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Spring Retreat in Omaha

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Each spring, the Honey Locust Sangha hosts a weekend-long residential retreat.  The retreat is led by one of our wonderful dharma teachers in the lineage of Thich Nhat Hanh.  Beginning on Thursday evening and ending Sunday afternoon, the retreat offers an enriching time of communal practice.


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Save the Date -May 16th -19th, 2019  Spring Retreat with Brother Michael Ciborski at the Creighton University Retreat Center in Griswold, Iowa.​
To learn more about Brother Ciborski, and to access recordings of his dharma talks at a variety of retreats, visit www.truemiddleway.org 

Michael is a lineage holding Dharma teacher in the Buddhist tradition of Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh.  He lived as a monk for seven years in Plum Village, France, and has worked intimately with Thich Nhat Hanh and the monastic community to organize, support and offer meditation retreats around the world. A skilled musician, he informally studied voice training and chanting of several European and Asian traditions and served for several years as an English language chant master in the monastery. Michael also studies and practices in the tradition of Anthroposophy, begun by Rudolf Steiner.  He finds great joy weaving together these two wonderful paths guided by two marvelous and awakened human beings.
After leaving the monastery in 2003, Michael returned to the US and along with his wife Fern Dorresteyn, has helped to establish an intentional spiritual community and mindfulness center in Southern New Hampshire known as MorningSun.  In addition to supporting the life and practice of MorningSun, Michael’s practice offerings are many:
  • Guiding workshops and retreats in mindfulness practice and meditation around the country;
  • Actively developing tools and programs for mindful parenting and family life;
  • Dharma consultations, mentoring, and conflict mediation;
  • Support and facilitation of blessings and ceremonies for sacred and important times of transition (such as baby blessings, marriages, blessing a new or sacred space, and ceremonies for the deceased).
  • Sharing meditation, music and chanting through CD’s and workshops for “Opening the Voice”
The Honey Locust Sangha / Omaha Community of Mindful Living is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All funds donated help to fulfill the mission of practicing and raising awareness of the mindfulness practice in the Thich Nhat Hanh / Plum Village tradition.