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Discovery Programs

Live Music

Join us for some live music featuring Austin area musicians including jazz, folk, country and alternative styles.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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