Cami Twilling, based in Colorado, is the Director of Earth & Soul (a Celtic initiative of study, spiritual practice and compassionate action inspired by the teachings of John Philip Newell). As well as heading up the overall work of Earth & Soul, she facilitates the spiritual practice component of the Earth & Soul Retreats. Previously she was the Director of Contemplative Spirituality and Youth Ministry at Trinity UMC in downtown Denver. She has studied meditation in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition of Shambhala and received Spiritual Direction certification from the Hesychia School of Spiritual Direction in Tucson, Arizona. In addition to leading mountain and urban retreats, she has led international pilgrimage groups to Iona in the Western Isles of Scotland and work teams to Guatemala to build houses in communities that have suffered from political strife and economic hardship. Cami is passionate about the relationship between spirituality and action and believes that spiritual vision and practice can play a vital role in helping to heal and transform our lives both individually and together.

The Earth & Soul Retreat itinerary will be posted at a later date

‘In Celtic wisdom the sacred is as present on Earth as it is in heaven, as immanent as it is transcendent, as human as it is divine, as physical as it is spiritual.’  

‘The consequences of not remembering the sacredness of Earth and the human soul are disastrous, both individually and collectively. This is what we are living in the midst of today.’

‘What is deepest in us is of God. Every child, every woman, every man, and every life-form is in essence divine.’

‘To be made of God is to be made of sacred imagination. It is to have the capacity to dream our way into new beginnings, in our lives and in our world.’

“JP Newell has been leading the way for a number of years now, giving us a clear and hopeful direction for the future. I’m convinced that we’ve only begun to see just how far and wide his voice is going to be heard.” (Rob Bell, New York Times bestselling author of Love Wins)

“John Philip Newell offered me a new creation story for Christian faith. I commend Sacred Earth Sacred Soul to anyone who is ready to be born again.” (Barbara Brown Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World)

“Many of us have been indebted to John Philip Newell’s writings for years but, in this book, he reaches new depths in his vision of the earth and the human journey. We need this Celtic wisdom among us urgently.” (Richard Rohr, New York Times bestselling author of The Universal Christ)

“In this wonderful new book, John Philip Newell dives deeply into the life-affirming wisdom of the Celtic tradition to deliver a powerful message of hope to our frightened and disoriented world.” (Cynthia Bourgeault, author of The Wisdom Way of Knowing)

Sacred Universe Award (May 2022)

The Well Spirituality Center is thrilled to announce that John Philip Newell is the recipient of the Sacred Universe Award. This award, first presented to Thomas Berry in 1993, honors leaders in the field whose work and life foster mutually-enhancing Human-Earth relationships. 

Nautilus Book Award (2022)

Sacred Earth Sacred Soul has been named the 2022 Gold Winner of the Nautilus Book Award  for Spirituality and the Religious Thought of the West.