Enlightenment Intensive Masters Training with Pitaka, 2026
Pitaka will offer a complete online training for new masters, with group and individual sessions, in a structured study and practice series, starting in January, 2025. Online group meetings will be held twice per month, Sunday mornings in the US. and Sunday evenings in European time zones.
See the Training Registration page to submit an application & reserve your space.
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Pitaka led 60 Enlightenment Intensives and staffed many large and small intensives with other masters before training groups in the US and Europe online.
Pitaka is ordained in Soto Zen. She spent twelve years in Zen monastic life, attending many long practice periods with both Soto and Rinzai Zen teachers.
Previously Pitaka spent time with teachers of Advaita Vedanta and Sufi teachers and with Christian mystics.
The Enlightenment Intensive does not require any beliefs or religion, and is compatible with all as it is based on pure inquiry.
View The Documentary film Boundless Heart Below
This film was produced by Pitaka and a small film crew. Participants from many countries spoke about their experiences on the soundtrack. In this documentary about intensives you will hear reports of profound shifts in consciousness, often referred to as a Kensho in Zen. This is a direct experience of the deeper, unchanging, and therefore reliable Reality that many spiritual seekers pursue.
This life-changing discovery is irreversible, yet often becomes a memory. Paradoxically, this can leave a gap or in-congruence between the wondrous revelation or insight, and daily living. The change needed to close this gap may require healing, and learning. in Zen, a direct experience of the deeper, unchanging, reliable Reality that many spiritual seekers pursue.