Summer Retreat Program
From August 24 to 30 (arrival on the 23rd in the afternoon).
Led by Zen Master Bon Shim.
The retreats are silent, in our Mountain Zen Center located in the middle of nature, in the incredible Alta Garrotxa Natural Park, in the Pyrenees: the ideal place for a retreat. The participants follow an intensive program of sitting and walking mediation, chanting, bowing and formal meals, trying to keep alive the practice of attention at all times.
About the teacher:
Bon Shim SSN (Zen Master Aleksandra Porter) received Inka in 1992 from Zen Master Seung Sahn and Dharma transmission in 2006 from Zen Master Wu Bong. She is the Guiding Teacher of Kwan Um School of Zen centers and groups in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Catalonia and regularly leads Kyol Ches in Poland as well as teaching extensively throughout Eastern and Western Europe, Korea and the United States. She was a student of Zen Master Seung Sahn from the time of his first visit to Poland in 1978 and lives at the Warsaw Zen Center, Wu Bong Sa.
Price: 280€ / 230€ (KUSZ member) / 200€ (Bori Zen Center active member)
Download practical information, please read it carefully as it forms the basis of your participation in the retreat:
-Practical information (what to bring, program, retreat rules)
To consider:
Please, register as soon as possible to facilitate the organization of transport and stay in Bori Sa.
The journey by car from the airport to Bori Sa (and vice versa) can take more than 3 hours. Please, at the time of booking the flight, try that the arrival to the airport is early (before 11: 00h) and that the return trip departs as late as possible (from 19:00 h.)
Upon return, if necessary, there is the option of staying overnight at the Bori Zen Center Barcelona until the next day (limited places, please contact by email with the center at boricentrozen@hotmail.com).
An attempt will be made to organize transportation in such a way that people arriving from outside will get to Bori Sa in the cars of the local Sangha.
If you come in groups of 4 or more people and there are not enough seats, it would be convenient to rent a car at the airport.
If there is no seat available in any car, part of the route must be done by bus. The Teisa bus station is located in Barcelona (map).
From Barcelona airport you can arrive by taxi (30m, € 25) or by public transport (Aerobús to Plaza Catalunya or train Rodalies R2N – Sant Celoni, 4 stops to Passeig de Gracia, € 4.20).
Each bus trip costs € 16.30, takes around 2h and has the following schedules:
- Going
- Departures from Barcelona: 09:30, 14:00, 17:00, 19:00
- Arrivals in Argelaguer: 11:13, 15:43, 18:43, 20:43
- Return
- Departures from Argelaguer: 07:51, 16:51, 18:51
- Arrivals in Barcelona: 09:55, 18:55, 20:55
(The deadline for registration is 7 days before retreat)
At the end of the retreat will take place the European Sangha Weekend, all the information here.
