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Japanese yogini Yoshikawa Mae honored us with her visit and taught a yoga class at 6am on the free day: The pictures Mae took can be seen here: http://maeyoga.com/archives/5635

Today, the Buddha’s birthday is celebrated. in Antaiji, it is samu as usual.

Spring is approaching, the road is free again, and before sesshin we had the first new arrivals. We are eleven now (6 Japanese, 5 foreigners), and seven newcomers will arrive tomorrow. In the warmer parts of Japan, like Tokyo or Osaka, the cherry blossoms have already fallen. Many Japanese celebrate this event with a pinic … Read more

Since yesterday, the road to Antaiji is open again. To new practioners arrived, on from Japan, another from Estonia. There is still snow in the fields, but some tasks outside can be done already. Yudai is building a new barn to store trees, and today he is training with the power shovel, pulling some logs … Read more

This year’s samu started yesterday. As the road is still covered with snow, and it is too early to plow the fields, we continued with changing the window screens. Also, we now have a brand new wood stove in the kitchen. But the chimney needed some cleaning.