Nature Immersion in Love's Creation (in-person)

Name: Nature Immersion in Love's Creation (in-person)
Start: 2025-06-14T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-06-14T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Franciscan Spirituality Center

Schedule

Sat Jun 14 2025 at 09:00 am to 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Franciscan Spirituality Center | La Crosse, WI

Creation is an outpouring of divine love. A foundational source of our healing and wholeness, nature immersion is a fundamental way we can experience Emmanuel: God with us. We will expand our embodied awareness of our spirituality and sacred interbeing with the practices of forest therapy, breathwork and gentle body movement. These include guided meditations, individual quiet time, song and group reflections. This retreat is non-judgmental, inclusive and trauma informed; you can adjust each activity to your needs. This daylong retreat is ideal for anyone who needs to de-stress and re-center. Our bodies house both stifling stress and a deep knowing of the path forward. By placing our collective bodies back in the heart of creation, we invite the blessing of the Comforter, the ground of I Am. This gathering of nature-loving souls will steep our hearts in the container of holy peace.
Presenter: Shannon Gorres
Note: This retreat will begin at the Franciscan Spirituality Center at 9 a.m., and we then will travel as a group to the FSC-managed hermitages at St. Joseph Ridge. Lunch is included.
Investment: $95, includes lunch
www.FSCenter.org | 608-791-5295
Direct link to registration: https://fsc.retreatportal.com/calendar/event?programcode=24SGD09212
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Shannon Gorres, MDiv, MA, is a spiritual director, meditative yoga instructor and nature therapy guide on Kanza lands (Kansas). Along with her spouse and child, she shares sacred life with 20 acres of plants and animals. Her childhood religious roots are deeply Catholic. At 33, she was ordained by the United Church of Christ and is now ordained in the Sufi Ruhaniat International. She companions diverse people through pain and disconnection into an integrative and loving relationship with themselves and the Divine. She engages embodied spiritual practices, nervous system science, trauma-healing techniques, imaginal and nature elements. Learn more at www.DivineNatureTherapy.com.
"Heart-based Relational Forest Therapy is a research-based framework for supporting healing and wellness through immersion in forests and other natural environments. Forest Therapy is inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-Yoku, ‘forest bathing.’ Studies have demonstrated a wide array of health benefits, especially in the cardiovascular and immune systems, and improving mood and cognition. We build on those benefits and look beyond, to what happens when people remember that we are a part of nature, not separate from it, and are related to all other beings in fundamental ways." - Association of Nature and Forest Therapy. See more at ANFT.earth