Advent Four Day Silent Retreat 2026
Location
Hosted by
WCCM | Victoria , Australia
About
Our Pilgrimage towards Unity
The World Community for Christian Meditation Australia (Victoria) warmly invites you to our annual Advent silent retreat, led by Lydia Dyhin at Santhom Grove in Millgrove.
We have been given the gift of being — an invitation to embark upon and nurture a sacred pilgrimage toward unity with the Divine. During this silent retreat, we will explore how each aspect of this gift, our Body, Mind, Heart and Spirit can align with that which is already present within—the unifying presence of Love and Light.
The silence will give us space and freedom to be with ourselves, to listen to our inner guidance and allow that Presence to emerge more fully. We will nourish our inner world with our attention, inner curiosity and care to be able to emerge with a greater understanding and awareness of how we can express this newly embodied Unity in the world and share it with others.
The retreat begins at 4.00pm on Thursday 12 November and concludes at 2.00pm on Sunday 15 November. The cost of $675 covers accommodation in a single room, all meals and the retreat programme.
Those new to Christian meditation are very welcome.
“At the end, if any end exists, unity flowers in silence, the kind of silence we taste in meditation. Unity is self-repairing, boundless; there is no limit to it. As unity becomes more conscious, we learn to live better with the contradictions, conflicts and sufferings of the dualistic world made by the dualistic mind. We see this world in the experience of non-duality and its brokenness becomes an opportunity of grace to serve others, to heal, to love.”
— Laurence Freeman, First Light
About Lydia Dyhin
Lydia Dyhin’s involvement with Christian Meditation began over two decades ago, in Melbourne, then Sydney and now on the Gold Coast in tandem with the Queensland Christian Meditation Community.
Lydia is a qualified Spirituality Coach, a Mindfulness Life Coach, a Yoga & Meditation teacher and a former Board Member of Meditation Australia.
Within the Christian Meditation community, Lydia has offered live presentations, community day talks and stress management workshops to the Christian Meditation Leaders’ Group community, as well as leading a meditation group herself.
She has offered multiple presentations to the Benedict’s Well online community based in the U.K. and written articles for the spirituality platform, Living Water (www.thelivingwater.com.au).
For enquiries please contact Clare Boyd-Macrae at victoria@wccmaustralia.org.au.
Booking, linen and ticket fees
Select the number of retreat places you need in the Retreat rooms section. You are booking a place, not choosing a particular room from a map. Linen and towels are optional and are selected separately under Optional linen and towels at $20 per room. Bringing your own linen and towels is free.
The extra $0.50 shown in the cart is the TryBooking ticket fee, separate from the retreat price. Other applicable fees are shown at checkout.
Event terms and payment options
For information about this event, please contact the Event Organiser. By purchasing a ticket you agree to receive information about the Event by email from the Event Organiser.
Payment options
Pay in full, or reserve your place with a non-refundable deposit of $200 per person. Single room: total $675, deposit $200, balance $475. Applicable TryBooking fees are additional and shown at checkout.
To pay a deposit, enter DEPOSITSINGLE for single-room tickets in the Gift / Promotion Code field at checkout and click Apply. To pay in full, do not apply a deposit code. The deposit code defers the remaining balance; it does not reduce the total retreat price.
Deposit terms
By choosing a deposit code, you acknowledge that the deposit is non-refundable for guest cancellation, subject to applicable consumer rights, and agree to pay the remaining balance by bank transfer by 5 November 2026. Include your TryBooking booking reference with the transfer. The organiser will provide bank-transfer instructions; contact communications@ststephensrichmond.org if you have not received them. The remaining balance is managed by the organiser and will not be charged automatically by TryBooking.