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Wisdom of the Desert
Prayer Retreat
a Christian Spiritual Retreat of Prayer
Wisdom of the Desert™
The desert is an interior detachment from every creature in which the soul neither pauses nor rests in anything.
-St. John of the Cross
The joy of simple encounter with God. The deep call to prayer...
The idea of retreat has long been an ancient discipline in spiritual traditions. Spiritual beings from every age and culture have gone off to the desert or mountains to seek a more centered way of being. The Celtic saints embraced the concept of peregrinatio, an open-ended journey. It was not uncommon for monks from ancient times and the early Christian Desert Fathers to set out with no destination; they left with only the whispered invitation within to go and seek, guided by the Holy Spirit to hear the voice of the living 
God in contemplative prayer. The idea was to leave behind the known and safe to find a deeper sense of holy awareness and knowing, an inner journey of the soul.
I will lead her into the desert, and speak to her heart.
~ Hosea 2:16
Christian spiritual retreat has for centuries been a way to fill our deep desire for communion with God, our spiritual hunger. We go into solitude to receive the sacred love of God. The circle becomes complete. As we receive the love of the Spirit, we can love ourselves in a complete way and through that, we grow our capacity to better love others. This is a time for connecting with the Creator and the soul He has implanted in each of us, a soul restless until it finds its rest in knowing the deep oneness we have in the Divine.
Program Highlights
Prayer & Meditation
Body Wisdom
Soul Journeys
Ceremony on the Land
Gathering Power
Sacred Circles
Vision Quest
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Cost: $1,250
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includes our 4-day integrated program
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Includes lodging in a shared Sedona retreat house with full kitchen and amenities
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Optional Hearing your Heart Voice overnight sacred quest is additional $200
" The highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be still and know Him. In that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are illumined."
- Marianne Williamson
In this timeless land of the southwest, there is both a sacred splendor and a starkness to the landscape that fills you with holy reverence for the Creator. You are in touch with your environment, in touch within, in touch with God. You are alone, yet intimately connected with a beloved Presence beyond yourself. A remembering deep within takes place, a returning to the center. In that holy instant, we known in our being that we are no one outside of God.
Join us in this awe-inspiring landscape of the southwest for an intensive, intimate weekend spiritual retreat in Sedona, Arizona, where we return to the ancient Christian contemplative traditions of silent centering prayer and meditation, lectio divina (sacred reading) and Ceremony on the Land. We enter a sacred place to open ourselves to the gifts of the Spirit. We open ourselves to a deeper listening and hear all that is Holy within us resonate. In the illumination of Creation, we hear the Wisdom of the Desert, where Divine healing takes place.
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