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The Desert Blooms; Lent Retreat (Laurence Freeman & Giovanni Felicioni)

This event is online only The Desert Blooms Lent Retreat with Laurence Freeman & Giovanni Felicioni 25 – 28 Feb, 2021 The whole of the Christian mystery is the passing through death into a life that takes us through birth and rebirth.  In Lent, we can first taste what this means by simplifying our life […]
Laurence Freeman

Leader

Laurence Freeman

Fr Laurence is a Benedictine monk of the Monastery of Sta Maria di Pilastrello, Lendinara, in the Benedictine Congregation of Monte Oliveto. He is Director of Bonnevaux and of The World Community for Christian Meditation.

Other Leaders

Giovanni Felicioni
Giovanni Felicioni

Giovanni Felicioni is the Associate Director of Bonnevaux Centre for Peace, the international home of the WCCM. He has been involved with the WCCM since its inception, serves on its Guiding Board and is a Benedictine Oblate. Before his role at Bonnevaux, Giovanni’s professional career spanned 30 years as a bodyworker, movement instructor and therapist in London and Europe. He studied yoga with visionary and pioneer Mary Stewart (Vanda Scaravelli) and regularly taught on her London-based Yoga Teacher Training. He is a certified Advanced RolferR, a Rolf Movement™ practitioner and has served on the faculty of the Rolf Institute since 2000. Giovanni taught for Independent Dance, founded in London by Siobhan Davies, Gill Clarke and Fiona Milward. He taught the Masters in Creative Practice at Trinity Laban, run by Independent Dance and Siobhan Davies Dance. He was also a contributor at the PAL, Movement and Meaning laboratories, founded by Gill Clark and Susan Benn. In 2012 He founded the British Academy of Rolfing in London. Most importantly, these 30 years of personal research into the relationship between touch, movement, awareness and contemplation led him to over two decades of study with movement scientist Hubert Godard during Hubert's development of Tonic Function Theory.

Date

25 - 28 Feb, 2021

This event is online only


The Desert Blooms

Lent Retreat with Laurence Freeman & Giovanni Felicioni

25 – 28 Feb, 2021

The whole of the Christian mystery is the passing through death into a life that takes us through birth and rebirth.  In Lent, we can first taste what this means by simplifying our life and developing a liberating self-discipline where we need it most.  We enter the desert thirsting but will soon find that it blooms into spring.

Schedule (French time)

Thurs 

  • 10:30 – 11:30am   —  Welcome, introduction, opening talk
  • 12:15pm      — Midday prayer & meditation
  • 1:40 – 2:40pm      — Small group discussion
  • 6:00pm     — Contemplative Eucharist & meditation + Q&A

Fri & Sat

  • 7:00 – 7:30am — Meditation (not online) – optional 
  • 7:45am   — Morning prayer & meditation
  • 9:30 – 10:20am  —  Yoga
  • 10:30 – 11:30am  —  Talk
  • 12:15pm     — Midday prayer & meditation
  • 1:40 – 2:40pm      — Small group discussion
  • 6:00pm    — Contemplative Eucharist & meditation + Q&A

Sun 

  • 7:00 – 7:30am — Meditation (not online) – optional 
  • 7:45am — Morning prayer & meditation
  • 10:00 – 11:30am  —  Talk, small groups, Q&A
  • 12:00pm  — Contemplative Eucharist

Update: Laurence will now be broadcasting from Bere Island (aka Berevaux) with enhanced and dramatically improved internet service!

To reap the full benefits the retreat offers, we recommend that you meditate 2-3 times per day.

How to Create Your Own Retreat

This online retreat is designed to be flexible around your daily life and time zone. Please visit here where we provide support on creating a rhythm and structure to your retreat: how much silence you would like, meditation times, reading of sacred texts, practicing yoga and more, plus other suggestions to help you embody the retreat and stay off-line as much as possible. 

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This event is online only

Laurence Freeman is a Benedictine monk of the Monastery of S. Maria del Pilastrello, Lendinara, Italy, in the Benedictine Congregation of Monte Oliveto. He is Director of Bonnevaux and of The World Community for Christian Meditation.

Giovanni Felicioni (Bonnevaux Associate Director) has been part of the WCCM since its inception in 1991. He is an Oblate, a certified Advanced Rolfer™, a Rolf Movement™ practitioner and a Yoga Teacher.

Laurence Freeman

Leader

Laurence Freeman

Fr Laurence is a Benedictine monk of the Monastery of Sta Maria di Pilastrello, Lendinara, in the Benedictine Congregation of Monte Oliveto. He is Director of Bonnevaux and of The World Community for Christian Meditation.

Other Leaders

Giovanni Felicioni
Giovanni Felicioni

Giovanni Felicioni is the Associate Director of Bonnevaux Centre for Peace, the international home of the WCCM. He has been involved with the WCCM since its inception, serves on its Guiding Board and is a Benedictine Oblate. Before his role at Bonnevaux, Giovanni’s professional career spanned 30 years as a bodyworker, movement instructor and therapist in London and Europe. He studied yoga with visionary and pioneer Mary Stewart (Vanda Scaravelli) and regularly taught on her London-based Yoga Teacher Training. He is a certified Advanced RolferR, a Rolf Movement™ practitioner and has served on the faculty of the Rolf Institute since 2000. Giovanni taught for Independent Dance, founded in London by Siobhan Davies, Gill Clarke and Fiona Milward. He taught the Masters in Creative Practice at Trinity Laban, run by Independent Dance and Siobhan Davies Dance. He was also a contributor at the PAL, Movement and Meaning laboratories, founded by Gill Clark and Susan Benn. In 2012 He founded the British Academy of Rolfing in London. Most importantly, these 30 years of personal research into the relationship between touch, movement, awareness and contemplation led him to over two decades of study with movement scientist Hubert Godard during Hubert's development of Tonic Function Theory.

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