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{{Infobox person
|name = Caitriona Reed
|image = Caitriona_Reed.jpg
|caption =
|birth name = Christopher Reed
|alias =
|birth_date = 1949
|birth_place = Los Angeles, California
|nationality =
|location = Manzanita Village Retreat Center
|education =
|occupation = Public Speaker, Seminar Leader, Hypnotherapist, Performance Coach, Meditation and Zen Teacher
|partner = Michele Benzamin-Miki
|children =
|website = {{URL|www.FiveChanges.com|FiveChanges.com}}
}}
'''Caitriona Reed''' (born 1949) is a [[trans woman]] [[sensei]] of [[Thiền]] [[Zen Buddhism]] who also has a background in [[Vipassanā]] meditation. She co-founded Ordinary Dharma in [[Los Angeles, California]]; the rural Manzanita Village Retreat Center, located in [[San Diego County]]; and Five Changes, to mentor aspiring leaders, cultural creatives, and spiritual visionaries. Reed, a member of the [[American Zen Teachers Association]], led retreats and workshops in [[Vipassana]], [[Deep Ecology]], and [[Buddhism]] 1981-2008. She received authority to teach Zen from [[Thich Nhat Hanh]] in 1992.
She is a 'woman of transsexual experience' who [[Transitioning (transgender)|transitioned]] in 1996. She stated about her transitioning, "As a teacher encouraging others to live more honest and authentic lives, it was increasingly difficult for me to deny a basic fact—that I was a woman."<ref name="Yar">{{cite web |last=Yar |first=Harriette |title=Just Another Dharma bum: Buddhist teacher Caitríona Reed |publisher=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]] |date=2006-12-19 |url=http://www.advocate.com/news/2006/12/04/just-another-dharma-bum |accessdate=2008-02-16 }}</ref>
Currently, informed by her work as a Buddhist teacher, Reed focuses on public speaking; mentoring individual clients; and together with her partner Michele Benzamin-Miki conducting professional certification training in [[neuro-linguistic programming]] and [[hypnotherapy]] with an emphasis holistic approaches to life-coaching and personal and professional mentorship.<ref name="Badiner">{{cite book |last=Badiner |first=Allan Hunt |title=Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology |publisher=Parallax Press |year=1990 |pages=261 |isbn=0-938077-30-9 }}</ref><ref name="Gottlieb">{{cite book |last=Gottlieb |first=Roger S. |title=Liberating Faith: Religious Voices for Justice, Peace, and Ecological Wisdom |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |year=2003 |pages=533 |isbn=0-7425-2534-1 }}</ref><ref name="amzen">{{Cite web|url=http://www.americanzenteachers.org/list.html |title=American Zen Teachers |accessdate=2008-02-18 |postscript= |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928030212/http://www.americanzenteachers.org/list.html |archivedate=2007-09-28 |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref>
==Personal life==
Prior to her transition Reed married her long-time partner (since 1981) artist, [[Aikido]] and [[Iaido]] [[Sensei]] Michele Benzamin-Miki. They continue living and working together.
==Published Essays==
* ''Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology'' (Alan Hunt Badiner, Editor)
* ''What Makes A Man: 22 Writers Imagine The Future'' (2004) (Rebecca Walker, Editor)
* ''The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women'' (2012) (Florence Caplow and Susan Moon, Editors)
==See also==
*[[Buddhism in the United States]]
*[[Buddhism and sexual orientation]]
*[[Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States]]
*[[Neuro-linguistic programming]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
== External links ==
* [http://www.fivechanges.com Official site]
* [http://www.gendercentre.org.au/resources/polare-archive/archived-articles/coming-out-whole.htm Coming Out Whole]
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[[Category:American Zen Buddhist teachers]]
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|name = Caitriona Reed
|image = Caitriona_Reed.jpg
|caption =
|birth name = Christopher Reed
|alias =
|birth_date = 1949
|birth_place = Los Angeles, California
|nationality =
|location = Manzanita Village Retreat Center
|education =
|occupation = Public Speaker, Seminar Leader, Hypnotherapist, Performance Coach, Meditation and Zen Teacher
|partner = Michele Benzamin-Miki
|children =
|website = {{URL|www.FiveChanges.com|FiveChanges.com}}
}}
'''Caitriona Reed''' (born 1949) is a [[trans woman]] [[sensei]] of [[Thiền]] [[Zen Buddhism]] who also has a background in [[Vipassanā]] meditation. She co-founded Ordinary Dharma in [[Los Angeles, California]]; the rural Manzanita Village Retreat Center, located in [[San Diego County]]; and Five Changes, to mentor aspiring leaders, cultural creatives, and spiritual visionaries. Reed, a member of the [[American Zen Teachers Association]], led retreats and workshops in [[Vipassana]], [[Deep Ecology]], and [[Buddhism]] 1981-2008. She received authority to teach Zen from [[Thich Nhat Hanh]] in 1992.
She is a 'woman of transsexual experience' who [[Transitioning (transgender)|transitioned]] in 1996. She stated about her transitioning, "As a teacher encouraging others to live more honest and authentic lives, it was increasingly difficult for me to deny a basic fact—that I was a woman."<ref name="Yar">{{cite web |last=Yar |first=Harriette |title=Just Another Dharma bum: Buddhist teacher Caitríona Reed |publisher=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]] |date=2006-12-19 |url=http://www.advocate.com/news/2006/12/04/just-another-dharma-bum |accessdate=2008-02-16 }}</ref>
Currently, informed by her work as a Buddhist teacher, Reed focuses on public speaking; mentoring individual clients; and together with her partner Michele Benzamin-Miki conducting professional certification training in [[neuro-linguistic programming]] and [[hypnotherapy]] with an emphasis holistic approaches to life-coaching and personal and professional mentorship.<ref name="Badiner">{{cite book |last=Badiner |first=Allan Hunt |title=Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology |publisher=Parallax Press |year=1990 |pages=261 |isbn=0-938077-30-9 }}</ref><ref name="Gottlieb">{{cite book |last=Gottlieb |first=Roger S. |title=Liberating Faith: Religious Voices for Justice, Peace, and Ecological Wisdom |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |year=2003 |pages=533 |isbn=0-7425-2534-1 }}</ref><ref name="amzen">{{Cite web|url=http://www.americanzenteachers.org/list.html |title=American Zen Teachers |accessdate=2008-02-18 |postscript= |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928030212/http://www.americanzenteachers.org/list.html |archivedate=2007-09-28 |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref>
==Personal life==
Prior to her transition Reed married her long-time partner (since 1981) artist, [[Aikido]] and [[Iaido]] [[Sensei]] Michele Benzamin-Miki. They continue living and working together.
==Published Essays==
* ''Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology'' (Alan Hunt Badiner, Editor)
* ''What Makes A Man: 22 Writers Imagine The Future'' (2004) (Rebecca Walker, Editor)
* ''The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women'' (2012) (Florence Caplow and Susan Moon, Editors)
==See also==
*[[Buddhism in the United States]]
*[[Buddhism and sexual orientation]]
*[[Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States]]
*[[Neuro-linguistic programming]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
== External links ==
* [http://www.fivechanges.com Official site]
* [http://www.gendercentre.org.au/resources/polare-archive/archived-articles/coming-out-whole.htm Coming Out Whole]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Reed, Caitriona}}
[[Category:1949 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:American motivational speakers]]
[[Category:American hypnotists]]
[[Category:Life coaches]]
[[Category:Neuro-linguistic programming]]
[[Category:American Zen Buddhist teachers]]
[[Category:Buddhism and women]]
[[Category:LGBT Buddhists]]
[[Category:LGBT people from the United States]]
[[Category:Thiền Buddhists]]
[[Category:Transgender and transsexual women]]
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