Online Contemplative community • Supporting Membership
A steady home
for your
contemplative life.
Practice regularly. Belong to a like-hearted community. Keep growing in contemplative awareness and in your relationship with the Divine.
One membership. Three contribution levels.
A place to return. A place to get centered.
Practice Together ✦ Gathering Regularly ✦ Learn at Your own Pace ✦ Go deeper over time
A contemplative life needs
somewhere to return.
The spiritual life is deeply personal, but it doesn’t have to be solitary. Without rhythm, community, and support, even our most meaningful spiritual intentions can slowly drift to the edges of everyday life.
Practice can drift
Even when silence matters to us, the demands of everyday life can slowly crowd it out.
A steady rhythm
Regular opportunities to return help contemplative practice become part of everyday life.
The journey can feel solitary
The deeper spiritual life can be difficult to share when few people around us understand the path.
A community to walk with
Shared silence, conversation, and practice offer companionship along the way.
Growth can become scattered
Retreats, books, and teachings can inspire us without becoming integrated into how we actually live.
A path that keeps deepening
Ongoing practice, teaching, and community help contemplation take root over time.
Practice ✦ Community ✦ Spiritual Formation
THE Rhythm of the membership EXPERIENCE
Four ways to stay rooted in your contemplative life.
Some seasons allow for more time than others. Membership gives you several ways to stay connected through practice, community, learning, and deeper formation.
01 / PRACTICE
Weekly Contemplative Practice
Build a steady rhythm of practice
Join one of our 11 live weekly Centering Prayer and contemplative practice groups.
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, a few times a month, or whenever you need a place to return.
02 / GATHER
Contemplation Days & Member Gatherings
Walk the contemplative path with others
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, contemplative prayer, teaching, reflection, and shared practice.
Contemplation Days are included in membership
03 / LEARN
A Growing Library of Contemplative Teaching
Keep learning at your own pace
Not every season has room to join live gatherings.
Membership gives you access to a growing library of more than four years of contemplative teaching, so you can explore what speaks to you when the time is right.
You’ll also have access to foundational courses—including the 6-week self-paced Centering Prayer course Closer Than Breath and the 4-week Enneagram Beginners course, both taught by Keith.
Start from scratch. Revisit the essentials. Deepen what you already know to be true.
Watch & revisit 4+ years of recorded teaching.
04 / GO DEEPER
Discounts on Special Programs
Go Deeper When the Time Is Right
Membership provides a steady home base.
When you want to explore something more deeply, Supporting Members receive 25% off Closer Than Breath specialty programs, including retreats, live courses, and summits.
This allows you to stay connected to the ongoing community while choosing the deeper experiences that genuinely serve the season you are in.
No need to do everything. Go deeper where you feel invited.
Your membership is the home base. These programs are the deeper dives.
Practice ✦ Community ✦ Spiritual Formation
A LIVING COMMUNITY
Coming Up in
the Community
Upcoming gatherings included in membership
October 10
Included with Supporting Membership
November 14
Included with Supporting Membership
December 12
Included with Supporting Membership
WHY SUPPORTING MEMBER
Your presence helps
make room for others.
While Supporting Members not only enjoy the gift of being in contemplative community, but 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 gathered around that intention, and for every Supporting Members who helps make it possible. Thank you!
Practice ✦ Community ✦ Spiritual Formation
One community · Three ways to Join
Join at the rate that works for you.
Every Supporting Member receives the same membership—the same groups, gatherings, courses, and community.
Monthly, quarterly, and annual payment options are available.
Accessible
THE ROOTS
$25/month
$75 quarterly | $275 annually
Keeping membership within reach.
Choose this contribution if a lower rate makes participation sustainable for you.
Pay annually and receive one month free.
STANDARD CONTRIBUTION
Standard
THE TRUNK
$39/month
$115 quarterly | $429 annually
Helping sustain the community.
Choose this contribution if you can help cover the ongoing costs of running our programs, practices, and community.
Pay annually and receive one month free.
Pay it Forward
THE BRANCHES
$59/month
$175 quarterly | $649 annually
Extending the circle of generosity.
Choose this contribution if you can give more to help keep membership accessible while supporting the community’s wider life.
Pay annually and receive one month free.
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 while embracing an interspiritual approach, drawing wisdom and practices from the contemplative streams of the world’s religious and spiritual traditions.
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.
We are committed to offering a space that truly supports your inner journey.
If, within a month after becoming a Member, you feel it is not the right fit for you, just contact our team for a no questions asked refund.
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.
