2023 spring Program Schedule

Sometimes we fall away from what is important in life, feeling disconnected from our physical and spiritual self. Rejuvenate from within. Our bodies are a true source of wisdom where we can honestly listen to them. Movement and meditation have been proven to benefit body, mind and soul.
Through body movement with Qigong and mindfulness meditation, you will learn ways to reconnect to the wisdom of your body, quiet your mind and release emotional blockages to return to what’s important – your best and true self.

Tuesday & Wednesday
11 am – 1pm, 2.30 – 4.30 pm
Cost: $350 Registration$60 (non-refundable) Balance $290
Includes program, accommodations and meals

Modern science reveals that we live in a universe far richer and more wonderful than anything we could have imagined. The emerging New Cosmology weaves together insights from modern science and traditional wisdom to show that we live in a sacred reality that is personal, meaningful and radically inclusive.
Together we will reflect on some of these insights and their implications for our spirituality and how we might live them in our daily lives.

Friday 5.30 pm dinner followed by 7 pm session
Saturday: 11- 1 pm, 2.30 – 4.30 pm
Sunday 11 – 12.30 pm ending with lunch
Cost : $430 Registration: $60 (non-refundable) Balance$ 370
Includes program, accommodations and meals
This program is also offered via Zoom $100

Our inner dream-maker, known by many names, nudges us toward health and wholeness in ourselves, our relationships and environment. The nudging is often outside our awareness, but by attending to dreams we can access the wisdom, in and around us, that wants to be known.
We will explore practical methods of connecting to this profound and renewable resource, experience the dynamic layers of meaning and practice translating insights into waking-life guidance and action.

Tuesday & Wednesday: 11 am – 1pm, 2.30 – 4.30 pm
Cost: $350 Registration $60 (non-refundable) Balance $290
Includes program, accommodations and meals

During this retreat we will rediscover the beauty and depth of legendary Thomas Merton's journey by reflecting on his life of contemplation and action.
Be enlightened and inspired by this presentation that embraces finding one’s ‘true self’.
"What people want is a way to God" ~Merton

Friday 4pm session followed by dinner
Saturday: 11- 1 pm, 2.30 – 4.30 pm
Sunday 11 – 12.30 pm ending with lunch
Cost : $430 Registration: $60 (non-refundable) Balance$ 370
Includes program, accommodations and meals

We are what we eat! Explore how foods can affect our body.
​The doctrine of signatures, dating from the time of Dioscorides and Galen, states that the color and shape of different plants, vegetable and fruits resembling various parts of the body can be used to treat ailments of those body parts. There was a theological justification for the doctrine of signatures, as stated by botanists William Cole that “ God would have wanted to show what plants would be useful for”.

Tuesday 11 – 1pm
Offered by Zoom $35

Enjoy three days of color expression through painting.
This retreat is for artists and non artists, to experience three days of creative expression through painting. During this retreat you be provided the opportunity to meditate, grow and nurture your innate wisdom through the experience of painting. Some techniques will also be taught to help enhance the experience.

This retreat is for artists and non-artists.
No prior experience is needed.

Thursday- Saturday
11 – 1pm, 2.30 – 4.30pm
Cost $480 Registration $60 (non-refundable) Balance $420
Includes program, materials, accommodation and meals.
Bring an apron and journal

Come and enjoy the contemplative art of basket making. Woven into the schedule will be time for personal reflection, ritual and communal prayer. Each participant will leave with the gifts of their own creation. No experience necessary; and materials are provided for the making of several unique baskets.

Tuesday – Thursday
10.00 – 12.30pm 2.30-4.30pm
Cost $480 Deposit $60 (non-refundable) Balance $420
Includes program, materials, accommodations and meals

What are you planting ?
This is the time of the year to start fresh and plant something new. What seeds will you plant, water, nourish, tend to grow this Spring? The seeds you plant can be on many levels: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
This weekend retreat will offer the opportunity to explore practices, to plant seeds on all these levels for your personal growth and renewal.
No prior experience of yoga needed.

Friday 5.30 pm dinner followed by 7 pm introductory session
Saturday: Full day (Yoga, pranayama, meditation, walking and journaling)
Sunday – Morning yoga, breakfast and departure
(Optional to attend Sunday service and stay for lunch)
Cost : $430 Registration: $60 (non-refundable) Balance$ 370
Includes program, accommodations and meals

If you have ever lifted your arms in wonder, tapped your feet to some inner song playing in your mind, held someone rocking with grief, then you understand how our bodies express what our soul knows to be true. Through a gentle, contemplative experience we will explore together the beauty of uniting heart, mind and body to express through movement what our souls are longing to share! Throughout our time together we will be stretching into our body’s marvelous ability for prayer in motion. All body types and/or physical limitations welcome.

Tuesday & Wednesday : 11 am – 1pm, 2.30 – 4.30 pm
Cost: $350 Registration$60 (non-refundable) Balance $290
Includes program, accommodations and meals

Brian Thomas Swimme’s most recent work ‘Cosmogenesis – An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe’ is one of the most important writings of our time. It is a defining moment in our journey with the Universe.

Join Brian in a conversation with Jim Conlon as he speaks about the questions, challenges and invitation that is ours in the story of the Expanding Universe.
Brian and Jim have both been devoted to the work of Thomas Berry throughout their lifetimes.

Friday 4pm – 5.15pm ET
Offered by Zoom $50

We embark on an adventure of auto cosmology that is personal. It reveals the meaning of the true self within an expanding universe. This program is a continuation of Jim Conlon’s conversation with Brian Thomas Swimme.

Join us in person at Springbank for the Zoom conversation with Brian followed by St. Patrick’s day Social, dinner and continued conversation with Jim Conlon

Saturday: 11- 1 pm, 2.30 – 4.30 pm
Sunday 11 – 12.30 pm ending with lunch.
Cost : $430 Registration: $60 (non-refundable) Balance$ 370
Includes program, accommodations and meals

Enjoy a mini-sabbatical exploring the ancient wisdom of indigenous peoples, learning ways of relating to the natural world with greater reverence.
A Spirit Quest in the natural world opens us to the inspiration of the Spirit.
During this mini-sabbatical, you will create several, unique earthen vessels using a hand building technique. No art experience is necessary.
Enjoy a time of solitude and companionship with other seekers.

The mini sabbatical starts on March 21, 11am and ends on March 31st after lunch.
Cost: $1010 Registration $100 (non-refundable) Balance : $910
Includes program, materials for pottery, accommodations and meals.

The Spirit Quest is a deeply prayerful and insightful experience. Being open and receptive to the Spirit and listening in the profound quiet of the natural world is the focus of this Quest. Richard Guess of Cherokee ancestry will facilitate and offer support for you to have the optimal experience.
Springbank’s Spirit Quest is inspired by the traditional Vision Quest.

Starts Friday 7.00 pm with an introduction to Spirit Quest.
Ends on Sunday at 1.30 pm after lunch

Friday 5.30 pm dinner followed by introduction to Spirit Quest.
Ends Sunday at 1.30 pm after lunch.
Cost $270. Registration $60 (non-refundable) Balance $210
There is no charge for the Spirit Quest.
Cost includes accommodations and meals.

In this workshop, we will explore the implications for faith and theology, particularly the newly
expanded horizon we are asked to embrace at this challenging time in our history as a human species.

Saturday 10.30 – 12.30pm 2-4pm
Sunday 10.30 – 12pm Palm Sunday Eucharist 2-4pm
If you would like to join the Springbank community for the program, the cost is
$400 Registration $60 (non-refundable) Balance $340
This program is also offered via Zoom $90 for both days

Come and meet an extraordinary 14th century English woman who produced the first book written in English by a woman, The Revelations of Divine Love.
A woman of her time, her timeless experience of a series of revelations (showings) would revolutionize future generations’ experiences of God, Jesus Christ, the meaning of suffering and the standard by which we judge our relationships with each other.

Tuesday & Wednesday
11 – 1pm each day
Offered via Zoom
Cost $70 for both days

If you would like to join the Springbank community for the program, the cost is
$350 Registration $60 (non-refundable) Balance $290

Can we hear the cry of Jesus on the cross in the cry of Earth? Reflect on the death and resurrection of Jesus through the suffering, death and regenerative power of Earth. Our experience of Easter gives us hope in a time of ecological decline.
The Retreat includes Holy Thursday Seder/Eucharistic Liturgy, Good Friday Way of the Cross, Holy Saturday, Great Easter Fire/Vigil and Easter Sunday Celebration.

Starts with Thursday Seder/Eucharistic Liturgy – 4:30 pm. Concludes with Easter Celebration and lunch at 1pm.
Cost: $500 Registration $60 (non-refundable) Balance $440

‘Forest Bathing’, ‘shinrin-yoku’, a Japanese term for a form of forest therapy treating the many ailments that arise from stressful urban life and busy calendars. Sitting under Springbank’s 800 year old Live Oak or spending time in Springbank’s woods of Pine, Magnolia and Cedar, you will be guided to slow down, breathe, connect with the natural world around you. Find in the company of trees, peace and companionship.
"Forest bathing invites you to be fully intentional, not to walk through the woods in order to get somewhere, but with the sole purpose of being fully present to yourself and to the lives around you.” Robin Wall Kimmerer

Starts Friday at 5.30 pm with the evening meal followed by a 7pm introductory session.
Saturday – full day
Sunday – ends with lunch at 12.30pm.
Cost : $430 Registration: $60 (non-refundable) Balance$ 370
Includes program, accommodations and meals

St. Thomas Aquinas, one of our earliest ecologists, offers a theology of creation which is relevant to the ecological concerns of today. Linking Aquinas with Pope Francis’ Laudato Si, Sr. Pam will offer valuable information and insights, time for personal reflection, conversation and prayer.

Cost $90 Registration $30 (non-refundable) Balance $60
Includes program, coffee and lunch

The Bible contains many references to oils, spices, balms and the traders and merchants who sold, bartered, and used them. They give us a glimpse into the ancient world of medicine.
"...they went out ... and anointed with oil many that were sick and healed them." (Mark 6:12-13).
Learn, enjoy and benefit how modern science has discovered why ancient traditions promoted and used aromatic oils for healing, cleansing and holy anointing. Experience how these healing oils can promote overall health and vitality.

Cost $35
11 – 1pm, 2.30 – 4.30pm

If you would like to join the Springbank community for the program, contact Sr. Anita Braganza at 843 372 6311.

Yoga is an ancient practice that helps unite body, mind and spirit. On this yoga retreat, join Charleston yoga teacher, Joe Vinceguerra, for a Yoga, Breathing and Meditation Retreat. Each morning, afternoon and evening, yoga and meditation classes will be offered while providing time to explore the beautiful world of Springbank. You will leave refreshed, renewed, and re-grounded. Participants do not need to know yoga or be "yoga experts".

Starts Friday at 5.30 pm with the evening meal followed by a 7pm introductory session.
Saturday – full day
Sunday – ends with lunch at 12.30pm.
Cost : $430 Registration: $60 (non-refundable) Balance$ 370
Includes program, accommodations and meals

As our cosmology shifts to embrace both the scientific and spiritual underpinnings of our world, this afternoon of reflection will explore the courage it takes to ask the questions that lead to a new cosmology.
“The planets, the spheres send the heavens are so bound together, that in no single part could one thing be altered without confusion among the other parts and in the whole universe” Copernicus

Tuesday 11 - 1pm
Offered via Zoom
Cost $35
If you would like to join the Springbank community for the program, contact Sr. Anita Braganza at 843 3726311

This retreat is an invitation to ponder, pray and pay attention to the sacred impulses rising up
in our hearts as we touch into other modes of understanding. We will nurture the heart, energize the mind and empower the spirit, hearing what lies deep within and expressing it through poetry, movement and music

Friday 4pm followed by dinner
Saturday: 11- 1 pm, 2.30 – 4.30 pm
Sunday 11 – 12.30 pm ending with lunch
Cost : $430 Registration: $60 (non-refundable) Balance$ 370
Includes program, accommodations and meals