July 28-August 2, 2024
with the Mindfulness Community of Milwaukee

The four brahmaviharas are the ancient abodes of loving connection in the Buddhist tradition. They are loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. The Buddha has stated that practicing these four abodes is a true path to liberation.

Ancient spiritual knowledge applied to today’s life. 

Wednesday’s at 10:15am (CDT)
with Ron Moor

The Tao Te Ching is a philosophy of being calling us to live in harmony with all of creation. 

Ongoing weekly sessions.
Register and drop in any time.

August 2-4, 2024
with Paul Norton

This retreat is designed for individuals looking to deepen their meditation practice in a supportive environment. The weekend will be dedicated to noble silence, allowing participants to connect more profoundly with their inner selves through extended periods of meditation.

Attend the Four Brahmaviharas and you may attend Going Deeper for no program fee. 

August 2-4, 2024
Friday 10:00am to Sunday 4:00pm
with Sr. Gabriele Uhlein

Sessions limited to 12 participants. All materials provided.

Dare yourself to stretch into fresh creative possibility! Spend a weekend with creative friends, let your inner child play. Enjoy the Christine Center trails, sauna, and bright starry skies. Bring curiosity and a willingness to deepen insight!

August 12 – 15, 2024, Monday-Thursday
With Ron Moor

Early registration price is available through July 31!

With the Tao as our guide, we will explore our relationship with all things, including our inner selves, each other, nature, language, art, indeed with all of existence. This will be a time of deep yet gentle exploration, highly experiential. Tao is calling us to evolve our ways of perceiving and relating.

August 16-18, 2024
with Chris Flynn

Join other Christine Center Wise Women, Elders, and Crones in this sacred gathering space, in this landscape of later life. You will enjoy the gifts of deep conversation of the ‘Red Thread Circles’. Perhaps you’ll connect with the wisdom of the likes of Clarissa Pinkola Estes and Sharon Blackie’s “Hagitude”. You will discover the magical properties of your own hagstone. You will have time and materials to create a meaningful talisman, a small effigy of your Crone.

Ancient spiritual knowledge applied to today’s life. 

Wednesday’s at 10:15am (CDT)
with Ron Moor

The Tao Te Ching is a philosophy of being calling us to live in harmony with all of creation. 

Ongoing weekly sessions.
Register and drop in any time.

August 16-18, 2024

with Emily Jarrett Hughes

Early registration price is available through July 28!

Qigong can help you heal any type of challenge – a broken heart, arthritis, cancer, or back pain. Maybe you just know you could feel a little better or are interested in preventive health. This is a gentle, nurturing retreat and all movements can be adapted for comfort, energy level, and ability. This retreat will help you re-set your energy, connect with the calm and peace that can be so hard to find, and make feeling better not only possible but even something you can share with others.

August 23-25, 2024

with Mollee Sheehan

Explore ancient practices and evidence-supported techniques that utilize the built-in resources of our own bodies to transform trauma patterns and rebalance our nervous systems, to connect with our true nature and live in a with greater ease.

August 23-25, 2024
With the Christine Center Sisters and Community

Join us for a spiritual journey at the Christine Center and become a “keeper” of sacred spaces. This is a deeply fulfilling opportunity to engage with sacred sites and contribute to their preservation and beautification. This retreat is designed for those who cherish spirituality and community service, allowing you to connect with the history and significance of each space.

September 6-8, 2024
with Andrea Russell

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.

September 10, 2024, 7-8:00 pm
with Karen Hering

When naming our threshold “journeying companions, often the first ones that come to mind are contemporaries, those physically or virtually present in the here and now. When we widen our invitation to include those who came before us and those who will follow after, we gain a steadier balance supported across a greater span of history.” (From Trusting Change, by Karen Hering).

Compassion in Action Film Viewing and Discussion

Viewing: September 13,14,15
Discussion: September 15 at 3pm

Offered at no cost

From the sacred sugi and cedar forests of Japan, the ancient Raheen Wood of Ireland, the walnut and redwood trees of America, to the great boreal forest of Canada, this film tells us the amazing stories behind the history and legacy of these ancient forests.

September 17, 2024 at 6:30pm
Offered at no cost; come meditate with us!

VIRGO sun-sign: FULL MOON is in constellation PISCES.

Seed-thought: We are Spiritual Being and Human Matter. Earth-nurtured and nurturing Earth, we are both child and Mother. This is how the Divine matters, both serving and served.

September 20-22, 2024
with Emily Sisco APNP, CNM and Jill Tormoen APNP, CNM

This is for YOU – the midwives, doulas, physicians, nurses, assistants, therapists and consultants. Those who have put passion into action- tending and nurturing the pregnancies, births and postpartum of others.

Take pause for a weekend in the woods of central Wisconsin. Step aside from all you do to support others and tend, nurture and renew your own connection to yourself, your calling and The Wild Divine.

September 21, 2024, 9am to 4pm
with Joanne Nelson

For the first time we are opening the online sessions for our Spiritual Deepening for Global Transformation (SDGT)

Join our SDGT group with presenter Joanne Nelson, where we will explore together the beliefs and insights that form our inner maps, directing our choices and shaping our lives from the inside out.

October 17, 2024 at 6:30pm
Offered at no cost; come meditate with us!

LIBRA sun-sign: FULL MOON is in constellation ARIES.

Seed-thought: In the great rhythm of creation, all things expand and then contract, and then expand again. Finding my way, in service to Love and Life , I choose the path that embraces both.

Compassion in Action Film Viewing and Discussion

Viewing: October 18,19, 20
Discussion: October 20 at 3pm

Offered at no cost

UNDIVIDE US challenges the idea that citizens who disagree are not capable of civil conversation and demonstrates the truth that, even in our differences, the American experiment is still alive and well.

October 8, 2024, 7-8:00 pm
with Karen Hering

“When we step into the present moment without attachments to what we’ve known before and what we’ve expected or desired for the future, we are opening the way for many emotions, including joy.” (From Trusting Change, by Karen Hering).

October 11-13
with Ronald E. Moor

Silence, stillness, meditation, contemplation, slowing down. Communing with the Deep Self. Surrendering to the Source of All.

Thepractice of Centering Prayer  is an accessible and profoundly helpful method of meditation practiced by millions.

More than a technique, this is an initiation into a way of being that can bring us the ability to stay present, aware, and more able to respond from our knowing heart in this time of great challenge.

October 17-20, 2024
with Philip Shepherd

A 3-day workshop with Philip Shepherd, author of Radical Wholeness and New Self, New World, co-author of Deep Fitness, and creator of The Embodied Present Process™

The Radical Wholeness Workshop introduces you to very simple practices that show you how to encounter and bridge the hidden divisions that keep you from wholeness, and help you to experience the body as never before. This workshop is the cornerstone of The Embodied Present Process™ – it is playfully experiential and provides new skills to last a lifetime.

November 12, 2024, 7-8:00 pm
with Karen Hering

“The facts of my situation, and the logic and reason I use to arrange them, will only take me to edge of what I know. Even using my five senses will only extend as far as the range of my sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. But imagination has the ability to reach farther by accessing the deeper well of the unconscious and creatively rearranging what I’ve known before. The uniquely human capacity to imagine is a valuable threshold skill that can open a way into and through the unknowns of the not yet.” (From Trusting Change, by Karen Hering)

Compassion in Action Film Viewing and Discussion

Viewing: November 15,16, 17
Discussion: November 17 at 3pm

Offered at no cost

“What is your definition of gratitude?” While each answer is deeply personal and unique, there is a universal thread that connects us all – humans, animals, plants, flowers and let us not forget fungi and the mycelium network beneath our feet.

November 15, 2024 at 6:30pm
Offered at no cost; come meditate with us!

SCORPIO sun-sign: FULL MOON is in constellation TAURUS.

Seed-thought: Difficulties and challenges are like guardians, testing and honing capacities for diving deep into Holy Experience. Persevering, I am ready to cross the threshold into the next Soul opening.

December 6-8, 2024
with Andrea Russell

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.

December 10, 2024, 7-8:00 pm
with Karen Hering

“In our thresholding, not only does our current identity include the years we have already lived through; it also includes the future we are living toward. Just as the acorn carries within it all the potential—crown and roots and trunk—of a large oak tree to come, so too, our own future growth is folded within us. Being fully in the present moment, we can find strength in expanding our wholeness to include past and future, roots and crown and seed together, in an ever-growing identity reaching toward the light.” (From Trusting Change, by Karen Hering).

December 15, 2024 at 6:30pm
Offered at no cost; come meditate with us!

SAGITTARIUS sun-sign: FULL MOON is in constellation GEMINI.

Seed-thought: The spiritual path is without beginning or end. I extend a hand to those behind me and take the hand of those in front of me.. Together, we step forward. There is always more.