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Open Your Heart

10/5/2020 - by: Steve Garnaas-Holmes - Take Your Time Tuesday

If you missed the event, you can see the full three and a half hour event on our website, but over the coming weeks, we will be featuring a video of one of our artists ...

United with Hope

9/28/2020 - by: Danny Smith - Take Your Time Tuesday

In this week's Take Your Time video, we offer a sneak peek of one of our performers, our very own Operations Director, Danny Smith, who not only sings one of his songs, ...

A Gathering of Women

9/21/2020 - by: Lee Ireland - Take Your Time Tuesday

In this week's "Take Your Time Tuesday" video, Rev. Lee Ireland invites you to walk a labyrinth, but she also invites women to join her for an online gathering this ...

Summer into Fall

9/8/2020 - by: Janet Kessenich - Take Your Time Tuesday

We hope that you had a blessed long weekend to enjoy the warmth and beauty of summer. With the passing of Labor Day, summer may feel like it's over, but according to the...

"Sing Praises"

8/31/2020 - by: Brian Bayer-Larson - Take Your Time Tuesday

In this week's "Take Your Time Tuesday" video, we feature the Taize music of Brian Bayer-Larson underscoring some of the ways our hearts are filled with praise as the ...

A Way for the Day

8/24/2020 - by: Danny Smith - Take Your Time Tuesday

In this week's "Take Your Time Tuesday" video, Director of Operations at Rolling Ridge, Danny Smith, takes you on a brief tour of how our new online programming may be ...

Staying Present

8/10/2020 - by: John Kiemele - Take Your Time Tuesday

In this week's "Take Your Time Tuesday" video, Rolling Ridge Program Director, John Kiemele provides us with a 4 step process to stay present. Practicing PAIR places in ...

Cross Cultural Heart

8/3/2020 - by: Emily Kearns - Take Your Time Tuesday

As we seek to grow in our racial and cultural awareness, in this week's "Take Your Time Tuesday" video, Emily Kearns invites us to an upcoming online cross-cultural ...

Examen

7/27/2020 - by: Steve Garnaas-Holmes - Take Your Time Tuesday

Balance. With all that presses upon us, many of us seek balance, a place where we are centered, that spiritual space where we can hold together the blessings and ...

To Retreat

7/20/2020 - by: Lawrence Jay - Christian Contemplation Spirituality Take Your Time Tuesday

At the Ridge, we tend to use “retreat” as a noun, as a time to get away, but in this week's Take Your Time Tuesday video, Rolling Ridge Director, Lawrence Jay, looks at “...

Lectio Divina

7/13/2020 - by: Gayle Kerr - Christian Contemplation Spirituality Take Your Time Tuesday

During these uncertain times, the strength of God's promises and the encouragement in spiritual writings become even more important in keeping us grounded and hopeful. ...

Self-Reiki

7/6/2020 - by: Emily Kearns - Take Your Time Tuesday Wellness

Restrictions may be slowly lifting as we move into month four of sheltering in place, but the need for self-care continues as strong as ever as the effects of physical ...

Visio Divina

6/29/2020 - by: Ingrid Cyros - Take Your Time Tuesday

Over the past few months as we've sheltered in place, many of us have spent more time online on our devices and with the news than we ever have. With our eyes on ...

"Viriditas"

6/22/2020 - by: Samantha McCune - Christian Contemplation EcoSpirituality Take Your Time Tuesday

With the warmth of summer now upon us and all of Earth coming alive, we are in a season that sings of "viriditas." "Viriditas" is a Latin term coined by Hildegard von ...

Aramaic Lord's Prayer

6/15/2020 - by: Jean Chandler Douglas Koch - Christian Contemplation Take Your Time Tuesday

While many of us grew up reciting the Lord's Prayer, there is more to its meaning than trust in God's daily provision. When understood and prayed in its original ...

Sound Meditation

6/15/2020 - by: Janet Kessenich - Spirituality Take Your Time Tuesday Wellness

Click here or the thumbnail to watch the video With so much negative noise in the news, our spirits can easily grow weary and burdened. Today, we invite you to take ...

Sacred Texts

6/2/2020 - by: Katy Allen - EcoSpirituality Take Your Time Tuesday Wellness

(click the thumbnail to watch the video) Rabbi Katy brings us a "Take Your Time Tuesday" video which encourages us to get outside and connect with the sacred texts of ...

A Taize of Thanks

5/22/2020 - by: Lawrence Jay - Take Your Time Tuesday

Click the image below to watch the video The past two months have been challenging for Rolling Ridge as our onsite operations have been shut down because of the ...

Letting Go

5/5/2020 - by: Lawrence Jay - Mindfulness Spirituality Take Your Time Tuesday

Click the Thumbnail below to watch the video When our onsite operations closed in mid-March, Rolling Ridge quickly launched online programming to provide spiritual ...

Breathing Forward

4/27/2020 - by: Pam Kristan - Take Your Time Tuesday Wellness

This week, time management specialist, Pam Kristan, offers a centering practice to prepare us for an exercise on how to move forward with purpose. With so many unknowns ...

Pause and Notice

4/21/2020 - by: Henry Schoenfield - Mindfulness Take Your Time Tuesday

Click on the thumbnail below to watch the VLOG For this week's Take Your Time Tuesday video, retreat leader Henry Shoenfield introduces us to the spiritual practice of "...

Embodied Gratefulness

4/13/2020 - by: John Kiemele - Mindfulness Take Your Time Tuesday

Click the thumbnail to watch the video In this week's "Take Your Time Tuesday" video, John Kiemele offers us the spiritual practice of Embodied Gratefulness to help us ...

MINDFUL EATING

4/6/2020 - by: Marie Rudzinsky - Mindfulness Take Your Time Tuesday Wellness

Click on the thumbnail image above to watch the video. Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way on purpose, with awareness and without judgment. Since ...

Breath Prayers

3/30/2020 - by: John Kiemele - Christian Contemplation Mindfulness Spirituality Take Your Time Tuesday

Click on the image below to watch the video During this time of social distancing, Rolling Ridge is launching a new series on spiritual connecting in our "Take Your ...

Nature Contemplation

3/23/2020 - by: Lawrence Jay - Christian Contemplation EcoSpirituality Take Your Time Tuesday

Click on the image below to watch the video During this time of social distancing, Rolling Ridge is launching a new series on spiritual connecting in our "Take Your ...

A way for the day

by: Danny Smith - Take Your Time Tuesday

In this week's "Take Your Time Tuesday" video, Director of Operations at Rolling Ridge, Danny Smith, takes you on a brief tour of how our new online programming may be ...