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 practise 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 maximise the results of long meditations.
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
Daily sessions of basic Acem Yoga have a refreshing effect and facilitate the practice of long meditations.
Typical daily programme
0730 - 0830: Breakfast, exercise
0830 - 1530: Silence for meditation
1530 - 1600: Pause
1600 - 1730: Process guidance
1745 - 1830: Yoga
1845 - 1945: Dinner
2000 - 2130: Seminar
2130 - 2200: Technical group
2200 - 2300: Walk and talk
In order to take part in a deepening retreat you need to:
- have regular meditation habits
- have at least 20 hours of long meditations above the three-hour limitfrom a weeklong retreat of Acem Meditation
- intend to take part in the entire retreat, from beginning to end
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.
Reduced fee for two weeks
You may combine this retreat with the International Deepening Retreat with Acem’s Founder in the week before and pay a discounted fee by registering via the Two-Week International Deepening Retreat.
For other retreats, see the dates on our calendar.
For people with ample experience from deepening retreats, Acem also arranges advanced deepening retreats.
IMPORTANT PRACTICAL INFORMATION
on accommodation, payment, transport, and contact info
When ordering using the online registration link above, please remember to choose the appropriate price alternative before clicking the button. An alternative registration and payment method is described on the practical information page.
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: July 15.
Course type: Deepening Retreats
The course is arranged by Acem International School of Meditation
Course number: V24301
Instructors
Halvor Eifring
General Secretary of Acem International. Professor of Chinese, University of Oslo.
Øyvind Ellingsen
Acem Meditation Initiator. MD, PhD, Professor of Cellular Cardiology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.