Zen Meditation & Practice
Drifting Mountain Zen is a Zen Buddhist meditation community offering online and in-person practice, including meditation sittings, classes, and retreats. Rooted in the Zen tradition, our community supports both new and experienced practitioners in deepening insight, mindfulness and compassionate living.
Drifting Mountain Zen, is an Utah non profit entity, founded by Mary Ellen Seien Sloan Roshi, to offer Zen teaching and meditation in Salt Lake City, including in the historic avenues.
She is a Dharma heir of Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi, the founder of Kanzeon Inc. and successor of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, founder of the Zen Center of Los Angeles.
A Zen meditation community offering online and in-person practice, classes, and retreats.
Welcome to Practice
Whether you are new to meditation or have practiced for many years, you are welcome to sit & practice with us.
Drifting Mountain Zen offers opportunities for practice both online and in-person, including meditation sittings, classes, and retreats.
Why Drifting Mountain?
Seien Roshi was inspired to name her organization Drifting Mountain upon seeing the water color painting by her brother, Timothy Sloan.
The mountains appear unmoving, — and yet the moment you look more closely, something within them begins to move. Their outlines soften into cloud. Their ridges dissolve into mist. Their peaks emerge, disappear, and re-emerge.
It is stillness that is alive — vibrant, breathing, responsive, awake.
The clouds swirl, the sky glows, the light shifts on the snow, and yet the whole scene rests in a quiet peace.