Calendar and Schedule
Welcome
We welcome you to practice with the NBZ Sangha, whether online or in person. Our gatherings are warm, grounded, and open to all. Here you can find out about our calendar of events, our weekly zazen schedule, and see our special events at a glance, or learn how to join one of our in person sesshin.
Calendar of Events
Our Weekly Zazen Schedule
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Tuesday Morning Meditation
10:00am EST Zazen
10:30am EST Robe Chant -
Wednesday Dawn Meditation
7:00am EST Zazen
7:30am EST Robe Chant
7:40am EST Service
8:00am EST Open Study
9:00am EST Break -
Wednesday Morning Meditation
10:00am EST Zazen
10:30am EST Robe Chant -
Thursday Morning Meditation
10:00am EST Zazen
10:30am EST Robe Chant -
Thursday Dusk Meditation
7:00pm EST Zazen
7:30pm EST Mindful Break
7:40pm EST Zazen/Discussion
8:10pm EST 3 Refuges
Our Events
The Artist's Way Practice Group
The Artist’s Way
A 12-Week Practice Group
Tuesday mornings after zazen
February 3 – April 21
10:40am – 11:30am EST // 7:40am – 8:30am PST
Join us Tuesday mornings after zazen for a weekly gathering that supports your individual journey through The Artist’s Way, a 12-week creative workbook.
A solo practice held within a shared container. Each week includes a check-in and unstructured co-working time, offering reflection, accountability, and companionship.
The Artist's Way Practice Group
The Artist’s Way
A 12-Week Practice Group
Tuesday mornings after zazen
February 3 – April 21
10:40am – 11:30am EST // 7:40am – 8:30am PST
Join us Tuesday mornings after zazen for a weekly gathering that supports your individual journey through The Artist’s Way, a 12-week creative workbook.
A solo practice held within a shared container. Each week includes a check-in and unstructured co-working time, offering reflection, accountability, and companionship.
Saturday Morning Zazen with Taishin Michael Augustin
Taishin started practicing Zen with the Santa Barbara Zen Group in 2012. He received the Bodhisattva precepts during a Jukai ceremony in 2015 at the Santa Barbara Zen Center, and again during a Shukke Tokudo ceremony in 2023 at
O-An Zendo. He is a student of Ōshin Jennings, Sensei.
Taishin studies Nyoho-e style sewing in the tradition of Tomoe Katagiri; organizes and leads a Recovery Dharma meeting to support those in recovery from addictions of all kinds (including himself); and writes about the Dharma, recovery, and the intersection of the two for his Substack, “A Phoenix’s Hut.” He is currently learning American Sign Language.
He lives in Milwaukee, WI, with his partner and their two cats.
The Artist's Way Practice Group
The Artist’s Way
A 12-Week Practice Group
Tuesday mornings after zazen
February 3 – April 21
10:40am – 11:30am EST // 7:40am – 8:30am PST
Join us Tuesday mornings after zazen for a weekly gathering that supports your individual journey through The Artist’s Way, a 12-week creative workbook.
A solo practice held within a shared container. Each week includes a check-in and unstructured co-working time, offering reflection, accountability, and companionship.
The Artist's Way Practice Group
The Artist’s Way
A 12-Week Practice Group
Tuesday mornings after zazen
February 3 – April 21
10:40am – 11:30am EST // 7:40am – 8:30am PST
Join us Tuesday mornings after zazen for a weekly gathering that supports your individual journey through The Artist’s Way, a 12-week creative workbook.
A solo practice held within a shared container. Each week includes a check-in and unstructured co-working time, offering reflection, accountability, and companionship.
The Artist's Way Practice Group
The Artist’s Way
A 12-Week Practice Group
Tuesday mornings after zazen
February 3 – April 21
10:40am – 11:30am EST // 7:40am – 8:30am PST
Join us Tuesday mornings after zazen for a weekly gathering that supports your individual journey through The Artist’s Way, a 12-week creative workbook.
A solo practice held within a shared container. Each week includes a check-in and unstructured co-working time, offering reflection, accountability, and companionship.
The Artist's Way Practice Group
The Artist’s Way
A 12-Week Practice Group
Tuesday mornings after zazen
February 3 – April 21
10:40am – 11:30am EST // 7:40am – 8:30am PST
Join us Tuesday mornings after zazen for a weekly gathering that supports your individual journey through The Artist’s Way, a 12-week creative workbook.
A solo practice held within a shared container. Each week includes a check-in and unstructured co-working time, offering reflection, accountability, and companionship.
The Artist's Way Practice Group
The Artist’s Way
A 12-Week Practice Group
Tuesday mornings after zazen
February 3 – April 21
10:40am – 11:30am EST // 7:40am – 8:30am PST
Join us Tuesday mornings after zazen for a weekly gathering that supports your individual journey through The Artist’s Way, a 12-week creative workbook.
A solo practice held within a shared container. Each week includes a check-in and unstructured co-working time, offering reflection, accountability, and companionship.
The Artist's Way Practice Group
The Artist’s Way
A 12-Week Practice Group
Tuesday mornings after zazen
February 3 – April 21
10:40am – 11:30am EST // 7:40am – 8:30am PST
Join us Tuesday mornings after zazen for a weekly gathering that supports your individual journey through The Artist’s Way, a 12-week creative workbook.
A solo practice held within a shared container. Each week includes a check-in and unstructured co-working time, offering reflection, accountability, and companionship.
The Artist's Way Practice Group
The Artist’s Way
A 12-Week Practice Group
Tuesday mornings after zazen
February 3 – April 21
10:40am – 11:30am EST // 7:40am – 8:30am PST
Join us Tuesday mornings after zazen for a weekly gathering that supports your individual journey through The Artist’s Way, a 12-week creative workbook.
A solo practice held within a shared container. Each week includes a check-in and unstructured co-working time, offering reflection, accountability, and companionship.
Saturday Morning Zazen with Shodo Spring
Shodo has practiced Zen for over 40 years. Her practice has always been both rooted in the natural world and engaged with human society. She has joined two pilgrimages, led the 2013 Compassionate Earth Walk through the Great Plains, and came home to Minnesota to found the Mountains and Waters Alliance. Before writing Open Reality, she wrote Take Up Your Life, several essays for Buddhist anthologies, and edited Okumura Roshi’s The Mountains and Waters Sutra. She received Dharma transmission from Shohaku Okumura in 2012.
Shodo lives on a small farm envisioned as home for a spiritual, earth-loving, activist community.
She has two children and four grandchildren.
The Artist's Way Practice Group
The Artist’s Way
A 12-Week Practice Group
Tuesday mornings after zazen
February 3 – April 21
10:40am – 11:30am EST // 7:40am – 8:30am PST
Join us Tuesday mornings after zazen for a weekly gathering that supports your individual journey through The Artist’s Way, a 12-week creative workbook.
A solo practice held within a shared container. Each week includes a check-in and unstructured co-working time, offering reflection, accountability, and companionship.
The Artist's Way Practice Group
The Artist’s Way
A 12-Week Practice Group
Tuesday mornings after zazen
February 3 – April 21
10:40am – 11:30am EST // 7:40am – 8:30am PST
Join us Tuesday mornings after zazen for a weekly gathering that supports your individual journey through The Artist’s Way, a 12-week creative workbook.
A solo practice held within a shared container. Each week includes a check-in and unstructured co-working time, offering reflection, accountability, and companionship.
Saturday Morning Zazen with Liên Shutt
Reverend Keiryū Liên Shutt is a Dharma teacher in the tradition of Shunryū Suzuki Roshi. She served as Shuso in 2011 and received Dharma Transmission from Zenkei Blanche Hartman Daiosho in 2013.
Born into a Buddhist family in Vietnam, Rev. Liên began her meditation practice in the U.S. Insight tradition, serving as a Co-Founder of the Buddhists of Color in 1998. Her Soto Zen training also began in the U.S., and she practiced monastically in Japan and Vietnam. While she has placed her trust and faith in Soto Zen, she continues to enjoy the deep silence of Insight practices and has completed retreats in the United States and Thailand.
Drawing from her monastic experiences, she endeavors to share ways in which the deep settledness of traditional practices can be brought into everyday life. Zen style, she believes, has maintained more of its monastic vestiges and is therefore at times harder to engage with. It is Rev. Liên’s intention to help make Soto Zen, with its focus on connecting to our inherent liberation, more accessible to all. — Or, as Suzuki Roshi said, “Hinayana practice with Mahayana spirit.”
Rev. Liên is the Founder and Guiding Teacher of Access to Zen, a non-profit and practice community in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also teaches at East Bay Meditation Center and other Bay Area groups.