Touching the earth: Meditating with the body
a one-day retreat
sunday, august 25, 9 am - 4 pm
3824 Grand Avenue, Oakland
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Meditation can be challenging for anyone with a body! In this one-day silent retreat, we will focus on meditation practices that can help us open to and find peace with bodily sensations. If you struggle with pain, agitation, constriction, or illness, you will find tools to help you make friends with your body. In this day-long retreat, we will offer lots of sitting and walking meditation, guided practices for befriending and exploring the body, a dharma talk, lunch, plus lots of delicious silence and the chance to begin the fall season with a reboot!
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Seven-Day Fall Sesshin
Yunmen's treasure
With Rachel Mansfield-Howlett, Roshi and Michelle Brandt, Sensei
November 3-10
St. Dorothy's Rest
Occidental, Sonoma County
Deep Practice in the Redwoods
With three women teachers from the Pacific Zen Lineage
Rachel Mansfield-Howlett Roshi, CityZen
Michelle Brandt Sensei, CityZen
Megan Rundel Sensei, Crimson Gate
Sink in to Zen Practice in this silent retreat exploring the themes expressed in the koans, Yunmen’s One Treasure and Yunmen’s Revelation.
Yunmen’s One Treasure
Yunmen said to the assembly, “Within heaven and earth, in the midst of the cosmos, there is one treasure, hidden in the body. Holding a lantern, it goes toward the Buddha hall. It brings the great triple gate and puts it on the lantern.”
Yunmen’s Revelation
A monk asked Yunmen, "When the tree withers and the leaves fall, what is that?"
Yunmen said, “The Golden Wind is revealing itself.”
Megan Rundel Sensei is authorized to teach in the koan Zen tradition by Joan Sutherland Roshi. She has practiced Zen for over 25 years, is the founder of Crimson Gate in Oakland CA, and is also a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst.
Michelle Brandt Sensei is authorized to teach in the koan Zen tradition by Rachel Mansfield-Howlett Roshi. She has practiced Zen for over 30 years, trained as an interfaith spiritual director and medical qigong practitioner, and has been a student of the Way of Tea in the Urasenke School since 2010.
Rachel Mansfield-Howlett Roshi is a koan master in the Pacific Zen School lineage and the Founder and senior teacher at CityZen in Santa Rosa CA. With degrees in botany and law she is also a public benefit environmental attorney. She is a contributor to The Book of Mu: Essential Writings on Zen's Most Important Koan and The Hidden Lamp, Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women.
For information and registration email Gary Brandt: gbrandt@sonic.net
St. Dorothy's Rest
Occidental, Sonoma County
Deep Practice in the Redwoods
With three women teachers from the Pacific Zen Lineage
Rachel Mansfield-Howlett Roshi, CityZen
Michelle Brandt Sensei, CityZen
Megan Rundel Sensei, Crimson Gate
Sink in to Zen Practice in this silent retreat exploring the themes expressed in the koans, Yunmen’s One Treasure and Yunmen’s Revelation.
Yunmen’s One Treasure
Yunmen said to the assembly, “Within heaven and earth, in the midst of the cosmos, there is one treasure, hidden in the body. Holding a lantern, it goes toward the Buddha hall. It brings the great triple gate and puts it on the lantern.”
Yunmen’s Revelation
A monk asked Yunmen, "When the tree withers and the leaves fall, what is that?"
Yunmen said, “The Golden Wind is revealing itself.”
Megan Rundel Sensei is authorized to teach in the koan Zen tradition by Joan Sutherland Roshi. She has practiced Zen for over 25 years, is the founder of Crimson Gate in Oakland CA, and is also a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst.
Michelle Brandt Sensei is authorized to teach in the koan Zen tradition by Rachel Mansfield-Howlett Roshi. She has practiced Zen for over 30 years, trained as an interfaith spiritual director and medical qigong practitioner, and has been a student of the Way of Tea in the Urasenke School since 2010.
Rachel Mansfield-Howlett Roshi is a koan master in the Pacific Zen School lineage and the Founder and senior teacher at CityZen in Santa Rosa CA. With degrees in botany and law she is also a public benefit environmental attorney. She is a contributor to The Book of Mu: Essential Writings on Zen's Most Important Koan and The Hidden Lamp, Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women.
For information and registration email Gary Brandt: gbrandt@sonic.net