The Lord's prayer is a practice and template for the spiritual journey.
This 8-week retreat is designed for immersion in the spirituality of the Lord's Prayer, uncovering the richness and depth that can inform your spiritual unfolding. Each week concentrates on one line from the Lord's Prayer and incorporates insights from the story of the Hebrew exodus from Egypt and from the Beatitudes to uncover the template of the spiritual journey that is embedded in the prayer.
The season of Advent is an annual invitation to quietly reflect on what gives us hope as we hear again the ancient prophetic stories of light in the darkness, of dreams, of stars, and angelic visitations. The mystery and wonder of these echoing images bring us to new awareness of the gift and power of story to heal and transform.
Yet often the quiet song of the nativity narratives and other essential stories is muffled by the raucous, strident drumbeat of our modern distorted and consumer-skewed worldview. This retreat is designed to help each of us turn away for a time from the dissonant chords of what’s not working in our lives and open to the new stories that want to be born among us.
Please join us for the Annual Meeting of Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community on November 9th, 2013 from 10am-4pm
Gathering at this time of year is an opportunity to mark the seasons of our life together. We will welcome new residential community members, honor transitions of people on the board, and look ahead at new possibilities and fledgling dreams. Come prepared to share stories of individual and group experiences during this past year as we weave a narrative of the intersection of nature and spirit that is the gift of this place and this many-faceted community.
Bring a dish to share for a potluck lunch.
In the afternoon we?ll have time to walk in the woods, reconnect with friends, help set up fencing for our sheep for winter, and deepen the bonds that nurture us.
This is Animus Valley Institute's popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft; a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter. Your soul is your true self, those qualities that most deeply define and express who you are and the unique gift that you were born to bring to the world, a world so much in need of the socially transforming contributions of initiated, actively engaged adults. To encounter the soul is to discover the mystical image you were born with, which reveals the path to your greatest personal fulfillment as well as the essence of your true service to society (the cross-cultural wisdom traditions say these are one and the same).
It is all a question of story.
We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good one.
— Thomas Berry
We have always lived by stories that told us how we got here, why we are here, and what God and the Universe were up to. Today, the old stories have either been discarded or paint an incomplete or inaccurate picture of our world. The signs are everywhere as we struggle with economic havoc, social injustice, hunger, environmental degradation, violence, and depression.
This retreat is designed to help each of us move away from the infinite loop of what's not working and open to the new stories that want to emerge through us.
A Silent Yoga Retreat
September 6-8, 2013
Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Cost $210 (sliding scale available)
Come away; take refuge, slow down to the rhythms of your own breath. We will pray through yoga, meditation, chant, mindful eating, and mindful walking in the beauty of the woods, hills, and streams surrounding the retreat center.
We joyfully invite you to join with the Rolling Ridge Study Retreat staff community for our annual labor day work retreat.
Can work together be a retreat?
We think so. That's why we often end this day of shared work with more energy and joy than when we began. As we work through the day, we are restored with good conversations, reconnection with others who love this land, a simple shared meal from the Rolling Ridge garden, singing together in the Retreat House, and the delight of stretching and moving our bodies in new ways.
A Friends of Silence Retreat with Br. Stefan Waligur (Macushla)
Register by Email: PilgrimageofPeace2013@gmail.com
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For the past four years, people from across the nation and the world have come together each summer to experience the peace of daily song, chant, silence, reflection, rest and work on a forested hilltop overlooking the Shenandoah Valley. This gathering is called a Pilgrimage of Peace. You will be embraced by the natural beauty of the Blue Ridge foothills with access to Rolling Ridge, a 1400-acre wilderness preserve between the Shenandoah River and the Appalachian Trail.
Retreat to the Ridge and bring your art with you. If you draw, dance, sing, write, play a musical instrument, sculpt, sew, or otherwise create—this retreat is for you! Practice in an inspiring mountain setting; share creative experiences with one another; explore the connection between silence, spirit, and creativity; try something new in sampler sessions with guest artists. Parents and younger sibs welcome.
Retreat begins: June 23, 3:00 p.m. Sunday (Supper potluck)
Retreat ends: after lunch Friday, June 28
Retreat fee: $395
Scholarships available
Special family/sibling discounts
Free with parent as staff/artist
Features:
In our grasshopper and salamander days, who among us didn't ask why the grasshopper could jump so far -- or why the salamander had black dots on its orange body. We lived by wonder, for by wondering we were able to multiply a growing consciousness of being alive. -- Richard Lewis, Living by Wonder
We warmly invite you to a special treat for Friday night and Saturday of Mother's Day weekend, May 10-11, 2013. The retreat begins with dinner at 7:00 p.m. on Friday and concludes with supper on Saturday and is designed especially for pairs of one adult and one child (ages 6-12).
The retreat includes: