Tuesday – Thursday
02–04
Small Mind, Big Mind: Meeting Yourself Where You Are
San Francisco Zen Center / San Francisco, CA, USA
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The Retreats Desk · May 26
The same water
A Chan teacher arrives at a Soto monastery in Oregon, Denver offers sesshin in three formats at the same price, and a retreat in Minnesota pairs Dogen with Václav Havel.
Tricycle's summer issue profiles Anne Waldman at eighty-one — six decades of Buddhist practice, sixty-some books, and a conviction that poetry and meditation are not parallel activities but the same one. Waldman co-founded the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa with Allen Ginsberg in the seventies, back when the idea of a Buddhist-inspired university in Boulder seemed either visionary or absurd. The profile by Jenn Pelly treats Waldman's poetry as something performed and embodied, not read from a page. It's a useful frame for the weeks ahead: what does a practice look like when it refuses to stay on the cushion?
June
2026 19 retreatsThursday – Sunday · 4 days
04–07
Swords into Blossoms: The Alchemy of Stopping and Seeing
Great Vow Zen Monastery / Clatskanie, OR, USA
Friday – Sunday
05–07
Introduction to Zen Training Weekend
with Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Danica Shoan Ankele, Gokan Bonebakker
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Saturday
06
BIAPOC (Black, Indigenous, Asian, and People of Color) Retreat at ZCNYC: Vibrant Community Practice
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Saturday
06
ZenYu Day Retreat
Mountain Rain Zen Community / Vancouver, BC, Canada
Monday – Saturday · 6 days
08–13
Summer Sesshin
with Cathy Seizan Wright
Zen Center of Denver / Denver, CO, USA
Thursday – Sunday · 4 days
11–14
Private Zen Retreat
Hokyoji Zen Practice Community / Eitzen, MN, USA
Friday – Sunday
12–14
Weekend Sesshin
with Danica Shoan Ankele, Gokan Bonebakker
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Saturday
13
Investigating Zen Practice: A One-Day Workshop
Great Vow Zen Monastery / Clatskanie, OR, USA
Saturday
13
Still Point Zazenkai
with Jody Hojin Kimmel
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Wednesday – Sunday · 5 days
17–21
Practicing the Way Retreat
with Rev. Onryu Kennedy
Hokyoji Zen Practice Community / Eitzen, MN, USA
Thursday – Sunday · 4 days
18–21
Holding Up the Blossom: A Summer Solstice Zazen Arts Immersion of Miraculous Expression
with Jody Hojin Kimmel, Katie Yosha Scott-Childress
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Saturday
20
Solstice Zazenkai: A One Day Meditation Retreat
Great Vow Zen Monastery / Clatskanie, OR, USA
Sunday
21
Zazenkai w/ Guy Riina - Day Sit
with Guy Riina
Monterey Bay Zen Center / 4th Ave, Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA, USA
Monday – Sunday · 7 days
22–28
One Continuous Thread: Home Practice Intensive—June
with Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Jody Hojin Kimmel, Danica Shoan Ankele
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Monday – Sunday · 7 days
22–28
Summer Solstice Sesshin
with Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Jody Hojin Kimmel, Danica Shoan Ankele
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Tuesday – Saturday · 5 days
23–27
Five-Day Silent Chan Retreat Led by Guo Gu
with Guo Gu
Great Vow Zen Monastery / Clatskanie, OR, USA
Saturday
27
Half-day Sit
with MRO Staff
Zen Center of New York City/Fire Lotus Temple / Brooklyn, NY, USA
Saturday
27
Half-day Sit (online)
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
July
2026 11 retreatsTuesday – Sunday · 41 days
Jul 07 – Aug 16
Summer Residency Program 2026
Great Vow Zen Monastery / Clatskanie, OR, USA