A personal retreat holds many possibilities. Here are some of the practices you might consider:

• Silence & Solitude

• Study

• Scripture reading

• Journaling

• Practice of Examen

• Fasting

• Cooking a great meal that you enjoy

• Taking long walks

• Naps and good nights sleep

• Serving in the garden or doing other manual labor

• Meeting with a Spiritual Director or doing confession with a priest

• Helping with animal feedings

• Living into the rhythm of thrice daily worship/prayer offered on campus

A personal retreat is an opportunity to explore the deep places in your soul and to reflect on life’s meaning and priorities, to engage God. If desired, it can be a time to meet a few fellow pilgrims on the journey of faith and experience a shared sense of camaraderie together. All of these are possible at Iona House.

A major goal of Iona House is to provide a spiritually vibrant place for personal retreats: a place to reimagine all of life in reference to Christ.

We have designed every aspect of the campus with this in mind. The entire ecosystem of Iona House exists to encourage and support spiritual disciplines and ancient Christian practices that will best allow you to practice abiding in Christ (John 15).

Our ecosystem provides the following aspects:

• A communal rhythm of prayer to structure your day around; a prayerbook to assist you

• Sacred space to pray

• A library for research and study (if desired)

• Trails to walk in nature undisturbed in silence

• A working farm to experience the agrarian metaphors of scripture and in which you can participate if that would be helpful

• Suggested retreat plans / schedules for how to structure your personal retreat (whether that is a 1-day, 2-day, 3-day or extended retreat experience).

• Spiritual Direction with a qualified spiritual director and/or Private Confession with a priest (as desired)

• Lodging (with restroom, shower, kitchen) where you can have privacy

You may request dates when you fill out the form below. Note that until we are able to build out the rest of the Iona House campus (phase III), we have limited availability for personal retreats on weekends. Monday-Thursday are typically the most available days / nights.

Day use retreats are usually able to happen on Weekends. When you request a personal retreat, please clarify if you are looking for overnight capacity or just day use in the form below. Thank you!

As with all of what we do at Iona House, we offer personal retreats as a gift. For more about how Iona House operates through an economy of generosity and to learn about our vision of giving, see our generosity page.