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Love Songs for Our World with Cahill & Delene

Barry Cahill and Delene St. Clair are a husband & wife, singer-songwriter, vocal-instrumental team from the San Diego, California area. For the last 35 years, they have been inspiring audiences in the U.S., Costa Rica, Bhutan, Ireland, and England. As songwriters, one of their songs “Time to Go Home,” from their album “Songs for Humanity,” is aired on CBS. Two of their other songs won awards in the UNISONG International Song Contest and the International Songwriting Competition. They are members of the Positive Music Association and their music can be heard in regular rotation on many internet stations. As performers, they have a heart-to-heart connection and synergistic energy onstage with each other and their audiences. Delene’s guitar stylings and Cahill’s soulful sax and flute solos, coupled with their perfect vocal blend, provide a sonic beauty that moves, grooves, and inspires the listener. Besides their original music, Cahill & Delene perform jazz and folk-rock covers from the 60’s-80’s, so be ready to sing and clap along!

Everyone Has a Story: Mindful Writing with the Five Senses With Caroline M. Grant

Everyone Has a Story
Caroline Grant was on track for a career as a college professor when her first child was born and abruptly changed her focus. Instead of writing literary analysis of novels and films, she began blogging (remember blogging?!) and writing personal essays to explore her new reality as a mother. In her evening presentation, Caroline will interweave personal stories with readings from her published work to demonstrate how, with mindful attention to small details, we can write our lives.

Workshop Descriptions
Everyone has a story, but what’s the best way to tell it? Do you start with your birth and tell a chronological story? How can you organize fifty, sixty, seventy or more (!) years of life and experience to tell a story that’s engaging, relatable, and readable? Using mindful writing techniques and focusing on our senses, we’ll identify key objects which illuminate moments in our lives. Each workshop will include a brief reading, guided meditation, free-writing time, and an optional opportunity to share your work. The sessions can be attended in sequence or individually.

Caroline Grant builds creative communities as a writer, editor, and teacher. She’s published essays in the New York Times, Washington Post, and other outlets, and has co-edited two anthologies, The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage: True Tales of Food, Family, and How We Learn to Eat and Mama, PhD: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life. She was editor-in-chief of Literary Mama, and has taught writing at UC Berkeley, Stanford, and San Francisco Art Institute. Caroline is also co-founder, with her husband, of the Sustainable Arts Foundation, supporting writers and artists with children. They recently sunsetted SAF and returned its funds to indigenous communities.

Secrets to a Healthy Life with Samantha Heller

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 and your lifestyle can affect your risk of Alzheimer’s disease and age-related cognitive decline. Learn the simple, scientific truths that can boost your brain and total body health.

Living with a Healthy Heart
Heart disease can begin in humans as young as two-years old. Cardiovascular diseases and stroke cause 1 in 3 women’s deaths each year, killing approximately one woman every 80 seconds. 80% of heart disease and stroke events may be prevented by lifestyle changes. In this entertaining presentation learn what you need to do to keep your heart in great condition for a long and healthy life.

Samantha Heller, MS, RDN, is a registered dietitian, exercise physiologist, licensed massage therapist, and certified fitness instructor, with a dual Master of Science degree in nutrition and applied physiology from Teachers’ College, Columbia University. She is a senior clinical nutritionist at NYU Langone Health in New York City, where she works with patients and athletes to optimize health and performance. Samantha has been the host of the popular Samantha Heller’s Health & Nutrition Show on SIRIUSXM’s DOCTOR Radio since 2008, which airs live every Friday from 12-2 p.m. ET. She is also a consultant, influencer, best-selling author, keynote presenter, and performance artist. Samantha’s clinical expertise includes cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, oncology, sports, weight management, and diabetes medical nutrition therapy, as well as stress, wellbeing, and lifestyle management. She is a favored health expert on shows such as CBS Mornings, MSNBC, NY1 News, and more. She is the go-to expert for health and medical press such as HealthDay, U.S. News & World Report, Reuter’s Health, Everyday Health, Prevention, Health.com, Huffington Post, Livestrong, et al. Known for her evidence-based, energetic, and accessible style, Samantha is a popular key-note speaker and lecturer, in-person or via webinar, at venues such as Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, NYU Langone Health, Exos, IPG Health, and more.

Concert with Alex Greenbaum

Bach and Before: Early Music for Solo Cello

Born in New York, cellist Alex Greenbaum enjoys a diverse and adventurous musical life. As a member of the Hausmann Quartet he is an Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer at San Diego State University, where he teaches cello and chamber music. A long-time member of The Knights chamber orchestra, he has toured with the group throughout the U.S. and Europe, with performances at Carnegie Hall and at the festivals of Ravinia and Tanglewood to Aix-en-Provence, Vienna and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. He has recorded for Ancalagon, Arc, Bridge, Canary Classics, Cantaloupe, In a Circle, Koch, Mack Avenue Records, Naxos, Phenotypic, Warner Classics and Sony records, including two GRAMMY nominations. Equally at home on baroque cello, Alex is a founding member of San Diego Baroque, a member of Bach Collegium San Diego and has appeared at the festivals of Carmel and Corona Del Mar. He is a mainstay on Art of Élan’s concert series and Co-Director of Chamber Music at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla. He lives in San Diego (but remains a Yankees and Knicks fan).

The Wisdom You Carry: Create your own Wisdom-Keeper Book with Shiloh Sophia

The Wisdom You Carry ~ create your own Wisdom-Keeper Book
Each one of us is carrying deeply held wisdom in our bodies and our spirits from our life experiences. As we gather together this week at the Ranch in the spirit of wisdom keeping, we invite you to the innate awareness of the wisdom that is specific to your unique path and identity. Each day of our journey, you will be invited to articulate one of your innate wisdoms. We will be working with circle, sharing, meditation, writing and watercolor as each one of you creates a page of your Wisdom- Keeper Book. If you attend all sessions, you’ll have a complete book. If you only attend individual sessions, you will have an individual page each time which is a piece of watercolor paper with your wisdom. This will be fun and illuminating and no art experience needed whatsoever, this isn’t about painting pretty pictures. Join us to share in the spirit of wisdom keeping together. Imagine leaving a week at the Ranch with your own Book of Wisdom!

The Red Thread
Have you ever heard of the red thread? It’s a symbol across many cultures throughout the world that represents interconnection. As part of our Wisdom Keepers’ Week, we will gather together and learn about the four legends of the red thread inspired by a cross-cultural history of red thread that goes back to ancient stardust. You will be given the opportunity to participate in a red thread ceremony that has been practiced around the world. The red thread helps us see the common thread throughout time, bond with one another and claim our own piece of the red thread.

Together we are gifted lineage carrying wisdom keepers. Teacher and artist Shiloh Sophia, who wrote The Way of the Red Thread will be with us to guide us in this experience.

Curate Shiloh Sophia is the Matriarchal Founder of MUSEA Center for Intentional Creativity. We are home to an inter-generational and multicultural collective of emerging and experienced creatives, healers, and leaders. Our lineage, beginning in the 1930s, is the framework for our Path of Practice in the intentional arts of every medium. Our vision is awakening consciousness through self-expression, so that we might become collaborative stewards with all of creation. Shiloh Sophia describes this work as “an ancient futuristic spiritual path for the quickening times that offers healing, devoted practice, intentional community and purpose for our lives”. Her 30 year body of work has evolved into this path for seekers and finders with self-expression as the core form of devotion and the gateway to spiritual access through flow state. She is a teacher, artist, author and mystic, guiding tens of thousands of people in accessing their inner world to awaken embodied consciousness and identity through the ecstatic disciplines of the healing arts. She teaches classes and offers circles globally via livestream TV to viewers, on location at exotic destinations, and at the Mothership campus in Sonoma, California. The Intentional Creativity Foundation, 501 (c) 3, a museum and sanctuary, offers sacred space to our global membership. We gather weekly and are always emerging into the most potent versions of ourselves as individuals, community members and in the greater collective.

You can find her most mornings have tea with her Muse among the redwood trees and grapevines, looking to solve the mysteries of the universe with a paintbrush and provocative conversation. She is a prolific painter with collectors all over the world. She was taught by her two mothers to live life as a great adventure, and indeed she has, and she calls each of us forward into the power of unreasonable love for one another and all of creation! May Love Be At The Center of All Choices!

www.musea.org

www.shilohsophiagallery.com

Corrective Exercise Therapy with Dr. Andrew Buser

Dr. Andrew Buser, DC, CSCS
Founder, The Buser Institute and Umbra Health

Dr. Buser has studied and worked extensively in the field of physiotherapy since 1991, and specializes in Corrective Exercise Therapy. Dr. Buser graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a degree in Physiology and Neuroscience. He then went on to receive his Doctorate of Chiropractic from Southern California University of Health Sciences, graduating valedictorian. Dr. Buser began his career as a Corrective Exercise Therapist at The Egoscue Method Clinic where he assisted in developing their training and education programs for practitioners worldwide. He went on to work as a master trainer for Reebok where he implemented exercise therapies for weekend warriors and amateur and professional athletes. Further studying Applied Kinesiology, Functional Neurology and Functional Nutrition under such renowned clinicians as Dr. George Goodheart, Dr. Ted Carrick and Dr. Datis Kharrazian, Dr. Buser further developed what is now his own Whole Health physiotherapy model, GRIT Health & Fitness. As an Army Special Forces Green Beret himself, Dr Buser has had the opportunity to test and refine his approach to GRIT Health & Fitness on the most elite members of the military special operations community and other government agencies. Dr. Buser continues to research new discoveries in physiology and neuroscience, implementing them into his current practice with clients worldwide, both in-person and remotely.

Hands-On Cooking Classes and Chef’s Table Dinner with Yazmin Ceballos

Yazmin offers hands-on culinary experiences, 3.5 hours each, during which you will enjoy preparing your own meal along with fellow cooks. Classes take place at La Cocina Que Canta, our culinary center on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 4pm.

Hands On Cooking Classes Sign Up

Tuesday Hands-On Cooking Class 4:00 PM
Each class $145 (tax included). Class subject to change, check your weekly planner and schedule for updates. The maximum number of guests per class is 14.

Wednesday Hands-On Cooking Class 4:00 PM
Each class $145 (tax included). Class subject to change, check your weekly planner and schedule for updates. The maximum number of guests per class is 14.

Thursday Hands-On Cooking Class 4:00 PM
Each class $145 (tax included). Class subject to change, check your weekly planner and schedule for updates. The maximum number of guests per class is 14.

Yazmin Ceballos is a passionate teacher and student of the Vedic sciences, such as Ayurveda, Yoga and Jyotish. She currently has an Ayurveda herbal company called Sattvica where herbal supports, digestive masalas, medicated oils, tinctures and infusions are made for health and well-being, taking into account lunations to enhance their effects. On a daily basis, Yazmin teaches hatha vinyasa yoga classes and offers consultations, panchakarma and ayurvedic treatments in Tecate and Tijuana. She currently has a podcast in Spanish called Latte de Curcuma where she shares with the public topics related to these ancient sciences of longevity, health and spirituality. Within the practice of Vedic sciences is Jyotish, well known as Vedic astrology. The study of the star map of our birth is a very valuable tool for self-knowledge. Its analysis gives us a general idea of the predominant elements in a person and their doshic constitution (prakruti). Knowing your predominant elements allows you to adapt the best doshic diet for radiant health. Balance and health must adapt to the needs of each individual and the ancient Vedic sciences support us with this knowledge.

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Dr. Andrew Buser, DC, CSCS Founder, The Buser Institute and Umbra Health

Dr. Andrew Buser, DC, CSCS
Founder, The Buser Institute and Umbra Health