at At The Boghill Centre, Ireland
With Ingen Breen and Shokuchi Deirdre Carrigan
Returning to the Source
A Zen and Yoga Adventure in Ireland
July 12 – 17, 2016
At The Boghill Centre, The Burren, County Clare, Ireland
With Ingen Breen and Shokuchi Deirdre Carrigan
“What is it to Return to the Source? Can I do it here and now?
Is it really possible?”
The ancient wilderness and primordial beauty of the Burren will inspire, saturate, and ground our sense of being and open doors to new becomings in this Zen and Yoga retreat.
We will explore the core of both traditions, discovering how they support and complement each other, and how they bring our lives into a deeper, fuller, and richer communication with reality.
Alternating between sitting meditation and yoga asana, we come to appreciate how the practices are both different and the same. A full schedule is offered, providing the opportunity to experience an intensive retreat. However, also scheduled in this five-day retreat are two half-days for you to explore the wildness and beauty of the Burren.
Total cost for the five-day retreat,
Including teachers’fees, overnight
accommodations and meals: €630 (about $720)
(Not including airfare, transportation to The Boghill Centre, tours, or gratuities.)
For more information and registration, contact:
Ingen: ingenji.info@gmail.com
Shokuchi: touchingearthyoga@me.com
Links to The Boghill Centre and more information about
The Burren:
http://www.burren.ie/stay/boghill-centre/
http://www.boghill.com/events/zen-and-yoga-in-the-mind-and-body-practice-returning-to-the-source/
Ingen is a Soto Zen priest and teacher in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, having received ordination and dharma transmission
(2000 and 2009) from former Abbott Zoketsu Norman Fischer.
Originally from Ireland, Ingen arrived at Green Gulch Farm / Green Dragon Temple in '95 , having spent the previous four years
practicing with the (then) Western Buddhist Order. When he left the Zen Center in '07, Ingen trained in bodywork therapy; Swedish,
Deep Tissue, and Shiatsu at the McKinnon Institute in Oakland and the Acupressure Institute in Berkeley. Ingen lives in Ireland
and teaches in Belfast, Cork, and his home in Dublin, as well as California and England (Hebden Bridge, Totnes and Glastonbury).
Shokuchi Deirdre Carrigan is an ordained Soto Zen priest in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, founder of San Francisco Zen
Center, and has been teaching yoga since 1988. She met her teachers, Tenshin Reb Anderson Roshi and Senior Iyengar Yoga
Teacher Donald Moyer, in a Zen and Yoga retreat at Green Gulch Farm 30 years ago and has been practicing both Zen meditation and Yoga since that time.
She has lived at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center since 2007 where she currently heads the Guest Program, teaches Yoga and leads
retreats in Zen & Yoga: The Practice of Samadhi.
Ingen and Shokuchi have been co-leading Zen and Yoga retreats since 2003, at Zen Mountain Center (Tassajara) and Green Dragon
Temple (Green Gulch Farm) in California. Now this wonderful combination of two powerful traditions are being brought to the
Boghill Centre in the Burren, Co. Clare, Ireland. The Burren, where a landscape of rare rock formations and the temperate Atlantic climate make for a unique environment, is still largely unpopulated and unencroached upon by modern civilisation - the call of the deep mystery of pre-Christian Ireland lives on in this primordial land.
In a similar vein, Zen is a unique approach to the Buddha's Enlightenment and equanimity. Of the many approaches Buddhism
has to offer, the sublime simplicity and aesthetic of Zen are a joy to behold. Like the Burren, its archetypal simplicity reaches the stillest waters of the heart. And Yoga, bringing the mind back to the body, helps us re-member who and what we are, being the suchness of life.
Returning to the Source is to see that we are not separate from it nor ever have been.
Cost: €630
Ingen Breen - ingenji.info@gmail.com