One Continuous Thread: Home Practice Intensive—October

Zen Mountain Monastery's "One Continuous Thread" is an experiment in what sesshin looks like when you don't leave home. You get access to their zendo via livestream during the week-long intensive—their sitting periods, talks, ceremonies—and you decide whether to follow along in real time or catch up asynchronously. The name signals the idea: the thread connecting daily life and formal practice is continuous, not broken when you go to a monastery.

This works best if you have some sitting experience and can create basic structure at home—a quiet space, a schedule, some commitment to the rhythm even if you're not doing every period. You're not in a room with other people, which changes the felt sense of a sesshin (the collective silence, the accountability), but it removes the logistics barrier that stops a lot of people from sitting intensively at all.

At $10, this is a low-barrier entry point. The real cost is your time and attention during the week.