Susan Silhan
Susan Silhan is a Deaconess Home Missioner in connection with the United Methodist Church serving in Upper New York Conference. As a practicing Registered Nurse for 40 years her call to healing ministry has grown to include healing prayer, teaching Yoga for health, and Gestalt Pastoral Care Ministry. Susan currently serves as the Director for Healing and Wholeness Ministry at Selah and Fresh Start, her local church and owner operator of Selah Yoga Studio. She provides retreats, individual sessions in Yoga and GPC, and workshops for local churches and civic organizations. As an Ambassador for the local Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce Susan has most recently been facilitating meetings and organization of local non-profit agencies and civic groups. She is in awe of how God is at work uniting people in caring ministry and seeks to bring the healing work of GPC to those especially who serve others.
Susan is a graduate of Shenandoah University School of Nursing in 1977 and became a Certified Yoga Teacher in 2008. Her experience in Critical Care Nursing and in her faith in God helped her to know there was more to healing than treating only the body. Her faith journey drew her to begin GPC work in 2014. She was so blessed by the healing that took place for her as she was guided to explore through dream work and awareness of what was happening in her body with the very palpable presence of the Holy. This work so related to her yoga teaching that she felt drawn to learn and grow in GPC coursework and soon afterward began concurrent coursework for the Deaconess Home Missioner Order. Susan was consecrated as a Deaconess in 2018 and has recently become a GPC Minister in 2019. She looks forward to serving others as they walk this path of life toward wholeness.
Susan is married with two grown children, two grandchildren that she adores and two Boston Terriers. She finds peace through contemplative prayer, working in the garden, quilting and repurposing “junk” that she and her husband Joe find on road trips.