Sabbaticals
Creative Sabbatical for writers, dancers, musicians, and visual artists:
Create, be renewed, meditate, and enjoy the natural setting at The Christine Center. The Center offers a safe, peaceful, beautiful, and conducive environment for creativity. We offer a unique sabbatical opportunity for visual artists working in watercolor painting and/or pencil drawing. Our grounds lend themselves to the art of video, film, photography, and music. Dancers may use our 2,000 sq. ft. meditation room around scheduled events.
Come for a month, 3 months, 6 months or more, and be transformed by the process.
Our focus is on meditation, mysticism, the creative process and the contemplative life. Creative sabbatical participants are welcome to join us for times of meditation or flow with their own creative schedule. You may join us for our natural foods, vegetarian meals or you can prepare your own food in a hermitage (cabin) with a kitchenette.
A variety of recreational activities can be enjoyed at the center or nearby. A wood-fired sauna is available for your use, as are Bodywork and/or Spiritual Guidance. A 50% discount applies to staff-offered retreats and seminars for those persons on a 3 month or longer sabbatical. Please bring your own supplies and equipment.
Sabbatical for Spiritual Seekers, Women/Men Religious, and Ministers:
This Sabbatical Program offers an opportunity for religious men/women, ministers, and spiritual seekers to take time away from formal ministry or work to rest, renew, study, create or arrange their schedules as best suits their needs. Be renewed, meditate, study and enjoy the natural setting at The Christine Center, nestled on 120 acres of wooded lands.
Our focus is on meditation, mysticism, and the contemplative life. We embrace the essential unity and diversity of all mystical traditions. You may join us for our natural foods, vegetarian meals or you can prepare your own food in a hermitage with a kitchenette.
A variety of recreational activities can be enjoyed at the center or nearby. Bodywork and Spiritual Guidance are available, and a sauna is also for your use. A 50% discount applies to staff-offered retreats and seminars for those persons on a 3 month or longer sabbatical.
A Catholic Liturgy or Church Service is available at nearby churches. Come for a month, 3 months, 6 months, or a year sabbatical and be transformed.
Private Sabbatical:
Rustic: $1,329 per month
Modern: $1,807 per month
(Prepare own meals = deduct $720 from modern)
Semi-Private Sabbatical:
(3-1/2 hours of work - 5 days a week)
Rustic: $919 per month
Modern: $1,398 per month
(Prepare own meals = deduct $720 from modern)
Testimonials from Our Retreatants & Workshop Attendees:
"I had always dreamed about natural, peaceful surroundings and imagined living for a time in a simple place, experiencing a holistic way of being and living. I hoped that when I was privileged to have a time for Sabbath, that there might be an oasis somewhere to provide the setting and freedom that I was desiring. This place would feed and nourish my soul, body, emotions and mind. I did find this special abode at The Christine Center. I have spent many quiet and wonderful hours with the Beloved and constantly bask in the beauty of the Creator. Time for prayer, study, reading, music and creative needle work has been gift and blessing. The staff has been ever so hospitable, helpful and supportive. I truly have been blessed." - Sr. Rosemarie Carvalho, RSM, (Auburn, CA) on a 3 month Sabbatical at The Christine Center.
". . .the container you (The Christine Center) have provided these past few days has been ideal. I have indeed begun to empty and come closer to the God consciousness within me that I wish to take back in my work with others. I have felt received, honored and nourished by the deep well of your hospitality, reverence & faith." - Hope Horton, D.M.A., M.S., A.E.H.