That means, if you raise $500, Clouds will receive $1,000!

How to Get Started

CLICK HERE to visit our GiveMN page, where you can donate or create a fundraising page.
Sign up to participate by creating a fundraising page. (CLICK HERE to watch a simple tutorial)

Set your personal fundraising goal (consider $1,000)
Share your page with your community! Woo!
Come and sit with us! Registration is not required. This is a beautiful opportunity to sit with community over a 24hr period. Nighttime is especially magical.
Email Eisho at eisho@cloudsinwater.org to volunteer (donate food/snacks, greet, teach yoga, lead chanting, clean-up, etc.)

This is more than a meditation—it’s a movement of care, community, and collective support.

Our fundraising goal for the Sit-a-Thon is $50,000. These funds directly support every aspect of running a Zen community refuge.

Every dollar donated to the Sit-A-Thon will be matched dollar for dollar with a gift towards paying down the mortgage!!

You’re Invited!

Volunteer your time to help bring this event to life.
Make a donation to sustain the Zen Center.
Create your own fundraising page on GiveMN and invite others to support your “sit”.

Whether you sit for peace, love, justice, or healing—your presence makes a difference.

Give on our pledge page!

This is our biggest fundraiser, but it’s more than a way to raise funds–we hope that through sitting together, inviting others in our lives to join or support us, and encouraging meditators throughout the city to participate, we’re reminding our community that Clouds is a sanctuary. We are run primarily on donations and no one is turned away for lack of funds for any of our programming. This year, every dollar donated to the Sit-A-Thon will be matched, dollar-for-dollar, with a gift towards paying down the mortgage!!!

Check it out
Sit with us!

Whether you come for half an hour, a couple times throughout the weekend, or, like our guiding teacher did last year, practice for the whole 24 hours (what?!), you are welcome. People will be on hand to orient you if you’re new to meditation. There are options to do sitting or walking meditation and there will be a guided meditation and the ringing of 108 bells in the last 90 minutes. You can also join us on Zoom. We’ll celebrate at the end with a community potluck, and there will be food provided by our tenzo ryo throughout the event. Childcare will be available - please see the schedule.

Weekend Details
Volunteer

Do you want to help be a greeter, serve food at the lunch, lead yoga or chanting, or otherwise support the effort in person? Email eisho@cloudsinwater.org and we’ll set you up.

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