A Feast of Joy in uncertain Times: A Women’s Retreat with Anita Amstutz and Geneva Shoemaker – G25100103
This all women’s retreat will be held at Casa Del Sol, an adobe hacienda in the painted desert and Georgia O’Keeffe country. Come away to the high desert and take time to strengthen your innate resilience, courage and love. Based upon the 2018 book, “Soul Tending: Journey into the Heart of Sabbath”, this women’s retreat will create space to empty out mind distractions, suffering and the saturation we feel in our lives. In our women’s circle we will experience music, contemplative practices, nature, art, ritual and ceremony—all set in the soaring beauty and intimate canyons of Ghost Ranch in Northern New Mexico. This retreat honors the holiness of who you are, creating ways to feast on your life and restore your soul! Some themes we will explore include creativity, abundance, desire, joy, sorrow, healing, stillness, prayer and “what makes your heart sing!”
Instructors
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Anita AmstutzRev. Anita Amstutz, BSW, MA/MDIV is the author of Soul Tending: Journey into the Heart of Sabbath. In this spiritual autobiography, she notices, “How I found the Sabbath rhythm and invitation to ‘cease work’ as both solace and hospitality. In that dry, droughty space between joyful living and the soul sickness of “too much”, I recovered Sabbath Mind as a place of healing, wholeness, and shalom.”
Living at the intersection of Mennonite practicality and Catholic mysticism, she has served congregations in the Desert Southwest for 17 years, while simultaneously working at the Center for Action & Contemplation, founded by Franciscan Richard Rohr. As a high desert dweller, herbal and pollinator enthusiast, contemplative, writer, hiker and trauma informed counselor/spiritual companion, Anita’s passion is calling people back to that sweet spot of their soul’s delight! -
Geneva ShoemakerGeneva Shoemaker, MSW, Diploma in the Art of Spiritual Direction, and licensed as a hospice chaplain, she has spent the last 14 years providing deep listening and support to families and individuals at the end of life. With a background in social work, chaplaincy and spiritual direction, she is a seeker of spiritual connection, divining what sacredness lies beneath the ordinary. Geneva has spent many years cultivating hospitality, the culinary arts, as well as worship, ceremony and ritual in her leadership in faith communities and hospice work. She is a walking contemplative, loves a good party and is a life long reader, learner and writer.