Contemplative Retreat for Women 2026
With Barb Cathey, Deborah DeManno, Jomarie Zielke, CSA, Patti Essig and Susan Seeby, CSA
July 19 - 25, 2026
This silent retreat for women will call together wisdom from many of the world’s spiritual resources to renew, enrich, and inspire us to be an awakened people in a world that needs our love and action.
You are invited to a week of inner discovery and replenishment through morning reflection, evening rituals, one-on-one spiritual guidance, embodied prayer, gentle yoga, centering prayer, and abundant time for silent reflection and exploration of Siena’s beauty and resources.
During registration you will be asked to register for one of the available spiritual guides who will accompany you throughout the retreat. If your first choice for spiritual guide is no longer available when you go to register, please pick a different spiritual guide. In the next portion of registration there will be a space to put your first choice in if you would like to be added to the waiting list for that guide. We will do our very best to honor these preferences.
About the Facilitators
Barb Cathey
Barbara Cathey is a Presbyterian minister, spiritual director, retreat leader, wife, mother of two children, and proud grandmother of a delightful toddler. She experiences all life as Spirit-infused and filled with abundant grace.
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Deborah DeManno
Deborah DeManno is a spiritual guide, retreat facilitator, amateur photographer, and retired research scientist with a PhD in biology. She is a graduate of Siena Retreat Center’s Spiritual Guidance Training Program.
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Jomarie Zielke, CSA
Jomarie Zielke, CSA, is a sister of St. Agnes of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Her background includes nursing education and clinical nursing, including maternal/child care in Nicaragua. Jomarie is a graduate of Siena Retreat Center’s Spiritual Guidance Training Program. She assisted in starting one-on-one spirituality services at CORE-el Centro, a non-profit organization offering affordable wellness services […]
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Patti Essig
Patti Essig is a spiritual guide, yoga instructor, and Veriditas Certified Labyrinth Facilitator. She operates Yoga Energy Studio and is a practitioner of Soaring Crane QiGong.
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Susan Seeby, CSA
Susan Seeby, CSA, is a spiritual guide and retreat facilitator who focuses on accompanying the seeker in deep listening and discerning the movement of the Spirit within. She holds a masters’ degree in Christian Spirituality, with a Certificate in Spiritual Direction, from Creighton University. Her twenty years as a Spiritual Guide have included being on […]
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