Michael Doko Hatchett

Founder of the Mudita Institute

Zen Teacher, Mindfulness Teacher

Michael Doko Hatchett founded the Mudita Institute for Mindfulness Training and Ayurvedic Medicine with Kester and Nadia in 2008. He has studied the Buddhist approaches to health and healing for over thirty years, including Ayurveda under Dr Ajit of the Australasian Institute of Ayurvedic Studies.

In 2019 he retired from his speaking engagements at Mudita and now leads his Zen Sanga full time. Hidden stress, anxiety, and 'too much thinking' led Michael to experience a brain aneurism at age 18 whilst studying at university. Soon after Michael became a Zen Buddhist monk and began a life-long pursuit of understanding the causes of stress and anxiety. Since 2009, after an almost twenty year apprenticeship with the Zen master Hogen Yamahata of Chogen-ji Japan, he began serving as a Zen Master with both lay and monastic disciples and as Abbot of the Dochu-an Zen Temple in Northern NSW. If you would like to get in contact with the Sanga, please email silentzenretreats@gmail.com.