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1.
Dates and Places
2008
June Young Adult Retreat 4
PM June 7 th to 1 PM June 13th
(6 nights) Padmasambhava
Peace Institute
Cazadero, CA (west of Santa Rosa) Teachers:Tempel Smith, Spring Washam, Marvin Belzer and Dori Langevin
2009 June Young Adult Retreat 4 PM June 28th to 1 PM July 4th (6 nights) Padmasambhava Peace Institute
Cazadero, CA (west of Santa Rosa) Teachers:Tempel Smith, Spring Washam, Marvin Belzer and Dori Langevin
2.
BPF Retreat Description This
BPF Young Adult Retreat is an opportunity to explore Mindfulness practice
through guided periods of silent sitting and walking meditation,
small group discussions, creative activities, and unstructured
free time. Besides learning the formal meditation practices
there are also times to go for walks, play music, tell stories,
and enjoy a bonfire on the last night. Since meditation practice
may be new to some each period of sitting meditation will
be limited to half an hour.
Blue times - optional silence
Black times - silent
Teachers:
Tempel Smith has been practicing Insight
and Metta meditation since the 1989 including a year as a
fully ordained monk in Burma. He is the founder of BASE
House, a collective of socially engage Dharma practitioners.
He is currently organizes the Young Adult programs
and is in teacher training at SRMC.
Tempel has been leading retreats for adults and youth for
ten years.
Spring Washam is a spiritual activist, teacher and co-founder of the East Bay Meditation Center. She is considered a pioneer in bringing mindfulness based meditation practices to youth and communities of color. Spring is a Spirit Rock community dharma leader and is in teacher training with Jack Kornfield at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She currently teaches workshops, classes and retreats for youth and adults throughout the U.S.
Marvin
Belzer has practiced vipassana since 1982, studying
primarily with Sayadaw U Pandita since 1986. He teaches
philosophy and meditation at Bowling Green University in Ohio,
and has helped develop the Young Adult retreat from its beginning
18 years ago.
Dori Langevin has practiced insight meditation since 1997 and served on the Teachers Council of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC since 2003. Her special interest is the interface between mindfulness practice, addiction recovery and emotional healing. Dori is in teacher training with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein and now resides in Spokane Valley, Washington.
Meals
are vegetarian and are prepared with tastes and preferences
of young people in mind.
3.
To Receive and Application To
receive the application form email june.ya@bpf.org
4.
Cost and Scholarships The
total cost of the retreat is $495 to $295 sliding scale. A
$100 deposit is needed when the application is sent in, though
only send in $65 with the application if you are applying
for a scholarship.
We
have three ways to help those with greater financial
limitations. The first is a payment plan where the retreat
can be paid for over several months. The second is a partial
scholarship and the third is a small grant to any one who
has worked or volunteered in a progressive non-profit agency.
Please call or email us for more information concerning financial
support.
