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We will contact you by email you send with form or by phone number or telegram.
For any questions, please contact the organizer:
Alexandra
Telegram: @sashashadrina / +33783786427
+995568713711
We recommend to visit at least one meditation practice in our Zen center to master the position. If you haven't this opportunity you may try to practice by yourself with guide.
For any questions, please contact the organizer:
Alexandra
Telegram: @sashashadrina / +33783786427
+995568713711
We recommend to visit at least one meditation practice in our Zen center to master the position. If you haven't this opportunity you may try to practice by yourself with guide.
We will spend three days living together and practicing zazen each day. Periods of zazen will alternate with simple daily activities—eating, cleaning, gardening, and taking care of the place.
We will turn off cell phones and avoid idle conversation and action to immerse ourselves in the spirit of Zen as much as possible.
We will turn off cell phones and avoid idle conversation and action to immerse ourselves in the spirit of Zen as much as possible.
The retreat will take place in a private house in Tsikhisdziri.
- zafu (meditation cushion)
- futon (meditation mat)
- three food bowls, a spoon, a fork.
- a cloth to wrap them in
- meditation clothes (dark colors)
- work clothes
- warm clothes (just in case)
- slippers
- towel, personal hygiene items
If something is missing, please inform the organizer @sashashadrina.
- futon (meditation mat)
- three food bowls, a spoon, a fork.
- a cloth to wrap them in
- meditation clothes (dark colors)
- work clothes
- warm clothes (just in case)
- slippers
- towel, personal hygiene items
If something is missing, please inform the organizer @sashashadrina.
The organisational fee is 300 GEL*
*All the money will be used for accommodation, food and support of the Zen Centers in Tbilisi and Batumi. No one makes money from our Sangha's events.
Our goal is to create favorable conditions for joint practice of Zazen.
*All the money will be used for accommodation, food and support of the Zen Centers in Tbilisi and Batumi. No one makes money from our Sangha's events.
Our goal is to create favorable conditions for joint practice of Zazen.
We will send you IBAN account to email you note in registration form.
Alexandra
Telegram: @sashashadrina
+995568713711
IMPORTANT: If you have paid for the retreat but could not attend, payment is not refundable.
Alexandra
Telegram: @sashashadrina
+995568713711
IMPORTANT: If you have paid for the retreat but could not attend, payment is not refundable.
What should you keep in mind when going to sesshin?
- Sesshin is a collective Zen practice designed to help everyone realize Master Dogen's words, "To know oneself is to forget oneself." In terms of concrete action, this means that on retreat, we try to set aside our personal "wants" and "don'ts" and move together as a group.
- On a sesshin, we follow a shared schedule.
- Sesshin has a beginning and an end, and unless otherwise stated, participants cannot join after it has begun or leave before it has ended.
- We understand that the atmosphere of the retreat is created by everyone’s practice, so we try to act with care and awareness, knowing that what we do affects the people around us.
- If we are given a task, we try to do it as carefully as we can, treating it as something important—done both for ourselves and for the benefit of all beings.
- We naturally start to notice simple opportunities to help each other in the present moment, such as passing the gravy to your neighbor at the table, helping with shared work, cleaning up after yourself, walking quietly in the hallways after lights out, or simply being friendly.
- The key to practicing Zen is attention, and sesshin is the time to try to be continuously attentive from moment to moment. This means that in sesshin, our focus is not on producing judgments or opinions, but on following the process of how they arise. Simply put, we are more silent than speaking, agreeing more and arguing less.
We regularly hold introductions to beginner practices, Zen retreats and Zen Days in Georgia. We publish announcements in our Facebook:
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