Events Calendar for Wilbur Hot Springs
Here's an overview of upcoming events at Wilbur Hot Springs.
Please note: Workshop costs below do not include accommodations, meals,
or taxes, unless so indicated.
Overview of Events for 2010 (Find event descriptions in full below)
Guest Chef Weekend -
September 24-26 with chef Marion Cascio
Autumn Reflection & Renewal Yoga Retreat - Sept
24-26 with Christy Brown
Guest Chef Weekend -
October 15-17 with chef Charlie Cascio
Sarana Miller Yoga - October 15-17
Writing Workshop - November 5-7 with Clive Matson
Upcoming Guest Chef Weekends
While guests traditionally enjoy cooking their own meals in Wilbur's
professionally equipped, spacious kitchen year 'round, Wilbur also periodically
offers several Guest Chef Weekends. Using local
organic produce, dairy, and fish or poultry, our accomplished guest chefs prepare
inspiring, delicious, and healthy meals for Friday dinner through Sunday brunch.
Guest Chef Dates for 2010:
September 24-26 with chef Marion Cascio
October 15-17 with chef Charlie Cascio
November 12-14 with chef Charlie Cascio
December 30-January 1st with chef Charlie Cascio
Cost: $150 per person. This price includes 5 delicious, healthy, gourmet,
buffet style meals.
Marion Cascio - September 24-26, 2010
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Marion
Cascio
Marion comes from a family of cooks
and has been involved with restaurants since childhood.
She studied classical culinary arts in Germany for
five years and has cooked in many famous restaurants
and spas. Marion was a staff cook at Esalen for five
years where she learned ethnic cooking techniques
and fell in love with cooking from the garden.
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Autumn Reflection & Renewal Yoga Retreat -
Sept 24-26, 2010
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Christy
Brown Yoga
Deepen your yoga and meditation
practice, as well as reflecting on and renewing intentions. Join
Christy and like-minded yogis for a weekend of soaking, serenity
and deep rejuvenation of the body, mind and spirit.
- Gentle vinyasa, yin yoga, meditation and pranayama with Christy,
on Wilbur's open-air hillside yoga platform
- Walking meditation amidst the autumn rolling hills
- Soak in Wilbur's delightful, therapeutic
mineral baths
- Free time for soaking, reading, writing, reflecting, massage, hiking
- Live music and chanting with Perry Dexter
- Optional writing sessions on intentions, reflection and renewal with Joslyn
Hamilton, writer and owner of Outside Eye Consulting
- Guest Chef Weekend with organic cuisine by Marion
Cascio
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Lodging
space is limited -- early registration is recommended. Pre-booking massage
is also recommended, as Wilbur has limited numbers of therapists
on site. Vegan/vegaretarian option available. All levels are welcome.
Dates & Times: September 24-26
Cost: $515 (double-occupancy) - $475 (bunk) or $415
(camping)
For more information about this retreat, visit Christy's
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Guest Chef Weekend with Charlie Cascio - October 15-17, 2010
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Charlie
Cascio
Charlie has cooked throughout Europe, including Germany, France, Belgium, and Spain. He has worked as a personal private chef and has been head chef for numerous restaurants. Charlie has taught natural food cooking seminars to individuals, restaurants, and health professionals throughout Europe and the United States. He continues to cook for large conventions to develop natural health food products and recipes, and to teach courses on cooking, including cooking with raw foods.
Charlie worked as the head chef and kitchen manager for the Esalen Institute, in Big Sur, California from 1998 through 2004 and continues to work for Esalen as a consultant and instructor. He lives on the Northern California Coast on a self-sustaining organic farm where he raises his own vegetables, chickens, goats, and honeybees and makes his own cheeses and olive oil.
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Sarana Miller Yoga Retreat -
October 15-17, 2010
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Sarana Miller Yoga Retreat
Please join us for a weekend of breath, chanting, asana and soaking in the healing mineral waters of Wilbur. Come strengthen your practice while relaxing and rejuvenating your body and mind. We'll step back from our daily routines and retreat to this sacred land, home to healing waters that have been used for renewal for centuries.
Students will practice yoga on Wilbur's beautiful yoga deck, cradled in nature with the sounds the Wilbur creek. We will begin each day with chanting and pranayama, followed by breakfast and then an active morning session. In the afternoon there will be time for bathing, hiking, massage and personal time. We will gather in the late afternoon for a restorative session followed by a delicious dinner.
Visit Sarana's website: www.saranayoga.com
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Come and join us for a retreat that will invigorate your body, renew your spirits, and quiet your mind.
Weekend includes:
• 5 organic meals with Guest Chef Charlie Cascio
• Yoga sessions
• 2 nights accommodations (including use of baths, sauna and grounds)
Cost: Private room per person - $525
Bunk: per person - $485
Camping: per person - $425
Enrollment is limited. Please sign up as soon as possible to reserve your space. Contact Sarana Miller at 510-502-9642, or by email at sarana@mac.com.
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Meditation with Tibetan Bowls & Tarot
Consultation - Jacqueline Lasahn
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Jacqueline
Lasahn is a storyteller of the cosmic currents, a wisdom
guide and compassionate ally at the crossroads of inquiry. Intuitive
astrologer, minister and officiant for wedding, blessing and memorial
services. Offering tarot consultation and meditations with Tibetan
bowls at Wilbur. More information at Astrospirit.com
Tarot Consultation with Jacqueline
Tarot is a ceremonial tool of divination that can target specific questions or
address the larger picture. The evocative images reveal the designs of your life
stories. Each card turns a page and offers new possibilities. Mystery is distilled
into a greater understanding of your life situation. The reading is an invocation
of empowerment of choice. The visual medium of the tarot cards translate into
an alchemy of the heart.
Dates: tba
Cost: $65 per person
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Meditation with Tibetan Bowls
Simple meditation focusing on breath and sound. We'll meet in the Library.
Dates & Times: tba
Complimentary for all guests
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Writing Workshop November 5-7, 2010 With Clive
Matson
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Clive
Matson
Join us for a writing workshop with Clive Matson entitled "Writing
and Spiritual Awakening." Matson, author, poet, story writer,
essayist, and playwright, has led more than 3,000 workshops nationwide.
Originally from an avocado farm in Southern California, Matson traveled
to New York City to join the Beats. His writing received recognition
after 9/11, earning the 2003 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles National Literary
Award.
For more information on this workshop, contact Clive at 510-654-6495,
or visit his website, www.matsonpoet.com.
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The writing retreat will have an introductory workshop the first evening
at 8 pm, a main workshop the next day beginning at 11 am, a participants'
reading at 8 pm that evening and a closing session the last day
at 11 am.
Suggested donation: $150.
To register, call Wilbur Hot Springs at 530-473-2306.
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