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  • A sabbatical is about your whole self:
“…This new way to God is not through a separation from our bodies, it is through our bodies and all that is weak and broken in us that we meet God” , Jean Vanier, Drawn into the Mystery of Jesus through the Gospel of John. published by Novalis.

  • A sabbatical is an unwinding of the places where you are bound.
  • A sabbatical is a time for you to pause, breathe, discern, change from your hectic routine.
  • A sabbatical is for amazement at the transformational energy of the Resurrection and the life of Jesus:
“The resurrection can only be received and affirmed and be celebrated as the new action of God, whose province is to create new futures to the people and let them be amazed in the midst of despair.” Walter Brueggemann
  • A sabbatical is a space from which you can begin anew.


Explore your inner life and wellness through the therapeutic action of scripture, spirituality, and body psychotherapy, which is a means of touching the emotional body. Your emotional body is the place where the history of stress, trauma, pain and suffering are held waiting to be resolved and healed.

The pathways for working with the emotional body include biodynamic massage, Shiatsu massage, cranial-sacral therapy, hypnosis, reflexology, touch therapy, proprioceptive writing, painting our dreams, dance & movement, dream interpretation, exploring myth and creative imagination.

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A Prayer of Listening with the Heart
Spirituality, Wellness, Psychotherapy

A listening with the heart, Lectio Divina is a method of prayer encouraged by all the traditions, especially, of Medieval Christianity. Discover healing and transformation through meditation, prayer, mindfulness and psychotherapy.

It is when we internalize the experience of the Gospel encounters that we are able to feel them as a living experience. A concrete experience that causes us to say with the disciples. “Did not our hearts burn within us on the road and explained the scriptures to us.” As they were transformed and were moved to return immediately to Jerusalem, so too, we are transformed and are moved to return to the ‘Jerusalem’ in our hearts where we first heard the call to ministry. Meditative psychotherapy has the energy to transform and heal us from the rift within ourselves. When we speak about gentle psychotherapy we are speaking about meditative psychotherapy. *“ A small body of recent psychoanalytic findings indicates that mystical experiences produce personality changes. They do so in the same manners as psychoanalysis”.
“Nothing is impossible with God.”
* Crucified with Christ Dan Merkur