Teachers: Sandra Gonzalez
November 8 - 13
Space is available in this seven-day retreat with Sandra in
Springwater. She will give talks and be available for private
and group meetings. Register
for Retreat in Springwater with Sandra Gonzalez
October 9 -12 Friends are organizing a
retreat with Sandra
in Miami FL. Contact Sandra - sgonzalh@hotmail.com
for information.
Sandra Gonzalez has led retreats in both English and Spanish for several years. She began working with Toni in 1988. Previously, she studied at other meditation centers.
Sandra spends most of the year in Springwater. She also
leads or participates in several retreats away from
Springwater each year.
Sandra was born and raised in Nicaragua. She has three children and seven grandchildren that she visits regularly. She can be contacted by e-mail in English or Spanish at sgonzalh@hotmail.com.
The following quotation is from an article by Sandra from the
Summer 2007 Newsletter entitled "Awareness invites Awareness:
A Meditative Way of Being Together."
"Presence invites presence when there is no resistance, no
ownership of ideas, experiences or things, no worrying, no
hurrying, no judging, no defending--just the ease of life when
we meet without wanting things to be otherwise. Certainly we
all can participate; presence is fee and available to all of
us. There is a true beauty in this.
Looking deeply right now into the question, "What is it that
truly touches us?" The truth of it all is that I don't know.
Presence/tenderness/love cannot be known but can be felt and
touched very palpably. Whatever I have named or described, is
not it. One can describe what took place the best one can, but
the description is not the actual thing. Words cannot reach
it, nor define it. Definitions and descriptions are merely
attempts by the mind to describe the indescribable just for
the sake of sharing. So be it."