Online Self-Paced Retreat: The Spiritual Exercises & Yoga Sutras

Enter into a self-paced retreat exploring the intersection of Ignatian spirituality and Yoga philosophy and practice. Featuring lectures by Harvard professor and comparative theologian Fr. Francis X. Clooney, SJ, along with movement and prayer practices recorded during our July 2026 retreat, this online experience engages body, mind, and soul and offers a rich collection of resources to support your ongoing spiritual journey.

ABOUT THIS CLASS

Program:

Self-Paced Online Ignatian Spirituality & Yoga Retreat

The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali in Dialogue

This self-paced online retreat invites you to explore the relationship between Ignatian spirituality and Yoga philosophy and practice through presentations, movement, prayer, contemplation, and personal reflection.

The Retreat Includes:

Six 30-minute lectures by Fr. Francis X. Clooney, SJ, with accompanying handouts:
- Center and Periphery: What the Spiritual Exercises and the Yoga Sutras Are Really About
- The Key to Everything: Patanjali’s Mind and Ignatius’ Heart
- Keeping Your Balance: Why the Mind and Heart Need the Body
- God: Means and End in the Yoga Sutras and the Spiritual Exercises
- Now What? Freedom from the World, Freedom in the World
- Q&A with Francis X. Clooney, SJ

Yoga videos led by Fr. Bobby, Alan Haras, and Carol Gibney
Guided Ignatian contemplation and Yoga Nidra
Guided contemplative prayer
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali text, translated by Fr. Francis X. Clooney, SJ
Additional videos, readings, reflection questions, and resources for continued exploration
Follow-up sessions with Fr. Francis X. Clooney, SJ and the ISY Team

Move Through the Retreat at Your Own Pace. Engage the retreat in the way that best supports you—over a dedicated weekend, across several days or weeks, or by returning to individual sessions over time. Create space to slow down, pray, move, reflect, and notice what is stirring in your body, mind, heart, and spirit.

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Registration & Access

This online retreat is designed to be a meaningful commitment. We invite participants to engage deeply with the experience rather than simply browse the videos and resources. Our hope is that the cost reflects both the value of what is being offered and an invitation to invest intentionally in the retreat experience.

As an organization, we are committed to making our programs as accessible as possible while also sustaining our work and appropriately compensating our team members and special guests for the time, expertise, and training they bring to these offerings.

Given the many hands that went into creating this retreat, the depth and quality of the content, and the range of resources provided, we offer three pricing levels to make the retreat accessible while also honoring the value of the resources and work that went into creating it:

Community Rate — $100
A subsidized rate for those for whom the full cost would be a financial burden.

Sustainer Rate — $200
Our recommended rate, which helps sustain the work of Ignatian Spirituality & Yoga and fairly compensate those who contributed to the retreat.

Supporter Rate — $300
For those with the means to contribute more. Your additional support helps us expand our ministry and provide scholarship opportunities so that financial circumstances do not prevent others from participating.

We invite you to choose the amount that best reflects your circumstances and ability to contribute.

Thank you for supporting Ignatian Spirituality & Yoga and helping us continue to make these programs available to others. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

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