True North Holistic Center

82 Healdville Rd
Hubbardston, MA 01452
978-820-1139

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In This Issue

Merry's Musings

True North: On the Road

Couples Retreat

Integrated Reiki™ Training

December Happenings

Plans for 2014

Help Us Help You!

We are compiling our 2014 programming and are asking you to email us with your ideas of programs, topics, or speakers you'd like to see featured here at True North in the year ahead.

We want to do all we can to meet your needs and we thank you for your help.

Hatha Yoga Classes

Mondays 7 pm,

Tuesday 8:30 am

Wednesdays 8:30 am

No class December 25th

New Year's Day class

January 1 at 8:30 am

Please click through to our website for all the details!

Potluck Plus!

Please join us on the 2nd Wednesday evening each month 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.

UPCOMING

POTLUCK PROGRAMS

December 11

Festive Holiday Potluck & Ornament Swap.

Dress in your holiday best, or in your reindeer footie pajamas, or just come as you are. We will share a yummy potluck holiday meal and then enjoy a Ornament Yankee Swap.

Learn more on our website!

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!?

True North Holistic Center and Retreat House offers the services of a number of private practitioners, by appointment, such as massage therapy, Reiki, therapeutic yoga, life coaching, and nutritional counseling.
These services are available to guests of True North Holistic Center 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 True North Holistic Center at 978-820-1139 to make arrangements.

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December 3 , 2013

Just like you, we have been making holiday plans for some time now and have been trying to decide what you might want and need. We hope we've done a good job in collecting and offering you several gifts of self-care for December. They involve healing, quiet, ritual, community, and celebration. Please choose one for yourself.

And while you're at it, think about a True North Gift Certificate for your friends. We even have some events planned for the men in your life. So call us and we'll mail out your certificates or drop a BIG hint to the gift buyers in your life that you'd love to have a True North Gift Certificate in your Christmas stocking this year.

May you all have a truly blessed and peace-filled holiday season.

MERRY'S MUSINGS:

I kid, I was always flitting around with my head in the clouds and not watching where I was going. (Some would say I am still flitting around with my head in the clouds.) I can hear my mother saying: "Watch where you're walking." But now I know it's not where you are walking; it's how you are walking in the world that counts. If you aren't aware and present, you can be tripped up, fall, lose your balance, and can take many a wrong turn.

Participating recently in the Mindful Meditation class here at True North, we spent one class session mindfully walking. As we were walking slowly with our focus solely on how we put each foot down and lifted up the other, we were in the present moment and totally aware of the activity of walking. Try it; it's very interesting. AND hard to keep your balance.

But it made me think. We refer so often to this experience of life as being a journey and journeys involve walking. So, how am I walking in this world? Am walking through life just as mindfully?

TRUE NORTH: ON THE ROAD:

recently took an Integrated Reiki™ Clinic to The Arc of Opportunity in Fitchburg and offered sessions to their staff who work so hard taking care of other people. It was beautiful to be able to offer them some self care.

We had a fabulous experience at the Spirit of Change Natural Living Expo in Marlboro on Nov. 16 & 17th. Over 8,000 people visited the Expo that weekend. Welcome to everyone who registered at our booth to join our e-newsletter community.

Thank you to Evoking Alchemy for sharing our booth, offering complementary wellness sessions to a steady line of folks, and talking to so many about the benefits of all the programs Evoking Alchemy offers here at True North, including Integrated Reiki™ and Dynamic Equilibrium.

And thank you to artist Melissa Harris who had the adjoining booth and sent many people over to register for her art-making workshop hosted here the following weekend.

Next up is the huge Mass Conference for Women this Thursday December 5th at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. They are expecting over 10,000 people and we are gearing up. Evoking Alchemy will again be joining us and we hope to roll out our corporate women's "Shoes Off" retreats.

Thank you to all the volunteers who helped staff both Expos: Tina, Allyson, Carol, Jim, Marcia, Trish, Cheryl, Margaret, M'Liss,and Merry. We can't do this outreach without you all.

We've also been invited back this spring to participate in UMass Medical School's Complementary & Alternative Medicine Wellness Day.

If any of you know of wellness events where we might be presenters or exhibitors, please let us know!

COUPLES RETREAT:

Mindful Makeover in your Relationships

January 10-11, 2014

Led by Sue & Ray Medeiros

Would you like to embrace the New Year by giving your relationship a facelift?

Start this new beginning with fresh eyes, minds and hearts.

Come to this retreat to nurture and balance your relationship - to bring it to mutual dedication. Each of you will be challenged and supported in becoming a mindful partner.

We will lead you through exercises, fun, partner yoga, and rest!

This weekend will help you to understand your partner on a deeper level, appreciating that your love for each other will bring you closer to your inner selves.

Cost : $380.00 per couple, includes accommodations, meals and retreat. The retreat is limited to 4 couples and begins Friday evening after dinner (7 PM) and ends after dinner Saturday night.

Get registered today!

INTEGRATED REIKI™ TRAINING:

Integrated Reiki™ Levels 1 & 2 Training

January 24-25, 2014

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: December 15, 2013

Please Note: This training qualifies for CEUs.

Integrated Reiki™ is an enhanced form of Reiki born from the combined training, practice and teachings of Evoking Alchemy's founders M'Liss Calzaretta and Margaret Thompson. They integrate traditional Reiki fundamentals with Chakra clearing and balancing and Breema� bodywork. Integrated Reiki™ training also offers other tools for deepening your understanding and capacity to embody and practice wholeness, wellness and healing to benefit yourself and others and to be clear and healthy in your own energy bodies.

The energetics are essential to these teachings. You will come to understand how the energy body affects your physical, mental and emotional being and then how to manage and utilize that energy in Reiki flow and in all areas of your lives

This training weekend features 20 training hours, including experiences to encounter the out of doors, journey into your own wisdom, and develop your intuitive intelligence, and self-understanding. Build your capacity to tap into the spiritual support that is available to you at all times.

Get registered today!

DECEMBER HAPPENINGS:

Friday, December 6, All Day: Private Integrated Healing & Wellness Sessions with Margaret Thompson & M'Liss Calzaretta of Evoking Alchemy. This is the best holiday gift you could give yourself... a little oasis of wellness in the midst of a hectic season. Call for appointment.

Friday - Sunday, December 6 - 8: "Blue Christmas" Women's Wisdom�

Retreat.

If the Ho! Ho!Ho! has gone out of your holidays, this restorative retreat is for any woman who is finding the holidays emotionally difficult due to loss, illness, or loneliness and would like some tools to travel through this season with peace and acceptance.

Sunday, December 8, 3-7:00 PM: Integrated Reiki™ Clinic - 3-4 PM Reception, 4-7 PM Clinic. This event is open to men and women. A great way to get grounded before the holiday busyness really takes off.

Wednesday, December 11, 6:30-9 PM: Potluck Plus! Holiday Dinner. Annual Holiday Potluck dinner and Ornament Swap. See the sideline for more details.

Friday, December 20, 7-8:30 PM: Annual Winter Solstice Spiral Celebration. Men, women and families are invited to this quiet, contemplative ceremony. On the shortest day of the year, we honor the restorative nature of the dark, restfulness of winter and celebrate the start of the returning of the light. Picture pine boughs, candles, soft music and time to take a good deep breath of peace.

PLANS FOR 2014

January 8, 6:30-9:00 PM: Potluck Plus!

January 10 - 11: Couples Retreat.(snow date: Jan 31-Feb.1) See details above.

January 15 - 17: "Shoes Off!" R & R Retreats for Women Business Executives.

January 19: Integrated Reiki™ Clinic.

January 20, 22, 27, & 29: Private Integrated Healing & Wellness Sessions

January 24-26: Integrated Reiki™ Training - Level 1 & 2

February 12, 6:30-9:00PM: Potluck Plus! Dinner

February 14-16: Dynamic Equilibrium™ Workshop.

Dynamic Equilibrium™ describes the natural state of being for humans. In its full expression, it is the state in which our physical, mental, emotional and energetic capacities are totally available to us in the moment, informing and empowering us toward clear, authentic and meaningful enactment of our gifts in the world. In this weekend training we offer you the opportunity to experience and explore Dynamic Equilibrium through the lens of human energetics.

February 16: Integrated Reiki™ Clinic

February 28 to March 2: Women's Wisdom Silent Retreat

March 7 to 9: Mother/Daughter Retreat for Mom's with Adult Daughters

March 19-21: "Shoes Off!" R & R Retreats for Women Business Executives.

March 22, 9 AM-3 PM: Mental Massage: Strategies for Achieving Your Goals and Managing Stress. A day-long retreat for men. Leaders: Tom Ingrassia, Jared Chrudimsky, Scott Lamlein. Tom & Jared are the owners of the Motivact Group, and authors of "One Door Closes, Overcoming Adversity by Following Your Dreams".

May 14-16: "Shoes Off!" R & R Retreats for Women Business Executives.

September 15 - 17: "Shoes Off!" R & R Retreats for Women Business Executives.

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Details Coming Soon!

Women in the Wild this Spring
Mother/Daughter Retreat with Tweens this Summer. (July 18-20)
Mommy & Me Retreat for Moms with Toddlers

True North Holistic Center and Retreat House is available for retreat leaders and practitioners to offer their programs. And of course, don't forget that our primary mission is to provide 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. True North Star

We can't wait to see you at True North!

Sincerely,

True North Holistic Center and Retreat House