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The WinShape Retreat Center in Rome, Georgia An aspiring seminarian prays during a vocational discernment retreat in the chapel of Blessed John XXIII National Seminary in Massachusetts. The meaning of a spiritual retreat can be different for different religious communities. Spiritual retreats are an integral part of many Buddhist, Christian and ...
The center, on 8-acre (32,000 m 2), is designed to be a spiritual retreat center for people of all faiths. It is considered in the same nonprofit category as a church. It began when Joseph Miyares, a local attorney, donated property to be converted into the Franciscan Center. [1] [2] [3] The Franciscan Center's main building is two stories high.
Omega Institute for Holistic Studies is a non-profit educational retreat center located in Rhinebeck, New York. Founded in 1977 by Elizabeth Lesser and Stephan Rechtschaffen, inspired by Sufi mystic, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and his ecumenical spirituality, today it offers classes to over 25,000 people a year, at the 190-acre (0.77 km 2 ) campus.
Drala Mountain Center (DMC) is a 501c3 educational non-profit originally founded in 2000 as the Shambhala Mountain Center, with the name changing to DMC in 2022. [1] It operates a spiritual retreat center located on 600 acres in a valley in the northern Colorado Rocky Mountains . [ 2 ]
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In the 2010s, retreats at St Beuno's began to be featured in the national media. [9] [10] [11] In 2010, it was a location for the BBC series The Big Silence where participants spent 8 days on a silent retreat at St Beuno's. [12] In 2017, two actors also did an 8-day retreat there in preparation for the Martin Scorsese film Silence. [13] [14]
The Abode of the Message is a retreat center in New Lebanon, NY which was founded in 1975 by Vilayat Inayat Khan and a group of his students. The Abode has a long history as a residential community, a centralized location for the Inayati order, a conference and retreat center, and a center of esoteric study.
It was named the Manresa Retreat House Centre, after Manresa in Spain, where the founder of the Jesuits, Ignatius of Loyola stayed in solitude for a year. It opened in November 1946 and had accommodation for eighteen retreatants. [3] As soon as it opened, demand for retreats was more numerous that the centre could accommodate.