Coming in February

Evening Contemplative Prayer
First and third Tuesdays beginning February 7
5:30  – 6:30 PM
Investment: Free-will offering
Evening contemplative prayer is an opportunity for people to experience prayerful silence in community with others. You may join us at anytime. For more information or to register, contact Barb Kruse at bkruse@fspa.org or 791-5612 or Mary Kathryn Fogarty at mfogarty@fspa.org or 791-5600.

Great Decisions
Eight Tuesdays, February 7 – March 27
Facilitators: Carol Kratz, Dorothy Lenard and Bobby Schmidt
Investment: $30 for individual, $40 for two. Includes manual. Light refreshments provided.
What role does our spirituality have in helping us make decisions related to the main issues facing our global family? Does it call for us to explore our personal values and practices in an informed manner? Living in our world is getting more and more complex, with globalization bringing us both opportunities and challenges. If you are interested in expanding your knowledge of international relations and engaging in active discussion of crucial global issues, please join our Great Decisions discussion group. In this national program, we will meet weekly to discuss eight important foreign policy topics for 2012. Go to www.fpa.org and read about Great Decisions.
Carol Kratz is a physician assistant at Gundersen Lutheran in family medicine. Her interest in travel and the global community led her to first participate in Great Decisions groups over 25 years ago. She looks forward to learning from all of you.
Dorothy Lenard is an administrator for the Natural Sciences and Mathematics Division at Viterbo University where she also teaches as an adjunct in the religious studies department. She currently has two sons serving in the military and is very interested in studying and discussing with others issues related to our international family.Bobby Schmidt is well known in the community for his family’s business, Schmidty’s. He has also been an avid marathon runner which has taken him around the globe. His interest in being a positive and informed member of the community, during difficult times, drew him to Great Decisions

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Married Couples’ Retreat
Saturday, February 11                        3:00 – 8:00 PM
Facilitators: Linda Kerrigan and Barb Kruse
Investment: $75/couple
Make Valentine’s Day, 2012, a truly special occasion for you and your spouse by attending our 6th annual married couples’ retreat—designed for just the two of you to celebrate your lives together. Highlights include a specially prepared dinner, one-to-one reflection /discussion time with spouse and story sharing by presenter couples. Bring your wedding photo for adding to the environment. Register early as this popular event fills quickly and is limited to the first 18 couples.

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The Gentle Path of Self-Care and Unconditional Love: Responding Tenderly to Your Heart’s Cry for Compassion
Friday, February 17 (7:00 – 9:00 PM) and
Saturday, February 18 (9:00 AM – 4:00 PM)
Presenter: Gary Egeberg
Investment: $95 includes lunch. Limited bedrooms available at $42/night.
Many of us are chronically hard on ourselves and hold impossible—not to mention inhumane—expectations and standards we can never meet. Some of us have learned and mastered the harshest self-talk imaginable and can’t seem to treat ourselves gently, especially when we are hurting or going through a difficult time in life. When stressed, we may reject our bodies, abandon ourselves emotionally, focus relentlessly on our real and perceived faults and failings, and dislikes—sometimes even to the point of despising—our very being and personhood. Discover how to dismantle ‘learned heartlessness’ and treat yourself with the same kindness you so readily extend to others.               
It’s never too late to come home to unconditional love within and respond tenderly to the cries and yearnings of your own hurting heart!

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Vinyasa Yoga

Session two: Six Mondays, February 20– March 26

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Session two: Six Wednesdays, February 22 – March 28

5:30 – 6:30 Pm

Instructor: Bernice Olson–Pollack, m s

Investment: $42 for one session or $65 for Monday and Wednesday.

$10 reserves a place.

“Vinyasa” is a form of Hatha yoga that brings together a series of flowing movements that are blended with mindful breathing.  Novice participants are welcome.  Please wear loose, comfortable clothing. Class size is limited to 20 people.

Golden Yoga

Session two: Six Tuesdays, February 21 – March 27

11:15 a m – 12:00 Pm

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Session two: Six Thursdays, February 23 – March 29

3:30 – 4:30 Pm

Instructor: Bernice Olson–Pollack, m s

Investment: $40/Tuesday sessions or $42/Thursday sessions

Chair and standing postures will be provided Tuesdays. Moving

down to the floor is offered on Thursdays. Golden yoga is a gentle blend of yoga and stretching that modifies traditional poses with the use of a chair. It is a safe approach to help you improve your spinal alignment, flexibility, strength and balance (physical, mental and spiritual). This class is appropriate for beginners of all ages.  Please wear loose–fitting clothing. Class size is limited to 20 people

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Exploring the Lenten Gospels
Thursdays, February 23 – March 29                        5:30 – 6:30 PM
Presenter: John McHugh
Investment: $49/series; $7/session
 “It’s all Greek to me” is a phrase that can certainly apply to a reading of the Gospels. Join John McHugh as he shares scriptural insights into the Gospels proclaimed each Sunday in Lent. Time will be spent diving into the meaning behind the scriptural texts by exploring nuances in the original Greek, cultural issues from the time of Jesus and struggles for the early Church. These insights aim to help with personal prayer and reflection for those of us hearing the Gospels in the 21st century.

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Small Gestures: Awaken to Your Life a Moment at a Time

Rescheduled!

Friday, February 24 (7:00 – 9:00 PM) and Saturday, February 25 (9:00 AM – 4:00 PM)
Facilitators: Tom Roberts, LCSW
Investment:$95 includes Saturday lunch. Limited bedrooms at $42/night.
This weekend journey into the practice of small gestures will provide you with the opportunity to deepen your journey towards wholeness. Embracing our life as it is unfolding eliminates the need to overlay our experiences with the ways we want things to be: one great source of our suffering. You will work with the ways you keep yourself stuck in the confusion and suffering of your spinning minds, emotions, and fears, thus enabling you to find your path toward greater calm, peace, and discernment.
This retreat will culminate with creating you own personal mindful living agreement that will serve to keep you actively involved in bringing greater clarity, purpose and discernment to your life.

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Reclaim Your Intuition
Saturday, February 25                        9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Jean Kasparbauer, FSPA
Investment: $65 includes lunch
For anyone interested in accessing intuition for self-care and personal growth. No background required. Experienced are also welcome. This experiential and interactive workshop will explore past experiences where intuition may have been functioning.

• Learn a five-step method so you can access your own intuitive information.
• Practice specific skills for enhancing your own intuition.
• Discover ways to remove blocks that inhibit fuller exercise of intuition in your daily living.
• Learn about the potential you have to read your own psychic energy, including a brief reference to auras and the chakra system.
• Leave with suggestions for fostering your intuition at home.

Jean Kasparbauer, FSPA, is a spiritual director. She received her training through the Franciscan Spirituality Center, La Crosse, WI. Her education includes master’s degrees in chemistry and in pastoral counseling. She spent 25 years as a pastoral minister in Catholic parishes and is now a practitioner of Intuitive Soulwork.

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