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    • About Susannah
    • The Backstory of art + soul
    • art + soul Testimonials
  • EVENTS
    • Spiritual Imagination for Creatives
    • Wild Edges: Poetics of Sorrow
    • You Do Not Have to be Good: Poetics of Self-Blessing
    • Bones and Seeds: Engaging Spiritual Imagination Retreat
  • Spiritual Companioning
  • CREATIVE PROCESS
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    • Contemporary Icons
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Bones and Seeds: Engaging Spiritual Imagination 
October 19-22, 2023
Ferry Beach Conference Center, Saco, Maine

We have many ways of knowing within our very being.
 Spirituality nurtures the knowing and practice of presence, connection, wholeness.
Imagination invites us into deep inner wells and expanded ways of seeing and being.

This time away by the ocean, as the fall leaves teach us how to be fluent, is an invitation to explore the many languages your soul speaks, remembering that it is multi-lingual and very wise.
We will nurture both the bones of our sacred stories and plant seeds of deeper in-sight and ways of encountering the sacred,

In this retreat we will:
-experiment playfully and nonjudgmentally with a wide variety of soul languages through word, body, creative expression, voice, breath, contemplative spiritual practices, literature and storytelling
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 -return to your body lovingly, in wonder and gratitude
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-rediscover your senses and your sensuality
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-turn inward again and listen for your deep longings
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-join a gathering of others yearning to slow time and expand their spiritual imagination

Your intrepid guides for this adventure into your spiritual imagination are Susannah Crolius and Marya Lowry.
Our time together will be held both purposefully and loosely,
with plenty of time for personal reflection and renewal.
You do not need to be "arty," "creative," or "spiritual" in any way to find this time meaningful and renewing.

Cost:$540
includes
4-day Program ($180)(in oceanfront building!)
3 nights lodging, private room, shared bathrooms ($225)
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 9 meals (Thursday evening through Sunday lunch) ($135)
private beach
Total: $540


To Register for this workshop, you will be directed to the Ferry Beach website. Click HERE to register and to book your accommodations and meals. 

Please note: as a participant, you do NOT have to pay an individual yearly membership fee to Ferry Beach. The cost of this has been included in the retreat cost.

Ferry Beach Conference Center is located on the Southern coast of Maine in Saco. It is a relaxed 32-acre beach-front campus 
www.ferrybeach.org/.  Check out lovely Quillen Hall where we will lodge and meet HERE. There are several rooms with Queen beds. You will need to register directly with Ferry Beach to book this retreat, lodging and meals: https://www.ferrybeach.org/register.html

MEET YOUR FACILITATORS

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For over forty years Marya Lowry has taught and lead workshops for actors, singers, teachers and business professionals across Europe, including the UK, France, Greece, Cyprus, Poland, and Italy, as well as in Canada and the U.S.
Grounded in solid research of global vocal lamentation and keening practices, she is a pioneer in vocal lamentation
and is the creator of “The Unboundaried Voice: from Laughter to Lament” for theatre research and performance, and
personal and professional application. As an actor, Marya had performed in NYC, Boston, across the U.S. an internationally. She is a founding member and resident actor with Boston’s Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Professor
Emerita at Brandeis University, and a spiritual mentor to incarcerated women since 2002.
http://roy-hart-theatre.com/teachers/marya-lowry/
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https://www.actorsshakespeareproject.org/resident-acting-co/
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Susannah Crolius,
 M. Div.
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she/her) is a spiritual director, workshop/retreat leader, found object artist and writer deeply interested in cultivating Spiritual Imagination. Susannah has membership in Spiritual Directors International, International Expressive Arts Therapy Association and is a certified Spiritual Literacy facilitator through the organization Spirituality & Practice. In the spirit of imagination, Susannah was a co-creator at the 2023 Wild Goose Festival in Harmony, North Carolina, offering an interactive art installation called the Relic-Query.





  © 2018, Susannah Crolius, Art and Soul
  • Welcome
    • About Susannah
    • The Backstory of art + soul
    • art + soul Testimonials
  • EVENTS
    • Spiritual Imagination for Creatives
    • Wild Edges: Poetics of Sorrow
    • You Do Not Have to be Good: Poetics of Self-Blessing
    • Bones and Seeds: Engaging Spiritual Imagination Retreat
  • Spiritual Companioning
  • CREATIVE PROCESS
    • Altars By Susannah
    • Contemporary Icons
    • Past Installations
  • SUPPORTING
  • Connecting