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SeekaRetreat - Wyoming retreats, retreat workshops, programs and events. Directory of retreat leaders and spiritual directors and coaches. Retreats include themes with topics including: spiritual retreats, religious retreats, healing, yoga, self improvement etc...
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Wyoming is bordered by South Dakota and Nebraska (E), Colorado and Utah (S), Idaho (W) and Montana (N).
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"What we are about at the Ranch is renewal of spirit and body,
heart and soul in a breathtaking, sacred wilderness."
Discover Ring Lake Ranch - a special place of refreshment and recreation set high in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming.
This non-profit, rustic, r enewal center offers those who choose to come opportunities for spiritual growth, solitude, community, intellectual stimulation, horseback riding, hiking, and a variety of outdoor experiences.
The beauty of the mountains with their silent lakes, waterfalls, wildlife, birds and flowers beckons the soul to celebrate creation in quiet and wonder. Friendly horses, miles of hiking trails and fish-laden waters offer both the novice and experienced outdoors lover physical challenge as well as relaxation.
 Stimulating seminars, thoughtful discussions, and informal interaction among guests and distinguished session leaders provide a unique educational opportunity and intellectual experience for all who seek a deeper understanding of God and themselves-lay persons as well as educators and ordained clergy.
Families may enjoy shared activities and also personal time.
Individuals are able to savor the opportunity for solitude as well as to participate in group activities. The community, including staff of about 12, averages between 25 to 45 each session. Everyone helps in doing simple chores-kitchen clean up and tidying our own cabins.
The Ranch is locate d just east of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. The Whiskey Mountain Bighorn Sheep Unit and the Shoshone National Forest, immediately adjacent to the Ranch, offers the opportunity to view bighorn sheep, moose, elk and deer. Bird watching, from our resident osprey family to chickadees and eagles, is a favorite pastime. Numerous ancient petroglyphs are located in the valley around the ranch.
Activities include boating, hiking, walking, fishing, swimming and hor seback riding. Our horses and riding them have been important parts of Ranch life for over 40 years. The wranglers announce trail rides usually at the end of breakfast - Monday through Friday. Longer rides may be announced at supper the night before.
We have an extensive retreat calendar during the year. Topics range from contemplative prayer, directed retreats, saints and women's retreats. Other retreat options include private, private directed, sabbaticals and retreats with spiritual direction. We invite individuals and groups.
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Highlighted Retreats
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"What we are about at the Ranch is renewal of spirit and body,
heart and soul in a breathtaking, sacred wilderness."
June 14 – 20
Sabbath Spaces: Reclaiming Time and Making It Holy
From the keeping of Sabbath to honoring rites of passage, marking sacred time is a spiritual practice well worth recovering. In a culture where time is money, we often consider time as a commodity rather than hallowing it in the presence of God.
 How do busy families construct their own times for celebration and renewal? Can we reclaim life cycle celebrations and holy days from the world of consumption and restore their religious significance in our common lives? We’ll consider practices ancient and new for the hallowing of time.
Katherine Turpin teaches at Iliff School of Theology in Denver and is author of among other works, Branded: Adolescents Converted from Consumer Faith.
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June 28 – July 4
Come Apart and Rest Awhile
Come for a week of rest and renewal, spiritual direction, reiki, massage, and quiet rides and hikes. Last year the focus was on varieties of meditation. This year participants are invited to feast on the wonders of the Ranch, whether a plant, a bush, a tree, some simple grasses - maybe a grand vista! Participants will have a chance to really look, to pay close attention, and then paint or draw what they see, what they feel, and what they sense needs to be communicated -- a Zen type of painting.
We will use pastels and drawing to re-create and express the beauty that surrounds us at Ring Lake Ranch. If you paint or draw already, great; if you have the simple desire to see in a different way and try, you will equally enjoy the time. Or if you simply want to come and rest without lifting a brush, come. The Divine Spirit is this week’s ultimate presenter.
Karen Kappell, FSPA, MFA iis a gifted artist who has taught art to grade school children, university students and advanced artists as well. She belongs to a professional artists’ cooperative in Wisconsin and has taught icon writing or painting in Eastern Europe, helping artists there resurrect their traditional form of art and worship lost during the long period under Communism.
Pauline Wittry, FSPA, is an amateur artist and a spiritual director who will share reflective readings as well as be available for spiritual guidance. For many years, Pauline directed the Clinical Pastoral Education Program at Franciscan-Skemp Healthcare in La Crosse, WI. Finishing her career there, she lived for a period in a Christian ashram in India and a Zen center in Germany before beginning a ministry as spiritual and retreat director at Marywood Spirituality Center in Woodruff, WI.
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July 12 – 24
Thomas Merton & Contemplative Living
Perhaps more than any other single individual in the 20th century, the Cistercian monk, writer, and social activist, Thomas Merton made the term “contemplative” a commonplace in American spiritual discourse. Who was Merton? How did he understand “contemplation”? What was the relationship between Merton-the-contemplative and Merton-the-poet? Is contemplative life possible for non-monastics? Desirable? A generation after his death, what practical insights does Merton offer those who want to live saner, more spiritually centered lives? We will address these and related questions in these twelve days with Thomas Merton.
Bonnie Thurston currently lives in solitude near Wheeling, WV having resigned the William F. Orr Professorship in New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
A founding member of the International Thomas Merton Society she served as its third president and has written more than 20 scholarly articles on Merton, given retreats and lectured on Merton widely in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
She is the editor of Thomas Merton and Buddhism. Bonnie has written eleven theological books and over 100 articles and has contributed to reference works in New Testament.
Ordained in 1984, she has served as co-pastor, pastor, or interim of five churches and twice in overseas ministries. Her poetry frequently appears in religious periodicals, and she has authored two volumes of verse. Bonnie is a widow, an avid reader, gardener and cook, enjoys classical music (especially the opera and liturgical music) and loves the West Virginia hills.
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More Upcoming Programs:
July 26 – August 1: The Living Land with Alan and Jeanie Mebane
August 2 – 8: Wilderness Spirituality with Belden Lane
August 9 – 15: All of Us for All of God with Thomas H. Troeger and H. Edward Everding, Jr.
August 16 – 22: Writing for Ministry & Personal Fulfillment with Kathy Coffey
August 23 – 29: Listening Matters with joan Guntzelman
August 30 – Sept. 5: Deepening Your Spiritual Growth with the Enneagram with Eric Wheeler
Sept. 5 - 11: Flyfishing and Theology with Fred Webb
For more details :http://www.ringlake.org/html/programs.html
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