Monday – Friday, 8:45am & 5:00pm Central

Hosted by Sister Johanna & the Christine Center Residential Community

Discover the profound stillness and clarity that daily meditation can bring to your life. Our sessions, offered each day, create a nurturing space for inner reflection, mindful presence, and spiritual connection. Whether you are a seasoned practitioner or new to meditation, these gatherings provide gentle guidance and community support to deepen your practice. On the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, a reflective open discussion follows the morning session, inviting you to explore your experience with others in a spirit of shared inquiry.

Sundays, 9am Central

Facilitated by: Sara Neall

Join us each Sunday to explore LovingKindness practices from the Buddhist traditions.

The qualities of kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity help us to live in this world with courage. They help us to be a true friend to ourself and to others. They connect us back to an inner abiding that is a true refuge.

July 29, 2026 6:30-7:30pm Central

with Barb Woolley

Buck Moon
In community, let us manifest in our “BEING” the world our hearts know is possible.

This full moon is in Constellation AQUARIUS. Its energies are ideal for deepening and personal growth. Time to be true to Self.

The 2026 moon meditations invite a monthly sacred virtual sanctuary. Together we enter the Great Silence, offering one another quiet Presence, and letting Soul shine like the brightest moon.

July 31–August 2, 2026

with the Mindfulness Community of Milwaukee

This weekend meditation retreat in the Plum Village Tradition, follows the five-day Four Foundations of Mindfulness retreat and invites participants to continue in deeper practice through noble silence and longer periods of sitting and walking meditation.

In a supportive retreat environment, you’ll have space to cultivate concentration, steadiness, and presence – open to all and especially supportive for those who wish to experience extended meditation in community.

Program fee waived for those attending the The Four Foundations of Mindfulness during the week.

August 7-9, 2026

with Ron Moor & Drake Powe

What is being asked of us as men in these times of chaos and challenge?

In this retreat for men, we will gather in circle as equals. No shame. No guilt. No judgment. No fixing. We will listen deeply, reflect honestly, and explore what it means to live with authenticity, agency, and heart.

Through dialogue, ceremony, companionship, and opening to Spirit, we will seek the wisdom, courage, and grounded strength these times ask of us.

August 7-9, 2026

with the Christine Center Community

Sometimes the soul needs room to breathe.

In the warmth and fullness of the season, the long days, lush green woods, and unhurried rhythms of nature can offer gentle support for whatever your inner life is seeking.

This reduced-price private retreat offering includes lodging, meals, and space for rest, reflection, prayer, community meditation, creativity, or simply stepping away from the hurried pace of daily life.

Come as you are. Let the woods hold you. Let silence restore you.

August 13-17*, 2026

with the Christine Center Community

*Stay for just the weekend, or add Thursday or Sunday at half price lodging.

Sometimes the soul needs room to breathe.

In the warmth and fullness of the season, the long days, lush green woods, and unhurried rhythms of nature can offer gentle support for whatever your inner life is seeking.

This retreat offering includes space for rest, reflection, prayer, community meditation, creativity, or simply stepping away from the hurried pace of daily life. 

Third Thursday of each month from 7pm to 8:30pm Central

August 20, 2026

Paul Norton and Nancy Newman

Offered at no cost. Donations appreciated!

Join us at the Death Café, an open forum dedicated to discussing end-of-life issues in a supportive and respectful environment. This gathering provides a unique opportunity to explore topics often considered difficult to approach, within community and understanding.

The evening begins with a short meditation, followed by a brief reading to inspire reflection. Participants are then invited to engage in open sharing. Personal stories, thoughts, and questions are welcomed.

The Tao in Summer

August 24-27, 2026

with Ron Moor

What does it mean to be a sage in our world today? 

The Tao Te Ching is considered to be a meditation on living in wisdom and harmony. Increasing numbers of us are reaching for this little book and finding wisdom for these troubled times. We will balance the prose with meditation and a little Chinese Taoist art and poetry 

Those new to The Tao as well as those who have walked The Way for a while are equally welcome to come and explore.

Solid as the Mountain, Free as the White Cloud

August 28-30, 2026

with the Earth Holder Sangha of the Mindfulness Community of Milwaukee

This retreat offers a nourishing opportunity to reconnect with our true nature and the living Earth through mindfulness practice, community, and contemplation.

Guided by the Plum Village tradition, participants will explore interbeing, ecological awareness, and compassionate action through sitting and walking meditation, dharma discussion, mindful movement, forest bathing, art, and other practices.

We will listen deeply to nature as teacher and strengthen our capacity to respond to the needs of our planet with steadiness, wisdom, and care.

September 4-6, 2026

with Andrea Russell

Going on retreat offers an opportunity to let down the stresses of life and deepen your
yoga and meditation practices.

This retreat will allow you to unplug and remember what is really important to you. You will get the time you need for yoga, meditation, and introspection so that you can reset and come home to yourself.

You will also learn Ayurvedic recommendations to align harmoniously with the season, so your health and well-being may flourish.

September 11-13, 2026

with Yanchy Lacska

Come explore the ever-present mystery of creation by discovering the Divine in the natural world and within your own life.

Through Celtic Christianity, Taoist nature-based energy practices, and Carl Jung’s understanding of archetypal divine energies in nature, this retreat invites you into deeper relationship with creation as a living expression of the sacred.

Together, we will reflect, pray, move, spend time in nature, and allow the rhythms of the natural world to become a doorway to contemplation, renewal, and spiritual awakening.

September 15–November 3, 2026

Tuesdays at 7pm Central

Facilitated by Paul Norton

You’re ivited to an eight-week journey through Unshakeable: Trauma-Informed Mindfulness for Collective Awakening by Jo-ann Rosen.

Together we will read, reflect, and engage in meaningful conversation as we explore themes of resilience, spiritual growth, mindfulness, and living with greater trust and purpose.

Join a welcoming community with supportive space to deepen understanding, share perspectives, and connect the book’s insights with our own life experiences.

Third Thursday of each month from 7pm to 8:30pm Central

September 17, 2026

Paul Norton and Nancy Newman

Offered at no cost. Donations appreciated!

Join us at the Death Café, an open forum dedicated to discussing end-of-life issues in a supportive and respectful environment. This gathering provides a unique opportunity to explore topics often considered difficult to approach, within community and understanding.

The evening begins with a short meditation, followed by a brief reading to inspire reflection. Participants are then invited to engage in open sharing. Personal stories, thoughts, and questions are welcomed.

Women’s Yoga Retreat

September 25-27, 2026

with Coleen Elwood and Tara Cindy Sherman

Treat yourself to a weekend of nourishing practices, delicious vegetarian food, nature immersion, and like-minded community.

This women’s yoga retreat includes daily yoga and meditation, nature walks, woodfired sauna, drumming and chanting, shamanic journeying, Yoga Nidra, and intuitive art studio.

Surrounded by woods tended with care, reconnect with your nature and the healing presence of the land.

September 25-27, 2026

with Emily Dykman

Peace is not something we possess or control; it is something we receive, embody, and offer. Through our actions, attitudes, and relationships, God’s peace takes shape in the world.

This retreat is an embodied exploration of the Prayer of St. Francis and its relevance for our conflicted world.

Through music, art, reflection, shared meals, engagement with creation, ritual, and the building of relationship, explore what it means to live as instruments of peace.

A Four-Week Reflection Series with Viktor E. Frankl

October 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2026

Mondays at 11am Central

Facilitated by Chris Flynn

In Man’s Search for Meaning, psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl explores how meaning, purpose, and hope can be discovered even in life’s most difficult moments.

Through four weeks of heart-centered reflection, we will gather around a timeless question: What makes a life meaningful? Together we will explore the wisdom, courage, and hope that emerge when we listen deeply to that question.

Third Thursday of each month from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

October 15, 2026

Paul Norton and Nancy Newman

Offered at no cost. Donations appreciated!

Join us at the Death Café, an open forum dedicated to discussing end-of-life issues in a supportive and respectful environment. This gathering provides a unique opportunity to explore topics often considered difficult to approach, within community and understanding.

The evening begins with a short meditation, followed by a brief reading to inspire reflection. Participants are then invited to engage in open sharing. Personal stories, thoughts, and questions are welcomed.

October 16-18, 2026

with Pierre MacGillis and Wade Britzius

A call to feel and feed your wild heart and honor the mysteries of the sacred masculine. Step into a safe, dynamic container to activate your most vital self, experience meaningful brotherhood, and renew your sense of purpose.

Men in our society are often expected to stifle our feelings and imagination as well as our deep yearning for authentic connection with ourselves and one another.

We will drop down into the nourishing dark together and remember what our souls and the world so passionately need.

November 1-3, 2026

with Joanne Nelson

The second half of life is not defined by a particular age. Rather, it begins in a moment brought about by all manner of life-changing circumstances – a time when we recognize the need to reconsider who we are apart from occupations, daily duties, and our past.

Through writing, discussion, creative play, and mindfulness exercises, we’ll create our own unique paths and gently uncover the transformative possibilities inherent in times of deep change.

November 8-9, 2026

with Robin Schnitzel & Michael Hopwood

Join us for a gentle retreat of Dances of Universal Peace, with an evening and morning of shared practice in song and movement.

Rooted in sacred phrases and teachings from the world’s wisdom traditions, the dances invite us to settle into presence, open the heart, and experience connection with ourselves and one another.

Newcomers welcome!

November 11-15, 2026

with Jean Werremeyer and Brita Rekve

Creativity is not something we manufacture or master. It is our birthright – the quiet movement of spirit expressing itself through color, gesture, image, and form.

In this intuitive painting retreat, you are invited to quiet the mind, release judgment, and return to the wellspring of creativity already alive within you. Painting becomes less about technique or outcome and more about listening – following color, movement, curiosity, and inner guidance as they reveal what wants to emerge.

Explore creative expression as a sacred practice of freedom, discovery, and joy. No painting experience is needed – only openness, presence, and a willingness to be surprised by the wisdom of your own creative spirit.

Third Thursday of each month from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

November 19, 2026

Paul Norton and Nancy Newman

Offered at no cost. Donations appreciated!

Join us at the Death Café, an open forum dedicated to discussing end-of-life issues in a supportive and respectful environment. This gathering provides a unique opportunity to explore topics often considered difficult to approach, within community and understanding.

The evening begins with a short meditation, followed by a brief reading to inspire reflection. Participants are then invited to engage in open sharing. Personal stories, thoughts, and questions are welcomed.

November 20-22, 2026

with Ron Moor

Enter into a weekend of silence, stillness, meditation, and contemplation through the practice of Centering Prayer. Inspired by the deep roots of Christian contemplation, this retreat invites you to slow down, commune with the Deep Self, and become more present and responsive to the knowing heart through meditation, shared exploration, and a special sound journey with sacred instruments.

Designed for those beginning a meditative practice or seeking to deepen an existing one, this retreat welcomes pilgrims of all faith traditions, or none.

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November 25-27, 2026

with the Christine Center Community

Join us for our annual Gratitude Gathering, a homey retreat that invites you to rest, reflect, and share in the spirit of thankfulness. Rather than structured programming, this retreat offers spacious time for quiet contemplation, nourishing community connection, and simple practices that honor gratitude in everyday life.

Together, we create a gentle rhythm of shared meals, meditation, and moments of reflection–allowing gratitude to naturally unfold in both the small and meaningful moments

November 29, December 6, 13, 20, 2026

Sundays at 11am Central

Facilitated by Chris Flynn

This Advent, you’re invited into a circle of quiet – a space to rest, reflect, and return to what matters most.

Gathering wisdom from All Creation Waits and Braiding Sweetgrass, we’ll explore Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love through the rhythms of nature, shared readings, silence, and companionship.

Come as you are, wrapped in a blanket or holding a cup of tea, ready to step gently into the darkening light

December 7, 14, and 21 2026

Mondays at 11am Central

Facilitated by Chris Flynn

The holiday season can hold joy and celebration alongside sorrow, longing, loneliness, difficult memories, and the awareness that life has changed.

This gentle three-week gathering offers a welcoming space to honor what is difficult, care for yourself amid holiday expectations, and explore how gratitude and grief can walk hand in hand through conversation, reflection, and compassionate listening.

Anyone seeking a thoughtful and supportive way to move through the holiday season is warmly welcome.

December 23, 2026 6:30-7:30pm CST

with Barb Woolley

Cold Moon
In community, let us manifest in our “BEING” the world our hearts know is possible.

This full moon is in Constellation cancer. Its energies are positive for emotional well-being and the priority is on home and family.

The 2026 moon meditations invite a monthly sacred virtual sanctuary. Together we enter the Great Silence, offering one another quiet Presence, and letting Soul shine like the brightest moon.

December 24-27, 2026

with the Christine Center Community

We welcome you to our annual Christmas retreat, a quiet and sacred time to honor the season.

This retreat offers a spiritual home with space for reflection, community connection, and simple practices that celebrate themes of birth, light, and renewal.

With time for contemplation, shared meals, and gentle gatherings, we embrace the heart of Christmas as an inner journey as well as a shared experience of peace and presence.