WELCOME TO COMPANIONS ON THE INNER WAY RETREATS

YOUR JOURNEY STARTS HERE

COVID-19 Update: We of Companions on the Inner Way are holding you all in prayer as we observe the necessary isolation of this difficult time. We are grateful that we were able to hold our March 2020 retreat in Malibu, but we’ve made the difficult decision to cancel our August 2-7, 2020 retreat at Zephyr Point Presbyterian Conference Center, Lake Tahoe.

Even if shelter-in-place orders have been lifted, it may not be safe or wise to gather in a large group. Two things you should know, however: First, we are planning to offer some ways you can connect to Companions virtually during that August week, so stay tuned for that. In addition, our August 2020 presenters, Aidsand and Betty Wright-Riggins, have graciously agreed to be our presenters in Malibu next year, so plan to come to Serra with them February 28-March 5, 2021.

We send our love and offer the poem below as a talisman of our connection.

Take care – peace and blessings,

Carolyn Foster, Director

I break off a fragment to send to you.

Please take this grain of a grain of hope

so that mine won’t shrink.

Please share your fragment

so that yours will grow.

Only so, by division, will hope increase,

like a clump of irises, which will cease to flower

unless you distribute the clustered roots, unlikely

source –

clumsy and earth-covered –

of grace.

Denise Levertov, Candles in Babylon

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One participant's impression of Companions / Tahoe 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvADCpPFqcs&feature=youtu.be: