Rolling Ridge Study Retreat
Community
Connected to a wide circle of those who share a deep longing for a more authentic, nature-connected and soul-infused life.
Nature
Located on a 1600-acre nature preserve owned by the Rolling Ridge Conservancy and protected by a conservation easement with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy.
Soul
Exploring the connections of spirit, faith and the wild earth.
News and Happenings
The Green This Time
I am staring out the window at another day of clouded skies and fitful rain, the twelfth in a row. In the last days of April, we made a fire in the woodstove at the Meditation Shelter to warm us as we told stories, danced, and drummed together during a women’s...
Rainbow Over Homestead
Photography by Kate Evans It rained every day since the weekend straddling April and May, when 16 women on retreat here had gathered around the two who were carrying little ones in their wombs and under their hearts. Humming softly to a gentle drumbeat in tune with...
Seedlings Bending Toward the Sun
"A garden offers ground for growth, not only for plants that nourish and delight, but for engagement of self and world. Whether in the back forty acres or a small sunlit corner, for man or woman alike, to partake in the specific act of nurturing life brings insight...
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Where everything seems withheld.
The path you took to get here has washed out.
The way forward is still concealed from you.
The old is not old enough to have died away
The new is still too young to be born.”
-John O’Donohue