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Join us on this 5 month long journey to Hildegard’s wisdom well. Learn in a tiny online group setting about the many facets of Hildegard as a scholar, Benedictine teacher, gardener and healer, and explore more deeply her philosophy of health and healing, her healing practices and remedies, and what it can provide for your own nourishment. This inaugural Seminar will be taught by Dr. Almut Furchert, a German American scholar, practitioner, teacher and retreat leader, who will bring to you Hildegard resources which have not been available yet in English and her accessible teaching combining European seminar style with times for sharing and spiritual practice.
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On this one day retreat we will focus on the idea of motherhood, in the physical as well as spiritual sense, and explore how Hildegard can help us reflect on both the bliss and pain which comes with giving birth to a child, a vocation, or a new stage in life. We will listen, read, explore, learn, reflect, share, walk and eat together pondering the sacredness of motherhood and our own journey with it. Hildegard sees mothering as a central aspect of how God relates to us, and of our recognition of our dependence on Divine motherhood. This retreat is for both women and men who are new to Hildegard’s voice and for those familiar with her.
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A Women's Spring Retreat
In this weekend retreat we will journey into Hildegard’s concept of the greening of the soul, and explore how it resonates with our lives across the seasons and provides for our soul’s nourishment. We will take time for learning, reading, reflecting, journaling, resting and walking while participating in the daily rhythm of the monastery. If you look to get some quiet at Mother's Day weekend and be inspired by other brave women, this is for you.
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A Fall RETREAT WITH SAINT HILDEGARD AND BENEDICT
We will discover how Hildegard and Benedict both portray the vices and virtues, and discover the central of that humility plays. We will study, explore and experience how the old tale of the struggle of the soul between vices and virtues resonates with our post modern life stories, and what this understanding can provide us for soul nourishment. While doing so we will take part in the rhythm of the monastic place sharing meals, learning, laughing, resting and walking.
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A Fall Renewal Retreat for Clergy and related fields, sponsored by the River Valley District of the United Methodist Church.
If you are looking for a day apart offering you space for learning, reflecting, journaling, contemplating, and rejuvenating this might be the day for you:
At the transition to Fall we will learn about Hildegard's understanding of the cycle of life, which is maintained by viriditas, the greening power, life force of all creation. We will learn and explore how this understanding can enrich our own understanding of life and creation and how it speaks into our life across the seasons.
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A women's cloister retreat
In this weekend cloister retreat we will focus on Hildegard's key concept of viriditas, the greening power, life force of all creation. Participants will be guided into studying and embodying, exploring and experiencing how the idea of viriditas resonates with our life and life stories, and what it provides for our own soul nourishment. While doing so we will take part in the rhythm of the monastery, sharing meals, learning, laughing, resting and walking...
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A spring renewal for people in ministry and related fields
Starting on Sunday afternoon this Hildegard cloister retreat invites especially those serving in ministry and related fields who long for some time off to rejuvenate. Learn about Hildegard's key concept of viriditas, the greening power of all creation, and how it is embedded in her understanding of cosmos and human being. Explore and experience how viriditas resonates with your own spiritual journey and what it can provide for your soul's renewal. While doing so we will take part in the rhythm of the monastic life, sharing meals, learning, laughing, resting and walking.
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Hildegard of Bingen was not only a remarkable woman of her time but also a monastic leader, an inspiring theologian, philosopher, composer, and naturopath. In this seminar we will both learn the many facets of Hildegard as well as explore and experience her monastic spirituality and what it can provide to us for our own soul nourishment.
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