Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (Zenshinji) is a Buddhist monastery located in the heart of the Ventana Wilderness, Carmel Valley just inland from the Central Coast of California. Every fall and winter, Tassajara devotes itself to practicing the monastic forms passed down through the Soto Zen tradition. Every spring and summer, Tassajara’s practice opens to include guests and becomes a hot springs resort.

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center 39171 Tassajara Road Carmel Valley, Big Sur, California93924 Phone: (415) 865.1899 Big Sur, California The Power of Yoga and Zen with Sherri Baptiste and Zenkei Blanche Hartmann June 12-14 | weekend retreat

This retreat will explore the synergy and complementary insights and practices of Hatha yoga and Zen Buddhism. Yoga classes will be a flowing vinyasa style that encourages movement of the body and the breath with fluidity, grace, strength, and stability. The yoga asana help cultivate the flexibility of mind and body, postural strength, ease in sitting and breath-work that are the basis of Zen practice. The Zen sessions will enable attention, inner quiet, fresh insights and open awareness that support mind and body to flow as one through the yoga asana practice. Together these techniques and practices are supportive for relieving stress, maintaining health, and promoting creativity and vitality. You’ll be gently guided through each practice. We recommend at least one year of Hatha yoga practice with some experience with meditation preferable but not essential.

Sherri Baptiste. Author of Yoga with Weights for Dummies (Wiley Publishers), daughter of the American yoga and physical culture pioneers Walt and Magaña Baptiste. A top expert in her field of health, fitness and wellness she is an inspirational teacher. At the forefront of yoga training in the United States and Internationally Sherri’s way of teaching is accessible to everyone; offering depth, renewal, dynamic results, and inspiration. She leads programs recognized by Yoga Alliance E-RYT 200 hr and 500. www.powerofyoga.com and

Ingen Breen is a Zen priest and a practitioner of aikido. A few simple words are what he lives his life by: “I live to perfect my practice. Perhaps our practice can never be perfected, perhaps it is already perfect and perhaps it is in need of only a little improvement.” He was ordained, receiving Dharma Transmission by Zoketsu Norman Fischer. He is originally from Ireland where he practiced with the Western Buddhist Order for four years, coming to SF Zen Center in 1995.

The Power of Yoga and Zen
with Sherri Baptiste and Ryushin Paul Haller
June 14-19 | five-day retreat

This retreat will explore the synergy and complementary insights and practices of Hatha yoga and Zen Buddhism. Yoga classes will be a flowing vinyasa style that encourages movement of the body and the breath with fluidity, grace, strength, and stability. The yoga asana help cultivate the flexibility of mind and body, postural strength, ease in sitting and breath-work that are the basis of Zen practice. The Zen sessions will enable attention, inner quiet, fresh insights and open awareness that support mind and body to flow as one through the yoga asana practice. Together these techniques and practices are supportive for relieving stress, maintaining health, and promoting creativity and vitality. You’ll be gently guided through each practice. We recommend at least one year of Hatha yoga practice with some experience with meditation preferable but not essential.

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Sherri Baptiste. Author of Yoga with Weights for Dummies (Wiley Publishers), daughter of the American yoga and physical culture pioneers Walt and Magaña Baptiste. A top expert in her field of health, fitness and wellness she is an inspirational teacher. At the forefront of yoga training in the United States and Internationally Sherri’s way of teaching is accessible to everyone; offering depth, renewal, dynamic results, and inspiration. She leads programs recognized by Yoga Alliance E-RYT 200 hr and 500. www.powerofyoga.com and

Ryushin Paul Haller, co-abbot of Zen Center, received dharma transmission from Sojun Mel Weitsman. Ryushin Paul Haller, a Soto Zen roshi, is the current co-abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center—a position he shares and has held since 2003. Leaving his homeland of Belfast in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s, coming to California in 1974, he entered Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and was later ordained as a priest by Zentatsu in 1980. He also teaches in the prison and hospice systems and offers Zen practice and mindfulness meditation retreats in his native Belfast, Ireland.