12 Step Retreat 2025
Healing is Every Breath
Wednesday, August 23rd to Sunday August 31st, 2025.
Dear Friends,
Join us for a transformative retreat designed specifically for individuals with addiction.
This retreat offers a safe, supportive, and serene environment to deepen your recovery
journey. Through a variety of guided activities, you’ll cultivate mindfulness, self-compassion, and a greater sense of connection with yourself and others.
Our retreat program includes: eating in silence, sitting meditation, walking meditation, relaxation, dharma talks, and circle sharing. These practices will help you to let go of
tension, and rejuvenate your body and mind as well as calm the mind and discover
inner peace.
Our retreat provides a safe, non-judgmental space for individuals from all 12-step
programs to come together, share their experiences, and support one another. Whether you’re in early recovery or have years of sobriety, this retreat offers a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of yourself and your recovery.
Don’t miss this transformative weekend of growth, healing, and connection! Register now to secure your spot, and take the next step towards a more mindful, compassionate, and fulfilling life in recovery.
With Love,
–Your Favorite Magnolia Grove Monastics
Some important information that might be helpful:
– Camping (bring your own tent/camper van): $ 240.00
– Commuter (staying in nearby accommodation): $ 240.00
– Bed in shared room (dorm/cabin): $ 400.00
Please note that cabins are reserved for families and couples, based on “requested roommates.” All families/parents with children will be placed in cabins, if available – if not, they will be waitlisted. Other options are camping or commuter; or staying in the men’s/women’s dorms (if no cabin becomes available), which may mean splitting the group up. If waitlisted, we will follow up about these options – and/or you may include your preference in the notes section.
A 20% discount for seniors (over 64) and young adults (under 27) is automatically included when you register. For students who require financial assistance, please mention this in the Notes section at the bottom of the registration form. For anyone else who requires financial assistance, please don’t hesitate to contact our office.
The retreat begins on August 27th with onsite arrival between 2 and 5 pm CT, and ends on August 31st after lunch.
There will be morning meditations, mindful meals, walking meditation, Dharma teachings, chanting, singing, group sharing, mindful services, a Five Mindfulness Trainings transmission, and periods of Noble Silence.
All meals will be vegan. Please be sure to let us know in the Notes section if you have certain food allergies when you register.
Wake up
Morning Sitting Meditation; Sutra reading / Touching of the Earth
Walking Meditation
Breakfast
Mindful Service
Dharma Talk
Lunch
Deep Relaxation
Dharma Sharing
Personal Time / Private Consultation
Dinner
Evening Sitting Meditation / Presentation
Noble Silence
If you are interested in becoming a Volunteer for this retreat, please contact: volunteers@magnoliagrovemonastery.org
(Being a Volunteer requires you to come a day or two earlier than the retreat, staying behind at least the afternoon of departure day on August 31st to help clean up, to lead a family in service meditation which is one of the following: Potwashing, Meditation Hall, Toilet cleaning… etc. for more exact details, please be in touch with our retreat organizers in the provided email above and inlcude “12 Step Retreat” in the subject line.)
Thank you for volunteering!
Offer funds to support Magnolia Grove Monastery
Donations are processed on our behalf through the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation.