Rev Genjo Sam Conway

REV GENJO SAM CONWAY

(he/him)

Rev. Genjo Sam Conway, MS, LPCC, is a Zen priest in the lineage of Dainin Katagiri Roshi, ordained by his teacher, Byakuren Judith Ragir, Roshi. His practice stands at the confluence of Zen and psychoanalysis, where stillness and speech, emptiness and form, reveal their shared demand for truth. A psychoanalyst by vocation, Rev. Genjo’s work calls for an unflinching intimacy with the real — the courage to face what we most fear and what we most long for. 

His teaching joins the discipline of zazen with the fierce tenderness of inquiry, each a way of remembering what it means to be fully human. Rooted also in his Irish ancestry, he walks an ancient path, honoring the old ways of land, weather, and kinship with all beings. This ancestral devotion infuses his Zen with earth and myth, wind and song — a reminder that awakening flowers not apart from the world, but intimately within it.