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The Retreat Center launches its first fundraising event, Art,
Wine, and Spirit Benefit on Sunday, September 13th from
4-6:30 p.m. Please join us for a festive afternoon. You can
register
in advance and pay at the door ($35).
Event fee and silent auction benefit
the sustainable development of the Earthrise Retreat Center
at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
Featuring:
- Keynote Speaker: Mike Grgich, Grgich
Hills Estate
- Exquisite Food prepared by the
Earthrise Kitchen Staff, paired with biodynamic and organic
wines
- The Sacred Beauty of Inner
and Outer Worlds, the art of Sondra Barrett and Sam
Hoffman
Please register
in advance and pay at the door ($35).
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Events
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August
27 - Monthly Dinner Series featuring
local vineyards and wineries
September 13 - Retreat Center Art,
Wine, and Spirit Benefit
Noetic Sciences Workshops
August 14-16 - Nine
Gates Mystery School weekend: Explore the Teachings
of Ancient Wisdom
September 18-20 - Working
with Fields of Consciousness: Practical Strategies for
Group Leaders with Chris Bache, PhD and guest Dean Radin,
PhD
September 25-27 - Mindful
Motherhood: A Meditation and Yoga Retreat for Pregnant
Women with Cassandra Vieten, PhD
October 9-11 - Extraordinary
Dreams: Working Creatively with Dreams in Your Life Practice
with Fariba Bogzaran, PhD and guest Patricia Garfield, PhD
October 24-25 - Circle
of Stones: An Autumn Retreat for Women with Judith
Duerk, MS
October 30-November 1 - Integrating
with Your Shadow: Connecting with Your Guide with
Ralph Metzner, PhD
November 20-21 - Clear
Mind Wild Heart: Finding Courage and Clarity through Poetry
with David Whyte
Monthly Dinner Series, from 5:30-8 p.m.
on campus here in Petaluma
for dinner, with guest speakers. ($35, please register in
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Sippin'
on Top of the World
Join us on Thursday, August 27th for an amazing roundup
of speakers, featuring gourmet foods, biodynamic wines made
with organically grown grapes, and the art of Sondra Barrett
and Sam Hoffman. Guest Speakers include:
Please refer to Art, Culture & Consciousness
below to learn about Sondra's Barrett's work.
Please refer to What's Cooking for
our reception and dinner menu.
$35.00 includes reception, wine, and dinner
Please register
in advance and pay at the door.
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Funding
Opportunities
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We hope
you'll join us on Sunday afternoon, September 13th, for an
afternoon sampling great foods, organic wines, networking,
building community, and benefiting the Earthrise Retreat Center's
sustainable development. ($35 contribution for an enjoyable
afternoon.) See details at the top of this issue.
Hot tub and Yoga deck
This is one of our highest priorities to develop in the immediate
future. Our retreat groups need this for relaxation and connection,
as well as for personal wellness. There are some groups who
will bring their retreats to Earthrise only if we build a
hot tub. We need to build this so they will come! Please consider
helping this project come to fruition with any size contribution.
Contact Robert McDowell
at 707-779-8215.
Donate
now.
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Client
Clips
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On
Jean Houston's Mystery School
By Robert McDowell
On a May weekend, Jean Houston's West Coast Mystery School
convened for its second session of 2009 at the IONS Retreat
Center we who work here affectionately call Earthrise.
This was my second visit to Mystery School, and like the
first in October 2008, every moment felt like delicious magic.
Whether it was sitting mesmerized as Jean or Peggy riffed
brilliantly on the significance of the Mayan Calendar and
Persephone's voyage to the Underworld, or bonding with others
as the group broke out in dance or song in the West Room,
or fanned out into the forest on a drizzly day to offer healing
blessings to our trees (some battling Sudden Oak Death), every
sacred moment gave flesh and feeling to the concept of Social
Artistry.
The transformative work that takes place at Mystery School
is truly profound, and it accompanies and empowers everyone
as we exit the weekend and return to our daily lives and work.
At Mystery School we learn how to make a difference, both
small and large, and so participate in saving this blessed
planet we inhabit.
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A big
Thank You to our July Retreat Center clients!
David Spero
Friendly
Favors
International Association of
Yoga Therapists
Monroe Institute
New Leaf Paper
Rockwood
Leadership
Rosen Method Body Work
Tathaastu
Traditional Healing
Veriditas
We host retreats, workshops and client events on an ongoing
basis throughout the year at the Retreat Center. Please click
here to see our detailed events schedule.
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What's
Cooking?
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August 27 Dinner Salon
Sippin' on Top of the World
Reception and Dinner Menu
Appetizers
- Ceago Vinegarden 2007 Syrah Rose
- Smoked Salmon and Smoked Ahi Tuna
- Blue and Cream Cheeses
- Garlic Crostini
Main Courses
- Ceago Vinegarden 2006 Cabernet
Franc, Del Lago (100% cab franc)
- Jeriko Estate 2006 Pinot Noir
- Patianna Sauvignon Blanc
- Paella with Peppered Chicken and
Seafood
- Vegetarian Red Pepper and Asparagus
Paella
- Green Salad with Seasonal Vegetables
from Earthrise Garden on Campus
- Beautiful Rosemary Bread
Dessert
- Ceago Vinegarden 2007 Late Harvest
Semillon
- Lemon Meringue Cupcake
All wines served are made with certified
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Art,
Culture & Consciousness
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Reflections
By Sondra Barrett
It has been incredible to show my work at IONS for many reasons—the
Retreat Center space is exquisite and the people are wonderful.
Having the images paired with the amazing Hubble photos is
a constant reminder of how beautiful our world is.
And even more compelling are the proofs of "inner knowing."
At both the reception and the dinner salon I started my oral-visual
presentations with three images related to taste—something
sweet, sour and a wine. These are images from the microscope.
Typically 90% of the folks 'know' which is which. There are
even people who correctly 'know' the red from white wine.
And if there are skeptics reading this, the images aren't
those in the exhibit.
I posit that our sensory language may have roots in our molecules.
And people's knowing seems to support that idea. Encouraging
people to discover more of their inner abilities through the
art from science certainly supports the mission of IONS. It
has been an honor to be part of this great exploration.
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Community
News
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The Garden at IONS
Excerpt from the Gardener's Almanac
by Bryan Singleton
I'd like to catch up on what has
been happening in the IONS Garden since I started working
in January of 2009. First things first: there was a lot of
clean-up and maintenance to be done, and since it was winter
a good time to catch up. I started with pruning back dead
growth on all the lavenders, roses, grapes, and assorted fruit
trees and raspberries, and then removing dead annuals from
the previous season, old sunflower stalks, tomato, squash,
calendula and cucumber vines. I turned over the soil and uprooted
the many weeds that had taken root in some of the beds. I
transplanted and moved a few trees, an apple and a fig to
better locations.
One thing that I felt needed to be
done was to move the composting outside the garden as the
old system was not really easily accessible for the proper
composting of the kitchen waste which at times has been on
the order of 100 to 150 gallons per week. Also I wanted to
free up space in the garden to create more growing beds, and
make it more aesthetically pleasing. It has now been moved
to a flat spot above the back patio closer to the kitchen
with much more room to create compost, and I now have at least
two active piles going at any given time.
After the major clean-up, I started
planning for the spring and summer by planting seeds in the
greenhouse to later transplant out to the garden. I planted
scarlet runner beans, zucchini, pumpkin, butternut squash,
sunflowers, kohlrabi, nasturtiums, basil, borage, cilantro,
and cucumbers. I also planted sweet corn, arugula, lettuce,
Swiss chard, radishes, and a variety of heirloom tomatoes
directly in the garden. Most of these have been planted in
the new upper garden which I created in March when Randy rented
a roto-tiller to create a place for the new labyrinth. I was
able to use it one day and turn a large swath of the upper
garden, which was previously grass, into some nice raised
beds, incorporating an old brush pile into a large mound which
is now covered in pumpkin vines and corn stalks.
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The
lower permaculture-inspired garden is mostly devoted to perennials,
fruit trees, berry bushes, herbs and flowers while the new
upper garden will mostly be annual vegetables we can serve
in the retreat kitchen. We have been able to contribute squash,
chard, cucumbers, kohlrabi, cilantro, parsley and a lot of
other herbs and flowers to the kitchen and I anticipate much
more to come!
In between all these activities, I
have been redoing the drip system, repairing old leaks, and
expanding it into the upper garden. In March we were fortunate
to host a group of six garden interns from Green String Farms
in Petaluma for a half-day to help with sheet mulching, cutting
back the vetch cover crop, spreading compost, laying out cardboard,
and covering it all with a nice layer of wood chips. In exchange
they enjoyed a delicious lunch and a copy of Global Mind
Change, by Willis Harman.
The strawberries and raspberries were
especially prolific this spring after a good amount of compost
and organic fertilizer applied in early spring really kicked
in. The gophers remain a constant challenge, and of course
keeping the gravel path clear of weeds and volunteer kale,
chard, and the ever-present calendula flowers is something
that greets me daily.
It looks as though we may have a good
crop of seedless grapes this year, and the table and chairs
under the grape arbor is a great place to hang out in the
shade. There have been a lot more retreat-goers visiting the
garden and asking questions about what's planted there and
spending time there. Sometimes I even send them home with
a cutting, or seeds they've collected.
Feel free to visit the garden any
time. Pick a strawberry and relax under the grape arbor! |
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Contact
Us
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Lisa
VanderBoom 707.779.8224
events@noetic.org
The Retreat Center at the Institute of Noetic Sciences
Located on 200 acres of beautiful rolling hills just 25 miles north of
the Golden Gate Bridge, we offer meeting facilities, cuisine, and accommodations
for 5-120. Our clients offer educational programs, workshops, and retreats,
with a broad focus on health, personal growth, and transformation.
We also welcome weekend workshops and retreats for small groups (fewer
than 25). Many programs are open to the public.
The Institute of Noetic
Sciences is a nonprofit membership organization
located in Northern California that conducts and sponsors
leading-edge research into the potentials and powers of consciousness—including
perceptions, beliefs, attention, intention, and intuition.
The Institute explores phenomena that do not necessarily fit
conventional scientific models, while maintaining a commitment
to scientific rigor.
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