Zen Retreat

Wake Up & Live!

Dynamic Zen Retreat

with Julian Daizan Skinner Roshi

12-17 October

(Starts Tuesday evening)

Rinzai Zen practice allows you to quickly develop your insight and to live and love fully and fearlessly. On this vigorous retreat, Daizan Roshi will show you how to combine deep spiritual enquiry with traditional practices that enhance your health and vitality. Expect a deep opening-up of body and mind. Rinzai Zen insists that you express your authenticity through every action.

This retreat will focus on how you can connect with the joy and freedom of this dynamic activity. Since the emphasis is on your own practical experience, you can benefit from this work whatever your spiritual background.

The retreat will include:

bulletspiritual enquiry using traditional koans
bulletZazen
bulletSanzen: personal encounter with the master
bulletKiko: energy enhancing exercises
bulletJapanese yoga
bulletcultivating hara, the vital centre of man
bulletZen voice and breath work
bulletSamu: Zen in action
bulleta possible tea ceremony.

A Zen monk for eighteen years, Daizan Roshi is the first British person to train in Japan and become a fully ratified Zen master in the rigorous Rinzai Zen school. He has also been certified to teach Soto Zen and has studied and practiced Shugendo, the Japanese tradition of mountain shamanism.

Cost £305, 15 Participants

 

Anam Cara for Buddhism – Shamanism – Bushcraft & Survival Skills – Sweatlodges – Vision Quest – Yoga & Chi-Kung – Healing Arts & Song – Working Retreats

Note - conference, training and meeting facilities are also provided - see www.anamcara.co.uk

Anam Cara, 18 Upper Leachkin
Inverness, SCOTLAND, IV3 8PN
Tel/Fax: (01463) 711702
E-mail: welcome@anamcara.org