​Janet Corso lives in the mid-Hudson Valley and has had several iterations. As an academic for 32 years, she taught philosophy at the Dominican Mt. St Mary College in Newburgh, NY.

In 1995 she founded (with other Dominican associates and sisters: Srs. Janet Marchesai, Pat Sullivan and Lorraine Ferguson) Sarabrae, a women’s spirituality center in Newburgh, which she oversaw for 9 years.

In 2003 became the director of Mariandale Retreat and Conference Center, where she served for the next thirteen years. While there she helped to found their Contemplative Formation Program, forming both lay and religious in the contemplative tradition.

She currently has both spiritual direction and supervision practices, and trains directors and supervisors in both the northeast and California.

She gives various retreats around the country and works frequently with various religious communities specifically in the area of aging contemplatively.