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DESCRIPTION: \nwith Chodo Robert Campbell Sensei, Koshin Paley Ellison Sensei, Dai-En Friedman Sensei, and Jose Shinzan Palma Sensei.\n\n\nSunday, August 2nd - Sunday, August 9th, 2026 at the Garrison Institute in Garrison, NY\n \n\n\nJoin us for an eight-day intensive silent retreat focusing on rediscovering our values and living life to the fullest.\n\n\nWe each have an enormous capacity for love — a deep well from which we can draw compassion and support for ourselves and for others. Teachings on the Precepts are both simple and transformative and are an invitation to close the gaps we create between ourselves and others — to wholeheartedly wake up to ourselves and to the world around us.\n\n\nNoble Silence is observed throughout the daily schedule of sitting and walking meditation, chanting, dharma talks, personal interview with a teacher, and body practice.\n\n\nSummer Sesshin culminates with a Jukai Ceremony where Formal Soto Zen Students of Koshin and Chodo Sensei receive the Sixteen Bodhisattva Precepts. This is a culmination of Formal Zen Students steady engagement in practice and serving the New York Zen Center sangha, attending two prior NYZC sesshin, a year of precept study and a deepening relationship with their teacher.\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\nSCHOLARSHIPS: A limited number of partial scholarships are available for this retreat. Scholarship accommodations are for shared (double or triple) rooms only. Please apply for support by completing a Scholarship Application Form. Due to limited funds, preference will be given to sangha members who regularly participate at the Center.  Priority deadline:  June 12, 2026.\n \n\n\n \nGETTING THERE: The Garrison Institute is reachable by car or Metro North Railroad. There is also a Shortline Bus to Poughkeepsie, which is 30 minutes from the Garrison Institute. For further information, please see this Travel and Transportation pdf on the Garrison website.\n \nPlease anticipate an arrival time between 3:00pm and 5:00pm, with dinner at 6:00pm. Please check your registration confirmation email for more information on what to bring.\n  \n\n\n \nRETREAT ACCOMMODATIONS: Rooms are located on the second, third, and fourth floors. There are two spacious communal bathrooms on each residential floor. There is no elevator.\n \n\n\nREFUND POLICY: More than 2 weeks ahead of the retreat - 50% refund. Within the two weeks prior to the start of the retreat - non-refundable. Registration will close at midnight Eastern Time on July 26th, 2026.\n \n\n\nWHAT'S INCLUDED: All prices include tuition, lodging, and three vegetarian meals a day. Supporter Level and Benefactor Level pricing are available for those who wish to increase their support of NYZC and our work to make the dharma accessible to all.\n  \n\nDonations (dana) to teachers are not included in registration cost. Dana is a foundational practice that emphasizes the importance of cultivating generosity without attachment or expectation of reward. In the Soto Zen teachings, we practice the act of giving not for benefit but to transform the mind of the giver and receiver equally. The teachers offer themselves freely as an expression of dana. We encourage you to contribute an amount meaningful to you at the end of the retreat. \n\n\n\nHEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE AND RELEASE OF LIABILITY:  Please review and complete the required questionnaire and waiver found here.  Registrations are not considered finalized until this form has been completed.\n\n\n \n \nCOVID-19 POLICY: It is the Garrison Institute's policy that every guest and participant must self-test (at home antigen test is acceptable) within the 48-hour window prior to arriving for a retreat on site, and to bring a second self-test kit when coming on site. They do not require proof of a negative test result.  If you have a positive test result, please notify us immediately at info@zencare.org. Please see their Safety Protocols for Covid-19 page for more information. The Garrison Institute will continue to follow any COVID-19 guidelines set forth by local officials, NYS, and the CDC.\n \n\n\n\n \n  \nSesshin Teachers:\n \n\n\n\n\nChodo Robert Campbell Sensei is a co-founder of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care - a non-profit organization that focuses on the teaching of Zen and Buddhist practice with the goal to make them more accessible to people all around the world. The center delivers contemplative approaches to care through education, personal caregiving, and meditation practice. Chodo is a dynamic, grounded, and visionary leader and teacher; he has traveled extensively throughout the U.S instructing in various institutions.  Sixty-thousand people listen to his podcasts each year. His passion lies in bereavement counseling and advocating for change in the way our healthcare institutions work with the dying. \n \nChodo is part of the core faculty for the Buddhist Track in the Master in Pastoral Care and Counseling at NYZC's education partner, New York Theological Seminary. He is also on the faculty of the University of Arizona Medical School's Center for Integrative Medicine's Integrative Medicine Fellowship and the Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine in San Diego.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nKoshin Paley Ellison Sensei, MFA, LMSW, DMIN, is an author, Zen teacher, Jungian psychotherapist, and Certified Chaplaincy Educator. After many years as a chaplain and psychotherapist, Koshin co-founded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, which offers contemplative approaches to care through education, personal caregiving, and Zen practice. Today, New York Zen Center's methodologies are internationally recognized—and have touched the lives of tens of thousands of individuals. Koshin is a world renowned thought leader in contemplative care. He is the author of Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion (Balance/Hachette, 2022); Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up (Wisdom Publications, 2019) and the co-editor of Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End of Life Care (Wisdom Publications, 2016). His work has been featured in the New York Times, PBS, CBS Sunday Morning, Tricycle among other publications.\nHe is currently on the faculty of the University of Arizona Medical School's Center for Integrative Medicine's Integrative Medicine Fellowship, on Faculty of the Integrative Medicine Fellowship of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine, and he is a visiting professor at the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, of the University of Texas Health Science Center of Houston Medical School.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nSensei Jose Shinzan Palma was born in Veracruz, Mexico. He is a Zen priest and Dharma Successor of Roshi Joan Halifax. He has been practicing Zen since 1996. Shinzan lived in the Toronto Zen Buddhist Temple for 4 years. He was ordained in 2004 as a Zen Buddhist Priest by Ven. Samu Sunim. \n\nIn 2006, he became a resident and student of Roshi Joan Halifax. He lived and trained for over 8 years at Upaya. He received the Dharma transmission on Jan 2015 from Roshi Joan Halifax. \n\nShinzan co-teaches a teenagers retreat for the Inward Bound Mindfulness Education, and weekends retreats in several parts of the country. Currently, he lives in San Diego and teaches at the Carlsbad Zen Community and Sweetwater Zen Center. \nHis vision is to teach youth and create a zen Hispanic community in the USA and Mexico.\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nDorothy Dai-en Friedman Sensei's spiritual journey began in the 60s when she was forced to seek help for a back injury. This event proved to be a wonderful preparation for her eventual immersion 20 years later in Buddhist Vipassana practice at Insight Meditation Center. \nAfter she established her Vipassana practice, she then began her journey into Zen practice. Her teachers include Peter Mathiessen, Joseph Goldstein, Matt Flickstein, and Maureen Stuart Roshi. \nDai-en is now a Sensei at Ocean Zendo, located on Eastern Long Island. She is honored to be invited to teach with Koshin and Chodo in the wonderful work at NYZC, for the benefit of all beings, as we live and die.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nFor details, click here: https://newyorkzencenterforcontemplativecare.secure.nonprofitsoapbox.com/component/events/event/523
SUMMARY:Wholehearted Sesshin: Summer Silent Retreat 2026 at Garrison Institute
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LOCATION: 14 Marys Way Route 9D, Garrison, NY, 10524
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