Hape Kerkeling, the German comedian who wrote "I'm Off Then" (his story about his pilgrimage along the Camino De Santiago), says this: "The first five minutes of a foreign language film are torture for me, but when I finally relax into it and stop straining to catch every word, I get what's going on." He continues:  "We don't understand life right off the bat either.  Maybe I ought to approach life the way I deal with a movie in Spanish-I just sit back and relax, and before I know it I catch on to the essentials.  What good is it to pounce on one silly word ... only to miss the rest of the actual scene?"

Do I do that?  Do I focus on the small, inconsequential details of life and miss the actual "scene"? 

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JOIN US FOR THE OFFICIAL GRAND OPENING

Integrated Reiki™ Clinic 

Facilitated by M'Liss Calzaretta, RMT, IRMT

& Margaret Thompson, RMT, IRMT

Sunday, September 22, 2013

EVERYONE is invited to join the celebration at

The Gathering Inn Holistic Center

Hubbardston, MA

Reception: 3-4:00 pm

Clinic: 4-7:00pm

If you would like to receive Integrated Reiki™, join us to experience the support it brings toward your full health and wellbeing.

Practitioners will be students trained in Integrated Reiki™ Levels 1/2 or Level 3/Master and supervised by Margaret & M'liss of Evoking Alchemy.

$40 per person; or bring a friend and you each pay only $30.

Reserve your place at the Integrated Reiki™ Table:

Call Margaret Thompson: 303-748-1218

Visit www.evokingalchemy.com or

Call The Gathering Inn: 978-820-1139

Visitors welcome to freely observe and not receive treatment.

Integrated Reiki™ (IR) is a holistic practice used to calm and balance the energetic charge of presenting conditions. The calming and balancing effects of IR can facilitate the body in its own capacity to regulate and heal itself. IR can also assist to discharge intense emotional conditions and foster emotional wellbeing, and it can facilitate the quieting of an over-stimulated mind toward clarity of thinking and action.

with M'Liss Calzaretta & Margaret Thompson of Evoking Alchemy

Private Integrated Reiki™ Healing Sessions: Move through a three phase wholistic process for healing and restoration that supports a full unfolding in wholeness as you move through life. With M'Liss Calzaretta &Margaret Thompson. Read more...

Integrated Reiki™ Levels 1 & 2 Certificate Training: with Margaret Thompson and M'Liss Calzaretta. Learn and experience a series of energetic practices that will bring you into a direct and aware encounter with the human energy body. Read more...

October 4-6

Integrated Reiki™ Levels 3 & Master 1 Certificate Training: Learn tools for refining and expanding your Reiki experience and practice.  Go further into the energetics of human experience, and into deeper union with the planetary energy body and universal spirit. Read more...

September 13-15

Why on earth would you want to take a silent retreat and not be able to talk for 36 whole hours?

Come try it! 

There will be plenty of unstructured time to go deep within, as well as suggested activities you may choose to participate in to keep you occupied: meditation, journaling, creative art work, yoga, suggested reading, walking the labyrinth, and more.

Get registered today!

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!