Creative Silence Retreat 2/2026

19.02.2026 00:00 - 22.02.2026 00:00

Registration ends: 05.02.2026 00:00 - If registration has already closed, please inquire about course places by calling 017 570 1810.

myyntipalvelu@valamo.fi, p. 017 5701 810

, 315€/Hotel room, incl. accommodation, tuition, meals, 340€/Guesthouse 1 room, incl. accommodation, tuition, meals, 355€/Student hotel 1 room, incl. accommodation, tuition, meals

Course description

Do you long for a moment of stillness and silence together with others? Do you long for creativity to be stimulated in a peaceful atmosphere? Welcome to seek God's loving presence through shared stillness, silent prayer and small creative exercises! During the days we will do creative visual exercises, small body/presence exercises and write. There is also the opportunity to discuss with a priest. No special knowledge or skills are needed, just an open mind that needs silence and stillness! The course instructors are KM, visual arts therapist Tytti Käyhkö, retreat instructor, psychotherapist Päivi Heikkinen and TM, father Risto Käyhkö.

Course program

Thursday 19.2. Maundy Thursday

13.00 Arrival and lunch.

Note! Lunch is available in the café-restaurant Trapesa until 14.00.

16.00 Opening of the course.

16.15 Introduction to the theme.

17.00 IX moment of fasting. Morning and evening service.

19.00 Great post-consecration service and the penitential canon of Fr. Andreas of Crete.

20.00 Evening meal, discussion and descent into silence.

Friday 20.2. Clean Friday

06.00 Midnight service and morning service. I, III and IV moments of fasting.

07.30 Breakfast

09.00 Creative work; writing, painting or being free.

12.00 Lunch

Break

14.30 Creative, visual work

18.00 IX hour of Lent. Hour of Lent. Great Vespers and the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, at the end of which the blessing of the koliva.

20:00 Evening snack

Saturday 21.2. Clean Saturday

06.00 Midnight and Polyeleo morning service. Liturgy.

07.30 Breakfast

09.00 Creative work; writing, painting or being free.

12.00 Prayer service for Sergei and Herman of Valamolainen.

12.30 Lunch

Break

14.30 Creative, visual work

18.00 Vigil.

20:00 Evening snack

Orthodoxy Sunday 22.2.

(7.30-Breakfast)

09.00 Third moment and the Liturgy of Basil the Great.

11.30 Lunch and closing discussion

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