AiA Event

Donnerstag, 30.01.2025 – 19:00 Uhr – Live & Free with Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi & nico hase PhD

This event is for you if...

You are interested in gaining insight

into the basics of Zen practice.

Are you curious about Zen teachings but don't know where to start? This event offers you an introduction.

You want to know if ‘Awake in Aciton’ is the right program for you.

Discover how the 4‒week online journey with a 4‒day intensive at Crestone Mountain Zen Center supports your practice and offers guidance on your personal Zen path.

You want to take inspiration for everyday practice with you

Practical suggestions to help you integrate Zen practice into your everyday life.

You want to learn more about the newly developed Dharma Sangha Zen curriculum.

For four years, Baker Roshi and Baden Roshi have been working on laying the groundwork and teaching it step by step. Together with nico hase, the Awake in Action course is part of this development.

Awake in Action:

A Path to Embodied Presence

Build a foundation with four online sessions, then develop your practice in an immersive four-day retreat at Crestone Mountain Zen Center. With the dramatic high-mountain landscape supporting clarity and attentive presence.

We’ll begin by exploring the depth of “Now” – Situated Immediacy. Through lectures, collective sitting, and practical guidance, you’ll discover how to bring practice off the cushion and into the richness of everyday life—while staying grounded at your center.

If you can’t join us in person at Crestone Mountain Zen Center, you’re welcome to participate in this 4-day retreat Online Only, or simply take part in the 4-week journey without the retreat. Explore your options below and choose what fits best for you.

Topics

Ground, Let Go, Live Awake, Integrate.

Four online sessions leading into a retreat.

Discover how to ground yourself in the midst of chaos, let go into change, bring presence into daily life, and integrate discipline with ease. Each session offers practical tools and embodied guidance, preparing you for a deeper immersion in retreat.

Schedule

September 25 – October 20, 2025

Four weeks of online sessions, culminating in a four-day retreat (in-person at Crestone Mountain Zen Center or virtually).

This clear structure supports step-by-step integration into your everyday life.

Course Elements

Live sessions with both teachers,
study guides,
online zendo: meditation with the monastics,
and unlimited access to recordings.

The retreat—on site or virtual—adds intensive practice, personal guidance, and collective immersion.

Ways to Join

Complete Program (Online + In-person Retreat): Four online sessions + four-day retreat at Crestone, including meals, accommodation, and individual guidance.
Online + Virtual Retreat: Four online sessions + four-day retreat experience online with personal support.
Online Series Only: Four online sessions, study guides, and access to recordings and community forum.

What participants from other Dharma Academy courses say

"The talks were a gift—offering vivid images and examples to deepen what was already familiar. Through them, I rediscovered the silence within me.

Following the clear, methodical path over the course of a year, I was able to observe everyday mind and original mind more finely and to ‘re-adjust’ them.

Thank you for the motivation and the invitation to keep showing up—again attentive, and again anew."

— Astrid

"This program opened up a new, deeper quality of practice for me.

Only now am I beginning to taste what ‘embodied practice’ truly means—and how it feels.

Through the valuable talks, practice impulses, and exchange meetings, my life is becoming more and more permeated with being fully alive and intimately connected with the world."

— Beate

"I joined this program to stay connected.

The input from Nicole Baden Roshi was always rich and inspiring.

Beyond that, I built fulfilling connections with people I had also met in person.

In the exchange meetings, I could speak from silence and practice attentive listening, and in the morning online meditation, I experienced a quiet sense of community."

— Rolf

"Nicole’s blend of psychology and Zen is profoundly helpful and immediately practical. Her teachings clarified my path through life's challenges."

— Hans-Werner

"What I love most about nico is that while honoring the sacred Buddhist tradition, his teaching is refreshing, playful, practical and so applicable to our crazy hectic everyday lives."

— Jade

"The talks were a gift—offering vivid images and examples to deepen what was already familiar. Through them, I rediscovered the silence within me.

Following the clear, methodical path over the course of a year, I was able to observe everyday mind and original mind more finely and to ‘re-adjust’ them.

Thank you for the motivation and the invitation to keep showing up—again attentive, and again anew."

— Astrid

"This program opened up a new, deeper quality of practice for me.

Only now am I beginning to taste what ‘embodied practice’ truly means—and how it feels.

Through the valuable talks, practice impulses, and exchange meetings, my life is becoming more and more permeated with being fully alive and intimately connected with the world."

— Beate

"I joined this program to stay connected.

The input from Nicole Baden Roshi was always rich and inspiring.

Beyond that, I built fulfilling connections with people I had also met in person.

In the exchange meetings, I could speak from silence and practice attentive listening, and in the morning online meditation, I experienced a quiet sense of community."

— Rolf

"Nicole’s blend of psychology and Zen is profoundly helpful and immediately practical. Her teachings clarified my path through life's challenges."

— Hans-Werner

"What I love most about nico is that while honoring the sacred Buddhist tradition, his teaching is refreshing, playful, practical and so applicable to our crazy hectic everyday lives."

— Jade

Alles, was du über die Rundum zen Auftaktveranstaltung wissen musst

📅 Termin: Donnerstag, 30. Januar 2025 // 19:00 Uhr (Online-Event)

Ablauf:

👋 Begrüßung

Ein herzliches Willkommen durch Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi.

🌱 Einführung:

Was ist Zen eigentlich?

📝 Überblick über ‚Rundum Zen 1‘:

Ein Einblick in das Dharma Sangha Curriculum – inklusive Inhalte und Struktur des Programms.

❓ Live-Q&A:

Stelle deine Fragen zum Jahresprogramm.

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Über die Kursleiterin

Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi (*1981) ist Dharma-Nachfolgerin von Zentatsu Baker Roshi. Sie praktiziert seit 2001 mit der Dharma Sangha. Bis 2009 studierte sie Psychologie an der Universität Oldenburg und absolvierte parallel eine Ausbildung in der körpertherapeutischen Methode Body Mind Centering©. Anschließend lebte sie vier Jahre im Crestone Mountain Zen Center in Colorado, USA und ist seit 2013 im Zen Buddhistischen Zentrum Schwarzwald. Im September 2024 trat Tatsudo Roshi offiziell die Nachfolge an und leitet seitdem als Äbtin die spirituelle Ausrichtung der Dharma Sangha.