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Dance & Pilates Week
How to Harness the Power of Fun to Feel More Alive
Week of July 27, 2024
Join Catherine Price, author of The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again, for a two-part "Funtervention" workshop—inspired by her viral TED talk—devoted to...
Musical Exploration with Royce and Rory
Week of July 27, 2024
Royce and Rory kick off their program with a Sunday Concert! Join them for their daily songwriting class with coaching included in preparation for Thursday’s...
StageKids
Week of July 27, 2024
Juggler, Magician, Poet, Dancer, Thespian, Singer, Mime; no matter what’s your jam, there is a place for you on stage Thursday night. Join Tom to...
Arts and Crafts
Week of July 27, 2024
Rubber Band Jewelry (children) Silk Scarf Tie Dye (all ages) Arm Knitting (children, tweens) Basic Crochet & Granny Squares (teens) Mallory Newbern is a...
Self-Defense – Tweens, Teens, and Women
Week of July 27, 2024
Self-Defense: Awareness, assertiveness and hands on training Boxing Lecture: 5 Ways to Keep Children Safe and Stay Connected at Any Age Katie Sasso is...
Screen/Life Balance and How to Break Up With Your Phone
Week of July 27, 2024
Join Catherine Price, TED speaker, and author of How to Break Up With Your Phone, for two workshops dedicated to helping families create healthier relationships...
Weaving & Macrame
Week of July 27, 2024
Weaving: Making a Pillow Pet for Children and Tweens Macrame: Water Bottle Holder for Tweens and Teens and Adults Janita Anne Nelson is a...
The Amazing Paint-Out
Week of July 27, 2024
Get Ready for an Epic Art Adventure! Join artist Erin Gafill for a super-fun week-long project: Painting the Mural! Help design and create a gigantic,...
Art Classes with Resident Artist Jennifer Brandt
Week of July 27, 2024
Drawing An introduction to basic perceptual tools for representational drawing—how our eyes and brain shape the reality we believe we see. Watercolor Demonstration of abstract...
Live Your Great Story!
Week of August 10, 2024
Live Your Great Story! Healthy Inner Dialogue – Discover Your Joyous Adult Emotional Fluency – Permission to Feel Powerful You – Ownership and Responsibility Create...
From the Arena to the C-Suite: Applying the Lessons of Sports Psychology to Leadership and Life
Week of September 21, 2024
Imagine how your life would change if you had the mental focus, confidence, and resilience of a professional athlete. Joe Aquilina is a Family Medicine...
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,...
Healing Through Naturopathic Medicine
Week of February 22, 2025
Here we explore foundational principles of wellness from the perspective of a Naturopathic Doctor (ND). The Ranch offers an ideal place to dive deeply into...
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...
Passport to Travel and Food Journaling
Week of September 28, 2024
When we write about travel or a great meal, we revisit the experience for a second time. When we read what we’ve written, we’re transported...
History of James Hubbell’s Artwork
Week of August 31, 2024
Guided Tour of Hubbell Artwork & Las Piedras Environmental Center A walking tour across the Ranch indoor & outdoor property discussing James Hubbell’s works and...
Nurturing Your Emotional Health
Week of November 23, 2024
A Mindful Approach to Stress During this time of unprecedented change and uncertainty, we have come to accept that stress is a part of daily...
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...
Awaken The Artist Within, a Creativity Immersion
Week of August 3, 2024
Jumpstart your creativity and boost your confidence, intuitive decision making, and skills in writing, painting, drawing, and design. Strengthen your creative practices and explore the...
The Future of You: How to Survive and Thrive in Changing Times
Week of August 10, 2024
This program will provide you with the information and tools to adapt to the upcoming dramatic changes in technology and environment while staying healthy, safe,...
Art Classes with Resident Artist Jennifer Brandt
Week of August 3, 2024
Drawing An introduction to basic perceptual tools for representational drawing—how our eyes and brain shape the reality we believe we see. Watercolor Demonstration of abstract...
Hand-Stitching and Group Quilting
Week of August 3, 2024
The act of Group Quilting opens the door to designing in community. Over the course of our week together you will have a chance to...
I Can’t Draw, and You Can Too!
Week of August 3, 2024
I have a secret to share. If you’ve been telling yourself that you can’t draw since you were seven it’s not true. Join me, and...
Awaken The Artist Within
Week of August 3, 2024
Jumpstart your creativity and break through creative barriers. During this multi-day art immersion, you’ll explore a variety of mediums and techniques to find entry into...
Happy Hour for Hormones
Week of August 10, 2024
Hormones Through the Ages This comfortable, warm and welcoming discussion will involve the women's health journey through the ages and the relationship of our hormonal...
A Path for Personalized Wellness
Week of September 7, 2024
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...
Breaking Up with Sugar
Week of September 7, 2024
Breaking up with Sugar Sugar is the most inflammatory food molecule we consume today. Refined sugars are a common additive that have been linked to...
Learning to Love Midlife
Week of August 31, 2024
12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better With Age Chip Conley is on a midlife mission. After disrupting the hospitality industry twice, first as the...
Body Intelligence: Listen to Your Innate Wisdom for Longevity
Week of August 10, 2024
Explore the transformative power of connecting with your body's innate wisdom and learn practical techniques to promote longevity and well-being. Do you know how to...
The Write Stuff: The Basics of Writing and Publishing a Book
Week of August 3, 2024
Have you ever had an idea for a fiction book but don’t know where to start? From idea to shelf, this program will lead you...
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...
Sedentary Lifestyle is the New Smoking
Week of November 16, 2024
Our bodies were made to move. Regular motion is the key to healthy circulation, optimizing cardiac risk factors, maintaining muscle mass, functional capacity, and joint...
The Power of Meaning and Purpose
Week of October 5, 2024
Learn how to harness the incredible power of the epigenome to enhance both life quantity and, more importantly, quality. With more than thirty years...
Your DNA is NOT Your Destiny!
Week of September 21, 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...
Developing Your Posture for Growth
Week of November 9, 2024
Are you at a crossroads, contemplating the next chapter of your life, or simply seeking to enrich your life journey with purpose and joy? This...
The Great Microbiome and Other Topics
Week of August 24, 2024
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 November 30, 2024
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....
Finding Your Balance Between What You Want to Eat and What You Should Eat
Week of November 2, 2024
Macronutrients, Blood Sugar, and Energy Levels: Navigating Health and Breaking Free from Sugar “Addiction” Have you ever experienced "hangry" mood swings or felt sluggish after...
Building Your Longevity Toolkit: Intermittent Fasting, The Power of Food and Other Simple Habits that Promote Healthy Aging
Week of October 19, 2024
Do you struggle with nagging health issues such as inflammation, pesky weight gain, poor sleep or declining energy? Come learn about a variety of free...
Visual Fitness 4 All: Engaging Creativity & Insight®
Week of October 26, 2024
Develop your visual fitness by exercising and building your creative muscles while enhancing your discernment skills. Enjoy unique interactive conversations and fun hands-on experiences that...
Retain/Re-Claim a Clear, Creative, Vibrant Mind
Week of August 31, 2024
Retain / Reclaim a Clear Creative Mind: Cognitive Health Map The body and mind are two sides of a coin. Identify the constellation of issues...
Incorporating Fasting into Your Daily Routine to Improve Overall Health
Week of October 26, 2024
Optimizing your Circadian Rhythm and Cardiovascular Health through Intermittent Fasting Dr. Taub’s presentation will review the science behind intermittent fasting including some the research studies...
Cutting Edge Nutrition
Week of August 17, 2024
Nutritional Resilience & Performance Our food choices also impact anxiety levels and stress, both of which can impair the inner shield of our resilience. Saliva...
Hot Topics for Holistic Health and Nutrition
Week of September 28, 2024
Boost Brain Health: Holistic Solutions for Memory, Focus & Clarity Improve brain function and prevent early aging with diet. Your brain needs essential nutrients for...
Hot Topics for Holistic Health and Nutrition
Week of August 3, 2024
Boost Brain Health: Holistic Solutions for Memory, Focus & Clarity Improve brain function and prevent early aging with diet. Your brain needs essential nutrients for...
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...
Finding Your Balance Between What You Want to Eat and What You Should Eat
Week of December 28, 2024
Macronutrients, Blood Sugar, and Energy Levels: Navigating Health and Breaking Free from Sugar “Addiction” Have you ever experienced "hangry" mood swings or felt sluggish after...
Finding Your Balance Between What You Want to Eat and What You Should Eat
Week of August 10, 2024
Macronutrients, Blood Sugar, and Energy Levels: Navigating Health and Breaking Free from Sugar “Addiction” Have you ever experienced "hangry" mood swings or felt sluggish after...
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...
Secrets to a Healthy Life
Week of September 14, 2024
Boosting Brain Health Uncover the secrets to a healthy, sharp and focused brain throughout all stages of life. Emerging research shows how what you eat...
Harvesting Your Stories
Week of November 16, 2024
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...
How I Became a New York Times Bestseller
Week of October 12, 2024
How I Became a New York Times Bestseller: A Very Improbable Story Please join us for a raucous evening of joy and laughter as Firoozeh...
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!
Week of November 2, 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...
Be Quiet, Be Heard
Week of October 19, 2024
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,...
Improv(e) Your Life
Week of October 19, 2024
Intro to Improv…The Power of Agreement The joy of improvisational comedy lies in its spontaneous creativity and seemingly effortless collaboration. The secret to both aspects...
The Perfect Lifestyle: Food, Wine, Sex, & Chocolate
Week of October 12, 2024
A Perfect Lifestyle: Food, Wine, Sex and Chocolate An overview talk covering a wide range of lifestyle issues, including dietary patterns, obesity and its management,...
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...
The Joys of Story
Week of November 2, 2024
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...
The Joys of Story
Week of September 7, 2024
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...
Stargazing + Music
Week of July 27, 2024
Explore Rancho La Puerta’s Night Sky – Lecture The dark skies at the Ranch provide a fabulous opportunity for seeing wonders such as the Milky...
Yarn Painting and Prayer Arrows
Week of August 3, 2024
A great, great, grand-nephew of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Timothy Hinchliff was born an artist and poet with one foot in the wilds of nature and one foot...
Navigating the Menopausal Transition
Week of October 5, 2024
While we grow in wisdom and confidence, we also may be challenged with hot flashes, night sweats, sleep disturbances, irritability, vaginal dryness, decreased libido and...
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...
iPhoneography with Yoni Mayeri
Week of October 26, 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...
iPhoneography with Yoni Mayeri
Week of August 31, 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...
Healthy Pleasures
Week of September 28, 2024
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...
Your Best Year
Week of November 16, 2024
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...