Some of the legends speak of a Mary that went into monastic retreat in a cave for thirty years, communicating with angels.

Most World Cup coaches take their players to monastic retreats, with strict rules against nearly anything.

He has many times assumed the post of presiding in precept ceremonies and short-term monastic retreats.

During special occasions, monastic retreats for lay followers, and such, a more stringent set of precepts is undertaken, usually for 24 hours, until dawn the following day.

Lauren decided that the room felt like a monastic retreat.

He chronicled a history of Lombard Benevento, giving an especially vivid account of the violence surrounding his monastic retreat in his own day.

On their way there they stop on the planet Haven which is a monastic retreat of retired taxmen.

After his election victory, his aides gave the impression he was off to a monastic retreat to contemplate the weight of the decisions awaiting him.

Buddhism outside the monastic retreats has absorbed and adapted indigenous popular creeds and cults of the regions to which it has spread.

The methods of investigating consciousness change, such as meditation, yoga, monastic retreat, and sensory deprivation, and are seen as alien to scientific investigation.