*This is a sample schedule only and does not include the accompanying retreat materials.  I will work with you to create a schedule and retreat materials, which meet your specific needs. 

Three Day Retreat – Poetry as Spiritual Practice and Guide (Schedule Only)

Day 1

7:30. Wake up, shower, get ready

8:00 Morning Practice (meditation, yoga, prayer, or other practice of your choice)

8:30 Breakfast

9:00 Read selections from Spiritual Poetry ed. by Jane Hirshfield, journaling and/or other reflection around personal response and contemplative questions (provided)

10:00 Read and/or watch “How to Meditate” from Lion’s Roar:  Buddhist Wisdom for Our Time, practice of Meditation 10 minutes, personal reflection

11:00 Read selections from Spiritual Poetry ed. by Jane Hirshfield, journaling and/or other reflection around personal response and contemplative questions

12:00 Lunch

12:30 Listen to teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh, “Walking Meditation,” practice walking meditation 10 min.

1:15 Free time for reflection, journaling, art response, movement, rest, snack

3:00 Read selections from Spiritual Poetry ed. by Jane Hirshfield, journaling and/or other reflection around personal response and contemplative questions

4:00 Guided relaxation

4:30 Spiritual Companioning session

5:30 Read selection from Thich Nhat Hanh’s How to Eat, choice of meditation practice (walking or sitting)

6:00 Dinner, practice mindful eating

After dinner, free time for reflection

Bedtime

Day 2

7:30 Wake up, shower, get ready

8:00 Morning Practice (meditation, yoga, prayer, or other practice of your choice)

8:30 Breakfast

9:00 Read selections from Rilke’s Book of Hours:  Love Poems to God, journaling and/or other reflection around personal response and contemplative questions (provided) 

10:00 Read selection from Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones:  Freeing the Writer Within, writing practice

11:00 Free time for reflection, journaling, art response, movement

12:00 Lunch 

12:30 Read selections from Rilke’s Book of Hours:  Love Poems to God, journaling and/or other reflection around personal response and contemplative questions (provided)

1:30 Free time for reflection, journaling, art response, movement, rest, snack

3:00 Read selection from Mark Nepo’s Drinking from the River of Light:  The Life of Expression, follow suggested prompts.

4:00 Spiritual Companioning session

5:00 Read selections from Rilke’s Book of Hours:  Love Poems to God, journaling and/or other reflection around personal response and contemplative questions (provided)

6:00 Dinner

After dinner, free time for reflection

Bedtime 

Day 3

 7:30 Wake up, shower, get ready

8:00 Morning Practice (meditation, yoga, prayer, or other practice of your choice)

8:30 Breakfast

9:00 Read selections from Mary Oliver:  Devotions, journaling and/or other reflection around personal response and contemplative questions (provided) 

10:00 Listen to and practice “A Forest Walk by Kimberly Ruffin,” Emergence Magazine  

11:00 Free time for reflection, journaling, art response, movement

Lunch 12:00 

12:30 Read selections from Mary Oliver:  Devotions, journaling and/or other reflection around personal response and contemplative questions (provided)

1:30 View the short film Sanctuaries of Silence, time for personal response and contemplative questions (provided)

 2:15 Free time for reflection, journaling, art response, movement, rest, snack (with some time spent walking, hiking, sitting in the natural world)

4:00 Spiritual Companioning Session

5:00 Read selections from Mary Oliver:  Devotions, journaling and/or other reflection around personal response and contemplative questions (provided)

 6:00 Dinner

 After dinner, free time for reflection

 Bedtime