Corey Hess

Corey Ichigen Hess spent his twenties training under the great Zen master and energy master, Shodo Harada Roshi.  He was ordained in 2005. Corey brings a physical, embodied, energetic approach to practice. His profound struggles and the necessary creativity of practice brought him unique insights about the cellular process of opening up to reality.  After coming back to society and starting a family, he spent two decades maturing and ripening. Along the way people began to ask questions about their internal process, and his blog and classes began to take shape out of that. Currently, working as a licensed body worker, he leads the Energy Collective, an international group of practitioners, with retreats in Europe and North America. Practices include seated zazen, Zhan Zhuang, Qigong, and Non-Directed body Movement. Classes are fun and lighthearted, no nonsense, energetically palpable and direct.

He lives with his wife and three daughters on an island north of Seattle.