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Food as Medicine: Eating for Optimized Health and Wellness

Eating for Immunity: Superhero Foods for Staying Healthy
Curious about how to support your immune system with diet? This workshop will provide guidance around which foods to include and which foods to minimize in order to enhance your health, improve resilience and speed recovery.
Eating For Immunity

Nourishing the Microbiome Nation: Eating for Gut Health
Those trillions of bacteria in your gut have a profound influence on all aspects of your health, from your skin, heart and brain to your overall metabolism and immune system. Come find out how to support that internal ecosystem with healthy food and lifestyle tips.
Microbiome Handout

Sweet Tooth Therapy: Solutions for Sugar Cravings
Stuck on sugar? Grabbing candy or chips for that 3pm lull? Come learn what might be causing cravings (surprise! It’s not a lack of willpower) and how to reduce them without feeling deprived. Discover the many deliciously sweet, healthy and natural alternatives to sugary snacks that will keep you satisfied and energized.
Sweet Tooth Therapy

Saving the Planet with Your Fork OR Eco-Friendly Eating: Good for People and Planet!
Did you know that certain foods or dietary patterns have a bigger environmental footprint than others? What we eat and buy can make a difference. Discover which foods are both gentler on our planet while also being super nutritious and supportive to our health.
Eco Friendly Eating

 

Mary Purdy, MS, RDN, is an Integrative “Eco-Dietitian” and nutrition educator who speaks nationally on food as medicine and sustainability. She is currently adjunct faculty at Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington, and the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine and the Education Lead for  Planetary Health Collective. She has been in clinical practice for over 13 years using a personalized medicine and functional nutrition approach and is the current Nutrition Director and dietitian for Kris Carr’s Inner Circle Wellness Community. She is also a consultant with Big Bold Health which educates on immunity, microbiome and planetary health. Additionally, she hosts the podcasts “The Nutrition Show” and “The Good Clean Nutrition Podcast” and authored the books Serving the Broccoli Gods and The Microbiome Diet Reset. www.MaryPurdy.co

Musical Delights

Candlelight Restorative Yoga with Live Music
Mindfulness Staff, Monique Mead, Lisa Bergman
Surrender into relaxation at the end of the day as you are guided through restorative lying postures in an atmosphere infused with candlelight and the soothing sounds of violin and piano.

 

Great Composers Get a Makeover
Lisa Bergman, piano
Great Composers Get a Makeover is a lively concoction of hilarity, anecdotes, demonstrations and guessing games by pianist-raconteur Lisa Bergman.   She will be your guide exploring uncharted territory on the inner workings of classical music and its composers, challenging your ears with laughs and winks every note of the way.

 

Vocal Splendor
Geeta Novotny and Lisa Bergman join forces for an enchanting evening of famous opera arias, Broadway hits, and a special combination of voice and singing bowls.

 

Tangos & Spanish Flair
Aloysia Friedmann, Monique Mead, Geeta Novotny, Lisa Bergman
With rhythms from Spain and Argentina, this program is both fiery and seductive with Piazzolla Tangos, songs from the opera,“Carmen”, and music from the film, “Scent of a Woman.”

 

 

 

Monique Mead A passionate ambassador of classical music, violinist Monique Mead enjoys a rich career as a performer, educator, and innovator. Working internationally with ensembles such as the Pittsburgh Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Cologne Philharmonic, Munich Radio Orchestra, Düsseldorf Symphony, Berlin Radio Orchestra, and the RIAS Chamber Choir, her innovative programs have raised new audiences for classical music and deepened the experience for seasoned concertgoers. In addition to her performing career, Monique currently serves as currently serves as Director of Music Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University and Artistic Director of the Rancho La Puerta Chamber Music Festival. As an advocate for the healing power of music, Monique has spearheaded initiatives surrounding music for mental health, such as “Beethoven in the Face of Adversity,” in which she performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto 50 times in 250 days for people suffering from various adversities. In response to the current mental health crisis, Monique now partners with Pittsburgh’s Awareness & Wellness Center, where she offers trauma-informed sound healing classes.

 

 

A passionate promoter of classical music, Lisa Bergman is a national Gracie Award-winning radio announcer on Classical KING-FM streaming worldwide. A concert pianist specializing in collaborative piano and chamber music she is a graduate of the Juilliard School, Stony Brook University and the University of Washington, cum laude. A former member of the University of Washington Music Faculty, her discography includes six CDs (chamber music and solo piano).  As an American Artistic Ambassador she represented the U.S. on a concert tour of New Zealand, Nepal, Korea, Taiwan, Mongolia and China.  She made her Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 1983. Bergman is founder of the Mostly Nordic Chamber Music Series; Co-Founder of Northwest Opera in Schools, Etcetera and Adult Piano Retreat Director at the Icicle Creek Center for the Arts where she served for seven years as the Executive Director.  In high demand as a pre-concert lecturer, she has appeared throughout the Pacific Northwest as featured speaker and emcee.

 

 

Geeta Novotny is an international award-winning artist who has established herself as a leading and innovative singer, healing arts practitioner, teacher, sound bath artist, and performer. As a profound believer in the power of holistic mind/body health and wellness, Geeta is the creator of Revolution Voice® which is a method and practice that uses the voice and sound as a bridge between music and wellness, while delving extensively into the art, science, and meta-physics behind these modalities. Her method creates a distillation into the healing modality of sonic medicine. Built on her philosophy that voice and sound are our greatest sources of therapeutic healing; Geeta has taken her 25+ years as a classical singer, her extensive teaching experience, and her knowledge and practice of the healing arts thus healing her own life-long chronic illness, to provide a transformative and highly-effective, multi-dimensional approach to vocal training, vocal coaching, singing workshops, sound therapy and performances which affords deep healing, self-discovery, and empowerment from the inside out.

As a classical singer, Geeta has performed in a wide range of principal roles from the hallowed stages of New York City’s Carnegie Hall and The Metropolitan Opera House with the American Ballet Theater to the stages of the Los Angeles Opera and the Aspen Music Festival and many more. Recently, Geeta was honored to compose and perform the vocals on the opening and title song- “Home” for Deepak Chopra’s recent book and album, “Home, Where Everyone is Wel-come: Poems and Songs inspired by American Immigrants”.

From her Grammy and Academy Award-winning clients aiming to refine their talents, to her non-musicians seeking to build confidence and develop their singing voices; Geeta works with clients of all ages and circumstances to provide remedy and healing of their emotional and physical states, as well as clients in pursuit of spiritual awakening and metaphysical release all to help her clients find their voice and purpose in this world.

Geeta has provided her Vocal Immersion Sound Bath, voice and sound healing classes, and led wellness retreats in collaboration with other healing arts practitioners and wellness companies at venues such as The Integratron in Joshua Tree, the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, and for conferences at UCLA (Interpersonal Neurobiology Conference, The Healing Power of Sound Conference, and the Psychedelic Science Symposium); along with performing her Vocal Immersion Sound Bath and her singing workshop at Camp Mars (Malibu) and Mars Island (Croatia) for music festivals with the band Thirty Seconds to Mars. She was also featured on Awestruck TV’s show GloListic giving comedienne and international television and internet personality Glozell her very first sound bath.

Geeta’s work has been featured in several podcasts, most recently she was a guest on actress Beth Behr’s (Two Broke Girls, The Neighborhood) Harmonics Podcast. She has also been featured in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Huffington Post, ABC News, The Hollywood Reporter, and others.

Geeta has also lent her voice to film soundtracks and TV, including lending her voice to actor Channing Tatum in the TV show Lip Sync Battle. She has also enjoyed a career as a principal stage and film actor.

Geeta is a published writer who has contributed to the New York City-based magazine The Indi-an American as a music columnist.

Geeta has taught at numerous performing arts schools around the country, from preschool through high school level to university and professional level. She is also currently on faculty at the Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York City teaching classes in meditation and mindfulness.

Geeta holds a B.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University where she was a two-time recipient of the Harry G. Archer Award Scholarship and the Charlotte Black Memorial Scholarship. She pursued her Masters of Music at the University of North Texas where she was awarded a full-time teaching fellowship.

Geeta and Revolution Voice® also contribute to philanthropic and humanitarian organizations such as partnering with Sing For Hope and The Harmony Project through educational outreach and the healing arts. Geeta has performed extensively through educational outreach with Fort Worth Opera, Amarillo Opera, Utah Opera, 92nd Street Y in New York City, and Los Angeles Opera bringing opera into schools around the country.

Geeta stays true to her namesake, as “Geeta” means “Song” in Hindi. She is a progeny of an industrious South Asian Indian father and an exuberant Irish mother and was raised in rural Pennsylvania. Her eclectic cultural background has given her an understanding of many worlds that has sustained her in her variety of creative endeavors. 

 

 

Founder and Artistic Director of the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival (www.oicmf.org) in the Pacific Northwest, Aloysia Friedmann is firmly established as a major influence in the American chamber music scene. In recognition of this fact, Chamber Music America invited Ms. Friedmann to their national Board in 2016. In December 2018, she was named a Musical America Top Professional of the Year.

Ms. Friedmann’s broad ranging career has included national and international tours, performances with New York’s most prestigious musical ensembles including the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and a special onstage role on Broadway alongside Dustin Hoffman in The Merchant of Venice. While in New York, Ms. Friedmann worked with artists including Astor Piazzolla, Mirella Freni, Jessye Norman, Frederica von Stade, John Adams, Charles Mackerras, André Previn and Mikhail Baryshnikov, as well as Elton John and Metallica. The New York Times praised her “fiery spirit” after her Carnegie Recital Hall debut.

Aloysia Friedman has performed as guest artist in the Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival, Florida’s Amelia Island Festival, Colorado’s Strings in the Mountains Music Festival, Napa Valley’s Music in the Vineyards, the Cactus Pear Music Festival, the Seattle Chamber Music Society, the Sun Valley Summer Symphony, and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Her chamber music colleagues have included Abbey Simon, Gervase de Peyer, Peter Schickele, Chee-Yun, Gary Hoffman, Jeffrey Kahane, William Preucil, Lucy Shelton, the Miró Quartet, Cho-Liang Lin and Lynn Harrell.

This past summer included performances at the Maui Chamber Music Festival, San Diego’s Mainly Mozart Festival, and ChamberFest 2016 at the Green Music Center in Sonoma, CA.

Chamber Music America recognized Aloysia Friedmann’s artistic leadership with its 2008 CMAcclaim. She also serves on the Advisory Council for Chamber Music Houston. Ms. Friedmann is featured as both performer and producer on several festival recordings, and has produced recordings for violinist Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio and pianist Jon Kimura Parker.

In Houston, Ms. Friedmann is Associate Concertmaster for the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra and performs with the Houston Grand Opera. Highlights of concerts in Houston include her solo viola performance of Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel in the Rothko Chapel in addition to performances with Da Camera, Context, and many chamber concerts at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. She has taught as an Affiliate Artist of Viola and Violin at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston.

Aloysia Friedmann plays on a Grancino violin and the ex-Rebecca Clarke Grancino viola. Ms. Friedmann graduated from The Juilliard School and also studied at the University of Washington with Emanuel Zetlin. Aloysia is the proud daughter of violinist Martin Friedmann and oboist Laila Storch. She is married to concert pianist Jon Kimura Parker and they have a daughter, Sophie.

 

 

Designing the Difference You Want to Make in the World

Explore the Power of Your Uniqueness
The first step in designing your impact is to explore who you are and what makes you unique. Learn to evaluate your story for indicators of unique ways that you can have an impact. Receive a list of thought-provoking questions to guide your gifts, strengths, and passion exploration process.

 

Explore Your Purpose; Assess Your Current Season
Purpose is defined as the reason for which you exist. Some know the answer to the question, but many struggle to define their purpose. How you understand your purpose is often shaped by your season of life. Discover ways to explore your purpose and live with a sense of purpose whatever season you are in.

 

Examine Simple Ways to Make a Meaningful Difference
The previous year clearly demonstrated that there is a lot of work to be done in the world.  It’s easy to get overwhelmed with the magnitude of problems facing our society. But, what if you take a different approach: instead of focusing on scale, begin with a focus on simplicity and meaning. Discover the essential elements for making a difference, including giving your authentic self and being present for everyday moments.

 

Design Your Impact
Complete your difference-making design process by turning your insights into a plan that includes: an impact summary statement; immediate next steps; and short-term and long-term goals. Learn how to turn your plan into an Impact Board, a visual & inspirational representation of your legacy and the impact you desire to make on the world.

 

 

 

Candace Gray’s mission is to help people pursue purpose, fulfill their God-given potential, and maximize their impact. To that end, she has provided leadership in the nonprofit sector for over 25 years.  After beginning her profession as a CPA in the corporate sector, she craved a career with greater meaning and fulfillment. She transitioned to the nonprofit field by working alongside a prominent CEO in the real estate industry to launch a nonprofit organization targeting an inner-city neighborhood in Dallas. Currently, she serves as a senior leader for a Dallas-based social services agency, serving nine cities in Texas and six international locations. She has traveled on assignment to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Ghana, Kenya and Ethiopia.

Self-Defense – Tweens, Teens, and Women

In a safe, fun environment, without instilling fear and with age-appropriate information, André Salvage and Associates will share vital tools necessary to prevent potential assaults. This is done with the knowledge of three essential skills: the awareness to avoid dangerous situations, the assertiveness skills to handle predatory behavior, and the hands-on training to stop someone from harming you.

 

 

 

Katie Sasso is a self-defense instructor and Master (8th degree) black belt in the art of Kung Fu San Soo. Katie has worked with André Salvage and Associates for over 20 years, sharing her knowledge of Assault Prevention and Street Safety. She works with businesses and schools around California and teaches in-person and online seminars to children, teens, and adults that focus on learning how to be aware, assertive, and physically stop someone from harming them. Katie believes in living from her True Nature and shares with others the importance of listening to our intuition.   Prior to working with André Salvage and Associates, Katie graduated from the University of Oregon where she played collegiate soccer. She continued her soccer career playing for Sacramento Storm. Katie lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family, including three children.

 

 

 

David Williams (aka Super Dave) has been studying martial arts for 30 years, starting with Tae Kwon Do. Then 29 years ago, he met Grand Master André Salvage, who opened his eyes to the master’s path of Kung Fu San Soo. He received his Master Degree (8th-degree black belt) 12 years ago and continues to work on his art as he teaches Kung Fu San Soo and Assault Prevention. Teaching self-defense to all ages is a passion of his, and he strives to empower all with his knowledge. As a business owner of Super Dave Dog, Inc. since 2000, he walks and trains dogs through exercise, discipline, and affection. Incorporating fitness and meditation into his daily routine keeps him grounded and enables him to be a loving husband and father of two sons.

 

 

 

 

Dorian Wiederholt Kassar has worked with André Salvage and Associates for the past five years, teaching weekend workshops on self-defense and speaking to students at schools throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and online about personal safety, assertiveness, and consent. He’s found that the same principles that keep him safe support all aspects of his life and wishes to share these tools and principles with others. Dorian’s innate ability to connect with youth, paired with his brown belt in Kung Fu San Soo, allows him to authentically share with them how to live from their true nature and stay safe. Learn more about Dorian here.

Hands On Cooking Classes with Kristine Kidd

Kristine 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 and Wednesday at 4pm.

 

Tuesday Hands-On Cooking Class 4:00 PM Sign Up
Each class $125+tax. 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 Sign Up
Each class $125+tax. 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 Sign Up
Each class $125+tax. Class subject to change, check your weekly planner and schedule for updates. The maximum number of guests per class is 14.

 

 

 

Kristine Kidd was the food editor at Bon Appétit magazine for 20 years, where she was responsible for filling the magazine’s pages with delicious recipes. While there, Kristine became the resident expert on food trends, championing coverage of farmers’ market ingredients and products that are local, sustainable, and organic. Her talent for developing simple, approachable recipes led to the creation of the magazine’s foolproof recipe style.

Currently working as an author, Kristine has written eight cookbooks, including two that feature fresh, healthful, gluten-free food: Weeknight Gluten Free and Gluten-Free Baking. She also developed the recipes for Tamara Duker Freuman’s Bloated Belly Whisperer.

Her recent projects include working as a culinary consultant- for a cruise line specializing in culinary vacations, a green-oriented food service company, and specialty bakeries. Kristine worked as the Food Editor for the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch website, where she taught people to use sustainable seafood. Kristine has been a guest teacher at UCLA and frequently speaks at conferences.

Hands-On Cooking Classes with Cathy Fisher

Cathy 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 Thurday at 4pm.

Tuesday Hands-On Cooking Class 4:00 PM Sign Up
Each class $125+tax. 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 Sign Up
Each class $125+tax. 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 Sign Up
Each class $125+tax. Class subject to change, check your weekly planner and schedule for updates. The maximum number of guests per class is 14.

 

 

 

Cathy Fisher is the author of the cookbook, Straight Up Food, a trusted resource for anyone interested in adopting a plant-based (vegan) way of eating that is not only delicious, but also health-promoting!

Cathy has been 100% plant-based for over 20 years, and is a culinary instructor at both the McDougall Program (Dr. John McDougall) and the TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California for over 10 years.

Her specialty is giving traditional dishes makeovers so that they look and taste as close as possible to the originals, since people are more open to trying and maintaining healthy eating habits if their food looks and tastes like the dishes they grew up loving.

All of Cathy’s recipes are made with vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds, and with no added refined salt, oil or sugar. But make no mistake, the final dishes will still be full of flavor, richness, and sweetness—you will be pleasantly surprised! (All of Cathy’s recipes are also gluten-free!)

Cathy’s goal is to show people how truly satisfying (and easy to make) health-promoting food can be. Her recipes are approachable, and her classes are fun, friendly, and inspiring! For more information about Cathy and her work, you can visit StraightUpFood.com.

Hands-On Cooking Classes with Kim O’Donnel

Tuesday Hands-On Cooking Class 4:00 PM Sign Up
Each class $125+tax. 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 Sign Up
Each class $125+tax. 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 Sign Up
Each class $125+tax. Class subject to change, check your weekly planner and schedule for updates. The maximum number of guests per class is 14.

 

Kim O’Donnel

For more than a decade, Seattle-based journalist and chef Kim O’Donnel has dispensed culinary advice and covered food policy at numerous publications, including the Washington Post, Civil Eats, Culinate, Mother Earth News and USA Today.  She is the author of two cookbooks, most recently “The Meat Lover’s Meatless Celebrations,” which was among the Washington Post’s Top Cookbooks of 2012. Her work is featured in the anthology “Best Food Writing 2013.” A graduate of the Institute of Culinary Education in New York, Kim sits on the James Beard Journalism Awards committee.

On the web: kimodonnel.com

“If anybody can persuade Americans to eat more tempeh, it’s Kim O’Donnel.” — The Washington Post

Kim offers three 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. For more information and registration, please click here.

Hands-on Cooking Classes with Chef AJ

Chef AJ 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 and Wednesday at 4pm.

 

Tuesday Hands-On Cooking Class 4:00 PM Sign Up
Each class $125+tax. 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 Sign Up
Each class $125+tax. 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 Sign Up
Each class $125+tax. Class subject to change, check your weekly planner and schedule for updates. The maximum number of guests per class is 14.

 

 

 

Chef AJ has been devoted to a plant-exclusive diet for over 44 years. She is the host of the television series Healthy Living with CHEF AJ airing on Foody TV. A chef, culinary instructor and professional speaker, she is author of the popular book Unprocessed: How to Achieve Vibrant Health and Your Ideal Weight and the bestselling books The Secrets to Ultimate Weight Loss:  A Revolutionary Approach to Conquer Cravings, Overcome Food Addiction and Lose Weight Without Going Hungry and Own Your Health, which have received glowing endorsement by many luminaries in the plant-based movement. Chef AJ was the Executive Pastry Chef at Santé Restaurant in Los Angeles where she was famous for her sugar, oil, salt and gluten free desserts which use the fruit, the whole fruit and nothing but the whole fruit.  These recipes can be found in her upcoming book A Date with Dessert. She is the host of YouTube show, CHEF AJ LIVE! which broadcasts live daily at 11:00am Pacific Time. She is proud to say that her IQ is higher than her cholesterol.  In 2018 she was inducted into the Vegetarian Hall of Fame.www.ChefAJ.com

Hands On Cooking Classes with Chef Gary Jenanyan

Tuesday Hands-On Cooking Class 4:00 PM Sign Up
Each class $125+tax. 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 Sign Up
Each class $125+tax. 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 Sign Up
Each class $125+tax. Class subject to change, check your weekly planner and schedule for updates. The maximum number of guests per class is 14.

 

 

 

Gary Jenanyan has been cooking in the Napa Valley for more than 30 years.  A noted designer, restaurant consultant and chef instructor, Mr. Jenanyan has enjoyed the rare privilege of working with the most influential chefs of this era.  As Executive Chef of the Great Chefs Program at Robert Mondavi Winery for 26 years before retiring in 2002, he worked with and was mentored by the best of France’s 3-star chefs. He has also worked and taught with many noted American chefs and authors including Julia Child, Jacques Pepin, and Thomas Keller.

 

Dance with Milo Levell

Milo Levell is a celebrity Choreographer, and ​is co-owner of The Millennium Dance Complex Brazil​, a new franchise in Sao Paulo which is a clone of the most famous dance studio in the world that is based in Hollywood, California. Milo has been the pioneering force behind the hip hop dance craze sweeping the world. He is an internationally recognized veteran Move-Master who has traveled to over 30 countries and has inspired and trained many of today’s leading choreographers and dancers who have gone on to work with Michael Jackson, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Justin Bieber, Madonna, Brittney Spears, Usher, Janet Jackson, Chris Brown, Missy Elliott, LL Cool J, and Jennifer Lopez, just to name a few.

 

Milo’s genuine talent ranges from choreographer, dancer, and fitness professional to recording artist, music producer, deejay and even clothing designer. His charismatic personality and exuberant positivity has made him a shining light and a strong influence in the dance world. Companies like Nike, Reebok, MTV, Dreamworks, Disney, Universal, and many others have incorporated his works. Milo was one of the first in our world history to dance for Pope John Paul II​, in the incredible Jubileo 2000 ​held in the Vatican, as he was appointed Ambassador of Dance​ For World Peace along with one other.

 

Milo is a master hip hop trainer and was one of the private coaches for Michael Jackson,​ as Michael made his evolution from jazz to more hip hop movements. Among others tapping into Milo’s positive energy are celebrity private clients such as Julia Roberts, Jessica Alba​, (Milo trained Jessica for Feature Film Honey), LL Cool J, Stevie Wonder, Boys to Men, Arnold Swartzenegger​, Maria Shriver, Rikki Lake ​(Rikki’s first born is named after Milo), Diana Ross, Helen Hunt, Sandra Bullock​, and Tia Carrere ​to name a few. Milo is excited and looking forward to developing major artists in Brazil, as well as directing in film and television. “It’s like I am starting all over again!” “This time it’s going to be even better!” Look for Milo to evolve quickly as his hip hop experience explodes as it sync’s with the strong Brazilian dance spirit!

Food and Wine Pairing Dinner with Jill Silverman Hough

Experience all there is to love about food, wine, and enjoying them together in a fun, friendly dinner featuring 100 Perfect Parings cookbook author, Jill Silverman Hough, La Cocina Que Canta cuisine, and Valle de Guadalupe wines.

After a brief tour of the Tres Estrellas garden, we’ll start with an interactive tasting of different wines and different flavors, to give you a direct experience of how the “wrong” combinations can literally leave a bad taste in your mouth, as well as what does work and why.

The tasting will be followed by a multi-course meal prepared by La Cocina’s staff that perfectly pairs Jill’s recipes with luscious local wines.

You’ll leave with an understanding of the basic rules of food and wine pairing, the tools to create your own combinations at home, and a delicious food and wine experience.

 

 

Tuesday Food and Wine Pairing Dinner 4:00 PM Sign Up
Each class $150+tax. Class subject to change, check your weekly planner and schedule for updates. The maximum number of guests per class is 14.

Wednesday Food and Wine Pairing Dinner 4:00 PM Sign Up
Each class $150+tax. Class subject to change, check your weekly planner and schedule for updates. The maximum number of guests per class is 14.

Thursday Food and Wine Pairing Dinner 4:00 PM Sign Up
Each class $150+tax. Class subject to change, check your weekly planner and schedule for updates. The maximum number of guests per class is 14.

 

 

 

Jill Silverman Hough’s cookbooks include 100 Perfect Pairings: Small Plates to Enjoy with Wines You Love, 100 Perfect Pairings: Main Dishes to Enjoy with Wines You Love, and a mini e-book Finger Lickin’ Chicken. Other book projects include co-authoring The Clean Plates Cookbook and developing the recipes for New York Times’ best-seller Skinny Bitch in the Kitch. Her writing, recipes, and photography have appeared in magazines including Bon Appétit, Cooking Light, Napa Sonoma, Clean Eating, where she’s on the advisory board, and Fine Cooking, where she is a contributing writer. She creates recipes for brands and commodity boards including the National Pork Board, the California Milk Advisory Board, California Sweetpotatoes, Lindsay Olives, Annie’s Homegrown, Circulon, Anolon, and Grgich Hills Estate Winery. She also teaches cooking to home chefs around the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Want happy cooking and delicious food? Subscribe to Jill’s recipes and kitchen tips at www.jillhough.com and follow on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and Instagram.

Sand and Water Volleyball

Suzanne Hebert has loved and played sports since she got her first volleyball at five years old in Bellingham, MA. While on the varsity volleyball team in high school, playing in a small town, the Junior Olympics recruiters discovered her talents and picked her to play for two Junior Olympic teams. College-bound she was recruited to play for several Division 1 teams. Choosing to stay close to home, Suzanne played Division 1 for the University of Rhode Island and made it to the Final Four, defeating USC, UCLA, and Pepperdine and earning first place in the U.S. for blocking.

Today, Suzanne can be found passing a few balls with high school students in between classes in her role as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Los Angeles schools. She also has a thriving in-person and virtual private therapy practice.

Whether teaching volleyball or in life in general, Suzanne loves helping people learn and grow. She approaches everything with unflappable patience and a great sense of fun.

Autobiography and the Memoir

Writing Workshop
A memoir writing workshop that may change the way you feel about writing? It’s possible. A chance to get to know people in a more intimate way? Very possible. The Ranch offers so many ways to explore oneself physically, spiritually and, with a workshop like this, mentally as well. Have you ever thought of writing about your life, but just haven’t found the time or discipline to begin? Come make the time. Treat yourself to the opportunity to express yourself through the written word. It’s challenging, but not hard. Rewarding, but not demanding. You’ll be presented with choices. A memoir can be many things—a snapshot or a portrait. You decide.

An Evening with Truman Capote, Miles Davis, Allen Ginsberg, John Huston, Norman Mailer, and Debbie Reynolds
Writer Larry Grobel shows video interviews he did with these icons and discusses what he’s learned from four decades of talking to such people.

Storytelling
Writer Larry Grobel will read from his three books of Short Stories (The Narcissist; Stuck; Schemers, Dreamers, Cheaters, Believers)

 

Larry Grobel is the author of 30 books. Among his honors are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction; Special Achievement Awards from PEN for his Conversations with Capote, and Playboy for his interviews with Barbra Streisand, Marlon Brando and Al Pacino; and the Prix Litteraire from The Syndicat Francais de la Critique de Cinema for his Al Pacino: In Conversation with Lawrence Grobel. He has been a Contributing Editor for Playboy, Movieline, World (New Zealand), and Trendy (Poland) and has been called “A legend among journalists” by Writer’s Digest. He served in the Peace Corps, teaching at the Ghana Institute of Journalism; created the M.F.A. in Professional Writing for Antioch University; and taught in the English and Honors Departments at UCLA. Since 2007 he has served as a jury member at the annual Camerimage Film Festival in Poland. He has appeared as himself in the documentary Salinger and Al Pacino’s docudrama Wilde Salome. His books have been translated into 14 languages.

Matters That Matter® Standing At The Threshold: An Invitation to Transformation

Transformation is what happens when we allow ourselves to learn from and be changed by our experiences. As we step into a new year, we stand at a threshold, that space that stands between what has been and what could be. Every threshold is an invitation to growth and transformation. 

Join Molly Davis & Kristine Patterson for an inspiring and engaging week of reflection, exploration, and imagination. A time to take stock of where we’ve been, where we are, and where life might be calling us.

The Ranch offers that kind of rare spaciousness that makes room for slow wanderings and quiet pondering, leaving guests refreshed, renewed, and ready to step out with more clarity, courage, and grace. Every Matters That Matter® session is designed to serve and enhance that renewal process.

 

Evening Program
Threshold Moments
There are such things as “threshold moments”. Those times when we are invited to step over fear and uncertainty, and venture out into the unknown. Such moments call upon our courage. When we accept the invitation being offered, we find our way to an even more authentic and wholehearted life. Come listen, reflect, and consider your own threshold moments…past, present, and future.

 

Workshop #1: Standing At The Threshold
If transformation is what happens when we are changed by our experience, then taking the next right step begins with a right understanding of where we’ve been and where we are now. Our lives don’t happen by accident. We participate in creating them every day and one step at a time. Join Molly & Kristine as they create a safe space for you to engage in courageous thinking and thoughtful action planning. 

 

Workshop #2: Discernment: The Practice of Choosing Wisely
Regardless of life chapter or circumstance, we are inundated with responsibilities, challenges, opportunities and possibilities. Where to invest our time, energy, money, skills, and gifts? Where, how, and to whom do we offer what we have to give? This workshop introduces you to a practical discernment framework that will help you choose wisely.

 

Workshop #3: The 3×5 Card
Transformation often invites us to speak up in new ways, and in situations that test our ability to hold onto ourselves, say what we mean and mean what we say. Come discover how a small 3×5 card can become a mighty tool to help you find your voice.

 

 

 

 

Kristine and Molly are the founders of Matters That Matter®, a partnership providing keynotes, retreats, and workshops to inspire people to connect who they are with how they live. Their powerful message has been heard at national conventions, annual fundraisers, and spirituality and wellness retreats. They co-authored the internationally published book Letters To Our Daughters, which was highlighted on the Oprah Show.

They have been best friends for over 45 years. 

 

 

Molly Davis is a writer, speaker, and coach. Author of the award winning BLUSH: Women & Wine, a book in which she explores why she often used wine as a classy looking way to cope with stress, dull pain, and avoid discomfort, and why others might do the same. And yes, she still loves good wine. The founder of Trailhead Coaching & Consulting, she helps people courageously step more fully into their own lives. 

 

 

 

 

Kristine Patterson is a potter, author, maker, and storyteller. A few years ago she launched beanpole pottery in a quiet studio in her backyard. What started out as a hobby and way to process life, became a full-time business. She now ships her gorgeous, custom work all over the world. Each piece has a soul that, like ours, is perfect in its imperfection.  

Cutting Edge Nutrition

Nutritional Resilience &  Performance
Our food choices also impact anxiety levels and stress, both of which can impair the inner shield of our resilience. Saliva is really the first defense to elevate our level of digestion, immune strength and overall resilience. Learn some of the silent and hidden foods that damage our resilience and alter our saliva production. Discover the importance that saliva is for recovering from illness and bringing about homeostasis.  Learn tips and tools for helping you detect if you have a saliva output that is beneficial to you and how to correct if it is not optimal.  Have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of what emerging research is saying for its impact with immune system and digestion.

 

Unlocking the Keys to EAT this WAY and FEEL That!  Part I & II
We know nutrition and what we eat can affect us greatly. However many of us haven’t made a good awareness link to Eat THIS, Feel THAT and Perform like THIS. Can you eat for better sleep? Can you choose foods to maximize your energy midafternoon and minimize the fatigue dip? How about eat to calm nerves, alleviate jet lag and even build immune system resilience. In two sessions, explore all the links of great high performance eating to create the state you want for your day. Forty percent of the way you FEEL right now is due to your last meal. What IF we could think ahead  —  what do you have to do in the next two hours — you could design your eating!!

 

 

 

Patti T. Milligan, PhD, RD, CNS, has been in the nutrition field for 38 years. She just completed her doctorate in Neuroscience of Taste with her thesis on saliva and its impact on jet lag and kids’ taste buds.  She has conducted nutritional research with US national athletes, as well as created and taught corporate wellness programs throughout the US and Europe. She has authored hundreds of articles and has appeared on numerous national TV news segments. She consults with high level executives and C level leadership on human resilience, performance brain nutrition and regenerative nutrition protocols.

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Shirley-Unusual-Story-Nutritionist/dp/1533554714

https://www.linkedin.com/in/patti-tveit-milligan-phd-rd-cns-a844329/

Meditation and Human Flourishing

Meditation is not what you think it is. It’s much more. Perhaps you’ve tried meditation, but you just couldn’t do it. Perhaps you couldn’t fit it into a hectic schedule, or you were overcome by a restless monkey-mind. You gave up more than once in frustration or boredom. In the news, media, and from friends you hear about the benefits of this practice, but you never experienced these for yourself. Dr. Elliott Dacher will share his unique perspective as a trained physician and lifelong meditator. He will demonstrate, with clear scientific evidence, personal experience, and precise instructions what wise women and men have long understood – effective meditation has the power to heal the body at gross and subtle levels, awaken your mind, and ignite your spirit. It offers that illusive “more to Life.” This experiential and five-session progressive program will provide you with the understandings and skills that will enable you to develop a successful meditation practice, experience its full benefits, and effectively integrate it into in your daily life.

  • Meditation: The Meeting of Science and Spirit
  • The Technique, Practice, and Three Stages of Meditation Practice
  • Overcoming the Overactive Mind Cultivating and Abandoning: Creating a Healthy Human Life
  • The Cause and Final Remedy for Mental Stress, Distress, and Suffering
  • Human Flourishing: Enduring Happiness, Serenity, and Freedom. Resources to Take Home to Progress in One’s Practice

 

 

 

Elliott S. Dacher, M.D. practiced internal medicine for 20 years before pursuing an extensive education in Eastern psychology and practices amongst the wise healers of Asia. His last book –Aware, Awake, Alive is the course text. He is a past fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and a past advisory board member of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. A frequent presenter and seminar leader, his previous books include: Integral Health: The Path to Human Flourishing (Basic Books, 2006), Whole Healing(Dutton/Plume, 1996), and Intentional Healing(Marlowe, 1996). Currently he teaches and counsels individuals seeking a larger health and life.

 

Everyone Has a Story to Tell: Writing the First-Person Essay or Opinion Piece

Stories help us understand life and create meaning in our lives—and everyone has a story to tell. Would you like to tell yours? This program will guide you through the process of writing a compelling essay or opinion piece, using language and narrative structure to evoke emotion and create stories that matter.

 

Writing the First Person Essay
This 45-minute presentation will be about why telling our story is important and how we can create moving first-person essays or opinion pieces.

 

Crafting a Compelling Idea
This workshop will explore what kinds of ideas make for the best personal essays and help participants hone their ideas.

 

Structuring and Writing the Essay
We’ll write drafts of essays, with an eye towards narrative structure and elegant, clean writing.

 

Writing the Opinion Piece
This will build on the previous workshops, but with an added discussion about how to write an opinion piece.

 

 

 

Laura Hilgers is a Bay Area writer whose articles have been published in The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, LitHub, and Southwest Airlines Magazine, among other publications.

www.laurahilgers.com

 

Concert + Writing Workshop

Writing Workshop for Poets, Songwriters or Prose Writers
Laura Veirs’ writing workshops are aimed at songwriters, poets and prose writers. She has taught these for years on her own and through Stanford University’s Continuing Education Series. She will use a deck of her Kaleidoscope Creativity Cards which is a prompt-based system for unlocking people’s creativity. People should bring paper, pencil, recording device (phone fine) and an instrument if they are planning on writing a song. For more info,  see lauraveirs.com.

 

 

 

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Laura Veirs will be performing songs from her 12-album catalog in a solo concert. Veirs plays nylon finger style guitar and her lyrics draw from nature and her life experience. She has toured internationally for over 20 years and has collaborated with luminaries such as kd lang, Neko Case, Sufjan Stevens, The Decemberists and My Morning Jacket. Her work has been praised in the New York Times, The Washington Post, at NPR, in The Guardian, The Independentand many more publications.  Veirs is also an author, podcaster, painter and single mom. This is a family-friendly concert.

 

 

Cooking Classes with Chef Felicia Cocotzin

Join Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz for three Hands-on Cooking Classes on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at La Cocina que Canta.  Register at any Health Center or at extensions 626, 631 & 640 / Fee / Meet at the Administration Building.

Tuesday Hands-On Cooking Class 4:00 PM Sign Up
Each class $125+tax. 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 Sign Up
Each class $125+tax. 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 Sign Up
Each class $125+tax. Class subject to change, check your weekly planner and schedule for updates. The maximum number of guests per class is 14

 

 

 

Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz is a native Arizonan, living in one of the most edible and medicinal landscapes in the world. Following her family’s lineage, Felicia began training as a curandera (medicine woman) in her early twenties, working in cafes and coffee shops to make ends meet. Eventually, Felicia would find success as an award-winning restaurateur, and later join over twenty-five years of Indigenous healing practices with food as medicine.

Recognized for her work with Indigenous foodways and decolonizing wellness, Felicia is passionate about sharing food + lifestyle as medicine across many platforms. Her book Earth Medicines: Ancestral Wisdom, Healing Recipes, and Wellness Rituals from a Curandera, has received praise from industry leaders including Padma Lakshmi, Dana Cowin (former Editor-in-Chief of Food & Wine magazine), and Julia Turshen (best-selling cookbook author, food writer, and cook). She is a founding board member of the nonprofit organization NATIFS, (North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems) founded by James Beard award winners The Sioux Chef, dedicated to addressing the economic and health crises affecting Native communities. Felicia’s work has been featured in Spirituality & Health, Forbes, Bon Appétit, and several other media outlets including The Original Americans episode on Padma Lakshmi’s Taste The Nation (Hulu). Felicia presents frequently around the country on traditional healing practices, culinary medicine, holistic wellness, and Native American food sovereignty for nonprofits, universities, and museums–including the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.

https://linktr.ee/Kitchencurandera
Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz, LLC
kitchencurandera.com

Circus Skills, Juggling, Chess

Children: Circus skills: Join Alex to learn some basic performance tricks sure to wow your friends and family, including scarf juggling, balancing feathers and coin magic tricks!

Teens/Tweens: Juggling: Join Alex to learn the basics of 3 ball juggling; those with basic knowledge of juggling will learn more advanced skills (one up, 2 down; passing…)

All ages: Chess instruction and social chess games

 

 

 

Alex Freuman is a high school STEM teacher who holds a BA in mathematics from Oberlin College and an MS in mathematics education from Hunter College in New York City.   At Oberlin, Alex was a founding member of the Juggling Club, where he honed many circus skills, including fire juggling, fire eating and balancing tricks. Also a long time chess and puzzle enthusiast, Alex coaches the chess team at Nyack Highschool (Nyack, NY), is faculty advisor for the Nyack Highschool Puzzle Club, is the founder and President of the Rockland County Chess Club, and is a certified US Chess Tournament Director.  His current United States Chess Federation (UCSF) rating is 1900, and he hopes to break 2000 before his children beat him to it. Alex is passionate about creating community and fostering multi-generational connections through the joy of chess.

 

No Nonsense Nutrition

Children: 2nd Annual Great Guacamole Throwdown

Tweens: Let’s Make Alegria! Alegria is Mexico’s version of the Rice Krispy Treat, and is a snack that lives up to its name (meaning “happiness”)!.  We will learn about the ingredients in this tasty treat and make a batch together!

Teens: Let’s Get Quizzical! Compete against your fellow Ranchers in the ultimate show of food and nutrition trivia knowledge, and win very fake cash and ridiculously awful prizes, while building your arsenal of fantastic food trivia that may come in handy one day!

Adults: What is an Anti-Inflammatory Diet? Since many diseases are linked to chronic, low-grade inflammation, interest in anti-inflammatory diets is understandably great. There are many different dietary programs making anti-inflammatory diet claims, and much online chatter about certain categories of foods being inflammatory and others being anti-inflammatory. But what does the science actually say? This talk will introduce you to the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII), a research-based tool that offers science-based guidance as to what a truly anti-inflammatory diet looks like. It may surprise you!

 

 

Tamara Duker Freuman, MS, RDN, CDN is a New York-based registered dietitian, author and America’s Trusted Digestive Nutrition Expert. A nationally-known authority on nutrition therapy for digestive diseases, Tamara is a member of New York Gastroenterology Associates, a private Manhattan-based practice. She earned a Master of Science degree in Clinical Nutrition from New York University and completed her training at Mount Sinai Medical Center.  In addition to her clinical work, Tamara is a high-profile nutrition writer whose advice on healthy living and dietary management of digestive disease is read by hundreds of thousands of people each month via leading online media platforms. She has been featured in leading TV, print and radio/podcast media, including TV’s Good Morning America, Live With Kelly & Ryan, Inside Edition; National Public Radio; The Washington Post, Reader’s Digest, Prevention, Women’s Health; and the Huffington Post, CNN.com, SELF.com and Business Insider. She is the author of the acclaimed book, The Bloated Belly Whisperer (St. Martin’s Press, 2018).

 

Healthy Pleasures

Healthy Pleasures: Why Everything that Feels Good is Not Bad
Many people think that to promote health they must undertake strict weight-loss diets, adopt punishing exercise programs, avoid salt, shun cholesterol, and follow all sorts of arduous, pleasure-denying regimens.  Fortunately, scientific evidence now suggests that for most people doing what is pleasurable, from sensual delights to selfless pleasures, from optimism to laughter, pays off twice: immediate enjoyment and better health. So taking a siesta, playing with a pet, talking to a friend, looking at nature, smelling a sweet scent, laughing at a funny movie, going shopping, having sex, soaking up the heat of a sauna, taking a vacation, passionately pursuing a hobby, sipping a glass of wine, indulging in chocolate (yes, chocolate!), listening to your favorite music, helping someone in need, thinking optimistically, practicing gratitude, and scores of other healthy pleasures may measurably improve your health.

 

Behavior Change Made Simpler: Health Benefits of Success and Confidence
Strong evidence suggests that celebrating successful behavior change (no matter how small!) increases confidence, and confidence itself improves health and well-being. So while increasing exercise, eating more healthfully, and managing weight are important, most of us experience repeated failure in maintaining long-term behavior change.  What does repeated failure do to our sense of confidence and control? Happily, there are practical ways to improve confidence, success, and health through small changes without sacrificing enjoyment. You don’t have to kill yourself to save your life!

 

Stress: Avoid, Cope or Embrace?
Do you often feel that stress depletes your health, vitality, and health? Do you believe that stress is negative and should be avoided? Or do you view stress as positive- something that enhances your health, growth, and performance? It turns out that our beliefs about stress (our “mindsets”) may be more powerful in shaping our health, than stress itself. Rather than just managing stress, learn how to shift mindset to embrace and utilize stress as something helpful.

 

Rx Healthy Sex: Is Sex Good Medicine?
Sexuality is central to human well-being, but most of medicine is focused on sexual dysfunction and health risks of sexual activity. But can enjoying the pleasures of sex have benefits for health and well-being? Is good sex good for you? We will explore the scientific evidence that sexual activity can increase longevity, lower heart disease risk, reduce prostate cancer, reduced vaginal atrophy, burn calories, improve marital satisfaction, support successful aging, reduce stress and even stop headaches. We will also consider if sex be prescribed and how can sexual satisfaction be enhanced.

Rancho La Puerta (Sobel Handout) Oct 2022

 

 

David Sobel,David S. Sobel, MD, MPH, is Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, and Visiting Scholar at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). He was Director of Patient Education and Health Promotion for Kaiser Permanente Northern California which serves over 4 million members and practiced adult primary care medicine.   Dr. Sobel completed a Bachelor’s degree in psychology (University of Michigan), medical education (University of California San Francisco), medical internship (Presbyterian Hospital-Pacific Medical Center), Masters in Public Health and a residency program in General Preventive Medicine (UC Berkeley). His research and teaching interests include medical self-care, patient education, preventive medicine, behavioral medicine and psychosocial factors in health. He has written ten books: including The Healing Brain, Healthy Pleasures, The Mind & Body Health Handbook, Ways of Health: Holistic Approaches to Ancient and Contemporary Medicine, and Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions.  Dr. Sobel’s more than 200 television appearances to educate the public about health issues include the Today Show, CNN, Hour Magazine, and a television news segment on an ABC news affiliate station in San Jose. He also served as an invited delegate to the Congress that generated the Ottawa Charter on Health Promotion. He has provided over 500 invited keynote lectures in a variety of professional and public venues including the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), American Hospital Association, National Institutes for Health, National Health Service (NHS UK), UCSF, Stanford, Harvard, and Esalen Institute.

 

Writing Workshop for Poets, Songwriters or Prose Writers + Concert

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 and will sing. She recently produced her 14th album and will head off on tour in the US and France this spring.

Campfire Song at Bazar del Sol

Writing Workshop for Poets, Songwriters or Prose Writers
Laura Veirs’ writing workshops are aimed at songwriters, poets and prose writers. She has taught these for years on her own and through Stanford University’s Continuing Education Series. She will use a deck of her Kaleidoscope Creativity Cards which is a prompt-based system for unlocking people’s creativity. People should bring paper, pencil, recording device (phone fine) and an instrument if they are planning on writing a song.

Singer-songwriter Laura Veirs has produced 14 albums over 25 years, has toured internationally and has collaborated with luminaries such as kd lang, Neko Case, Sufjan Stevens, Jim James, The Decemberists, Bill Frisell and many more. Her music blends the poetic sensibilities of contemporary folk with the melodic frameworks of indie rock. Her work has been praised in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Washington Post and many other publications. She also is a published author, podcaster, teacher and is a single mom to two boys.

Writing Workshop for Poets, Songwriters or Prose Writers + Concert

Writing Workshop for Poets, Songwriters or Prose Writers
Laura Veirs’ writing workshops are aimed at songwriters, poets and prose writers. She has taught these for years on her own and through Stanford University’s Continuing Education Series. She will use a deck of her Kaleidoscope Creativity Cards which is a prompt-based system for unlocking people’s creativity. People should bring paper, pencil, recording device (phone fine) and an instrument if they are planning on writing a song. For more info,  see lauraveirs.com.

 

Concert
Laura Veirs will be performing a solo concert of original songs from her 25-year catalog. Laura will play nylon-string guitar and will sing. She recently produced her 13th album both in Portland, OR (where she lives) and in Brooklyn, NY. The album was released in spring 2022 and she will tour the UK after that.

 

 

Singer-songwriter Laura Veirs has produced 13 albums over 24 years, has toured internationally and has collaborated with luminaries such as kd lang, Neko Case, Sufjan Stevens, Jim James (of My Morning Jacket), The Decemberists, Bill Frisell and many more. Her music blends the poetic sensibilities of contemporary folk with the melodic frameworks of indie rock. Veirs’ songs are literate and emotionally intelligent. Her work has been praised in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The WashingtonPost and many other publications. She also is a published author, podcaster, teacher and is a single mom to two young children. Website: lauraveirs.com.