Retreats

2025

Women's Wellness: The Power of Sisterhood

Saturday, October 11, 2025

2 pm - 5 pm

Cost: Donation

Please join us for a day of connection and empowerment. We will come together to cultivate meaningful bonds and create a community of support and advocacy for women. It can be challenging to meet friends and maintain friendships as adults; our lives are busy. Our hosts, Mary Beth and Bridget, who are also dear friends will share stories, laughs, and helpful ways to build lasting friendships. Our day will include a nature walk, coffee, nourishing & comforting food, an activity to fill our cups, and a talk and break out session. By the end of the day, you will hopefully leave feeling more empowered and supported than you did when you arrived, and connected to new friends.

Mary Beth Gibson is the co-founder of Here For The Girls, Inc., a. non-profit organization that supports young women affected by breast cancer. Mary Beth founded and created H4TG in 2006 after having breast cancer and experiencing the challenges that come with being a young woman with breast cancer while caring for her young children. She is a wife, and a mom of three adult sons.

Mary Beth lives in James City County where she is an activist for change and social justice in her community. She loves coffee, traveling, hiking and connecting with nature.

Bridget Weinberg is the founder of Kelly Weinberg Foundation, a non-profit that provides emotional support and camaraderie to all those touched by cancer, to include survivors, thrivers, caregivers and those grieving the loss of a loved one. Bridget started KWF after losing her husband, Kelly to brain cancer in 2007. She knows personally what a difference it makes to have a supportive community during and after cancer, and after a heartbreaking loss.

Bridget lives in Richmond with her adult Autistic daughter, and two Autistic grandchildren. She is an activist for social justice, especially LGBTQ+, Autism and disabilities. She loves coffee, nature, music and new adventures.

CELTIC SPIRITUALITY CROSSING THE THRESHOLD

A TRANSFORMING STRATEGY FOR THESE TIMES

October 31 - November 1, 2025

Friday evening - Sunday noon

Cost: $180

We will explore Celtic spirituality as a strategy for both personal and political flourishing.Through sacred and subversive stories, poetry, and song we will exercise our imagination to see the light in our own darkness, to kindle courage in the face of overwhelming odds, to cross the threshold between the living and the dead, to plot the downfall of the powers of repression, and to join together with the life-giving powers of creativity and faith. This is a spirituality both deeply personal and profoundly political.

Because this is a tremendous undertaking we'll have a full weekend of Samhain to begin this task followed by a second weekend of the Winter Solstice Dec. 19-21. Join us for one or both weekends!

Br. Stefan, founder of Community of Peace in Louisa, VA, recently completed his PhD in Historical and Cultural Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA.His dissertation: Howling at the Moon: The Transformative Spirituality of the Irish Lament is a deep dive into one of the most substantive elements of Celtic spirituality - the Irish lament. He lived in Ireland for six years absorbing the beauty and depth of Irish culture and a Celtic spirituality that speaks urgently to today's troubled world.

Designing a Mindful Life

Saturday November 15-16, 2025 Saturday only $180 Two day $250

With journaling, yoga, mindfulness. Speaker.

Psychedelic Integration

Saturday December 6-7, 2025 One day $180 Two day $250

Meetup for those wanting to share experiences, either personal or through professional care. A speaker will facilitate.

Solstice Celebration

Friday December 19-21, 2025

Writer’s Retreat

Saturday, January 3+, 2026

This will feature a full day writing workshop with speakers on Saturday, January 3rd, 2026. $180. Includes lunch. Anyone attending the workshop may stay over up to 6 additional nights to enjoy working on their writing in the quietude here. $75 per overnight/day. Includes meals.

St Bridget’s Day

Sunday, February 1st, 2026 $90

A Celtic event. Includes storytelling, music, and beer.

Couples Retreat

Saturday, February 14th, 2026 10:00AM-4:00PM $125

Facilitated by a reconnecting therapist.

Guarenteed to help! If not, you get to attend our next event, the next day, for free.

Singles Mingle

Sunday, February 15th 10:00AM-4:00PM $125

Silent Retreat Weekend

Friday, March 20 - 22, 2026 $250

Silence! From Friday evening at 10PM until Sunday morning 10AM. Arrive Friday for community supper at 6:00PM and stay through Sunday lunch and midday prayer at 1:00PM. 3x a day Sung Prayer offered as usual during the retreat.

Daily Sung Prayer: 8:00 AM, 1:00 PM, 7:00 PM

Ecstatic Dance

Saturday, April 11th 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM $90. Light lunch included.

With DJ facilitator

Thriving With Cancer

Saturday May 16-17. $250

Healing Arts

Saturday, June 6, 2026 10 AM - 4 PM $180

Yoga, Reiki, Healing Touch, Nutrition

Quirky Queer

Saturday, June 27, 2026

250th Festival

Saturday, July 11-12, 2026

An alternative celebration! Actually wanting Truth, Freedom, and Justice for All! Let’s celebrate what this country was originally meant to be.

Music, food, beer, wine.