Saturday One-Day Sitting, City Center

This is the complete traditional day, not a shortened format: practice runs from 5:40am to 6:00pm at City Center — over twelve hours of formal Soto Zen practice. The listing names the components: zazen (seated meditation), kinhin (walking meditation), oryoki meals (the formal meal practice in which food is served and eaten from a set of nested bowls), and formal zendo practice — the ceremonial forms of the meditation hall. Start and end times are given, but no period-by-period schedule.

The prerequisite is the key detail before registering. This sitting requires prior experience with SFZC half-day sittings and zendo forms instruction; the day assumes you already know the zendo forms and can follow them through a full day. If you are new to San Francisco Zen Center, the half-day sittings are the preparation the center itself names as the entry point for this event.

No teacher is named for the sitting, and the listing does not state whether the day is held in silence or publish a detailed schedule beyond the start and end times. The listed price is $112, with registration through the SFZC calendar page.