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November 2010

Guest Chef Weekend with Charlie Cascio

November 12-14

Charlie Cascio will be our featured chef for the month of November.

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.

November Special

Stay two nights, Sunday through Thursday, in a room of equal value, and receive 25% off your stay. Offer valid through November 18th; excludes holidays and holiday periods.

Soinninkajo Vocal Ensemble November 15 The Finnish vocal ensemble Soinninkajo is touring the United States with a stop at Wilbur Hot Springs. Join us for a very special free concert exclusively for Wilbur guests. Soinninkajo, conducted by Christiaan Boele, is an international vocal ensemble based primarily in Finland. Soinninkajo Vocal Ensemble has toured since 2002 in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United States and Canada and has given more than 200 concerts on various stages, from concert halls to kindergartens. Members of the group come from Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, the United States and Canada. Some are professional musicians and all have studied singing under the guidance of master teacher Christiaan Boele. In 2005 Soinninkajo released their first recording, a two-CD collection of Finnish and International choral music. For more information about the Soinninkajo Ensemble, please visit their website, www.soinninkajo.org.   New Year's Guest Chef with Charlie Cascio December 31-January 2 Come to Wilbur over the last weekend of 2010 and welcome in the new year as Charlie and company prepare for us five gourmet meals with a New Year's champagne toast and appetizers ... all for $165 (not including lodging). See our 2011 Guest Chef Weekend lineup on our website.     Thrival Living JoyShops with Founder Shannon Sheridan January 21-23, 2011 & April 1-3, 2011 Thrival Living and Shannon Sheridan invite you to a Couples Thrival JoyShop at Wilbur Hot Springs, one of the loveliest places on earth! This JoyShop combines tools and techniques to support couples in learning more about themselves and each other in a collaborative and loving environment. Much of the work is based on the new book, The Couples Thrival Guide, which will be available for the workshop. Treat yourself to a weekend of basking and replenishment. For more information about Shannon, please see her website, www.thrivaliving.com. Remember to reserve your room at Wilbur. JoyShop price: $300.00 per couple (excludes lodging) For more information contact Cheryl Shinn at 530-345-7875, or email mailto:cherylynn50@att.net.

Sarana Miller Yoga Retreat April 8-10 Please join us for a weekend of breathing, 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 of the breeze and the 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. Contact Sarana Miller at 510-502-9642, or email her at sarana@mac.com.   Couples/Partners Yoga Retreat with Rex Stromness and Michele Miller april 15-17 Couples/partner yoga is a wonderful way to connect with your partner or spouse using traditional yoga poses, breathing exercises and massage. It is suitable for all levels of experience and expertise. In our workshop, we begin with connecting exercises and build on this foundation, moving into assisted and partner poses. Most couples find it a great way to practice yoga in a new way, connect deeply with the one you love, meet new people and have fun. Wilbur Hot Springs, with its quiet, serene environment and healing waters, is the ideal place to experience this unique way of practicing yoga. Rex Stromness has practiced yoga for 30 years and taught for the past 15 years. He currently teaches yoga at Cal State University Chico, Chico Sports Club and at retreats internationally. Michele Miller has practiced yoga for the past 15 years and is a long-time member of the Wilbur family, as is Rex. Together they have led couples workshops for the past 8 years. For more information, please contact Rex Stromness at 530-892-8583, or email him at stromness@comcast.net.

Complementary Alternative Medicine

It's that time of the year to bump up your immune system by using the age-old remedies of massage, chiropractic and soaking in the natural mineral-rich waters of Wilbur Hot Springs. These remedies can help stave off a cold and relieve achy muscles and joints and Seasonal Affective Disorder. Please book your massage when reserving your room. -Shalamah Yahchove, DC

Notes From the Caretaker:

The Wilbur Experience

We live in a world constantly being portrayed to us as dangerous. Turn on the news at any time and we hear of natural or manmade disasters, of people getting sick or killed, of corruption in government. We are literally bombarded, on a daily basis, with messages of danger. In addition, we are working more, earning less and, due to the state of economy that has been perpetrated upon us, those with jobs are happy to have them.

In sum, we are being conditioned, brainwashed if you will, to live in a state of perpetual fear. Living in fear has serious psychophysical consequences. We seek external ways to immediately gratify ourselves, such as buying, drugging or eating. The results are disastrous. Fifteen percent, or about 49 million of us, live in poverty, 67 percent, or about 220 million, are overweight or obese. To heal, center and maintain ourselves, the place to look is within. But where is there a safe place for those who wish to make the inner journey?

Wilbur Hot Springs provides an atmosphere of safety and security like no other. Something positive happens to the emotional atmosphere as well as to our neural circuitry in a place that is extremely safe. In a critical mass of safety we heal and thrive.

The therapeutic milieu of Wilbur begins for some when they make their reservation, for they now have the experience to look forward to. For others the experience begins with the purchase of the food for their stay.

For me the Wilbur Experience begins when I get off Highway 20 and enter the hardpacked dirt of Bear Valley Road. I stop, close my eyes and take a few abdominal breaths. I tell myself "I am safe." Then I drive on. When I get to Wilbur's silver bridge I stop again and breathe and repeat "I am safe." When I get to the Wilbur entrance gate I close my eyes and breathe again and repeat "I am safe." I am entering a world where we dispose of shame or blame, though we hold one another accountable, and we collaborate and cooperate.

Upon arriving I get into the medicinal waters as soon as possible. I close my eyes and breathe. I again tell myself "I am safe" and, in fact, I am safe.

The Wilbur Experience is what happens to us when we immerse ourselves in an atmosphere designed to provide and enhance emotional safety, in a pristine setting, providing medicinal hot water, a safe place to sleep and a great place to cook and eat food. It works!

Richard

Richard Louis Miller, M.A., Ph.D.
Wilbur Caretaker since 1972

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