Treeleaf Zendo
A Soto Zen Sangha

Practice Opportunities, Retreats & Events

Treeleaf has a rich practice schedule, that includes daily zazen, weekly and monthly Zazenkai which include liturgy and Dharma talks, yearly retreats, held fully online and various affinity groups, such as the Echo-dharma, LGBTQ2+ , a Spanish speaking group and the Zen of Health and Ailments groups

Here is where you can find information about events, meetings and retreats, their schedules and ways to join. A complete, updated calendar of all the Treeleaf events can be found by clicking below

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Weekly Zazenkai

Monthly Zazenkai

Ryaku Fusatsu

| Retreats

Rohatsu 2025
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Live Stream
Playlist

| Spring Retreat

  • 2025 Spring Retreat Highlights

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    |events Here’s a look back at our spring retreat, which was held on Saturday, April 5th of 2025, to both celebrate Hanamatsuri and 700 years since the death of Master Soji Keizan, the other patriarch of Soto Zen alongside Eihei Dogen…

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  • 2025 One Day Spring Retreat

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    |events 2025 One Day Spring Retreat Dear sangha members and friends, we will have a one day retreat on Saturday, April 5th of this year, to both celebrate Hanamatsuri and 700 years since the death of Master Soji Keizan, the other…

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| Special Events

Guest Teachers & Special Meetings

Many friends of Treeleaf come to share valuable and practical teachings and we are always honored and grateful for their presence and support. From time to time, we might also have special discussion or study groups. You can watch some of the recordings of these live streamed events, compiled in a YouTube playlist.

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Jukai

For almost two decades, Treeleaf sangha has offered a special opportunity to many practitioners who came to study the Precepts with us, sew a rakusu and then commit to the bodhisattva path, all from their homes, all online, all as traditional as can be, to go through Jukai, the traditional ceremony through with the bodhisattva Precepts are bestowed. You can watch recordings of some of these special ceremonies below

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Shukke Tokudo

Treeleaf is the home of The Monastery of Open Doors, a non-residential path to Soto Zen ordination, the priesthood, and a role of service to others for dedicated, long-time Zen practitioners who live with challenges of health, disability, childcare and family responsibilities, economic hardship or equivalent life obstacles. Treeleaf’s body of priests, through their ordination, training and service, serve as examples of how ideas of distance, location, place and time can be transcended and how formal Zen practice can be made accessible to all those who sincerely wish to pursue it.

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