12-15 November 2020
Enjoy the opportunity to meditate over the three-hour threshold. The retreat offers everything a «normal» retreat would have: long meditations, guidance groups, plenary meetings, and yoga sessions. This upcoming autumn retreat is a unique opportunity for those who have learned Acem Meditation.
You participate from your home and meditate in your favorite chair or […]
Enjoy exciting new perspectives and reflection by joining these two Acem Webinars in October and November.
Saturday 03 October 2020 16:00 Central European Summer Time (Oslo, Berlin, Barcelona)
Can our experience with metathoughts – self-critical thoughts during meditation – help us understand the origins of our shame? Is understanding […]
International Young Retreat Sat 24 July – Sat 31 July 2021
Leaders: Elisabeth Heimdal Wærsted and Bjarke Madsen
Lundsholm, Värmland, Sweden
International Retreat Sat 31 July – Sat 7 August 2021
Leader: Christopher Grøndahl
Lundsholm, Värmland, Sweden
One-week International Deepening Retreat Sat 10 July – Sat 17 July 2021
Leaders: Ole […]
In 2020, this course had to be canceled due to the corona situation. We are pleased to offer a new possibility in 2021.
This is a unique course; it doesn’t resemble any other training with a similar name. It builds on experience-based, exploratory, and deepening group processes. Twice every day, participants meet in small communication groups […]
International Deepening Retreat
2-9 January 2021
Leaders: Rolf Brandrud and Christopher Grøndahl
Halvorsbøle International Retreat Centre, Norway
International Young Deepening Retreat
2-9 January
Leader: Christopher Grøndahl
Halvorsbøle International Retreat Centre, Norway
International Advanced Deepening Retreat (3 weeks), 2-23 January 2021
Leaders Halvor Eifring, Øyvind Ellingsen and Thor Udenæs
Lundsholm, Värmland, Sweden
“At times, I feel inadequate when I meditate. The meditation sound is never easy and effortless and is always linked to my breathing. What should I do?”
“Meditation is not only easy for me, even though I feel that it should be. It is difficult to repeat the sound the way it is supposed to be. […]
Astrid and Gry Iverslien – mother and daughter – share the interest in meditation, and both have made use of meditative processes in their creative professional activities.
A better understanding of myself
Astrid is what you would call a creative person. She has made drawings, painted, and written books. Now, at 86, her neck doesn’t permit drawing […]
The coronavirus pandemic, and the various infection control measures it has engendered, limit and affect us, both psychologically and relationally.
We have newly celebrated the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. 75 years of relative peace in the world. Today, many feel that peace has been profoundly disturbed.
Anxiety – a complex phenomenon
We […]
Ursula Illert lives in Frankfurt, Germany. She works as an actress and a freelancer for radio, TV, and audiobooks. When she felt the need to discuss her meditation, video was the solution.
Made my meditation practice regular
«For me, video guidance was a good thing. I could talk about my meditation with an instructor even when […]
By Turid Suzanne Berg-Nielsen
Existential contentment is neither complacency nor bliss. It does not entail the absence of adversity in life nor negative emotions and thoughts. It is not an emotion at all, more of an attitude – a sense of meaning and purpose, an anchoring when waters are rough. Contentment also allows for […]
