Mei Elliott

Mei Elliott has been practicing meditation since 2004. In 2014, Mei entered into residential monastic training at Tassajara Zen Monastery where she received lay ordination from Linda Galijan. She has since spent seven years training residentially at San Francisco Zen Center temples. She is currently the director of San Francisco Zen Center’s City Center temple, where she lives and practices. Mei is a Right Use of Power teacher and a facilitator for Young Urban Zen, a sangha for people in their 20s and 30s.

Mei graduated from Spirit Rock’s Advanced Practitioners Program in 2020, and served as a mentor for the Spirit Rock Family Program as well as Inward Bound Mindfulness Education. Mei is currently training as an Insight teacher with James Baraz and is a participant in Gil Fronsdal and Andrea Fella’s four-year Dharma teacher training program through Insight Retreat Center.