Calendar of Events at Twin Pond Retreat

Day-Long Yoga & Rejuvenation Retreat with Anjali Budreski

July 24th, 2010 - Begins at 10 am with Pot Luck Dinner at 6pm. Stay for optional camping and breakfast.

$80 for the day and $20 for camping and breakfast

Come join us for a full day in a local paradise!

Enjoy morning Anusara-Inspired Yoga and Meditation, a delectable organic lunch straight from the Twin Pond gardens, followed by free time to savor the land. In the afternoon, bliss out with Restorative Yoga and Deep Relaxation. Round out the day with a dip in the pond, and feel free to spend the night. Retreat locally!

You are welcome to join us for a pot luck dinner, bring your own plate and utensils.

Anjali is the director of and a teacher at Yoga Mountain Center in Montpelier, VT http://www.yogamountaincenter.com You can learn more about Anjali’s Yoga teaching and her bio by clicking on the Health Practitioners side bar.

For registration or more information call 802-223-5302, email info@yogamountaincenter.com, or go to http://www.yogamountaincenter.com for registration.

Fiber Fest

2010

Saturday August 7th and Sunday August 8th

Join us for a weekend of fun with fibers

Cost of Event: Camping, Community Dinner on Saturday night(bring a dish to share if possible), attendance, and all the activities (except for the Plant Dying Workshop) are being offered by donation!

Bring everything you need for camping and food. Facilites include bathrooms, outdoor showers, and an outdoor kitchen/classroom for plant dye workshops.

Saturday and Sunday:

Natural Dyeing with Wild and Cultivated Vermont Plants with Kate Smith

Arrive at 9:30am, Workshop begins at 10:00am to 4:00/4:30pm each day $65 for both days/$45 for one day (price includes materials) Must pre-register for this workshop To register contact us or call 802-276-3839 or email jennifer@twinpondretreat.com

This two day workshop will focus on the dyeing of natural fibers with the wild and cultivated plants available in Vermont. Historically, rural Vermont dyers and weavers did not have ready access to the imported dyestuffs of the day - indigo, cochineal fustic and logwood - but they still were able to weave brightly colored textiles using what they could forage from the wild. On both days will discuss the mordanting process and its importance in achieving color fast yarns. Day one will focus on the dyes from flowers and stems - goldenrod, yellow yarrow, tansy, dyer’s chamomile, weld, woad, safflower and dyer’s greenwood. We will experiment with a woad vat and overdye some of the yellows and pinks for a range of greens and purples. Day two will focus on roots, barks and hulls - rhubarb, walnut, butternut, sumac, apple bark, and madder - with the colors ranging from tans, browns and red. Each participant will assemble a sample book to take home of the dyed yarns and their corresponding receipts. Kate Smith of Marshfield, Vermont has been dyeing yarn and weaving fabric for over 30 years. In 1979 she came to study with master-weaver, Norman Kennedy, at the Marshfield School of Weaving and spent the next 10 years as his apprentice and assistant instructor. In 1992, Kate started her own business, Eaton Hill Textile Works, which accurately reproduces the interior fabrics of the 18th and 19th centuries using all period equipment. Some of her handwork is now in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the J P Getty Museum in California and many private collections. She continued to teach students at her own school, The School for Traditional Handweaving, and this year she re-opened the Marshfield School of Weaving, with Norman Kennedy’s blessings, in its original location. Kate is committed to passing on the valued traditions of historic textile production as a way to enhance and inspire a person’s innate creativity.

A Dyer’s Plant Walk with Joann Darling

Offered throughout the day Saturday and Sunday

Come meet the plants that we use for dye stuff! This special group of plants, typically signified by the word “tinctoria” as the descriptive species name, offers us yet another gift. The gift to paint our yarns and fabrics! Joann Darling, plant and flower specialist of the “Gardens of Seven Gables”, will be your guide to cultivating and growing dye plants in your Vermont garden. We will take a stroll through Twin Pond’s newly planted Dyers Garden and visit many other green friends planted in the gardens or growing wild on this beautiful land. Joann will show you which part, i.e. leaf, flower, root, etc. is used, and safe ways to harvest for the benefit of the plant.

Wild fiber identification, processing, and preparation with Sarah Corrigan

Offered on Saturday

Fibers, as we have all heard, hold the world together, allowing us to lash, pull, weave, constrain, haul, fling, wrap, and so on.. Come learn the many options of protein and cellulose fibers that surround us on the landscape, how to process them, and simple twisting methods.

All Weekend:

Demonstrations in various Fiber Arts Fiber Craft Sharing Circles and Fiber Arts Vendors Bring a craft to work on or share with others Contact Joann Darling for vendor registration 476-3350 or gardens7gables@gmail.com

For more information call Jennifer at 802-276-3839 or contact us with questions.

2nd Annual

Vermont Old Time Music Gathering

2010

Friday August 13th through Sunday August 15th

Join us for an Old Time Music and Dance Party

Music Jams

Square Dancing

Community Dinner on Saturday Night We will be serving Chili and Cornbread, bring a dish to share if you can

Swimming

Camping is encouraged!

Bring everything you need for camping out the whole weekend. Facilites include bathrooms, outdoor showers, and an outdoor kitchen. New this year an outdoor pavilion for jams and dancing!

Sliding Scale Donation $5-$20

For more information call Jennifer at 802-276-3839 or contact us with questions.

Apple Cider Festival 2010

Date TBA

Starts at 11:00am and goes all day and into the night…

Come join us for our 2nd Annual Apple Cider Festival!
We will grind apples with our bicycle powered grinder and press them in our new and improved timber-frame cider press.
Bring you own apples and jars and take home your cider. There will be a bonfire, music, food, and lots of apple pressing! Bring apples, jars, instruments, and a dish to share. Pot Luck around 6pm. Music and bonfire to follow. All are welcome to camp.

Splendor of Recognition Yoga Retreat with Elizabeth Brown

October 16-18, 2009

The theme will be pranayama, with lots of asana and meditation, and teachings on Shiva Nataraj. Cabin accomodations will be at Twin Pond Retreat and just a mile form Twin Pond Retreat at Birchmeadow Luxury Log Cabins(www.birchmeadow.com)Price will vary whether you want to camp or stay in a good sized luxury cabin with private bathroom and kitchen. Prices range from $215 (camping) to $295 (big cabin with one other person, or $255 for big cabin with two other people). Price includes: two nights accommodation; six meals: Friday night dinner through Sunday lunch, so that is six homemade, fresh from the garden organic vegetarian meals, big private ponds with canoes and outdoor fires both nights, four yoga classes (all optional of course), loads of hiking and trails to explore. I look forward to experiencing the beauty of autumn in Vermont with you!

For more infomation on the retreat yoga classes and schedule, and to register go to: http://www.vermontretreat2009.eventbrite.com

Feel free to email Elizabeth Brown with questions: elizabeth.isabella@gmail.com

Rocket Oven - Wood Fired Cob Oven Workshop

Friday Evening June 26th - Sunday Evening June 28th, 2009

$200 - Price includes Workshop, Meals made with local and organic ingredients, Camping, and Daily Yoga

Workshop begins Saturday morning. You are welcome to join us for camping Friday Evening.

Workshop Leaders: Ben Graham and David Ludt

Participants will learn how to build an earthen oven based on Permacultural principles. We will be incorporating a rocket heater that creates a more efficient use of wood and requires no cleaning.

Ben and David have built many ovens and are continually trying to make them more efficient and accessible to everyone. They are part of a Natural Building Collective whose mission is to innovate ancient skills with the technology of tomorrow.

Join us for an exciting development amidst the beautiful setting of Twin Pond Retreat.

Yes, of course there’s swimming!

Possible work trade may be available, please call for more information.

To learn more about Ben Graham and his work please see his website http://www.naturaldesignbuild.us

To register for this workshop please call Jennifer at 802-276-3839 or contact us for more information, rates, and reservations.

Space is limited to 12 participants.

Art for Agrarians

July 19th, 2009 3:00pm-5:00pm

A Benefit Art Auction Featuring Original Works by Local Artists

Come enjoy fine refreshments, including wine provided by Lincoln Peak Vineyard, at the beautiful Twin Pond Retreat Center. Preview more than a dozen works to be featured in the upcoming Rural Vermont benefit online art auction, as well as bid on pieces available exclusively at the event. Art to showcase original works by local artists depicting their interpretation of Rural Vermont’s vision of Food with Dignity. All art proceeds will benefit Rural Vermont. For more information, contact Rural Vermont at (802) 223-7222 or visit www.ruralvermont.org.

Singing Retreat with Katie Trautz

Date TBA - Begins at 10am with Pot Luck Dinner at 6pm. Stay for optional camping and breakfast

$75 for the day and $20 for camping and breakfast

Spend a day of singing with Katie Trautz. Enjoy a delicious organic lunch, take a swim, or enjoy the beautiful grounds of Twin Pond Retreat. Camping and continental breakfast is optional. Retreat will include three singing sessions, an organic lunch straight from Twin Pond gardens, and an optional yoga class. You are welcome to join us for a pot luck dinner, bring your own plate and utensils.

Katie Trautz http://www.myspace.com/katietrautz is a native Vermonter who has been immersed in the New England folk scene since her early teenage years. She has toured with the Village Harmony Folk Choir in both the United States and Europe, and has studied old-time fiddle and Appalachian music with some of the best instructors in the nation including Pete Sutherland, Bruce Molsky, Shiela Kay Adams, Greg Boardman, James Bryan, Bill Hicks, and Jimmy Triplett. Presently Katie is a director and instructor at the Summit School of Traditional Music and Culture in Montpelier, Vermont http://www.summit-school.org. She writes and arranges tunes for touring bands: Mayfly http://www.myspace.com/mayflygirls, Knotty Pine http://www.myspace.com/knottypine1 and Wooden Dinosaur http://www.myspace.com/woodendinosaur.

For registration or more information call 802-276-3839 or contact us for more information, rates, and reservations.

2009 Vermont Old Time Gathering

Saturday August 15th and Sunday August 16th

Photo by Art Edelstein www.arthuredelstein.com

Join us for an old time music party

Music Jams

Square Dancing

Square Dance Workshop on Saturday 2pm-4pm

Chili and Cornbread Dinner on Saturday Night

Swimming

Camping is encouraged!

Sliding Scale $5 - $20

For more information call Jennifer at 802-276-3839 or contact us with questions.

Community Kirtan

Saturday August 22nd, 2009

You are invited to join us for a Community Kirtan led by Tom Lena and Dancing Kirtan led by DJ Mantra http://www.djmantraji.com at Twin Pond Retreat. This Community Kirtan is part of a Weekend Yoga Retreat being held at Twin Pond Retreat and the adjacent Peggy’s Farm. See http://www.brighteyesyoga.com for more information about this retreat.

Kirtan starts at 6pm and is offered by donation.

For more information call 802-276-3839 or contact us