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Mark your Calendars and RSVP Today 🌞 Who: Bethlehem Centre team members (staff and residents) What: Team Day - Learn | Updates | Fun | Food (supper will be provided) When: Monday, June 9, 2025 3:30-7:30 PM Where: Bethlehem Centre, View Room Why: As we prepare for peak season, we will be taking some time […]

The Sweetness of Present Moment Experience: Meditation Retreat for Seniors

With Ralph Frank

June 10, 2025

View Room

Mindful Meditation helps reduce stress, embrace aging, and cultivate joy through breathing, movement, and Buddhist teachings in a supportive community retreat.

Summer: Retreat into Silence

With Nan Goodship and Murray Groom

June 24 - 29, 2025

Bethlehem Centre

A silent retreat for experienced seekers to deepen spiritual practice through guidance, reflection, and nature.

Write Where You Are

With Junie Swadron

June 27 - 29, 2025

Shepherd's Hall

This weekend program will offer foolproof and often hilarious solutions to get even the biggest sceptics or blocked writer’s writing again. It’s an experience that takes away all the fears you have locked in the closet. Take the FREE 21-Day Writing Challenge.

Finding Peace and Building Resilience in Uncertain Times: A Personal and Collective Journey with the Labyrinth

With Holly Carnegie Letcher, Carol Matthews, Mikeoula, Richard Sales, Joanne Sales, Kat Millar, Ella LaOne, Gabriole Springford and Eva Grodt

July 4 - 6, 2025

Bethlehem Centre

Book now and get CAD $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jun 19, 2025.

Do you feel overwhelmed and exhausted?Join us and experience rest, connection, and renewal through nature, movement, sound, and sacred circles.

Vancouver Island Symphony: Summer Sizzle Festival - Wellness Series

July 10 - August 7, 2025

Bethlehem Centre

Experience breathtaking music, mindfulness, and nature this summer with Vancouver Island Symphony’s Summer Sizzle Festival at Bethlehem Centre.

BCIMS - Cultivating Love and Wisdom

With Rachel Lewis and DaRa Williams

July 22 - 29, 2025

Bethlehem Centre

Join us this summer for a silent retreat focused on cultivating peace, love, and wisdom through meditation and community practice.

Re-Write Your Life

With Junie Swadron

July 31 - August 3, 2025

Shepherd's Hall

No matter where you are now, no matter how much pain you are in, no matter how stuck you may be, when you follow this profound, and proven step-by-step process your life will transform in wondrous ways.

Island Dharma: Deepening your Practice with Focused Attention & Awareness of the Wisdom Mind - a Silent Retreat (Residential - Full week)

With Dr. Cheryl Fraser

August 1 - 7, 2025

Bethlehem Centre

This retreat focuses on practices to liberate peace, joy, and kindness of the Awake mind, offered in multiple packages.

Island Dharma: Deepening your Practice with Focused Attention & Awareness of the Wisdom Mind - a Silent Retreat (Commuter without Meals - Week Long)

With Dr. Cheryl Fraser

August 1 - 7, 2025

Bethlehem Centre

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Island Dharma: Deepening your Practice with Focused Attention & Awareness of the Wisdom Mind - a Silent Retreat (Commuter without Meals - Weekend)

With Dr. Cheryl Fraser

August 1 - 3, 2025

Bethlehem Centre

Hosted by Island Dharma Deepening Your Practice with Focused Attention & Awareness of the Wisdom Mind - A Silent Retreat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Extra Packages - Click Below to Register: Residential with Meals - Week Long Commuters with Meals - Week Long Commuter without Meals - Week Long Residential with Meals - Weekend Commuters with Meals - Weekend […]

Island Dharma: Deepening your Practice with Focused Attention & Awareness of the Wisdom Mind - a Silent Retreat (Commuters with Meals - Week Long)

With Dr. Cheryl Fraser

August 1 - 7, 2025

Bethlehem Centre

Hosted by Island Dharma Deepening Your Practice with Focused Attention & Awareness of the Wisdom Mind - A Silent Retreat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Extra Packages - Click Below to Register: Residential with Meals - Week Long Commuter without Meals - Week Long Residential with Meals - Weekend Commuters with Meals - Weekend Commuters without Meals - Weekend -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- […]

Island Dharma: Deepening your Practice with Focused Attention & Awareness of the Wisdom Mind - a Silent Retreat (Commuters with Meals - Weekend)

With Dr. Cheryl Fraser

August 1 - 3, 2025

Bethlehem Centre

Hosted by Island Dharma Deepening Your Practice with Focused Attention & Awareness of the Wisdom Mind - A Silent Retreat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Extra Packages - Click Below to Register: Residential with Meals - Week Long Commuters with Meals - Week Long Commuter without Meals - Week Long Residential with Meals - Weekend Commuters without Meals - Weekend […]

Island Dharma: Deepening your Practice with Focused Attention & Awareness of the Wisdom Mind - a Silent Retreat (Residential with Meals - Weekend)

With Dr. Cheryl Fraser

August 1 - 3, 2025

Bethlehem Centre

This retreat focuses on practices to liberate peace, joy, and kindness of the Awake mind, offered in multiple packages.

Fall Away Weekend Retreat: Bodhichitta Centre

August 29 - September 2, 2025

Bethlehem Centre

A retreat exploring love and compassion through meditations guided by Gen Zopa, integrating emptiness teachings to open the heart.

"Writing for the Love of It"

With Mary Ann Moore

October 18, 2025

Shepherd's Hall

Join the "Writing for the Love of It" circle to explore writing as a spiritual practice, connection, and self-discovery.

Autumn: Retreat into Silence

With Murray Groom and Nan Goodship

October 20 - 23, 2025

Bethlehem Centre

This is an opportunity for those with little or no experience with Silence, who are curious to discover what such a time might bring.

Mindful Self-Compassion: Core Skills for Anxiety, Stress & Burnout

With Victoria Pawlowski M.Ed., R.C.C. and Dr. Kristy Williams MD

November 8 - 9, 2025

View Room

Book now and get CAD $75.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Sep 1, 2025.

Join us for a weekend retreat exploring mindful self-compassion to reduce stress, heal burnout, and increase emotional well-being.

Intro to the Healing Power of Sound

With Leah Hokanson and Lynette Jackson

November 14 - 16, 2025

Bethlehem Centre

Explore sound healing’s science and spirituality through sound baths, vocal practices, journaling, and group sharing for personal transformation and integration.