• 28 Dec 2024 - 01 Jan 2025
  • Wallingford, PA

Open Heart, Peaceful Mind: An Annual New Year’s Retreat for Rest & Reflection

This New Year’s retreat is designed to cultivate rest, reflection, renewal, and restoration. At these times of uncertainty, change, high stress and high anxiety, we need now, more than ever, to exhale deeply and feel fully nourished through resilience-building, heart-opening, peace-making practices, and a caring community.

Cost

$810.00 Shared Room, includes all meals, festive New Year's Eve concert, dinner, candlelight meeting for worship

Venue

onsite

Pendle Hill
338 Plush Mill Rd, Wallingford, Pennsylvania 19086-6023, US

Registration Deadline

Dec 26, 2024

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This New Year’s retreat is designed to cultivate rest, reflection, renewal, and restoration. At these times of uncertainty, change, high stress and high anxiety, we need now, more than ever, to exhale deeply and feel fully nourished through resilience-building, heart-opening, peace-making practices, and a caring community.

Welcoming the New Year is a perfect time to explore issues of transition, vocation, life purpose, passion, meaning, direction and underlying life patterns to live in greater alignment with your core values. Listen to your own inner wisdom, and reconnect who you are with what you do.

Our theme for this retreat is Braving Your Way through Life Transitions.

You will learn how to:

  • Navigate life’s uncertain and ambiguous moments.
  • Cultivate courage and trust even when you don’t feel it.
  • Reflect on what matters most with soul-amplifying questions.
  • Align your values with your work for a greater sense of purpose and meaning.
  • Cultivate body intelligence and body awareness.
  • Show yourself real kindness through self-compassion.

Savor periods of silence, reflection, group discussion, creative arts, walks in nature, deep relaxation, music, laughter, and mindful movement. Surrounded by a supportive and caring community, you’ll return home feeling restored, inspired, balanced and uplifted toward the best version of you.

For a video introduction to the retreat, click here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ygc6xkdn35yd0r86u8dve/OPEN-HEART-RETREAT-PROMO-2024.mp4?rlkey=ab6udminpwfs3edt6ft01bad2&st=4wl87dyp&dl=0

 

 

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Tentative Retreat Schedule
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28
4:30-6:00 p.m. Registration in the Barn
6:00-7:00 p.m. Dinner in Main House & Orientation to Pendle Hill
7:30-9:30 p.m.Session 1:  Opening Circle:  Welcome, Overview, Touchstones, Introductions
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29
6:30-7:30 a.m. Early Morning Silent Contemplative Practice & Silent Walking Meditation to Breakfast at Main House—Dress Warmly
7:30-8:30 a.m. Breakfast (Eating Mindfully –Partial Silence)
8:30-9:00 a.m. Meeting for Worship in the Barn
10:00-11:45 a.m. Session 2
12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch (Eating Mindfully–Partial Silence)
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.              Respite:  Rest, Reflect, Renew, Reconnect / Optional:  Reflection Space in Art Studio with Rev. Rhetta
4:00-5:30 p.m. Session 3
6:00-7:00 p.m. Dinner (Eating Mindfully–Partial Silence)
7:30-9:00 p.m. Session 4:  Extended Silence
MONDAY, DECEMBER 30
6:30-7:30 a.m. Early Morning Silent Contemplative Practice & Silent Walking Meditation to Breakfast at Main House—Dress Warmly
7:30-8:30 a.m. Breakfast (Eating Mindfully—Silence)
8:30-9:00 a.m. Meeting for Worship in the Barn
10:00-11:45 a.m.Session 5:   Extended Silence in Nature (outdoor walking meditation-weather permitting)
12:00-1:00 p.m.               Lunch (Eating Mindfully—Silence)
1:00-4:00 p.m. Respite:  Rest, Reflect, Renew, Reconnect in Silence
4:00-5:30 p.m. Session 6
6:00-7:00 p.m. Dinner (Eating Mindfully-Partial Silence)
7:30-9:00 p.m. Session 6:  Theme:  Sabbath Rest:  Gentle Kundalini Yoga and Deep Relaxation/Yoga Nidra, the Yoga of Sleep
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31
7:30-8:30 a.m. Breakfast (Eating Meditation in the Tree Room) (Partial Silence)
8:30-9:00 a.m. Meeting for Worship in the Barn
10:00-11:45 a.m. Session 7
12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch (Eating Mindfully-Partial Silence)
1:00-3:00 p.m. Respite:  Rest, Reflect, Renew, Reconnect
3:00-5:00 p.m.                 Session 8
5:00-6:00 p.m. Prepare for New Year’s Eve Dinner, Concert & Celebration
6:00  p.m. Hors-d’oeuvres
6:30  p.m. Dinner
8:00  p.m.               New Year’s Eve Concert in the Barn
10:00 p.m.Dessert
11:00 – Midnight New Year’s Candlelight Meeting for Worship in the Barn
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1     NEW YEAR’S DAY!
7:30-8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30-9:00 a.m. Meeting for Worship in the Barn
9:45-11:45 a.m. Session 8:  Closing Circle/Integration/Evaluations
12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

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