Classes, Workshops & Retreats
Live & Online
All are invited to attend our evening zoom programs or morning meditations. A suggested monthly donation, as you are able, is $25 – $65.00. Or you may drop in (and hit $0 contribution) if you just want to check it out or are financially challenged. Otherwise, please remember to renew monthly. We depend on your contributions. Thanks.
Please register separately for our ongoing qigong classes and all live workshop events. Thanks again.
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. $85 monthly entitles you to as many of the 16 monthly classes as you are able to attend.
The Book of Balance and Harmony
Zoom
Thursday evenings at 7:00, starting February 12
Taoism has its own simple, naturalistic, and profound way of talking about life and dharma practice. Over the centuries, Taoist culture spun off its own myths, cults,
preoccupations, alchemical obfuscations, etc. A later movement within Taoism, the "complete reality school," sought to cut through the diversions, and re-clarify the
essential teachings. And they shine like gold, indeed!
The Book of Balance and Harmony, at its very beginning, sets out several pages of basic principles, or “statements” regarding form and energy, essence and vitality,
being and non-being. On Thursday evening, we will study these statements slowly, one by one, opening a window on their practical application and universal meaning.
“...All beings are basically one form and one energy. Form and energy
are basically one spirit. Spirit is basically utter openness....Let action
proceed from calm, and be filled by maintaining openness.... When
openness is complete, and calmness profound, observe the process of
' nature and know its cycles.”
The ‘Inner Geometry’ of Meditation
Zoom
Saturday Mornings 8:00 - 9:00 AM, beginning February 7
“Inner geometry” refers to basic principles that can offer subtle orientation and support to our meditation practice – that give it ground, orientation, and direction. The inner geometry that's been there right along.
It is the 'inner geometry” that offers a relational context (or subtle 'mandala) in which we can practice the subtle 'mantras' of our understanding and focus; and the subtle 'mudras' of our availability and attitudes. The crystalline postures of our receptivity. The openness and uprightness of our availability. The circles of our coherence and of our compassion. The flow of internal energy. But ultimately: just another chance to meditate together.
(All are invited to our evening programs or morning meditations. A suggested monthly donation, if you are able, is $25 – $65.00.)
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.