Home is a place for us to come back to after a long day of work and study. It is also a place that we can feel peace, loving warmth and care from our beloved. Yet sometimes the stresses from our work and study and society take away our inner peace, leaving us feeling homeless. The "Be Free Wherever You Are Summer Retreat" at Magnolia Grove Monastery offers us an opportunity to come back to ourselves, releasing tension, learning how…

This retreat offers the opportunity for people in 12 Step programs of all types to ‘keep coming back’ to Magnolia Grove to share our experience, strength, and hope with each other and to learn more about the practices of mindfulness and meditation. We will learn to 'breathe mindfully.' Every morning we will start our day with sitting meditation with the Brothers and Sisters of Magnolia Grove. Daily activities will include: Sitting Meditation  Walking Meditation  Mindful Eating  Dharma Sharing Dharma Talk …

Since Thich Nhat Hanh founded the Order of Interbeing in the 1960s, its fourfold Sangha has blossomed into a worldwide garden of practitioners, responding to divisiveness, hatred, and suffering with compassion, stability, and freedom. In this retreat, we will nourish our mindfulness, so we may continue to follow Thay’s teaching and the example of his life by engaging compassionately with the world to help transform suffering. We will enjoy formal meditation periods as well as mindfulness in all activities —…

During our Thanksgiving retreat this year we will practice to the theme of “Peaceful Action, Open Heart”.  Learning that peace comes from within helps us to open our heart and practice loving kindness and compassion both for ourselves and for others.  Please join us November 22-24, 2017 for this beautiful event. When faced with the challenges of our complicated world, we often feel like we “should do something” to make things better.  Very often we may not know what it…