retreats

At Queenswood, you decide how best to revitalize your spirit. Take quiet time by yourself at your own pace in a self-directed personal retreat, creating your own routine from all the drop in groups and add-on options. Or explore meaningful topics on a retreat program in dialogue with insightful instructors and fellow participants. The choice is all yours.

Self-directed retreats Plan your own personal getaway for rest and renewal - an alternative vacation choice to revitalize you in spirit, mind and body.

Retreat programs Revitalize your spirit on a retreat getaway to explore meaningful and relevant topics in personal development, spirituality and wellness.

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graceful endings (aug. 5-8, 2010)

A Virtues Project™ Retreat

medicine wheel workshop (july 8-10 in 3 parts)

The Medicine Wheel is a millennia-old First Nations tool for self awareness and development. Based on the importance of storytelling in Native oral cultures, the Medicine Wheel challenges us to seek out and tell our life stories as a way to deepen our own self-understanding.

zen meditation retreat (friday july 30 to sunday august 1)

Meditate silently, cultivating stillness and balance, cessation and harmlessness. This is a great opportunity to let go of some stress and reconfigure. While the main emphasis of this retreat is placed on the both seated and walking silent meditation, there will also be:

• background methodology
• Instruction
• dialogue

story-keeping: write your autobiography (aug. 9-12, 2010)

Gain self-knowledge as you write your life story during this special retreat experience. Writing your story is a creative way to explore how you've invested yourself in the activities of life.

This exploration leads to greater clarity about your own values and goals, and a future plan that reflects your true self.

renew your creative process (friday july 23 to sunday july 25)

Retreat facilitator: Robyn Cathcart

In the busyness of life, often the first thing we neglect is our relationship with self, where the physical, mental and spiritual energies circulate. Such an imbalance hampers our creativity – without fuel the creative spark diminishes, leaving us in thirsty for something more.

floral essence workshop (sun. july 4)

This workshop is a relaxing way to spend some time on the grounds at Queenswood. Starting with a meditation, we'll pick a flower from the garden. Then you'll make the flower essence and be given the recipe to take home so you can make another flower essence of your own.

Check-in: 8:45am
Workshop: 9:00am-noon
Lunch: 12:15pm

Price (includes lunch): $65

life-work balance workshop (mon. july 5)

When your work life overtakes your time with friends, family, sports, and recreation, you might need to reevaluate your life-work balance. Join this workshop to learn how.

Check-in: 8:45am
Workshop: 9:00am-noon
Lunch: 12:15pm

Price (includes lunch): $65

type and soul

Type and Soul: Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to explore your spiritual path: An interactive retreat aimed at helping you understand your

Myers-Briggs Type and how that relates to your spiritual development. You will discover how type affects worship, soul work and spiritual growth.

To register for this retreat, please call 250.477.3822 x 0 or email retreats@queenswoodvictoria.ca

learning to meditate (wednesday july 7, 2010)

Meditation connects us with our lives. Through settling our minds and opening our bodies, the practice helps us engage ourselves in a deeper, more authentic way. Grounded in our beings, we become better able to meet the challenges of contemporary life. Starting us on the path of meditation, this workshop alternates guided practice with participant-driven discussion while:
• leading participants through a basic meditation practice,
• deepening this practice with body-based relaxation exercises,

medicine wheel workshop (thurs. july 8 to saturday july 10, in 3 parts)

This workshop is $195. and includes dinner for all three days.
If you're staying at Queenswood on a personal retreat for these three days, you can add this workshop for $150.
To register for this workshop, please email retreats@queenswoodvictoria.ca or phone 250.477.3822 x 0.