Guest Chef Weekend
with Angela Karegeannes

June 25-27

Angela Karegeannes, head chef and owner of A Fork Full of Earth, will be our featured chef for the month of June.

Angela became a chef while living and working at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California in 2001. With Esalen's garden and farm providing a large portion of the produce for the kitchen, Angela quickly became addicted to the joy that is undeniably linked to working with food that is seeded, grown and harvested with love and then fed to people only hours later. Thus began her involvement with the Slow Food Movement and the farming communities of California in the pursuit to understand more about how produce grown in good soil, prepared with a deep understanding of its nutritional benefits, and eaten near its source, can change people's quality of life dramatically.

Angela spends her time working for the Ecological Farming Association. Her primary focus, as an events coordinator for the Eco-Farm Conference, is to create a donor-driven, seasonally inspired menu for the conference that features many of the Central Coast's and Bay Area's most successful farmers and food artisans. Evenings and weekends are spent catering events and participating as a guest chef at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center.

A note from the chef:

"I believe that although what we eat is important, it is just as critical to be aware of how we eat, why, where and with whom. I regard the table as a cherished place for communion and healing, a place to learn time-honored food traditions and to help one another in riding the tide of fleeting food trends. I am eager to involve as many people as possible in this incredibly important agricultural revival."

Angela Karegeannes

July Guest Chef Weekend

Wilbur will be offering a vegetarian, living-food Guest Chef Weekend with artist and chef Theresa Mathur. Look for more information coming soon on our website and in the July newsletter.

Half-Off Wednesday is back for June! Stay two nights in a room of eqaul value that includes a Wednesday night and receive 50% off Wednesday night. Not valid during holiday periods, or combinable with other discounts. Offer excludes camping.

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.

Read more about Sarana here.

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 Angela Karegeannes

• yoga sessions

• 2 nights accommodations (including use of baths, sauna and grounds)

Cost: Private room $515 per person

Bunk $475 per person

Camping $415 per person

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. Visit her website at www.saranayoga.com.

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.

Cost: $65 per person

Join us for the 3rd annual Solstice Yoga and Healing Workshop.

Come celebrate the Summer Solstice in the quiet beauty of Wilbur Hot Springs. Beginning with a Solstice meditation, this workshop led by Elise and Rebecca will take you on a journey through active poses and intentional stretching, then drop deeply into relaxation with a special sequence of restorative poses. All participants will receive a hands-on healing using universal energy to open to their deepest essence. Yogis of all levels are welcome.

Cost: $45. Workshop runs from from 10 am to 1 pm on June 19.

For more information and to sign up, call Rebecca at 707-829-1583, or email her at beccaweb@yahoo.com.

Participants must arrange their own accommodations by contacting Wilbur Hot Springs directly, 530-473-2306. Plan to stay Friday evening, June 18th.

This package, offered for the entire month of June, 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--a $35 savings.

As health-conscious people, you are the cutting edge, for the country, as you accept more and more responsibility for your health. You know that it is more in your interest to stay healthy than to deal with illness.

Thank you for your ongoing support of Wilbur as a healing place with safety, dignity and respect for all.