{"id":828,"date":"2016-05-27T16:24:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T16:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/?p=828"},"modified":"2018-12-14T16:19:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T16:19:17","slug":"orientation-to-zen-buddhist-practice-course-starts-on-june-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/orientation-to-zen-buddhist-practice-course-starts-on-june-25\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Orientation to Zen Buddhist Practice Course Starts on June 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next <a href=\"http:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/orientation-to-zen-course\/\">Orientation to Zen Buddhist Practice Course<\/a> is starting <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2065164262\"><span class=\"aQJ\">July 2<\/span><\/span>, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Are you looking for a way to go beyond the simple basics of meditation, or how to take your practice deeper?<\/p>\n<p>Are you ready to engage face-to-face with an experienced teacher, and explore how becoming involved with a community that was created to support meditation can inspire and enhance your own practice?<\/p>\n<p>The benefits of a consistent meditation practice are well established \u2013 stress reduction, a less cluttered mind, improved focus and awareness, better immune function, more restful sleep, and insight into the habits that are limiting the realization of your true potential.<\/p>\n<p>This course offers a progressive combination of study and practice, individual and group interaction, and personal guidance that will provide a strong foundation to experience the profound change that Zen meditation practice offers.<\/p>\n<p>The Orientation to Zen Buddhist Practice Course is the primary gateway to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/zen-practice\/\">Zen Training<\/a>\u00a0at Zenwest Buddhist Society. The course runs 2 hours on each of four Saturdays.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course Dates: July 2 and the next 3 Saturdays<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saturday mornings 9:30am \u2013 11:30am<\/p>\n<p>In order to maintain the quality of instruction, course enrollment is limited to 12.<\/p>\n<p>Fees for this four-week course: $249 ($199 for Zenwest Associates)<\/p>\n<p>A deposit of $50 is required to ensure a space upon registration. The balance is payable one week before the first day of the course.<\/p>\n<p>This includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Four weekly group discussion and meditation sessions with Rev. Doshu and\/or Kosen Eshu, Osho<\/li>\n<li>Meditation cushion (zafu)<\/li>\n<li>Peer Support Connection<\/li>\n<li>All online and printable course materials<\/li>\n<li>Zenwest Chant Book<\/li>\n<li>Upon completion of the Orientation, all participants are invited to apply for Membership in Zenwest.<\/li>\n<li>All Members must purchase a black martial arts-style (gi).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please contact:\u00a0 Zenwest Registrar (<a href=\"mailto:registrar@zenwest.ca\">registrar@zenwest.ca<\/a>) with any questions and to register.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dead line for registrations:Tuesday, June 14th<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next Orientation to Zen Buddhist Practice Course is starting June 25th.<\/p>\n<p>Are you looking for a way to go beyond the simple basics of meditation, or how to take your practice deeper?<\/p>\n<p>Are you ready to engage face-to-face with an experienced teacher, and explore how becoming involved with a community that was created to support meditation can inspire and enhance your own practice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}