Weekend Retreat

City Refuge Retreat

With Kodo Conover

February 12 - 14, 2026
Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple

Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple will be offering an extended opportunity for retreat practice in the city. This three-day non-residential retreat will include many of the elements you’ll find in sesshin.

Beginner's Mind Weekend Meditation Retreat

With Darah Shonin Ashton and Onshin Landry

February 27 - March 1, 2026
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 […]

The Resilient Heart

With Hogen Bays, Roshi

April 2 - 5, 2026
Great Vow Zen Monastery

This retreat is one in which Hogen Roshi often experiments with dharma teaching and practice.  So, please come with a flexible mind, open to possibilities. This retreat/workshop is (as are all of our events) an opportunity to hear the teachings of liberation, to reflect and verify them and to apply them to our lives.  As the truths of […]

Love & Spaciousness: A Loving Kindness Weekend Retreat

With Patrick Bansho Green and Myoyu Haley Voekel

April 30 - May 3, 2026
Great Vow Zen Monastery

With wonderment on our side, and in relationship with all that is, we recognize the inherent compassion that naturally arises from deep and sustained presence. Held in a container of zen forms and the vibrant dance of a monastery waking up to spring, we will explore the nature of being anything at all! During this silent retreat our day will […]

City Refuge Retreat

With Kodo Conover

July 16 - 18, 2026
Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple

Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple will be offering an extended opportunity for retreat practice in the city. This three-day non-residential retreat will include many of the elements you’ll find in sesshin.

City Refuge Retreat

With Larry Fuho Trussell

November 5 - 7, 2026
Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple

Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple will be offering an extended opportunity for retreat practice in the city. This three-day non-residential retreat will include many of the elements you’ll find in sesshin.