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Live Music
Join us for some live music featuring Austin area musicians including jazz, folk, country and alternative styles.
Collages From the Heart
Also known as a creative collage, story-board, or printed visualization. Treasure mapping is the process of visualizing on paper exactly what you want. This is a fabulous way to clarify and add power and passion to anything you would like to create
Posture Perfect
This discussion reviews factors that contribute to poor standing alignment. You will learn techniques that reinforce good posture.
Intro to Texas Hold 'em Poker
Join us for some fun as you learn the rules and basic strategy of the game. Poker has now equaled in popularity the older classics like bunko and bridge as an excuse to get people together. It is a fun exciting game that anyone can learn, and Texas Hold'em is the game of games when it comes to having a card night.
Living from the Inside Out
Job pressures, family pressures, rapid changes in technology and the overall fabric of society make this world a very confusing and stressful place at times. It's easy to become lost or feel disconnected. Anne Irving will help you tune into your internal needs and desires and find your authentic self.
Building Stronger Bones
Find out how to prevent bone loss as we go through life. Learn what we can do with our eating and exercise practices to decrease our risk for osteoporosis. Our fitness trainers can tailor a "Building Stronger Bones" fitness program for you to follow at home to keep the bones healthy and strong.
Master Your Metabolism
Our body composition is determined by a combination of our resting metabolism, activity levels, and food intake. By managing these components, we can move toward the body composition that is ideal for us based on age, gender, and genetics. In this class you'll learn ways to boost your metabolism through appropriate exercise and eating.
Personal Retreat
One of the spa's most popular activities! This participatory program begins with light stretching, followed by body brushing, the application of lotion and ending with tennis ball acupressure. A handout will be provided to recreate the experience at home. Please wear loose fitting clothing.
Five Elements
This class brings together several systems of archetypal symbols, including Jungian personality typing, astrology and Tarot cards. Combining these approaches, this talk includes life-balancing guided meditation exercises.
Transforming Stress
Learn how to better manage stress by using the heart space to change the circuitry and rhythm of the body. Find out how to decrease the stress hormones and increase the youth-producing hormones in this insightful discussion on stress.
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Aromatherapy Workshop
Learn the art and science of using essential oils from flowers, leaves, roots or bark of plants to treat the mind, body and spirit.
Art of Storytelling
Learn the skills and subtle art of oral storytelling for educational and entertainment purposes.
Balancing the Chakras through Yoga and Meditation
The seven chakras are specific vital centers in the body that govern our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being. This class includes lecture, simple yoga movements, chanting and meditation.
Bead-a-Bracelet
Learn basic techniques of beading while you make a beautiful bracelet to take home.
Cooking Demonstrations
Learn healthy ways to prepare delicious low-fat cuisine. Recipes are provided, and don't miss the tantalizing taste test.
Creating a Home Spa
Take the wisdom you've learned home: skin treatments, physical activity, relaxation, life skills and more. Learn 30-second to 45-minute activities you can do to recreate the spa experience.
Discover Your Fitness Personality
After completing a questionnaire to determine your Fitness Personality, you will learn about four approaches to fitness. You will be given recommendations of classes at the Spa to take, and activities you can do at home to best fit your Fitness Personality.
Dream Wisdom
Learn how dream images can be a message from the unconscious to the conscious mind.
Fun with Watercolor
Let's get out the watercolor paints and have some fun. Make a bookmark or a postcard. No experience necessary.
Garden Tour
Explore the resort's organic formal gardens with our Director of Flora and Fauna, Trisha Shirey.
Insights from the Tarot
The Tarot are a series of cards from 15th century Italy which depict lessons for our personal development. This class includes a discussion of the imagery and meaning of the major cards, a meditation on a Tarot card image and a demonstration of a mini-Tarot reading.
Introduction to Ayurveda
Learn about this ancient Indian system of health. You'll fill out a questionnaire to determine your body's Ayurvedic constitution.
Joy of Journaling
Tap into your inner wisdom, create personal growth and self-healing through the use of the written word.
Laughter is the Best Medicine
Join Liz Bila, Laughter Enthusiologist, for this fun and informative program. She will share humorous anecdotes and give you techniques to send you home laughing. This program is recommended to anyone who is interested in living life more fully and joyfully.
The Stars at Night: Astronomy Basics
Join us for an informative talk about the constellations. Learn to distinguish between planets and stars and how to identify particular stars. If the weather cooperates, we will spend a portion of the evening outdoors viewing the stars from a telescope.
Transforming Rituals
Rituals can enhance our spirituality, ease transitions, give a new sense of self-worth, and better our relationship with family and friends. Gain knowledge of different types of rituals and how they can be important to your life.