Our Zen practice is not confined to the meditation hall - ideally, our practice is one with our daily life and our everyday environment. Our urban retreats offers a chance to deepen practice in our ordinary urban environment, without leaving Auckland.

To help us with planning please register at the Centre sign-up sheet or by use the button below.

Details:

• The Spring retreat opens Saturday morning and finishes Sunday at 11 am.

• The retreat is non-residential and is held at the Zendo in Onehunga.

• You will need to bring your own food for all meals (or purchase in Onehunga) except breakfast on Sunday. Tea will be supplied at breaks.

• You can come to the whole retreat or to parts.

• This will be a hybrid retreat: you can attend in person or join via Mixlr from home.

• Bring your own yoga mat

• Retreat is by dana

Schedule

Saturday 25 October

One-Day Sitting -- Relax, refresh and refocus your practice

A one-day sitting for beginners, as well as for people needing to renew their sitting practice, or to make a fresh start in their lives. Solid blocks of zazen with dokusan (one-to-one with the teacher) interwoven with the body-mind disciplines of yoga, qigong and yoga nidra (deep relaxation), led by Ven. Hanya Gallagher.

8:30a.m. Yoga

9:15 Yoga Nidra (guided deep relaxation practice)

9:45 Review of sitting postures and sitting format

10:15 Tea break

10:45 Zazen 3 x 35-minute rounds of sitting with kinhin (walking meditation) in between 

12:45 Lunch (BYO or buy locally)

1:45  Q&A -- questions from the morning and a brief talk 

2:15 Qigong

3:00 Zazen with dokusan 3 x 35 minute round with kinhin

5:00 Dinner break

6:00 Zazen 3 x 35-minute rounds of sitting with kinhin

8:00p.m. End

Reminder: BYO lunch, dinner and yoga mat

Sunday 26 October

6:00a.m. Zazen 3 x35-minute rounds of sitting with kinhin

8: 00 Breakfast (provided by the Centre)

8:30 Regular Sunday sitting with dokusan

10:30 Tea

11:00 End