Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Marilyn Habermas-Scher - Season 12, Episode 140

Myo-O Marilyn Habermas-Scher has an extensive background in the
performing arts, including choreography, opera, vocal
improvisation, performance art and story telling.  She is
trained in Qi Gong and Body Mind Centering TM, as well as
practicing yoga and Gyrotonics. She is the originator of
VoiceWork, a somatically based voice training, which she has
offered in private practice for nearly fifty years.  She has
taught at several colleges and universities.  She has
received a number of grants for her choreographic work, and
founded a vocal improvisation group, AWAKE!  In addition,
she has offered Voice Healings at Pathways, a complementary
healing center in Minneapolis, for three decades.


Myo-O has practiced meditation in the Zen tradition since 1975
when she began practicing with Dainin Katagiri roshi, founder of
the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center. She was fully ordained and
given permission to teach in 2012 by Dokai Georgesen, Head
Teacher at Hokyoji Zen Practice Community in SE Minnesota. 
She has taught classes and led retreats and lectured in many
settings from Unitarian Societies to maximum security
prisons.  From 2006 to 2021 she worked as an inter-faith
chaplain at Hennepin County Hospital and the University of
Minnesota Medical Center, MHealth Fairview.  She is also a
mom and grandma to two little boys.