Seiho Qayyum Johnson was raised in an American Sufi family. After wandering pilgrimage he received a degree in Religious Studies and, after a short trip to Japan, moved to Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Muir Beach, CA, in 2006. Qayyum served as Shuso (Head Student) in 2015 with Abbess Fu Schroeder, as well as being Farm Manager of Green Gulch for many years. Most recently he has been co-director of the Art Monastery in Vermont, where he also performed volunteer hospice work, began a sitting group in prison, renovated old homes, and worked for the post office as a letter carrier. He is keenly interested in how zazen (seated meditation) allows us to embrace the vast relational inter-being that defines our lives and to discover grace amidst the uneasiness of creative self-expression.