Arts to the Ridge

A creative spirit retreat for girls ages 10-16
June 21-26, 2015
supper potluck 3 pm Sunday June 21 - lunch Friday, June 26
Still Point Mountain Retreat near Harpers Ferry WV

Retreat to the Ridge and bring your art with you. If you draw, dance, sing, write, play a musical instrument, sculpt, sew, or otherwise create—this retreat is for you! Practice in an inspiring mountain setting; share creative experiences with one another; explore the connection between silence, spirit, and creativity; try something new in sampler sessions with guest artists. Parents and younger sibs welcome.

Retreat fee is $425. Register and pay by April 15 for $400. Scholarships are available, as well as family/sibling discounts, and discounts for girls of parent staff/artists.

Features:

Restorying the Heroine's Journey: Sacred circles and wild wanders

With Lisa Bardack, Julie Gabrielli, and Lindsay McLaughlin
May 29-31, 2015
Friday dinner - Sunday lunch
Rolling Ridge Study Retreat and Still Point Mountain Retreat

"Women must begin to forge alliances that will add strength to their individual voices. Women must rediscover and share their wisdom to ensure the healing of the entire planet and humanity by tapping into the vast reservoir of energy that runs beneath our common ground and is creating a new wave of women's power."
--Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers

Children of the Earth

For child and parent, grandparent or mentor
May 8-9, 2015 Mother's Day Weekend
Friday evening supper through Saturday supper
Rolling Ridge Study Retreat

Save the date.  More information to come.

Celebrate Spring and the Breathing Earth

Scholarship Fundraising Event at Still Point Mountain Retreat featuring Jesse Palidofsky and friends in concert
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Still Point Mountain Retreat near Harpers Ferry WV

Featuring:

✓ Jesse Palidofsky and friends in concert
✓ Alfresco dining by accolade winning retreat chefs
✓ Story-telling, poetry, drumming, fire circle and more
✓ Accommodations in Still Point cabin and Rolling Ridge Retreat House

You are welcome anytime Saturday to join the Still Point Partners, Friends of Silence staff, and Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community in joyful spring raking and cleaning in the budding wilderness. Or come just as the shadows begin to lengthen for the main event ...

✓ 4 pm — lemonade, appetizers, and fundraising surprises
✓ 5 pm — scrumptious picnic porch supper
✓ 6 pm — festive concert, followed by fire circle
✓ Stay all night — for free

Men's Rites of Passage at Rolling Ridge with Belden Lane and Steven Gambill

Think of this time as jumping, or maybe being thrown, into a "life-changing stew" where you simmer for five days in the "transformational mix" of silence, wilderness, and powerful ritual that holds the possibility of breaking open your heart, allowing you
April 22-26, 2015
Wednesday 1:00 pm - Sunday 3:00 pm
Rolling Ridge at Harpers Ferry West Virginia

Belden Lane will join with Stephen Gambill and the Washington DC Regional MALEs team (Men As Learners and Elders) to host this area's second Men's Rites of Passage near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, from Wednesday afternoon April 22, 2015 through Sunday afternoon April 26, 2015.

This is not just another men's retreat or another spirituality event.  Think of this time as jumping, or maybe being thrown, into a "life-changing stew" where you simmer for five days in the "transformational mix" of silence, wilderness, and powerful ritual that holds the possibility of breaking open your heart, allowing you to see new possibilities for yourself, and creating "living questions" that will percolate within you and guide you for years to come.

Simply Silence: Spring

An age-old prayer tradition for contemporary pilgrims
April 10-12, 2015
Friday evening supper through Sunday morning
Still Point Mountain Retreat

Gather at Still Point Mountain Retreat for Friday Vespers, followed by 7:00 p.m. dinner and Compline. Arrive Friday after 1:00 p.m. Retreat ends on Sunday morning. Gathered participants will follow contemporary Prayer of the Hours, interspersed with generous time for silence and rambling in the winter woods, warming around the fire, reading or writing in the library, reflecting through art or your own contemplative work, and enjoying one another in community. Come away and rest. A warm, comfortable log cabin and kindred spirits await.

Retreat include five delicious home-style meals, a contemplative library and art materials. Retreat Fee: $185.

It's easy to register:

Sacred Quiet Days

Friday Walking Meditation "Journey of the Heart" and Sunday sunrise fire circle at Rolling Ridge: an informal gathering
April 3-5, 2015
Rolling Ridge Study Retreat

Save the date!  More information to come.

"It's Almost Spring!" Workday

Join the Study Retreat Community for a day of joyful work in the garden, near the spring, in the retreat house, and among the trees
Saturday, March 14, 2015
9:30 am - 4 pm
Rolling Ridge Study Retreat

Can work be fun, renewing, relational?
Yes!
But don't take our word for it.
Come to our annual spring work day and find out for yourself!
Afer all, it's almost spring!
Time for a little renewal of body and spirit, don't you think?

Arrive at 9:30 am and be welcomed with steaming coffe and fragrant tea, fresh-from-the-oven muffins, and friends new and old.

Work begins promptly at 10 am.

Work where you will find it most enjoyable:

Simply Silence: Winter

An age-old prayer tradition for contemporary pilgrims
February 27 - March 1, 2015
Friday evening supper through Sunday lunch
Still Point Mountain Retreat near Harpers Ferry WV

View from Still Point deck in winter

Gather at Still Point Mountain Retreat for Friday Vespers, followed by 7:00 p.m. dinner and Compline. Arrive Friday after 1:00 p.m. Retreat ends following lunch on Sunday. Gathered participants will follow contemporary Prayer of the Hours, interspersed with generous time for silence and rambling in the winter woods, warming around the fire, reading or writing in the library, reflecting through art or your own contemplative work, and enjoying one another in community. Come away and rest. A warm, comfortable log cabin and kindred spirits await.

Retreat include six delicious home-style meals, a contemplative library and art materials. Retreat Fee: $185.

It's easy to register:

Wilderness Wandering and Quarterly Men's Gathering

December 5-6, 2014
Friday 6 pm - Saturday 6 pm
Still Point Mountain Retreat at Rolling Ridge

"Wilderness wandering is perhaps the most essential soulcraft practice
for contemporary Westerners who have wandered so far from nature"
-- Bill Plotkin, Soul Craft

As men, we need three things to grow in our spiritual journey: intentional heart connection with other men, a daily contemplative practice, and regular immersion in wilderness.

We invite you to join other men from our region for a "Wilderness Wandering" on December 5-6 at the Stillpoint Retreat at Rolling Ridge in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, beginning on Friday night with a shared potluck dinner between 6-7 pm followed by a reflection period. Saturday will serve as an intentional extended period of solitude in nature without distraction, incorporating an opportunity for fasting, prayer, solitude, observation, and journaling. This is not for the faint of heart. It is for those men who want to be intentional about their spiritual journey.

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