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  • Ways of Praying for Deeper Knowing

    Rolling Ridge Retreat and Conference Center 660 Great Pond Road, North Andover, MA, United States

    Contemplative spiritual practice is well known for opening a path to God – a path that is itself God’s gift. However, contemplative prayer and living can also open a pathway to a deeper, more expansive part of ourselves. On this day apart retreat, we will be immersed in the practices of chanting, Centering Prayer, and

  • Prayer for Healing and Wholeness in Our Post-Election World

    Mercy by the Sea Retreat and Conference Center 167 Neck Road, Madison, CT, United States

    No matter the outcome of this year’s US election, our nation will face tremendous challenges following months of divisive, wounding campaign rhetoric. During this weekend of intentional silence and stillness, we will seek to create a spaciousness within in order to nurture the enduring vision and experiences of the Sacred. This silent retreat will include

    $465

  • My Peace I Give You: A Centering Prayer Day with the Aramaic Jesus

    Mercy Center Burlingame 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, CA, United States

    “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” — John 14:27 During this immersive day of Centering Prayer we will engage with our full embodied being in Centering Prayer as well

  • Encountering and Deepening Into God’s Inspiration: A Lectio-Inspired Advent Day of Retreat and Practice – in person and online

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

    Spend an Advent day learning and experiencing how to encounter and deepen into God’s inspiration in sacred scripture and poetry, art, music, yourself, and your life. Our foundation will be Lectio Divina, the ancient method of reading, reflecting, responding, and resting in scripture, and we’ll apply that to poetry as well. We’ll continue with Visio

  • The Body’s Bridge to the Experience of Living in God: Exploring BioSpiritual Focusing in Context of BioSpirituality – in person and online

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

    Two Jesuits, Fr. Edwin McMahon and Fr. Peter Campbell, incorporated the embodied practice of Focusing into the larger context of BioSpirituality. Their work opens us to know ourselves as living within the greater Whole, the Body of Christ. During this day, we’ll experience BioSpiritual Focusing and explore, among other things, the embodied experience of grace

  • Centering Prayer and Three-Centered Knowing: A Silent Centering Prayer Wisdom Retreat

    Mercy Center Burlingame 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, CA, United States

    “Centering Prayer … is the opening of mind and heart, body and emotions–our whole being–to God, the Ultimate Mystery, beyond words, thoughts, and emotions.” —Thomas Keating, in Open Mind Open Heart In Centering Prayer we practice letting go to the Divine Indwelling, building up a muscle of release, of consent to the presence and action

  • Holy Breath – Centering Prayer & Ecstacy

    Internet - Online

    “The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”​ ― Meister Eckhart Centering Prayer and meditation are age-old methods to put us in touch with what Jesus called ruha in Aramaic, the holy breath,

    $99

  • Welcoming Prayer Workshop – via Zoom

    Internet - Online

    The Welcoming Prayer is an incarnational method of consenting to God’s presence and action in our physical and emotional reactions to people and events in daily life. This “consent-on-the-go” embodied practice deepens our relationship with God as we move through the ordinary activities of our day, helping us to stay in the presence of God

    $30

  • Online Wisdom Retreat: Revisiting the Welcoming Prayer

    Internet - Online

    The Welcome Practice, also known as the Welcoming Prayer, is a powerful means for cultivating presence, releasing attachments, and deepening our connection to the Divine Indwelling or Great I Am. This practice strengthens us in our Greater I Am Self, allowing us to be anchored beyond the emotional, intellectual, and physical turmoil that we experience

    $22

  • Sacred Circle Dance as a Form of Embodied Prayer

    St. John’s Episcopal Church in Georgetown 3240 O St NW, Washington, DC, United States

    “God is not remote from us; . . . on the contrary, at every moment God awaits us in the activity, the work to be done, which every moment brings.” -Teilhard de Chardin, Hymn of the Universe In this in-person half-day retreat we’ll introduce dances from the Sacred Circle Dance tradition as a form of

    $25

  • The enneagram a christian wisdom approach

    The Enneagram – a Christian Wisdom Approach

    St Paul's Episcopal Church 127 Summer Street, Lynnfield, MA, United States

    From a Wisdom perspective, the overarching message of Jesus’ teaching is the transformation of our ordinary ego-driven consciousness. In the scriptures, this is spoken of as stepping into the larger mind, or putting on the mind of Christ. The Enneagram is a tool based on ancient wisdom that can help us to see the contours

    $40

  • A Wisdom School on Wisdom Rhythms & Relationships with Heather Ruce

    Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre 1159 Passchendaele Road, Sorrento, British Columbia, Canada

    Online and In-Person at Sorrento Centre, British Columbia, Canada. October 5th (5 pm) – October 9th (12 noon), 2025 (Pacific Time). In any moment, regardless of how significant or insignificant it may seem, we can offer ourselves as instruments, vessels, means by which worlds beyond can enter into this world, which has often been termed