Come for meditation, stay for spirituality

Practice is the front door. Depth comes slowly, when you want it: a first class in meditation, a program that reshapes a life, a retreat into the prayer of quiet.

Wooden chairs in a circle in a sunlit stone room
Begin here2 phases × 4 classes

Train Your Mind

Meditation foundations: modern science and ancient contemplative wisdom, in a rotating class for anyone, with no experience needed.

Meditation Foundations
The flagshipBook · course · workshop

Success: Full Living

Friar Justin’s program of a lifetime: the mechanism of a full life, joined to meditation and direct spirituality.

The full life
A legacy method

The Silva Method

The meditation method that set the course of Justin’s ministry.

A path that turns, not a ladder

There are many ways into the Hermitage, and no one has to take them in order. Seven stages, as Samuel Robinson describes the experience of arriving and staying.

  1. Discover

    Short teachings, the Justin archive, articles and the free healing meditations.

  2. Experience

    Meditate with us online, introductory evenings, open celebrations and livestreams.

  3. Explore

    One-off workshops and talks with Hermitage teachers and guests.

  4. Practice

    Four- to eight-week programs: Full Living, Train Your Mind, book groups.

  5. Belong

    Weekly groups, The Way Between, shared meals and the online community.

  6. Deepen

    Day and weekend retreats, advanced programs and spiritual formation.

  7. Serve

    Facilitate circles, mentor newcomers, volunteer, and help carry the tradition forward.

Five lights, five doorways

Each of the five values opens onto its own kind of program. emerging program map

Inner divinity

Meditation series, workshops, retreats, an online course

Experience over doctrine

The Way Between, guest speakers, interfaith conversations

Radical acceptance

Workshops on grief, forgiveness, self-acceptance, relationships and healing

Conscious creation

Success: Full Living and Justin’s teaching on human potential

Unity & connection

Creation spirituality, Oneness celebrations, community and service