Erik Storlie

Erik F. Storlie, Ph.D., M.A., B.A., teaches courses and leads retreats for the University of Minnesota's Center of Spirituality and Healing that approach meditation as both intellectual inquiry and practical discipline of body, mind, and spirit. Dr. Storlie began a practice of sitting meditation in 1964 with Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. After Suzuki's death in 1971, he studied with Dainin Katagiri Roshi until 1983, helping to found the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in 1973. For the last fifteen years, he has led retreats and given instruction in meditation, assisting students to develop mastery of meditation practice without reference to particular religious forms.