Tallgrass Spiritual Retreat Center:
Where Women Find their Way
1780 Thurman Creek Road
Matfield Green, Kansas 66862
620.753.3465
Rev. Billie Blair, Director
Tallgrass Spiritual Retreat Center
Where Women Find Their Way
Why go on retreat?
Retreats are really a time to treat yourself, and enter into living more deeply. There are many reasons to take time to make a retreat. And, there are also many types of retreats. Perhaps you will choose to go on a retreat with a group of people that you know from a spiritual community. Or, you might not know anyone! You might be on a retreat in solitude and silence, with a small group, large group, or . . . only women. Maybe there is a teacher or guide leading a retreat that will offer new learning for you. Perhaps you will have a spiritual companion or director to aid in your discernment or questions that arise. Maybe you will simply want to deepen your prayer life. There are many reasons you can choose to make a retreat. It is important to listen to the longings and stirrings within you, and respond.
Retreats can last a few hours or longer. Some people enter into a prolonged retreat or sabbatical that can last a year or more. Most often, retreats are either a weekend, week, or occur during your daily life. A retreat can be self directed or with a structure that is provided for you.
We can expect just about anything on a retreat! Most often, when we open ourselves to the unknown and mystery, we are surprised in an unexpected way, and discover a nugget or gem that holds truth and depth for our life specifics. If we take time to slow down, we might experience questions and confrontations that are challenging. And, we may find connections that bring us alive in new ways.
From Listen: A Seeker's Resource for Spiritual Direction, July 2007. Vol 1
Gather your friends and come to Tallgrass Spiritual Retreat Center for a weekend of quiet reflection and renewal.
The two-story, modern Bunkhouse books for $140/night for the first four women and $35 for each additional women.
The Bunkhouse can lodge 10-12.
Meals are:
$5.50 for Breakfast
$6.50 for Lunch
$10.00 for Supper
Guests may provide their own meals, using the well-equipped Bunkhouse kitchen for preparation. It is also possible for a group
to bring some of the meals and have the Center prepare the remaining meals.
Come with your own retreat agenda
or to choose from a variety of retreats
led by Pastor Blair, beginning at $150.
Other Tallgrass Facilitators
can be hired to lead a group retreat,
depending on their availability.
Call or email Rev. Billie for more information and to pick a date.
A $50 per night, non-refundable deposit
is required to book the Bunkhouse for your group retreat.
Call or email the Center's Director for more information
or to book your retreat.
Why go on retreat?
Retreats are really a time to treat yourself, and enter into living more deeply. There are many reasons to take time to make a retreat. And, there are also many types of retreats. Perhaps you will choose to go on a retreat with a group of people that you know from a spiritual community. Or, you might not know anyone! You might be on a retreat in solitude and silence, with a small group, large group, or . . . only women. Maybe there is a teacher or guide leading a retreat that will offer new learning for you. Perhaps you will have a spiritual companion or director to aid in your discernment or questions that arise. Maybe you will simply want to deepen your prayer life. There are many reasons you can choose to make a retreat. It is important to listen to the longings and stirrings within you, and respond.
Retreats can last a few hours or longer. Some people enter into a prolonged retreat or sabbatical that can last a year or more. Most often, retreats are either a weekend, week, or occur during your daily life. A retreat can be self directed or with a structure that is provided for you.
We can expect just about anything on a retreat! Most often, when we open ourselves to the unknown and mystery, we are surprised in an unexpected way, and discover a nugget or gem that holds truth and depth for our life specifics. If we take time to slow down, we might experience questions and confrontations that are challenging. And, we may find connections that bring us alive in new ways.
From Listen: A Seeker's Resource for Spiritual Direction, July 2007. Vol 1
Individual Retreats Click here for Group Retreats
It's possible to create a retreat experience of your own.
Book the Bunkhouse for your own use - $60/night
You get the use of the main floor of the Bunkhouse, including
private bedroom, bath, fully-equipped kitchen, great room and deck
Stay one night or several.
Guests in the Bunkhouse may choose to prepare their own meals,
have the Center provide them for a fee,
or choose to share meal preparations with the Center
Meals
$5.50 - Breakfast
$6.50 - lunch
$10.00 - Supper
Spiritual Companioning is available ($50/90 minutes)
Guests may choose to have a companioning session
at the beginning of their retreats and then again at the end.
Click here to learn more about Spiritual Companioning.
It is possible to choose a theme and experience a retreat guided by
Rev. Billie or to come with your own retreat intention.
Call (620.753.3465) or email (tallgrassretreats@wheatstate.com)
to discuss your needs and desires for a personal, private retreat.
A non-refundable deposit will be required to book your retreat.
The amount depends on the length of stay.
Call or email for more information.
Click on retreat type of your choice:
A retreat is moving consciously and by my own choice into space where I can be with the Divine.
- Marion Woodman
RETREATING
by Cheryl Unruh
6/1/10
Cell phone service is unlikely out there. There’s no TV, no Internet, no drugs, alcohol or smoking.
However, there is plenty of quiet space. So if you’re in the need for silence, clean country air, and a supportive environment, you can find those things at the Tallgrass Spiritual Retreat Center in Chase County.
I had heard of this place several years ago and so when I saw the booth at the Kansas Sampler Festival in early May, I stopped to visit.
For nine years, Rev. Billie Blair has offered retreats, primarily for women, on a farm near Matfield Green. Some of the sessions are led by Blair and some by other facilitators. Blair also provides an option in which individuals and small groups can design their own spiritual retreats and rent the space for a day or more.
Click here to read more on Cheryl's blog "Flyover People."
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.
~ Crowfoot, a leader of the Blackfoot nation
Photo by Melinda Yeager
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