In 1974 Marcia Shibata began her journey with Kado Ikebana and the Buddhist/Taoist path with Chogyum Trungpa. She went to Asia to learn Ikebana as it was to date in Japan in 1980 and remained there until 1985.

MS Shibata's intention remains to understand and teach how Kado Ikebana practice is a portal to innate wisdom mind through diligent practice of forms, meditation practice, and studying of the laws of nature through the Buddhist/Taoist views and by observing and studying nature directly.

She has taught Ikebana grounded in meditation practice from 1985 to the present day 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 blessings of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.

Since then the School continues to develop and recently settled in Prague CZ Republic as its first official physical location.