Driftless Zen Community

Due to events at the monastery, we will not hold our regular class on Friday, May 15, or Friday, May 22.

All Korinji events can be found on our website calendar: https://www.korinji.org/calendar Please join us!

Calendar | Korinji Events organized by Korinji monastery in Wisconsin, USA and worldwide within Rinzai Zen International.

No class tonight! We'll see you at the Zen Life Retreat or next Friday.

April 2026 Zen Life Retreat: For Beginners Korinji's annual Zen Life Retreat, a beginner's meditation retreat led by Meido Roshi at our monastery in Wisconsin. You will learn to meditate, have a taste of monastery life, and receive direct guid…

No class this Friday, see you all next week!

We would like to wish all of you a joyful, peaceful holiday season!

No class this Friday. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Calendar | Korinji Events organized by Korinji monastery in Wisconsin, USA and worldwide within Rinzai Zen International.

Free resources online. Please share with anyone!

HEALING THROUGH STILLNESS - ONLINE

Now we have added the first 2 videos in our Healing Through Stillness program: online meditation instruction specifically for vets, survivors of trauma, and anyone else who may benefit from it:

https://www.korinji.org/veterans

This instruction is free to all, non-religious, and able to be modified for almost any physical condition. We expect a total of 6 videos, with a new one dropping weekly going forward.

Please share this link to anyone!

The first video is the Introduction, explaining the program.

Part 1 is titled "Getting Back in Our Skins": simple self-massage and breathing instruction as a foundation.

On deck and coming soon:

Part 2, "Breathing to the Core"

Part 3, "A Panoramic View"

Part 4, "Focused Awareness"

Part 5, "Cutting Through Obstacles"

We are grateful for the support of the Korinji Foundation, the Community Foundation of South Central Wisconsin, and the Wagner Fund for Spiritual Arts, which have made this programming possible.

No meditation class this Friday. Please join us at the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison where Nyosen Nakamura Sensei, Headmaster of the Kogetsu Enshu School of Zen Tea Ceremony in Japan, will demonstrate and discuss his art.

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