Meditation
This is the Deep Spring Center Meditation page. The links on this page lead to information on meditation as well as meditation practice instruction.
Deep Spring Center offers regular meditation classes and retreats to teach and nurture this practice. Please see the Classes and Retreats pages for further information.
The fundamental meditation practice that we teach is called insight meditation, or, traditionally, Vipassana meditation. Insight meditation is a simple and direct practice: the moment to moment investigation of the mind/body process through calm, focused awareness. Through this practice we increase our ability to live each moment being fully present in that moment. We increase our ability to be aware of, and more comfortable with, our thoughts, emotions and body. We decrease our need to hide from the experiences that life offers. It has been said that insight meditation cultivates a “choiceless awareness..”