Retreat schedule
If you are attending a sesshin for the first time, we will do everything to make it work for you in a way that doesn’t disturb the meditative atmosphere for others. Everyone ends a retreat together regardless of when different individuals join a retreat.
| Time | First day | Full day(s) | Last day |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5:00 | Wake Up | Wake Up | |
| 5:30 | Morning Sutras | Morning Sutras | |
| 6:15 | Tea and bathroom break | Tea and bathroom break | |
| 6:30 | Zazen | Zazen | |
| 8:00 | Bathroom break | Bathroom break | |
| 8:10 | Metta/Yoga | Metta/Yoga | |
| 8:30 | Breakfast | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 | Break, Clean-up & lunch-prep | Clean-up and lunch-prep | |
| 10:20 | Zazen | Zazen | |
| 11:15 | Teisho (talk) | Teisho (Talk) | |
| 12:15 | Break | Break | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | |
| 1:00 | Rest,Clean-up & dinner-prep | Clean-up | |
| 2:30 | Zazen & dokusan (private interviews) | Zazen + Afternoon sutras | |
| 3:30 | Arrivals | Showers/Break | Precepts (Jukai) + Closing circle |
| 4:30 | Afternoon sutras | Tea + Bows | |
| 5:00 | Kitchen + Zendo Set-up | Zazen & dokusan | Final clean-up |
| 5:30 | Room set-up | Kinhin (walking meditation) | Loading |
| 6:00 | Bring your own dinner | Dinner | Departures |
| 6:30 | Orientation + Community norms | Clean & breakfast-prep | |
| 7:45 | Zazen | Zazen | |
| 8:45 | Formal tea & Outdoor Kinhin | Formal tea & Outdoor Kinhin | |
| 9:00 | Zazen | Zazen | |
| 10:00 | Closing chant/song | Closing chant/song |