International One Week Deepening Retreat
A deepening retreat offers the possibility to experience the full effect of Acem Meditation, leading to essential changes in your meditative process and in everyday life.
You can check in from 15:00 and meditate in your own room.
A deepening retreat is suitable for Acem meditators who already have some experience with long meditations and who want to practice meditations of more than six hours.
Long meditations
A deepening retreat gives you an opportunity for daily long meditations of at least six hours. The retreat will focus on how to enhance your meditation. All activity under the course of the day is designed to stimulate the deeper meditative process.
Guidance groups
The long hours of silence are followed by daily process-oriented guidance groups led by experienced meditation guides, in order to maximize the results of long meditations.
This retreat may offer guidance groups in Scandinavian.
Seminars
Questions arising from performing long meditations, along with meditative and existential topics will be covered in the evening seminars.
Walk and talk
There will be ample time for walks in the beautiful surrounding areas. Some of the walking time is combined with one-on-one discussions of themes and issues from your meditation.
Yoga
Sessions of basic Acem Yoga have a refreshing effect and facilitate the practice of long meditations.
Typical daily programme
0730 - 0830: Breakfast, exercise
0830 - 1600: Silence for meditation
1600 - 1630: Yoga
1630 - 1700: Pause
1700 - 1900: Process guidance
1900 - 2000: Dinner
2000 - 2130: Seminar
Who may participate?
Deepening retreats are for regular meditators who already have experience from regular weeklong Acem Meditation retreats and who are prepared to participate in the entire retreat.
The venue
Acem International Retreat Centre at Halvorsbøle is situated outside Oslo in beautiful and peaceful surroundings. Most of the rooms have a direct view of the Randsfjord lake.
Other retreats
A Young Retreat, an International Regular Summer Retreat and other International Deepening Retreats take place each year. See the dates on our calendar.
For people with ample experience from deepening retreats, Acem also arranges advanced deepening retreats.
IMPORTANT PRACTICAL INFORMATION
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Student fee is only available to full-time students aged 35 years or less. Full-time students under 30 years of age can apply for student scholarship.
Cancellation deadline: December 30.
The language of this retreat is English. Guidance groups in Scandinavian may be offered.
Course type: Deepening Retreats
The course is arranged by Acem International School of Meditation
Course number: V25500
Instructors
Turid Berg-Nielsen
Professorin der Psychologie an der University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.
Leiterin von Acem Deutschland.
Meditationslehrerin
Christopher Grøndahl
Acem Meditation Initiator. Novelist and Screenwriter.