Mei Elliott
Mei Elliott has been practicing meditation since 2004. In 2014, Mei entered into residential monastic training at Tassajara Zen Monastery where she received lay ordination from Linda Galijan. She has since spent seven years training residentially at San Francisco Zen Center temples. She currently lives and practices at San Francisco Zen Center’s City Center temple. Mei is a Right Use of Power teacher and a facilitator for Young Urban Zen, a sangha for people in their 20s and 30s. Mei graduated from Spirit Rock’s Advanced Practitioners Program in 2020, and served as a mentor for the Spirit Rock Family Program as well as Inward Bound Mindfulness Education. Mei is currently training as an Insight teacher with James Baraz and is a participant in Gil Fronsdal and Andrea Fella’s four-year Dharma teacher training program through Insight Retreat Center.
Mei Elliott's Upcoming Programs
Retreat | On-Land
December 8 - December 18, 2024 | Sunday - Wednesday | 10 nights
Meeting the Three Characteristics through Cultivating Stability, Well-being, and Confidence
In this retreat, we tend to the three qualities of stability, well-being, and confidence, all of which support insight into the three characteristics of existence. Then we explore and befriend these characteristics—namely, aniccā (impermanence, inconstancy), dukkha (stress, unsatisfactoriness, suffering) and anattā (not-self, impersonality, ungovernability)—in our own lived experience. When we understand and make peace with these characteristics, we have more ease, compassion, and freedom in our lives, and we can be of more benefit to ourselves, others, and the world.
Dharma Library
Can't join us live online or on the land? Study and practice at your convenience with Mei Elliott through our new library of recordings, articles, and self-paced online courses.