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December 2021
Online Bereavement Group: A Contemplative Approach to Grief and Loss
This Tuesday evening online bereavement group is an opportunity to gain perspective and engage with the grieving process through storytelling, writing, poetry, ritual, and community.
Find out more »Online Bereavement Group: A Contemplative Approach to Grief and Loss
This Wednesday afternoon online bereavement group is an opportunity to gain perspective and engage with the grieving process through storytelling, writing, poetry, ritual, and community.
Find out more »December Half-Day Online Retreat
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 »New Year’s Eve Online Sit 2021
This evening is an opportunity to reflect upon the year that has passed and ponder all the possibilities a new year might hold. Join Sensei Chodo, Sensei Koshin and the NYZC community for an online evening of Zazen (short periods of sitting meditation), a dharma talk, followed by the ringing of the great bell 108 times.
Find out more »January 2022
Beginner’s Mind Sesshin: A Winter Silent Retreat of Wholehearted Practice
Start the new year in community with us for Winter Sesshin at The Garrison Institute. Sesshin provides an extraordinary opportunity to slow down, enjoy a change of pace and focus, and feel both the immediate and far-reaching impacts throughout your life by participating in these five days of Noble Silence.
Find out more »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 »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.
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