Personal Growth

College campusHere are several places to visit when you need restoration, inspiration, and enjoyment. Discover a peaceful refuge promoting personal growth, spiritual enlightenment and journeys of self-discovery. Escape your rushed environment. Relax, rejuvenate, and feel at home as you connect with our natural scenic splendor. Wellness" is our preferred state of being, after all.
Personal Growth
Linwood Spiritual Center
Description: Overlooking the Hudson River, programs offered include silent, 8 day Ignatian Directed/Guided retreats; weekend retreats and workshops; retreats for men and women in 12 Step Programs; the Spiritual Exercises in Everyday Life and on-going spiritual direction. Private retreatants welcome, as well as use of Conference Room for day groups. (35 individual rooms, chapel, library, hermitage, pavilion and swimming pool.)
Location: 50 Linwood Road, Rhinebeck
Hours: Year round
Contact: 845-876-4178 (X301) or email: rboyle@st-ursula.org
URL: LinwoodSpiritualctr.org
Codes: A, G
Mount Alvernia Retreat Center
Description: Spiritual retreat center offering retreats and workshops for groups and individuals throughout the year. Retreat and workshop subjects include—but are not limited to—healing for the physically ill, spiritual, marriage enrichment, addictions, and abuse.
Location:158 Delavergne Avenue, Wappingers Falls
Hours: Year round
Contact: 845-297-5706 or email: mtalverniarh@optonline.net

URL: www.mtalvernia.org
Codes: A, G, R

Omega Institute for Holistic Studies
Description: A nonprofit, educational retreat center, offers workshops, professional trainings, and wellness vacations. Accommodations on campus, include tent spaces, tent cabins as well as single and shared lodging rooms. Wellness Center offers massage, facials, state-of-the art body work, and nutritional health consultations. Free use of the campus library, sauna, Sanctuary, tennis courts, basketball court, woodland trails, beautiful gardens, Wi-Fi internet access in the Omega Café, lake swimming, kayaking and canoeing; tours year-round for Omega Center for Sustainable Living (OCSL), an award winning environmental education center and water reclamation facility. April–Oct.
Location: 150 Lake Dr., Rhinebeck
Hours: April-Oct.
Contact: 845/266-4444 or 800/944-1001
URL: eomega.org
Codes: A, D, G, H

World Peace Sanctuary
Description: The Sanctuary is the international home of the Peace Pole Project. Picnic Area, Peace Pole Path, Globe Sculpture and Black Walnut Grove are just some of the sites to experience on 154 acres. Visitors always welcome. Annual "A Call To Peace" event held second Saturday in August. May Peace Prevail On Earth.
Location: 26 Benton Road, Wassaic
Hours: all year
Contact: 845/877-6093 or Email info@worldpeace.org

URL: www.worldpeace.org
Codes: D, F, G, H, T

 


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