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 and one-day sits both offer a chance to deepen practice in our ordinary urban environment, without leaving Auckland.

The Autumn One-Day Sitting will be a chance to relax, refresh and refocus your practice

It is suitable 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.

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

Details:

• The Spring one-day sit opens Saturday morning and finishes Saturday evening.

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

• You will need to bring your own food for lunch and dinner (or purchase in Onehunga). Tea will be supplied at breaks.

Draft Schedule for Saturday

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