Join us for a 1-day meditation retreat designed for beginners, long time practitioners, or anyone wanting a fresh start. You’ll learn simple, practical ways to sit, breathe, and notice what’s happening in your mind and body.
7:30am: Registration
8:00am: Introduction/Settling In/Sitting Practice
10:30am: Mindful Movement
11:15am: Sitting Practice
12:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm: Sitting Practice Resumes
2:30pm: Break
2:45pm: Sitting Practice
4:00pm: Ending Group Discussion
Auburn Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
450 E Thach Ave
Auburn, AL 36830
Bring your:
Don’t have a cushion or mat? Please bring a blanket to fold and have under a cushion. We will have a few extras to use.
Option: Find a a set locally or buy a set on Amazon.
*IF you have an extra cushion, mat or meditation bench, please bring it to share with someone who doesn’t have one.
Fee includes:
Lynn is an entrusted lay Zen teacher in the Soto Zen tradition, professor at The University of Alabama, and psychologist. She began meditating in 1995 and began to study with Gaelyn Godwin, Abbot of the Houston Zen Center (www.HoustonZen.Org) in 2005 until she moved to Alabama in 2006. She resumed her studies with Gaelyn Roshi in 2012, completed the Jukai precepts ceremony at the Houston Zen Center in 2017, and received lay teacher ordination in 2020.
She also received training in Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention therapy from developer Sarah Bowen in 2014 and has served as a therapist using this approach.
She served as co-coordinator of a meditation group meeting at the Birmingham Unitarian Church in the tradition of Thich Nhaht Hahn from 2010 – 2013, and co-founded the Tuscaloosa Zen Meditation Circle in 2014. Lynn and Hank Lazer have co-led the Tuscaloosa Zen/Quiet Tide programs since 2019.
Hank retired from the University of Alabama (where he continues to teach innovative seminars on Zen Buddhism and Radical Approaches to the Arts for New College and the Blount Scholars Program) and in the University of Alabama’s OLLI program (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute – Writing, Aging, and Meditation) after 37 years in a variety of positions, including Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, Executive Director of Creative Campus, and Professor of English.
For the past ten years, Lazer has convened a weekly Zen meditation group via zoom, Quiet Tide Sangha, and he also travels to lead poetry workshops and meditation retreats.
Everyone needs help from time to time, and we will do everything we can to help those who need it. We have a limited scholarship fund; please help us understand your need so we can determine what we can do for you.
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Refunds will be available up to two weeks before the retreat.
Later cancelations receive a retreat credit.
In order to create a safe and welcoming meditation and learning environment, we ask everyone to:
Any form of present moment practice which has a foundation of body and breath awareness.
Any entity that provides group meditation in a community of equanimity, compassion and acceptance, regardless of gender, race, economic status, or sexual orientation.
