Silent Stay Is Reborn In The Hills Of Santa Barbara,  The Once-World Famous Retreat Center Lost To The Napa Fire Returns

Silent Stay Is Reborn In The Hills Of Santa Barbara, The Once-World Famous Retreat Center Lost To The Napa Fire Returns

In Partnership with the Pacifica Graduate Institute, Founders Ruth and Bruce Davis bring their Silent Retreats to the California Coast.

Step Out of the Busy-ness of Daily Life and Into the Sanctuary of Your Heart….

 Santa Barbara, CA -- Silent Stay was a gorgeous and peaceful retreat center perched on a stunning mountaintop overlook in Vacaville, CA, a place that drew hundreds enthusiasts of the silent withdrawal from the workday world for a few days of peaceful meditation and contemplation, until it burned to the ground in the Napa Fire of 2020.

Heartbroken, but undaunted, retreat owners Bruce and Ruth Davis moved south to Santa Barbara with the commitment to recreate that same beautiful serenity on the California coast, and now they have.

Silent Stay retreats have been reborn at the Pacific Graduate Institute, nestled in the hillside of Santa Barbara. In partnership with the Institute, the Davis’, who also host retreats in their center in Assisi, Italy, have once again created a sanctuary for those who want the peace of silent tranquility—and announced the Grand Re-Opening this month.

“The quiet helps everyone find this inner place of love and beauty that is always present but mostly covered by the busy-ness. The gift of silence is having nothing to do, nothing to say, having a time to enjoy solitude, gentleness and a quiet mind. A silent retreat is a gift for your own peace of mind.”  says Bruce.

At a Silent Stay retreat, guests have their choice of several kinds of room accommodations. Meals are available in a communal dining area and eaten in silence. The day begins with a group program of silence and meditation in the campus’ Barrett Hall Sanctuary, followed by various “non-doing” periods devoted to reflection, walking meditation, journaling, sitting meditation, being in nature, bathing in the softness of the retreat experience—and yes, taking a guilt-free nap. Midday there is a Heartfulness teaching, leaving the busy mental world to dive into the depths of the heart. After dinner, the day closes with a 40-minute meditation.

The bucolic setting among oak tree forests, meditation gardens and beautiful walkways calls for silent strolling, listening to the wind and the wildlife.

Bruce Davis Ph.D. and partner Ruth Davis, a renowned Heartfulness teacher, have been leading meditation retreats in many parts of Europe, United States, Bali, and India for years. They established Assisi Retreats,a peace center in Assisi, Italy in 2000, which has been named one of the "ten best meditation centers in the world" by both CNN and Travel & Leisure Magazine.

Bruce is the author of several books includingThe Magical Child Within You, Monastery Without Walls, The Calling of Joy, Simple Peace-The Spiritual life of St. Francis of Assisi, and The Love Letters of St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi.

Ruth is the originator of Sacred Movement Ritual, and a distinguished teacher of Heartfulness Meditation.In the quiet we open to the peace that is all around us and in our hearts.” says Ruth

Their offering of Silent Stay has attracted a worldwide audience of people yearning for freedom from distraction, their overactive minds and a desire to seek the simple peace found within the heart. Guests include single parents, caregivers, people in recovery, corporate teams, retired and working people needing time away from the noisy world, giving the heart the much needed peace found in silence. Silent Stay has been a 501c3 non-profit organization since 1983.

For more information, dates and fees for individual retreats -- or to schedule group retreats, visit www.SilentStay.com.

 

 

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