Sonoma Mountain Zen Center

So it's like disrupting a certain kind of cycle of reactivity.

Um, you know, uh, as, as I've, um, said on a few different occasions, like when I moved to, um, the Sonoma Mountain Zen Center when I was eighteen years old- And I was, I think in retrospect, a complete mess.

You know? I had spent the previous year and a half in and out of drug rehabs, halfway houses, uh, was abusing substances, had severe eating disorders.

You know? I think one of the most important things that I learned there at the Zen Center was this practice of just being with the body, um, in just, you know ...