Finding Home Episode 11: Finding My Way to the End of the Road

For Everett Wilson Crestone, Colorado was only a footnote in a book about somatic meditation by Reginald A. Ray when he decided to follow his wife Anoushka on a spiritual journey from California to their new home. Everett and Anoushka met at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center about two hours drive inland from Monterey, California, and after a couple of years trying to figure out what to do after living in a Zen monastery for five years, they took a chance and visited Crestone, Colorado, where Anoushka attended a program at Dharma Ocean, and Everett did a solitary retreat at the Tashi Gomang stupa. Find out how they overcame the “weirdness” and tough living of this little town at the end of the road, to make themselves a home over the course of fourteen years. Don’t forget to stick around for some spoken word at the end of the story! 

For information regarding the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center referenced in the interview visit https://www.sfzc.org/locations/tassajara. To learn about Dharma Ocean, the spiritual center that brought Everett and Anoushka to Crestone, visit https://www.dharmaocean.org/. There is also a link for the Crestone Poetry Festival https://www.poemfest.com/ that Everett has helped organize since 2018.