At a glance:
- Worthiness & Time: March 15, 2025 (Daylong – New Orleans)
- Meditation Retreat: March 20-30 (See schedule below! – New Orleans)
- Working with Our Inner Parts for Personal Healing: Parts: April 10-13, 2025 (3-night – Ponchatoula)
- Cultivating Joy: June 21, 2025 (Daylong – New Orleans)
- Three Centered Awareness Saturday, September 13 (Daylong – New Orleans)
- Worthiness & Time: October 2-5, 2025 (3-night – Ponchatoula)
- Turning Inward: A Solstice/Advent Retreat December 6, 2025 (Daylong – New Orleans)
Overnight Retreats 2025
All overnight retreats will be facilitated by AnnaMaria Signorelli, LCSW-BACS. AnnaMaria began facilitating spiritual and organizational retreats over 30 years ago. She will share insights and techniques developed throughout her many years of work as a psychotherapist and will particularly draw from the successes and explorations of her popular and long standing Joy groups, Parts Retreats and Renewal Retreats. Rebecca Baas, LCSW will assist with facilitation.
All 2024 and 2025 overnight retreats will be held at Rosaryville Retreat Center in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, about 50 miles outside of New Orleans. The center’s beautiful grounds are located on 50 manicured acres of a 1700-acre tract. There are many quiet places for reflection, including a large pond and historic cemetery. Check out http://rosaryvillela.net/ for more information on the center and grounds. This center offers private rooms.
The cost of the retreat includes 11 hours of intensive therapeutic experience including large and small group activities and training, lodging, and 6 meals beginning with Friday evening supper and ending after lunch on Sunday. There will also be time for personal reflection and movement The schedule of these PRIMARILY SILENT retreats will include time for stillness and deep personal reflection, movement, heart practices, small group discussion, and training in tools for daily life.
Important: All retreats will begin with registration between 3:00 and 3:30 pm on the first day with the opening circle at 4:15 and conclude Sunday after lunch.
11 CEUs will be offered via the Louisiana Board of Social Work Examiners for all overnight retreats.
The cost for all 2025 3-night retreats is $ 995 which includes the retreat program, 3 nights lodging in a private bedroom, shared (or private) bath, and nine meals and snacks. There are a limited number of sliding scale slots available for each overnight retreat which should be requested at the time of registration.
To sign up, please email Rebecca Baas, rbaaslcsw@gmail.com
Working with Our Inner Parts for Personal Healing
A three-night residential retreat
Thursday, April 10 through Sunday, April 13, 2025
Rosaryville Retreat Center
Parts work is a modality of identifying and giving a voice to subpersonalities that are part of us. This process can resolve internal conflicts, free blocked energy sources, and establish an inner harmonious system. Many have found this type of in-depth personal work to be healing in profound ways. This opportunity is by invitation only and is appropriate for both those new to parts work and those familiar with the work. This retreat tends to fill quickly so register early to insure your place.
Worthiness & Time: A Residential Retreat
A three-night residential retreat
Thursday, October 2 ~ Sunday, October 5, 2025
Rosaryville Retreat Center
To truly reach the next level of healing, it’s essential to cultivate a deep sense of self-worth. When our sense of worthiness is diminished, it often shows up in how we manage our time ~~ do we overschedule? procrastinate? spend time doing things that we do not want to do?
Join us for a transformative overnight retreat, designed to help you step away from the busyness of life and reconnect with what truly matters. In a beautiful, quiet setting, you’ll have the space to ask yourself: “Where does my daily life align with my deepest values and desires, and where does it not?” We will engage in practices to help us deepen our own sense of worthiness, the foundation for our growth and healing. We’ll explore techniques to cultivate a more peaceful, positive relationship with time and discuss tools to help you create a more intentional life—one where your time is spent nurturing what truly feeds your heart.
This retreat will be facilitated by AnnaMaria Signorelli, LCSW-BACS, with assistance from Rebecca Baas, LCSW. It will begin promptly at 4:15 (with registration from 3:00-3:45) on Thursday, 10/2 and end after lunch on Sunday, 10/5. Rosaryville Retreat Center is located on 50 acres in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. See their website for more details at http://www.rosaryvillela.net
The cost for all 2025 3-night retreats is $ 995 which includes the retreat program, 3 nights lodging in a private bedroom, shared (or private) bath, and nine meals and snacks.
It also includes 11 continuing education credits (including 3 ethics hours) for mental health professionals (through LABSWE). The retreat program consists of 11 hours of intensive therapeutic experience, (including teaching content and small group activities), optional yoga and times for personal space and reflection. For more details or to register, please contact Rebecca at rbaaslcsw@gmail.com
There are a limited number of sliding fee scale spots-please inquire if needed at registration. After registration fills, we will maintain a waiting list.
Daylong Retreats 2025
Each daylong retreat will be held from 9 am to 3:30 pm and will be facilitated by Anna Maria Signorelli and held in the studio at the Amma Center (unless otherwise noted.) The retreats are primarily silent days that will allow participants to reconnect with their deepest selves, share time for stillness and personal reflection, and engage in small group discussion. We will explore practices related to the topic of the retreat. Cost: $110 ($100 to $75 sliding scale available). Text 504.813.9544 with questions.
To reserve your place, use the links below (click the 9:00 button) and pay a $25 non-refundable deposit via check, cash or venmo.
Worthiness & Time
Saturday, March 15, 2025
https://TheAmmaCenter.as.me/SignupTimeDaylongRetreat
Cultivating Joy
Saturday, June 21, 2025
https://TheAmmaCenter.as.me/SignupJoyDaylongRetreat
Three Centered Awareness
Saturday, September 13, 2025
https://TheAmmaCenter.as.me/Signup3CDaylongRetreat
Turning Inward: A Solstice/Advent Retreat
Saturday, December 6, 2025
https://TheAmmaCenter.as.me/DecemberDLRsignup
Additional Offerings
2025
Meditation Retreat
A Sandwich Retreat: Two weekends of meditation with a week of daily practice in between
Led by Michael Freeman of Southwest Sangha
Friday, March 21 – Sunday, March 30, 2025
This meditation retreat will include instruction, periods of silent meditation, time for silent movement such as walking, Qi Gong, Tai Chi, et cetera. It is designed so that we may experience intensive practice as well as support for integrating practice into daily life. Participants may join as many or as few of sessions over the 10 day period as time permits.
Beginners as well as advanced practitioners are welcome.
This retreat is offered free of charge. A basket will be available for those who would like to practice dana (generosity) as a way of supporting continuing meditation programs.
Michael Freeman has been practicing and teaching mindfulness in various forms for nearly 40 years. He is a founder of Southwest Sangha where he has been providing spiritual direction at for 23 years.
Michael has taught at the Amma Center in New Orleans numerous times since inception in 2002.
You are invited to participate in all or any part of this retreat although attendance at the opening, Friday, March 21 at 6:30 is important but not necessary in order to get oriented to the retreat.
SCHEDULE
Friday, March 21 – Sunday, March 30, 2025
Friday, March 21 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Introduction, Instruction & Practice
Saturday, March 22 9 am to 5 pm Day of practice beginning with Tai Chi / Qi Gong 11 am & 4 pm Group check in’s / Group interviews 12:30 Lunch – bring your own lunch
Sunday, March 23 9 am to noon Half day of practice 11 am Group check in
Monday, March 24 – Friday, March 28 3 practice periods per day each day 7:30 – 8:30 am 12 to 1 pm 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 29 9 am to 5 pm Day of practice 11 am & 4 pm Group check in’s / Group interviews 12:30 Lunch – bring your own lunch
Sunday, March 30 9 am to noon End of retreat Half day of practice 11 am Group check in
Retreat will be held at the Watercourse Way Tai Chi & Qi Gong Studio 432 N. Anthony Street, Suite 302, New Orleans, LA 70119. RSVPs are not required for the retreat.
Contact Marie at marietoneil@gmail.com or 504-444-4344 if you have any questions.
To reach Michael beginning March 20th for questions or to set up a personal interview, call 916-303-0730.
Other questions? You can text AnnaMaria at 504-813-9544.