Summer Residency Program 2027

Great Vow lists this as a "Summer Residency Program" — a six-week stay at the monastery (July 8 to August 22, 2027) rather than a single weekend or week of retreat. "Residential immersion" means participants live at the monastery for the duration and take part in its practice. The listing names zazen (seated Zen meditation), mindful eating, ritual, temple work, and classes as elements of the program, plus sanzen — one-on-one meetings between student and teacher, where a student presents their practice directly.

Week-long meditation retreats are built into the residency; the listing names the Grasses and Trees Sesshin and the July Sesshin among them. A sesshin is an intensive multi-day meditation retreat, so a resident's summer includes both the monastery's ongoing practice and full retreat periods within it. How the weeks are actually arranged — wake times, sitting-period counts, where the retreats fall in the calendar — hasn't been published in this listing.

What the listing doesn't cover

The listing names no teacher, gives no daily schedule, and doesn't say what the $300 price covers. It points to a signup page — zendust.org/calendar/1391/summer-residency-program-2027 — for registration and fuller details; that page is the place to check before deciding.