“Living Practice” is the name of this shared vision.
We want to create a community-driven place of shared shared silent, somatic and relational practice.
Have a look around this website and find out more about our concept.
For the last few months we have been trying to buy a beautifully situated Zen-temple in the southern Black Forest, in Elbenschwand, to continue it as such a place of holistic relational practice.
We were able to raise around €350,000 as loan for this.
Unfortunately, the purchase didn’t happen. We are now open to finding a home for this project in another location.
Please get in touch with us if you know of a suitable location or feel drawn to our project. We are continuing to weave a network around our vision and look forward to the paths it will take.
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What we want to live and give to the world
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We practice giving the greatest space to what is most essential.
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Our practice
is composed of silent contemplation (sitting meditation), somatic bodywork (bringing awareness into physicality, truly inhabiting our bodies and thus working in the world) and a relational practice (refining our attunement; being a counterpart to others and the world in order to be with what arises).
➔ Lived practice
Perhaps there is an opportunity for you here
to meet yourself anew, to put your usual world views on pause, to engage in a simple everyday life close to the forces of nature, to give yourself some space from the noise of the cities, to find a deeper orientation, to ask yourself big questions about life, to have safe relational experiences, to learn to be at home in feeling your body, to find new possibilities for action in the world from such places of deeper connection, to learn something about self-care, experience a new depth of peace, return home a little more, …
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To embed ourselves again
into the cycles of nature and the living web of our environment by feeding ourselves as much as possible from our land, being modest with all resources from living space to composting toilets, adapting our activities to the seasons and showing attention and appreciation to the beings with whom we live.
A place for the well-being of the beings of the valley and the world.
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Creating a field
of togetherness, for orientation, for deepening our practice, regeneration, reflection on the essentials.
Sanko-ji
is the old name of the Zen hermitage founded by Gyoriki Volker Herskamp. His sincere practice and powerfully creative devotion have manifested a peaceful, deeply supportive place for meditation, which we would like to continue with gratitude and in service.
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