Classes, Workshops & Retreats
Live & Online
True Heart, True Mind –
Thursday evening through Monday morning
in Seal Harbor, Maine
October 30-November 3, 2025
Our transformative flagship retreat, also called 'The Enlightenment Intensive, This very focused and revelatory integration of zen contemplation and deep communication on the question “Who Am I?” has been changing lives for decades. Read more about True Heart, True Mind in its own 'drop-down' under “Programs” for a complete description. Then speak to us personally, if you are interested. Full cost for the 3 and ½ day residential retreat with meals: $645.
(Some scholarship help is available.)
Blue Hill, Maine
Embodying Zen
At the Morgan Bay Zendo, Surry, Maine.
Saturday, November 8, 9:30–4:30
We will examine at great length the intimate relationship between the posture
of the sitting body and the cultivation of those states of being that both support and embody the expression of our 'Buddha nature.' We will see how the sitting body is itself a virtual meditation manual, embodying both mudra and mantra; and how it can directly coach us in cultivating and internalizing the integrated expression of our practice. For both the more experienced and less experienced meditators.
A Daily Qigong Companion
Zoom
continues Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday mornings from 8:30 – 9:00.
We focus on slow, careful, and simple movement and standing practices that support mind/body coherence, relaxation, flexibility, wide open awake mind, and surrender into the flow of energy around and within us. $80 monthly entitles you to as many of the 16 monthly classes as you are able to attend.
Poetry and Prophecy in Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen .
Zoom
Thursday evenings at 7:00, starting November 13
Prophecy, in truth, is not only about predicting the future. More deeply, t points to the nature of our human experience that makes the future I inevitable or not. This thoroughgoing review of two critical voices that have moved so many of us – and have been part of the conscience of the western world in our lifetime –will include both a slow and careful appreciation of the poetry of their writing at its best; as well as of their prophetic voices that are capable of directing us to the spirit; to our most redeeming human capacities; as well as to an unsullied indictment of the psyche of our nation and our civilization – and its potential future. As Leonard Cohen sings: “I've seen the nations rise and fall, and heard their stories, heard them all; but love's the only engine of survival.”
(All are invited to our evening programs or morning meditations.
A suggested monthly donation, if you are able, is $25 – $65.00.)