Weekend Retreat

Half Day Zazen Retreat & Ango Check-in 

November 23, 2024
Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple and Online

Half Day Zazen Retreat & Ango Check-in  Saturday November 23  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Optional Creative Process Time 1 - 3 PM Free This Ango check-in is a half day of Zen practice and an opportunity to share reflections on your Ango experience and ask a teacher questions about it. Join us for a […]

Beginner's Mind Weekend Meditation Retreat

With Laura Jomon Martin and Myoyu Haley Voekel

December 13 - 15, 2024
Great Vow Zen Monastery

The teachings and practices of Zen Buddhism empower us to live our lives wholeheartedly with openness, insight and compassion. During this weekend retreat we follow a silent retreat schedule, which allows us to temporarily put aside outside concerns and go deeply into inner work. The silent retreat schedule includes about seven hours of sitting meditation […]

Home Hermitage - A Day Long Retreat Online

With Jogen Salzberg, Sensei

December 15, 2024
Online

We will spend a day meditating in the intimate aloneness that embraces all beings. Doing sustained zazen in our own dwelling place and its wild domesticity invites the desired integration of the everyday and the sacred. […]

Winter Zazenkai: A One Day Meditation Retreat

With Jogen Salzberg, Sensei

January 18, 2025
Heart Of Wisdom Zen Temple
This is a silent day of Zen Buddhist meditation practice together, seated and active. The schedule includes meditation (zazen), chanting, caring for the garden and grounds, and Dharma talk.

Home Hermitage - A Day Long Retreat Online

With Jogen Salzberg, Sensei

January 26, 2025
Online

We will spend a day meditating in the intimate aloneness that embraces all beings. Doing sustained zazen in our own dwelling place and its wild domesticity invites the desired integration of the everyday and the sacred. […]

Emergent Darkness - A Creative Process, Parts Work and Zen Retreat

With Amy Kisei, Sensei and Myoyu Haley Voekel

February 13 - 16, 2025
Great Vow Zen Monastery

Darkness is the home from which you come -  Here in winter’s cold, dark hour—what is waiting to emerge? Zen practice and the creative process invite us into the mysterious source from which all things seem to arise. Darkness is pregnant, the empty page full of potential---a plum blossom emerges from within winter’s cold, barren […]