[mping]

I commend you guys to work on a donation basis; also it's important to have someone with training (a former monk?) as the teacher.

Personally, what I find confusing about the website is that it conveys a feeling of a Buddhist monastery (with the leave and meditation posture as symbol, the domain name clearly aims at monasticism) but I'm not sure if it is a monastery or not; not sure if the teacher is a monk or not; the meditation section also notes that there are talks about Buddhism but not exclusively.

If people want to teach mindfulness its none of my business, but if you want to teach some kind of Buddhism I believe it is best to leave it at the Buddhist monks and nuns - those are the ones that can/should teach in the first place.

[mrdomino_]

Our teacher is ordained under Shodo Harada Roshi: http://www.monasticacademy.com/teacher/

I suppose it might have helped you for that info to be on the "Meet Us" page. Is that true? Where else did you expect to find it?

We are not a monastery, in that none of us except Forall are ordained. But we wake up each day at 4:30 AM, chant and sit for multiple hours a day, and set aside time regularly to devote all our attention to formal practice. "Monastic Academy" is our current best attempt at conveying something like that in two words that people can remember. I welcome any feedback for how to do it better.

[mping]

The information is on the right place I guess but the site's first impression conveys to me that it is an academy for training monastics. Just one data point, but I would change the domain to something like spiritual academy. Kudos for following the schedule, I have been to a couple of retreats and know how hard it is.