Weekend Retreat

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 […]

Beginner's Mind Weekend Meditation Retreat

With Myoyu Haley Voekel

February 28 - March 2, 2025
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 […]

Spring Zazenkai: A One Day Meditation Retreat

With Ed Gensho Welsh

April 19, 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.