Spiritual Mentoring

In an era marked by the global polycrisis, Kanko offers personalized spiritual support and mentorship to people across the world to support their journey towards creating a deeper meditation practice, healing, reindigenizing individual life, community, and ecosystems or designing climate actions and research projects.

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 and mentor (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 an individual, small group or family 

• Exploring research projects that support Reindigenizing & beloved community

• Cultivating habits for personal resilience as an activist and changemaker

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 as a climate scientist 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)

• $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)

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.