Online Contemplative community • Supporting Membership
A steady home
for your
contemplative life.
Practice regularly. Belong to a like-hearted community. Keep growing in contemplation, awareness, and your relationship with the Divine.
One membership. Three contribution levels.
Weekly Practice ✦ Contemplative Gatherings ✦ Member Resources ✦ 25% Off Specialty Programs
A rhythm of belonging
A contemplative life needs somewhere to return.
It’s one thing to experience a meaningful retreat, course, or moment of prayer. It’s another thing to build a life around contemplation.
Practice deepens through rhythm, relationship, and returning—to silence, to community, and to the presence of God in everyday life. Closer Than Breath offers an ongoing contemplative home: a rhythm of practice and a community to walk with you.
Practice ✦ Community ✦ Spiritual Formation
THE EXPERIENCE
Your rhythm of contemplative practice
Supporting Membership gives you several simple ways to stay connected throughout the year whether you have an hour every week or only a little time this season.
01 / PRACTICE
Weekly Contemplative Practice
Join live Centering Prayer and contemplative practice groups throughout the week.
These small gatherings are the heart of our community — creating space for silence, spiritual friendship, accountability, and encouragement in your own daily practice.
Come every week, occasionally, or whenever you need a place to return.
02 / GATHER
Contemplation Days & Member Gatherings
Throughout the year, gather with our community for live contemplative teaching and practice led by Keith and guest teachers.
These gatherings create space to step out of ordinary life for a while and return to what matters — through silence, prayer, teaching, reflection, and shared practice.
Included with your Supporting Membership.
03 / LEARN
A Growing Library of Contemplative Teaching
Your practice doesn’t have to depend on being available at a particular time.
Supporting Members receive access to our growing library of contemplative teachings and resources, including years of past gatherings as well as foundational courses such as:
6 week Centering Prayer Course, Closer Than Breath
Learn or return to the foundations of this simple practice of consent and silent prayer.
The Enneagram for Beginners
Explore the Enneagram as a path toward greater self-awareness, freedom, and presence.
Watch and revisit teachings at your own pace.
04 / GO DEEPER
Go Deeper When the Time Is Right
Membership provides your ongoing foundation.
When you want to explore a particular practice or theme more deeply, Supporting Members receive:
25% off specialty retreats, courses & contemplative summits
These deeper programs are offered throughout the year and allow you to explore Centering Prayer, the contemplative Enneagram, mystical spirituality, and other pathways of transformation.
Your membership is the home base. These programs are the deeper dives.
Practice ✦ Community ✦ Spiritual Formation
A living community
Coming Up in
the Community
A glimpse of the gatherings your membership can open up.
October 10
Included with Supporting Membership
November 14
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December 12
Included with Supporting Membership
Member Voices
What our members experience
“My biggest win since joining Closer Than Breath is acceptance. By that, I mean acceptance of myself, and acceptance of others who might have different views from mine.”
“My two biggest wins with the Closer Than Breath community was having the courage to quit my job and start my own practice, and the second big win was that I wanted to be more like Jesus, and it is happening.”
“I have so much peace, and I am at rest with myself, with God, and with other people.”
Why Supporting Member?
Your presence helps
make room for others.
Supporting Members sustain weekly groups, shared gatherings, and resources, while helping Closer Than Breath offer reduced rates and scholarships. Your membership deepens your own practice and helps keep contemplative formation accessible.
Keith Kristich
Founder, Closer Than Breath
A note from Keith
Closer Than Breath began with a simple desire: to help people actually live and deepen the contemplative life, not just learn about one. I’m so grateful for the community that has ground around that intention, and for very Supporting Member who helps sustain it.
One community · Three ways to support it
Choose the contribution
that fits you.
Every Supporting Member receives exactly the same membership.
Choose the annual contribution that fits your circumstances.
Reduced
$275/year
Save the equivalent of 1 month free
$75/quarter | $25/month
For those who need a lower-cost way to participate comfortably.
Standard Contribution
Standard
$429/year
Save the equivalent of 1 month free
$115/quarter | $39/month
Our standard membership contribution, sustaining our ongoing work of Closer Than Breath.
Pay it Forward
$649/year
Save the equivalent of 1 month free
$175/quarter | $59/month
For those who can contribute more to help extend access to others.
A few good questions
Frequently asked
questions
Yes. Begin wherever you are. Membership includes a foundational Centering Prayer course, and the community welcomes people at many stages of practice.
Participate as your life allows. The recorded teaching library and included courses are there to explore at your own pace.
Only the annual amount you contribute. Every tier includes the same membership benefits.
Closer Than Breath is rooted in the Christian contemplative tradition and welcomes people exploring contemplation from many backgrounds.
The join buttons take you to the current Closer Than Breath membership checkout. Select your contribution level there.
Your invitation
Find a rhythm that
brings you back.
To silence. To community. To the Divine presence already here.
