Spirit Center Retreats
Spirit Center facilitated group retreat offerings.
Looking Forward to Easter
With Tim Oberholzer
A Watercolor Journey
With Pearl Maxner
Centering Prayer Intensive
With Donna Kreiensieck and Marti Taylor
The Passion of the Earth: Living into the New Creation Story
With Wendy Weiger
Journaling: The Sanctuary of the Heart
With Cheryl Johnson and Tim Oberholzer
Come to the Quiet
With Spirituality Ministry Team
Come away for a silent, individually directed retreat with optional faith sharing, creative expression, body prayer, and ritual. Relax in God's presence, surrounded by natural beauty and supported by a praying community.
The Gift of Nature
With Sr. Carlotta Fontes, OSB
A Sip of Silence
With Spirituality Ministry Team
For those unsure about drinking a full cup of silence or not able to schedule a longer time, this retreat provides a shorter version of our "Come to the Quiet" retreats. A dipper of silence may deepen your thirst for more.
Yoga as a Tool to Invite Ourselves Into the Gifts of Summer
With Kay Totten
We will explore the unique gifts of summer (light, growth, arrival, flow, and balance) through the practice of yoga. Yoga is a form of body prayer rich with possibilities that are far beyond the physical realm. All levels welcome.
Emotional Healing Through Forgiveness
With Terese Luikens
Has a person or an event emotionally shattered you? A liberal dose of forgiveness is what our wounds need. Where there is forgiveness, there is healing. In truth, when someone hurts you, forgiveness helps you to heal. In this retreat we will explore anger, resentment, bitterness, defensiveness, grudges, unforgiveness, and misnomers surrounding forgiveness.
Living as a Monk in Everyday Life: A Benedictine Spirituality Cohort
With Sr. Teresa Jackson, OSB
Many people today are discovering a deep hunger for God at their core. The ancient Benedictine monastic tradition is a way of life designed to help people live a life focused on God. In this nine-month program, we will focus on how ordinary people can integrate Benedictine monastic prayer, values and structures into their lives […]
Deepening Our Spirituality with MIndfulness
With Gail Stearns
Are you feeling fatigue from personal or societal ills, loneliness, overwhelmed? Or would you simply love to develop more resilience and centeredness for daily life and the work you are passionately engaged in? Ancient spiritual wisdom and current science are showing we can actually shift the way our brains work, to experience less reactivity toward […]
A Watercolor Journey II
With Pearl Maxner
Take the next step toward becoming a confident watercolorist. Revisit the techniques learned in "A Watercolor Journey" and move forward to new skills. Any beginner class will serve as a prerequisite for this retreat. All materials provided.
Iconography II
With Kara Gillette
Introduction to Centering Prayer
With Donna Kreiensieck and Marti Taylor
Experience a contemplative prayer form that has the potential to transform your spiritual life. This introductory retreat will provide the background and fundamentals of Centering Prayer and teach how to develop a continuing practice.
Redefining Retirement: A Spiritual Practice
With Sr. Barbara Jean Glodowski, OSB
Whether already retired or preparing for retirement, you can redefine the way you live into the second half of your life through an examination of the wisdom of Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Richard Johnson and the values of Benedictine spirituality. Explore the challenge with others on the journey.
An Attitude of Gratitude Yoga Retreat
With Kay Totten
November is a month when we naturally think of GRATITUDE as we near the time of Thanksgiving and the culmination of our summer and fall season activities. This Yoga retreat will focus on our deep inner need to begin each day with an ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE using the key themes of: LIGHT, WARMTH, ENDINGS, RESILIENCE, […]