Many diverse groups use our facilities for their meeting needs: parish staff and church groups, social service agencies, hospital staffs and national organizations.

• Beautifully appointed Chapel
  
  
• 90 private rooms w/ bath
  
  
• Handicap accessible facilitity
  
  
• Spacious gathering area
  
  
• 3 separate meeting rooms
  
  
• Multiple breakout areas
  
  
• Single floor plan, barrier free
  
  
• Easy access from area highways and airports
  
  
• Flexibile planning
  
  
• Professionally prepared meals
  
  
• Reasonable fees

Private Retreats, lasting a day or more, provide time for quiet reflection and prayer, with the option to pray with the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist or join the Community for Tuesday and/or Thursday evening meals.

Directed Retreats offer the additional support of meeting daily with a Franciscan Guide who assists in the process of listening to God. The primary resource for reflection and meditation is Scripture.

* Welcoming couples for marriage preparation, weddings, and enrichment experiences

* Extending hospitality to a variety of local, regional and national groups that come for meetings and conferences.

• 181 guest rooms offer a choice of suites, private rooms, twin rooms, or bunks
  
• Each guest room has a private bath, air conditioning, and individual temperature control.
  
• Two dining rooms provide exceptional meal service prepared by The Retreat Center Chef and his staff
  
• Guests may worship in a beautiful lower Chapel or the main Chapel, depending on group size, worship needs, and availability
  
• Eight meeting rooms can accommodate small or large groups of up to 300
  
• Four designed gardens provide beautiful natural surroundings
  
• Outdoor volley ball and basketball courts are available
  
• The living room and the garden room provide spaces for social interaction and relaxation.
  

We offer accommodations from B&B to retreats for relaxation or personal development. Includes daily meditation times, delicious home cooked vegetarian meals, comfortable accommodations with quiet spaces for relaxing and reflection, lovely pond, in a country-wooded area. Wheelchair accessible lodging and a suite with private bath available.

For more information about our upcoming scheduled retreats, click here. We have the Pure Meditation Course, Natural Spiritual Healing Course, Holistic Energy Care Course, Animal Healing Course, Transformation Hatha Yoga Day, Christmas and Easter Celebration Retreats, silent retreats and a New Year’s Gathering scheduled. Please email us for more information about our schedule.

Also available: private sessions in Meditation Foundation, Transformation Hatha Yoga, Natural Spiritual Healing and Progressive Counselling. For more information on these and the Self Realization Meditation Healing Centres around the world, please visit www.selfrealizationcentres.org. We are a Sister Centre to the Self Realization Meditation Healing Centre, UK, and a Non-profit Corporation.

The Centre is located a short 10-minute drive from Okemos, East Lansing, and Michigan State University; and just 15 minutes from Lansing, the State Capitol.

The Saugatuck Retreat House is fully equipped and newly refurbished. On the first floor, a formal entry hall opens onto three spacious meeting rooms, formerly the sunroom, large dining room and a living room. The latter is complete with fireplace, piano, and audio-visual equipment. An open staircase leads to the second floor, where five bedrooms sleep up to nine guests.

Transformations Spirituality Center is located in Nazareth, Michigan, 10 minutes from Kalamazoo in Southwestern Michigan, midway between Chicago and Detroit.

Read about a visit to our facility in Sept, 2001

We welcome guests whenever accommodations are available; the Guest Master will help with the necessary advance arrangements. The community welcomes guests who want to visit us for a time in order to share in our life of worship and recollection. We ask only that each guest be willing and able to help preserve the monastic environment. The normal length of a visit is from two days to one week.