What Is Zen?

About NHZC

Getting Started

Upcoming Retreats & News Updates

Practice Schedule

 

Practice Groups Associated With NHZC: Trinity College

Kong-an Teaching and Interviews

Sitting a Zen Retreat

 

Residential Practice

Center Location & Directions

Contact Us

Kwan Um School

Practice Schedule  
Free and Open to All 

Meditation practice at the New Haven Zen Center is open to the public. Please first attend Wednesday evening meditation instruction. (No reservation is necessary.) There is also regular practice on Thursday nights at Trinity College in Hartford. View the Trinity Zen Group schedule.

 

 

Evenings 

Wednesday

  • 6:30 Orientation and Meditation Instruction
  • 7:00 Chanting 
  • 7:30 - 9:00 Sitting and Walking Meditation

 

Sunday Mornings
In order to make entering and exit times simpler to remember, Sunday morning sitting periods are twenty minutes long and begin on the hour and half hour with ten minute walking meditation periods in-between. Folks are welcome to come for as many, or as few, sitting and walking periods as they like, but are asked to enter and exit during walking periods.

  • 9:00 - 11:20 Sitting and Walking Meditation 
  • 11:20 - 11:30 Chanting 
  • 11:30 - Tea