Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi

Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi is a Dharma Successor of Zentatsu Baker Roshi in the Dharma Sangha Soto Zen Lineage.

She has been practicing Zen since 2001 and received Dharma Transmission in 2017. She graduated as a psychologist from the University of Oldenburg in 2008. She also trained at the ‘School for Body Mind Centering’ for four years.

Since 2009 she has been living and practicing either at the Crestone Mountain Zen Center or at the Zen Buddhist Center Schwarzwald (ZBZS) in Germany.

Upcoming Programs by Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi

Sesshin

February Sesshin 2026

February 7 - 13, 2026
Sesshin means to gather the heart-mind: A profound willingness to become intimate with our experience. For five days, we live within the forms of practice-sitting, walking, sharing meals, working with our hands, listening to the Dharma.

Monastic Training Weeks 2026

Also With Zentatsu Baker Roshi

February 14 - April 14, 2026

The Monastic Training Weeks at Crestone Mountain Zen Center are an intensive immersion into the living teachings and practices of Zen. It is a time of gathering and expanding the mind. You will be part of a sincerely practicing community, supported by the dramatically wild and beautiful landscape of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. We […]

Sesshin

April Sesshin 2026

March 31 - April 8, 2026
Sesshin is the traditional, 'Seven-day Meditation Intensive' of sitting and walking meditation, three-bowl (oryoki) meals, daily Dharma talks, and personal interviews (dokusan) with the teacher.