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. ...
These trips to Italy were essential for Francesca’s spiritual renewal; she often felt the need to retreat to the quiet life of the cloister, which refreshed her for her future endeavors. She returned to New York in 1895 to find Columbus Hospital thriving. A pivotal moment had occurred when ...
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...
Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your steadfast love; according to Your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart. Purge me with hyss...
FM14 Municipality of Heerde May 2021 F FM15 Staatsbosbeheer April 2021 F Private Forest Owners/Managers (FP; N = 10) FP01 Private estate February 2020 F FP02 Private retreat centre February 2020 T FP03 Retreat centre & small living community February 2020 T FP04 Private nature & retreat ...
and values shared by a community of people. So, people can have spiritual experiences apart from connection with any religious practice—consider the sense of peace oraweof someone witnessing a sunrise—and a hundred people at the same worship service ormeditationretreat will be having a hundred...
They call it the rains retreat as it’s usually during the monsoon season. Whenever the monsoon season comes, the monks would be sent off to a particular part of the forest in the mountains to meditate with a particular practice and not come back until they had insight, until they had ...
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 ...
In August of that year, Pete and I decided we would retreat to our beloved Minnesota North Shore. I wrote about our meaningful experiences in our series,Looking Into Forever– Parts 1,2, 3 and 4. Those posts were very difficult to write, as they contained very powerful experiences, message...
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,” ...