Welcome to an Ordinary Mind Sesshin with Karen Terzano at Stora Lugnet in Järbo that mixes everyday life activities with a traditional style Sesshin. This Sesshin provides an opportunity to practice together while tending to the garden, cooking food, chopping wood, and building on the house - our everyday activities show us how we live our lives. 

Still, Sesshin is an intensive silent meditation retreat in zen buddhist style with several hours of seated meditation per day, vegetarian food, and one individual interview with the teachers a day. We welcome both experienced practitioners as well as beginners but suggest beginners and practitioners from other traditions contact us for an introduction and a chance to get some meditation experience before the retreat. We will prioritize full-time participants before part-time participants.

Stora Lugnet is located 200 km north of Stockholm.  The closest train station is Sandviken and from there you can take a bus to Järbo. 

The price for the sesshin is 3300 SEK for full-time participation and 2300 SEK for part-time participation. An application fee of 500 SEK, included in the Sesshin fee, will not be returned upon a late cancellation. If you come part-time, please specify when you can be there.  

The sesshin starts at 18:00 on Saturday the 12th of August and ends after lunch on Saturday the 19th of August. A light dinner will be served at 17:00 on the 12th before the Sesshin starts. Please come in good time before 17:00 so you have time to install yourself in your room etc.

You are warmly welcome to come earlier and help set things up for the Sesshin.

Contact Joakim Rzepka 076 094 94 75 or joakrzep@gmail.com for questions. 

More information will come closer to the sesshin once you have applied. 

Link to the application form: here