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Naramata Centre Nestled in the stunning Okanagan, Naramata Centre is a welcoming place to rest, reconnect, and gather.

Stay in hotel-style rooms, cottages, villas, or camp/RV on-site. Join us for summer sessions, group retreats, and programs that nurture community.

Gratitude. Community. Belonging. This Thanksgiving, members of our Naramata Centre staff and their families gathered aro...
10/13/2026

Gratitude. Community. Belonging.

This Thanksgiving, members of our Naramata Centre staff and their families gathered around a beautifully prepared table to share a meal, laughter, stories, and a moment to reflect on all that this year has brought.

There was something especially meaningful about slowing down, breaking bread together, and remembering that the heart of Naramata Centre has always been its people.

We are grateful for the hands that prepared the meal, the care that went into every detail, and the wonderful people who give so much of themselves to make this place what it is.

As we reflected on the year, we were reminded that gratitude is not only about celebrating the good moments. It is also about recognizing the kindness, generosity, resilience, and love that carry us through the challenging ones.

Our gratitude for everyone who is part of the Naramata Centre family, near and far, is immeasurable.

To our staff, volunteers, guests, supporters, friends, and families, whether you gathered around our tables this year or hold Naramata Centre close to your heart from afar, you are part of this community.

And for that, we give thanks.

May this season remind us all of the beauty of belonging, the gift of community, and the many ways we care for one another.

From our Naramata Centre family to yours, Happy Thanksgiving. 🍁 ✨

The Possibility of Age: Discover Aging as a Spiritual PathOnline, on Zoom, with Barbara Richards. Wednesdays, October 14...
10/10/2026

The Possibility of Age: Discover Aging as a Spiritual Path
Online, on Zoom, with Barbara Richards. Wednesdays, October 14, 21, and 28, and November 4, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. British Columbia time. For adults 55 and over.

Drawing on Sage-ing, also called spiritual eldering or conscious aging, this online program approaches the third chapter of life as a time of rich spiritual and personal growth. The inner work includes life review, forgiveness, embracing mortality in order to live more fully, and creating a legacy that is a gift to the future, shared in respectful conversation circles. $175 plus GST, with Heartwood Bursary support available based on financial need. Offered by Naramata Centre and Pacific Jubilee together.

Register: https://naramatacentre.secure.retreat.guru/program/the-possibility-of-age-discover-aging-as-a-spiritual-path-10/?lang=en

Sharing a little fall colour from Naramata Centre with all of you who love it here.
10/08/2026

Sharing a little fall colour from Naramata Centre with all of you who love it here.

Hearts and Hands brought 37 hearts and 74 hands to Naramata Centre this week.Some of those hands pulled weeds in the Sac...
10/04/2026

Hearts and Hands brought 37 hearts and 74 hands to Naramata Centre this week.

Some of those hands pulled weeds in the Sacred Garden. Some built a new porch. Some laid a new gravel path in the Creekside campground. Some painted the patio, some ran the power washer, and some cleaned behind the Loft. Those are a few of the many jobs they took on to prepare the grounds for winter.

Our hearts are full of gratitude. Thank you.

The Naramata Centre team

09/30/2026

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

"All my relations" is from Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations by Richard Wagamese (1955 to 2017), an Ojibway writer from Wabaseemoong Independent Nations, published by Douglas & McIntyre in 2016.

We remember the children who never came home from residential schools, and we honour the Survivors, their families, and their communities.

Naramata Centre Society is an incorporated ministry within the United Church of Canada. The United Church operated residential schools, and in 1998 it apologized to former students, their families, and their communities. We commit to learning the truth about residential schools and the church's part in them, and to a relationship of respect with the syilx Okanagan people and this land.

We acknowledge that Naramata Centre Society is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the syilx Okanagan people. To learn about the syilx Okanagan Nation, visit the Okanagan Nation Alliance at syilx.org.

08/27/2026

The willows here came up on this shore long before any of us did. They bend all winter and they are still standing in spring, and they give shade to whoever happens to be sitting under them.

Some people are like that. Thinking today of everyone who grew up with Dolly Parton and her songs.

Thank you to First Community, the Salmon Arm Jazz Club, Voice of the Shuswap, and everyone who performed, volunteered, g...
08/25/2026

Thank you to First Community, the Salmon Arm Jazz Club, Voice of the Shuswap, and everyone who performed, volunteered, gave, and came out for Community in Concert in Salmon Arm on Friday.

The evening was held for households evacuated by the Bradley Creek and Bald Range wildfires, and a third of what it raised is coming to Naramata Centre.

This August, Naramata Centre cancelled two weeks of its own summer season and turned the rooms into accommodation for households under evacuation order. Nobody paid on arrival. Afterwards each household pays what it is able to pay, and no one is turned away.

First Community will hear from us exactly what the evening paid for: which nights, which rooms, and how many households.

Since 1947 this place has done one thing. Make a place, set the table, take people in. On Friday, Salmon Arm helped carry it.

Any congregation or community that would like to hold something similar is welcome to write to us at [email protected], and we will send everything needed, already written.

The Naramata Centre team

08/20/2026

The staff at Naramata Centre mostly talk to each other in one group text. This film is based on that thread, starting the night before the first flame in Summerland, August 6th.

Our team of 19 made the decisions in that thread and then carried them out. Weeks 5 and 6 were cancelled. Fifty-six people were given a bed in rooms our guests released, along with fifteen dogs, four cats, and a snake named Pretzel. We are grateful to every one of them.

It runs just under four minutes. We meant to make a long story short....but, sometimes, a long story needs to be long.

If you watch to the end, please send it to somebody who remembers this place. Almost everyone who comes here was told about it by somebody.

And if you are able, canadahelps.org/en/dn/148515

You may also donate using e-transfer [email protected]

Please use this for to let us know it is on its way. https://forms.gle/CqNL4yn3AxUJeWPGA

Naramata Centre Society is a registered charity. BN119051142RR0001

Thank you to Inlet United who came to the Centre today with grocery gift cards and food for the guests who are still wit...
08/19/2026

Thank you to Inlet United who came to the Centre today with grocery gift cards and food for the guests who are still with us under evacuation orders.

Grocery gift cards do a particular job here. Households cook their own meals in their own kitchens, and a card lets us buy fresh food on the morning it is needed rather than days ahead.

Since 1947 this place has done one thing. Make a place, set the table, take people in. This week you helped us set the table.

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Penticton, BC

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Monday 8am - 7pm
Tuesday 8am - 7pm
Wednesday 8am - 7pm
Thursday 8am - 7pm
Friday 8am - 7pm
Saturday 8am - 7pm
Sunday 8am - 7pm

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+12504965751

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