Neighborhood Zen
Neighborhood Zen is a practice community, meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, offering morning and evening zazen, dharma study, and occasional longer retreats. Find our current schedule here.
We are a Branching Streams affiliate of San Francisco Zen Center.
Our host is Catherine Gammon. Catherine is a Soto Zen priest, ordained in 2005 by Tenshin Reb Anderson Roshi in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki.
Before beginning residential Zen training at San Francisco Zen Center’s Tassajara and Green Gulch Farm, Catherine served on the MFA faculty of the University of Pittsburgh. Since serving as Shuso (head student) at Green Dragon Temple/Green Gulch Farm in 2010, Catherine has led retreats and given teachings in Zen and writing in the U.K., in Brooklyn, in Pittsburgh, in Massachusetts, and at SFZC’s Green Gulch Farm Zen Center.
For more on Catherine’s writing retreats, see Writing As A Wisdom Project here on Substack:
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