Sometimes Silent Retreats
These personalized gatherings uplift our humanity, align us with purpose, and offer space for replenishment through contemplative practice and circle.
Emergent space for whatever needs space. Without pretense, these retreats shift us from the habitual ways we communicate and find belonging. Profoundly permissive, our time is a healing bridge between the personal experience and the communal one.
Individuals, groups, families, and organizations seeking restful connection are also invited to inquire about private retreats.
About Gwendolyn as a facilitator:
Gwendolyn has spent a lifetime as a vision keeper in heartfelt preparation for this work and since 2006 has been professionally designing, planning, producing, and executing complex events near and far, from the intimacy of a feeling to the landscape of an environment. Logistically and creatively, this chapter has evolved into her curation of intentional spaces that support her heart’s mission: to offer containers and practices that stoke healing connection (to self, each other, and greater nature). Facilitating retreat since 2018 she melds experience, skill, and intuition to inspire emergent gatherings.
Gwen draws from creative practice, somatic inquiry, meditation, contemplation, gentle restorative and yin based yoga, reiki, circle, sounding, connection to nature, community based storytelling and place making ritual. Designing retreats that take us through a personal & collective journey: from silence to story, breath to song, stillness to movement, rest to emergence, often collaborating with dear friends to offer diverse voices and practices that lead us home to ourselves and each other.
Past Retreats & Photo Archives
Personal Retreat Weekend at Hope Springs (July 18-21, 2024)
Wild Rest: Spring Retreat at Hope Springs (May 2-5, 2024)
Threshold: Fall Retreat (November 30 - December 3, 2023)
How to Abide: teacher training retreat day (September 10, 2023)
Golden Hour at Red Clover Ranch (July 17-21, 2023)
Murmurations at Red Clover Ranch (May 18-21, 2023)
Tend: Spring Retreat at Hope Springs (May 4-7, 2023)
Listen: an almost silent day retreat (November 19, 2022)
How to Abide: teacher training retreat day (November 13, 2022)
Soft Animal: an almost silent Fall Temple Retreat (October 17-19, 2022)
Sensing the Threshold: Summer-Fall Cohort (August 5 - September 30th)
Kokoro: an immersion into the Reiki flow (Saturday, July 2, 2022)
Listen: an almost silent day retreat (Sunday, May 1, 2022)
Spring Temple Retreat in Peebles, Ohio (April 7-10, 2022)
Kokoro: an immersion into the Reiki flow (Saturday, March 5, 2022)
How to Abide: teacher training retreat day (February 2022)
Listen: an almost silent day retreat (Saturday, November 6, 2021)
Contemplative Retreat - Private (February 2021)
Woven Rest - Private (November 2020)
Listen: an almost silent day retreat (Sunday, June 14, 2020)
Private Reiki Retreat & Attunement (multiple dates, 2018, 2019, 2020)
Women’s Retreat - Private (December 2019)
Reiki Day Retreat & Attunement (Sunday, October 20, 2019)
Held: an almost silent weekend in Hocking Hills (September 20-22, 2019)
Listen: an almost silent day retreat (Saturday, May 11, 2019)
Let Go: an almost silent day retreat (Saturday, November 3, 2018)
Gathering: Listen & Be Heard (Friday, November 2, 2018)
Leisure: an almost silent day retreat (Monday, July 30, 2018)
Listen: an almost silent day retreat (Friday, May 4, 2018)
Interested in a Private Retreat?
Individuals, groups, families, and organizations seeking restful connection are also invited to inquire about private retreats. Half day, full day, and multiple day options are available.