May Peace Prevail Sesshin 2025

A 2-day meditation retreat
(available via Zoom with some limited on-site participation available)

Friday, May 23 (eve.) – Sunday, May 25
(REGISTER BELOW)

Led by Sensei Darla Myoho Fjeld

RETREAT INFO

This Sesshin is a two daylong retreat devoted to samadhi practice, offered both in-person at ZCLA and via Zoom. With Great Silence observed throughout, it is an opportunity to intensify and deepen your practice through the experience of periods of uninterrupted meditation (zazen), walking meditation (kinhin), a dharma talk, service, face-to-face meetings with Sensei Darla Myoho Fjeld, as well as time for mindful work practice (samu) and meals. Zoom participants will have time to eat, walk and do their own samu at home, then link back into the sesshin schedule.  If you wish to participate part time, please let Myoki know your precise attendance, including expected arrival and departure times. Part time consists of at least a half a day, including all scheduled activities. Housing is not guaranteed. First come, first served. Open to everyone, newcomers are especially welcome to attend.*

Click here to view tentative schedule

In-person participants:
DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS FRIDAY, MAY 16.
$25 fee will be charged for dropping out or registering past posted deadlines.

In-person participation is limited. Please register early to guarantee a seat in the Zendo.

 

Zoom Participants:
DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS FRIDAY, MAY 23 @ 9 a.m.

$25 fee will be charged for dropping out or registering past posted deadlines.

Members: $40/Day; $80/Fulltime

Non-Members: $60/Day; $120/Fulltime

 

 

EMAIL TO ALL PARTICIPANTS WILL GO OUT THE MORNING OF FRIDAY, MAY 23.

*Non-members and new members: Attending an in-person “Introduction to Zen Meditation Class” or Beginner’s Wednesday offering is a prerequisite for attending all onsite activities.

The Zen Center policy is to turn no one away for lack of funds. If you have concerns about payments click here to request Dharma Training Fund. If you have any other questions, please contact Myoki at programsteward@zcla.org.

REGISTRATION & PAYMENT

 

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May Peace Prevail Sesshin 2025

Sensei Darla Myoho Fjeld is a Zen Buddhist priest and Temple Development Steward at the Zen Center of Los Angeles. She began her practice at the Zen Studies Society in New York in 1996 and in 1997 began practicing at the Fire Lotus Zendo in New York. While in New York she was a political organizer and then spent 9 years as a Research Associate for the Auburn Seminary Center for the Study of Theological Education. She began her practice at ZCLA in 2001. She was the Development Director and then the Executive Director of Coalition LA, a poor people’s organization for 8 years. She earned a M.Div and STM from Union Theological Seminary in New York from 1981-1985. She has a Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Religion from Drew University, Madison, NJ and taught at El Camino College in Torrance, CA for 20 years.