2025 SEVEN-DAY SPRING SESSHIN
MARCH 14 - MARCH 21, 2025Full or part time attendance
Scholarships available
St. Dorothy’s Rest
Occidental, Sonoma County
Sesshin is an ancient Zen tradition; it’s a special environment built to help you discover your own awakening. Often in your daily life, the light of your attention goes out from you into the world; during sesshin you turn the light back inward into your own heart/mind.
We are so looking forward to meeting in person again for our Great Spring Sesshin. CityZen’s senior teacher, Rachel Mansfield-Howlett Roshi will be the guiding teacher. Senseis Michele Brandt, Chris Bell, Deanna Hopper, and Gary Brandt will also be teaching.
We practice in a relaxed traditional form of sesshin, with lots of dharma talks and opportunity for meeting individually with the teachers. Our silent retreat is held at St. Dorothy’s Rest in Camp Meeker, with stunning views of the redwoods and rolling hills and featuring exquisitely made hearty vegetarian meals.
We wholeheartedly invite you to join us for this precious week.
Please contact Christopher Bell for more information. Chrisbzen@gmail.com.
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, law professor, cook, gardener, and grandmother. 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.
