Having first encountered Zen at the Nagaoka Zen Juku, a Rinzai Zen monastery in Japan, she went on to become a doctor and professor of Chinese medicine doctor and professor, as well as a scholar or Daoism, and a qigong master. Daju teaches Daoist qigong and spirituality at two Chinese medicine schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. She leads Hollow Bones Zen meditation and services in San Francisco as well. She has survived cancer, and studies and plays the shakuhachi (Japanese Zen bamboo flute) as a meditative practice.