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Personal Overnight Retreat: March 28-30, 2025
Stay in a cabin overnight for your own personal retreat. Option to add on a Reiki session for an additional cost!
Knitting as a Spiritual Practice
Spend time knitting together by the fireplace with a group of Forest friends, learn new techniques, share favorite patterns, yarns, and tools of the craft! We’ll have time for discussions of how knitting can enhance our spiritual lives, as well as opportunities to connect with each other and the beauty of the Forest of Peace in wintertime.
Personal Overnight Retreat--April 11-13
Stay in a cabin overnight for your own personal retreat. Option to add on a Reiki session for an additional cost!
Climate Cafe at the Forest
You are welcome to join us throughout the day on the grounds. The formal program will begin with meditation at noon, followed by lunch at 12:30, and the Climate Cafe itself starting at 1:30. You are then welcome to stay around the grounds as long as you’d like. There will be a guided Forest Bathing experience that evening (registration is separate), also led by Emmie. Sign up for one or both, or for the whole weekend!
Full Moon Forest Bathing
Enjoy a spring evening bathing in the gentle peace of the Osage Forest. Join Forest Therapy Guide Emmie Brenzel for a slow wander in the Forest soaking in nature’s healing energy during the fade of evening and the rise of the full “Pink Moon.”
Forest Closed for Overnight Guests (Easter)
We’re closed to overnight guests for Easter weekend.
Day of Zen
Join the Tulsa Zen Sangha for their monthly gathering for Zen practice and teaching.
Spring Cleaning Weekend!
Help do some spring cleaning at the Forest! We’ll spend the weekend working on various tasks around the Forest, for example:
Picking up sticks and branches that have fallen
Tidying up the trails
Cleaning up the labyrinth pathway
Brushing off drip strips on the cabins
Cleaning debris off of roofs
Splitting and piling up firewood
Working in the garden
Radiance: A Spring Retreat Embodying Your Inner and Outer Radiance
In the beauty of the forest enhance your spiritual practices while cultivating deep inner harmony, self-reflection and personal radiance. Join 3 seasoned practitioners for an immersive experience to connect to your radiant inner and outer light and life.
Summer Camp for Grown-Ups!
Join us for a Week of Summer Camp at the Forest! Re-live the days of going to camp for a week, spending time in the woods with friends singing songs, making s'mores, telling stories, hiking, and doing arts and crafts.
Ayurveda Summer Wellness Retreat: Balancing Pitta Season
Join certified Ayurvedic Health Coach Jeni Enns for a restorative and playful Ayurvedic retreat designed to balance the heat of the Pitta season with playful heart-opening fun, Ayurvedic skin and body care, and the soothing embrace of the full moon.
Menopause and Perimenopause Rite of Passage Retreat 2025
Join certified menstruality and menopause mentor Jeni Enns for a nourishing weekend of support and learning about the initiatory gifts of perimenopause and menopause, and claim your experience in a rite of passage ceremony.
Spring Equinox Refresh and Reset: Radical Resilience with Pleasure, Power, and Purpose with Carol LaRue
In rhythm with the emergence of Spring, we will gather with the guidance and healing properties of nature and the animal kingdom at the Forest and awaken from the quiet beauty and sacred stillness of Winter. The Spring Equinox invites us to return to balance with clarity of purpose and resilient intention.
"Practicing the Presence" with Linda Alegria
Live life with more peace, love, and joy!
This retreat will offer a variety of ways to live with more presence which leads to more peace, love and joy. Presence is the core of all spiritual teaching, and transitioning into Presence and away from the clutter and attachment of the
mind and ego may be the most important task of our lives. Presence helps bring clarity in place of mental noise—a vital shift for this turbulent, chaotic world.
Practice
A number of practices will be taught to connect with that inner stillness and the development of spiritual consciousness where fear and anxiety disappear. We will be listening for that “still, small voice” that our culture with its noise and distractions and speed often mitigate against. This weekend retreat will provide a safe container for connecting to your deepest and truest self which is love. That love can lead to your finding meaning and purpose in your own life and ways to be of service to others.
“The ego needs success to thrive; the soul only needs meaning” Richard Rohr
The retreat will provide sessions which include journaling, art, music, dance, time in nature, as well as alone time to rest, reflect and experience Being.
This retreat is facilitated by
Ms. Linda Alegria who has provided counseling and
retreats for over 45 years. She currently
maintains a life coaching and spiritual direction practice
Linda Alegria, your retreat facilitator
Private Hosted Retreat
This weekend, we are hosting a private retreat for an outside organization. If you are interested in hosting a private retreat for your group, please contact us at: hello@forestofpeace.org
Oblate Sunday
The Benedictine oblates will meet in the Bede building or via the Zoom option. The Sand Springs oblates of St. Benedict are affiliated with the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration at their monastery in Clyde, MO.
Ayurveda Introduction Retreat
Join certified Ayurvedic Health Coach Jeni Enns for a weekend to nourish the mind, body, and senses through theory, experiential practices, and time on the Forest’s beautiful grounds.
Personal Overnight Retreat: February 21-23, 2025
Stay in a cabin overnight for your own personal retreat. Option to add on a Reiki session for an additional cost!
February 2025 Day of Zen with Tulsa Zen Sangha
The Tulsa Zen Sangha welcomes you to join them for a simple day of silence. This day consists of seated meditation, walking meditation, breaks, chanting, and sharing a wonderful meal provided by the Forest.
Personal Overnight Retreat: February 14-16, 2025
Stay in a cabin overnight for your own personal retreat. Option to join the Day of Zen free of charge as an overnight guest.
Private Hosted Retreat
This weekend, the Forest is being used for a private, hosted retreat for an outside organization. If you are interested in hosting a private group retreat at the Forest, contact us at hello@forestofpeace.org
Oblate Sunday
The Benedictine oblates will meet in the Bede building or via the Zoom option. The Sand Springs oblates of St. Benedict are affiliated with the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration at their monastery in Clyde, MO.
Imbolc and Feast of St. Brigid 2025
Join Director David MacDonald for a weekend of activities to celebrate the Celtic festival of Imbolc also known as St. Brigid's Day. Join in learning more about this festival and making butter, soda bread and Celtic crafts.
Join us for a Celtic Weee
St. Brigid’s Day and Imbolc mark the traditional beginning of Spring in the Celtic world.
January 2025 Day of Zen with Tulsa Zen Sangha
The Tulsa Zen Sangha welcomes you to join them for a simple day of silence. This day consists of seated meditation, walking meditation, breaks, chanting, and sharing a wonderful meal provided by the Forest.
Personal Overnight Retreat: January 17-19, 2025
Stay in a cabin overnight for your own personal retreat. Option to join the Day of Zen free of charge as an overnight guest.
Knitting as a Spiritual Practice Retreat
Spend time knitting together by the fireplace with a group of Forest friends, learn new techniques, share favorite patterns, yarns, and tools of the craft!
Oblate Sunday
The Benedictine oblates will meet in the Bede building or via the Zoom option. The Sand Springs oblates of St. Benedict are affiliated with the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration at their monastery in Clyde, MO.
New Year's Eve Prayer Service for World Peace 2024
Join us for our annual New Year’s Eve world peace prayer service and reception. The service lasts an hour and includes songs, silent meditation, and a prayer litany announcing the name of every country. Following the service is an in-person reception with beverages and desserts.
New Year's Eve Personal Overnight Retreat: December 31, 2024
Spend New Year’s Eve at the Forest, and you're also invited to our annual New Year's Eve Prayer Service for World Peace. Stay overnight in a cabin and have your own personal overnight retreat.
Winter Solstice Day of Going Within
We invite you to come to the Forest on the winter solstice, Saturday, December 21, 2024, for some nourishing quiet time to go within and rest. Our chapel will be available for the day, a quiet warm nest to hold you in comfort during the winter darkness.
Somatic Meditation and Movement Fundraiser for our Bede Building
Help Us Raise Funds to Renovate our Bede Building. Join us for a day of connection, healing, and playful exploration. Includes yoga, silent hiking, somatics, and lunch. With Pam Nelson, LPC, TYIT, Lindsay Benson M.S., LPC, Katt Townsend, LCSW, TIYT and Jodi Arnold.
December Day of Zen with Tulsa Zen Sangha
The Tulsa Zen Sangha welcomes you to join them for a simple day of silence. This day consists of seated meditation, walking meditation, breaks, chanting, and sharing a wonderful meal provided by the Forest.
Personal Overnight Retreat: December 13 - 15, 2024
Stay in a cabin overnight for your own personal retreat. Option to join the Day of Zen free of charge as an overnight guest.
Personal Overnight Retreat: December 6-8, 2024
Stay in a cabin overnight and have your own personal retreat.
Oblate Sunday
The Benedictine oblates will meet in the Bede building or via the Zoom option. The Sand Springs oblates of St. Benedict are affiliated with the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration at their monastery in Clyde, MO.
Thanksgiving meal with David and Kelly MacDonald
David and Kelly MacDonald warmly invite you to join them for a Thanksgiving meal at the Forest, for those who wish to join our table. In the spirit of Benedictine hospitality, the meal is free of charge. You may optionally bring a dish to share (please specify what it is in the registration form).
Forest closed for Thanksgiving week
The Forest will be closed to outside visitors during Thanksgiving week.
Be Still & Know - Practices in Silence and Discernment
This silent retreat is open to all sincere truth seekers. Sacred space is provided and maintained, all participants are asked to observe and respect silence within scheduled times and remain at Osage Forest of Peace during the full extent of the retreat if possible.
