Beginning Sitting Class

The “Zen Sitting” of the Academy of Zen and the Ways, evolved from Chozen-ji’s (a Rinzai Zen Monastery) Zen training and is being made available through our programs.  The activities are for the purpose of “How to Sit” and what “Sitting” is in the context of everyday life.

Program

The primary objective of this course is to have the participants gain a general sense of the relationship between body and mind, breath and posture, and what meditation “training” is all about.  Through the introduction of concepts and practice of “hara” breathing, body awareness and the changing the mind through the body, each student will experience physical changes, experience increasing awareness (e.g., physical; mind shift in perspectives/perceptions), and gain the technology (breath, posture, concentration) to sustain the changes.

Of what value is the training?  We believe that the value of the training is in its application to our daily activities: 

Content

• Basic Sitting and Centering
• Hara Development
• Breath
• Concentration  

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