One Continuous Thread: Home Practice Intensive

This retreat inverts the traditional sesshin model. Instead of a residential week where you step away from life entirely, you join the monastery's formal practice schedule from home—sitting zazen with the community via webcast while your day job, family, and responsibilities continue around you.

The structure gives you access to a real retreat arc: daily zazen periods, live instruction, and the container of group practice. But you're not confined to a sesshin schedule; you can integrate the sitting into your existing rhythm, which means you're also not getting the full dissolution-and-reconstruction that comes from stepping out of ordinary time for five days straight. That's a trade-off worth knowing about. If you've never sat a residential sesshin, this offers a way to experience formal Zen practice without committing to a full week away. If you're an experienced practitioner, it works as a deepening without disruption.

The $10 price suggests dana-based or minimal-cost access, which is typical for Zen Mountain Monastery's approach to practice.