Location: Upaya Zen Center Santa Fe, NM
Join Roshi Joan Halifax, Sensei Kaz Tanahashi, Natalie Goldberg, and Jimmy Santiago Baca in Haiku and Poetry Meeting This Very World: The Practice of Discovering and Writing, a precious opportunity to experience the full range of this art and practice.
Through the work of great haiku poets, we come together to explore haiku as a spiritual practice, a teacher of impermanence, a guide to the present moment, as time itself, and as awakening. These sessions with a remarkable faculty will explore writing haiku as a path of discovery. We will open ourselves to great haiku writers past and present and experience haiku as a gateway into the deep natural rhythms of life, death, and becoming. Reflecting on the beauty, tribulations, and complexity of the present day we can relax, without competition, and be at ease. As we step out of the vortex of our speedy lives and meet the intimacy and connectedness of haiku, we open up, to share, play, and learn.
Schedule: This program will begin on Friday, February 21, 2025 at 7:45 p.m. Mountain Standard Time (MST) and will conclude with lunch on Sunday, February 23, 2025 around 1:00 p.m. MST. Use this Time converter to determine your local start time.
We ask attendees to arrive between 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. MST on Friday, February 21, 2025 to join us for meditation at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. (included in the program price).
We are so grateful that Billy, Natalie, Sensei Kaz, Roshi Joan, Dorotea, Rubin, and Lorraine are enthusiastic to do this program online. At Upaya, we are deeply committed to serving you responsibly and with great care.
A Note About Food:
The food at Upaya is vegetarian and mostly organic, and there are always vegan and gluten-free options. If your dietary sensitivities fall outside of vegan and gluten-free, we do not have the resources to accommodate them. Thank you for your understanding.
Please review our current cancellation policy and health protocols for in-person programs.
Maximum Participants 60
Enrollment for this program is currently full, but we do have a waitlist you can join.
Program Fee (Members) $495
Program Fee (Non-Members) $550
Base price is for commuters. Lodging is available for an additional cost. The full balance is due to secure your place in the program. Dana to the teachers.
All meals are included in your program fees. However, this fee does not include lodging. If you wish to stay overnight at Upaya, your first choice of lodging may not be available. Please check for availability by calling 505-986-8518 ext. 2. or email registrar@upaya.org.
If you wish to stay on the Upaya campus, the following options are available:
Upgrading to a dorm (3-4 guests per room) will add $300 to your total.
Upgrading to a double (2 guests per room) will add $450 to your total.
Upgrading to a single (private room) will add $600 to your total.
For more information or help with technical questions, please email us at onlineprograms@upaya.org or call 505-986-8518 ext. 111.