One Continuous Thread: Home Practice Intensive—April
Soto Zen
Week-long online zazen intensive from Zen Mountain Monastery. You sit at home on your own schedule while accessing live teachings and practice periods via webcast. Dana-based, $10 suggested.
About this retreat
This is an online sesshin format designed for people who can't attend a residential retreat — or who prefer to practice at home. Rather than the typical week-long residential model where you arrive at a monastery and sit in silence from 4am to 9pm, this retreat lets you join live practice periods and teachings over webcast while keeping your own schedule and meeting your daily obligations.
The structure mirrors a formal sesshin: you'll have scheduled zazen (sitting meditation) periods to sit with the group in real time, access to teachings, and the rhythm of intensive practice. But you're in your own space, which changes the container significantly. There's no communal dining, no kinhin (walking meditation) with others in the zendo, no physical dokusan. What you get is the discipline and support of group practice without the immersion.
This works best if you can carve out consistent time each day — ideally morning and evening — to sit with the webcast. The live element matters; it's the difference between watching a recording and practicing alongside others in real time, even through a screen.
Schedules can change — confirm details on Zen Mountain Monastery's website.
Full details from Zen Mountain Monastery
A home-based zazen intensive designed to bring elements of formal sesshin into daily life. Participants can follow ZMM's sesshin schedule via live webcast while managing their own responsibilities, with opening guidelines via Zoom on Monday and closing reflections on Friday.
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