Joanna Bojczewska

Joanna Bojczewska (Doyu) first encountered Zen meditation at the age of 17 while spending two years in India on a United World Colleges scholarship, immersed in the mountain ecologies of the Western Ghats and the Himalayas. This formative time seeded in her a deep and enduring awareness of ecological basis and meta-crises of modern humanity.

In 2012, she shifted from research in Social Anthropology toward practical sustainability work, training in regenerative design, organic farming, agroecology, and hands-on food-growing education. Around the same time, an encounter with Mondo Zen Dialogue opened a path of contemplative practice. She formally began Integral Zen training in 2013, took vows with Jun Po Roshi in 2015, and later facilitated Mondo Zen at retreats in Europe led by Doshin Roshi.

From 2019 to 2024, Doyu completed a five-year Integral Zen priest training under Daicho Roshi within the Rinzai Zen Order. She co-managed the training centre in Spain now known as Wild Ivy House, which she sustains as a place of practice, inquiry, and inner-outer regeneration. She studies with teachers in both the Zen and Dzogchen lineages.

As a social anthropologist and regenerative systems consultant, Doyu has long been drawn to the study of the nature of mind and the relation between collective worlds and inner minds. She has enduring passion for bridging cross-cultural transmission, education of consciousness, as well as imagination and beauty as modes of healing our slightly crazy world.