In 1974 Marcia Shibata became a student of the Buddhist and Kado Way with Chogyum Trungpa. In 1980 she went to Asia to study the discipline as it had survived to date in Japan and remained there until 1985.

She endeavored to understand the view of Ikebana and teach how the practice could be a portal to innate wisdom mind through diligent practice of forms, meditation practice, and studying of the laws of nature through the Buddhist/Taoist view and by observing and studying nature directly.

MS Shibata has taught Kado Ikebana supported by meditation practice from 1985 to the present day both in the US and Europe.

In 2003, she was given permission to open a fresh school of Ikebana in which the laws of Dharma are revealed through the consecration and blessings of the son of Chogyum Trungpa, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche…..

Since this time the School has flourished, recently settling in Prague CZ Republic as its first official physical location.