• Advent Silent Saturday

    Holy Spirit Retreat Center 4316 Lanai Road, Encino, CA, United States

    As we enter the season of Advent, join us for a quiet morning of Centering Prayer and silence. The day is open to beginners as well as those experienced in contemplative prayer or silent meditation. The day provides time for communal Centering Prayer, contemplative walks, private journaling and reflection, and ends with a period of

    Free
  • Contemplative Living II: Daily Life as Prayer (Online)

    Internet - Online

    January - April 2026 Further enrich your contemplative living and embrace the practice of living each day as a form of prayer. In Contemplative Living I (CL I,) the focus was on deepening your interior prayer life, leading to the awareness of God's presence in all that is. The interior life cultivated in CL I

    $725
  • New Year Silent Saturday

    Holy Spirit Retreat Center 4316 Lanai Road, Encino, CA, United States

    Begin the new year by deepening your relationship with God. Join us for a quiet morning of Centering Prayer and silence. The day provides time for communal Centering Prayer, contemplative walks, private journaling and reflection and ends with a period of Lectio Divina. All are welcome. A brief introduction to Centering Prayer will be offered

    Free
  • Living Flame 1 Program – via Zoom

    Internet - Online

    REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR LIVING FLAME 1 PROGRAM HAPPENING IN 2026 The first retreat day: January 10 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm and then each month on the dates shown below for the next six months. Dates: 2026 - Jan. 10, Feb. 14, Mar. 14, Apr. 11, May 9, June 13, July 11

    $70
  • Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop – via Zoom

    Internet - Online

    Are you seeking a path to explore or strengthen your inner connection with God at the centre of your being? Centering Prayer is a practice that leads to contemplation by opening oneself to God’s love, healing, and inner goodness; moreover, it nurtures the soul’s desire to grow in kindness and compassion towards all. The online

    Free
  • God in the Cosmos: How Hildegard of Bingen and Teilhard de Chardin Invite Us into the Sacred

    Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United States

    In order to expand our vision of God, we explore the lives and spirituality of two extraordinary mystical scientists, Hildegard of Bingen and Teilhard de Chardin. These mystics radically lived their experience of Divine Presence in and through creation. Born centuries apart, they were mystics with a cosmic vision as well as scientists who seamlessly

  • Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop

    Holy Spirit Retreat Center 4316 Lanai Road, Encino, CA, United States

    Contemplative Prayer is God's personal and unique gift to each of us. If we are open to this gift, it will profoundly affect our lives and relationship with God, others, and the world. Centering Prayer is a form of contemplative prayer. It is a method of prayer that opens us to interior transformation and deeper

    $45
  • Love is Love is Love Terra Divina Online Half-Day Welcoming prayer – Centering Prayer: mini-retreat (1st Saturday of every month)

    Internet - Online

    Online Half Day Centering Prayer/Welcoming Prayer mini-retreat via Hawaiʻi (1st Saturday of every month) @ 9:00 am - 11:30 am UTC-10 FREE First Saturdays online retreats are a special time where we explore our Centering Prayer practice. We are looking forward to sharing Physio-Divina (Moving) practices, Visio-Divina (visual-Art) practices, Terra-Divna (Nature) Lectio-Divina (Sacred Text) practices

    Free
  • Centering Prayer Intensive & Post-Intensive Retreat

    Knobs Haven Retreat Center 515 Nerinx Road, Nerinx, KY, United States

    An opportunity to deepen the practice of Centering Prayer in an atmosphere of silence and solitude within community. There are two tracks: The Intensive - for anyone who hasn’t been on a Centering Prayer Intensive Retreat, includes video presentations by Fr. Thomas Keating; The Post-Intensive, for those who have previously attended an Intensive, offers a

    $685
  • 3-Day Contemplative Retreat

    Sacred Heart Monastery Missiezusters Klooster, 20, Steyl, Venlo, Netherlands

    "In silence, God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience." — Thomas Merton Sharing silent prayer in the context of a retreat offers a profound experience of soul-to-soul connection — with fellow practitioners and with all living beings. This 4-day retreat is designed to nourish the soul’s deep longing for intimacy with God,

    $342
  • Anam Cara: Thomas Merton, and Pursuing Relationships That Enlighten Our Lives

    Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United States

    Though Thomas Merton craved the solitude of a hermitage and the silence in which “God shines there and is immediately found,” his mysticism and writing life were deeply fed and influenced by special friendships that he developed both in person and through a prolific correspondence that connected him to writers and spiritual thinkers all over