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Events for January
From 01/06/2010 to 01/08/2010
Matters that Matter with Special Guests Molly Davis & Kristine Van Raden
Bringing Courage, Contentment and Grace to Life
We all know that our lives are best governed by our most deeply held values, beliefs and priorities. Yet there is much to distract and dilute even the best of intentions. Rather than thrive by following our hearts and what we know to be true, we often struggle to survive amidst demands, voices and expectations other than our own. We can lose sight of that which is truly important.Each workshop will allow participants to consider that which is truly important, and find new ways to live that are reflective of who they are and what they value. Sessions are a combination of storytelling, discussion and guided thinking exercises. You will be encouraged, entertained and will come away with new personal insights and a personal call to action for the new year.
January 6- COURAGE
Fear can stop us in our tracks, rob us of joy and possibility. Discover new ways to cultivate courage in your own life, thus enabling you to make choices and decisions based on the matters that matter to you.
January 7- CONTENTMENT
Contentment - to be at peace with our lives - can be illusive at best. And yet it is what we all desire. Discover how to unpack those things that no longer serve you and move forward into the new year in a more simple and authentic way.
January 8- GRACE
Grace is the choice to accept and extend goodness in the midst of an imperfect world. When we live with Grace, we are able to love the journey, not just the destination. Find new ways to accept and extend Grace in your world
Molly Davis & Kristine Van Raden are co-founders of Matters That MatterTM. Friendship, family, career, and life challenges have taught them about what truly matters. Their mission is to inspire people to live according to their own deeply held values and priorities by bringing courage, contentment and grace to life. They are co-authors of the internationally published book, Letters to Our Daughters. Their beautiful book, featured on the Oprah Show, is a collection of letters from women to their daughters. It illustrates the common threads that connect us as human beings in the midst of our differences. They have inspired audiences across the country with their challenging, insightful and relevant message.
Molly Davis is a successful corporate trainer. A gifted teacher, she combines practical strategies and real life stories with humor and heart.
Kristine Van Raden is an accomplished professional artist. Her artistic insight brings depth, compassion and creativity to their program experience.
01/09/2010
What's Right for You...This Year? The 7 Ways to Make Your Best Decision... Every Time. With Special Guest Peggy Pepper
Your decisions shape your choices. Your choices create your life. With so much information and so many options coming at us so fast, every single day, sometimes it hard to know what to do. In this workshop, you will learn the 7 keys to making your best decision---the ones that are right for you, all the time, every time.In her blog, SCREAMS of CONSCIOUSNESS.com, which is read by nearly 2 million people in 42 countries, Peggy Pepper is constantly asking the question: "What's true...for you???? Because when we know our own truth, then we can make the wise decisions that create our best possible life."
Peggy has spent a lifetime re-inventing herself from award winning creative director in the world of international advertising to successful entrepreneur, and interior designer where she has been featured on HGTV since 1999. She honored a long-time spiritual calling by becoming an ordained minister in 2005 and became a mentor to women seeking a renewed life purpose. She also currently sponsors and co-hosts a weekly radio show: A New Way to Handle Absolutely Everything on Contact Talk Radio. She is married with three grown step-children and lives in Dallas. Peggy has been coming to Lake Austin Spa Resort, since its Bermuda Inn days---long before it became "the amazing place it is now!"
From 01/11/2010 to 01/17/2010
The Culinary Experience: January 2010
Learn the secrets of preparing and enjoying deliciously healthy food and take part of the Lake Austin Spa Resort experience home with you! This month's special guest chefs are Paula Lambert and Corinne Trang (pictured)!
Monday, January 11
Cooking Session with Paula LambertPaula Lambert is a cheese maker and an entrepreneur. The Mozzarella Company, a small Dallas cheese factory, founded with the goal of making cheeses like those Paula loved when she lived in Italy. Today, her hand-crafted, award-winning artesinal cheeses are sold throughout the United States to restaurants, hotels and gourmet shops, as well as to cheese lovers at her factory shop.
The cheeses have been featured in publications such as Gourmet, Food & Wine, Bon Appetit and The New York Times, served at the Academy Awards and to presidents and royalty and won many awards from prestigious organizations. Paula and the Mozzarella Company have also appeared on many nationally-broadcast television programs including "Food Finds," "Unwrapped," "Cooking with Sara Moulton," and Mario Batali's "Ciao America" on TVFN and Stephan Pyles' "Cuisine of the Southwest" on PBS.
Paula has published two cookbooks, The Cheese Lovers Cookbook and Guide, which was nominated as a Finalist for the World Cookbook Awards in Cork, Ireland, and Cheese Glorious Cheese.
Saturday, January 16
Cooking Session with Corinne TrangCorinne Trang is the “Julia Child of Asian Cuisine,” according to The Washington Post. She is an award-winning author of six cookbooks and a lifestyle writer for distinguished publications such as Food & Wine, Health, Cooking Light and Saveur. Corinne is also expert on Asian cuisines and cultures, beverage and food consultant, lecturer, spokesperson, chef and recipe developer. She is a frequent radio and television guest as well as the chief east coast correspondent for America’s Dining and Travel Guide (Business Talk Radio).
Born in France’s Loire Valley of a French mother and a Cambodian-Chinese father, Trang was raised in Phnom Penh, Paris, and New York. She has traveled extensively and studied culture and cuisine throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.
01/23/2010
For The Love of Books Club: Skeletons at the Feast, Chris Bohjalian
Join us each month for a wine and cheese book chat as we host great guest authors in a lively discussion about all things literary and not so literary. Authors and guests have fun discussing the writing process, exchanging titles, sharing informal book reviews and debating about wireless reading devices! January's featured book is Skeletons at the Feast by special guest author Chris Bohjalian.
Special Guest New York Times Best Selling Author of Skeletons at the Feast: Chris Bohjalian
Chris Bohjalian is the author of eleven novels, including the New York Times bestsellers, Skeletons at the Feast, The Double Bind, Before You Know Kindness, The Law of Similars, and Midwives.
His World War II love story, Skeletons at the Feast, arrived in paperback in February 2009.
Chris won the New England Book Award in 2002, and his novel, Midwives, was a number one New York Times bestseller, a selection of Oprah's Book Club, a Publishers Weekly "Best Book," and a New England Booksellers Association Discovery pick. His work has been translated into 25 languages and has sold over three and a half million copies. Twice his books have become movies ("Midwives" and "Past the Bleachers").
He has written for a wide variety of magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest, and the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, and has been a Sunday columnist for Gannett's Burlington Free Press since 1992. Chris graduated from Amherst College, and lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter.
From 01/25/2010 to 01/27/2010
Feng Shui Style with Feng Shui Hair Stylist Billy Yamaguchi
Billy Yamaguchi will be speaking and available for private appointments.
As president and co-owner of Yamaguchi Enterprises, Billy Yamaguchi has developed a series of salons that offer unsurpassed services in luxurious settings. With California locations in Ventura, La Quinta Resort & Spa in La Quinta, La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, the new Four Seasons in Westlake Village, Rancho Las Palmas in Rancho Mirage, and the Del Coronado Hotel in Coronado Island, the salons truly exemplify the holistic principles that guide his vision of beauty. More than ten years ago, Billy began his study of Feng Shui and a quest to wed this philosophy to his training in the Western tradition of hair design. He soon discovered there was no existing method of integrating these disciplines and he devoted himself to combining the elements into an entirely innovative approach to beauty and harmony. He was the first to adapt Feng Shui techniques and products to the Beauty Industry.
During the course of his eighteen- year career, Billy has participated in countless fashion shows, photo and make-up shoots and television commercials. He is one of the spokespersons for Schwarzkopf, Inc., a renowned hair color manufacturer, and he has conducted educational classes throughout the United States and abroad. Leading seminars and workshops throughout Europe, Asia, South America, North America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, Billy has brought the fundamentals of hair artistry and the Feng Shui principles as they are applied to beauty to a worldwide community of stylists.
Billy is the author of Yamaguchi Feng Shui: The Art & Science of Color Formulation for the salon professionals as well as Billy Yamaguchi Feng Shui Beauty which is available in book stores and online. Billy was selected by HairColor USA among top colorists internationally and was cited as one of the twenty-five most influential educators of the century.
In 2006, Yamaguchi Salons were voted top twenty salons in US by beauty editors. In January/February 2007 issue of California Style Magazine [C Magazine], Yamaguchi Salons were listed as one of top five salons in California. Recognized as a "Holistic Hair Artist" by Town and Country and as a "Feng Shui Artist" by Bridge Magazine, USA, his work as also been showcased in Salon Today, Modern Salon, American Salon, and Hairspa. Billy has made numerous appearances on national and international television shows: ABC News, KCAL News, CBS News, CNN, KNBC, E! Entertainment, Style Network, Behind the Scenes on Showtime, Rikki Lake, Life Time Channel's New Attitudes, Fuji TV, Early Morning Show on Tokyo TV, CBS Early Morning Show, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and the Dr. Phil Show.
