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Retreats
The Lotus Meditation Center strives to offer two non-residential weekend retreat experiences a year - Fall and Spring. Guest instructors provide teaching and concentrated practice to registrants. Scholarships are always available.
Upcoming Retreats
Fall 2013
Date: October 4-6, 2013
Donald Rothberg, returning teacher (bio below).
Theme: TBA
Spring 2014
Heather Sundberg, returning teacher (bio below).
Dates: March 7-9, 2014
Theme: TBA
Prior Retreats
Spring 2013
STAYING GROUNDED IN AN OPEN HEART an insight retreat on April 19-21, 2013 led by Susan Stone.
Susan Stone, Ph.D., teaches Mindfulness Stress Reduction at the University of Virginia and co-leads the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville, and has led mindfulness groups at men's and women's maximum-security prisons. Susan has been engaged in Buddhist practices for almost 30 years in the Zen and Theravadan traditions and has lived in Zen and Theravadan monasteries. Ordained as a Zen lay priest, she is author of At the Eleventh Hour (Present Perfect Books, 2001), a memoir about mindfulness and caregiving. Susan's latestbook is The Kosambi Intrigue; A Tale in the Time of the Buddha.
Fall 2012
THE EIGHT WORLDLY WINDS:PLEASURE/PAIN, GAIN/LOSS, PRAISE/BLAME, FAME/DISREPUTE, an insight retreat on October 5-7, 2012 led by Heather Sundberg.
Heather Sundberg began teaching meditation in 1999. She has completed the four-year Spirit Rock/Insight Meditation Society Senior Teacher Training under the guidance of Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein. For twenty years Heather has studied with senior teachers in the Insight Meditation and Tibetan traditions. She is a Teacher for Mountain Stream Meditation Center in the CA Sierra Foothills, and also teaches classes, day-longs and retreats nationally, especially at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. For more information about Heather.
Spring 2012
CULTIVATING CLEAR SEEING, OPENING THE HEART, an insight meditation retreat led by Donald Rothberg on April 27 – 29, 2012
Donald Rothberg, Ph.D, is a member of the Teachers Council at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Northern California and author of several books including The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World (Beacon Press, 2006). In this retreat he will emphasize how mindfulness, wisdom, and the awakened heart are interwoven, and how to bring clear seeing and the open heart more into our daily lives.
Fall 2011
EQUANIMITY: FINDING BALANCE OF HEART WITHIN OUR LIVES - Insight Meditation Retreat with Heather Sundberg
Heather Sundberg began teaching meditation in 1999. She has completed the four-year Spirit
Rock/Insight Meditation Society Teacher Training and continues to be mentored by Jack Kornfield.
Beginning her own meditation practice in her late teens, for twenty years Heather has studied with senior teachers in the Insight Meditation and Tibetan traditions, and has sat 1-3 months of retreat a year for over a decade. She is a Teacher for Mountain Stream Meditation Center in the CA Sierra Foothills, and also teaches classes, daylongs and retreats nationally, especially at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
Spring 2011
FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE PRESENT: THE MINDFULL WAY TO FREEDOM - An Insight Meditation Retreat with Lynn Rossy
Lynn Rossy returned to the Lotus Meditation Center to lead the retreat and presented a session on mindful-based eating on the UND Campus the Monday following.
Fall 2010
LIVING WITH LOVE, LETTING GO: An Insight Meditation Retreat with Susan Stone
Susan Stone, Ph.D., teaches Mindfulness Stress Reduction at the University of Virginia and co-leads the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville, and has led mindfulness groups at men's and women's maximum-security prisons. Susan has been engaged in Buddhist practices for almost 30 years in the Zen and Theravadan traditions and has lived in Zen and Theravadan monasteries. Ordained as a Zen lay priest, she is author of At the Eleventh Hour (Present Perfect Books, 2001), a memoir about mindfulness and caregiving.
Spring 2010
THE JOY OF MINDFULESS: An Insight Meditation Retreat with Lynn Rossy
Lynn Rossy’s career and personal trajectory have been interwoven with spiritual practice, teaching, and researching since 1989. She is the founder of the Mindfulness Practice Center at the University of Missouri where she teaches mindfulness programs to faculty and staff. She has been teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Programs since 2001 and has done extensive training at the Center for Mindfulness in Massachusetts. Having completed the Community Dharma Leader training through Spirit Rock Meditation Center, she teaches Vipassana meditation as part of the Teacher’s Collective at Show Me Dharma in Columbia, Missouri, where she serves as President of the Board of Directors. She completed a 200-hour National Yoga Alliance Yoga Teacher Certification Program at Kripalu Institute. A Course in Miracles greatly influences her teaching. Facilitating groups for 10 years in this tradition, she remains a student of the Course. Her spiritual perspective is influenced by Theravadan and Tibetan Buddhism, Yogic Principles, and Christian mystical tradtions.
Fall 2009
RADICAL INTIMACY: An Insight Meditation Retreat with David Chernikoff
David Chernikoff began the study and practice of meditation in 1971 and started teaching insight meditation in 1988. He trained as a yoga teacher at the Integral Yoga Institute and completed the Community Dharma Leader Program at Spirit Rock meditation Center. His teaching has been influenced by senior teachers from the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock, Tibetan teachers he studied with during a 3-year stay in Nepal, and spiritual guides from other contemplative traditions, most notably Ram Dass, Father Thomas Keating, and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. David teaches meditation and psychology at Naropa University and has a private practice as a psychotherapist and spiritual counselor in Boulder. He is one of the guiding teachers of the Insight Meditation Community of Colorado.