ShinJinJi / Body-Mind Temple, located in the center of the city of Northampton, overlooks the comings and goings on the streets below, while providing a sacred space for deep Zen practice in the midst of daily life.
Prior to becoming a branch of Two Streams Zen, ShinJin Temple was known as The Zen Center on Main Street. ‘Zen on Main’ was an affiliate of The Village Zendo providing the only dedicated meditation space in Northampton for over ten years.
Guiding Teacher
Catherine Anraku Hondorp Sensei is a Zen teacher, Network Chiropractor and co-founder of Two Streams Zen. The emphasis of her work is integrating the body, mind, emotion and spirit in the experience of being human.
She was first introduced to Zen practice when she ‘mistakenly’ attended an Introduction to 
Zen with John Daido Loori, Roshi at Zen Mountain Monastery in 1987. Anraku Sensei studied with him for 9 years until becoming a student of Roshi Enkyo O’Hara, abbot of Village Zendo. It was with Roshi O’Hara that Anraku Sensei completed Koan practice and received Dharma Transmission. Anraku Sensei is a Soto Zen Buddhist Priest and a lineage holder in the White Plum Asanga of Maezumi Roshi.
Anraku Sensei’s resolve to heal the wounds of racism stem from her growing up white in a northeastern US urban black ghetto. She intimately lived the racial and class tensions of 1960’s and 70’s inner cities. Following her dream and a love for the stage, she studied dance and performed with many small NYC based modern dance companies for over 20 years. In 1992 she entered Chiropractic School in the white, upper middle class suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri and began private Chiropractic practice in 1997 in Saco, Maine.
Dr. Hondorp is in private practice in Northampton Massachusetts at The Life Center for Network Chiropractic which is dedicated to the memory of her mother Ellie. She is currently in a three-year clinical training program in Somatic Experiencing, the trauma healing work of Peter Levine.