As a participant in this online self-paced retreat, you will find many great benefits.

• Teachings by Laurence Freeman. 
• Yoga lessons led by Giovanni Felicioni. 
• Guidance to start to meditate, or to help you on your journey if you are already practicing.
• Everything you need to create a retreat at home using the time you have available at your own pace.

The Rule of Benedict says that our life should be a continuous Lent. So, this retreat which was led at Bonnevaux to begin Lent can be used at home at your own pace and at anytime.

It is an opportunity for a spiritual check-up and self purification as found in many traditions.

This Lenten retreat, originally hosted at Bonnevaux, is an annual time for a spiritual checkup and self-purification, as found in many traditions. Lent is a 40-day period in which we learn better self-discipline as well as the gift of other centeredness. In this retreat to begin Lent, Laurence Freeman explores the positive side of asceticism and why there is nothing to fear about allowing ourselves to be free. He will also suggest practical ways of making Lent a time for releasing joy, energy and hope, to become ready for the fuller life awakened at Easter.