Online Retreats - At Your Own Place, At Your Own Pace
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Ignatian Spirituality is built on the idea of “Finding God in all things.” This webinar series will examine how that deep wisdom is revealing itself in exciting, fresh ways for the 21st century.
The series will be guided by the international workshop leader, Nita Neshama Ng. She has deep roots in the Ignatian tradition as well as broad experience in areas like yoga, art and interspirituality.
In this webinar, you will review the foundations of Ignatian Spirituality as a prelude to exploring new expressions of St. Ignatius' enduring vision. Participants will be asked to engage on a deep and personal level and discern. The webinar offers holistic, experiential spiritual formation – where your heart and soul and body are far more important to learning than your notebook.
Christians will benefit from Nita's warmth and her inclusive, contemplative teaching style, but so will all people who seek a deep connection with their Higher Power, however they name it, a connection that can lead to mystery, collaboration and peace.
Please note: All webinar sessions last one hour. They will be recorded so you can enjoy them at your convenience for at least a year after the course finishes. That way, you needn't worry if you miss a session. :) For more details click here. Or go directly to our shop and sign up now .
Simply put, a spiritual life-coach helps you find direction / purpose / meaning, by helping you listen to your own inner voice, through intuition and Divine guidance. It is wholistic (involves mind, body & soul), rooting in your daily life (balancing your work and personal life) and helps you find peace, love, joy and contentment. Only by helping yourself can you then help others do the same.
A spiritual director, or more popular term "life-coach" is a professionally trained companion and friend who listens to your deepest desires, or just a listener to all that is going on in your life at the present moment, and helps you heal, grow and achieve your deepest desires. A friend who walk with you, supporting you, encourages you and help you stay-on the journey to become to best YOU that you can be.
This journey begins with getting to know yourself, becoming aware of your habits, or patterns, and helping you to become more aware and awake. Life-coaching and spiritual direction is totally non-judgemental and you can come from any walk of life, any faith or cultural background. It is about the Real You.
I do this work using various wholistic tools including:
• Art / visuals. • Poetry
• Visualization/ imagination
• Understand our dreams
• Body / somatic awareness
• Journalling, writing, mind-maps
• Wisdom & scripture from different faith traditions
• Inspirational writing, eg. Rumi, Mary Oliver, Hildegard of Bingen, Teresa of Avila, Ignatius of Loyola & Oprah.
• and others...
Spiritual direction or coaching with Nita is currently available through Skype. For further information and to book your first Introductory session, please contact RunWaters@gmail.com
We are each invited into a personal relationship with God who made us uniquely. With one-on-one spiritual guidance, let us make time to listen more deeply to God & to our own inner voices, as we learn to walk more closely with Jesus. Let God's unconditional love transform us.
When you transform the soul, you transform thoughts, actions & behaviour.
And for those who are physically unable to travel to the retreat centre, you may do this retreat ONLINE through Skype or Gmail Hangout. All retreats are available in English, Cantonese, Mandarin & Bahasa.
Upcoming retreat dates in 2018: Feb 6-12, Mar 10-16, Apr 16-29, May 21-31 Jun 4-18, Jul 9-23, Aug 8-20 Mar 1-10 (Thu-Sat) – Kuala Lumpur [SG$110 / HK$650 per day (all inclusive - room, food, sessions)] Sept & Oct – Hong Kong [TBA] Retreat at Regent's Park London (non-residential) Mar 31-Apr 2 (Sat-Mon) May 4-7 (Sat -Mon) May 25-28 (Sat -Mon) [£58 per day (sessions only. Bring your own lunch)]
Online Retreats
Available via Skype, WhatsApp, WeChat or Gmail Hangout:
Dec 12-17 (Tue-Sun), Mar 1-10 (Thu-Sat)
Mar 31-Apr 2 (Sat-Mon), May 4-7 (Sat -Mon)
May 25-28 (Sat -Mon)
Please email RunWaters@gmail.com to register / inquire. Thank you
Contemplation Retreat - June 16-19, 2018 at Orval Monastery, Belgium
NIta Ng & Elizabeth Rutten-Ng are offering individual and group Contemplation Retreat in the ORVAL ABBEY in Belgium.
Why a contemplation retreat?
In our contemplation retreat, we encourage natural organic flow with self and with nature where we listen in silence by being; and flow with dance, movement, photography and/or art to which we are drawn to. We embrace the art to be, to listen and rest in the presence, in the here and now, by being, loving, being gentle, kind and compassionate towards self in contemplation.
Why in the Abbey?
The Abbey is a sacred space surrounded by Nature and run by the Trappist monks. The way the monks live gives us an insight to what it is to live in simplicity and how we can be our individual self and yet with each other such as during meals and in the office. Witnessing their way of being and life as a monk in the offices (prayers), opens our way of being in our own daily routine even when we swing ourselves back to our normal routine life. Given the society today, we are drown with information and hectic life-pace, it is essential to go away to reconnect with self, nature annually - a commitment to self-care and unconditional loving act for ourselves.
The Contemplation retreat is on 16 - 19 June, 2018, Saturday and Sunday.
We meet at the Abbey for lunch at 1pm om 16 June and leave after dinner, 6.30pm on 19 June. You can leave early or stay longer in the Abbey as you desire after.
We offer 2 days of an hour group retreats in the nature on 17 and 19 June after lunch. And also offering individual retreat, one to one with either Nita or Elizabeth.
Nita is taking 4 retreatants per day and Elizabeth, only 2 per day.
To check the availability of the rooms, please contact the Abbey personally to make your booking. The link is ORVAL ABBEY STAY. They are quite popular so please book early with them to secure the room. For more details, refer to the link. There is a bus stop near the abbey where you can alight and walk to the abbey. Do check with them how to get there if you are coming by plane, train or other means of transport.
If you are joining us in the group retreat ( please inform Elizabeth) or like to have personal retreat, contact either of us for arrangements. The suggested love offering is SG$200 or 125 euro per session.
We look forward to connecting with you in the contemplation retreat in the Abbey.
Praying Through Art Retreat (TBA)
An invitation to make art as a means of finding God & our loved (true) self. To not only PRAY but also PLAY with God.
This is not an art "class" but rather a space to use colours & images in a heart & soul filled conversation with God. No previous art experience needed. Just an open mind & heart.
Retreatants are invited to freely commune with God through all forms of artistic expressions. You will meet with retreat presenter only once a day, the rest of the time you are free to do whatever you & God desire to do together - paint, draw, sing or dance!
Participants can choose to come for one day or both days. Pls let us know when you register.
Decluttering - Spring Cleaning as Spiritual Healing
30 Day Retreat (Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola)
(Pre-requisite: must do a 6-8 day retreat with Nita to discern if you are called to this)
30-Day Retreat in Daily Life in 3 parts: Part 1: 10-weeks retreat in daily life (2018 now open for enquiry)
Spiritual and Compassionate Listening Course Pre-requisite: 6-8 day discernment retreat & 30-day Spiritual Exercises with Nita to clearly discern if you are called to this ministry.
Please contact us at SCStAnne@ gmail.com to find out more.
Please register latest 1 month before the retreat.
Testimonies:
Elizabeth Rutten-Ng, Netherlands
Through 35-days of both online and residential retreat, Elizabeth went from a space of hurt, fragmentation of Self who left her family home, former work, and even the country she was born in TO BE-coming a healed, whole person. A beautiful woman who knows who she is, who knows God's LOVE, an empowered, strong woman who now brings Love & Light to others as well.
The experience of 2 weeks stay-in silent retreat was totally different from the retreat in daily life before the stay-in one, in terms of the experience of loneliness, as well as the anxiety brought by the “too-much” time to be spent with God alone and having nothing to do. Looking back, such loneliness (or solitude) is a must to clear all the obstacles in my heart in order to create a sacred place for meeting with God.
I was more open and my senses were sharper when I was forced to be alone; I can see more carefully, listen more closely, feel more deeply towards myself, the Divine and the outside world.
Loving feeling
I was frightened by Jesus’ direct expression of craze and passionate love like young lovers, so full of energy and zest. Through love song and images, I was overwhelmed by and infused in the loving feeling, being loved, adored, appreciated and treasured as if I was His only love. The love burnt through days and it eventually turns into a gentle and long lasting flame of love.
I will never forget Jesus’ craze love for sure but His gentle love would be enough for me to recognize Him through such loving feeling.
Rich Prayer
Through contemplative prayer on the Gospel, I was led by the Spirit to face my anger towards the Father and those political leaders in connection with all the sufferings and tragedies in the world. The Spirit helps me to see sufferings with a different angle, in particular to understand the Father’s heart more, I was moved by the union of the Trinity and the love between the Father and the Son.
Through drawing from Ignatius, I was attracted to “becoming a child”, to let God take my hands to explore, to look at the world like a child, to live like a child. Through drawing, I am more ready to “unlearn” and put down my own mindset and framework as I can never understand life “logically”. By the end of retreat, I co-created with the Spirit on a painting named “Dance of the Spirit”, the strokes was like flame, like dance, like movement, like the dress of the spinning Flamingo dancers, so full of life, love and energy.
The icon of “Jesus My Companion” was inductive to my prayer. It helps me to entering into the sacred space to meet with Jesus. The workshop on Icon Writing helped me to recognize Jesus not by His face but the loving feeling and His radiant light.
After the Retreat
The experience of the retreat was very rich and some of it was flashed back from time to time. Among them, the feelings and drawings are deeply imprinted in the heart and I do need to review my journal for other inspiration, thinking and fragments.
