Dancing with Chronic Illness and Pain: Ongoing Group, Online 12/19–5/15
Description
The Zoom link to participate in this event will be provided at least 24 hours before it begins. Please call 415-354-0360 if you have any questions.
Monthly, Saturdays, December 19–May 15, 11:00–12:30 pm PT
If you have previously participated in any of the “Dancing in the Dark Fields” series, we invite you to consider this ongoing monthly practice group, which will expand on those teachings and community.
Zenshin Florence Caplow, who will be teaching the class, has “danced” with auto-immune illness for the last two decades, including rheumatoid arthritis. She is also a Zen priest and teacher, co-editor of The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty Five Centuries of Awakened Women, and a Unitarian Universalist minister.
Zenshin Florence Caplow’s book, Tend to Your Spirit: Mindful Living With Chronic Illness, is available to order from the SFZC online bookstore. She also recommends Darlene Cohen’s book, Turning Suffering Inside Out. These books are also available as e-books.
Registration is available on a rolling basis. Please contact onlineprograms@sfzc.org if registering after January 16.
An introductory course and prerequisite for the ongoing group, Dancing with Chronic Illness and Pain, will be held for six Saturdays starting January 9, 2027.
List other dates if necessary.:
- December 19, 2026
- January 16, 2027
- February 20
- March 20
- April 17
- May 15
Recordings:
All course sessions will be recorded, and registered participants will receive temporary access to the recordings for later viewing.
Fee Information
- Benefactor Ticket Price: $140 — supports others’ participation
- Standard ticket price: $112 — covers full program costs
- Member (Become an SFZC Member): $101 — for current SFZC members
- Supported: $67 — community supported rate
- Deeply Supported: $28 — for broadest accessibility
- Current SFZC residents and qualified SFZC retirees may attend this course for free. To register, please email onlineprograms@sfzc.org at least 72 hours before the program begins.
Registration Information
Or call 415-354-0360.
Zenshin Florence Caplow
Zenshin Florence Caplow is a Dharma-transmitted Soto Zen priest who was ordained by Zoketsu Norman Fischer in 2007 and received Dharma transmission from Bruce Fortin in 2022. She has practiced Vipassana and Zen for nearly forty years, including sesshins, practice periods, and residence at SFZC practice centers.