in this issue:
Guest Chef Weekend
Yoga with Sarana
October Special
Yoga Retreat
with Swami O'Bryan
Complementary Alternative Medicine
Notes from the Caretaker
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 for the fall schedule of complimentary yoga classes. |
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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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October 15-17
Please join us for a weekend of breath, chanting, asana and soaking in the healing mineral waters of Wilbur, with Sarana Miller and Guest Chef Charlie Cascio. |
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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. |
Charlie worked as the head chef and kitchen manager for the Esalen Institute, in Big Sur, California from 1998 through 2004 and continues to work for Esalen as a consultant and instructor. He lives on the Northern California Coast on a self-sustaining organic farm where he raises his own vegetables, chickens, goats, and honeybees and makes his own cheeses and olive oil.
Please visit our website's Chef Weekend page (click here) for more details. |
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 nature and 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. |
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| Visit Sarana's website, www.saranayoga.com.
Come and join us for a retreat that will invigorate your body, renew your spirits, and quiet your mind.
Weekend fees include:
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5 organic meals with Guest Chef Charlie Cascio
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yoga sessions
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2 nights accommodations (including use of baths, sauna and grounds)
Cost: Private room $525 per person
Bunk $485 per person
Camping $425 per person
Enrollment is limited. Please sign up as soon as possible to reserve your space. Contact Sarana Miller at 510-502-9642, or email her at sarana@mac.com.
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Half-off Wednesday is back! Stay two nights (in a room of equal value) that include a Wednesday and receive half-off the Wednesday night. Offer good through October 28th. Not valid on holiday periods; not combinable with other discounts. |
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Yoga Retreat Weekend
with Swami O'Bryan and Chef Debra Chase
October 22-24
Let's get together, practice, soak, rest, renew, laugh, share over
wonderful meals and make some new friends. Retreat is geared toward,
but not limited to, screenwriters and designers of all disciplines.
Who is Swami O'Bryan?? www.swamiobryans.com |
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Debra Chase has over three decades of professional culinary experience. She has worked in fine restaurants from the San Juan Islands, Washington to Santa Monica, California, with many stops in between. She resides at Pheasant Hollow Farm with her husband Dave and their many animal friends. Her teaching focuses on how to include more raw vegan food into an everyday diet.
Rates vary according to room selection and include full use of Wilbur facilities, yoga sessions, meal and lodging. Massage separate. Weekend menu available on request.
Please contact Swami O' Bryan's for rates: Maurice Kaehler, 310-349-7044; or visit his website at www.swamiobryans.com
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Complementary Alternative Medicine
Orthopedic Massage Therapy
with Marybeth Paul
Wilbur Hot Springs is proud to introduce Marybeth Paul as one of our rotating massage providers. Marybeth has been doing Orthopedic Massage Therapy for the past 17 years.
| Marybeth says, My foundation is in Orthopedic Massage, which provides relief for acute injuries such as whiplash, sprains and strains. It also addresses chronic conditions like low back pain, headaches and Overuse Syndrome. With gentle yet specific rythmic movement, soft tissue is repositioned into its place of optimal function. I also use acupressure, sports massage and essential oils as needed. |
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Orthopedic Massage Therapy (OMT) brings together a combination of techniques: massage, mobilization, and neuromuscular re-education. Guests will receive a session that provides pain relief and functional rehabilitation. OMT is precise and can be extremely effective when combined with Wilbur's mineral-laden waters. Scientific research for massage has always been very positive regarding health benefits, as reaffirmed in recent studies by the National Institutes of Health, in which researchers found that a single session of massage resulted in positive biologic health changes (see Notes from the Caretaker, below).
Notes From the Caretaker:
Dear Friends of Wilbur
This letter and the article that follows below are dedicated to a dear friend of mine and Wilbur's, Paul Zamarian, Esq. Over 30 years ago Paul was a major force in legitimizing massage and moving it from the public's prior perception of a seedy, slightly disguised form of prostitution, to its present acceptance as a healing modality. Paul's abundant skills contributed to both the creation of schools of massage and the State of California's massage license.
The beneficial health effects of massage have been known at least since the time of ancient Greece; however, this study brings massage into scientific light and paves the way for insurance companies to provide reimbursement. Thank you Paul.
Many of us have wondered if a good massage does more than just relax our muscles.
To answer this question, researchers sponsored by the National Institutes of Health recruited 53 healthy adults and randomly assigned 29 of them to a 45-minute session of deep-tissue Swedish massage and the other 24 to a session of light massage. All subjects were fitted with intravenous catheters so blood samples could be taken immediately before the massage and up to an hour afterward. The researchers found that a single session of massage caused health positive biological changes.
Volunteers who received Swedish massage experienced significant decreases in levels of the stress hormone cortisol in blood and saliva, and in arginine vasopressin, a hormone that can lead to increases in cortisol. They also had increases in the number of lymphocytes, white blood cells that are part of the immune system.
Volunteers who had the light massage experienced greater increases in oxytocin, a hormone associated with contentment, than the Swedish massage group, and bigger decreases in adrenal corticotropin hormone, which stimulates the adrenal glands to release cortisol. The study can be found online at The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
I hope you enjoy these findings as much as I did.
Wishing you good health and lots of massages,
Richard
Richard Louis Miller, M.A., Ph.D.
Wilbur Caretaker since 1972
Country Store Online
See our online store for Larry Wagner's photo book and Wilbur's bath crystals.
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