According to Richard Hughes Seager, "By 1998, the Ordinary Mind School had centers in San Diego, Champaign, Illinois, Oakland, California, Portland, Oregon and New York City.
"[4] There is no one set structure of curriculum in the Ordinary Mind School, as the Dharma Successors of Joko Beck get to decide their method of training independent of any organizational head.
Long before retirement, Joko Beck had done away with all titles and no longer wore her okesa.
(For formal occasions she often wore a rakusu after ceasing to wear okesa; she also ordained several Zen priests throughout her life.)
She had distanced herself considerably from her roots in the Sōtō school, and much of the ceremony had been abandoned in favor of pure meditation practice.