LOOKING FOR THE PERFECT GIFT?
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PEACE ON EARTH
PEACE FOR HER
This holiday season, give the women in your life what they really need: a PEACE-ful getaway
at The Gathering Inn Retreat Center in Hubbardston, MA.
A Gift Certificate to The Gathering Inn can include an overnight retreat, tranquility, nourishing food, pampering, massage, and more. Or may be used for any of our many programs and workshops.
Or please consider making a donation to The Gathering Inn in the name of a special woman (or women) you wish to honor for her deep spiritual presence and
caring nature. We will send her a lovely holiday card announcing your
gift made in her name and send you a receipt for your tax records.
Go to www.gatheringinn.org
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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.
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!
What are some of the ways to Celebrate the Season? Visiting, Shopping, Feasting, Decorating, Sharing Ritual. We have it all at The Gathering Inn this season.
Visit the Inn for our Annual Open House on Dec. 1st - Have a tour, share a snack and a chat, and shop in our Gift Nook for diverse items created by local artisans.
Or women, bring a holiday dish and an ornament to swap at our Potluck Dinner on the 12th. We'll share a meal and stories of Holidays past and present.
Attend Jen Baum's deeply relaxing 2-hour Restorative Yoga class on Monday, Dec. 17th.
Or bring your family to the Solstice Spiral Ceremony on Dec. 21 at 7 PM. This is a beautiful, reflective time to sink into the meaning of all that December holds for each of us whether we celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, the Winter Solstice, Yuletide, Kwanzaa, St. Lucia Day, Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Bodhi Day, or just a time of entering the quiet rest of winter to prepare the soil of our souls for the new life of spring.
Merry Yule to you all and Peace on Earth!
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MERRY'S MUSINGS
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  TIME! Here we are, rushing to the end of another year. And the retailers would have us racing into Christmas shopping before the Halloween candy has all been eaten. Where the heck did 2012 go? I just celebrated one year in my new home-one complete cycle of the seasons. Amazing!
Trying to grab hold of time is like trying to catch fireflies in a jar with no top. Or trying to hold the ocean sand between your toes when the waves come in and out. It's just too illusive and it's constantly moving.
I know people always say the older you get the faster time moves and they are so right. I've reached that grand old age where I do just what my mother used to do (and it drove me crazy). I try to call one of my grandchildren by name and have to run down the whole family list before I get it right because I am mixing up the generations and the ages. I often call the 5 & 10 year olds by their 20-year-old cousins' names because in my mind, those 20 years went by in a blink of an eye. Where did they go?
(Read more!)
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BOOK 2013 RETREATS NOW AT 2012 RATES!
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FISCAL CLIFF OR MONEY MOUND? We don't want to fall over either one! The Gathering Inn is aware of the recent rise in the cost of oil, electricity, food, postage, insurance, and more and we just can't absorb these increases, so in January, we will reluctantly be raising our rates for both lodging and meals in 2013.
As our holiday gift to you, if you book a retreat before the end of 2012 (and complete it by March 31, 2013) we will honor this year's rates. Just give us a call, or go on our website (www.gatheringinn.org) and register for the date of your choice in 2013 and we'll hold the 2012 prices for you. If you find you need to change the date later on, we'll work with you to find a more convenient time. We look forward to meeting your retreat needs in 2013.
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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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RED TENT GATHERING
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 December 16, 1-4PM
A group of about 15 women came together, under the leadership of Johanna Henning and Rosemary Nolan, for our first Red Tent Gathering last month.
We talked about what our particular monthly gatherings might encompass, and watched: "Things We Don't Talk About, Women's Voices from the Red Tent" by Filmmaker, Isadora Gabrielle Leidenfrost, PhD. It was great to see our Yoga Studio and some of you in portions of the film. There was much enthusiasm to continue with a monthly gathering and so we will meet again on December 16th, from 1-4 PM.
Cost: $10 per person. Please pre-register.
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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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JOURNEY IN BELLY DANCING BASICS
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 Begins January 10, 7-8:30pm
4 Part series Thursdays in January
with Rosemary Nolan
See why Belly Dancing is freeing, meditative, sensual, empowering, graceful, strengthening, and a great work-out for all ages, shapes and sizes. Only requirement is to promise to leave your negative body self-talk outside the door and prepare to have fun.
Cost: $15 drop-in or $50 for series. Get registered today!
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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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"HOW TO TAKE A RETREAT" CLASS
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 January 15, 7-9pm
Our Women's Wisdom Retreat Series continues with the next "How to Take a Retreat" Class on Tuesday, Jan. 15th from 7-9PM.
It might be titled "Everything you've ever wanted to know about taking a personal retreat but were embarrassed to ask". This is an informal and informative class for retreat beginners or returners.
Get registered today!
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SOUND BATH
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 January 22, 6-7pm
For those who missed this incredibly beautiful, restorative experience last time, Bindy Johnson will be bringing her singing bowls for a return visit on Tuesday, Jan. 22 from 6-7 PM.
Picture yourself resting on your mat and pillow, eyes shut, cocooned under your cozy blanket, listening to the beautiful sounds of many singing bowls washing over you, as Bindy leads you on a soul journey to deep spiritual levels as the vibrations work to heal and balance your inner being. What a yummy way to begin a new year!
Cost: $20 space is limited, register early and plan to arrive by 5:45 pm.
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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 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.
We can't wait to see you at the Inn!
Sincerely, 
The Gathering Inn
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