One Continuous Thread: Home Practice Intensive—May

This is a home-based sesshin option — you're sitting alone in your space but synced to a formal week-long retreat happening at Zen Mountain Monastery in the Catskills. The live webcast lets you follow the sesshin schedule (wake time, zazen periods, breaks, meals, closing ceremony) in real time, which creates a container even when you're not in a zendo.

The appeal is obvious: sesshin structure without the logistical demand of residential retreat. You handle your own meals and breaks; you sit when the sesshin sits. The "continuous thread" framing suggests the idea is continuity across a dispersed group — everyone holding the same schedule, even at distance.

This works best if you can commit to a quiet space for the week and can actually follow the live broadcast times. It's not a recording you watch later; it's synchronized practice. If your schedule is genuinely flexible and you have a dedicated place to sit, this is a real way to experience sesshin discipline. If you're planning to dip in and out around work or family, it will fragment the practice.