Featured Book from
Our Lending Library
Ageless Body,
Timeless Mind
by Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Wayne Dyer calls this
"A ground-breaking book on the whole question of aging."
Buy and support the Inn!
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The Gathering Inn
Women Helping Women
June 8, 2010
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ZEN MEDITATION GARDEN
HONORING THE WOMEN IN OUR LIVES
As we move forward with the creation of our Zen Meditation Garden, we
want to offer you the opportunity to honor the women who have made a
difference in your life. We will be purchasing landscape plantings,
statuary, perhaps a water feature, bird feeders and bird baths, and other
enhancements.
You may wish to make a donation toward one of these items
in memory of a woman who has died, or in honor of someone in your life
today.
When the project is finished, there will be a plaque with all
the names of the women we want to remember.
Please contact The
Gathering Inn's office by e-mail or phone (978-820-1139) for more
information or to make a contribution.
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Potluck and Meditation
June 9th at 6:30PM
Please join us at the Inn Wednesday evening and unwind from the busyness of life with some good food and good conversation.
Following dinner we will transition to the Gathering Room for a thirty minute guided meditation.
Take some time this month just for you and reconnect to yourself and your spiritual center.
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The Faith Club
June 17th at 7:00pm
We recently studied the book, The
Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew - three Women Search for
Understanding, by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner. This book is so rich and The Gathering Inn is the perfect, safe place to
discuss, question, and explore what we each believe and why. Once was
not enough for us. So, we are inviting you do three things: 1) read the
book; 2) come for a discussion on Thursday night, June 17th, at 7:00
PM, and 3) invite your friends, especially those of other faiths, to
join us.
The authors of The Faith Club have established a
formal process to create a Faith Club. After our discussion on June
17th, we will decide if we have enough interest to create a permanent
Faith Club at The Gathering Inn.
Buy the book from Amazon.com and support the Inn!
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Solstice Sing for Peace
Join us at
The Studio at the Inn
for the
Annual Solstice Sing for Peace
Monday, June 21st from 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Solstice Sing for Peace is an all-inclusive,
grassroots movement/event creating 24 hours of singing for peace in 24
time zones on the Summer Solstice. Whoever you are and wherever you are
in the world, sing or chant to celebrate peace sometime between 7:28
a.m. June 21st and 7:28 a.m. June 22, 2010. Together, we'll shift the global focus to
peace on the "longest day" of the year. ~*~
This prayer from Chief Arvol Looking Horse, recently came to our attention and is apropos to our Solstice Sing for Peace celebration:
A
Timely Prayer from Chief Arvol Looking Horse
A Great Urgency:
To
All World Religious and Spiritual
Leaders
My Relatives,Time has
come to speak to the hearts of our Nations and their Leaders. I ask you
this from the bottom of my heart, to come together from the Spirit of
your Nations in prayer.We, from the
heart of Turtle Island, have a great message for the World; we
are guided to speak from all the White Animals showing their sacred
color,
which have been signs for us to pray for the sacred life of all things.
As
I am sending this message to you, many Animal Nations are being
threatened,
those that swim, those that crawl, those that fly, and the plant
Nations,
eventually all will be affect from the oil disaster in the Gulf. To Read the rest of the prayer, click here.
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Ahab's Wife:
Or, The Star-Gazer: A Novel
June 27th at 9:30am
Please join us Sunday, June 27th for the continuation of our discussion of Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-gazer: A Novel by Sena Jeter Naslund. We'll be reading this book throughout the summer. For June we'll be talking about the middle of the book from Chapter 30 (page 173) through Chapter 78 (page 344). This first section of the book is the lyrical saga of a young girl, Una,
growing up on an island with her Aunt, Uncle and cousin. It is not a
quick read but well worth taking it slowly to relish in the rich turn of
phrase in which author Sena
Jeter Naslund is so adept. In her search for the meaning of life, she
ponders spiritual truths (" The truth about the unseen makes little
difference to me. Perhaps we each adopt or create our truth."),
and relationships (" I did not myself have a sister who was a friend
and with whom I could compare myself, the better to understand both my
singularity and our commonality."), and her future (" Is it not
the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite
direction to its destiny?") Buy the book from Amazon.com and support the Inn. |
Additional Summer Yoga Programs
Instructor: Phyllis Pomerleau RYT,
CWHE
Calm Your Koshas
A six week introduction to yoga
based stress management.
Tuesdays: July 20 - August 24, 10:30am -12:00noon
Or
Wednesdays: July 21 - August 25,
7:00pm - 8:30pm
$75 for the 6 week program - Pre-registration required
Click here for more information and register._______________________________________________ Restoring the Temple
This 6 week program is designed to give new insight into the incredibly
wondrous and spiritual "machine" God has given us in the human body, to
honor it as a true temple for the spirit which resides therein, and to
increase our reverence for that spirit within each of us.
Tuesdays July 20 - August 24,
7:00 - 9:00 pm or
Wednesdays July 21- August 25, 9:00
- 11:00 am $95 for the 6 week program - Pre-registration required Click here for more information and to register._______________________________________________ |
Julia & Julia
Movie Night, July 9th at 7pm
A culinary legend provides a frustrated office worker with a new recipe
for life in Julie & Julia, the true stories of how Julia
Child's (Meryl Streep) life and cookbook inspired fledgling writer Julie
Powell (Amy Adams) to whip up 524 recipes in 365 days and introduce a
new generation to the magic of French cooking. ~ from Amazon.com
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Our Affiliates
Each of these affiliated businesses are independent
of The Gathering Inn, however they also offer their practices and
programs at and through the Inn. Their missions and purposes are in
alignment with the mission and purpose of The Gathering Inn, to promote
total health and wellness through various modalities, particularly for
women.
Anne Goewey,
Registered
Yoga Teacher, JumpStart!
js2health@gmail.com
978-928-4844
Anne M. Porcella
RMT, IARP,
Reiki Practitioner, The Reiki Room
anneporcella@gmail.com
508-615-3149
Expressions UnlimitedPhyllis Pomerleau, Chris Bergquist
Therapeutic Yoga; Grief
Recovery; Wholistic Health Coaching; Stress Reduction; Prepare for
Surgery, Heal Faster(c); Private Voice, Piano and Guitar Instruction;
and much more! 978-464-2433
www.expressionsunlimited.org |
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The Gathering Inn is a place for women to step out of the busyness of life and connect to their spiritual center.
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