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DO YOU BAKE?
OR CRAFT?
| We're looking for donations of baked goods for our Open House.
So if making cookies, pies, cupcakes, bread or other yummy baked goods is your idea of FUN, we think you should go crazy in the kitchen and help out the Inn!
For all you artists out there - have your creations on display and sale at our Open House! Contact Shari Fife, our Gift Nook Manager, to get your wares on display.
Contact the Inn if you can help out, to get in touch with Shari, or for more information call 978-820-1139 or email us at info@gatheringinn.org. |
Potluck Plus!
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Please join us monthly at the Inn on a Wednesday evening from 6:30 to 9:00pm and unwind from the busyness of life and nourish your body and soul.
Following dinner we will transition to the Gathering Room or the Yoga Studio for a guided meditation, a presentation or a mini-event.
Take some time each month just for you and reconnect to yourself and your spiritual center.
November 7
Date Change: First Wednesday of the month!
We're discussing abundance!
December 12
Holiday Get-Together & Ornament Swap
Bring a dish to share for dinner and a tree ornament to swap.
January 9, 2013
Belly Dance Demo
and chance to try it!
Classes start again on Jan. 10th--7-8:30pm
ALL FREE! but please let us know if you're coming, either call 978-820-1139 or email us.
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Did You Know!?
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The Gathering Inn offers the services of a number of private practitioners, by appointment, such as massage therapy, Reiki and nutritional counseling.
These services are available to guests of the Inn as well as to the general public.
This networking provides you with professional care in a tranquil, pastoral environment which naturally enhances physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
Call the Inn at 978-820-1139 to make arrangements.
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Greetings!
We hope that each of you has "weathered" Storm Sandy with little more than some inconvenience and we pray for those whose lives have been devastated.
Autumn is a season where change and transition are all around us and for the recent storm victims, that is more true than ever. When we lose our familiar bearings (physically or emotionally), it can be frightening and can shake our very foundations. What the captains of ships at sea have known for a long time, is that you will stay on course when you find the north star.
The Gathering Inn is here to help you find your spiritual North Star so that your ship can sail through the roughest of seas and still find your way Home.
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MERRY'S MUSINGS
| |  Look out! Here comes November. Everyone seems to have a month of the year where there is a cluster of significant events. In my life, it's November. In Novembers past, I have had: - A sister-in-law I was very close to died in November 2001.
- I had a mastectomy for breast cancer in November 2004.
- The Gathering Inn bought its property and incorporated in November 2007.
- My Mom died in November 2008.
- My divorce proceedings began in November 2010.
- I moved out of my home of 40 plus years in November 2010.
- My new home was completed and I moved in last November 2011.
And there is more. So every November, I have much to think about, much to remember that might seem sad. But what also happens is that every November contains Thanksgiving Day. A day to celebrate and give thanks for all the blessings of life! So, how do we give thanks when life throws us curveballs? Read the rest! |
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RED TENT GATHERING
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 November 11, 1-4pm
The Red Tent, authored by Anita Diamant, tells the story of the tent in which women take refuge while menstruating or giving birth, and in which they find mutual support and encouragement from their mothers, sisters and aunts. Since that book was released, Red Tent groups have sprung up world wide. The Gathering Inn will host a new group that will meet monthly, beginning Sunday, November 11th.
Filmmaker, Isadora Gabrielle Leidenfrost, PhD, created her film: "Things We Don't Talk About, Women's Voices from the Red Tent". A portion of that movie was filmed at The Gathering Inn. We will be offering a screening at our first gathering.
Each Red Tent group has its own "flavor". Be a part of the inaugural Red Tent Gathering on November 11th, and help shape our Tent.
Cost: $10 per person - Get Registered Today!
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HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE
| Saturday, December 1, 10am-2pm
Tour the Inn  Enjoy Cookies & Cider  Browse Our Gift Nook For Items by Local Artisans: Jewelry Journals Greeting Cards Woven Goods Gift Soaps Original Art Work Canvas Tote Bags Baked Goods Gift Certificates |
SPA DAY & SOAPMAKING
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Spa Day - 9:00 am- Noon. Cost: $45
De-stress before the Holidays; create your personalized all-natural facial gels, scrubs, and masques for a mid-winter rejuvenation.
Soap Making - 1:00-4:00 PM. Cost: $45
Learn to create some beautifully personalized gifts for the holidays with pure, non-toxic, vegetable-based soaps.
Take one or both workshops that day -
$80 if you take both -(save $10).
Find out more and get registered today!
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JEN BAUM'S ANNUAL HOLIDAY YOGA CLASS
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 Holiday Restorative Yoga Class
December 17, 7-9PM
Jen will have her annual 2 hour Holiday Restorative Yoga Class on December 17th. This is a class not to be missed!
Participants will practice by the soft glow of tea lights and the relaxing sounds of nature and pipes as they become rejuvenated - mind, body & spirit - for the hectic holiday season.
This is an opportunity to take some well deserved time for yourself, to let the mind empty as you work through a series of Restorative yoga postures, using pillows, bolsters, blankets and eye pillows.
Cost $20. Due to the growing numbers of attendance, please email Jen (jenbaum@verizon.net) and let her know of your intention to attend.
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FAMILY WINTER SOLSTICE SPIRAL CEREMONY
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 December 21 7-9 pm
On the shortest day of the year, Winter Solstice, we celebrate the beginning of the return of the light to our world. Solstice is also an intense time of spiritual birth.
Our yoga space is transformed into a beautiful spiral of pine branches, sea shells, stones, driftwood, pine cones and berries, and candles. We begin in darkness and silence (accompanied by soft flute music.)
Each person has a time to walk contemplatively into the center, light a candle, and reflect on what brings light into their lives and into the world as they spiral back out and set their offering of light into the growing glow of candles. (Everything you need will be provided but feel free to bring your own natural earth elements to offer into the space if you wish.)
Men, women, and children welcome. (To honor everyone's experience, we ask that children be of an appropriate age to respect the silence and solemnity of the event.)
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ENERGY HEALING & SELF-CARE FOR WOMEN
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 January 13, 2013
with Rosemary Nolan
An interactive workshop to demystify the varied energy healing systems of both the East and West; learn tools to deal with the constant attack of stress, to repair the "energetic" self, and enhance emotional and physical wellness.
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The Gathering Inn is available for retreat leaders and practitioners to offer their programs. And of course, don't forget that our primary mission is to provide individual women like YOU a place to retreat from the world, be in stillness and tranquility, and re-connect to your spiritual core.
We can't wait to see you at the Inn!
Sincerely, 
The Gathering Inn
The Gathering Inn is a place to step out of the busyness and distractions of the world, to be in quiet and stillness, to be a bit pampered, and to reconnect to your spiritual center. |
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December 2