Monika Wirkkala
Director, Department for Sweden promotion, for Sweden communication and analysis, The Swedish Institute. Initiator in Acem.
Online meditation weekend retreat for North America (others are also welcome)
Experience and explore the silence of long meditation from the comfort of your own home. Join qualified instructors and fellow meditators from North America and perhaps other parts of the world.
You have practiced Acem Meditation for some time and have benefited from the stress release and mental digestion of the day's residues that your practice provides. Perhaps now is the time to take the next step and explore how to deepen and intensify your meditation process?
A weekend retreat – consisting of longer meditations, guidance, seminars, and group exercises – will help you to understand your meditation process better. The retreat will also give you an opportunity to practice and refine important nuances in the way you perform the technique, enhancing and deepening both short- and long-term benefits.
The program is based on our experience from online retreats we have held in Europe that have been very well received. The time schedule of the program is specifically set up to suit North America, but other participants from throughout the world are, of course, also welcome.
12.00-13.00 (EDT)/18.00-19.00 (CEST) Introduction (online)
13.15-15.15 (EDT)/19.15-21.15 (CEST) Meditation (at home)
15.30-16.45 (EDT)/21.30-22.45 (CEST) Guidance groups (online)
16.45-17.30 (EDT)/22.45-23.30 (CEST Plenary - summing up and advice (online)
17.30-18.00 (EDT)/23.30-00.00 (CEST) Buddy talks (online)
Saturday October 25
08.00-08.45 (EDT)/14.00.14.45 (CEST) Acem Yoga (instruction online, optional - recommended)
09.00-12.00 (EDT)/15.00-18.00 (CEST) Meditation (at home)
12.15-13.45 (EDT)/18.15-19.45 (CEST) Guidance groups (online)
13.45-14.30 (EDT)/19.45-20.30 (CEST) Lunch (at home or online)
14.30-15.15 (EDT)/20.30-21.15 (CEST) Seminar (online)
15.15-16.15 (EDT)/21.15-22.15 (CEST) Meditation (at home)
16.30-17.00 (EDT)/22.30-23.00 (CEST) Plenary - summing up (online)
17.00-17.30 (EDT)/23.00-23.30 (CEST) Buddy talks (online)
(Europe, but not the US, will shift to standard time/winter time the night between Saturday and Sunday, making the time difference one hour shorter on Sunday)
Sunday October 26
09.00-09.45 (EDT)/14.00.14.45 (CEST) Acem Yoga (online, optional - recommended)
10.00-13.00 (EDT)/15.00-18.00 (CEST) Meditation (at home)
13.15-14.45 (EDT)/18.15-19.45 (CEST) Guidance groups (online)
14.45-15.30 (EDT)/19.45-20.45 (CEST) Plenary session/Seminar (online)
15.45-16.30 (EDT)/20.45-21.30 (CEST) Lunch (at home or online)
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us. Write to Gøsta Thommesen: [email protected] / WhatsApp +4790769030.
Director, Department for Sweden promotion, for Sweden communication and analysis, The Swedish Institute. Initiator in Acem.
Professor Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo. Acem Meditation instructor.
Instructor in Acem Meditation and has practiced it for 50 years. He is a Supreme Court barrister (ret.) and an expert on tax law.