Saturday One-Day Sitting

This is a daylong period of meditation practice at San Francisco Zen Center's City Center: Saturday, September 12, 2026, in person, listed at $112. The center bills it as traditional Soto Zen all-day practice in the zendo (meditation hall). Soto Zen treats seated meditation as the heart of practice rather than a preparation for it, and the day is organized around that.

The description names three components, all standard Soto Zen forms:

• Zazen — seated meditation
• Kinhin — walking meditation
• Oryoki meals — the formal Zen meal practice, taken in the zendo from a set of nested bowls

The main thing to know before registering is the prerequisite, which is specific to this center: participants must have prior experience with SFZC half-day sittings and with zendo forms instruction — the center's teaching of how one enters, bows, and handles bowls in its meditation hall. If you have sat at other centers but never at SFZC, the listing doesn't say whether that counts; ask the center before signing up.

That is the extent of what's published. No teacher is named, and there is no start and end time or hour-by-hour schedule — the center hasn't released those details. Contact SFZC through the registration page for logistics before making plans.