6 Tuesdays from 6:45-8pm : Feb 16 - Mar 23, 2021
In this class with visiting teacher Rev. Koji Dreher, we will delve straightforwardly into what’s really happening in our practice. Not just in zazen (seated meditation), but the whole works: ceremony, texts, communities, stages of practice, mixing methods, and more. Over this 6-week class Koji will share with you what he wants everyone to know about the beautiful and fraught endeavor of spiritual practice. This is a class for practitioners of every level who want to look beyond rhetoric and orthodoxy to the heart of what the Zen and Yoga traditions have to offer us today.
Program Fees: $75 members/$100 nonmembers
As always, AZC is committed to making the teachings available to everyone. To request financial assistance from our Scholarship Fund, or if you would like to donate to the Fund for others to be able to participate, please call AZC Administrator Julie Strahan at 512-452-5777.
Koji Dreher began zen training at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center – the monastic training temple of the San Francisco Zen Center – in 2003 at the age of 21. Ordained a Zen Buddhist priest in 2008, in 2011 he co-founded Mid City Zen Center in New Orleans, LA. Since serving in 2013 as Head Student (shusō), Koji has been a regular visiting teacher at at Austin Zen Center. Koji received Dharma Transmission from his teacher Koshō McCall in 2019, making him a lineage holder in the Sōtō Zen tradition as handed down by Shunryū Suzuki Rōshi and Zenkei Blanche Hartman Rōshi. In addition to being a priest in the Sōtō school of zen, Koji has practiced in various Buddhist traditions and is an instructor of modern haṭha yoga. He currently lives with his partner in Minneapolis. For more information visit kojiacquaviva.com.