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Summer Residency Program 2026
Great Vow Zen Monastery / Clatskanie, OR, USA
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The Retreats Desk · July 2
A year for a single word
The Dalai Lama's Year of Compassion closes on Monday, and two July retreats named for interdependence take the same insight in opposite directions.
The country is under a heat dome this week — most of it, anyway, the South and the Midwest and up the East Coast, temperatures in the high nineties and past. It's the kind of week when stillness stops being an idea and becomes a physical necessity: the shade, the early morning before the air thickens, the instinct to stop moving. The long holiday weekend arrives into all of it.
July
2026 22 retreatsTuesday – Sunday · 6 days
07–12
The Heart of Yoga and Zen
San Francisco Zen Center / San Francisco, CA, USA
Friday – Sunday
10–12
Beginner's Mind Weekend Meditation Retreat
Great Vow Zen Monastery / Clatskanie, OR, USA
Friday – Sunday
10–12
Exploring Wisdom and Compassion: Further Steps Along the Path of Zen
with Danica Shoan Ankele, Gokan Bonebakker
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Saturday
11
All Day Sitting with Everyday Zen
with Zoketsu Norman Fischer
San Francisco Zen Center / San Francisco, CA, USA
Saturday
11
Boundless Field Zazenkai
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Sunday
12
Day of Remembering Our Interdependence
Brooklyn Zen Center / Brooklyn, NY, USA
Thursday – Saturday
16–18
City Refuge Retreat
Great Vow Zen Monastery / Clatskanie, OR, USA
Thursday – Sunday · 4 days
16–19
Embodied Awakening of Silent Illumination
with Guo Gu
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Saturday
18
Chado: The Way of Tea
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Saturday
18
Zazenkai at Plum Blossom Zendo
Great Vow Zen Monastery / Clatskanie, OR, USA
Sunday
19
Zazenkai w/ TBA - Half-Day Sit
Monterey Bay Zen Center / 4th Ave, Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA, USA
Monday – Sunday · 7 days
20–26
Interdependence Sesshin
with Jody Hojin Kimmel, Danica Shoan Ankele
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Monday – Sunday · 7 days
20–26
July Sesshin
Great Vow Zen Monastery / Clatskanie, OR, USA
Monday – Sunday · 7 days
20–26
One Continuous Thread: Home Practice Intensive
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Monday – Sunday · 7 days
20–26
One Continuous Thread: Home Practice Intensive—July
with Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Jody Hojin Kimmel, Danica Shoan Ankele
Zen Center of New York City/Fire Lotus Temple / Brooklyn, NY, USA
Thursday – Saturday · 10 days
Jul 23 – Aug 01
Private Zen Retreat
Hokyoji Zen Practice Community / Eitzen, MN, USA
Friday – Friday · 22 days
Jul 24 – Aug 14
Residential Retreat
Boundless Way Zen Temple/Mugendo-ji / Worcester, MA, USA
Saturday
25
Half-Day Sit
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Saturday
25
Half-Day Sit (Online)
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA