Studio Hum

06/10/2026

Check out the weekly Lotus Room schedule for the rest of June!

for more info on Lotus Room events go to studiohum.org/thelotusroom

06/04/2026

This Saturday 11-1pm! Join Atsumi Sensei for her summer Tea Ceremony and lesson in the Blue Plum Zendo. Register at https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule/ace9dbd0/?appointmentTypeIds[]=81589037

Tea Ceremony Lesson with Atsumi Sensei
Saturday June 6
11am - 1pm

Please join Atsumi Soatsu Matsuda in a Chado lesson for beginners with a special ceremony in the Urasenke tradition.

For those who are new to meditation practice, tea ceremony can be a path to entering the larger universe of Zen and its arts. For those who practice zazen, tea ceremony offers an incisive opportunity for expressing the mind of Zen in everyday activity.

Matcha green tea will be served along with tea sweets.

Suggested donation $20

Register here: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule/ace9dbd0/?appointmentTypeIds[]=81589037

05/30/2026

People of the way journey through the world responding to conditions, carefree and without restraint. Like clouds finally raining, like moonlight following the current, like orchids growing in shade, like spring arising in everything, they act without mind, they respond with certainty.

– Hongzhi Zhengjue

Pictured here:
“Wa” (Harmony) by Kaz Tanahashi in the tokonoma at Wako-an (The Hut of Turning Towards Harmony) on the grounds of Zen Mountain Monastery

This image and except are from the latest issue of the Blue Plum Zendo newsletter. Learn more about our weekly zazen schedule and early summer programs including Dharma Encounter this Sunday, an upcoming tea ceremony and sutra copying calligraphy workshop here:

https://mailchi.mp/bed5031f51e6/untitled-21565288?e=941eb7551c

05/26/2026

Tea Ceremony Lesson with Atsumi Sensei
Saturday June 6
11am - 1pm

Please join Atsumi Soatsu Matsuda in a Chado lesson for beginners with a special ceremony in the Urasenke tradition.

For those who are new to meditation practice, tea ceremony can be a path to entering the larger universe of Zen and its arts. For those who practice zazen, tea ceremony offers an incisive opportunity for expressing the mind of Zen in everyday activity.

Matcha green tea will be served along with tea sweets.

Suggested donation $20

Register here: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule/ace9dbd0/?appointmentTypeIds[]=81589037