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Manju has been a student of Zen for over twenty years. He received Jukai (lay practitioner vows) in 1984 at the Atlanta Soto Zen Center and again with Jun Po Kelly, Roshi in 1998. He was ordained by Jun Po as a lay priest in the Hollow Bones Order in 2003. Manju established the Appleton Zen Center in Appleton WI in 2003, where he serves as head priest. Manju has attended many Zen retreats with Hollow Bones, the Wisconsin pre-Bones community, the Atlanta Soto Zen Center and Crestone Mountain Zen Center. He has also attended the New Warrior Weekend, Inner King, Warrior Monk, BSLT, and Hoffman Process trainings. No one is an island unto him/herself. In thanks to his many teachers, Manju would like to recognize especially his root teacher, Jun Po Kando Denis Kelly, Roshi (Rinzai); Michael Zenkai Taiun Elliston, Roshi (Soto); Dirck Vorenkamp, PhD (Buddhist history and philosophy); Elam Nunnally, PhD (family systems, interpersonal communication); the Staff of Family Service of Milwaukee in the early & mid 1970s (psychology, family systems and psychotherapy); Sgt. Jesus Lopez, US Army (how to stay alive in a variety of unfriendly environments); and most particularly of course, his birth and current families. Manju’s work experience spans a wide spectrum, including military and intelligence service, psychotherapy, construction, medical research, and business fields, both as employee and self-employed contractor and business owner. He is currently retired and busier than ever in a variety of personal, family, and Zen-related projects. When asked for a short message he would like to pass on to the community at large, he replied: “Consider setting up a practice relationship with a Hollow Bones priest or senior Bones brother/sister you trust. Then learn to deepen until your practice and your life are one.”
Vicara Satya Mary Connelly is currently a Physician and Medical Director of Bellin Health, Center for Health & Healing, an Integrative Medical Center in Green Bay, WI. She holds AS, BS, MSW and MD degrees. She has received training in Integrative Medicine with Andrew Weil, MD as well as training in Traditional Chinese Acupuncture and naturopathic approaches to women’s health. She is Board Certified in Family Medicine and Holistic medicine (ABFP, ABHM). In addition, Vicara practiced as a psychotherapist from 1974-1984 and incorporates body-mind approaches in her medical practice. Vicara has been involved in meditative practice since the early ‘70s when she studied Bhakti yoga and directed a meditation group in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She started sitting Soto Zen in 1984 under the direction of Zenkai Taiun Michael Elliston Roshi of the Atlanta Soto Zen Center where she received Jukai in 1985. She was one the founding members of the Charleston Soto Zen Center in South Carolina. Vicara began practicing yoga with Ma Dhyana Kathleen Kelly-Hoffman in 1993 and has studied with Jun Po since 1994. She received Jukai with Jun Po in 1998, was designated to teach as Sensei in 2002, and received Hollow Bones Priest Ordination in 2003. Vicara has attended 9 Hollow Bones Retreats in addition to the Zen-Yoga retreats led by Jun Po prior to the formation of Hollow Bones. She now serves as Meditation Leader for the Zen-Yoga Retreats held in Wisconsin and the Coordinator of the Wisconsin Hollow Bones Retreats. Additional Trainings: Women in Power, the Hoffman Process Her mission/passion in life is: “To live a life of openness, no matter what. To bring that energy to those whose lives I touch.” Her Message to all is: “Wake up & be well; practice until there is nothing left and then some. The only life you can save is your own so treat yourself with ferocious love and compassion; we are all in the same boat”. And she adds: “Through this practice, my life has opened and transformed in ways I did not 'think' possible. Life is full of surprises.”
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