Springwater Center 

Saturday August 23 All-Day Sitting 8:30 - 4:00
A day of meditation with a talk by a Center teacher and an afternoon group dialogue. A requested donation of $15 includes vegetarian lunch. Please try to arrive between 8 and 8:15 a.m. If you plan to attend, please contact reception and also if you wish to stay as a guest the night before or after. Schedule for the all-day. 

August 30 - Sept. 6 - Seven-day retreat with Sandra Gonzalez
Space is still available in this Labor-Day encompassing retreat with Sandra (pictured in the Springwater kitchen). In this retreat Sandra will give talks, take part in dialogue groups and be available for private meetings. Hear a talk given by Sandra this July where she spoke of her own life—that it is essential for there to be an intimacy with right here, right now. The exploration is to wonder what is going on—the hurt, the discomfort, the wanting something different. Awareness can lead to understanding of how one's mind functions, allowing us to understand others because we are not dividing ourselves but rather recognizing ourselves in the other. More information about Sandra may be found on her page on the website.

August 17 - 29 and September 7 - 19  - Quiet Weeks 
During quiet weeks, the main building is in silence after work hours and there are more opportunities than usual to meet and dialogue with others. All three Springwater teachers will be in residence and available for group and private meetings during the quiet weeks periods. Please contact reception to register to stay all or part of the quiet weeks. (Please note that the memorial gathering for Eben Gulick described below will take place during the September quiet week period.)

September 20 - 27 - Seven-day Retreat with Richard Witteman
Richard will give talks, take part in the dialogue group each afternoon, and be available for private meetings. A quotation by Richard from his talk in the July retreat:
  "We may discover the miracle...that there really is something here that does not change, even as our states change. Something so indefinable and so transparent, that it goes unnoticed. 
   And so in a retreat, in a meditative community, in writings, we point to this with words: awareness, presence. In the Buddhist tradition, it's called our true self, our true nature . . . 
   These words are here simply to point us back to silence itself, to pure being. To acknowledge that yes, this that we call awareness is here. This beingness that is naturally here, does not have to be sought after, or created. It's simply here in the middle of thought, in the middle of activity, and in the silence of quietly sitting." Follow this link to hear the talk. For more information about Richard, see his page on the website. 

September 30 - October 6 - Center closed for staff break - Please do not plan to visit at this time.

October 11-17 - Big Sky Mind ~ Big Ocean Body, a Meditation and Continuum Movement Retreat
Mark Bryant and Cory Blake (pictured below) will hold this retreat that integrates meditation as practiced in the spirit of Springwater Center with the movement-based somatic work of Continuum Movement. In this retreat it is possible to discover the intimate relationship between movement and stillness and how each informs and nourishes each other. Indeed, one may find that movement and stillness are not separate. For more information about the retreat, please contact Mark by email (mudra.mark@gmail.com)