Our mission is larger than life ~ to invite and engage people of good will who seek wholeness, healing, and connectedness to a broken hearted world.

Into the Heart of Compassion
When we take the time to enter deeply into our own self and open ourselves to mystery, we find our God waiting for us. “I will lead you to the desert where I will speak to your heart.” (Hosea) Treat yourself to an evening, a day, a weekend…in quiet, simple comfortable space. Sit quietly, read, sleep, walk the grounds or the neighborhood. Let the time unfold for you, allowing God to speak to your deepest self.

Cost: beginning at $20. Specific cost determined by length of stay, meals, etc.

Upcoming retreats

More about our 2008 events...

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Our Conference and Dining Rooms can accommodate groups as large as 100 people.
We also have audio-visual equipment available including an overhead projector, flip chart/easels, and a TV, VCR and DVD player. Some of the meeting rooms do have wireless capability.

Pricing is dependent on the number of people and the number of days and nights you will use our Center. See our basic rate chart.

Availability is first-come, first-served. Please fill out our Meeting Request Form (your choice of printable/fax* version or electronic submission.) Upon its receipt, we will contact you to confirm your dates or, if they are not available, we will offer you alternative dates.

This summer think about a directed retreat ~ a blend of silence, daily conversation with your director, both quiet prayer and communal prayer…the inner and outer space that invites greater intimacy with God.

Leader: Alice Feeley, RDC ,
Suggested fee: $450.00
Registration deadline 7/15

Este verano investiga la posibilidad de hacer un retiro dirigido – ues una mezcla de silencio y conversacin diaria con su director(a), tanto oración contemplative como oración communal…la vida interior como el espacio o medio ambiente que te invita a más profunda intimidad con dios.

La Hna. Stella Herrera, RCD
del domingo 17 de agosto 5:30 pm ~ hasta el domonto 24 do agosto despuéd del desayuno a las 9:30 am

For centuries enlightened cultures have sought out the benefits of meditation and have discovered its awesome ability to momentarily separate us from our material needs and desires and but us in contact with the Divine.
This is an excellent class for beginners or those who have difficulty meditating.

Leader:Paula Caracappa
Suggested fee: $15.00 per session

Retreat center name: The Grail Center of Cornwall
Retreat center address: PO Box 475
Retreat center city: Cornwall on Hudson
Retreat center state: NY
Retreat center zip: 12520
Retreat center country: USA
Retreat center telephone: 845-534-2031
Retreat center web site: www.thegrailatcornwall.org
Retreat center email: grailconh@igc.org

Wednesday Afternoons, April 2 & 16, 4-6 PM

"A universal theology is impossible but a universal experience (of the peace of God) is not only possible but necessary." ACIM - TM - pg. 77

Come and join in gladness & rejoicing as we share our remembering of the truth of God's everlasting Love through the curriculum of A Course in Miracles. Learn that "There is nothing to fear." (lesson 48)and that we are "...entitled to miracles." (lesson 77).

A Course in Miracles is an educational course, an inspired scripture, a path of enlightenment and a manual for interpersonal healing and harmony. It is a self- study course that can be done in a year but often becomes a daily inspiration and way of life. It is not necessary to believe the ideas or even like them. A small willingness to see things differently is all we need. With Holy Spirit's guidance the process will be perfectly suited to all who come.

Having your own copy of ACIM is helpful.

Rev. Penelope Poor (AKA P. Peace) is a minister of God's Love.

May 15 - 18, 2008

A Shawl Knitting Retreat Weekend

Event theme: Knit, Pray and Rest

Event overview: Explore the Shawl Knitting Movement that has delighted hearts and hands around the world! Experience the joy of knitting for others . Experience the peace of knitting together Experience the love of God through quiet times and conversation Share shawl-knitting techniques . Learn variations on the traditional shawl stitch Explore yarn . Experience knitting as prayer, meditation, and contemplation

Retreat leader name: Susan S. Jorgensen

Retreat leader bio: Susan is the co-author of the award winning book, Knitting into the Mystery: A Guide to the Shawl-Knitting Ministry. She has been leading retreats for eighteen years and has been a spiritual director in private practice since 1989. Her passion lies in helping people discover their unique spiritual paths and deepen their relationship with the Divine through all of its manifestations.

Robert Thurman is Professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies at Columbia University, President of Tibet House U.S., a popular lecturer on Tibetan Buddhism, the translator of many philosophical treatises and sutras, and author of numerous books including the national bestseller, Inner Revolution: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Real Happiness; and Anger, the fifth book from a series on the Seven Deadly Sins, offered by The New York Public Library and Oxford University Press. His most recent book is titled The Jewel Tree of Tibet: The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism published by Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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Tuition: $325

An experiential weekend dedicated to you and the building of your dreams. Open your heart to laughter and play while discovering the useful tools of manifesting your dreams and desires. Join us for a weekend of sprinkling your current life with some joy and abundance. For those who have attended in the past (Refreshers), it is time to review your tools and to create a new Masterpiece to Riches.

$285/person
10% discount to those “Refreshing”.
For Early bird discount, please call or email
$435/couples

Lodging and Meals are $185

Retreat Leader: Ellen Peterson

Leader Credentials: Ellen Peterson is a NY state licensed social worker and certified hypnotherapist.

She is the Author of Choosing Joy, Creating abundance: Practical Tools for Manifesting your desires and Abundance for Beginners: Simple Strategies for Successful Living.

She is the owner of Avenues Counseling Center in Ithaca New York.
Leader Telephone: 607-272-7720
Leader Web Site: www.EllenPeterson.com
Leader Email: ellenmsw@aol.com

Join Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, Blu Greenberg and a team of Jewish academics and educators for a Shavuot experience filled with prayer, study and an exploration of covenantal ethics in speech, sexuality and relationship.

Prayer services will be progressive/traditional in the style of Jerusalem’s Kehillat Shir Hadasha (men and women sit separately, both lead parts of the service and read from the Torah, and everyone sings).

In addition, a separate meditative and chanting prayer service with instruments will be offered each morning. There will be activities for children of all ages during services and study sessions.

This retreat has a two-night or three-night option.
There is no program fee for children.

Program Fee for two nights: $25
Program Fee for three nights: $35

Rabbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg is a leading Jewish thinker who has written on theology after the Holocaust, the ethics of Jewish power and the theory and practice of pluralism and Jewish-Christian relations. He was Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, President of the Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation, Founding President of CLAL: The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, a professor of history at Yeshiva University and a Rabbi of the Riverdale Jewish Center. His books include The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays and For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter of Judaism and Christianity.

Blu Greenberg is a leading activist in the movement to bridge feminism and Orthodox Judaism. She writes and teaches about feminism, Orthodoxy and the Jewish family. She founded JOFA – the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, and One Voice: Jewish Women for Israel. Blu has taught at the College of Mount St. Vincent and the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. She is the author of On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition, How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household, Black Bread and Poems After the Holocaust.

For those who need to be 'outside' in order to get 'inside.' From: Friday, June 06, 2008 To: Sunday, June 08, 2008

All of us have abundance within that is untapped. The aim of this retreat is to encourage the flowering of these qualities in our lives, using imagery from nature, silence, moving meditations, reflective inquiry, hands on gardening activities, and creativity. All are welcome! You don't need to be an experienced gardener to experience and nurture the deeply rooted values that make our lives so meaningful, while weeding out the habits that waste our energy. Group activities such as conscious gardening, forest walks or grooming of walking trails, gently supported by meditation practice, and time alone with Nature, in the deep green of springtime.

Facilitator: Erik Larson