Dogens Way & Feldenkrais
retreat in Sweden
29/5 - 1/6 2025
A four day silent meditation retreat at Joakim Rzepkas retreat center and home called Stora Lugnet course & retreat. It's a beautiful place close to nature, connected to the house you find deep forest, streams, fields and mountains.
Thursday 29 May at 18:00 to Sunday 1 June ca15.00
Stora Lugnet's course & retreat 200km north of Stockholm. See link below for map & location.
Gullsjövägen, 47, Järbo, Sweden
Like to go directly to registe, click: here
Welcome!
A day on this retreat includes four blocks of meditation, where we start and end the day together with an hour of sitting meditation - zazen. The remaining blocks will be, as we in the Ordinary Mind tradition call Dogen's Way, an unstructured block where you choose whether you want to do sitting meditation on a chair or cushion, do slow or fast walking meditation outside, in the yard or in the forest.
During the day of meditaion there is an opportunity for a private conversation with Joakim Rzepka who can listen, provide support and guidance in your meditation practice or answer questions that have come up during the silence, so-called daisan. Every day we also provide service & help with the household, cooking, we listening to teisho (speech), reciting sutras, as well as a shorter yin yoga session and an 1h Feldenkrais class, ATM “Awareness Through Movement” .
Feldenkrais is a sensorimotor awareness training created by Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984). The purpose of the method is to raise the individual's awareness both physically and mentally. By focusing on the feeling and experience of a movement, How a movement is made, the nervous system can develop new functions and new connections with the individual's movement system, which in turn can give a feeling of ease or reduced pain.
“Make the impossible possible, the possible easy, the easy elegant”
M. Feldenkrais
The days are led by Joakim Rzepka & Jennie Louise Skoglund
Joakim is one of Karen Terzanos, Zen Buddhist master in Ordinary Mind Europe, Dharma airs. Joakim will in October 2025 be offered to take his Denkai - a confirmation that he lives, understands and gets to share his Zen Buddhist practice. Joakim has extensive experience in various 12-step programs where he sponsors others and is currently working as an addiction therapist in Gävle. Jennie Louise Skoglund, has practiced Zen meditation since 2012, is also part of the Ordinary Mind Sangha and trained as a Feldenkrais teacher at Feldenkrais instituted.
Cost members of OMS (Ordinary Mind Sweden) 1700:- SEK (154 Euro)
Cost non members 2100:- SEK (190 Euro)
To register click: here
Food & accommodation included, as well as pickup at Järbo bus station.
Pay via Swish no later than 8/5: 123 684 97 98 Mark your payment "Sesshin May + your name".
Or account number: 802530-6559 (IBAN: SE04 8000 0832 7976 4581 0602, BIC: SWEDSESS)
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The culture cultivated in Ordinary Mind is friendly and open, Everyone is welcome regardless of belief system, though it is a Buddhist retreat that includes Buddhist rituals. Experience of retreats and sitting meditation can be an advantage, but you are most welcome as a beginner. We always give an introduction at the start.
To become a member of Ordinary Mind Sweden you find more info on our homepage, here.
If you have questions, concerns or any special needs, please contact us via email:
joakrzep@gmail.com jennielouise.skoglund@gmail.com