Our retreat center is a serene place where you can come to be at ease and connected with nature and simplicity, tucked away in a forested setting. We offer both private retreats and a variety of guided retreats to suit your needs.
There are 10 guest rooms with the option of one or two beds, a kitchen, sitting parlor, conference room, showers and small library. You may also take the opportunity to have Spiritual Direction while on retreat.
Lunch and Dinner are served in the monastery dining room just a few steps away, where you may also attend prayers and Mass with the Sisters. Breakfast food is available in the Spirituality Center kitchen for your use.
Some of our programs and retreats are being offered IN PERSON as well as via ZOOM, and others are a HYBRID of the two.
At this time we do not require COVID vaccination.Click on a retreat name below for more information and to register.
Retreats
Our retreat center is a serene place where you can come to be at ease and connected with nature and simplicity, tucked away in a forested setting. We offer both private retreats and a variety of guided retreats to suit your needs.
There are 10 guest rooms with the option of one or two beds, a kitchen, sitting parlor, conference room, showers and small library. You may also take the opportunity to have Spiritual Direction while on retreat.
Lunch and Dinner are served in the monastery dining room just a few steps away, where you may also attend prayers and Mass with the Sisters. Breakfast food is available in the Spirituality Center kitchen for your use.
Some of our programs and retreats are being offered IN PERSON as well as via ZOOM, and others are a HYBRID of the two.
At this time we do not require COVID vaccination. Click on a retreat name below for more information and to register.
Need help with ZOOM? Click here for instructions.
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One-Day Personal Retreat
Private Overnight Retreat
Ongoing program OASIS 2025-2026
With Paz Vital, OSB, PhD, Monika Ellis, OSB, MA, Education, Anna-Camille Wooden, OSB, Sonja Weber, OSB, Laura Swan, OSB and Julian Cleary OSB
Intensive Silent Centering Prayer Retreat
With Anna-Camille Wooden, OSB and Michele Jankanish
Fall P.A.U.S.E. retreat: Christian Contemplative Prayer, Well-Being, and Embodiment
With Kathy Holley, PhD
Contemplative Writing
With Marcia McLaughlin, OblSB
Zoom: Just This…a Retreat for Caregivers
With Evelyn Gerardo Challis
Hybrid: Continuing Contemplative Rest (Monthly on First Saturdays)
With M Freeman
Zoom: Know Your Type: An Introduction to the Enneagram
With Jeffrey King
Hybrid: Contemplative Rest Winter Series
With M Freeman*
SISTERS SPEAK: OUR BLOG
Sisters post on our Blog weekly on Fridays. See what our Sisters have to say about living Monastic Life in the 21st Century.
NRVC VOCATION RETREAT FOR WOMEN
SR. LAURA ON YOUTUBE
See Sr. Laura’s youtube channel for some of her work in “restoring women to the stories we tell.”
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Ongoing program OASIS 2025-2026
September 18, 2025 - March 20, 2026
Intensive Silent Centering Prayer Retreat
November 9 - 14, 2025
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