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January 2022
How to Cook Your Life: A 90-Day Online Commit to Sit Practice Period
Join Zen teachers from across the United States and Japan for an in-depth, 90-day exploration of Zen practice guided by our study text, How to Cook Your Life, Kōshō Uchiyama Roshi's (1912 - 1998) classic commentary and analysis of 13th century Zen Master Eihei Dogen's seminal Instructions to the Zen Cook.
Find out more »January Half-Day Retreat 2022
Silently engaging in sitting and walking meditation, hearing a dharma talk, and joining in conversation with the community are wonderful ways to spend a Saturday morning.
Find out more »Evolution of the Feminine: Historical Representations and Their Meanings Today
In this timely course with Jungian analyst and educator Dr. Leslye Noyes, we will study the perception of “the feminine” throughout history and what that means for us today, as individuals and in the broader culture.
Find out more »You Are The Eyes of The World: Embodying the Principles of the Lotus Sutra in a Challenging World
How do we experience the suffering of the world—really experience it—and allow it to awaken a compassionate response in whatever form is needed? Perhaps more critical in these times than ever before, how we turn toward suffering is a question we'll explore as we enter the wild world of the Lotus Sutra amid our daily lives. Together, we will examine issues of gender, race, caste, accessibility to spiritual wisdom, and skillful means to explore how the sutra’s message about our awakening nature invites us to meet the suffering of this very moment.
Find out more »February 2022
ZEN SHABBAT: A Jewish and Zen Shabbat Celebration
Lab/Shul and the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care invite you to a shared experience of sacred space and time, harmonizing Jewish and Zen traditions in the celebration of Sabbath spirit. The first of our quarterly Zen Shabbats, this evening we will welcome in the divine changes of the season.
Find out more »Contemplative Medicine Conversations: Reimagining Medicine
Join us for a free online event with Tieraona Low Dog, MD, an internationally recognized physician, author, educator, and thought leader in integrative medicine. In this series, Tieraona and Fellowship guiding teachers Koshin Paley Ellison and Chodo Robert Campbell will discuss the impact of the Fellowship and how we can reimagine medicine as an instrument of healing for clinicians as well as patients.
Find out more »February Half-Day Retreat 2022
Silently engaging in sitting and walking meditation, hearing a dharma talk, and joining in conversation with the community are wonderful ways to spend a Saturday morning.
Find out more »Moving from Loss to Found: An Online Writing Workshop
In this writing workshop with Alexandra Vassilaros, writer, founder of Make Meaning Workshop, participants will explore the alchemy of grief and learn how we can use it to initiate growth, self-compassion, and emotional progress.
Find out more »Caregiver Support Group
Whether you are a professional or volunteer caregiver, or you are caring for a family member, a friend, or a loved one, drop in and take care of yourself.
Find out more »Foundations in Contemplative Care Information Session
Join us Monday, February 28th, for this free, online information session about the Foundations in Contemplative Care program.
Find out more »March 2022
Wednesday Online Bereavement Group: A Contemplative Approach to Grief and Loss
Coping with the loss of someone or something we love is one of life’s biggest challenges. The grieving process can present a wide range of difficult and unexpected emotions including, shock, anger, disbelief, guilt and profound sadness.
Find out more »Thursday Online Bereavement Group: A Contemplative Approach to Grief and Loss
Coping with the loss of someone or something we love is one of life’s biggest challenges. The grieving process can present a wide range of difficult and unexpected emotions including, shock, anger, disbelief, guilt and profound sadness.
Find out more »March Half-Day Retreat 2022
Silently engaging in sitting and walking meditation, hearing a dharma talk, and joining in conversation with the community are wonderful ways to spend a Saturday morning.
Find out more »Prison Terminal: Film Screening & Panel Discussion
The Inside-Outside Study Group (I-0) is excited to have you join us for a special screening and panel discussion of the Academy Award-nominated documentary, “Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall.”
Find out more »Caregiver Support Group
Whether you are a professional or volunteer caregiver, or you are caring for a family member, a friend, or a loved one, drop in and take care of yourself.
Find out more »Foundations in Contemplative Care Information Session ~ March 2022
Join us Monday, March 28th, for this free, online information session about the Foundations in Contemplative Care program.
Find out more »April 2022
Living Fearlessly: Facing the Inevitable – An Online Offering
Living Fearlessly is an opportunity to join with others eager to discuss and wonder about life in the context of death. Together we will explore the emotional, spiritual, and practical questions that arise when we bring the truth of our mortality to our awareness.
Find out more »April Half-Day Retreat 2022
Silently engaging in sitting and walking meditation, hearing a dharma talk, and joining in conversation with the community are wonderful ways to spend a Saturday morning.
Find out more »Pluralism Within Soto Shu | A Dharma Talk with Gyokei Yokoyama
Gyokei Yokoyama will share his perspective on religious pluralism within Soto Zen tradition and the thread of Zen that runs through diverse expressions.
Find out more »Caregiver Support Group
Whether you are a professional or volunteer caregiver, or you are caring for a family member, a friend, or a loved one, drop in and take care of yourself.
Find out more »May 2022
May Half-Day Retreat 2022
Silently engaging in sitting and walking meditation, hearing a dharma talk, and connecting with community are wonderful ways to spend a Saturday morning.
Find out more »Contemplative Medicine Conversations: Tending To Suffering With Equanimity
Join us for a free online event with Fellowship faculty member Sharon Salzberg, New York Times bestselling author and one of America's leading spiritual teachers. In this webinar, Sharon Salzberg and fellowship guiding Teachers Sensei Koshin and Sensei Chodo will explore the interplay of compassion and equanimity and how the practice of balancing them can sustain a healthcare practitioner's open heart, ease burnout, and promote well-being while caring for the suffering world.
Find out more »Foundations in Contemplative Care ~ Online Information Session
Join us on May 23 for this online info session to learn more about the Foundations in Contemplative Care program!
Find out more »Caregiver Support Group
Whether you are a professional or volunteer caregiver, or you are caring for a family member, a friend, or a loved one, drop in and take care of yourself.
Find out more »June 2022
Cultivating the Seeds of Zen: A 90-Day Commit To Sit Practice Period
Through weekly online dharma talks, daily practice emails, group discussions, and meditation, we will allow our practice to take root within us and flower the essential aspects of compassion and wisdom.
Find out more »Sangha Live: Day of Practice with Sensei Koshin
Day of Practice is a LIVE 3-hour program, co-hosted by Sangha Live including sustained sitting practice, dharma teachings, and an interactive Q&A with Sensei Koshin.
Find out more »Caregiver Support Group
Whether you are a professional or volunteer caregiver, or you are caring for a family member, a friend, or a loved one, drop in and take care of yourself.
Find out more »July 2022
July Zazenkai: A Full-Day Online Retreat
In Japanese, Zazenkai literally means "to come together for meditation". This daylong retreat is an opportunity to engage in silent practice within a supportive community.
Find out more »Sit for Scholarship 2022
On Saturday, July 23rd, we invite all students, members, and friends of the Zen Center to sit together in meditation to raise funds for the Zen Center’s Scholarship Fund. This fund supports current and prospective students in study, practice, and service work in hospitals, hospices, nursing homes and community organizations.
Find out more »September 2022
The Five Ranks of Tozan: An Online Zen Study Offering with Gerry Shishin Wick Roshi
In this exciting study and practice course, we will learn a profound and esoteric teachings of Zen study – The Five Ranks of Tozan, with Senior Zen teacher Gerry Shishin Wick Roshi.
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