Welcome to our Field Journal

We’re so glad you’re here.

The Coming to Our Senses Field Journal is a place to pause and listen, to find inspiration and small moments of connection as we move toward our time together in Provence. Here, we share reflections, poems, and glimpses of the spirit that will guide our retreat: deep listening, creative renewal, and a return to the living world through the senses.

You will find reflections from our guides, conversations about attention and imagination, and glimpses into the quiet transformation that can happen when we gather in beauty and simplicity.

As the retreat approaches, this space will hold:

• Updates and stories from behind the scenes as we prepare to gather in Arles.

• Short writings and meditations from our guides, including David Rothenberg, Rosalind Brackenbury, and Nadine Pinede, each offering their own way of seeing, hearing, and sensing the world.

• Interviews and conversations with our guides, along with videos, audio clips, and small things we love such as fragments of poetry, birdsong, music, and inspiration from Provence.

• Introductions to the places that will hold us, including the Villa, the Camargue bird sanctuary, and the Rhône, and to the people who will care for us along the way.

• Stories and insights from past experiences that remind us what it means to come home to ourselves and to one another.

• News and invitations as the retreat draws near.

You can think of this Journal as our shared field of listening, a living space between us where the retreat begins to breathe into being.

Thank you for being part of it.

With warmth,
The Coming to Our Senses Team
Arles, France · May 16–23, 2026