EVENTS
Intro to Zazen (Online)
Are you new (or returning) to meditation and want to learn the fundamentals? This “crash course” will introduce you to our form of Rinzai Zen seated meditation and hara breathing.
Virtual Tea Gathering
In a physical dojo, we gather in the kitchen after training for tea and conversation. We're bringing this tradition to our online community to strengthen our practice and strengthen one another in this time.
Zazenkai (Online)
This is a concentrated online morning of zazen, chanting, bodywork, and breath. The aim is to ground yourself and step into your life with clarity rather than stress.
Winter Keishin
This is a 4-day online intensive training format we call keishin (繋心 pronounced “kay-shin”) or “to connect the mind.”
Intro to Zazen (Online)
Are you new (or returning) to meditation and want to learn the fundamentals? This “crash course” will introduce you to our form of Rinzai Zen seated meditation and hara breathing.
Jiki/Level 1 Instructor Training (online)
Chosei Zen Virtual Dojo is holding Level 1 Jiki/Instructor Training on how to run a sitting group or be a jiki in the Virtual dojo or IZL programs. This is an opportunity to hone your skills in leading Zen meditation.
Virtual Tea Gathering
In a physical dojo, we gather in the kitchen after training for tea and conversation. We're bringing this tradition to our online community to strengthen our practice and strengthen one another in this time.
Fresh Talk: First, Generosity
In this Fresh Talk, Rebecca Yakumei Ryan Roshi will share what she's learned about generosity through her own training within a Buddhist context.
Spring Keishin
This is a 4-day online intensive training format we call keishin (繋心 pronounced “kay-shin”) or “to connect the mind.”
Fall Keishin
This is a 4-day online intensive training format we call keishin (繋心 pronounced “kay-shin”) or “to connect the mind.”
Communications Training
A series of 3 Communications Sessions. Each session will engage people in a facet of communications -- listening, story telling, or conflict -- and set up practices that people can continue for the week.
Virtual Tea Gathering
In a physical dojo, we gather in the kitchen after training for tea and conversation. We're bringing this tradition to our online community to strengthen our practice and strengthen one another in this time.
Intro to Zazen (Online)
Are you new (or returning) to meditation and want to learn the fundamentals? This “crash course” will introduce you to our form of Rinzai Zen seated meditation and hara breathing.
Fall Keishin
This is a 4-day online intensive training format we call keishin (繋心 pronounced “kay-shin”) or “to connect the mind.”
Virtual Tea Gathering
In a physical dojo, we gather in the kitchen after training for tea and conversation. We're bringing this tradition to our online community to strengthen our practice and strengthen one another in this time.
Intro to Zazen (Online)
Are you new (or returning) to meditation and want to learn the fundamentals? This “crash course” will introduce you to our form of Rinzai Zen seated meditation and hara breathing.
Fresh Talk: Zen in the Bones
In this Fresh Talk, Gordon Hakuun Greene Roshi will share what he's learned about shugyo through years of disciplined training and we can practice shugyo in older or differently abled bodies.
Virtual Tea Gathering
In a physical dojo, we gather in the kitchen after training for tea and conversation. We're bringing this tradition to our online community to strengthen our practice and strengthen one another in this time.
Intro to Zazen (Online)
Are you new (or returning) to meditation and want to learn the fundamentals? This “crash course” will introduce you to our form of Rinzai Zen seated meditation and hara breathing.
Virtual Tea Gathering
In a physical dojo, we gather in the kitchen after training for tea and conversation. We're bringing this tradition to our online community to strengthen our practice and strengthen one another in this time.
Intro to Zazen (Online)
Are you new (or returning) to meditation and want to learn the fundamentals? This “crash course” will introduce you to our form of Rinzai Zen seated meditation and hara breathing.
Virtual Tea Gathering
In a physical dojo, we gather in the kitchen after training for tea and conversation. We're bringing this tradition to our online community to strengthen our practice and strengthen one another in this time.
Intro to Zazen (Online)
Are you new (or returning) to meditation and want to learn the fundamentals? This “crash course” will introduce you to our form of Rinzai Zen seated meditation and hara breathing.
Zazenkai (online)
This is a one-day intensive training lasting 7am-12pm CST (2pm-7pm CET in Europe) designed to prepare students to participate in keishin. It will be run by senior students. Students will train separately at home, tethered together through the Zoom. It’s a great opportunity for boosting your training.
Who We Are Becoming Matters: Conversation With Norma Kaweloku Wong Roshi
Part visionary framework, part story-poem-instruction manual, Who We Are Becoming Matters invites readers into a deeper examination of how we grow, relate, and lead in times of uncertainty. Norma Wong Roshi’s teachings challenge us to release the logic of othering and splintering, to root ourselves in the mutual responsibilities of aloha and kuleana, and to step into the messy work asked of us in a timeplace of collapse.
Virtual Tea Gathering
In a physical dojo, we gather in the kitchen after training for tea and conversation. We're bringing this tradition to our online community to strengthen our practice and strengthen one another in this time.
Intro to Zazen (Online)
Are you new (or returning) to meditation and want to learn the fundamentals? This “crash course” will introduce you to our form of Rinzai Zen seated meditation and hara breathing.
Fresh Talks: How can we train to get out of our heads?
In this Fresh Talk, Heather Scobie Roshi will share what she's learned about mushin (no-mind) through her own training and through working with students, and how we can train mushin right now, in this very moment.
Virtual Tea Gathering
In a physical dojo, we gather in the kitchen after training for tea and conversation. We're bringing this tradition to our online community to strengthen our practice and strengthen one another in this time.
Intro to Zazen (Online)
Are you new (or returning) to meditation and want to learn the fundamentals? This “crash course” will introduce you to our form of Rinzai Zen seated meditation and hara breathing.
Spring Keishin
This is a 4-day online intensive training format we call keishin (繋心 pronounced “kay-shin”) or “to connect the mind.”
Virtual Tea Gathering
In a physical dojo, we gather in the kitchen after training for tea and conversation. We're bringing this tradition to our online community to strengthen our practice and strengthen one another in this time.
Intro to Zazen (Online)
Are you new (or returning) to meditation and want to learn the fundamentals? This “crash course” will introduce you to our form of Rinzai Zen seated meditation and hara breathing.
Virtual Tea Gathering
In a physical dojo, we gather in the kitchen after training for tea and conversation. We're bringing this tradition to our online community to strengthen our practice and strengthen one another in this time.
Intro to Zazen (Online)
Are you new (or returning) to meditation and want to learn the fundamentals? This “crash course” will introduce you to our form of Rinzai Zen seated meditation and hara breathing.
Virtual Tea Gathering
In a physical dojo, we gather in the kitchen after training for tea and conversation. We're bringing this tradition to our online community to strengthen our practice and strengthen one another in this time.
Intro to Zazen (Online)
Are you new (or returning) to meditation and want to learn the fundamentals? This “crash course” will introduce you to our form of Rinzai Zen seated meditation and hara breathing.
New Year Greeting
Spring Green Dojo will host an online greeting for the New Year on Wednesday, January 1, 2026 at 1 pm U.S. Central Time (8 pm CET). All are welcome to join by Zoom.
Virtual Tea Gathering
In a physical dojo, we gather in the kitchen after training for tea and conversation. We're bringing this tradition to our online community to strengthen our practice and strengthen one another in this time.