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Virginia, state of the south-central United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), North Carolina and Tennessee (S), Kentucky and West Virginia (W), and Maryland and the District of Columbia (N and NE).
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Retreat Centers with Scheduled Retreats

www.virginiachristianretreat.com


"I sought the Lord, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears."
(Psalm 34:4)

Five Unique Properties to rent: Each property has central air conditioning, fully-equipped kitchens, beautiful yards, nice linens, pretty dishes, and many other special details -- and each house is decorated with antiques to suit the age and style of the house. We really hope you'll enjoy staying in one or more of our houses.

Perfect for Couples Getaway, Girlfriend Getaway, couples traveling together, family get-togethers, Bible study groups, writers or artists, and anyone who wants to get away from life's daily stresses.


Benedictine Pastoral Center
Bristow, Virginia
www.benedictinepastoralcenter
email
Telephone (703) 393-2485
Specializes in day retreats, spiritual direction, confirmation retreats and ecumenical events.


Roslyn Center
8727 River Road
Richmond, Virginia 23229

toll-free: (800)477-6296
direct: (804)288-6045


Roslyn, a retreat center of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, was bequeathed to the Episcopal Diocese in 1934 by Ms. Annie Rose Walker. Roslyn still occupies the same land and has grown in size to sixteen buildings and now hosts over 400 conference and retreat groups each year. Roslyn's natural beauty, peaceful atmosphere, and hospitality continue to reflect the faithful and generous spirit of its original steward and benefactress, Annie Rose Walker. We hope you will visit soon and enjoy this remarkable and treasured gift. Visit www.roslyncenter.org or email Carolyn Chilton for more information about the programs and events at Roslyn.


DOMINICAN RETREAT
An oasis of tranquility serving both the spiritual and secular communities
7103 Old Dominion Drive
McLean, VA 22101-2799

www.dominicanretreat.org
email
(703) 356-4243

Upcoming Retreats


The Well Retreat Center
18047 Quiet Way
Smithfield, VA 23430-6411

757-255-2366

www.thewellretreatcenter.org
email for more information


The Well is a Christ-centered retreat facility open to people of all faiths, operated by the Catholic Diocese of Richmond, Virginia. The grounds occupy 23 acres in the farmland of Smithfield and include a spring-fed lake and Cosmic Walk for meditation.
Tom and Linda Ashe are the directors.

Facilities
: Sixteen double rooms with private baths accommodate up to 32 people. Two rooms are equipped for special needs, allowing the use of a wheelchair.

Open to spiritual and secular organizations,
The Well is an ideal facility for group retreats and programs.

Directed and non-directed retreats are available to individuals seeking reflection and renewal.



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Sevenoaks Retreat Center is a beautiful, intimate place for healing in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Charlottesville, Virginia. The 130-acres of forests and meadows are bordered on the west by the Rapidan River.
The heart of Sevenoaks is within our newest building, Light House, which has a 50-foot diameter sanctuary withdramatic mountain views. Sevenoaks is 90 minutes from Washington-Dulles Airport and 20 minutes from Charlottesville Airport


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Mailing Address: P.O. Box 320245, Alexandria, VA 22320-4245

Location: One Eleven South Columbus Street, Alexandria, VA , 22314-3003

Hours: 10 am to 5 pm

Phone: (703) 706-5333
Fax: (703) 706-5334

btsias@aol.com

www.ias-online.org


Our Vision is to be a learning community that studies, teaches and practices soul development, leadership, and service as selfless action.
The IAS curriculum is didactic and experiential and teaches psycho-spiritual concepts and tools for inner work and personal, group, and organizational well-being. Individuals can participate in a variety of approaches at different depths. Trainings, workshops and classes are available at various times throughout the year. All activities are led by trained presenters and include texts, books, training manuals, and educational materials developed by the Institute.
Service and Leadership
  • Soul and Service Foundations
  • Group Leadership
  • Design of Learning Organizations
  • Peer Development, Peer Support, and Leadership Trainings for High School Students
  • Leadership Fundamentals
  • Leadership Mastery
Soul Development
  • Stages of Soul Development
  • Living from a Soul Perspective
  • Boundaries and Shadow-work
  • Heart and Emotional Healing
  • Nature of the Human Psyche and the Will
  • Energy Healing
  • Metaphysics and Spiritual Thought
  • Yoga of Consciousness
  • Conscious Parenting
  • World and Generational Issues
  • Conscious Dying
Visit our web site, read our newsletter and see below for more descriptions about our workshops and training.
"The goal of all service is to support the emergence of one another's highest potential. We bring our best selves to our service when we attend to our personal physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. We balance care of self with care of others."
                                                                    Susan Trout, Ph.D., Executive Director

The Earthwalk Center

913 Holly Corner Road
Fredericksburg, Virginia 22406

540-752-5540

heaven@earthwalkways.net

earthwalkways.net/

A enchanted intimate retreat center offering individual, supported or self-directed retreats in an enchanted canyon along a bold stream, just above the Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg, Virginia.

A Monthly Open House Retreat is offered through the seasons with group programs offered. We can accomodate small day rentals and have a beautiful location for small informal weddings.

The Center is dedicated to eco-psychology, consciousness exploration and the evolutionary Journey of the human into a new state of enlightenment, love, and recognition of the sacredness of our beautiful garden planet.
Visit our events page.
We specialize in Natural Communion Experiences, i.e. working with "the intelligence of the heart, in the direct perception of nature", using many vehicles including River Floats, Vision Quests, Sweat Lodges and Natural Communion Classes. The "Power of Now" is practiced using Nature as a gateway into Now and our own true Nature of Being. We deepen our capacity for remaining in the Now through personal transformation work that is informed by the Pathwork™ of Self Transformation.

Custom retreats are Individually tailored and are very useful in supporting life transistions, spiritual emergence, and healing at the soul level. Stress Relief Retreats are another House Speciality



Seeing Who You Really Are Workshop

with Richard Lang

headexchange@gn.apc.org

The regular fee is £60 ($120).
Registration


The Headless Way offers you a practical, user-friendly way to see Who you really are. This method was developed by the philosopher Douglas Harding. At the heart of this approach are the Experiments - awareness exercises that guide your attention directly to your deepest identity. Visit our web site for more information.

Seeing Who You Really Are

Who are you really? Richard Lang will guide you through experiments invented by the philosopher Douglas Harding. These experiments test an amazing claim about you - at centre you are absolutely different from what you appear to be from a distance. From several metres you are human, but at centre you are not – you are Awake No-thing that is capacity for everything. Put in more traditional language, in appearance you are human but in reality you are divine. Your True Identity is God, Buddha-Nature, the One Self – choose your name! Richard will not ask you to believe this – he will invite you actually to look into your centre for yourself to see if this claim about you is true. And he will show you how to look into your centre so that you can, during this workshop, see your True Nature. This discovery can change your life. When you see Who you really are, you become one with the Source of all things. What greater discovery is there than this?

Richard Lang first discovered Who he really is when he attended a workshop with Douglas Harding in 1970. Since then he has devoted his life both to staying awake to his True Nature and to sharing Harding’s experiments that make so available this profoundest of discoveries. He has two books published - Seeing Who You Really Are and Open To The Source. He has written and compiled the content for the website www.headless.org He lives in London, co-ordinating the Shollond Trust – the UK charity set up to share this work. He also works as a psychotherapist, and teaches Tai Chi and Five Rhythms Dance.


Highlighted Retreats

Shalem Institute
5430 Grosvenor Lane
Bethesda, MD 20814

www.shalem.org


Personal Spiritual Deepening Program Offerings
After 15 years of offering this program as a year-long program based in Washington, DC, Shalem is offering PSDP in a format customized to your local setting. Our trained associate-faculty are providing this program in their communities.

The Bellfry Retreat Home
Lexington, VA

  • Opening Retreat Weekend - September 24-26, 2010

  • Evening Sessions - 6-9pm one Thursday a month October '10, November '10, February '11, March '11, April '11

  • Closing Retreat Day - Saturday, May 14, 2011

Leaders: Anne Grizzle and Dawn Peck
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Dawn Peck is a spiritual director, developmental pediatrician, and retreat leader; interested in theology and interfaith dialogue.

Cost: $500

Registration: $100 deposit will hold your spot. Deadline is August 24, 2010. Space is limited. Full payment is due September 13, 2010.

For more information or to register contact: Dawn Peck, dhpeck@hotmail.com

A complete listing of those offerings available here


Benedictine Pastoral Center
Bristow, Virginia
www.benedictinepastoralcenter
email
Telephone (703) 393-2485
Specializes in day retreats, spiritual direction, confirmation retreats and ecumenical events.

First Fridays (beginning October 1st) 10:00 am to 12:30 pm in the Monastery.

Conference from 10:00 am to 11:15:00; Mass 11:30-12:15; lunch available with the Sisters; afterwards guests are invited to enjoy the campus and visit our newly renovated gift shop.

Topics and presenters are listed below. The topics are taken from “May I have This Dance” by S. Joyce Rupp, OSM (available for sale at the Monastery).

  • October 1, 2010, S. Cecilia Dwyer, OSB Falling leaves: a reminder of our human mortality

  • November 5, 2010, S. Kathleen Persson, OSB Faithful love: generous love means paying the price

  • December 3, 2010, S. Mary Clark, OSB Homecoming: each of us has our inner exile

  • January 7, 2011, S. Vicki Ix, OSB Road of life: looking back and forward

Full calendar available here


DOMINICAN RETREAT
An oasis of tranquility serving both the spiritual and secular communities
7103 Old Dominion Drive
McLean, VA 22101-2799

www.dominicanretreat.org
email
(703) 356-4243

Upcoming Retreats




Oct. 29 2010
The Psychological Experience of Centering Prayer Fr. Bill Sheehan, OMI

Oct. 29-Nov. 3 2010 Intensive Centering Prayer Retreat, W/M Fr. Bill Sheehan, OMI

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- Within and hour of Washington DC -
Rolling Ridge is an ecumenical Christian study retreat community located on 1400 acres of wilderness near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Current facilities include a retreat house, meditation shelter, art cottage, and four staff houses. Retreat events focus on spirituality, biblical studies, meditative arts, earthkeeping, peacemaking and community.

Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community | 129 Jubilee Lane | Harpers Ferry, WV 25425

Phone 304.724.6653 | Email community@rollingridge.net


  • Seasonal Quiet Days at Rolling Ridge: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
    Retreat House
    Rolling Ridge Study Retreat

    FALL -- Trust and Surrender
    October 20, 2010

These four quiet days during the year offer you the opportunity to rest in the beauty of Creation's varied seasons. They are a time apart to look and see, listen and hear in new ways. They are a chance to be nurtured by guided reflection around the seasonal themes, meditative walks in the woods, journaling and art, and the companioning presence of each other in prayer and sacred silence.

Leader: Trish Stefanik, contemplative artist and retreat leader, is a resident at Rolling Ridge and member of St. Agnes Catholic Church.

Each day is 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Advance registration is necessary. No cost, donations welcome. Please bring a bag lunch. For more information contact Trish at tstefanik@aol.com or call 304-725-4301. See www.rollingridge.net for directions. Overnight accommodations are available at the Retreat House for a small fee.

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  • Meditative Arts Retreat: Ikebana
    October 15-17, 2010
    Retreat House
    Rolling Ridge Study Retreat

  • The Wisdom Way of Knowing: A Five Day Wisdom Retreat at Rolling Ridge with Cynthia Bourgeault (FILLED: please email to be put on waitiing list)
    November 16-21, 2010 (yes, really in 2010)
    3:00 pm Tuesday - 3:00 pm Sunday
    Claymont Society
    Rolling Ridge Study Retreat


The Well Retreat Center
18047 Quiet Way
Smithfield, VA 23430-6411

757-255-2366

www.thewellretreatcenter.org
email for more information




Their new website is: www.beingandawakening.org

Register online: www.sevenoaksretreat.org/schedule.html
Call our office: 540-948-6544
Send us an email: sevenoaks@sevenoaksretreat.org
Visit our website: www.sevenoaksretreat.org


The Mid-Atlantic Pathwork® Presents:

MAKING CONNECTION
STEPPING OUT OF SEPARATION

Saturday August 14 9:30AM – 5:30PM
Mechanicsville, Virginia

Led by Julia Jensen, Pathwork Helper
Assisted by Stanley King, Apprentice Helper


To find fulfillment
we must learn the skill of connection. Instead of connecting we find ourselves often returning to old patterns that keep us in isolation and in fear. Join us in exploring how to risk letting ourselves be vulnerable enough to actually connect to another human being.
T
his workshop may include Pathwork lectures, ritual, core energetic movement, meditation, or prayer. Join us in experiencing the joy of opening to another person.

Julia Jensen is a Pathwork Helper, a certified Healer, and a member of the Sevenoaks faculty in the Pathwork Transformation Program. In her practice near Richmond, Virginia, she works with individuals, couples, and groups, both in-person and phone sessions. The Pathwork is a spiritual path that guides those who seek to deepen connections with each other and with their spirituality. Julia believes in opening to the light that lives within each person.

Stanley King
served as a Substance Abuse Counselor and Counseling Center Director while in the Marine Corps. He has enjoyed twenty years of recovery, which has allowed him to full engage life with vigor and passion. He is an apprentice Helper and teacher in the Pathwork Transformation Program.

This group is sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Pathwork. The Pathwork® is a registered service mark owned exclusively by the Pathwork Foundation. It is used here with the permission of the Foundation. The mark may not be used without the express written permission from the Pathwork Foundation.

Cost: $75

To register or for questions call Julia at (804) 781-0660


Retreats
Lynne Larson
757-420-3825

llarson24@cox.net
http://thejoyofdreaming.com/



The Earthwalk Center

913 Holly Corner Road
Fredericksburg, Virginia 22406

540-752-5540

heaven@earthwalkways.net

earthwalkways.net/

The Art of Soul Whispering and Living with Everyday Guidance

Would you like to understand the deeper significance of your life and all that you go through in this incarnation?
Can the daily events of life reveal what your Soul is studying and working on?

The art of soul whispering teaches us how to follow our soul's unique journey encountering with courage and faith, all that life holds.

We learn to let the beauty and power of Life and the peace of nature inspire and hold us in fullness and gratitude.

Learn to live life from the soul's perspective

Blessings of Light, Life and Love

Darlene Rollins
Earthwalk Center

540-752-5540

heaven@earthwalkways.com

Earthwalkways.com

Retreats and classes at the Earthwalk Retreat.
Teleconference retreats also available.

Full calendar



Patrick Cleary-Burns
Spiritual Director and Retreat Leader

pclearyburns@gmail.com


216-375-7510

www.patclearyburns.net/

Find God in all things...

Pat is a certified spiritual director and retreat leader who marvels at the profound love our God has for each of Her/His creations. He is a graduate of the Ignatian Spirituality Institute at John Carroll University and is completing his MA in Pastoral Ministry at Boston College in 2008. He is directing retreats focused on discernment this summer:

Changing jobs? Moving? Graduating? Turning 30, 40, 50 or 60? Retiring? Feeling called to action, but not sure where to go? We all face many times of transition in life. They are often bewildering.

This might be the time that you will benefit from a discernment retreat. You may not come away from the retreat with a clear answer to your dilemma, but you will leave it confident in the love and guidance of the Holy Spirit and with a clearer sense of the next steps you need to take.

Discernment is a gift of wisdom that has been passed down by the holy women and men who came before us. Practicing discernment helps us open our hearts to watch and listen for the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

A Directed Retreat provides an ideal setting for discernment. It gives us the time to find the quiet places of our heart. Pat will serve as a director on individually directed retreats at four retreat houses around the country this summer.

To learn more about these retreats visit www.patclearyburns.net



WHI Cobb Island Station
Eastern Shore Virginia

www.worldhealinginstitute.org

ahess@whih.org

757-331-1925


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