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Teachers
Barbara Brodsky
has been practicing meditation since 1960.
She has dual roots in the Buddhist and Quaker traditions and her
teaching reflects this balance. Barbara teaches insight or vipassana
meditation and practices derived from the dzogchen (non-dual
awareness) traditions to people of all faiths, traveling throughout
the world. She is the guiding teacher and founder of Deep Spring
Center.
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John Orr received his training in Thailand and India and was a Buddhist monk for eight years. Since 1980 he has led retreats around the country and presently lives in North Carolina where he does transpersonal counseling and teaches at Duke University.
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Lisa Zucker began meditating in 1999. She has been practicing vipassana with DSC since 2001. Lisa joined Deep Spring’s teacher training program in 2006 and since has taught classes through Ann Arbor Rec/Ed and DSC. The Dharma has led to greater compassion, clarity, kindness, wisdom and love in Lisa’s life. It is her great joy to be sharing the teachings with others, guiding and supporting them on their journeys.
Aaronis
a disincarnate spirit that speaks through Barbara. He was a
vipassana meditation master of the Theravadin tradition in his final
lifetime. His teaching draws from this background, but he also
reminds us that, like all of us, he has lived in many bodies, had
many shades of skin, and followed many spiritual paths. Aaron is a
being of great love, compassion, wisdom and gentle humor.
Deep Spring Center Summer 2012 Silent Retreat
Letting Go Into the Infinite:
How to skillfully work with limiting beliefts and conditional mind
Date: June 16-22 or June 16-18, 2012
Where: Emrich Center, Brighton, MI
Teachers: Barbara Brodsky, John Orr and Aaron with Lisa Zucker
Level: All levels
Cost: $470 for 7 days (6 nights) and $255
for 3 days (2 nights); includes meals and lodging.
A $25 discount if
registration with full payment is received by May 19.
Full payment and registration deadline is June 2. Your payment/deposit is refundable minus a $25 cancellation-processing fee until May 19; after that it is refundable only if someone is on the waiting list to take your place.
Scholarships are available; inquire if you need financial assistance.
Tenting is an option. Retreat cost is the same.
ONLINE REGISTRATION - 7 days (6 nights)
ONLINE REGISTRATION - 3 days (2 nights)
Registration opens at noon, the retreat begins mid-afternoon Saturday, June 16 and ends Friday, June 22 after lunch. The 3-day retreat will end after the dharma talk on Monday evening. Experienced meditators, with permission of the teacher, may conduct a self-retreat.
For complete information - 2012 flyer (pdf)
The retreat will be held in noble silence, with instructions for beginning and advanced meditators. Evening talks, optional group meetings and private interviews with teachers. Mindfulness throughout the day will be the intention, with alternating periods of sitting and walking practice.
Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect any praise or reward. If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have alot of peace. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace and freedom and your struggles with the world will come to an end. - Ajahn Chah
What is a Meditation Retreat?
A meditation retreat is a wonderful opportunity to experience our own inner being while sharing in the support of others. Mindfulness throughout the day will be a focus, with alternating periods of sitting and walking practice. The retreat will be held in silence.
A typical day at retreat includes instruction for beginning and advanced meditators, lots of sitting and walking meditation, optional small group meetings or private interviews with the teachers, a rest or personal period, and an evening dharma talk.
This kind of retreat may not be appropriate for all people. If you have concerns about your emotional stability under the pressures of a deeply introspective meditation experience, please discuss your concerns with a Deep Spring teacher prior to registering.
If finances are a concern, please let us know. Scholarships are available. Registration fees cover room and board. Teachings are offered on a dana basis.
Insight Meditation
Insight Meditation (vipassana) is a simple and
direct practice: the moment to moment investigation of the mind/body
process through calm, focused awareness which allows us to experience
sensations, emotions, thoughts and consciousness with greater clarity
and balance. This frees our mind from conditioned patterns of
self-centeredness, negativity and confusion, and opens our heart to
deeper wisdom and compassion. This process of opening compassionately to
ourselves moves from the sitting period to the whole of our lives. Each
moment is practice for our growth toward wholeness and harmony.
The meditations derive from Buddhist traditions but no special
religious beliefs are necessary to their practice.
Vipassana Meditation Retreat
Along with vipassana, we will work with the practices of loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity.
There will be separate instruction periods to meet the needs of students with different levels of meditation experience.
Location and Schedulue
The retreat will be held at Emrich Center, southwest of Brighton, Michigan. This 26-acre retreat facility, with a nearby lake for swimming lies within 5,000 acres of state land. Tenting is permitted.
Registration opens at noon, the retreat begins mid-afternoon Saturday, June 16 and ends Friday, June 22 after lunch. The 3-day retreat will end after the dharma talk on Monday evening. Experienced meditators, with permission of the teacher, may conduct a self-retreat.