Monastic Training Weeks 2026

With Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi and Zentatsu Baker Roshi

February 14 - April 14, 2026

Date and Time Details: February 14-April 14, 2026

Location: Crestone Mountain Zen Center

Address: 2000 Dreamway Crestone, CO 81131

Contact: laurie
laurie@dharmasangha.org

Prices

$2,319.00 to $4,639.00

The Monastic Training Weeks at Crestone Mountain Zen Center are an intensive immersion into the living teachings and practices of Zen. It is a time of gathering and expanding the mind.

You will be part of a sincerely practicing community, supported by the dramatically wild and beautiful landscape of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

We wake up before dawn, sit in silence, listen to the Dharma, and work and provide for the temple together. We will be cultivating the mind of meditation for it to percolate the different activities of the day. Much of the day is in silence.

You will be trained within the Dharma Sangha curriculum, which integrates insights from modern psychology and science with the timeless wisdom of an evolving Zen tradition.

During this time, topics will be evolved together in a way that attends to each person’s process. The teaching includes the Five Foundational Qualities — Openness, Acceptance, Resonance, Stillness, and Integrity — and the more subtle dynamics of meditation and mindfulness practice.

About the Teachers

Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi

Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi is a Dharma Successor of Zentatsu Baker Roshi in the Dharma Sangha Soto Zen Lineage. She has been practicing Zen since 2001 and received Dharma Transmission in 2017. She graduated as a psychologist from the University of Oldenburg in 2008. She also trained at the ‘School for Body Mind Centering’ for […]

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Zentatsu Baker Roshi

Zentatsu Richard Baker is the Founder and Head Teacher of the Dharma Sangha centers in the United States and Europe. In the United States he lives at the Crestone Mountain Zen Center in Colorado; and in Germany, at the ‘Dharma Zentrum Quellenweg’ in the Black Forest. He is the Dharma Successor of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, […]

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Category : Zen Practice