Guided Retreats at Ampleforth Abbey

We are delighted to welcome you to our upcoming retreats. Whether it's your first time on a retreat or you've been staying with us for many years, we hope you find what you're looking for.

Please take your time to browse our diverse and unique programme...

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Tai Chi has been described as ‘meditation in movement’. Christian Meditation involves stillness. During this retreat we balance these paradoxical

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A walking retreat, with three pilgrimages to the holy sites of Yorkshire, sauntering with the saints. First day a walk from Ampleforth via Stanbrook

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The theme of waiting is one we most often associate with Advent but it is in fact a central biblical theme which we will explore in this retreat. Few

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This weekend welcomes new people to the practice of Meditation, and people who have been before, but who want a meditative weekend of Silent learning

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A weekend to put your divine spectacles on, read the familiar, to read between the lines and “against the grain”, and discover at depth your own

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Are you looking to experience something completely new? Have you ever wondered what it's like to live in a religious community? This retreat allows

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This retreat is another opportunity to spend time to look, see (for the first time?) and discover behind the canvas and paint both real stories and

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We know just how easy it is to become trapped in ways of thinking and behaving that fail to help us feel and experience freedom. We not only imprison