Claudia Hosso Politi Sensei

Claudia Hosso Politi, Sensei, is the teacher in residence at the Black Scorpion Zen Center.

She began her Zen practice in 1999 as a student of Nyogen Yeo Roshi, successor to Taizan Maezumi Roshi.

Her life as an artist is inextricable from her practice. A native of Mexico City, she traveled to Paris as a young woman where she studied and taught artisan printmaking. She lived in France for 15 years before returning to Mexico, where she raised her daughter.

Painting inspired her first encounter with Zen when she attended a Japanese calligraphy workshop at Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt. Tremper, New York, in 1999.

Afterward, she began her practice in earnest with Nyogen Roshi, Abbot of the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles and what was then its sister center, the Maezumi-Kuroda Zen Center in Mexico City. She ordained as a priest in 2005.

In 2008, Hosso converted a studio at her home in Santo Domingo Ocotitlán into the Black Scorpion Temple. As an artist, she continues to produce her work in an atelier in Mexico City. As a teacher, she has given the living lineage of Zen a magnificent home in her home.