Retreats 2024
Trust in Mind: A Total Immersion
Led by Lucy Laoshi
Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
July 2 - 7 (Tuesday - Sunday), 2024
This 5-day work-study retreat (also known as "Sangha Week") offers a full experience at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. Our schedule features morning and evening meditation, collaborative work, group study sessions, and personal time for you to relish the mountains, creek, and hot springs. The focal point of our study this year will be "Trust in Mind" ("Xinxin Ming", 信心銘), a profound poem by the third Chinese Zen ancestor, Master Sengcan (僧璨), also a text of great significance in the Zen tradition. Exploring this poem alongside sitting and work practices provides a richer experience of the retreat. This retreat is open to the members of Harmony Zen. Feel free to reach out for more details if you're interested in joining.
Cultivating Wellbeing and Wholeness
Led by Lucy Laoshi
Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
July 9 -14 (Tuesday - Sunday), 2024
Join us in this 5-day retreat where we will explore the art of harmonious living within the embrace of the beautiful Tassajara valley. Together, we will delve into an array of practices that enable us to attune to our body, mind, and Qi - the essential life energy, and discover connection with both ourselves and the surrounding nature. Guided by Lucy Laoshi, this retreat draws inspiration from the timeless teachings of Zen and Daoist traditions, illuminating our inner wisdom and the profound interconnectedness that we all share. It will invite you to an immersive experience of meditation, mindful movements and self-care practices, while nurturing a deep sense of well-being and wholeness.
This retreat is hosted by San Francisco Zen Center. To register, please go to the registration page via the link below.
The Dao abides in non-doing but there is nothing it does not do.
- "Dao De Jing", Chapter 37
道常無為而無不為
- 《道德经》
