Marion Gruzalski

Marion Gruzalski founded the Hospice at the Texas Medical Center, after loosing two daughters and a son. Her work in hospice ended in 2007 when she left the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco, where she led weekly meditations and also led one day retreats at Green Gulch, a Zen monastery in Marin County. Marion has practiced meditation for over 25 years, spent many monastic winter retreat periods at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery under the spiritual guidance of Ajahn Sumedho, co-led a weekly group in Boston, and was co-manager and resident teacher at Sunyata Retreat Centre from 2008 until 2011.