Alma Yoray Vipassana Meditation Center

Welcome to the Vipassana Meditation Center in Przeseika. The center is located in the beautiful high Karkonosze Mountains  in Lower Silesia, southwestern Poland. The Meditation Center is used to host Vipassana Meditation Groups, Vipassana sitting group, Theravada, Meditation Courses, Yoga, Tai Chi Chuan, Professional Holistic and Spiritual Seminars – all year-long.
The Vipassana Meditation Center is equipped with everything required to host teams from six people to large groups of twenty people in each round with the group Teacher / Mentor.

Vipassana Meditation Group, Poland
Mail Address: 58 563 Przesieka, Poland
Center Address: 4 Bukowy Gaj, Przesieka
Tradition: Theravada, Vipassana
Contact: Alma Yoray
Tel: Poland +48.75 76 21 685
almayoraymail@gmail.com

Atman and Alma Yoray… Frog, Birds, Cat and American Pie

Alma got in touch with talented musicians from Atman group who performed with her in the late eighties and recorded the “Brown Session” album in her house in Przesieka, Poland In the nineties (1990).

The Bicycle Land

Karkonoski National Park on a Bike

Karkonoski National Park is “The Bicycle Land”. It located within the Karkonosze, the highest mountain group in the Sudetes, Lower Silesia in Poland. The highest peak of the Karkonosze Mountains is Śnieżka (1603 m). The borderland between Poland and the Czech Republic comes across both the Karkonosze and Izerskie Mountains.

I know I look like a contorshamish

I have been searching for things to send you and that explains why I haven’t been in touch until now…now that Charlotte has invoked my name. I have found a note from Alma in the back cover of my year book…the reason was that she wasn’t in our senior class because her parents made her go to Manter Hall, a prep school in Cambridge. Therefore there is no picture of her in the yearbook.

 

 

 

 

 

 

One-Man Show

Alma Yoray is dead!

I look at black and white photographs from 1990, Alma, I (Styczyński), Mark Leszczynski and Piotr Kolecki. In arrears in the tall grass, next to the garden where strawberries bred Alma. All this in Przesieka, at home, which was built the great hall of meditation with round windows looking out on … rocks!.

We recorded together material which is called the Brown Session. Alma recited, improvised, danced Zen poetry. Outside the noisy saw and tried to tightly close the window, but Alma asked me, whether it be inappropriate sounds? and in response we opened the window wider. We stopped to worry about what has happened around …

My Mother Alma Yoray Passed Away

Today, the 18st October I’ve got sad news – My Mother Alma Yoray passed away. American dancer, artist, singer, practitioner and teacher of Vipassana hailing from Bath, Maine (USA), who established herself in a mountain lodge in the vicinity of Jelenia Góra in Poland. The incredible story of her life became known short after she had vanished from this realm.

Friends and relatives of my mother Alma Yoray gathered at her property in Przesieka, SW Poland, to give her a religious-hybrid spiritual send-off that reflected culturally the wide and varied circle of those who loved and cared for her. Flavors of Buddhism, Judaism and the local Polish Catholicism mingled in a friendly atmosphere of contemplation and remembrance.

Read mora at:  goodbyealmayoray.blogspot.com

In Memory of Alma

Today at midnight Alma Yoray  died.
Alma, which for many years owned a Kanzeonowego resort meditative in Przesieka, been our sponsor - and not just our. Thank you Alma for many years of collaboration! On Sundays in the zendo sing for Nia paragate parasamgate gate gate bodhi svah. Her extraordinary story is at: www.igooglemymother.com

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May Peace Prevail On Earth

In the large yard surrounding our Meditation Center in Przesieka, visitors can find a special big white sign orders for all guests of the Center to give peace to one another. The sign indicates that the center is part of  ‘The World Peace Prayer Society’  and is located just in the middle of the yard where the energy from the ground is the most powerful. We are proud to be part of many places in the world where you can find such unique sign that  is saying peace.

 

Spring is Coming to Przesieka

 

Almond trees in the yard are starting to bloom after a long winter. Dazzling white flowering trees compete over who will Inflorescence whiter. Melting snow peaks, gives a sign to sail kayak paddle downstream. You can swim in the big waterfall and the deer is runnuing freely in the yard. Spring is coming to Przesieka and with it a sense of optimism and peace.

 

George Bidwell

George Bidwell is a very famous writer lives in Poland for many years including eight years in what is now the Meditation Przesieka Center. George Bidwell is a Born on May 3, 1905 in Reading, UK. A writer for over 40 years of life spent in Poland, with the years 1961-1968 in Przesieka k / Jelenia Gora, wrote some 60 books, mainly biographies zbeletryzowanych most prominent figures in the history of England.
In 1960 Gorge dream about a farm in the countryside. From his friend he learned about opportunities to buy nice properties in the vicinity of Jelenia Gora. “We went – and succumbed to the charm Przesieka. From the standpoint of agricultural Przesieka not useful for much, except for sheep. But the widely scattered on the slopes of the beautiful valley of a mountain stream at an altitude of 500 m. above sea level, combines the features of the village, forest. Mountain and spa.

Exhibition in Alma Yoray’s Danceworks Studio in Bath, Maine

The artist Paula Brown Green moving to Maine in 1979 to help her sister Pam build a barn, she became a part owner and manager of the Center Street Grainery in Bath, where she discovered that customers wanted her color pencil drawings, hand made note cards, clay jewelry and hand-painted shirts.

Paula’s work appeared in many exhibits, at the Downtown Gallery as well as other Maine galleries and special places such as an exhibition in Alma Yoray’s Danceworks studio in 1983. In addition, she was founder of Peagreen Card Company. Both her gallery works and her card and shirt designs are well known in the region and every year many sought out her creative and welcoming exhibits at summer arts shows throughout Maine.

Summer Flowers

Flowers and meditation are a perfect match. You end up a session and go out to nature. Here friends are waiting for you in various colores and shapes. Summer replaced the spring and the fields around the center surrounded by flowers with pleasant smells attracts many insects, wild bees and butterflies.

The cool weather in summer in the mountains also contributes to prosperity bloom reminds me of nature films.
The grass is very high at this time of year and if walking in it you can see many different flowers. You can pick and put in a vase in the room or dry in a reading book. Some of the flowers are used in herbal tea and for different use. We walk around with a flora trying to identify the new flowers we do not know.