Year-End 2026 (Zoom)
With Sensei Tom Dharma-Joy Reichert and Sensei Katherine Senshin Griffith
December 28 - 30, 2026
Online
Date and Time Details: Check in starts at 5pm
Location: Zen Center of Los Angeles
Address: 923 Normandie Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90006, USA
Contact: Karina Myoki Beltran-Hernandez
programsteward@zcla.org
(213)387-2351
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- Zoom Sustaining Members
- $20.00 to $80.00 – Zoom Members
- $30.00 to $120.00 – Zoom Non-Member
The focus of this sesshin, held just before the Western New Year, is to renew and deepen our practice. The Lunar New Year begins on February 6, ushering in the Year of the Fire Goat. Traditionally associated with compassion, harmony, creativity, and quiet strength, the Fire Goat invites us to cultivate steadiness, openness, and wholehearted presence as we enter a new year.
The schedule is intentionally spare: Zazen, Walking, Eating, Working, and Resting. Breath by breath, step by step, bite by bite, moment by moment, we turn toward the conditioned mind with clarity and compassion. As the year comes to a close, this is a rare opportunity to let go, empty out, and enter the new year grounded in the simplicity of practice.
About the Leaders
Sensei Tom Dharma-Joy Reichert
Sensei Tom Baiten Dharma-Joy Reichert received the Temple Seal and was installed as ZCLA’s Fifth Abbot on May 21, 2023. He is also currently the Head Priest/Preceptor of ZCLA. Dharma-Joy grew up in New Rochelle, New York to a Roman Catholic family. During college at Georgetown, he spent a year in the Middle East and, […]
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Sensei Katherine Senshin Griffith
Sensei Katherine Senshin Griffith started studying Zen in the Rinzai tradition at New York Zendo Shobo-Ji in Manhattan in 1987. At Dai Bosatsu Zendo, she received Jukai in 1994 from Eido Shimano Roshi, with whom she studied until 2000 when she moved to Los Angeles. She became a member of ZCLA in 2001 and began […]
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