in this issue:
Guest Chef Weekend
August Special
Autumn Reflection & Renewal
Chiropractic Special
Notes from the Caretaker
Wilbur Closedown
Country Store Online
Happy Birthday!
Wilbur's Birthday Gift to You: Returning guests presenting ID showing your date of birth will receive 25% off the cost of your stay between Sunday and Thursday during your birth month (holiday periods excluded). Our gift is for the birthday person plus one guest in the same room. Please let us know your birthday when you make your reservation. |
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Please be mindful and drive 10 miles per hour while on Wilbur property. We all benefit from your cooperation.
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Yoga Deck
Check with the Wilbur Front Desk on the complimentary yoga schedule for August. |
Wilbur is looking for a qualified CPR instructor to teach the latest in CPR training and guidelines. If interested, please contact Ezzie or Meg at 530-473-2306.
Summer Closedown
Wilbur will be closed
for repairs and maintenance
August 16-26, 2010.
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"Wilbur Hot Springs
is a free-form retreat, unobstructed by structure or dogma, self-directed by mutual respect, and is the creation of everyone who comes here.
In short, it's organic."
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Visit Wilbur's Fountain of Life geyser, located on the Wilbur Nature Preserve.
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Past Newsletter Issues
You can follow us online on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and Yelp. Also, please visit our blog and take a look at our Wikipedia entries.
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September 24-26
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| Guest Chef Weekend takes a break for August and returns in September with chef Marion Cascio. |
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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. |
Please visit our website's Chef Weekend page (click here) for more details.
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Now through the end of August, stay two nights and receive the third night free! This offer is good Sunday through Thursday and is good for all accommodation types. Non-holiday periods only; not combinable with other discounts.
Please note that Wilbur will be closed for repairs and maintenance beginning August 16th, and will reopen on the 26th at 3 p.m. |
Autumn Reflection and Renewal
Yoga and Meditation Retreat
with Christy Brown
September 24-26
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. |
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- 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
Lodging space is limited--early registration is recommended. Pre-booking massage is also recommended, as Wilbur has limited numbers of therapists on site. Vegan/vegetarian option available. All levels are welcome. For more information about this retreat, visit Christy's website, www.ChristyBrownYoga.com.
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Chiropractic Special
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Experience massage, chiropractic and Wilbur Hot Springs' mineral-laden water. Relax!
This package, offered for the months of August and September, combines massage and chiropractic, regularly priced at $85 per session. With our package discount, schedule a massage session of any length, with any touch-therapist, and receive a chiropractic session from Dr. Shalamah Yahchove for $50. |
Notes From the Caretaker:
Dear Friends of Wilbur:
There are no lines on the earth separating one country from another or one people from another. Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if there were no borders and people could go anywhere they liked for as long as they liked. On the microcosm the borders around our apartments, homes, and lots are also manmade. All borders and boundary lines are manmade, are they not? Borders are descendants of people staking claim to territory. This is mine and that is yours. Herein lies the genesis of the huge step from I/thou to we/they. From "we are all in this together" to "every man for himself." In a world following the dictum of "every man for himself" there are always winners and losers ... haves and have nots. This is a world of dominance over rather than cooperation with.
At Wilbur Hot Springs we are all in it together. We believe in equal dignity for every person. We understand that what each of us does has the potential to affect everyone. The waters are the great equalizer, for when we sit in them, unadorned, our similarities are more obvious than our differences.
In the world at large we trade liberty for increased safety. Wilbur is so safe that we need not give up many liberties. At Wilbur we can each be our true selves.
To be our true selves is to achieve the greatest relaxation, for in this deeply relaxed state we do not put up walls of defense. We are not guarded. When deeply relaxed and not guarded our mind/body can focus the most energy on healing.
I look forward to our true selves relaxing and saying hello at Wilbur.
Richard
Richard Louis Miller, M.A., Ph.D.
Wilbur Caretaker since 1972
Wilbur Closedown
August 16-26
Wilbur is looking for experienced carpenters, woodworkers, electricians and plumbers for Wilbur's Annual Closedown. If interested, please contact Meg Solaegui at 530-473-2306.
Country Store Online
See our online store for Larry Wagner's photo book and Wilbur's bath crystals.
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