Classes and Workshops
UP COMING CLASSES FOR 2025
HULA & MEDITATION WORKSHOP
February 9, 2025 from 2-5 pm. | Hybrid
Give yourself a little love this month with a session on Zen Meditation and Hula. All levels welcome.
Join Kumu June for a Hula and Meditation Workshop that is restful, grounding, and clearing. This builds resilience and renews your body, mind and spirit. The workshop is hybrid (in-person and online) and open to all levels. We’re also offering to all teenagers for FREE.
Workshop includes:
Zen meditation basic instruction and practice
Gentle warm up exercises to prepare for Hula
Hula lesson
Brief writing practice
MEDITATION FOR EVERYONE
Open Your Heart, Trust Your True Nature
Saturday, February 15, 2025 @ 1:00 PM | Hybrid
In these turbulent and confusing times, many yearn for clarity to see a way forward. When your attention is fragmented and busy, it leads to greater anxiety and stress, making it difficult to appreciate the gift of life and your own unconditional, basic goodness.
ZEN MIND, TRIVIA MIND
Friday, March 7, 2025, 7-9 PM | Online Only
Suspend Not-Knowing for a fun night of online Trivia with our Sangha community! Invite friends and family to form a trivia team! This virtual fundraiser is a great opportunity to bring everyone together from any location to socialize and support the Center. Form your own team of 4 to 6 or register solo and we’ll assign you to a team.
WRITERS WORKSHOP
Release Your Creativity Energy and Renew Your Writing
Begins Saturday, March 22, 2025 @ 2:00 PM
6 week course
Have you been working on a book or writing project for years? Have you used vacation time “to write” only to not write at all? Have you been describing the same book project for years but no further along than you were last year? Have you been thinking about a book or writing projecty and not started it? Welcome to Our World! We may have a book or writing project inside of us that we want to exist – and yet, it doesn’t make it from head to hands to readers. Why is that? Can we change that? Course will be limited to 10 people.
PATH OF ZEN: From Chaos to Clarity
Begins Tuesday, March 25, 2025 @ 7:00 PM |Hybrid
4 week course, Tuesday evenings from 7:00–8:30 PM
Explore the essence of Zen spirituality through clear, practical teachings from an experienced Zen Master. This course guides you from mindfulness to profound spiritual awakening.
Course Highlights:
• Understand the turning point from mindfulness to deeper spiritual practice
• Explore how the ego contributes to suffering and learn to transcend it
• Embrace a life guided by vow, leading to greater joy, meaning, and service
YOGA FOR MEDITATORS
ONCE A MONTH
These gentle yoga classes are designed to help you have more ease and flexibility for meditation. Everyone is welcome!
Hula, like Zen is life! It is the dance and heartbeat of the Hawaiian people. It includes mindful awareness of body, arms, hands and feet.
ONLINE SELF-PACED OFFERINGS
ONLINE SELF-PACED CLASSES
These online courses are self-paced and taught by our Abbot, Roshi Robert Althouse. All three of our core curriculum classes are represented here:
• Foundations of Mindfulness
• Path of Zen
• Six Paramitas: Courage and Grace Under Fire
Buy a series and take it at your own pace.
