Group Retreats

Contemplative Retreats for Healing, Renewal, and Spiritual Deepening

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”
— John Muir

There are times in life when we feel the need to step away from the demands of everyday life—to pause, to breathe more deeply, and to reconnect with what truly nourishes us.

Perhaps you are seeking healing or renewal. Perhaps you wish to deepen your spiritual practice, spend time in silence and nature, or simply share a few contemplative days with others who are walking a similar path.

You are warmly invited to enter a few days of sacred time—held in silence, beauty, and the companionship of others on the path.

My guided group retreats offer a sanctuary for contemplative practice, healing, and spiritual renewal. Held in monasteries, retreat centres, and places of natural beauty, they invite us into a quieter rhythm where body, mind, heart, and soul can gradually settle into greater harmony.

Each retreat follows its own unique rhythm, shaped by its theme, the season, and the unfolding life of the group.

Throughout our days together I offer contemplative teachings and practices rooted in the universal wisdom of Sufi and Christian mysticism. Held within a shared rhythm of silence, meditation, music, movement, and time in nature, the retreat gently supports both personal and collective exploration.

The Dances of Universal Peace, sacred songs, chants, and shared listening are woven naturally into many retreats, opening the heart in ways that words alone cannot. We often include an evening in which participants are invited to share a song, prayer, poem, or a gift from the heart, and many retreats conclude with a Universal Worship service celebrating the wisdom and beauty of the world’s spiritual traditions.

The Gift of Retreating Together

When hearts begin to open in an atmosphere of silence, trust, and compassion, something beautiful unfolds. A shared field of presence emerges in which healing, joy, and spiritual communion can naturally arise.

While a personal retreat offers the gift of solitary contemplation, a group retreat invites us into a shared journey of silence, presence, and companionship. Within a compassionate circle, each person is given the freedom simply to be—to listen, to feel, and to discover what is quietly unfolding within. One of the greatest gifts of retreating together is learning to offer one another this silent, spacious presence.

As we meditate, walk, sing, and hold silence together, our listening deepens. As hearts open, we often discover that another person’s journey gently mirrors our own. Without losing the solitude of the soul, we begin to recognise our shared humanity and the love that flows through all of life.

Inspired by the Sufi understanding of the alchemical journey, these retreats gently support the transformation of grief into wisdom, restlessness into peace, fragmentation into wholeness, and separation into a deeper experience of connection.

Upcoming Retreats

Retreats are offered throughout the year in a variety of beautiful settings, each with its own theme and rhythm.

For details of upcoming retreats, dates, locations, and registration information, please visit the Calendar & Events page, where the current programme is always kept up to date.

Come as you are. Let the beauty of the natural world, the companionship of others on the path, and the practices of the heart accompany you home.

See the Calendar for listings of our upcoming group retreats.