Spring Update Spring’s beauty is burgeoning slowly this year in Springwater. Covid precautions are in place and there is space available in all upcoming retreats with different options offered for in-person and online participation. Take a look! Covid Update: Vaccination plus one booster is currently required. Masks are required during in-person events. Testing is not currently … Read More
There is hope in people. Not in society, not in systems, but in you and me. … Read More
In its timeless way, meditative work endures. What is your take on it? It’s been 40 years since the first retreat! Yes, it’s been 40 years since the first retreat at Camp Onanda in March 1982. Where were you in ’82? If you were there, or were a part of the nascent organzation then known … Read More
Now Open for In-Person Guest Stays With numerous Covid precautions in place, the Center has officially reopened to 10 or fewer in-person guests at one time. Staff are excited to share space and quiet with friends once again. Please email reception for details and for information regarding necessary Covid precautions, including vaccines, testing, masking, and arrival … Read More
The wholeness of this moment is so generous in saying, in indicating, what needs to be done. —Toni Packer Pausing In-Person Center Gatherings Rising Covid concerns have prompted the closure of the Center’s main house to in-person guests and retreat participants until at least mid January. Staff, in consultation with medical … Read More
2021 Year-End Appeal Thanks to unprecedented support throughout the pandemic, Springwater Center reopened for in-person retreats and guest stays in June, while continuing to offer online access to timed sittings, dialogues and retreats. It is heartwarming to see the life-enriching work of meditative inquiry more accessible than ever before. However, social-distancing precautions have reduced the … Read More
Whatever is said here about the ‘me network,’ or ‘self’ is not said judgmentally, critically, or with the implication: this is something you have to get rid of, control it. None of that. This is not the essence of this work. The essence is to begin to observe, to question, to come in intimate touch … Read More
“In describing, interpreting, judging, associating with past experiences, and the emotions that go with all of that, is there still the wind in the trees, now?” — Toni Packer, Founder 4-day Silent Retreat with Stew Glick Friday, October 8 – Tuesday, October 12 OPEN for online particpation. Register here. FULL … Read More
In person and online participation at the Sept 18-25 retreat available. September Update Sitting quietly, doing nothing, not knowing what is next and not concerned with what was or what may be next, a new mind is operating that is not connected with the conditioned past and yet perceives and understands the whole mechanism of … Read More
In person and online participation at silent retreats continue. Upcoming Retreats We rarely touch this. We rarely contact this simple moment. So used to constant input and excitement, we lack fine-tuning into all the subtleties of this instant, the ability to register a quiet aliveness without the stirring of expectation.