Prayer as a Journey Between States of Consciousness – Immersion Retreat

*If you’ve completed a Foundational Workshop, you may join beginning on Monday.

About This Retreat

This immersive retreat offers a sustained container for entering and inhabiting Prayer Consciousness over an extended period of time. Through shared practice, silence, text, and embodied inquiry, participants are invited into a deeper unfolding of the work.

The retreat is designed to support continuity, integration, and transformation through lived experience.

Retreat Flow

Sunday — Opening the Work    5:00–8:00 PM

Arrival and orientation · Opening the shared field
Guided practice exploring wonder and multi-layered consciousness
Prayer, song, and learning to enter the retreat container
Q&A and Closing the evening

Monday — Deepening & Integration

10:00 AM–6:00 PM

Morning Session (10:00 AM–1:00 PM)
Embodied prayer, inner listening, and sustained practice in Prayer Consciousness.

Lunch Break (1:00–2:00 PM)
Time for rest and nourishment.

Afternoon Session (2:00–6:00 PM)
Individual reflection and creative speech, group sharing, integration, and closing the retreat.

What to Expect

In this immersive retreat, you will: 

• Practice guided experiential prayer through a shared foundational evening, opening prayer as a lived, embodied process.
• Learn and practice the Eight Gates of Prayer as a framework for recognizing and navigating distinct states of consciousness, introduced in the evening and deepened throughout the retreat.

And engage through: 

• Embodied listening and inner attention, drawing from somatic practices and Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing method.
• Prayer and sacred texts as living portals, approached as thresholds for spiritual becoming rather than performance.

What will be cultivated?

• Orientation to Prayer Consciousness, followed by the opportunity to inhabit and deepen it over sustained practice.
• Greater capacity to recognize and navigate shifts between inner states.
• Clearer discernment between surface desire and the life-prayer that arises through revelation.

And yes, there will be ample time for Integration & Inquiry

• Reflection, journaling, and shared inquiry, with space for dialogue and questions throughout the retreat.

Who This Is For

This retreat is intended for:

• Participants with prior experience in this work
• Those ready for extended immersion
• Practitioners seeking depth, continuity, and transformation

Prior participation is required or strongly recommended.