The Silence Foundation invites you to join our musical friends Gus Weaver and Carrie Hoipkemier for a journey into the world of SOUND.  You’ll get to explore many forms of music and receive their gifts.  Immerse yourself in the depths of energy as played out in music – connect awareness to listening, align energy in your body through movement to music, and make conscious the energy through connecting music and words.

We have chosen St. Francis because (though we’ll be in the cool of the indoors) nature’s earth music will be all around.  Ancient as well as contemporary spiritual traditions across the world recognize the power of music to inspire us, heal us, and bring us together in community.  Come, let’s PLAY!

Here’s your chance to stop, rest and find more ease, focus, and connection through music.

The Silence Foundation is delighted to have dharma teachers Larry Ward and Peggy Rowe-Ward offer this special day in Oklahoma City! We hope you will join us. Our comfortable facility is right on the edge of beautiful Will Rogers Park.

A healthy lunch will be provided.

Larry & Peggy have led Mindfulness Retreats in Oklahoma for over 20 years and now they have become residents of our fair state. Let’s warmly welcome them and enjoy their facilitation of mindful sitting, walking, eating, and sharing. These gentle practices can help us renew, restore and reconnect us ... to ourselves, nature, and the world.

If you don’t yet know Larry & Peggy, please visit their site, www.thelotusinstitute.org. They have taught throughout the world. Ordained by The Venerable Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, they have authored of Love’s Garden and America’s Racial Karma. Their passion is blending Buddhist teachings with science, movement, music, and art. Their mission is a world working together to transform suffering into compassion, peace, resiliency, and joy.

The Silence Foundation invites YOU to take up pen and paper & explore life in these “interesting” times! We’ve all been through some significant changes – globally and personally. This Spring we’d like to offer you a chance to reflect and re-collect your own stories of life in recent years. All are welcome. New to writing? No problem. We’ll show you how to dive in. Our safe sharing methods will put you at ease.

We gather at St. Francis of the Woods to be nurtured by nature as we capture our lived experiences. Creative writing prompts will be provided by our facilitators:

Pat Webb, Doug Paulsen, and Eric Starkey - three veteran Oklahoma writers and teachers of writing.

The Silence Foundation invites you to share in this time to gather and BE with silence, ourselves and the beautiful forest at St. Francis of the Woods. Come join us under the newly green trees, using our senses to reconnect with nature as children of Earth. This is an opportunity to:

• Celebrate this season of our year

• Share in meditative walking, sitting, breathing, noticing

• Refresh and nourish our bodies, minds and spirits with nature's Springtime gifts

Pat Webb and The Silence Foundation team are happy to offer YOU this chance to stop, rest and receive practices to support you in finding more ease, focus and positivity now and in the months ahead.