Guest Chef Weekend with Marion Cascio

May 21-23

Marion Cascio will be our featured chef for the month of May.

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.

Cooking for Marion is a creative outlet, a place where she can be an artist of taste and texture. She lives on the Northern California Coast on a self-sustaining organic farm where she raises her own vegetables, chickens, goats, and honeybees and makes her own cheeses and olive oil.

Stay two nights, Sunday through Thursday, in a room of equal value, and receive 50% off one night. Offer excludes camping. Not valid during holiday periods; not combinable with other discounts. Valid through May 27th, 2010.

Meditation with Tibetan Bowls

May 10 & 11 10:30 am

Tarot Consultation

May 10 & 11

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 3000 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.

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.

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.

Take in the green of spring and the flowers of Bear Valley. Ask at the front desk for the best way to do the hour-long drive over the Leesville Grade.

MASSAGE and SOAKING are linked to a 4000-year-old tradition of the healing arts. Isis, considered to be the first physician of the ancient world, the Divine Mother, was a queen of Egypt and mortal goddess who reigned circa 4000 BCE.

It's back! Complimentary Yoga classes resume on the weekend of May 15-16 with long-time instructor Jnana Gowan, founder of Powerhouse Education "At Your Desk Yoga." Join us again this season on the Yoga Deck for free weekend yoga classes Saturday mornings and afternoons, and Sunday mornings.

Late Night Position: Wilbur is looking for just the right person to fill our Late Night/Housekeeping position. We are seeking a responsible, friendly, service-oriented person for 20 to 25 hours per week for evening and housekeeping work. This position lasts three months and includes board and full use of Wilbur's facilities in lieu of salary. Please send resume to info@wilburhotsprings.com. For more information contact Ezzie Davis or Meg at 530-473-2306.

Safe, aesthetically pleasing access to the Yoga Deck has been on our "to do" list for some time. Wilbur only builds what it can afford to pay for at the time of building and does not take on debt to pay for improvements. This pay-as-we-go policy slows down all projects. This building project may not seem newsworthy, but it is to us. The "take-away" of our story is that our refusal to create, and live in, debt allows us to sleep at night without fear of debt. Living in fear is debilitating to health; living without fear is essential for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.