• Deeper Mind, Deeper Heart

    Internet - Online

    This half day online retreat will explore the similarities and differences between the Buddhist practice of Insight Meditation and the Christian practice of Centering Prayer. The unifying theme will be the emphasis in both traditions on intention, receptivity and interior silence. The goal will be to explore how these two traditions can be approached as

    $35
  • Christian Mystical Poetry and the Contemplative Path – via Zoom

    Internet - Online

    Led by the Rt. Rev. G. Porter Taylor If silence is the first language of God, as Thomas Keating writes, mystical poetry is a language by which we mortals may share our experience of God. What can we learn about spiritual practice, growth, and vitality from devout mystics who step beyond the limits of prose

    $25
  • Lenten Day Retreat: Preparing to Accompany Jesus and Mary Magdalene through Holy Week – online or in-person

    Multifaith Centre Victoria, BC, Canada

    On this Lenten Day, we will prepare ourselves to enter Holy week from the inside by embodying the postures of Jesus and Mary Magdalene through this timeless passage. Let’s join together in community to learn and practice Wisdom, weaving in the transformative currents of surrender, three centered presence, attention, and recollection. May we open more

  • Father Sheehan 6-Day Centering Prayer Retreat at Holy Cross Abbey

    Holy Cross Abbey 901 Cool Spring Ln, VA, United States

    Silence and Solitude FORGIVENESS Centering Prayer Retreat with Father Bill Sheehan Monday, March 27 – Palm Sunday, April 2, 2023 Holy Cross Abbey (HCA) www.virginiatrappists.org Berryville, VA 5 Full Days & 2 Half Days of silence and solitude in a peaceful rural setting 3 plus hours per day of group Centering Prayer Daily morning Centering

  • 11th-Step Centering Prayer Retreat

    Bethany Retreat Center 1031 Germania Rd, Frenchville, PA, United States

    This retreat will offer an environment of solitude and silence in community with time for reflection, fellowship and 12-Step Meetings. We will be presenting Centering Prayer as an 11th-Step Practice. Centering Prayer is an ancient meditation practice that is different from what we may think of as prayer. It is simply moving deep within ourselves

    $260.00
  • Resurrection – Transformation Big Sit – via Zoom

    Internet - Online

    Join us for a meaningful morning exploring the Resurrection-Transformation theme. This Big Sit incorporates two 20-minute silent Centering Prayer sessions with Lectio Divina (sacred reading four times), Taizé chant, and stories about transformation for our reflection. Please see the link below to register.

    free
  • 4-Day Holy Week Silent Wisdom Retreat: Accompanying Jesus and Mary Magdalene through the Paschal Mystery – in-person or online

    Bethlehem Centre Nanaimo, BC, Canada

    Holy Week is more than a series of events surrounding the final days of Jesus’s earthy life that we are to commemorate. We can enter this sacred week from the inside as a way of mutual accompaniment in which we are concurrently embodying the postures of Jesus and Mary Magdalene through this timeless passage through

  • Holy Saturday Retreat: Accompanying Jesus and Mary Magdalene – online or in-person

    Centre for Spiritaul Renewal at St. Andrew's Church Langley, BC, Canada

    Holy Saturday marks Jesus’ journeys into the heart of the earth in which he not only encounters the most constricted, cut off and hurt states of human consciousness in the collective false self but allows love to reach them and weave them into the whole. Meanwhile Mary Magdalene, the Tower, keeps vigil with a heart

  • How Contemplation Can Heal a Violent World: Going Deeper – via Zoom

    Internet - Online

    Our April Half-Day Retreat will feature three recorded excerpts from the Rt. Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton’s presentation on contemplation and nonviolence given during COMW’s 25th Anniversary Retreat in September 2022. The excerpts will focus on the different faces of violence, the spirituality of nonviolence and nonviolence in action. Before each video, we will prepare ourselves

    $25
  • EASTER 2023 6 DAY (5 NIGHT) SILENT CENTERING PRAYER RETREAT

    St. Andrew's Retreat House WA, United States

    Continue your Easter journey by deepening your Centering Prayer practice in an atmosphere of silence and community, away from the busyness of daily life, and allow your mind, body and spirit to surrender to God’s presence and action within. This Contemplative Outreach post-intensive retreat is designed to deepen your established Centering Prayer practice. It will

    $800.00