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Virtual retreats

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​Below are on line, virtual retreats with significant time in silence or which relate to developing this spiritual practice.

At the top of the page is information about retreats with a specific theme.

​Lower down are details of retreat centres that offer facilitated on line silence-based retreats and Ignation Guided Retreats (IGRs) of 3 to 30 days.

​For self-guided retreats on line that you can access at any time see the Resources tab or click the button below.
Click here for self-guided, virtual, on line retreats

Virtual retreats with a specific theme


​​This page is constantly updated as retreat dates are published.

A daily Lenten Pilgrimage Retreat
Path of Deepening
Each Sun-Sat, 5th March-26th April & weekly zoom 4-6pm, UK time
with Christine Valters Paintner and others

Dive into the wisdom of seven medieval women mystics. We live in liminal times, when the old is falling away and the new is not yet come into being. These seven women each lived past midlife and experienced their own losses through chronic illness or death of loved ones, along with the ravages of their times. These holy women’s voices and visions shimmer across hundreds of years to meet us where we are.
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For more info & booking click here
Cost: from $140 USD (c.£110)

WCCM's Holy Week 2025 Retreat (also in person)
FullyHuman
Led by Laurence Freeman
14th-20th April

The deeper mysteries of human experience can be discovered by sharing with others in a combination – sacred and playful – of ritual and storytelling. Bonnevaux invites you to come in person and participate in this year’s Holy Week cycle which extends  from the Palm Sunday procession to witnessing sunrise on Easter morning.
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For more info & booking click here
Cost:  £​50

Self-paced, ANYTIME retreat: videos & yoga
Nothing to Fear About Being Free
with 5 talks from Laurence Freeman 

This retreat offers time for a spiritual check-up. It includes teaching from Fr. Laurence and yoga sessions with Giovanni Fellicioni. Fr. Laurence explores the positive side of asceticism and why there is nothing to fear about allowing ourselves to be free. He will also suggest practical ways of making Lent and other penitential times ones for releasing joy, energy and hope.
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For more info & booking click here
Cost: $60 dollars

Self-paced, ANYTIME retreat
Integral Light Shining in the Dark
with Cynthia Bourgeault

Over 15 hours of Cynthia’s 10 teaching sessions, five Gurdjieff contemplative practices and a short introductory overview of each session offer a deep dive into the profoundly Christian and incarnational mysticism at the root of Jean Gebser’s Integral Evolutionary theory. Bourgeault explores some of Gebser’s core ideas around time, transparency, spiritual generativity and “intensification of the present” and considers how the practical, attention-based “exercises” developed by Gurdjieff can offer us a way forward in our own uncertain times.
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For more info & to register click here
Cost: €50 (c. £38)


Virtual silence-based retreats & IGRs


Online, individually guided retreats:
4, 6 or 8 day 

St Bede's Pastoral Centre, York
Any dates where there is capacity to accommodate within programme.
For those who have previously experience of extended times of silent prayer.
​Be guided through a silent individually guided retreat. Retreatants will need to remain undisturbed and in silence for the full length of the retreat and have access to an internet connection for the daily spiritual accompaniment meeting. 
Please email St Bede's office for more information.
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For more info & booking click here
Cost: £25

Online, seven-week, led retreat: 
Retreat in Daily Life
led by Accompanists at St Bede's Pastoral Centre

For those who wish to explore and go deeper in their prayer by being accompanied one-to-one by someone trained in spiritual accompaniment over the seven consecutive weeks of the retreat. You will meet weekly with your retreat guide, be encouraged to set aside a daily space for prayer and reflection, and be gently supported in exploring ways of praying and reflecting on how and where God might be inviting you into greater freedom and fullness of life.
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For more info & booking click here
Cost: £75

Online Ignatian Guided Retreats (IGRs): 
weekend, 4,6 and 8 day retreats

from St Beuno's Centre, Flintshire
Availability from early October. New date being added.

Each retreatant has their own retreat guide whom you'll meet each day via Zoom, to help you to  reflect and discern. Online retreats run in parallel with those taking place at St Beuno’s. They are based on the Spiritual Exercises of the Ignatian tradition. They begin with an introductory zoom meeting with your director to agree times for individual meetings which will begin the following day.
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Cost: (bursaries available)
4 day £100; 6 day: £150;
​8 day: £200

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  • HOME
  • ABOUT
    • SILENCE
    • Who is SoS for?
    • What is Seeds of Silence?
    • What does SoS offer?
    • What else does SoS offer?
    • WHO is the SoS team?
    • COMMENTS about SoS
    • Safeguarding
  • EVENTS
    • Meditation: online groups & teaching
    • In person events
    • Virtual events
    • Residential Retreats
    • Virtual retreats
  • Silence Quotes
    • Voices from Silence
    • The Voices Collection
    • This week's quote
    • A month with ...
    • The Quoting Silence Collections
    • In silence, waiting: Advent 2024
  • RESOURCES
    • Organisations
    • Podcasts and recordings
    • BLOGS re silence & contemplative life
    • Poems & prayers for silence & meditation
    • Virtual, self-guided retreats
    • Virtual courses: self-guided or streamed
    • Books & DVD suggestions
    • New books
    • 50+ Poems for hard times
    • Documents to download
    • Covid Resources
  • WORKSHOPS
    • Exploring Silence Workshop
  • Spiritual Accompaniment
  • CONTACT
    • CONTACT Seeds of Silence
    • Quoting Silence email Request Form
    • Voices from Silence request
    • Donate to Seeds of Silence
    • Unsubscribe
  • WRITINGS & Talks