Light on the Hill Retreat Center - NY

05/15/2026

May Newsletter. Honoring Diane Woodhouse (artist of the beautiful painting featured). Read more about Diane, our Sustainer Program, the search for a Lodge Housekeeper, informational sessions about the Hidden Treasure Program, and several upcoming group retreats.- https://mailchi.mp/lightonthehill/may-newsletter-2026

04/29/2026

Join us in welcoming back Carol Scheg-Morissette for a transformative retreat -- Raise Your Vibration and Reset Your Nervous System -- on August 7-9 at Light on the Hill.

This is not just a retreat, it's a reset for your body, mind, and spirit. It is a chance to leave behind the weight of your past and step forward into your life with freedom, clarity, and alignment.

Is your spirit ready to flow into alignment, reset your nervous system, and step into your highest timeline and be part of a soulful community? Then this retreat on the Lion's Gate at the sacred space of Light on the Hill is the retreat for you. The 8th day of the 8th month is a very powerful day for manifestation and abundance, and it’s called the Lion’s Gate Portal. It is a time to attract abundance and manifest your wishes. It's a spiritually charged gateway that amplifies your intentions and connects you more deeply to your soul's wisdom. It is a time to create positive change as you are immersed in sound waves to help quiet your mind.

Highlights: • Breathwork techniques to calm the nervous system • Expand your consciousness and accelerate your 5D ascension journey • Connect with your animal spirit guides • Breathtaking nature walks • Sound Immersion meditations • Yoga • Rejuvenate your body mind and spirit • Recalibrate your chakras and release outdated patterns and reset your nervous system to a higher frequency • Peace Circle Group • Delicious, organic gourmet vegetarian meals

Transformational workshops: • Release negative unhealthy energetic cords of attachment • Release stress and anxiety with sound healing • Somatic yoga • Connect with your animal spirit guides • Journey and transformational experience to help you clear your path, find deeper clarity, and align with your highest timeline • Akashic records sound immersion to find your highest timeline • Merkaba activation sound immersion • Step into the 8/8 Lion's Gate Portal sound immersion

Cost: $575 (private room); $550 (shared room).

Read more about Carol and the retreat on our website at: https://lightonthehill.org/event/raise-your-vibration-and-reset-your-nervous-system/

04/17/2026

Celebrating the Launch of Alice's New Book Light on the Hill is excited to announce that our co-founder and Spiritual Director, Alice McDowell, is launching her new book, Your Royal Nature: Inspiring Essays to Find Your Way Home, on Sunday, April 26th at 2:00 pm at Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca. You are invited to join in the celebration! Read more about the book and where you can buy it. - https://mailchi.mp/lightonthehill/summer-retreats-5863177

04/12/2026

Healing doesn't always happen the way you think it will. I am prone to trying to "figure out" how to heal my physical, emotional, or mental issues. In the process, I construct a to-do list of things I think will bring about healing. Yes, my efforting creates the illusion of control, but it rarely leads to healing.

Rather than chasing healing through my mental gymnastics, I am discovering that a better way is to let go and allow the healing to happen. Easier said than done, right?- https://mailchi.mp/lightonthehill/summer-retreats-2026

03/31/2026

The timing couldn't be more perfect for this retreat! Bani Aello's spring women's retreat--How to Have Increased Self Love--reminds us that, when we genuinely accept and love ourselves, we no longer look to the outside world for approval. This eases our anxiety, allows us to feel safe and secure in our own being.

Join us at Light on the Hill Retreat Center on May 29-31 to learn how to be safely present with yourself, how to meet yourself exactly as you are with kindness and curiosity, and how to regulate your nervous system so self acceptance and love grow organically.

We often hear that self-love is essential, yet rarely are we shown how to truly cultivate it in a way that allows us to receive more love, ease, abundance, and peace. Many women are already doing the “right” things—healing, reflecting, giving, striving—yet still feel something is missing. This Women’s Retreat is not about fixing yourself; it’s about gently removing the inner blocks that limit what you allow yourself to receive. Through meditation, inquiry, the therapeutic process of Internal Family Systems and shared presence, you’ll explore what self-love actually feels like in the body and soften into a deeper sense of fulfillment.

Cost: $525 (495 if you are sharing a room with a friend)

Includes lodging and gourmet vegetarian meals.

Find more details on our website or Bani Aello's website: https://baniaello.com/spring-retreat-2026

Perched high in the hills of Van Etten in Central/Upstate New York, Light on the Hill is a retreat center that provides a sacred space where seekers can find peace and solace away from their everyday worldly pursuits. The center is located on 236 acres of woods, streams, gorges, and walking paths, a...

03/31/2026

The timing couldn't be more perfect for this retreat! Bani Aello's spring women's retreat--How to Have Increased Self Love--reminds us that, when we genuinely accept and love ourselves, we no longer look to the outside world for approval. This eases our anxiety, allows us to feel safe and secure in our own being.

Join us at Light on the Hill Retreat Center on May 29-31 to learn how to be safely present with yourself, how to meet yourself exactly as you are with kindness and curiosity, and how to regulate your nervous system so self acceptance and love grow organically.

We often hear that self-love is essential, yet rarely are we shown how to truly cultivate it in a way that allows us to receive more love, ease, abundance, and peace. Many women are already doing the “right” things—healing, reflecting, giving, striving—yet still feel something is missing. This Women’s Retreat is not about fixing yourself; it’s about gently removing the inner blocks that limit what you allow yourself to receive. Through meditation, inquiry, the therapeutic process of Internal Family Systems and shared presence, you’ll explore what self-love actually feels like in the body and soften into a deeper sense of fulfillment.

Cost: $525 (495 if you are sharing a room with a friend)

Includes lodging and gourmet vegetarian meals.

Find more details on our website or Bani Aello's website.

12/28/2025

Give My Heart - In the Christian hymn, "In the Bleak Midwinter," the author asks "what can give?" Giving takes many forms, and it's not just about money. We can give our heart, our prayers, our love, our commitment. We welcome your contributions to our year-end Tending the Flame campaign. We are grateful for your generosity, your heart, and your commitment to Light on the Hill. - |URL|*

12/21/2025

A Message from Alice - Light on the Hill's co-founder and spiritual director shares a reading from a well-known healer and psychic from 1991, when LOH was incorporated. He saw us as a stabilizing pillar of light, shining forth into a darkened world. Read more and help us send that light out into a world facing difficult times. https://mailchi.mp/lightonthehill/tending-the-flame-2025-post-3-alice

12/14/2025

A View That Is . . . Priceless - Light on the Hill Board President Andrea Mooney invites you to help us to preserve the infrastructure that has supported and witnessed so much growth and wisdom over the years. This year, we hope to replace all the shades in Inner Light Lodge (dining room, Great Room, bedrooms, and meeting rooms). Even though the views from the Lodge to the hills beyond are priceless, shades are occasionally necessary. Read more and give now to help Tend the Flame. - https://mailchi.mp/lightonthehill/tending-the-flame-2025-post-2-andrea