Summer Serenity Wellness Retreat

Share in a day of health and wellness at our Annual Wellness Retreat Day!

Designed to introduce women to unique coping strategies they might not have previously used, we have brought together credible and compassionate professionals to lead each of the workshops. Following a healthy lunch, sit quietly or stroll around and enjoy the beauty of Our Lady of Grace.

​This program is offered FREE OF CHARGE. Please go to Lean On Me and select your workshop preferences.

Arrival begins promptly at 9:00 am.

Workshop Descriptions

Ask a Health Coach - MaryAnn Jones HHC, Founder of Thrive Naturally

Join MaryAnn for a Q&A session where you will get answers to specific health and wellness questions including: How do I find hidden soy in my diet? Which supplements reduce my risk of recurrence? Do I really need to exercise? What is a paraben?

Essential Oils for Supportive Care - Karan Kaelin, CSJ

​​High quality plant oils are nature’s pharmacy for supporting health and healing. We learn to use oils safely, where to store them, how to blend, and what oils to choose for specific issues such as ability to focus, concentration, and memory, lessening if anxiety/depression, reducing nausea, and infections.

Unleash Your Brilliance: The Power of Your Thoughts. - Amy Elias MS

Opening the doors to bring wholeness back to this tribe of sisters. It begin with us. Real Recognize Real Authenticity. This mini workshop with help you connect, create & strategize with your own personal brand. Tap in so you can be authentic you wherever you go-inside your relationship with yourself, another, and the outside world.​ Be You. Love Life. Change the World. You can be the authentic you.

Joyce Law, Art Therapist, ATR-BC, LCAT Healing Through the Art with Mandala

In this workshop, we will be exploring the process if healing through creating your own mandalas. This activity will tap into your conscious and subconscious mind. No art experience needed for this therapeutic process.

T'ai Chi Chih - Karen Kaelin MS, MA, CHC Accredited Teacher of Tai Chi Chih

T’ai Chi Chin differs from T’ai Chi Chuan (the most commonly taught form).

Tai Chi Chih, a meditation in motion that leads us into the quiet center of ourselves through gentle movements that can be done standing or seated. This is a peaceful, relaxing, and energy awakening experience that can be done at your own pace.


Meditation for Mind and Heart – Peggy Adair, RYT 


Experience simple and practical types of meditation, which will slow down the chatter in your head, bring clarity of mind and release stress. You will experience the pre- sent moment and open to the wisdom and compassion of your heart. You will feel more ease and peace while enhancing your health and well-being.



Yoga for Healing and Wholeness – Peggy Adair, RYT (Yoga Teacher)


Align with a unique source of healing power through the practice of yoga and breath work.  When carefully practiced, you will tap into and draw from universal, therapeutic energy and remember your inherent wholeness. Bring yoga mat if you have one!



The Vitamin G Difference - Lorraine Miller (Inspirational Gratitude Writer, Speaker, and Coach)
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Gratitude & Healing: Stress is an epidemic these days. It not only takes a toll on our health, it can cause us to feel overwhelmed, exhausted and depressed on a daily basis. Stress drains our happiness. A grow.ing area of research shows that focusing on what you are grateful for can help boost the immune system and lower stress in the body, which is essential for healing. Yu will learn a five minute gratitude practice you can follow every day.

“Vitamin G” nourishes body, mind and spirit.



Music and Rhythm - Pamela Carlton MS, MT-BC​


Come join us for interactive therapeutic group drumming experience, as we connect with other women in music and rhythm. Explore your feelings in a supportive environment, on a drum, tambourine, and other interesting instruments! Returning and new participants welcomed—no musical experience necessary!

Funded through the generosity of the

Manhasset Women's Coalition Against Breast Cancer Outreach Program and MWCABC Junior Coalition and LI 2 Day Walk