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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This retreat will provide insight, hope and prayerful support as you journey through a time of grief. Loss or anticipated loss of spouse, partner or family member, loss of good health in yourself or someone you love, loss of a job or underemployment, retirement from a much loved job, or the ending of a marriage or significant relationship are some of the life experiences that might bring participants to this retreat.
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.
A Contemplative Retreat
Come to know yourself deeply through your own dreams. These are your own stories - "the language of the soul" - and they express truths about who you are, your relationships, your emotions, and your spirituality. 
Pamper your soul on a relaxing weekend in the peaceful, nurturing atmosphere of Queenswood. This is a special weekend for busy women to slow down, reflect, reorient, and be refreshed. Reconnect with yourself and the things that make your life meaningful and fulfilling. You'll also learn ways to bring your inner peace home, such as through meditation/prayer for busy people, journaling, and other forms of creative expression.
The chronic stress that is the result of a context of economic crisis and cuts to social services can play out in violence to self, others and the land. We may both participate in and witness violence in many forms – to ourselves, to others and to the land. In the midst of these times how can we gain inner peace and develop a spiritual practice that can support us to embody a presence of peace?
Activate the healer within!
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:
Pro-D Workshop for Teachers