Lourdes Wellness Center: Human Wholeness Retreats

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Lourdes Wellness Center is sponsored by Our Lady of Lourdes Health System, a Ministry of the Franciscan
Sisters of Allegany, NY.

RETREATS

The spirituality events presented by Our Lady of Lourdes Wellness Center are wholistic in their approach. Frequently the event is designed with a special theme, but all include opportunities for contemplative prayer, sharing, input on wholistic spirituality, exercise, and movement. Time for solitude and for listening to God's special Word to the individual and to the group is valued and reverenced.

The retreat staff at Our Lady of Lourdes Wellness Center also offers special programs to select groups. If your organization would like to offer a Lourdes Human Wholeness Retreat program please call or e-mail for

details. A limited number of requests are filled each year.

Explore your journey to wholeness with these exciting new offerings at Lourdes Wellness Center. Join us for prayer, reflection, writing, labyrinth walking and creative expression.

Retreats 2009-2010

Art-Journaling Retreat
October 9 - 11, 2009
Franciscan Spiritual Center, Aston, PA
610-558-6152
MARIANNE HIEB, RSM, MFA, ATR, D.Min
Sr. Marianne directs the Wellness Spirituality program at Lourdes Wellness Center in Collingswood, New Jersey, and is an art therapist, studio artist, spiritual director and the author of Inner Journeying through Art-Journaling. This weekend explores the meditative practice of art-journaling, utilizing oil pastels, drawing paper and notebooks for wholistic journaling. Include opportunity to participate in a season with Sr. St. Joseph, OSF in using clay as a tool for prayer. We will probe the interface of creativity and spirituality, and deepen in our trust of the Creative Spirit, and of ourselves as God's works of art. No art experience necessary. Materials will be provided.

Paths of Spirituality & Wholeness: A Yoga & Meditation Retreat
Featuring Fr. Thomas Ryan, CSP
Catholic priest and certified Kripalu yoga teacher, Presenter of best selling DVD “Yoga Prayer” and, Author of “Prayer of Heart & Body”
with Sr. Helen Owens, OSF; Sr. Marianne Hieb, RSM ;
Barbara Moeller, MA, ERYT500, David Yaden, CHt
Friday, October 23, 7-9 pm and/or Saturday, October 24
9 am-3:15 pm
$25 for Friday Evening
$85 for Saturday (lunch included)
$100 for both days
Space is Limited. Please call (856) 869-3125 to reserve your space for this very special event.

"Honoring the Journey: Grief and Loss in the Life of the Director"
Workshop for 20th Annual Conference of Spiritual Directors International
Friday, April 9, 2010, San Francisco
Contact website for further information and to receive an event brochure www.sdiworld.org.

Art-Journaling Retreat
Franciscan Spiritual Center at Aston, PA
April 16-18, 2010
For more information call (610) 558-6152

Art-Journaling Retreat
with Marianne Hieb, RSM and Helen Owens, OSF
April 30-May 2, 2010
Linwood Spiritual Center, Rhinebeck, NY
For more information call (845) 876-4178

Inner Journeying Through Art - Journaling

Learning to See and Record Your Life as a Work of Art

Marianne Hieb's new book, Inner Journeying Through Art Journaling, introduces a holistic journaling process that combines art, art therapy, design theory and spiritual direction in order to attain personal balance, and enhanced wellness.

The book guides the reader through the process of creative journaling and presents the key elements of the technique. Case studies and art journals of Marianne Hieb's own clients and retreat participants show the effectiveness of journaling as a therapeutic intervention and as a meditative tool.

Inner Journeying Through Art Journaling will be of significant use to anyone interested in holistic healing, and of special interest to art therapists, counselors, spiritual directors, and anyone dealing with people who are encountering loss, grief, resistance, or discernment issues. It will also be helpful for the individual looking to add holistic journaling to his or her own meditation, prayer, or inner exploration practice. She is a Sister of Mercy.

Marianne Hieb, RSM, MFA, ATR, D.Min, is trained as a studio artist, art therapist, spiritual director, and is currently the director of the Wellness Spirituality Programs at Lourdes Wellness Center in New Jersey.

To order visit: www.jkp.com or call (856) 869-3125 or toll free at 1-866-416-1078. Books are $24.95 each.

RETREAT EVENINGS

Road of Life: Setting Our Once More
Saturday, January 23, 2010

7-9 pm
"Our life is a journey. We are always "on the road". Each time another January greets us, we have an opportunity to pause, to see where we have been, to notice how far we have come, and to ponder how that journey has been for us. Each new year is also a time to clear our vision, to take stock of our resources, and to refresh our dreams as we set out once more on the journey that is ours." - J. Rupp
This evening retreat will provide an opportunity to pause and reflect on the journey ahead this New Year in light of scripture, prayer, and sharing.
Sr. Ruthann T. O'Mara, SSJ
Donation for the Young Adult Programs Series: Love Offering (per session)

SPIRITUAL DIRECTION and SUPERVISION

Idividual Supervision for Spiritual Directors
These sessions are offered for a spiritual director who would like to meet on an individual basis with a certified supervisor of spiritual directors for on-going growth in the ministry of spiritualdirection. Suggested Donation: $25 -$60

Individual Spiritual Direction Sessions
Spiritual Direction is a way to go deeper in one's ordinary life. "In the midst of a busy life, it is often difficult to notice God's action in their daily affairs. Yet, at the deepest level, all of us long for a more conscious experience of God's/Higher Power's presence and love." (Spiritual Director's International)
Suggested Donation: $25 -$60

For more information about any spirituality offering,
please call Sr. Ruthann T. O'Mara, SSJ at 856-869-3198

Donation for Spirituality Sessions: $10 for 1hr./$15.00 1 1/2 hrs.
(Group Spiritual Direction/Lenten Series: $12 per person when registering for series.

Please arrive 10 minutes before the scheduled session.

Lourdes Wellness Center
Conveniently located on Haddon Avenue
in beautiful downtown Collingswood, NJ.
900 Haddon Avenue, Suite 100, Collingswood, NJ, 08108
856.869.3125