Ghost Ranch Summer Kick Off Week June 27-July 2 is Right Around the Corner

Summer is right around the corner and there is nothing like being in the high desert of New Mexico, soaking in the vibrant colors of the landscape and watching nature blossom right before your very eyes. As summer unfolds, it invites to come forth in a new way. As we emerge from a strange time of some seclusion, and as we enter the Ghost Ranch season of summer retreats and art workshops, we share an August 2015 article by Maia Gambis from the Washington Post. "Many of us have heard about the benefits of meditation, but sometimes find it hard to do. Fewer of us know about the profound benefits of artistic expression. Creating art, however, is another way to access a meditative state of mind and the profound healing it brings." Read More We invite you to join us in inspirational community to meditate and create. This is the first summer week that will offer organized activities for youth ages 4-18. Senior High Initiative (15-18) will explore Outdoor Adventure.

Sunday, June 27 - Friday, July 2

Jicarilla Basket Weaving – G210642 with Melanie Pesata An introduction into traditional Jicarilla basket weaving, taught by a fourth generation Jicarilla basket weaver. REGISTER NOW

Hook Rugs, Save the Planet! – G210643 wqith Laura Salamy Rug hooking is a fiber art whereby you push or pull loops material strips up through a woven backing. Use recycled materials beyond the wool, things like old t-shirts and other clothing, bedsheets and other household textiles, even colorful plastic bags to create your unique piece. REGISTER NOW

Paint a Ghost Ranch Mural – G210645 with Marian Berg Experience the joy of mural making in the inspirational landscape, creating a pleasing composition and enlarge it using the grid method. REGISTER NOW

Relax & Restore Your Life Rhythm – G210644 with Susan Weber Cleanse yourself in the radiant beauty of this rugged landscape, then restore your life’s rhythm through a program designed to bring all of you back into balance. Contemplative activities include yoga (in various locations), meditation, hiking, journalling, breathing exercises, and community MORE INFO

Writing to Heal: A Poetry Intensive – G210647 with Pam Uschuk This intensive poetry writing class is a combination of generative workshop, reading, and feedback. Writing your way out of trauma and disease is like hacking your way through a thorn forest; it’s often difficult but therapeutic and often necessary work. MORE INFO

Tapestry Weaving with Rose Vigil Design and weave a tapestry using tapestry techniques and stitches, the weft-face weave structure pattern, then applying discontinued weft yarns across the body of the textile to form an image, usually weft-face plain weave. MORE INFO

The Road Taken: Navigating Paths of Transition in Life’s Journey – G210646 with Jeanne Bowman As we emerge a period of stay-at-home, explore the pathways, by choice or by default, that have brought you to this moment in time, and how to navigate the more difficult ones while appreciating those which are easily navigated, through practical and useful strategies for coping. MORE INFO

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