Creative Art Journaling: Celebrating Mother's Day
We encourage you to bring your mothers and daughters to this creative journaling retreat as we consider our status as cherished daughters of the Most High God.
Centering Prayer 12 Step Retreat
Come rest in silence with other contemplative companions, away from the busyness of daily life, and allow the mind, body, and spirit to surrender to your Higher Power’s presence and action within.
Centering Prayer Retreat: Contemplative Listening (10-day)
A 10-day, silent retreat for those who have attended two or more Post-Intensive Centering Prayer retreats
From Codependency to Interdependency
From Codependency to Interdependency - A Loving Look at Our Lives & Relationships
Soul & Scrubs: A Survival Guide for New Nurses
Calling all new Grads! Step into your nursing career with confidence, clarity, and calm. You've got the scrubs - now let's fuel your soul. Through guided practices and resilience - building strategies, you'll learn how to protect your peace, care for your body, and thrive - not just survive, as you begin your career.
The Sacred Ordinary: The Spiritual Legacy of Vincent Van Gogh
Millions of people have stood in awe viewing the beauty depicted in the art of Vincent Van Gogh. His art has captured our imagination. While his art is well known and loved, less is known of the spiritual vision behind his paintings. Born of disappointment, faith and a love for the ordinary, Van Gogh offers the viewer profound insights into the sacred ordinary.
Finding Christ in Our Midst
In our world filled with increasing chaos and division, we can become discouraged and lose sight of God. Join us as we explore the many places where Christ can be found. There will be presentations, recorded music, group discussion, time for silence, and a creative activity.
Wellness & Spirituality Women’s Retreat
Rooted & Restored: Filling Your Cup Through the 7 Aspects of Rest
MIND
Mindfulness meditations
Labyrinth walk
Healing Energy Work
7-types of Rest Workshop
Walking the grounds
BODY
50-min body massage
Private room with a comfortable bed
Sacred swimming time
Nourishing meals
Meditation with gentle body movements
SPIRIT
Personal quiet time
Individual Spiritual Dialogues
Beautiful-Sacred gardens
Taizé prayer
Check-in: Wednesday, August 12, from 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Dinner: 5:15pm
Ends: Sunday, August 16 at 11:00am
Cost: $625 (includes program, meals, and lodging)
A $100 non-refundable & non-transferrable deposit is required to reserve your space.
Scholarship funding is available. Apply here.
Traveling to Mercy Center Auburn
We are nestled in the Sierra foothills of Northern California, just minutes from historic downtown Auburn and easily accessible from Sacramento, the Bay Area, and the surrounding region.
By plane: Mercy Center Auburn is a 40-minute drive from Sacramento International Airport.
By train: Auburn Amtrak Station is the closest passenger rail station (about a 10 minute drive).
By car: Click here for driving directions.
Interested in learning about future retreats and events at Mercy Center Auburn?
East-West Summer Intensive Contemplative Retreat
Take a few days’ retreat from your daily routine and come share with us the sacred silence at beautiful Mercy Center, Auburn.
During this intensive retreat, you will sit in silent meditation (zazen) within your own inner space and with like-minded others. You will be able to hear the voice that speaks within you and connects you with all that is.
Making Sense of Menopause: Support for the Menopausal Transition
This two-day retreat offers in depth continuing education on key aspects of menopause care, while also offering a chance to rest, recharge, and tend to your own spiritual needs in a peaceful and restorative setting.
Pathways (2-night or 4-night option)
This retreat will explore the mysticism and teaching of two great visionaries and evangelists of the Christian tradition. Paul, in the first century A.D., creates a radical gospel based on his experience of the Risen Christ. Julian, in late medieval Europe, has 16 visions/showings/revelations of the dying and risen Christ, Jesus of Nazareth.
11th Step Retreat
Join us for a 4-day retreat of contemplation and practice focused on the 11th Step. We will spend our time cultivating the tools of mindfulness to support our recovery.
Art and Soul Retreat (3-night or 5-night option)
A creative expression, inspired with the spirit and passion of Blessed Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Saint Mother Teresa. Facilitators Mimi Johnson and Alynn Allison Brutsman each bring a rich background in the areas of leadership, spirituality, ministry, scripture, contemplative prayer, retreats, and the arts.
Seeing and Being Seen: Advanced Enneagram, Living in Healthy Relationship(s)
This workshop is an exploration of living in relationships (personality types), especially those that are cause for frustration or conflict. The Enneagram provides the lens with which to 'see' the deeper truths that will serve to set one free from being triggered by the unhelpful assumptions, reactions and expectations that have been formulated.
Life Transitions: Finding God in the Center of the Unknown
Life is full of changes. Sometimes those changes are welcome, and sometimes they are not. Give yourself the sacred time and space to honor your life transition and discover new life within it.
Centering Prayer Retreat: Intensive I, Advanced Intensive, & Post-Intensive (9 day)
A 9-day, silent Centering Prayer retreat offering the Intensive I, Advanced Intensive, and Post-Intensive tracks.
From Exhausted to Enlivened: A Restorative Retreat for Nurses
A restorative retreat for nurses who are running on empty.
Step away from the demands of clinical care to rediscover the vital art of replenishment. Explore the 7 types of rest through restorative yoga, nature walks, and sensory grounding.
Los 5 Lenguajes del Amor
Al descubrir tu lenguaje de amor, podrás fortalecer tu relación con Dios, con tus hijos, con tu pareja y con todas las personas que te rodean.
Advent & The Black Madonna
During this Advent season, spend a weekend with the feminine power of the BLACK MADONNA. Through presentations, prayer, and silence, allow her power of healing and rebirth to touch the soul.
Spiritual Directors Retreat: Holding the Mystery of the Shadow and Love
Spiritual directors continually confront the powers of regression and doubt along with breakthroughs from grace into love. This weekend will invite spiritual directors to enter that process themselves to embrace the transformation of shadow into love of self, others and the divine.
The Great Search 1
The Great Search 1 is the first of a three-part series of annual retreats led by the Celtic teacher John Philip Newell and his colleague Cami Twilling in which we explore the search for expanded vision, the search for intimacy with Earth, and the search for spiritual presence. This retreat is based on John Philip Newell’s book The Great Search.
Silent Centering Prayer: Intensive I, Intensive II, or Post-Intensive Retreat (9-Day)
Come rest in silence with other contemplative companions, and allow the mind, body, and spirit to surrender to God's presence and action within.
The Language of Emotional Wisdom
For many centuries, we've been chased away from our emotions, yet we understand now that emotions are essential to everything we think and every decision we make. Understanding our emotions, then, means understanding ourselves and others -- and our inner and outer worlds -- more fully. In this weekend exploration of the deep intelligence of your emotions, we'll learn new skills and practices to help us explore what emotions are, how they work, and how to work directly with their wisdom to improve every area of our lives.
Desperately Seeking Sophia
Encounter Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom), the divine feminine face of God that unites the masculine and feminine within the human soul. In her presence we recognize our need for balance and integration. Sophia calls us to wholeness, to live consciously in the sacred tension of our humanity and divinity, and to grow into the fullness of our vocation as image-bearers of God.
Holy Week Retreat
Abide with Jesus and respond to his desire that we be one with him as he pours out for us the greatest love anyone can give…one’s own life.
Reading Retreat - The Great Search by John Philip Newell
Dive into John Philip Newell's new book: The Great Search: Turning to Earth and Soul in the Quest for Healing and Home.
All bookworms are welcome, whether you've already started reading or want this to be your introduction to Newell's acclaimed Celtic teachings. This retreat will include dedicated, uninterrupted reading time, with optional discussion sessions to engage with other book lovers.
If your financial situation prevents you from attending one of our retreats, we encourage you to apply for financial assistance. Learn more.
ONLINE Introduction to Enneagram: Seeing and Being Seen
ONLINE RETREAT: The Enneagram Typing System offers insights into long held behavioral and thought patterns that have served as obstacles for living one's wholeness or essence. This invitation of self-discovery is one of awakening, transformation, integration. An inner light of wisdom will reveal hidden truths and treasures of the self and the wider human family.
Soul Collage ®
In this monthly online group, we explore meaningful topics through a collaging process known as Soulcollage®. Past topics have included forgiveness, generosity, wisdom, patience, courage and peace. Our goal is to increase self-awareness, transform limiting patterns, and grow in strength, compassion and resilience.
Lenten Retreat
A day of prayer and reflection to listen for God’s presence during the Lenten Season. Join us and prepare your heart for Easter.
Centering Prayer Retreat: Intensive I, Intensive II, and Post-Intensive (9 day)
A 9-day, silent Centering Prayer retreat offering Intensive I, Intensive II, or Post-Intensive tracks.
Grief and Loss Retreat
“No one knows what has been taken from you
when the silence of absence deepens.”
(John O’Donohue)
Soul Collage ®
In this monthly online group, we explore meaningful topics through a collaging process known as Soulcollage®. Past topics have included forgiveness, generosity, wisdom, patience, courage and peace. Our goal is to increase self-awareness, transform limiting patterns, and grow in strength, compassion and resilience.
Creative Journaling: Created with Love
Come reflect on the deep, unwavering love of God as we slow down and consider how our Creator's love shapes, heals, and inspires us. Respond creatively in your own unique way or by using the provided prompts as we journal together. No artistic background is needed.
Called to Care, Invited to Rest
This retreat is designed not only as continuing education, but as a much-needed pause—a chance to reconnect with yourself, your purpose, and the joy of nursing.
Centering Prayer
Centering Prayer is a gentle, silent method of consenting to God’s presence and healing action within us. Based on rich Christian contemplative heritage, Centering Prayer offers us a way to be open to God. By taking time to “rest in God” each day, we open our awareness to the gift of God’s presence.
Centering Prayer
Centering Prayer is a gentle, silent method of consenting to God’s presence and healing action within us. Based on rich Christian contemplative heritage, Centering Prayer offers us a way to be open to God. By taking time to “rest in God” each day, we open our awareness to the gift of God’s presence.
Soul Gardening - Terry Hershey
People who love this world, people who pay attention, are gardeners, whether or not they have ever picked up a trowel. Because gardening is not just about digging. Gardening is about cherishing.
Centering Prayer
Centering Prayer is a gentle, silent method of consenting to God’s presence and healing action within us. Based on rich Christian contemplative heritage, Centering Prayer offers us a way to be open to God. By taking time to “rest in God” each day, we open our awareness to the gift of God’s presence.
Soul Collage ®
In this monthly online group, we explore meaningful topics through a collaging process known as Soulcollage®. Past topics have included forgiveness, generosity, wisdom, patience, courage and peace. Our goal is to increase self-awareness, transform limiting patterns, and grow in strength, compassion and resilience.
Centering Prayer
Centering Prayer is a gentle, silent method of consenting to God’s presence and healing action within us. Based on rich Christian contemplative heritage, Centering Prayer offers us a way to be open to God. By taking time to “rest in God” each day, we open our awareness to the gift of God’s presence.
Centering Prayer
Centering Prayer is a gentle, silent method of consenting to God’s presence and healing action within us. Based on rich Christian contemplative heritage, Centering Prayer offers us a way to be open to God. By taking time to “rest in God” each day, we open our awareness to the gift of God’s presence.
Centering Prayer
Centering Prayer is a gentle, silent method of consenting to God’s presence and healing action within us. Based on rich Christian contemplative heritage, Centering Prayer offers us a way to be open to God. By taking time to “rest in God” each day, we open our awareness to the gift of God’s presence.
Sacred Circle: Small Group Faith Sharing
Sacred Circle is a contemplative listening experience, which means it is about holy listening.
Centering Prayer
Centering Prayer is a gentle, silent method of consenting to God’s presence and healing action within us. Based on rich Christian contemplative heritage, Centering Prayer offers us a way to be open to God. By taking time to “rest in God” each day, we open our awareness to the gift of God’s presence.
Centering Prayer
Centering Prayer is a gentle, silent method of consenting to God’s presence and healing action within us. Based on rich Christian contemplative heritage, Centering Prayer offers us a way to be open to God. By taking time to “rest in God” each day, we open our awareness to the gift of God’s presence.
Pathways 2025-2026
Pathways is an exploration of Spirit, by studying classical and modern texts, and applying this teachings and practices to everyday life.
New Year Retreat
This silent retreat is dedicated to establishing and cultivating the foundational
meditation practice of shamatha (calm abiding) meditation.
Centering Prayer
Centering Prayer is a gentle, silent method of consenting to God’s presence and healing action within us. Based on rich Christian contemplative heritage, Centering Prayer offers us a way to be open to God. By taking time to “rest in God” each day, we open our awareness to the gift of God’s presence.
Moving from Darkness to Light: Year-End Retreat
As we move towards ritually ending this momentous year for both country and world, this contemplative silent retreat will provide a holy space to process and integrate our lives before God.
Centering Prayer
Centering Prayer is a gentle, silent method of consenting to God’s presence and healing action within us. Based on rich Christian contemplative heritage, Centering Prayer offers us a way to be open to God. By taking time to “rest in God” each day, we open our awareness to the gift of God’s presence.
Soul Collage
In this monthly online group, we explore meaningful topics through a collaging process known as Soulcollage®. Past topics have included forgiveness, generosity, wisdom, patience, courage and peace.