Prison Retreats:

At The Metanoia Center, our mission is to guide individuals and communities back to The Center through mindfulness, meditation, spiritual formation, and breath as prayer. As we do this work, we refuse to forget our brothers and sisters inside who do not currently share the same freedoms we do.

That’s why we bring our retreats behind the walls — offering space for spiritual depth, healing, and encounter with the Kingdom of Heaven that Christ reminds us is within.

We offer an 8-week retreat experience where incarcerated participants gather for two hours each week to engage in a book study, learn and practice centering prayer, meditation, and breathwork, and move through a guided spiritual formation workbook.

We believe that true freedom is found by going inward — not in our external circumstances or social position — and our time inside prisons continually reveals this truth in profound and humbling ways.

We are eternally grateful to our incarcerated friends, who show us again and again what courage, transformation, and spiritual freedom look like.