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  • About
    • History
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  • Events
    • 2021 Calendar
    • Virtual Women's Retreat
    • Centering Prayer Retreat
    • Spring Women's Retreat
    • Fly Fishing Weekend
    • Pastors' Academy
    • Creative Spirituality Retreat
    • Your Event at Olmsted
  • Information
    • COVID19
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      • Groves Lodge
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      • Hickman Hall
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Centering Prayer Retreat:
Opening to Our Pre-existing Union With God

So many of us grow up with the message that God is the great, old Guy-in-the-Sky. This God loves the world, but is ultimately separate from it and separate from us.
But the great contemplatives say otherwise, that God is the Heart of our hearts and the very Center of our souls. From the contemplative perspective, the spiritual journey isn’t one in which we get closer to God, but rather about waking up to the reality that we are already one!
Join this weekend retreat as we explore Centering Prayer as a path of waking up to our pre-existing oneness with God. We are not ultimately separate from God, and we’ll explore the significance of opening to this reality through teaching, reflection, and centering prayer practice

Retreat Leader

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Keith Kristich is a commissioned teacher of Centering Prayer through Contemplative Outreach, trained with the Shalem Institute in leading contemplative prayer groups and retreats. He is a certified Enneagram teacher through the Conscious Living Center.

Keith's work is to walk alongside those who wish to nourish and deepen their spiritual life and wellbeing through contemplative prayer, meditation, and personality study. He leads people in retreats, regular contemplative practice groups, and in one-on-one coaching settings, both in person and online. 
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Keith lives in Buffalo, NY with his partner and wife, Colleen. He is a lover of nature, good conversation, and often found with a book, banjo, or guitar in hand.

March 26-28, 2021

$196/person

Event Information

  • Learn more about Keith's ministry here: keithkristich.com
  • Pricing includes two-nights stay (hotel style with linens), six meals, and course tuition. 
  • Check-in is Friday from 3-5pm in Groves Lodge; check out is after lunch on Sunday
  • Register online, print and mail the registration form, or call to register at (814) 945-6512
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 Olmsted is a retreat center providing sacred space for renewal 
in an atmosphere of Christian hospitality.
 


Olmsted Manor Retreat Center - 17 East Main St. - PO Box 8 - Ludlow, PA 16333  
​814-945-6512 - info@olmstedmanor.org - facebook.com/olmstedretreats