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Silent Retreats in Montecito

Silence is ​peace ​expressing itself Ruth Davis

New: After two years of closure our Silent Retreats are coming back. We are schedule to reopen in December 2022.

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​Our new location immersed in nature will provide food, lodging and a beautiful meditation room.
 

I had been attending various Silent Retreats for over 10 years before I finally found the magic that is Silent Stay. That very first retreat was such a profoundly transformative and life-changing experience, and with every retreat thereafter my inner peace, my healing, my spiritual practice, my growth, my self-love and compassion has deepened, and my light and my heart continue to expand.   

​Ruth and Bruce teach us how to take these practices home with us...our world NEEDS Silent Stay.  Please refer to my video testimonial for more...

Thank you eternally, Ellen

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The Healing Effects of Silence
  • Days in the silence allow us to receive peace and quiet.  Silence is our opportunity to receive the beauty in nature, meditation, the present moment, our hearts, the simplicity of just being and to touch the sacred inside of us.  
  • These are precious days free from our daily story and all that we are doing.  In the quiet we open to the peace that is in our hearts. Silence allows everyone the opportunity to stay with their own thoughts, their inner experience.
  • The quiet helps everyone find this inner place of love and beauty that is always present but mostly covered up by busy-ness. The gift of silence is having nothing to do, nothing to say, having time to enjoy solitude, gentleness, a quiet mind.
  • ​A few days of simple peace and we feel new again, more in touch with our essence.  The silence is the doorway into our own spirituality, truth, wisdom.​
  • All traditions welcome. 

​When we are not busy talking, our mind takes a rest. Our heart becomes more available. The silence outside helps us to find the still place inside. This is our silent retreat, the vast quietude of the heart. A few days of simple peace and we feel new again, more in touch with our essence.  The silence is the doorway into our own spirituality, truth and wisdom.

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Becoming Anchors of Peace 

LIVE: ​Zoom Link for Sunday Morning Meditations 30 minutes            

​Recorded:  PAST MEDITATIONS on You Tube

Heartfulness Meditation

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Heartfulness Meditation is like taking daily doses of peace from your own heart and does not have to be difficult. We are changing the habit of constantly thinking. We are changing our pattern of carrying the details and challenges of daily life within us. 

​Meditation can teach us to let go of our busy mind and be in our heart.  This is a path of Heartfulness and the experience of our spiritual heart or the infinite ongoing experience of peace.  
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  • Home
    • Site Map
    • Links
  • Silent Retreats
    • Residential Retreats
    • The Healing Effects of Silence
  • Heartfulness Meditation
    • Meditate
    • Experience
    • History of Heartfulness
  • About Us
    • Founders & Community of Interfaith Retreat Leaders
    • News & Reviews
    • Books & Writings >
      • Books by Bruce Davis, PhD
      • Contributions by Bruce Davis Ph.D online
      • Book & DVD, Mary Prayer Flags by Ruth Davis
    • Our Locations >
      • Assisi, Italy
      • Northern California >
        • Retreat Center Photos
      • Southern California
    • Meditation BLOG
    • Little Flower Community
  • Spiritual Pilgrimages
    • To Assisi, Italy
    • To Bali, Indonesia
  • Courses
    • Heartfulness Meditation Course
  • Contact Us
  • Support Heartfulness in the World
    • Scholarship Fund
  • Guest Experiences
  • Facebook Live