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Small Talk from a Zen Hut – JakuAn

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  • Guidance from Shodo Harada Roshi in the time of COVID
    • March 20, Harada Roshi; Guidance #1
    • March 23, Harada Roshi; Guidance #2
    • March 25, Harada Roshi; Guidance #3
    • March 28, Harada Roshi Guidance #4
    • March 5, Harada Roshi Guidance #5
    • April 2, Harada Roshi Guidance #6
    • April 5, Harada Roshi Guidance #7
    • May 12, Harada Roshi Guidance #25
    • May 15, Harada Roshi Guidance #26
    • May 17, Harada Roshi Guidance, #27
    • May 19, Harada Roshi Guidance #28
    • May 21, Harada Roshi Guidance #29
April 8, 2020 alan

Online Yoga Schedule for Spring 2021

The classes are offered each week using Zoom. To get the link contact me directly, details below – The focus

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May 17, 2020 alan

CareGiver Offering

Traditionally Enso House and Tahoma Zen monastery have offered an on-site care-giver retreat. The current pandemic has obviously brought an

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May 6, 2020 alan

Soft Butter Pill Healing Method (nansogan 輭酥丸)

Hakuin Ekaku Zenji wrote of this method in two texts;  the Yasenkanna (Idle Talk on a Night Boat) and in

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October 31, 2017 alan

Zazen / Meditation online on Wednesday evening and Sunday noon.

A gentle practice, starting with a short introduction to posture and breath. Short 15min. periods, with an opportunity to ask

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May 1, 2016 alan

Teaching Schedule changes in May and start of June

Alan will be away in May practising Zen at Tahoma Zen Monastery. Alan’s classes at Lotus Palm won’t run in May

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May 1, 2016 alan

Practising at Tahoma Zen Monastery

Through the month of May, I’ll be practicing at Tahoma Zen Monastery. We will hold three sesshin during the month

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May 1, 2016 alan

Yoga and Zen in Merida

After Mexico city, I went to Merida with Enen and together we led a series of Zen and Yoga events.

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October 15, 2015 alan

Spring Sunday Meditation Series

An opportunity to practice Meditation together. Exploring a variety of postures and styles. We will use the four classic positions

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October 14, 2015 alan

Yoga classes in Cabbagetown

Through the month of April 2016, I’ll be teaching in Cabbagetown at the Lotus Palm Thai Yoga Massage School. 517

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October 14, 2015 alan

Yamada Mumon Roshi from 1977

An excerpt from a BBC film “Zen Buddhism – The Land of the Disappearing Buddha – Japan (BBC 1977)”, hosted

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