Simon de Voil

This informal, interspiritual worship service offers a quiet space for reflection, personal prayer, and contemplative practice.

Chants & Prayers is a weekly online service that uses song, chant, visual prayer, and silence to explore themes of healing, connection with the earth, community, and sacred wisdom.

Participants will be invited to share their own prayers and reflections, and to witness the prayers of one another — but all are welcome to join in, and there is no expectation or requirement to share. Those of any faith, or no faith, are very welcome here.

https://www.crowdcast.io/c/healing-prayers299

A quiet space for reflection, personal prayer, and contemplative practice. Using song, chant and silence, we will explore themes of healing, connection with the earth, community, and sacred wisdom.

More into: https://interfaithalignment.org/sessions

This informal, interspiritual worship service offers a quiet space for reflection, personal prayer, and contemplative practice.

Chants & Prayers is a weekly online service that uses song, chant, visual prayer, and silence to explore themes of healing, connection with the earth, community, and sacred wisdom.

Participants will be invited to share their own prayers and reflections, and to witness the prayers of one another — but all are welcome to join in, and there is no expectation or requirement to share. Those of any faith, or no faith, are very welcome here.

https://www.crowdcast.io/c/healing-prayers300

This online informal, contemplative worship service applies the monastic practice of sacred reading to art and visual liturgy, rather than text.

Chants & Prayers is a weekly online service that uses song, chant, visual prayer, and silence to explore themes of healing, connection with the earth, community, and sacred wisdom.

Participants will be invited to share their own prayers and reflections, and to witness the prayers of one another — but all are welcome to join in, and there is no expectation or requirement to share. Those of any faith, or no faith, are very welcome here.

https://www.crowdcast.io/c/healing-prayers301

I will be joining Christine Valters Paintner abbess of 'Abbey of the Arts' to co-facilitate this contemplative worship service.

Cost is $12, sliding scale $6-$18

https://abbeyofthearts.com/calendar/contemplative-prayer-service-december-2026/

You are warmly invited to celebrate the Winter Solstice with us. Rooted in ancient Celtic tradition, the Winter Solstice marks the shortest day of the year and the longest night in the northern hemisphere. It is a sacred threshold- holding the polarities of light and dark within its holy embrace.

As we align with this turning point, we are invited to enter the fertile stillness of this darkest time of year, rich with quiet potential. New life stirs unseen beneath the surface that only emerges when we learn to soften and surrender.

Together with Simon de Voil, Deirdre Ní Chinnéide and Aisling Richmond, we will take a holy pause and immerse ourselves into the blessings that await us through meditation, movement, and music. These offerings are woven to create a cloak around you, bringing sanctuary, warmth, and gentle illumination within the embrace of community.

https://abbeyofthearts.com/calendar/winter-solstice-2026/

Facilitated by Cassidhe Hart, Polly Paton-Brown, and Simon de Voil for Abbey of the Arts.

Imbolc brings the first quickening of new life, as Earth emerges from winter’s grip. The old Irish word for Imbolc holds the meaning “in the belly.” Join us as we explore what this might mean in our own lives. What might Brigid be whispering about hope in dark times, how can she help us find signs of life as we emerge from the darkness. Step through the portals of song and story, poetry and prayer to meet with Brigid and welcome her to the Hearth of your own heart, as we gather together to remember old traditions and find new meaning for our time.

https://abbeyofthearts.com/calendar/hope-in-dark-times-imbolc2027/

[Please note that I am the musician supporting the live Zoom gatherings and not a guest teacher for this amazing online retreat]

Join Abbey of the Arts for this 6-week series where we explore the ways spirituality can help to sustain us and how the experience of chronic illness can be a profound source of wisdom for how we live in the world.

This retreat is for anyone with a body (whether or not you have chronic illness) who wants to explore how embracing vulnerability, cultivating spaciousness, and listening for the wisdom our wounds offer can lead to a more vibrant and nourishing way of being.

The standard fee for this 6 week retreat is $180 USD.
Scholarships are available: if you are someone living with chronic illness who has limited finances please email Abbey of the Arts for a full or partial scholarship.

https://abbeyofthearts.com/calendar/the-wisdom-of-our-wounds/

Join Spiritual Directors International for a 6-night / 7-day transformational journey, deepening our connection to the sacred through our relationship with the natural world and through mindful spiritual practices. Ritual, community worship, poetry, body prayer, meditation, journaling, music and movement will be our tools to deeply listen to the voice of The Great Mystery. We will walk the landscape of Iona together as pilgrims, wandering to special places on the island to embrace the wilderness and to pray with nature. This retreat will be facilitated by Simon de Voil on behalf of SDI.

https://www.sdicompanions.org/product/journey-to-iona-2027

In this weekend retreat, we’ll explore ways to deepen our connection with the sacred through the green, living world with some of the vibrant traditions of Beltane, and guided by the wisdom of medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen’s understanding of viriditas, the greening power of the divine. We will tend to what is being awakened within our hearts and in the world.

Rev. Simon Ruth de Voil (joining us in person) will use song and story rooted in the Celtic Christian wisdom tradition, along with contemplative and creative practices, to help us awaken and bring our attention to the rising green of the land and of our own spirit. Christine Valters Paintner (joining us virtually) will bring us into the greening vision of St. Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th-century Benedictine Abbess who saw viriditas, or the greening power of God flowing through every living and celestial being. There are two options for this program.

https://genesisspiritualcenter.org/our-programs/1498/spring-awakening-a-celtic-journey-of-renewal-connection-hybrid/