Bonnie Myotai Treace is a Zen priest, the founder and teacher of Hermitage Heart, and was the abbot of the Zen Center of NYC; she leads training in Black Mountain, North Carolina. She is particularly known for her work in women's spirituality, poetry, and the nexus of mind and environment. Myotai Sensei was the first Dharma successor of John Daido Loori, Roshi, in the Mountains and Rivers Order, having received shiho, dharma transmission, from him in 1996. Serving and training for over two decades eventually as vice-abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery, she was the establishing teacher and first abbess of the Zen Center of New York City. At the Monastery she was the Vice Abbot, the first director of Dharma Communications, editor of Mountain Record, and in charge of the affiliates of the Mountains and Rivers Order.
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