SEVEN-DAY WINTER SESSHIN
JANUARY 26 - February 2 2024
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.
JANUARY 26 - February 2 2024Full 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 Winter Sesshin. CityZen’s senior teacher, Rachel Mansfield-Howlett, Roshi will be giving dharma transmission to Gary Brandt on Sunday afternoon.
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.
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 and law professor. 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.
