Upcoming retreats and other news Walking the Trails While the main building remains closed, the Center’s beautiful trails through fields and woods, passing by streams, ravines and cascade, are open to members and friends who would like to take a day-time hike. Bring a lunch to enjoy on the trail benches or by the pond. … Read More
Upcoming online retreats offer opportunities to quiet down inside. Winter Reflections On a moonlit night in Springwater, NY snowflakes fall softly to the ground, each flake a unique wonder. One falls on another and then another joins until something new forms like some preordained plan. So graceful. When we humans come together it is perhaps … Read More
Good news of community, online retreats and meditation sittings As the Year Ends A year that presented dramatic and unforeseen challenges is coming to an end with a feeling of renewed energy. In March this year a younger generation of staff and volunteers rapidly responded to the Center’s closing by erecting an online platform … Read More
Good news of online events, a cabin and garage, but your help is essential Annual Appeal It is because of the generous contributions of so many of you over the years and attendance at retreats that Springwater Center has remained a place for both group and individual retreats. This year we have had to close … Read More
End of Summer and Early Fall Offerings at Springwater Center End of Summer, Early Fall Offerings We can find cause and effect relations between what’s going on now and what’s happened in the past. All of us, all humanity is a result of the past. Of the whole past. In one way or another as … Read More
In this newsletter read writings on meditative inquiry in current events In this newsletter we offer three essays reflecting on current events written by Springwater Center teachers Sandra Gonzalez, Susan Schepp and Stew Glick. Susan and Sandra will be leading an online retreat August 29 – September 5 and Stew will be leading another October … Read More
Online offerings continue August News What are we when there is no one doing anything, no one attaining anything, no place to go? There is no place to go. The whole foundation is already here in each one of us. It is the same in all of us. —Toni Packer It’s been a sunny and … Read More
All retreats will be held online this year. We hope you will join us. We’re Offering Online Retreats Springwater Center will continue to offer its scheduled retreats online until the end of the year. If conditions change and it becomes possible to resume in person retreats or be open to welcome guests, we will let … Read More
We are still holding retreats and meeting in new and wonderful ways. Hello Friends Spring blossoms into summer and seemingly in a flash there is this burgeoning of colors, new birds, and blooms and leaves weighing down branches which just yesterday were bare. So it is… A few yesterdays ago we wondered how we would … Read More
Retreats, sittings, and meetings are, in a way, more accessible than ever. Staying Connected As Toni Packer said in The Light of Discovery, “In truth we are not separate from each other or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of stars, not separate from the entire universe. Listening silently in … Read More