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SUMMARY:Morning Silence
DESCRIPTION:Morning Silence is an ongoing event that occurs from 8:00 – 9:00 am on Zoom on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Rotating facilitators provide a few words about the theme(s) for the day to introduce each session. Two sessions of silence (20 minutes) follow with a brief time of stretching in between. The time concludes with 10 minutes of sharing from the participants. To be added to the notification list\, please go to contact us page.
URL:https://peacehillavila.org/event/morning-silence-8/2026-03-04/
LOCATION:North Carolina
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SUMMARY:Public Talk with Lama Rod Owens
DESCRIPTION:Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship\, Durham NC \n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\nAs the land around us awakens\, we will settle into community practice\, grounding ourselves in an awareness that helps us meet the world’s unraveling with clarity and compassion. \n\n\n\nThis ticket option is for the Saturday evening talk only. If you would like to attend the March 8-10 retreat\, please apply at this link. Please note\, registration for the retreat includes Saturday admission. \n\n\n\nPresented by Bhumi Durham in partnership with Peace Hill at Avila. \n\n\n\nLearn more about Lama Rod Owens here.
URL:https://peacehillavila.org/event/public-talk-with-lama-rod-owens-2/
LOCATION:Eno River Unitarian Church\, 4907 Garrett Road\, Durham\, NC\, 27707\, United States
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SUMMARY:Awakening into Spring
DESCRIPTION:Avila Center for Community Leadership\, Durham NC \n\n\n\n\nRetreat Application\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe are excited to once again offer a retreat with Lama Rod Owens March 8-10. As the land around us awakens\, we will settle into community practice\, grounding ourselves in an awareness that helps us meet the world’s unraveling with clarity and compassion. \n\n\n\nA retreat allows us to do the deep work and healing that our minds\, bodies\, spirits\, ancestors\, and the earth are calling for so strongly. It is a gift we can give ourselves which also affects all the lives we touch. \n\n\n\nIf you are new to practice with Lama Rod or new to meditation retreats\, you are most welcome. Also most welcome are those who have formed community during last year’s retreat at Avila and previous retreats with Lama Rod. \n\n\n\nWe will meditate together and engage in movement\, compassion\, and earth-based ancestor practices and rituals. Both residential and commuter opportunities are available\, and we have scholarship assistance. There is an application process and BIPOC and LGBTQ+ folks will have priority.   \n\n\n\nThe retreat begins on Sunday\, March 8\, and ends on Tuesday\, March 10. Lama Rod will also offer an evening talk that is open to the public on Saturday\, March 7\, which is included with retreat registration. \n\n\n\nIf you have any questions about the registration process or about the retreat center\, email Elaina at elaina@peacehillavila.org. \n\n\n\nIf you have other questions about the retreat\, email Karen at BhumiDurham@gmail.com.  \n\n\n\nLearn more about Lama Rod Owens here. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPresented by Bhumi Durham in partnership with Peace Hill at Avila. \n\n\n\nREGISTRATION PROCESS: \n\n\n\nThere is an application process for this retreat. Please note\, you must have an approved application in order to register. To apply\, please fill out the form at this link: \n\n\n\n\nRetreat Application\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe expect this retreat to be oversubscribed\, so preference will be given to BIPOC\, LGBTQ people\, and those who have been studying with Lama Rod. Admissions will continue until the retreat is full\, after which applicants will be added to a waiting list. Often\, there are last-minute cancellations which allow those on the waiting list to be admitted. \n\n\n\nTICKET PRICING: \n\n\n\n\nResidential retreat (includes single-room accommodations and meals): $500\n\n\n\nPay-it-forward Residential retreat (help us provide support to other participants): $600\n\n\n\nNon-residential retreat (commuter ticket includes meals but not overnight accommodations): $350\n\n\n\nPay-it-forward Non-residential retreat (help us provide support to other participants): $400\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAll ticket options include the March 7 evening talk. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIMPORTANT INFORMATION: \n\n\n\nThe retreat containerAfter the opening program on the first night until the noon meal on the third day\, everyone is invited to enter into silence throughout the buildings and grounds. At times\, such as the Q&A sessions\, silence will be lifted in the meditation hall. \n\n\n\nThis supportive silence invites all yogis to refrain from verbal and written communication with others\, including telephone calls\, texts\, and emails. There will be an emergency number for emergencies. \n\n\n\nMealsCoffee and tea will be available during the retreat. Meals will be vegetarian. Please let us know allergies and food intolerances on your application form. We can usually accommodate dietary restrictions. \n\n\n\nLodgingAll rooms are single\, and some are more accessible than others.  Please let us know your accessibility needs on the application form.  Some of the rooms that require stairs are large double rooms\, and a limited number of these can be shared at a lower cost upon request. \n\n\n\nAccessibility Please help us make this retreat as accessible as possible by telling us about your accessibility needs on the application. \n\n\n\nLocation of the retreat The retreat venue is Avila Center for Community Leadership\, a 20-minute drive from downtown Durham and a 35-minute drive from the Raleigh Durham (RDU) airport. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAvila is a nonprofit community center\, where people and groups connect\, deepen their work and rejuvenate.  The mission of the center is to support and connect community organizers and leaders working together for systemic change in the South and beyond.  The buildings are surrounded by 50 acres of green space and trails. \n\n\n\nYou can learn more about Avila at this link. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you have questions about this retreat\, please contact Karen at BhumiDurham@gmail.com
URL:https://peacehillavila.org/event/awakening-into-spring/
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SUMMARY:What's Love Got To Do With It?
DESCRIPTION:How to love ourselves and each other in a divided world \n\n\n\nPhoto by Angie Wright\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis day retreat at Avila Center for Community Leadership will invite participants into one of the most challenging and transformative teachings shared across many spiritual traditions: the call to love one’s enemies while also learning to love oneself with honesty\, dignity\, and care.  \n\n\n\nRather than treating these practices as opposite\, we will explore how they are deeply connected and mutually empowering. What does love look like? What does love require of us? How can we embody love in the midst of discord and division?  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRev. Angie Wright and Rev. Dr. Cathy S. Gilliard will guide participants as we explore personal challenges\, unhealed wounds\, and hopes for moving forward with greater intention and grace.   \n\n\n\nSponsored by Peace Hill at Avila and RCWMS. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRetreat Facilitators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRev. Angie Wright\n\n\n\nRev. Angie Wright is the author of Loving My Enemies & Other Outlandish Pursuits\, a memoir of family\, faith and power. Angie is a retired UCC pastor devoted to the pursuits of justice and mercy. She has two splendid sons and one precocious 8-year-old grandson. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRev. Dr. Cathy S. Gilliard\n\n\n\nRev. Dr. Cathy Gilliard is a retired United Methodist Church pastor\, having most recently served as senior minister at Park Avenue United Methodist Church\, New York\, NY. She is the proud mother of two wonderful sons and six amazing grandchildren. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLoving My Enemies & Other Outlandish Pursuits \n\n\n\nThis memoir of faith\, family\, and power follows Rev. Angie Wright’s commitment as an activist and pastor to stand against hate without indulging the temptation of hating the haters. In her story\, spirituality meets social justice\, and betrayal pushes against the ethic of forgiveness. Rev. Wright probes questions most of us have to face at times in our lives: How do we reconsider our relationship with people we’ve been taught to hate and fear? And when others wreak harm on us or our communities\, can we respond in ways that summon their humanity while protecting our own? \n\n\n\nPurchase the book here.
URL:https://peacehillavila.org/event/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it/
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SUMMARY:Morning Silence
DESCRIPTION:Morning Silence is an ongoing event that occurs from 8:00 – 9:00 am on Zoom on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Rotating facilitators provide a few words about the theme(s) for the day to introduce each session. Two sessions of silence (20 minutes) follow with a brief time of stretching in between. The time concludes with 10 minutes of sharing from the participants. To be added to the notification list\, please go to contact us page.
URL:https://peacehillavila.org/event/morning-silence-7/2026-03-18/
LOCATION:North Carolina
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SUMMARY:Seasons Within
DESCRIPTION:Spring 2026  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly\, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”\n\n\n\n― Maya Angelou \n\n\n\n\nWhat changes are you being called and invited to experience\, explore\, embrace\, and embody in these seemingly turbulent times? How are you reacting or responding to the realities of change at this present time? What beautiful and wonderful things may be\, or already are\, the product of these changes? \n\n\n\nAs spring begins again\, join us to come together to hold a space for each other to discern what nature may have to teach us about change. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitator: Phil Mathews\, Peace Hill Board of Directors\n\n\n\nPhil Mathews\, Peace Hill Board Secretary\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPhil Mathews worked in pastoral ministry for over 30 years\, including serving as HIV/AIDS Chaplain\, Program Director for AIDS Interfaith Network of North Texas\, and a variety of roles at the Cathedral of Hope Metropolitan Community Church (MCC). While Associate Pastor at MCC of Washington DC\, he led mission teams in the Dominican Republic. His last service in professional ministry was as Pastor of Imani MCC of Durham NC. Peace Hill has become one of his “faith communities” since retiring from ministry in the church. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSeasons Within is a quarterly retreat series to celebrate the equinox and solstice sponsored by Peace Hill at Avila.
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