The Shape of a Céile Dé Teaching Retreat
Céile Dé annual residential teaching retreats are intensive, deliberately so, in order to create conditions that people are generally unable to manifest by themselves at home and in their everyday lives. This also gives people who are following the tradition an opportunity to receive sufficient material to work with until their next annual teaching retreat...

• Days begin with meditation before breakfast.
• Generally there are two teaching sessions of around one hour's duration every morning, with a break between for silent reflection. 
• In the afternoons, we take more time for quiet reflection, either in Nature or indoors, as you wish, and a third and possibly fourth teaching session.
• Before dinner, we return to the circle for meditation and/or sacred conversation.
• There is usually some free time after dinner. The evening may hold another talk or a sacred ceremony or an optional session, so that retreatants may choose to rest a little - or stay intense.
• Every day ends with a meditation around 9 pm, after which we go straight to bed and hope for rich dreams after a day filled with soul nourishment. 
  
  

We aim to hold silence at all times outside of sessions. 
Our annual gathering is a ‘Teaching Retreat’, because it is residential, the teaching sessions are supported by frequent contemplative practices, and because a peaceful silence is held at all times between teaching sessions in order to aid absorption of the powerful energies transmitted during teachings and practices. You can read more about the culture of silence at our teaching retreats HERE.

Pumpkin Hollow Retreat Center is located 125 miles north of New York City (2-1/2 hours by car), an hour south of Albany, 15 minutes from the Massachusetts border and 150 miles west of Boston (3 hours by car).  

Address: 1184 Route 11, Craryville NY 12521. Click HERE for directions.

For more information about the location, environment, accommodations and food at Pumpkin Hollow, click HERE.

The Shape of a Céile Dé Teaching Retreat

Oíde Sue Mosher will be joining us again at St Andrews bringing material that she and Sr. Fionn have selected for us.

Céile Dé annual residential teaching retreats are intensive, deliberately so, in order to create conditions that people are generally unable to manifest by themselves at home and in their everyday lives. This also gives people who are following the tradition an opportunity to receive sufficient material to work with until their next annual teaching retreat...

• Days begin with meditation before breakfast.
• Generally there are two sessions of around one hour's duration every morning, with a break between for silent reflection. Afternoons are a similar shape, but there is more time available to spend in quite reflection, either in Nature or indoors, as you wish.
• There is another meditation, or some other spiritual practice, before dinner.
• There is usually some free time after dinner - but optional events are available, giving retreatants the choice to rest a little - or stay intense!
• Every day ends with a meditation around 9 pm, after which we go straight to bed and hope for rich dreams after a day filled with soul nourishment.

We aim to hold silence at all times outside of sessions. 
Our annual gathering is a ‘Teaching Retreat’, because it is residential, the teaching sessions are supported by frequent contemplative practices, and because a peaceful silence is held at all times between teaching sessions in order to aid absorption of the powerful energies transmitted during teachings and practices. You can read more about the culture of silence at our teaching retreats HERE.
  

The Shape of a Céile Dé Teaching Retreat
Céile Dé annual residential teaching retreats are intensive, deliberately so, in order to create conditions that people are generally unable to manifest by themselves at home and in their everyday lives. They also give people who are following the tradition an opportunity to receive sufficient material to work with until the next annual teaching retreat.

• Days begin with meditation before breakfast.
• Generally there are two sessions of around one hour's duration every morning, with a break between for silent reflection. 
• In the afternoons, we take more time for quiet reflection, either in Nature or indoors, as you wish, and a third and possibly a fourth teaching session.
• Before dinner, we return to the circle for meditation and/or sacred conversation.
• There is usually some free time after dinner and perhaps a less formal teaching session or an optional session, giving retreatants the choice to rest a little - or stay intense.
• Every day ends with a meditation around 9 pm, after which we go straight to bed and hope for rich dreams after a day filled with soul nourishment.

Light kitchen duties (e.g. washing your own dishes) are part of the retreat experience at St Columba's. We will all share responsibility for creating an atmosphere of attentive silence, conducive to absorbing the teachings. 

We aim to hold silence at all times outside of teaching sessions. Our annual gathering is a ‘Teaching Retreat’ because it is residential, the teaching sessions are supported by frequent contemplative practices, and a peaceful silence is held at all times between teaching sessions in order to aid absorption of the powerful energies transmitted during teachings and practices. You can read more about the culture of silence at our teaching retreats HERE.