heatherlynmann
heatherlynmann
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Bio
Heather Lyn Mann is a published author, Zen Buddhist practitioner, sailor, and environmental activist.
After taking early retirement from the land conservation not-for-profit she founded back in 1996, Heather enjoyed six years living with her husband and cat on a small sailing sloop while exploring the Atlantic Ocean--a setting poet Gary Snyder would call "the primary temple of wilderness." Dwelling in intimate relationship with the great Ocean Teacher, Heather found herself on a spiritual quest, asking animate nature: how am I to live now on this wounded planet? Her experiences at sea and the earth-generated answers to this question are the stuff of her climate change memoir now in development. Cruising World Magazine, Blue Water Sailing, WomenAndCruising.com, and AdventuresOfWildHair.blogspot.com published other sailing yarns she penned, stories ranging from hair-raising to sublime.
Heather began her Eastern spiritual practice more than a decade ago under the guidance of the venerable Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. In 2006 she was ordained as a member of the core community of Nhat Hanh's Order of Interbeing. Heather credits her spiritual practice for insight into the nature of the universe.
The not-for-profit she launched is the Center for Resilient Cities (www.ResilientCities.org) For more than a dozen years she served as the group's executive director, helping cities adapt to social, economic, environmental, and climate change by weaving green landscapes into the built environment and creating organic opportunities for social and economic development.
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