoga Network as a Yoga Elder with over 5000 hours of successful teaching experience. Skinner trains yoga teachers to find an expression that is authentically their own and will bring them success when they teach. His knowledge and training in Zen give him the background to guide you on your spiritual journey.
Events by Zen
- Intensive 200hr Yoga Teacher Training
- Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher Training module 1-1
- Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher Training Module 2
- Breakthrough to Zen Retreat (Online)
- Mindfulness for Grounding and Insight – 8-week online course
- Breakthrough to Zen Retreat (Online)
- Rohatsu all-night meditation
- Mountain Walking Retreat
Books by Zen
- Rough Waking: For Those Confined And Homeless (Including You)
- “The Enlightenment Intensive” by Lawrence Noyes
- “Practical Zen for Health, Wealth and Mindfulness” by Julian Daizan Skinner and Sarah Bladen
- “Practical Zen: Meditation and Beyond” by Julian Daizan Skinner
- The Zen Character: Life, Art and Teachings of Zen master Shinzan Miyamae
- In Heaven’s River: Poems and Carvings by Mountain Monk Enku
