Monday Night Meditation Calendar
CityZen is a western style Chan/Zen practice and koan center in the Pacific Zen School led by Rachel Mansfield-Howlett Roshi. Our form of Chan includes a mix of traditional and revitalized practices that open the way to discovering the joy and connection that resides underneath this life. We offer beginning instruction as well as programs that support you all along the way. Everyone is welcome – all faiths, genders, ethnicities, or sexual preference.
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SEVEN-DAY WINTER SESSHIN is full!
St. Dorothy’s Rest
Occidental, Sonoma County
Sesshin is an ancient Zen tradition; it’s a special environment built to help you discover your own awakening. Often in your daily life, the light of your attention goes out from you into the world; during sesshin you turn the light back inward into your own heart/mind.
Calendar
Zoom Sessions and in person Santa Rosa Meditation Evenings with Hybrid Zoom.
Sept 11 Rachel Mansfield-Howlett Roshi (in person meeting)
Sept 18 Deanna Hopper Sensei (in person meeting)
Sept 25 Zoom Rev. Chris Bell Sensei
Oct 2 Zoom Rachel Mansfield-Howlett Roshi
Oct. 9 Michelle Brandt Sensei (in person meeting)
Oct 16 Zoom Deanna Hopper Sensei
Oct. 23 Rachel Mansfield-Howlett Roshi (in person meeting)
Oct 30 Zoom Rev. Chris Bell Sensei (Ancestors)
Nov 6 Zoom Rachel Mansfield-Howlett Roshi
Nov 13 Gary Brandt Sensei (in person and hybrid zoom meeting)
Nov 20 Zoom Rev. Chris Bell Sensei (Taking Stock – gathering in)
Nov. 27 Rachel Mansfield-Howlett Roshi(in person meeting) (Gratitude)
Dec 4 Zoom Rev. Chris Bell Sensei (Shakyamuni Buddha's Story – from birth to enlightenment)
Dec. 11 Zoom Deanna Hopper Sensei
Dec 18 Rachel Mansfield-Howlett (in person and hybrid zoom meeting) (Winter Solstice Celebration – practices for the dark)
Dec 25 Closed Holiday
Jan 1 Closed Holiday
Email Zenappt@gmail.com to receive notices about our meditation evenings including links to the Zoom meditation sessions and directions and details about the location for our in person Monday night meditation.
In person Fort Bragg CA twice a month meditation evenings led by Deanna Hopper Sensei are held at Evergreen UMC at the corner of Corry and Laurel at 6:00pm. Contact: deannarhopper@gmail.com
Upcoming meetings will be held on:
In-person sittings with hybrid Zoom have begun in Santa Rosa!
We're very excited to announce that after an over 3-year hiatus we've resumed in-person sitting on some Monday nights in Santa Rosa and the balance of the time we'll continue to hold our meetings via Zoom. Our goal is to offer 2 in-person and 2 Zoom evenings per month. It's a beautiful space and we're very grateful for this opportunity for the renewal of our sangha in a physical location.
If you have friends you would like to invite to join us please ask them to email Zenappt@gmail.com for details about the location,
Our Zoom evenings are and will continue to be very important to us—we will absolutely continue to offer our meditation evenings in this format. Over the Zoom years we’ve been able to include some folks who don’t live in the area or have mobility issues, which has enriched our sangha immeasurably. We will continue to offer a full evening program via Zoom.
If you would like to join the list group and receive our notices, the links to Zoom and other practice opportunities please email Zenappt@gmail.com.
If you live in Fort Bragg CA or the Portland OR area, please go to the teacher page for more information about the programs held there.
Sesshin January 2023
SEVEN-DAY WINTER SESSHIN
St. Dorothy’s Rest
Occidental, Sonoma County
Sesshin is an ancient Zen tradition; it’s a special environment built to help you discover your own awakening. Often in your daily life, the light of your attention goes out from you into the world; during sesshin you turn the light back inward into your own heart/mind.