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La Source Guérissante (LSG), The Healing spring, is a Monastery and a Mindfulness Practice Center in the tradition of Plum Village founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. It is located in Verdelot in Seine et Marne, Ile de France. Today there are monastic brothers who live in this monastery permanently to practice and serve as a community.
Short History
This former convent, established by our Augustinian sisters of Meaux, who left the place around 2000, has been transformed into Plum Village monastery and mindfulness practice center. The center has a beautiful living space surrounded by 1.8 hectares of green hills. It has a peaceful atmosphere, conducive to transformation and healing. Nearby there is a spring with many legends and two small streams, this is the reason why the name of this center is La Source Guérissante (The Healing Spring)
Activities
This practice center mainly hosts Day of Mindfulness on Sunday and also residential mindfulness retreats. It offers a refuge near nature close to the capital city, Paris and accessible by public transport (85 minutes from the Gare de l’Est).
In a 40-minute walk, there is also a Center for the monastic sisters — La Maison de L’inspir. Sisters and brothers have separate activities and come together a few times per month, such as for our days of mindfulness and co-organizing retreats.Our beloved teacher Thich Nhat Hanh said: “everyone knows that peace must begin with oneself, but few people know how to do it.” At La Source Guérissante, we will have the opportunity to learn this, supported by the monastic community and all those around us.
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Retreats & Events
La Source guérissante regularly offers retreats and Day of Mindfulness throughout the year. At this moment our Day of Mindfulness is conducted in French only (without English translation). Please check the schedule in French.
The monastic brothers are happy to welcome and practice with you at our humble and simple accommodation in our monastery.
There is some important information about the retreat.
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Finding your way to La Source Guérissante
Healing Spring Monastery
2 Rue Pascal Jardin 77510 Verdelot France
La Source Guérissante (LSG) is located 80-90 km east of Paris.
Address
La Source Guérissante (LSG)
2 rue Pascal Jardin, 77510 Verdelot
By car
It takes 1h – 1h30 to come to the monastery by car from Center of Paris City, when there is no traffic jam. Calculate your itinerary
By car-sharing
For dear mother earth, please share the seats of your vehicle.
By public transport
It may take about 2 hours traveling from Paris with public transport to Verdelot.
We invite you to use ViaNavigo to make your itinerary
Shuttle Service
Due to our limited capacity, the monastery doesn’t provide shuttle from/to La Ferté-sous-Jouarre
Train & Bus
From Paris you can travel by train from Gare de l’Est or by bus from Marne-la-Vallée-Chessy train station, stop at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre train station. From this train station you may take a bus or a taxi to arrive at La Source Guérissante, Verdelot.
Taxi
The taxi costs between 35 and 50 euros for one trip. Taxi Numbers based in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre
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Contact
Let’s keep in touch.
Before you write your question, please read carefully the information on our website :
Retreat :
- Please note we do not offer stays outside of the dates on the website. Consult the calendar here
- Activities in French can be found here
- Women will mostly practice with the sisters in Maison de l’inspir, see their program here
- We do not have volunteers program at the moment, but if you are interested you may leave us a message to express your generosity, we will contact you if we are in need.
Spiritual guidance
We do not have one-one service for spiritual advice or guidance, we suggest everyone to join our retreat in one of our center worldwide.
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Donate
To help our practice centre flourish, you can support us with a donation.
Food Donation
It is possible to offer food and cleaning products to the monastery. In order to protect environment and also the health of monastic community, we suggest you to only give:
- Organic and Vegan food in bulk in order to reduce plastic waste such as lentils, kidney beans or others, oats, vegetables milk, vegetable oil, etc.
- Environment friendly cleaning products in bulk such as hand soap, laundry detergent, hand dishwashing gel and other cleaning products.
- Delivery to our address here