NORTH SHORE ZENDO

Sesshin and Zazenkai Retreats
We hold 6- and 7-day meditation retreats (sesshin) throughout the year that anyone is welcome to attend as their life schedules permit. We try to hold half-day meditation retreats (zazenkai) every month, and sometimes hold weekend zazenkai.  Details of sesshins and zazenkais are given below. 

Sesshins

There are two residential sesshins planned for 2026. Residential sesshins require participants to live in the sesshin space for the duration of the sesshin, with breakfast and lunch meals shared in formal oryoki style. Food costs for residential sesshins are shared among participants, and determined after sesshin.

Participants of non-residential sesshin’s will sleep at their homes and provide their own meals. For both sesshin types, people are welcome to sit with sesshin participants for one or more zazen periods. Those wishing to join a specific zazen period are asked to come to the zendo roughly 10 minutes before the start of the sitting time. 

Emails will be sent out roughly a month before the start of each residential sesshin with information about registration, with a follow up email usually sent two weeks before sesshin start.

Residential sesshin dates

1. December 4th – 11th, inclusive. The sesshin will begin in the evening of Friday, Dec. 4th and end after lunch on Friday Dec. 11th. 

Non-residential sesshin dates

None are planned for the remainder of 2026, but watch this space.

More non-residential sesshins may be planned for the fall.

Zazenkais

We hold half-day zazenkai’s one Sunday a  month, from 8 AM to 12 PM, on the first Sunday of each month unless it is a holiday weekend.  The schedule for 2026 is below.  For location and other details, please email Hoben, Do’ei, Shikan, or Tenryu.