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SUMMARY:Zen Around the Table (Medicinal Mushrooms on My Plate)
DESCRIPTION:Vegan Cooking Workshop Retreat with Chef Avital Sebagg \nApril 29 to May 3\, 2006 \nLimited places \nA unique retreat for those who love plant-based cuisine\, local ingredients\, and creative cooking with a wide variety of mushrooms. \nThe course focuses not only on recipes\, but on learning how to be efficient\, mindful\, and joyful in a healthy kitchen. \nAvital Sebbag\, a vegan chef and certified practitioner of Chinese Medicine\, will inspire us to cook a stunning variety of nutritious and delicious vegan recipes based in mushrooms. \nThe workshop will take place in our mountain Zen Center\, located in the middle of the pristine wilderness of the Alta Garrotxa Natural Park. Participants will also experience the ancient practice of korean zen of the Kwan Um School of Zen\, we will meditate in the morning and evening\, and there will also be a daily yoga class. \nTeacher: Avital Sebbag\, an anthropological food researcher and accomplished vegan chef\, known for her book “Five Seasons in the Kitchen –Zen Inspired Vegan Cooking“\, has been practicing Korean Zen for two decades\, and today \, teaches and manages the Hasharon Zen Center in Israel. Avital has integrated her wide worlds of culinary content with Zen teaching\, and conducts cooking and enrichment workshops in the kitchens of temples\, Zen centers and various bodies that invite her knowledge. Avital teaches to make the connection by choosing dishes based on the seasons’ vegetation\, most suitable for her retreats. \nFor more information and registration\, please visit: \nhttps://boricentro.kwanumzen.es/event/zen-al-voltant-de-la-taula-temporada-de-tardor/?lang=en
URL:https://www.kwanumeurope.org/event/zen-around-the-table-where-medicinal-mushrooms-meet-the-table/
LOCATION:Bori Sa\, (Mas Puli) Sales de Llierca \, Alta Garrotxa\, Girona\, 17853\, Spain
CATEGORIES:Zen Workshop
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SUMMARY:Transmission Ceremony for Arne Schaefer JDPSN\, May 17th 2026 in Warsaw\, Poland
DESCRIPTION:Zen Master Bon Shim will give transmission to her dharma successor Arne Schaefer JDPSN to become Zen Master. \nThe transmission Ceremony will take place on Sunday\, May 17th 2026 in Zen Center Warsaw (Wu Bong Sa)\, Poland\, at 10:30 a.m. and will take about 2 hours. \nFor further information and registration (until April 12th 2026) to the Ceremony please follow this link: \nTransmission & Inka Ceremonies 2026 \n \n 
URL:https://www.kwanumeurope.org/event/transmission-ceremony-arne-schaefer/
LOCATION:Wu Bong Sa\, Warsaw\, Małowiejska 24\, Warszawa\, Poland
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SUMMARY:Spring YMJJ in Israel
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to our YMJJ Zen Retreat with Zen Master Hyon Ja (Alma Potter) in Kibutz Neot Smadar Israel\nIf you would like to join us\, please register via the registration formular on our website which will be online starting in February 2026  https://kwanumzen.de/en/events/ \nWe will practice meditation in sitting\, walking\, chanting\, eating\, and working.\nIf you have any questions please write us to kwanumisrael.org \nAbout the teachers:\n \nHyon Ja\nSoen Sa Nim \nHyon Ja SSN\, (Jo-Alma Potter)\nwas born in Arizona USA in 1954. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in clinical nutrition from Arizona State University. Her meditation practice started when she was seventeen years old. She traveled to India in the early 1980s\, where she studied Zen and Buddhism. In 1986\, she moved to Berlin Germany\, living there for 27 years. Together with a core group of Zen students she built the Berlin Zen Center. She was the abbess of the Berlin Zen Center for 11 years. She met Zen Master Seung Sahn in the early 1990s and has been a member of the Kwan Um School of Zen since then. In 2008\, she received the title Ji Do Poep Sa and Inka — the official seal of approval to teach kong-an — from Zen Master Wu Bong. 26th September 2020 she received Dharma Transmission from Zen Master Bon Shim and got new name – Hyon Ja (Deep Love). She moved to Vienna in 2012. She guides the Kwan Um Zen Centers and groups in Vienna Austria\, Palma de Mallorca Spain\, Budapest and Szeged Hungary and the Vrazne Zen Center in Czech Republic. She is travelling worldwide leading and teaching Zen retreats. \nJan Sendzimir\nJi Do Peop Sa Nim \nJan Sendzimir took Inka from Zen Master Ji Kwang in 2022 and became a Ji Do Poep Sa Nim teaching in the Kwan Um School of Zen across Europe and in the United States. His practice began with Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1974 at the Providence Zen Center. He was one of the first to attend winter Kyol Che in South Korea in 1975. For the last 30 years he has done research and taught ecology and citizen science in universities in Europe\, America\, Asia and Africa. His focus has been to explore ways that Zen practice\, science and policy can support those who engage a changing and unpredictable world. He and his partner\, Zen Master Hyon Ja live and teach in Vienna\, Austria. He is blessed with two daughters\, two grandchildren and two wonderful sons-in-law.
URL:https://www.kwanumeurope.org/event/spring-ymjj-in-israel/
LOCATION:Naot Smadar\, Israel\, Israel
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ORGANIZER;CN="Avital Sebbag":MAILTO:avitality@gmail.com
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