The poetry of this 13th century Sufi Muslim scholar and teacher crosses all religious traditions to describe the common human life journey of growing into Love. 

The experience of loss—and the grief that follows—is often described as a darkness, a wandering through the dark.

Made in the USA: The Surfacing of Grief:  Come this night to reflect on the challenge and richness of diversity and our souls’ yearning for a more perfect union. We pray and commit to love our neighbors as ourselves.

This series offers twenty minutes of silent meditation together and discussion of reading.

Everything is energy.  You, me, every tree, flower, animal and star—sparks of swirling divine energy slowed down enough to be seen and felt.  There is an aliveness that permeates the entire univers

Living the Questions: A Great Spiritual Turning.  What has been changing and developing in your faith and spiritual life? 

This retreat is full.

A Program of Continued Learning and Growth for Those Who Companion the Bereaved (Formerly known as Honoring Grief II)

This evening presentation will explore several signs or indicators that our Christian spirituality is alive and healthy. 

Join retreat leader and author Melannie Svoboda, SND, to explore the nature of Christian hope and its relation to faith, love, and courage. 

African American Spirituality has helped  Black peoples in the United States cope with challenges of racism, oppression, isolation as well as been the source for their continued ability to seek and find strength and joy in the midst of their daily lives. 

The dark night, as described by St. John of the Cross, is an experience of God’s love freeing us from our attachments, our “little gods.”  St.

Who Are We Choosing To Be?   In this final evening we share:  What do our stories look like as we live open to the Spirit in this “Great Turning”? 

Steep yourself for a morning in some of the new developments in quantum physics and cosmology.

All families carry blessings and difficulties. As children, we are the center of our world and see all behavior as “caused” by us.

Siena Retreat Center is pleased to provide this day of reflection for clergy.  If you have experienced moments presiding when the words of liturgy seem to conflict with the evolving universe around

SoulCollage® is a process of creating over time a personal deck of collaged cards from found and personal images for the purpose of self-exploration, self-acceptance, and soul-tending.

Coming Home is a FREE retreat designed to help veterans and current military members come to spiritual healing and reconciliation with God and with one another.

Our day will include story sharing and visual meditations focusing on Middle East Spirituality with a Lebanese lens.      

An Advent Morning and Evening of Reflection

Who are the People You Come From? Reflect on your Spiritual Genealogy

  Through this Advent day of quiet, refresh your spirit by creating your own prayer day and schedule with opportunities for nature walks, reading, contemplative prayer, spiritual direction, and creative expression.

We will commemorate the 50^th anniversary of the death of Thomas Merton by watching, reflecting on, and discussing excerpts of the documentary  Soul Searching: The Journey of Thomas M

The Indigenous people of Central America were deeply rooted in their tradition and customs.  They had great love of prayer, song, dance, and Earth.  When the Spaniards came trying to bring conversi

During our time together we will prayerfully reflect on the visits by heavenly messengers that came to Mary, Joseph and the shepherds in the fields of Bethlehem.

There are myriad losses we experience because of the loss.  These additional losses are grieved as profoundly as, perhaps even more deeply than, the original loss.  These important losses are known as “secondary losses” or “loss of the assumptive world.” 

Join us for an evening of prayer, silent reflection, scripture, ritual, and simple meditative chants.

Both the Dominican preacher Meister Eckhart and Zen pose a new year’s conundrum: Why strive to be “holy” if you are already infinite love and goodness?  Why  make a new year’s resolution if there i

On this day, participants will be invited to reflect upon masculinity, participate in self-examination and explore ways to restore right relationships with others.

SoulCollage® is a process of creating over time a personal deck of collaged cards from found and personal images for the purpose of self-exploration, self-acceptance, and soul-tending.

SoulCollage® is a process of creating over time a personal deck of  collaged cards from found and personal images for the purpose of self-exploration, self-acceptance, and soul-tending.

Dr. Robert Wicks, author of more than 50 books, will offer insights into how we can live in peace and extend our warmth to others.

SoulCollage® is a process of creating over time a personal deck of  collaged cards from found and personal images for the purpose of self-exploration, self-acceptance, and soul-tending.

Many people today are conscious of living at a time of a great quantum shift, an evolving mysticism, interconnection—even “entanglement”—an emergence into wholeness.