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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 ...
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.
The philosophy centers on the ideas of the dynamic balance of opposites, the evolution of events as a process, and acceptance of the inevitability of change (see Philosophy, below). In Western cultures, the I Ching is regarded by some as simply a system of divination; others believe it expresses the wisdom and philosophy of ancient China.
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The Esalen Institute, commonly called Esalen, is a non-profit American retreat center and intentional community in Big Sur, California, which focuses on humanistic alternative education. [2] The institute played a key role in the Human Potential Movement beginning in the 1960s. Its innovative use of encounter groups, a focus on the mind-body ...
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.
The Ehvam - International Spiritual Center for Peace (Hebrew: אֶוָום - מרכז רוחני בינלאומי לשלום) also known as the Arava Spiritual Center (Hebrew: מרכז רוחני ערבה), which is located in the southern Arava region in Israel, is a non-profit, non-governmental, and non-political organization founded in 2013 by Dvora Tzvieli.
The other two conference and retreat centers are Ghost Ranch and Montreat. Stony Point Center welcomes people of all faiths and nations to discern, discover, learn, and lead. Stony Point Center is located on 32 acres (13 ha) in the Hudson River Valley in the town of Stony Point, New York, 30 miles (48 km) north of Manhattan. The facility began ...