Springwater Center at 7179 Mill Street, Springwater, New York.

Springwater Center is the perfect place for meditative enquiry. The silent 7-day retreats offered by the center are very well organized. The meditation hall is beautiful. The staff is welcoming, friendly and helpful. There is a forest and beautiful grounds on which you can go for walks. The vegetarian food served during the retreat is organic and delicious. Everything supports you to go deep into yourself and be with what is in the moment.

Springwater Center for Meditative Inquiry and Retreats is a beautiful retreat center nestled in the scenic Finger Lakes area of New York State. My family and I have attended retreats there since its inception, maybe thirty years ago.The staff is loving and attentive, the accommodations comfy, and the vegetarian fare is healthy and yummy. Most of all Springwater Center is unique and attractive to me because of its unstructured retreat format. Although there are scheduled meditation periods, talks, group discussion
opportunities, mealtime, breaks, and time to meet individually with a teacher, nothing is required except an hour of work period to sustain the retreat. There is no prescribed way to meditate except an encouragement to be deeply in touch with oneself on all levels, be completely present with what is happening here now.
I highly recommend Springwater Center as a beautiful loving space in which to enter into the deep silence of meditation, in communion with others.