Our conference rooms are available to 501(c)(3) non-profit groups such as government, school, and church groups. We are available for daytime group use Monday through Saturday. Our monastic grounds are quiet, peaceful and green with trees and other plants. Since January 2007, our monastic grounds have been smoke-free; you’ll enjoy breathing our fresh air. We […]
With modern cell phones able to take photos, anyone can snap pictures. What, though, do we see in those photos? This retreat will offer participants an opportunity to see – and photograph – the natural surroundings at the monastery and other sights, while contemplating the purpose of those efforts, the results, and how the spiritual journey can progress while considering the beauty being captured with digital technology. (Participants are strongly encouraged to bring their DSLR or another style camera or cell phone with a high-resolution camera.)
Due to the great success of our Forest Bathing retreat this Fall, Cascadia Forest Therapy will be offering a series of Guided Forest Bathing Sessions honoring the gifts that each season has to offer. They will began with Winter and now are continuing with Spring. Summer and finish again with Autumn Forest Bathing is a gentle and physically undemanding practice of being in a natural setting to slow down...awakening your senses to the present moment and allowing your mind to rest from its busy work. The practice is a research-based framework for supporting healing and wellness through immersion in forests…
This Contemplative Rest Practice series is open to those who have taken a Contemplative Rest retreat with M Freeman. Each session offers opportunities for awe-savoring, somatic, guided meditations by M and silent resting-in-awe practice together as well as gentle time for group sharing, connecting, and cherishing the transporting benefit of communal contemplative practice. “All living beings will profit from your relaxation and energy. This is the most basic kind of peace work,” Thich Nhat Hanh writes in How to Relax. And when we practice together? “The energy is amplified,” he writes, “and you will create a powerful collective energy…for your…
With M Freeman In-person and via Zoom Scheduled gatherings: Saturday May 4 | 3:00-4:15pm | Opening Gathering, Intros & Guided Meditation Saturday May 4 | 6:00-7:30pm | Cinema Divina Contemplative Screening Sunday May 5 | 10:00-11:15am | Closing Insights, Wishes & Intentions Surviving pandemic isolation unleashed a whole lot of traveling for many of us. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how social and outward-oriented life has turned. Meanwhile, I wonder how many are noticing what I’m noticing: A longing to turn more attention inward, to nurturing the interior life. I’m beginning again with slowing…
Let’s get our creative juices flowing with an afternoon experience of pattern drawing in the Zentangle® method. We will take pen to paper and make beautiful images using easy and repeating strokes. Time spent with Zentangle® is relaxing, focusing, prayerful and contemplative. This could be your way of enjoying Spring. Take all four or just one of your choice. Materials: card stock paper 3.5 x 3.5”; very fine felt-tipped black pen, e.g., Micron 01; a soft graphite pencil.
Let’s get our creative juices flowing with an afternoon experience of pattern drawing in the Zentangle® method. We will take pen to paper and make beautiful images using easy and repeating strokes. Time spent with Zentangle® is relaxing, focusing, prayerful and contemplative. This could be your way of enjoying Spring. Take all four or just one of your choice. Materials: card stock paper 3.5 x 3.5”; very fine felt-tipped black pen, e.g., Micron 01; a soft graphite pencil.
Let’s get our creative juices flowing with an afternoon experience of pattern drawing in the Zentangle® method. We will take pen to paper and make beautiful images using easy and repeating strokes. Time spent with Zentangle® is relaxing, focusing, prayerful and contemplative. This could be your way of enjoying Spring. Take all four or just one of your choice. Materials: card stock paper 3.5 x 3.5”; very fine felt-tipped black pen, e.g., Micron 01; a soft graphite pencil.
Let’s get our creative juices flowing with an afternoon experience of pattern drawing in the Zentangle® method. We will take pen to paper and make beautiful images using easy and repeating strokes. Time spent with Zentangle® is relaxing, focusing, prayerful and contemplative. This could be your way of enjoying Spring. Take all four or just one of your choice. Materials: card stock paper 3.5 x 3.5”; very fine felt-tipped black pen, e.g., Micron 01; a soft graphite pencil.
Connecting with the presence of God through all things. Ancient practices based on inspiration, intuition and experience have been scientifically investigated for efficacy, benefits and potential dangers. This courses surveys the contemporary why, how and what of meditation from an experiential and scientific perspective. The course offers a scientifically informed foundation for daily meditation and prayer practices while addressing religious diversity and individual differences.
Description Deganawida was an indigenous peacemaker born in what is now the northeastern US/southeastern Canada sometime between the 12th and 15th centuries. His “The White Roots of Peace” is a concept in which we make peace within ourselves first, then in our families and communities, and finally between communities. In this Ecological & Social Justice workshop, we will study how we can begin to forge the “White Roots of Peace” anew. We will do this by finding how we can live sustainably in our local ecology by purchasing or producing our basic needs for food, shelter, clothing, and energy within…
As Christians, we believe that we meet God, the source of Love, in the Now. Mindfulness involves paying attention in the present moment without judgment and with self-compassion. A practice of mindful eating can increase our sense of the divine indwelling throughout our day. It can also help us access the inner wisdom of our bodies that we frequently do not hear or heed and nourish our whole selves-mind, body and spirit. This weekend is planned for you to experience mindful eating and mindfulness meditation from a Christian perspective. We will meet on Friday afternoon for a session on…
This in person retreat is the perfect place for those new to Centering Prayer and silent retreats to begin, as well as for experienced practitioners to have a chance to sit with others and experience a weekend of silence and rest. Readings for our sits and optional lectio will be centered on “ordinary time”, that time between holidays and yearly deadlines. A time to find the extraordinar in the ordinary. We will gather on Friday night to set our intention for the weekend and then begin our silence after a Centering Prayer sit. We will sit together throughout the weekend,…
Due to the great success of our Forest Bathing retreat last Fall, Cascadia Forest Therapy will be offering a series of Guided Forest Bathing Sessions honoring the gifts that each season has to offer. Now continuing on with Summer and finishing again with Autumn - making a full circle through the seasons. Forest Bathing is a gentle and physically undemanding practice of being in a natural setting to slow down...awakening your senses to the present moment and allowing your mind to rest from its busy work. The practice is a research-based framework for supporting healing and wellness through immersion in…
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Contemplative Photography Retreat
With Julie A. Ferraro
Spring Walk – Forest Bathing
With Denise McDermott
Hybrid: Contemplative Rest Practice on First Saturdays Monthly
With M Freeman
Hybrid: Cinema Divina Overnight – Slowing Down
With M Freeman
Zoom: Zentangle® in the Afternoon
With Sister Monika Ellis
Zoom: Zentangle® in the Afternoon
With Sister Monika Ellis
Zoom: Zentangle® in the Afternoon
With Sister Monika Ellis
Zoom: Zentangle® in the Afternoon
With Sister Monika Ellis
Meditation and Prayer for Urban Contemplatives
With Jerry DeVore and Monty Smith
Hybrid: Ecological Justice Workshop
With Nancy Joan Brighid
Mindful Eating as a Christian Practice Retreat
With Rosemarie Oliver
Weekend Silent Centering Prayer Retreat: The Gift of Ordinary Time
With Sr. Anna-Camille Wooden, OSB
Summer Walk – Forest Bathing
With Denise McDermott
SISTERS SPEAK: OUR BLOG
Sisters post on our Blog weekly on Fridays. See what our Sisters have to say about living Monastic Life in the 21st Century.
Call for Peace in the Middle East
Religious Sisters and some Bishops of the Northwest have issued a Joint Statement calling for Peace in the Middle East.
SCRIPTURAL STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Many of our programs and retreats are still being offered via Zoom AS WELL AS IN PERSON. Please register and pay online:
Click these links for more information on ZOOM RETREATS and PROGRAMS
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