{"id":5078,"date":"2023-06-11T23:59:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T23:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redrosesangha.org\/?page_id=5078"},"modified":"2025-11-08T03:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T03:27:58","slug":"assistant-teachers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/redrosesangha.org\/index.php\/assistant-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-obb-profile-block organic-block obb-profile obb-style-minimal obb-orientation-horizontal obb-vertical-align-center\" style=\"text-align:center;background-color:#fff;box-shadow:0 0 12px undefined\"><div class=\"obb-featured-img obb-profile-image\" style=\"width:300px;min-height:300px;background-image:url(http:\/\/redrosesangha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Laura-Profile-Pic.jpg)\"><figure class=\"wp-image-5515\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/redrosesangha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Laura-Profile-Pic.jpg\" alt=\"Profile Image\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"obb-profile-body\" style=\"text-align:center\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group obb-profile-content is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center obb-profile-title has-black-color has-text-color\">Laura Kaigetsu Eldred<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center obb-profile-subtitle has-808080-color has-text-color\">Assistant Teacher <\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center obb-profile-bio\">Laura Kaigetsu Eldred is a Hoshi (assistant teacher) in the White Plum lineage and a Soto Zen priest. She began a formal meditation practice in 2015 and began sitting with Red Rose Sangha in 2016. She took Jukai in December 2017, served as Shuso in 2021, became a dharma holder in December 2021, and received Shukke Tokudo in 2022 and Denkai in 2024 from Sangetsu Sullivan Roshi thereby becoming a fully ordained senior priest. She has a doctoral degree in literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2007) and a certificate from Cornell in conflict mediation. She enjoys hiking, spending time with Sangha friends and colleagues, and watching horror movies. Kaigetsu works to support Red Rose Sangha as an inclusive and diverse community of Zen practitioners who also pursue social justice initiatives in the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-obb-profile-block organic-block obb-profile obb-style-minimal obb-orientation-horizontal obb-vertical-align-center\" style=\"text-align:center;background-color:#fff;box-shadow:0 0 12px undefined\"><div class=\"obb-featured-img obb-profile-image\" style=\"width:300px;min-height:300px;background-image:url(http:\/\/redrosesangha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Clair-Profile-Pic.jpg)\"><figure class=\"wp-image-5397\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/redrosesangha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Clair-Profile-Pic.jpg\" alt=\"Profile Image\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"obb-profile-body\" style=\"text-align:center\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group obb-profile-content is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading obb-profile-title has-black-color has-text-color\">Clair Daisetsu Helsel<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading obb-profile-subtitle has-808080-color has-text-color\">assistant teacher  <\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>Clair Daisetsu Helsel is a Hoshi (assistant teacher) in the White Plum lineage and a Soto Zen priest. He came to Red Rose Sangha in 2012 in search of a meditation practice. With Red Rose Sangha, he found that, as well as a community. He took Jukai in 2017 and in 2019 became Shuso. In December 2021, Daisetsu was made a Hoshi by Sangetsu Sullivan Roshi. In May of 2022, he took Shukke Tokudo and Denkai in 2024, thus becoming a fully ordained senior priest by Sangetsu Roshi. Daisetsu\u2019s hobbies include cooking and woodworking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5078","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrosesangha.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrosesangha.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrosesangha.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrosesangha.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrosesangha.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5078"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/redrosesangha.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5661,"href":"https:\/\/redrosesangha.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5078\/revisions\/5661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrosesangha.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}