Spiritual Friendship & Mentoring

In an era marked by the global polycrisis (i.e., genocides, ecological, social, and spiritual upheaval), Kanko offers personalized spiritual support and mentorship to support your journey towards creating a deep meditation practice, healing, designing research projects and reindigenizing your life, community, and ecosystems.

Kanko is a Zen priest, climate scientist, grief ceremony leader, and a co-founder of Boundless in Motion and Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center. She likes to call herself a spiritual friend (kalyana-mitta). She is a lifelong student-practitioner who is still not fully done burning her house down (see Kabir’s poetry below) even as she integrates over 25 years of experience in trauma-informed meditation techniques and movement building.

Whether you're navigating grief, rage or despair, or aspiring to align your inner and outer worlds, Kanko can provide a space for listening to different parts of ourselves, and for self-compassion and transformation. Here are several different kinds of mentoring Kanko can provide:

• Koan training in Rinzai Zen tradition

• Trauma-informed healing practices rooted in Zen and Ecodharma

• Pathways for Reindigenizing and becoming keystone species

• Rituals for processing Grief and rage as a small group or family 

• Exploring creation of research projects that support Reindigenizing and creation of “beloved community”

• Cultivating habits for personal resilience as an activist and changemaker

Zoom or in-person sessions

Individualized sessions are available via Zoom or, for those near Boulder (Colorado), through contemplative in-person sessions or walks in nature. Please contact Kritee to explain what kind of mentoring are you looking for.

Sliding scale cost 

No one is ever turned away for lack of funds. However, as a woman of color teacher from Global South who has left her mainstream job to serve the community, Kritee seeks reciprocity for her time including through bartering in the spirit of gift-economy.

• $250-500 (for those working in corporate world, or have inherited wealth, home ownership and financial security in the U.S.)

• $175 (for those that are able to pay for “vacations" and other wants and generally able to secure necessities for your household)

• $110 (for those who are struggling to build significant savings and are without inherited wealth)

• $75 (for those who have regular income but are in significant debt without inherited wealth or home ownership)

• $40 (for those living paycheck-to-paycheck, on low part-time hourly wages)