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Last year we offered you a ‘Speaker Program’. The series brought modern mystics to the
chapel, to share their wisdom.

This year we wanted to expand the idea into more of a ‘retreat’. To that end we will be
offering a more ‘holistic’ approach, enabling you to you take time out of your life and put
yourself in an environment to re-evaluate and refresh. We will be offering meditation at the
start of each day, yoga at lunchtime and healthy plant based snacks with our teas and
coffees.

We are also encouraging you to join us for a potluck lunch - inviting you to bring a salad, or
some other offering, to share with others.

Each event will be a chance to form a small community for that weekend and get to know new
people, as well as being exposed to the wisdom of our visiting facilitators.

The events will run a little earlier than last year, giving people more time at the end of the
day. We will start on the Saturday at 9.00am MT and have a lunch break at 11.30- 12.30. The
day will finish at 3pm.

On each of the Sundays we will be joined by the Aspen Chapel Community as we gather at
9.30am. There will be an hour together with Q&A to integrate the weekend. We will then have
a reception afterwards.
This Sunday portion is free and open to all. The Saturday Retreats are all $80, with
the live streaming cost set at $65. There are substantial reductions for subscribing
to more of the events.

The program was introduced on February 1^st 6-8pm by Rabbi Shira Stutman, who is working with our friends at the Aspen Jewish Congregation.
She spoke about ‘Gender and the Divine – He/She/It/Them/They?’

This was followed by:
Cynthia Bourgeault (February 17^th) CLICK HERE TO WATCH PART OF THE VIDEO OF THIS EVENT
and
Ilia Delio (April 13^th) Click here for more information

CLICK HERE TO WATCH ILIA AT THE CHAPEL ON APRIL 14 FOR FREE

Click here to buy a recording of "Why AI needs Spirituality" from April 13

Heather Vesey (April 27^th)

C LICK HERE TO WATCH HEATHER AT THE CHAPEL IN APRIL 28 FOR FREE

Click here to buy a recording of "Love in a time of Fear" from April 27th

Susan Aposhyan (May 18^th)

CLICK HERE TO WA TCH SUSAN'S PRESENTATION ON SUNDAY 19th

Click here to buy a recording of "Heart open Body Awake" from May 18th

(Click on Each of the names to go to their pages)

Once again, the events will be both ‘in person’ and ‘online’ with substantial discounts for booking all 4 main speakers.
There is also a 15% ‘Early Bird’ discount if you book before January 1^st 2024. Just enter the code RETREAT24.

To buy the recordings of these events, click here

We hope you will feel able to be a part of this program.
If you have any questions, do get in touch by clicking here

Click here to download the full brochure.

trust logo 2c-2017-2017 Made possible by a grant from the Trust for the Meditation Process, a
charitable foundation encouraging meditation, mindfulness and
contemplative prayer. More information at trustformeditation.org

Hello and welcome to our church. If you are a new visitor, we have a page for you to get to know us and learn more about planning a visit.
Click here to see more.

Visitors click here.

Planning your Visit

Hi there!

We are Nicholas and Heather Vesey.
We lead the services here at the Aspen Chapel most Sundays.
Have a look around our site. There are plenty of free courses to watch from our 'Wisdom from the Top of the World' page. Click here to go to it

If you are planning on a visit, here is some information as to what to expect:

When: We meet every Sunday at 9.30am for about an hour. If you cannot make it in person, you can live stream the event by clicking here.

Where: We are the chapel by the roundabout as you come into aspen. Specifically here.

What: We (Heather and Nicholas) come from a Christian Episcopal background, however our community draws from all the world’s wisdom traditions with the aim of learning together to live our lives more skillfully.

And there are local musicians from up and down the Roaring Fork Valley to play for us.

Every week we will focus on a topic within a theme.

Light image

At the moment we are looking at what the topic of 'Gathering in the Light'.
In these troubled times how do we make our way forward. Finding light in the shadow of darkness.
This series is about how to gather the light around us and become sources of light for others.

There will also be prayer and meditation, generally led by Heather, and Nicholas will give a talk on the topic for the day.

Finally, there is an opportunity for discussion and feedback as we pass the microphone around for everyone to join in.

Kids? We also offer childcare with younger children being looked after and given creative ways to look at a topic for the day.

Coffee and Yummies. After the service there is a food and drink reception for everyone to get to know each other a bit more.

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