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Dragon Moon Zen Community Society

Dragon Moon Zen Community Society fosters mindfulness and Zen practice, offering retreats and teachings to help individuals engage with reality and cultivate inner peace. Their mission is to support spiritual growth through direct experience and community connection.

The Mountains and Rivers Retreat takes place from the evening of July 5 through 12pm on July 11 at the Earthspring Sanctuary Retreat Centre. The retreat will be taught by a team of four fully transmitted Zen teachers (Senseis) that span a diverse range of gifts and interests leading to a panoramic view of how to experience and engage Reality directly as it is in this moment. The EARLYBIRD discount is available until May 15, 2026.

Mountains and Waters Summer Retreat

Begin the year by reconnecting with what matters most. Join Lisa Genki Gibson in a gentle reawakening to body, breath, and the quiet presence of this moment through Zen meditation, yoga, and journalling. Listen deeply&mdash;with wonder and openness&mdash;to what wishes to be expressed through you. As you soften and release, let the intentions for the new year arise naturally.&nbsp; You will leave the workshop feeling rested and refreshed, and with some simple practices to cultivate awareness in everyday life, along with clarity about your intentions for 2026.&nbsp;

Entering Now:  A new year ritual of meditation, movement and reflection

Becoming Now invites you into a quiet conversation with your own life. This form helps you request the book and stay connected with Dragon Moon Zen Community Society&rsquo;s meditation, teachings, and gatherings. By sharing your details, you support our work of cultivating mindfulness, compassion, and wisdom in community. Please complete the fields with care so we can respond clearly and respectfully.

Becoming Now invites you into a quiet conversation with your own life. This form helps you request the book and stay connected with Dragon Moon Zen Community Society’s meditation, teachings, and gatherings.By sharing your details, you support our work of cultivating mindfulness, compassion, and wisdom in community. Please complete the fields with care so we can respond clearly and respectfully.

Becoming Now book

Your gift supports &ldquo;Becoming Now,&rdquo; a collection of short poems arising from a year of listening in Zen practice. Each poem invites quiet attention to ordinary moments, reflecting Dragon Moon Zen Community&rsquo;s commitment to mindfulness, compassion, and honest inquiry. 🪷 Donations help share this work through our community, retreats, and teachings, keeping our offerings accessible to both new and long-time practitioners. Thank you for helping nurture a space where people can sit, listen, and meet their lives directly. 📖

Your gift supports “Becoming Now,” a collection of short poems arising from a year of listening in Zen practice. Each poem invites quiet attention to ordinary moments, reflecting Dragon Moon Zen Community’s commitment to mindfulness, compassion, and honest inquiry. 🪷Donations help share this work through our community, retreats, and teachings, keeping our offerings accessible to both new and long-time practitioners. Thank you for helping nurture a space where people can sit, listen, and meet their lives directly. 📖

Becoming Now: Short Poems from a Year of Listening

Welcome to the Dragon Moon Zen &amp; Dragon Lake Zen Store 🛕 Each item here supports our shared practice of mindfulness, meditation, and compassionate community. Your purchase helps sustain retreats, classes, and quiet spaces for practice&mdash;from cushions and texts to simple tools for daily meditation. Thank you for choosing to support a community devoted to steady attention, clear seeing, and living Zen in everyday life. 🌙

Welcome to the Dragon Moon Zen & Dragon Lake Zen Store 🛕Each item here supports our shared practice of mindfulness, meditation, and compassionate community.Your purchase helps sustain retreats, classes, and quiet spaces for practice—from cushions and texts to simple tools for daily meditation. Thank you for choosing to support a community devoted to steady attention, clear seeing, and living Zen in everyday life. 🌙

Dragon Moon Zen & Dragon Lake Zen STORE

Entering Now is an invitation to pause, arrive, and meet your life as it is. By registering, you&rsquo;re stepping into a supportive Zen community dedicated to embodied practice, reflection, and compassionate awareness. 🕊️ Together, we&rsquo;ll lean into teachings and practices that draw from ancient Zen lineage and contemporary insight&mdash;meditation, movement, creative expression, and shared inquiry&mdash;to remember our innate interdependence and the quiet vitality available in each moment. ✨

Entering Now

The TASTING ALIVENESS 3-day in-person retreat is an invitation to remember our greater vitality, express deepening creativity and open a wonder that lives in each moment. Designed to support beginners and seasoned practitioners alike, this retreat is an opportunity for you to rest in the beauty and messiness of this very life, and to anchor yourself in the steadiness of the breath, wisdom of embodied community, and the ever-present liberation we can always taste and realize here and now.

Tasting Aliveness 3 Day Retreat

Day of Zen is an invitation to pause, sit down, and meet your life as it is. Through guided zazen, gentle movement, and quiet reflection, we explore the awakened mind already present in each moment. 🕊️ Together, we turn toward beauty, joy, difficulty, and sorrow with curiosity and care. Rooted in Zen tradition and open to beginners and seasoned practitioners alike, this day supports a lived sense of interdependence, compassion, and embodied presence. 🌿

Day of Zen

The Art of Aliveness retreat is an invitation to come home to your true self, to the potency of reality as it is, and to creatively express the uniqueness of your being. It is an opportunity to connect with a community of others who not only support your practice, but who mirror the preciousness of this one life.&nbsp;In collaboration with four transmitted Zen lineage holders, we will explore our innerscapes through seated and walking meditation, interpersonal practice, creative expression, work practice, and embodiment.&nbsp;

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Art of Aliveness Winter

Becoming Now&nbsp; is a 6-class series that invites you to wholeheartedly meet your life&mdash;in all its beauty, joy, sorrow, and transformation&mdash;and to experience the deep relaxation and vitality that emerge when we pause, return to presence, and trust our innate wisdom. Each week, we will move, sit in stillness, write, reflect, and draw inspiration from poetry and meaningful conversation, exploring: + How to move through your days with a clearer mind, a steadier heart, and a renewed sense of energy + Slowing down just enough to connect with what really matters + Meeting this ordinary life exactly has it is As we cultivate awareness and release the need to strive, a natural ease begins to surface&mdash;an ease that allows life to unfold through us rather than around us. From this grounded clarity, we can listen for what truly wants to move and express through us, discovering a more authentic and aligned way of being in the world. This series is offered in partnership with the <a fr-original-style="" href="https://eastvanwisdomschool.com/" id="isPasted" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">East Van Wisdom School</a> in Vancouver.

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Tasting Aliveness 3 Day Retreat

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Day of Zen

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Art of Aliveness Winter

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Becoming Now: Meditation, Yoga and Creative Practice for Letting Go and Coming Home

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Becoming Now: Short Poems from a Year of Listening

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