Restoration & Renewal Retreats

About Restoration & Renewal Retreats

Your time here is open for walking the trails, visiting the gardens, spending contemplative time in our Sanctuary, and finding a rhythm that brings a deeper breath of vitality into your days on the land.

Our current retreats include delicious, nourishing meals served with great care and attention. Wifi is available throughout the campus for those needing to stay connected to their work or an important meeting. There are numerous outdoor spaces available for small groups attending a Restoration and Renewal Retreat.

Retreats run Thursday through Sunday, with arrivals any time after 2 pm on Thursday and departures by noon on Sunday.

Cost is $655 plus tax for a three night stay in a single room, and includes meals from Thursday dinner through Sunday breakfast. Cost for a shared room is $580 per person, plus tax, including meals. Meadow Row restrooms are semi-private, most often shared with one other person. Hillside Cabin restrooms are shared with several other people. See a full list of lodging options on our Accommodations page.

Additional retreat dates will be announced, so keep watching here for updates.

Register for one of the dates below:

Rewilding Retreat: Recovering the Wisdom Within the Wild

With Mary DeJong

June 24, 2023

You are warmly invited to this in-person day retreat that will companion your connection to a wonder-filled and wild world. Grounded in spiritual ecology and eco-theology, Rewilding Retreats offer a sacred space for reconnecting to a sacramental and animist worldview; guided practices that recover ways of "reading" the land as sacred scripture; and re-membering ourselves to the wider community of creation. We will be deepening into the wisdom that is inherently within the season of Summer and how we can engage the numinosity that is imbedded throughout the wheel of the year and the calendar of the Earth. Come join…

2023 Touch Drawing Gathering

July 10 - 15, 2023

A six-day intensive that provides a deep immersion in the process of Touch Drawing. Facilitated by its originator Deborah Koff-Chapin, this event is oriented to people who feel called to share the process…

Sinking The Mind Into The Heart

With Caverly Morgan and jylani ma'at

July 24 - 30, 2023

We all long to be happy. To know truth – the truth of our true nature – even if we don’t always have words for it. We all long to know that truth is not lost, and we are not alone. Sinking the mind into the heart is medicine on this journey of remembrance. And it is especially powerful when this remembrance is experienced within beloved community...

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“My days on retreat at Whidbey institute were nourishing in every way: a place of complete quiet punctuated only by twitters of sparrows and quail, and the soft hoo-ing of Great Horned Owls at night; beautiful, delicious, healthful meals; and time for walking in contemplation on forest trails and labyrinth. Extra gratitude for Wi-Fi in my cabin for the one Zoom meeting I couldn’t miss. Thanks to all for offering this opportunity for renewal!”—Jean M

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