Welcome Home! A Weekend In-Person Retreat At Great Vow & Online

With Danney Soten Lynch and Sara Shinei Monial

June 4 - 6, 2021

Location: Online

  • $190.00 – Online
  • $140.00 – Online
  • $74.00 – Online
  • $50.00 – Online
June Homecoming Retreat will be Great Vow Zen Monastery’s first in-person meditation retreat since March 2020. We will also be offering this retreat online.
After a year of quarantine, how much time did we each really spend at home. This year, many of us have done some deep house cleaning and remodeling but did we also remember to attend to the neglected corners of our bodies, hearts, and minds? Our entire self deserves our full attention and so does everyone and everything we encounter. Wherever we are, our true home is always found here – if we have the courage to look for it. Take time aside for this weekend retreat and cultivate a mind of Welcome, a mind of Presence. Come home to yourself, to your Sangha, and to your monastery!
In person attendance is now full! Contact registrar@greatvow.org if you would like to be informed if more slots open up.
Retreat schedule

Friday:

7:30-9:30 Orientation followed by retreat opening & meditation

Saturday:

5:20 Wake up
6am zazen
7:30 service
8:00 breakfast
9:00 Work
11:00 Zazen
12:20 Service
12:30 Lunch
2:30 body practice
3:00 Q&A followed by zazen
5:30 dinner
7:00 zazen
9:20 formal tea

Sunday:

6am zazen
7am closing circle

About the Leaders

Danney Soten Lynch

Danney Soten Lynch is a Dharma Holder and ordained Zen priest. He was a monastic resident at Great Vow from 2010-2020 completing his novice training in 2018. During this time he contributed many songs to the Great Vow liturgy, and directed the monastery’s marimba band. He and his wife, Shinei, started leading backpacking Zen-style sesshin […]

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Sara Shinei Monial

Sara Shinei Monial is a Zen priest who completed her novice training at Great Vow in 2020. She has been practicing meditation intensively since 2007, and has practiced closely with various teachers including Jan Chozen Bays, Roshi, Hogen Bays, Roshi, and Satya Vayu. Shinei has a BA in Education, but left the field years ago […]

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