Gatherings
Inner Ground enjoys offering workshops, formation circles, and retreats. We host both in-person and online gatherings, seeking to provide myriad opportunities for folks to join in community as we tend our spiritual lives. Some of our gatherings are free and others have a fee. Through the generosity of our donors, we are able to offer scholarships for all of our paid offerings. If you are interested in obtaining a full or partial scholarship for one of our upcoming events, please reach out to us via email - 2innerground@gmail.com
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Please enjoy these free resources as a gift to support your inner journey.
Guided Meditative Nature Walk
Guided Meditative Nature Walk
Saturday, July 11 at 8:30 AM
Haw River State Park, Browns Summit
Join us for a peaceful nature walk designed to help you slow down, reconnect, and be fully present in the beauty of creation. Brooks Johnson will guide our time as we immerse ourselves in the sights, sounds, and rhythms of nature. Whether you are seeking relaxation, inspiration, or a deeper connection with yourself and the natural world, this experience offers a meaningful opportunity to pause and reflect.
Healing Rhythms Drum Circle
Sunday, August 2 at 3:00
6309 W. Friendly Avenue Greensboro, NC
Medicine for the Body & Soul
Join us for a fun hour of rhythmic play and deep nourishment for the body and soul. This circle is open to beginners and experienced drummers alike. We provide the drums or you can bring your own.
Suggested donation: $5 at the door.
July 13 at 10:45
Our monthly Singing Circle is a fun and nourishing gathering. We learn and sing paperless short songs in the ancient oral tradition. Singing is an embodied practice that offers deep connection with others and ourselves. It’s an opportunity to gather up some joy, courage and hope for the living of these days.
We meet in the chapel at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Greensboro.
Let us know that you plan to attend by filling out the form at the link below.
Taizé Prayer Service
Thursday, July 30, 2026
7:00 PM
Chapel at Christ UMC
410 N. Holden Road, Greensboro, NC
A contemplative candle light service featuring simple, repetitive chant-songs, short scripture readings and an extended period of reflective silence. A small ensemble of musicians provides support and guidance for this time of sung prayer.
“Heartwork”: Rilke’s Call to Live the Questions in Fraught Times
with Dr. Mark Burrows, PHD
Weekend Retreat, March 12-14, 2027
Trinity Center, Salter Path, NC
Registration now open!
In one of his Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke encourages us to “live the questions,” a call that is as compelling as it is demanding. Because we want clear answers and are often impatient with ambiguity. We expect certainty and avoid complications. But the questions invite us to open ourselves, in wonder, to life’s mystery. They deepen us, inviting us to linger with what we cannot know. To embrace darkness, which is usually uncomfortable.
In this retreat, we’ll probe a selection of Rilke’s writings from his poems and letters to explore what he called “heart-work.” Our approach will welcome newcomers to Rilke’s poetry as well as those more familiar with his writings.
Mark S. Burrows is a prize-winning poet and translator and stands as one of the leading interpreters and translators of Rilke’s poetry today. His interest in spirituality and his ability to open poems as spaces of discovery are what characterize his retreats as transformative events. Mark lives and writes in Camden, Maine. www.soul-in-sight.org
Summer Reading Circle:
The Unfolding by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Join us this summer as we dive into poetry with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's latest collection, The Unfolding. These poems invite us to open to what is difficult and beautiful and to say yes to life.
Pick up a copy from your local bookstore and read along with us this summer. Be on the lookout for opportunities later this summer to gather with others to discuss the poems.
Join our Morning Prayer gathering, each Monday at 8 AM (EST). Come as you are. Come weekly. Pop-in on occasion. Sink into this space for communal prayer. We'll engage a variety of prayer practices during our gatherings - all of them invitations to pause and rest in the Presence of the Loving One. Send us an email to receive the Zoom link - 2innerground@gmail.com.
