"Women must begin to forge alliances that will add strength to their individual voices. Women must rediscover and share their wisdom to ensure the healing of the entire planet and humanity by tapping into the vast reservoir of energy that runs beneath our common ground and is creating a new wave of women's power."
--Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
Save the date. More information to come.
Featuring:
✓ Jesse Palidofsky and friends in concert
✓ Alfresco dining by accolade winning retreat chefs
✓ Story-telling, poetry, drumming, fire circle and more
✓ Accommodations in Still Point cabin and Rolling Ridge Retreat House
You are welcome anytime Saturday to join the Still Point Partners, Friends of Silence staff, and Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community in joyful spring raking and cleaning in the budding wilderness. Or come just as the shadows begin to lengthen for the main event ...
✓ 4 pm — lemonade, appetizers, and fundraising surprises
✓ 5 pm — scrumptious picnic porch supper
✓ 6 pm — festive concert, followed by fire circle
✓ Stay all night — for free
Belden Lane will join with Stephen Gambill and the Washington DC Regional MALEs team (Men As Learners and Elders) to host this area's second Men's Rites of Passage near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, from Wednesday afternoon April 22, 2015 through Sunday afternoon April 26, 2015.
This is not just another men's retreat or another spirituality event. Think of this time as jumping, or maybe being thrown, into a "life-changing stew" where you simmer for five days in the "transformational mix" of silence, wilderness, and powerful ritual that holds the possibility of breaking open your heart, allowing you to see new possibilities for yourself, and creating "living questions" that will percolate within you and guide you for years to come.
Gather at Still Point Mountain Retreat for Friday Vespers, followed by 7:00 p.m. dinner and Compline. Arrive Friday after 1:00 p.m. Retreat ends on Sunday morning. Gathered participants will follow contemporary Prayer of the Hours, interspersed with generous time for silence and rambling in the winter woods, warming around the fire, reading or writing in the library, reflecting through art or your own contemplative work, and enjoying one another in community. Come away and rest. A warm, comfortable log cabin and kindred spirits await.
Retreat include five delicious home-style meals, a contemplative library and art materials. Retreat Fee: $185.
It's easy to register:
Save the date! More information to come.
Can work be fun, renewing, relational?
Yes!
But don't take our word for it.
Come to our annual spring work day and find out for yourself!
Afer all, it's almost spring!
Time for a little renewal of body and spirit, don't you think?
Arrive at 9:30 am and be welcomed with steaming coffe and fragrant tea, fresh-from-the-oven muffins, and friends new and old.
Work begins promptly at 10 am.
Work where you will find it most enjoyable:
View from Still Point deck in winter
Gather at Still Point Mountain Retreat for Friday Vespers, followed by 7:00 p.m. dinner and Compline. Arrive Friday after 1:00 p.m. Retreat ends following lunch on Sunday. Gathered participants will follow contemporary Prayer of the Hours, interspersed with generous time for silence and rambling in the winter woods, warming around the fire, reading or writing in the library, reflecting through art or your own contemplative work, and enjoying one another in community. Come away and rest. A warm, comfortable log cabin and kindred spirits await.
Retreat include six delicious home-style meals, a contemplative library and art materials. Retreat Fee: $185.
It's easy to register:
"Wilderness wandering is perhaps the most essential soulcraft practice
for contemporary Westerners who have wandered so far from nature"
-- Bill Plotkin, Soul Craft
As men, we need three things to grow in our spiritual journey: intentional heart connection with other men, a daily contemplative practice, and regular immersion in wilderness.
We invite you to join other men from our region for a "Wilderness Wandering" on December 5-6 at the Stillpoint Retreat at Rolling Ridge in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, beginning on Friday night with a shared potluck dinner between 6-7 pm followed by a reflection period. Saturday will serve as an intentional extended period of solitude in nature without distraction, incorporating an opportunity for fasting, prayer, solitude, observation, and journaling. This is not for the faint of heart. It is for those men who want to be intentional about their spiritual journey.
Traditionally the liturgical season of Advent is a time to reflect inwardly on what gives us hope, while on a planetary level the earth's northern hemisphere awaits the solstice, marking the moment after which the sun's light will lengthen each day, pushing back the darkness. It is a time immersed in story: of stars, angelic visitations, dreams, and journeys, as well as generosity and compassion in less exalted realms: gifts left on doorsteps or in shoes or stockings, feasts for the poor, tales of elves and sugarplums told round the warmth of a burning Yule.
Yet we live in a time when the deeper possibilities of these stories are largely ignored and discredited. We are surrounded instead by a different story, one of separation: between us and nature, spirit and matter, reason and intuition.