The Breathing, Creating Life of All
A Retreat on the Aramaic Prayer with Neil Douglas-Klotz
03 September 2026 - 07 September 2026
Leader: Neil Douglas-Klotz
Cost Information: Accommodation cost:
£264 single room, £392 for two people sharing a twin, £148 dorm. Full board & lodging costs.
Course fee: £295
Course outline
For the first time since the Covid epidemic, Neil will offer an in-person retreat on the gateway to Jesus’ native spirituality. He will include his research and insights from the past ten years and the publication of his 2022 book Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus.
The retreat will offer an experience of chanting, moving and meditating with the Aramaic Prayer of Jesus (the Lord's Prayer) with the originator of this meditative work. Throughout our time together, we will also share an individual, silent Aramaic body prayer, which can added to one's daily meditation or practice. Whether or not you have joined in an Aramaic Jesus retreats previously, this is a wonderful doorway into Jesus' native spirituality and way of meditation. This meditative art combines simple chanting with contemplative, body-based awareness, either sitting in silence and/or with gentle circle dance movement in the form of Dances of Universal Peace. It can also be used in an individual retreat process of spiritual renewal, when various words or sayings are combined in particular ways. Neil will also offer some guidance in this area.
Since the publication of Neil Douglas-Klotz's Prayers of the Cosmos in 1990, which Dr. Matthew Fox called the “seeds of a revolution,” chanting and meditating with the words of Jesus in his native Aramaic language has become one of the main contemplative prayer methods in various spiritual communities around the world. Using Aramaic (either aloud or silently) offers one a direct connection through vibration, sound and breath to the spirituality of person who used the words, as well as to the indigenous Christianity of the Middle East, which predates the Western creeds and theologies based in “original sin.” In the same way that some Eastern mantra can, it bypasses one’s busy, conceptual mind and allows prayer to enter deeply into one's feeling and body.
For more information, see Neil's website: abwoon.org
How to book
Please do not book directly with us. The email address for enquiries is katehampton46@gmail.com
Bookings open on Monday 16 February @ 9am, so single rooms will be allocated on a first-come first-serve basis.