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.

June 12-14, 2026

with Brita Rekve

Step into a sacred circle where creativity and imagination becomes a doorway to the unseen.

There are parts of us that do not speak in words. They speak through image, texture, memory, and symbol. They wait patiently until we are ready to create them into form.

This retreat is an invitation into a sacred creative process where art becomes ritual and making becomes transformation. Through guided journeys, expressive arts, and ceremony, you will create a spirit doll: a physical embodiment of an ally, ancestor, guide, or aspect of self that is ready to be known.

June 12-14, 2026

with Shane Tytenicz

Many of us sense we are living in a time of deep change – when familiar ways of being no longer hold and what is emerging is not yet fully clear.

This experiential retreat offers a gentle introduction to three contemplative practices – Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina, and the Ignatian Examen – along with meaningful experiences of each practice and group conversation to deepen insight and understanding.

Held in contemplative community, the weekend invites you into deeper wisdom and grounded presence, with inspiration for carrying these practices into your home, work, and way of life.

June 18-21, 2026

with Pema Lisa Antoniotti and Amber Mattingly

We are grateful to welcome Holden Village for this retreat exploring the heart’s deeper qualities.

Throughout the weekend, the teaching method will emphasize shared practice over expert instruction, inviting mutual discovery. Through compassionate awareness, meditation practice, and community support, participants will explore gentleness, patience, and joy.

Join us for a weekend of shared spiritual traditions, practice, and community.

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

June 18, 2026

with 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.

June 26-28, 2026

with Yanchy Lacska

We are living in a time that brings fear, uncertainty, and anxiety for many – and yet it is still possible to find inner steadiness, peace, and renewal. This retreat offers a gentle, practical space to pause, breathe, and reconnect with the deeper ground within, drawing from spiritual traditions, ancient and contemporary wisdom, and simple psychological practices.

The weekend includes meditation, simple chanting from the Ancient Jewish and Celtic Christian traditions, qigong exercises, quiet time in the healing presence of the natural world, and space for reflection and shared wisdom within the group, closing with a holy communion and healing ceremony.

June 26-28, 2026

with Kaita Bliffert, Fred Bliffert and Ron Moor

Join us for a joyful weekend of call-and-response chanting rooted in the Bhakti Yoga tradition, interwoven with silent meditation. Sacred chant is a pathway, enhancing our capacity to open to Source, God, Spirit through sound, breath, and shared practice.

Together we’ll learn simple Sanskrit chants (with meaning and pronunciation) and explore sacred sound as a support for healing, grounding, release, and opening to higher awareness.

No prior experience is needed – come as an empty bowl, open to being filled.

Embodied through the Dances of Universal Peace

Jul 3-5, 2026

with Robin Schnitzel & Michael Hopwood

Open a deeper inquiry into freedom – not simply as independence, but as interdependence. Through the shared practice of the Dances of Universal Peace, we enter a living field of connection, where breath, movement, and voice awaken our belonging to ourselves, one another, the earth, and the greater whole.

With simple dances, sacred phrases drawn from many of the world’s traditions, and time immersed in natural beauty, we move, breathe, and raise our voices together. As we move and breathe together, we remember that peace is not only something we seek, but something we embody.

July 7, 2026 6:30-8pm Central

with Kaitlin Henze

Our communication habits shape how we relate to ourselves, others, and the world around us. In this interactive online workshop, participants will explore the foundations of empathic dialogue through the practices of presence, intention, and attention.

Open to all levels, this session offers practical tools for staying grounded, clarifying intentions, deepening listening, and cultivating compassion for yourself and others. Through guided teaching, reflection, and interactive practice, you’ll leave with renewed perspective and resources to support more meaningful communication in daily life.

This class is part of The Empathic Dialogue Series.

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

July 16, 2026

with 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.

July 24-26, 2026

with Cass Hale

Grief is one of the most universal human experiences, yet it is also one that many have to experience alone.

This weekend, we will gather in a small community for deep listening, meditation, and the creation of Grief Cloths as we attempt to hold one another’s grief.

We’ll stitch and embellish our Grief Cloths to honor those we have lost, as well as other personal losses. When the Cloths are finished, we will engage in a short ritual of hanging them outside on branches, like prayer flags, before you bring them home with you.

July 26-31, 2026

with the Mindfulness Community of Milwaukee

Join us for the Mindfulness Community of Milwaukee’s annual summer retreat, exploring four core Buddhist teachings that offer practical guidance for modern life: mindfulness of the body, feeling tone, mental formations, and our perception of the world.

Each day focuses on one foundation through shared practice, instruction, and reflection, within a retreat held mostly in silence and grounded in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh.

In honor of the 800th anniversary of the Canticle of the Creatures, the retreat also includes a special meditation inspired by Saint Francis.

Option to add Going Deeper: A Weekend of Extended Meditaiton and Support with no additional program fee. 

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.

A Two-Day Retreat on the Perennial Wisdom Path, Christian Mysticism, and the Sacred Arc of Our Stories

July 31–August 2, 2026

with Valerie Dodge Reyna & Robert Rife

You’re invited into the Perennial Wisdom Path, Christian Mysticism, and the sacred arc of your story. Together, we will explore how mystics, contemplatives, poets, and wisdom teachers have named a deeper way – not as certainty or religious performance, but as a living movement through wound, longing, surrender, beauty, truth, and love.

With hopeful wildness and sacred imagination, we will look at the Christian story as a path of homecoming: recovering the sacred self, learning to remain present to mystery, and discovering the living heart of Christ beneath inherited maps that may have grown too small.

August 3, 10, 17, and 24, 2026

Mondays at 11am Central

Facilitated by Chris Flynn

What if the courage you’re looking for isn’t about being strong, but about being real?

In Daring Greatly, Brené Brown invites us into a way of living rooted not in perfection or performance, but in vulnerability, authenticity, and wholehearted connection.

In this four-week online summer book circle, we’ll explore letting go of the need to “hold it all together,” softening shame, fear, and self-protection, and discovering the quiet strength of vulnerability – in spacious, reflective, and deeply supportive conversation.

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.

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.

August 20-23, 2026

with Jean Werremeyer and Brita Rekve

Open yourself and tap into the creative wellspring inside of you – discover the wonder of creative expression where there are no mistakes, only discoveries.

Intuitive painting is deeply healing and transformative, an active meditation with the divine where color, emotion, and spirit meet on the canvas.

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.

August 28, 2026 6:30-7:30pm Central

with Barb Woolley

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

This full moon is in Constellation Pisces. 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.

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.

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.

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.

Dec 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.

Dec 28, 2026–Jan 1, 2027

with the Christine Center Community

Crossing the Threshold
As the year draws to a close, we invite you into a sacred pause – a few quiet days to step back, take stock, and listen deeply.

Reflect on what this year has asked of you and what it has given. Through simple ritual and shared silence, we will release what is complete and make room for what is ready to emerge. In community, we will turn gently toward the horizon, shaping intentions rooted in clarity and truth.

What are you ready to lay down? What is waiting to begin?