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Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
Roy is a Forest Therapy Guide and Embodied Awareness Coach who lives in Montgomery County, MD. He has a BA in English (Summa cum Laude) from the Lee Honors College of Western Michigan University. After retiring from a long career in operations management (including Health Care, Education and Mental Health Services), Roy is now helping to heal this Earth by living the teachings of Eihei Dogen (“Enlightenment is intimacy with all things”) and Taisen Deshimaru ("Learn to think with your whole body”). So, he has re-created a vocation as a Forest Therapy Guide and Embodied Awareness Coach.
When Roy is not Guiding or Coaching, he can often be found practicing Swordsmanship and various Martial Arts, leading a Meditation group (Sacred Forest Sangha), taking long solo walks in the woods, playing chess, and writing down whatever comes to mind.
A brief writing example follows:
"True Awakening can only occur within our embodied experience. This is much like the Buddha’s sitting under a tree and, at the penultimate moment of his awakening, simply reaching down to touch the earth. So, "Enchanted Awareness" occurs as …
- My mind rests within my heart
- My heart rests within my body
- My body rests within the earth
Come walk with me; learn to caress the Earth with your feet and so, re-discover the joy of being fully alive.
