About Us
Who We Are
How We Practice
What We Offer
In November 2020, during the long hush of the Covid shutdown, a seed was planted. It began as a quiet wish from Andy Robins Roshi — to gather a community in the European time zone that could reflect the spirit and teachings of Chosei Zen in Spring Green, Wisconsin. In time, that wish took form.
A year later, seven of us stepped into a fort
In November 2020, during the long hush of the Covid shutdown, a seed was planted. It began as a quiet wish from Andy Robins Roshi — to gather a community in the European time zone that could reflect the spirit and teachings of Chosei Zen in Spring Green, Wisconsin. In time, that wish took form.
A year later, seven of us stepped into a forty‑nine‑day online training period, meeting each day to sit zazen and to practice okyō, shodō, Tai Chi, and our Zen Ten stretches. For many, it was a first true taste of shugyō—training that forges the heart, reaches into every corner of one’s life, and asks for nothing less than wholehearted presence.
Since then, our rhythm has deepened. We sit through the night for Rohatsu, gather for weekend Zazenkai, take up the steadier commitment of Keishin, and meet twice a year for sesshin in spring and autumn. We have been fortunate to find a quiet place in Cornwall for sesshin — a place where the days open wide, the wind moves through the trees, and practice can settle without hurry.
What We Offer
How We Practice
What We Offer
Seated meditation — zazen
Quiet sitting shared across rooms, rivers, and time zones, offered live on Zoom. A simple posture, a steady breath, a place to sit, breathe, and meet your own life without pretence, pressure, or performance.
Short online workshops
Practice brought into ordinary life — practical, grounded, and accessible. These s
Seated meditation — zazen
Quiet sitting shared across rooms, rivers, and time zones, offered live on Zoom. A simple posture, a steady breath, a place to sit, breathe, and meet your own life without pretence, pressure, or performance.
Short online workshops
Practice brought into ordinary life — practical, grounded, and accessible. These sessions explore how Zen can take shape in the middle of a working day, a busy home, or a moment that calls for clarity.
Guidance from traditional Zen teachings
Teachings offered plainly and without mystique — old words made usable here and now, for anyone willing to listen.
See our Calendar page for next steps.
Come as you are — newcomers welcome.
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How We Practice
How We Practice
How We Practice
Practice here points toward realising that you are not separate — not from your own experience, not from others, and not from the living world around you.
It is not a path of self‑improvement or belief.
It is the easing of what clouds the taste of life.
It is giving the mystery room to breathe.
Practice is simple:
showing up — quietly, t
Practice here points toward realising that you are not separate — not from your own experience, not from others, and not from the living world around you.
It is not a path of self‑improvement or belief.
It is the easing of what clouds the taste of life.
It is giving the mystery room to breathe.
Practice is simple:
showing up — quietly, truthfully, together.
We sit to meet the mind as it is.
We breathe to remember the ground beneath us.
We bow to recognise what we often overlook.
We move, walk, chant, and work in ways that return us to immediacy — to the unfiltered experience of this moment.
There is no polishing yourself into someone else’s shape.
No performance.
No pressure to understand everything.
Just the steady willingness to live from your whole being, one breath at a time.
Clear, honest, unforced.