MARSHALL - The quiet country of Madison County would seem to be ideal for a retreat center. But a proposed location for such a sanctuary has given rise to questions for neighboring residents. The ...

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD: On April 25, meditation retreat center Southern Dharma celebrated its 40-year anniversary with both of its founders, Elizabeth Kent and Melinda Guyol, on-site. After a slow ...

“You? At a silent retreat?” a friend asked me before I left. I admit, it’s a stretch. I’ve been surrounded by noise my entire ...

WARD — Snow-studded peaks on the divide are close on the horizon, and hummingbirds buzz around the spacious meadow where the tweeting birds of Twitter cannot reach — it’s hard to get a cell phone ...

Few people have guided me through mindfulness and meditation quite like Janet Solyntjes. As a longtime silent retreat leader, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) instructor and co-owner of the ...

Sometimes you just feel a nudge to get quiet and go within. Whether you seek a deeper connection to your spirituality, to study meditation, or to simply get away from the bright lights, big city for a ...

A recent study published in Communications Biology offers evidence that a 7-day mind-body retreat combining meditation, ...

For almost two weeks, I lived like a nun at a silent meditation retreat center. But to do so, I had to be down with some of the center's basic ground rules. That included waking up at 4 am, wearing ...