The White Desert Yoga Retreat is a 3-day yoga and meditation experience in the White Desert of Egypt. The first part of the retreat is the gorgeous path into the White Desert itself, where participants are taken into a desert safari into one of the most beautiful sceneries in the world. ...
In this 6-month virtual retreat series, we explore how imagination, dreamwork, creativity, and contemplative spiritual practice help people living today participate compassionately in the collective societal changes needed as humanity confronts the damage and injustice our current systems cause to the Ea...
When Mary told Joseph that her time was drawing near and that he should now betake himself to prayer, he left her and turned toward his sleep-place to do her bidding. Before entering his little recess, he looked back once toward that part of the cave where Mary knelt upon her couch in...
Animals seem to listen to me like I connect with them which I do. Empath need to retreat to solitude for to recharge thier energy, plus a bad habit of empath forget self love as I found out recently, we truely need to guard our energy. Energy vampires and narcissists,...
with more ice lost than at any other time in the last 400 years. That's according to a new review of research that combines on-the-ground observations with aerial and satellite photos, historical records and dates from cores of ice extracted from the glaciers. The retreat is worse in the...
For those that are, know that the very challenge, if accepted at the soul level, is yet another reason to never allow your lower self-ego to buy into those fears and retreat back into the 3d saying, “Ascension’s not really for me.” I see that happen quite a lot. And it is not...
In November, we also went as a family to the mountains around Blowing Rock for a few days to celebrate my birthday. The rustic retreat was just what we needed until after the kids left, Jenny and I discovered we were still not alone; a flying squirrel (we’ll name him Rocky) found ...
When I am exhausted and really need to stop, Create in me a Sabbath Heart, O Lord. When I am lost and have forgotten who I am, Create in me YOUR Heart, O Lord. Amen. Benediction May we humble ourselves to the Prince of Peace this Lent that we might be led to respond with compas...
Deciding we must be getting near dinnertime, I stirred on the armchair, stretching out all of my legs with a luxuriant quiver. The timing of this maneuver, I have to confess, was as crass as Oliver’s point had been subtle. Around the table, all three men laughed. ‘I ...
All of this came home to me in a single package when I heard the most wonderful homily on May 1, the third Sunday of Easter, in a little campus chapel that’s part of a parish in a town near my daughter and son-in-law’s lake house. (It’s officially called ‘the Retreat,” ...