Welcome to The Trees

community • contemplation • creation care

May you recognize in your life the presence, power, and light of your soul.

John O’Donohue
A Blessing of Solitude
Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, “Stay awhile.”

Mary Oliver
When I Am Among the Trees
For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Wendell Berry
The Peace of Wild Things
There are angels in the rain clouds. Angels in the garden and in the sunlight.

Stephen Charleston
Ever in the Presence of the Holy

Featured Offerings

Calendar

Nurturing the Nurturer: A Restorative Retreat for Mothers

Join us for a half-day, mind-body integrative retreat designed to hold and support mothers amongst nature and community.

Partner Offering

Jun 21

Welcome Summer! All Creation Service

Join us on the Longest Day of the Year for our first All Creation Service, in partnership with The Beloved Community at The Trees.

Jun 27

Wonder with Words

Sliding Scale: $30-95

What stories do your body and soul long to tell? How might words help you connect with yourself, with nature, with other people, and with the sacred or divine?

Jul 25

Approaching the Divine with Wonder

Sliding scale: $30-95

This retreat will offer multiple opportunities for creative expression as well as mindful walking, ritual, gratitude, and awe to the Creator.

Aug 22

Wonder with our Wounds

Sliding scale: $30-95

What if the hardest places and parts of our lives are an opening to speechless love before the Holy?

Sep 26

Wonder in our Dreams

Sliding scale: $30-95

We will explore the spiritual practice of dream work and will have time to work with your own dreams.

Oct 24

Wonder with Nature

Sliding scale: $30-95

This retreat will offer an expansive opportunity to experience the gentle contemplative practice of Forest Bathing.

all offerings

We welcome all people, regardless of race, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, social or economic class, nationality or citizenship. We honor the land, the trees, the water and the creatures that live here as sacred. We honor the ancestors who walked these woods before us. We hold gratitude for Jacqueline Harris, who entrusted care of this land to St. Philip’s Episcopal Church.