A Special Morning with the SFZC Family Sangha, GGF 11/22
Description
With Meikyo Chelsea True, Junsen Shelly Hughes, Kanjin Yael Raff Peskin, Samara Alima, and Kanki Elis Herman
Rooted in the Soto Zen lineage of Suzuki Roshi and grounded in everyday family life, the SFZC Family Sangha welcomes you onto the tender and transformative path of family practice.
This special offering is an opportunity to learn more about the SFZC Family Sangha. Our group will meet outside the zendo at 9:45 AM with a song circle. At 10:00 AM, we’ll visit the zendo together where the lecturer will address the children. Then families will proceed outside onto the farm and into the garden, exploring the land and building community.
The morning program concludes with tea and muffins outside the zendo at 11:30AM.
The SFZC Family Sangha welcomes multi-generational families, parents, caregivers, self-partnered people, those caring for their elders, grandparents, aunties, uncles, siblings and niblings, foster parents, children of all ages, and anyone dedicated to healing their family lineages.
Please come prepared for the weather and the farm. Content is most appropriate for children ages 3-12.
Fee Information
- Suggested donation is $20 per family, or as your means allow. No one is turned away for lack of funds. Pre-registration is requested but not required for this special, morning event.
Seasonal Daylong Retreats and other offerings from the SFZC Family Sangha do require advanced registration and space is limited. We hope this morning event will help us to continue widening the path of family practice.
Contact Information:
- Meikyo Chelsea True
- family.sangha@sfzc.org
Meikyo Chelsea True
Meikyo Chelsea True (she/they) came to Green Gulch Farm nearly twenty years ago with her daughter, Amelie, and has supported family practice at SFZC ever since. She first encountered Zen as a child and began meditating at the age of sixteen before completing an undergraduate degree in Religious Studies.
Junsen Shelly Hughes
Junsen Shelly Hughes (she/her) has embraced Zen practice for nearly two decades. Motherhood and Mother Earth are the heart of her practice. Through her work as a restoration ecologist, environmental educator, herbalist and artist, Junsen weaves listening, interbeing, and healing as dharma threads.
Kanjin Yael Raff Peskin
Kanjin Yael Raff Peskin (she/her) interweaves her Jewish ritual observance and her Zen practice with her dedication to social justice and cultivating beauty in the world. She received lay ordination from Vietnamese Zen Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh in 1993 and in the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi from Hoka Chris Fortin at Tassajara, where Yael has been returning since 1988 and, in recent years, has been part of the Tassajara kitchen crew.