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Funtensity Week
Flexing Your Creative Muscles: Using Storytelling to Stretch & Release
Week of November 30, 2024
“Flexing Your Creative Muscles: Using Storytelling to Stretch & Release” is a series of writing workshops inspired by Jennifer Harris’s diverse experience as a writer,...
Learning to Live with Less
Week of January 18, 2025
Learning to Live with Less and Why it Matters What are the financial and psychological costs that clutter can have on your personal and professional...
Healing Through Naturopathic Medicine
Week of February 22, 2025
Healing through Naturopathic Medicine: Here we explore foundational principles of wellness from the perspective of a Naturopathic Doctor (ND). The Ranch offers an ideal place...
Personal Healing is Earth Healing with Tony Skrelunas
Week of March 1, 2025
Red Road Journey is bringing native elders and wisdom keepers to Rancho La Puerta, to share stories, pray, sing, teach and inspire; to celebrate the...
Grace Dane Mazur – Writing Workshop
Week of March 15, 2025
Join Grace Dane Mazur for a reading from her latest novel and discussion of her mid-life transition from biological research (concentrating on Silkworms) to fiction...
Secrets of Give and Take
Week of June 28, 2025
Imagine what your life would be like if everyone you interact with – at work and at home - would value and reward you for...
The Writer’s Journal
Week of December 21, 2024
The Journal as a Starting Place Journal writing is an ideal way to express and develop ideas, emotions and creativity as well as a way...
Illuminate Your Life
Week of January 18, 2025
The Interior Journey: Listening to Your Life How can you live from the center of who you have been born to be, not who you...
Diane Arkin | Mexican Art
Week of March 15, 2025
Giants of 20th Century Mexican Mural Art Mexico has long been a magnet for an international community of avant-garde intellectuals, writers, poets, and artists, but...
Diane Arkin | Mexican Art
Week of November 1, 2025
Giants of 20th Century Mexican Mural Art Mexico has long been a magnet for an international community of avant-garde intellectuals, writers, poets, and artists, but...
Diane Arkin | Mexican Art
Week of November 15, 2025
Giants of 20th Century Mexican Mural Art Mexico has long been a magnet for an international community of avant-garde intellectuals, writers, poets, and artists, but...
Empower Your Mind: A Journey Through Stress, Resilience, and EQ for Total Well-Being
Week of November 23, 2024
A Mindful Approach to Stress In today’s ever-evolving world, stress is an inevitable part of life. However, stress doesn’t have to be a nemesis; it...
A Path for Personalized Wellness
Week of October 4, 2025
Lifestyle Approaches to Reduce Chronic Medical Conditions The Mediterranean diet can lower the risk of chronic diseases. We’ll explore tips about not only nutrition but...
A Path for Personalized Wellness
Week of March 29, 2025
Lifestyle Approaches to Reduce Chronic Medical Conditions The Mediterranean diet can lower the risk of chronic diseases. We’ll explore tips about not only nutrition but...
Your DNA is NOT Your Destiny!
Week of December 7, 2024
DNA is only responsible for approximately 15% of our life expectancy. The emerging field of Epigenetics explains how our choices of health-related behaviors control proteins...
The Great Microbiome and Other Topics
Week of February 1, 2025
The Great Microbiome: Our Greatest Ally for Optimal Health It is becoming common knowledge that gut bacteria are connected to aspects of health, including inflammation,...
5 Ways to Nourish Your Mind and Body
Week of March 8, 2025
Our physical, mental and emotional health are interconnected as the very same things that are good for the body are also good for the mind....
Retain/Re-Claim a Clear, Creative, Vibrant Mind
Week of January 25, 2025
Retain / Reclaim a Clear Creative Mind: Cognitive Health Map The body and mind are two sides of a coin. Identify the constellation of issues...
Gut Feelings: Brain, Gut, Diet, Microbiome Connection
Week of December 28, 2024
Where Love of Wisdom & Truth Meet Philosophy – the love of wisdom, and science – the search for truth, are intertwined and complementary. Both...
Nourishing Your Health with Integrative Medicine
Week of December 21, 2024
Reversing Illness: Lessons from Integrative Medicine Given the incredible advances of modern medicine, it is surprising that its focus is more often on managing chronic...
Food as Medicine: Optimizing Your Health and Well-Being
Week of April 5, 2025
Food Myths – What Should I Be Eating? Am I getting enough protein? Should I limit carbs? What about fat? Do I need to eat...
Food as Medicine: Optimizing Your Health and Well-Being
Week of June 7, 2025
Food Myths – What Should I Be Eating? Am I getting enough protein? Should I limit carbs? What about fat? Do I need to eat...
The New Matriarchy + Writing Workshop
Week of March 22, 2025
The New Matriarchy There's a new generation of powerful older women who are becoming a major force in our society. You don't need to be...
Harvesting Your Stories
Week of March 29, 2025
Each one of us lives a life overflowing with stories. Our challenge is to find the time and place to harvest those stories and share...
Matters That Matter® Standing At The Threshold: An Invitation to Transformation
Week of January 25, 2025
Transformation is what happens when we allow ourselves to learn from and be changed by our experience. As we step into a new year we...
Breath Work with Shanti Tilling
Week of August 2, 2025
You can survive weeks without food, days without water, but only minutes without air!! Breath is absolutely vital for our survival and while every functional...
Healthy Knees & Bicycle Adventure
Week of February 8, 2025
The 3 Secrets to Healthy Knees for Life - Presentation Learn the 3 secrets to soothe, stabilize, and strengthen your knees so you do the...
The Psychedelic Renaissance With Kathryn Tucker
Week of January 11, 2025
What is all the excitement about? What mental health challenges may be addressed, what personal development might be achieved, with these promising investigational drugs? Keen...
Amp Up Your Interpersonal Effectiveness!
Week of December 7, 2024
It All Starts with YOU—and How You Come Across to Others How do you look and sound? We’ll examine the seven essential communication components that...
Amp Up Your Interpersonal Effectiveness! With Denise Dudley
Week of August 30, 2025
It All Starts with YOU—and How You Come Across to Others How do you look and sound? We’ll examine the seven essential communication components that...
Amp Up Your Interpersonal Effectiveness! With Denise Dudley
Week of October 18, 2025
It All Starts with YOU—and How You Come Across to Others How do you look and sound? We’ll examine the seven essential communication components that...
Amp Up Your Interpersonal Effectiveness! With Denise Dudley
Week of November 22, 2025
It All Starts with YOU—and How You Come Across to Others How do you look and sound? We’ll examine the seven essential communication components that...
Amp Up Your Interpersonal Effectiveness! With Denise Dudley
Week of December 13, 2025
It All Starts with YOU—and How You Come Across to Others How do you look and sound? We’ll examine the seven essential communication components that...
Be Quiet, Be Heard
Week of April 12, 2025
Hidden Communication: Why People Hear What We Don’t Say A world of communication lurks below the surface of our awareness. When we are in conflict,...
Skincare with Amy Brodsky
Week of March 8, 2025
Understanding Skin Cancer and Sun Protection How to Build a Skincare Routine Top Ten Anti-Aging Skincare Tips What to Look for in a Sunscreen ...
Inspired Portrait Painting: My Approach for a Traditional Art Form
Week of November 30, 2024
Portrait artist, Juan Bastos, takes us on a tour of 21st century portrait painting with stories from his 40-year career, sharing how studying the great...
Begin Your Year Right Journaling for Well-Being
Week of February 15, 2025
Writing Workshop – three sessions Whether you are working on a short story or novel, crave healing through writing, or would simply like to structure...
The Power of Purpose
Week of March 29, 2025
Bestselling author, life coach, and speaker, Richard Leider brings the power of purpose to life helping us to find meaning, live longer, better. To get...
The Joys of Story
Week of January 11, 2025
Discover It, Write It, Publish It, Discuss It Writers of all levels will learn actionable tips for brainstorming, writing and publishing everything from fiction to...
Beyond Kegels: A Lifetime of Pelvic Health
Week of January 11, 2025
OVERVIEW- This series of presentations empowers you to understand your pelvic floor muscles and the associated core control, bowel, bladder and sexual functions. It includes...
Unleash Your Inner Athlete for Brain Health and Longevity
Week of June 28, 2025
We all want to live a long and (more importantly) vibrant life. What if I told you the key to unlocking this through the exercise...
Looking at the Wonders of the Winter Sky
Week of March 15, 2025
Explore Rancho La Puerta’s Night Sky – Lecture The dark skies at the Ranch provide a fabulous opportunity for seeing the wonders of Winter Sky...
iPhoneography with Yoni Mayeri
Week of December 7, 2024
All presentations will be on the iPhone; Android users welcome too. If you miss a session, it’s fine to show up for any sessions that...
The Journey to a Cleaner Energy Future
Week of February 15, 2025
Climate Change: The Multi-faceted Challenge of a Just Transition to a Cleaner Energy Future This first discussion will provide you a practicable global perspective on...
Healthy Pleasures
Week of April 5, 2025
Healthy Pleasures: Why Everything that Feels Good is Not Bad- Monday 1 pm Olmeca Gym Many people think that to promote health they must undertake...
Busy But Fit
Week of February 15, 2025
Tales from the Wilderness Medical Tent: Humorous and harrowing stories from the world of outdoor adventure sports Sports Medicine Update- Ask me anything Busy But...
Busy But Fit
Week of August 2, 2025
Tales from the Wilderness Medical Tent: Humorous and harrowing stories from the world of outdoor adventure sports Sports Medicine Update- Ask me anything Busy But...
Your Best Year
Week of September 6, 2025
Your Best Year: Finding Fulfillment in Unfulfilling Times Our world today is rife with chaos and uncertainty. There is so much happening and a great...
Breathwork for Emotional Integration and Spiritual Connection
Week of March 15, 2025
Let Christian guide you on a fantastical journey into the inner realms of your being, using the most powerful tool for transformation endowed to every...
The Functionality of Your Eye Brain Connection
Week of January 25, 2025
The Functionality of Your Eye Brain Connection Integrating Periphery and Affecting Balance and Movement Vision is learned, and 75% of all sensory input is vision....
Writing Workshop for Poets, Songwriters or Prose Writers + Concert
Week of December 14, 2024
Evening Concert at Oaktree Pavilion Laura Veirs will be performing a solo concert of original songs from her 25-year catalog. Laura will play nylon-string guitar...