Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
New Weekly Class Series Starts Tuesday, Febraury 21
Tuesday Evenings 7-8:30, 10-week series

"In just weeks you can learn mindfulness-based reduction (MBSR), a clinically proven program for alleviating stress, anxiety, panic, depression, chronic pain, and a wide range of medical conditions. Taught in classes and clinics worldwide, this powerful approach shows you how to focus on the present moment in order to permanently change the way you handle stress. As you work through this booki, you'll learn how to replace stress-promoting habits with mindful ones - a skill that will last a lifetime." A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, Bob Stahl & Elisha Goldstein

Using the workbook and MP3 CD endorsed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PH.D (founder of MBSR), we will progressively cover the steps to reduce stress and truly transform your life. The program incorporates both formal and informal excercises that can be completed in just minutes each day. The weekly meetings provide an opportunity to discuss your experience and any questions that might arise as well as offering the benefit of the added inspiration of working with others. Register in advance. $240 plus workbook $20.

"My wife and I truly loved your class.
We have been reading and listening to CDs on these types of topics
for about 15 years and your course has been transformational for us...
You helped us with many questions we had about meditation and mindfullness as well."
                                                       - JH MIlford, MA, Global Director Healthcare Industry

Wilderness Retreats at Taohe (Tay-oh-hey)
Individual and Small Group Retreats
Spring 2012 Day Retreats, $80
Spring 2012 Weekend Retreats, $180

Retreats are most likely to resume in April or May,
depending on the weather this year.
Check back or send and email for updates.

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Sacred Spaces retreats have a just a 3 simple essential elements:
     nature
     quiet
      you

I provide sustaining meals and an invitation to silence. With this, you may relax deeply into the beauty and wonder of simply being in the natural world.

We meet at Sacred Spaces in Southborough and carpool one hour to Taohe - a private lake and woodlands with abundant wildlife, two woodstove-heated cabins, canoe, kayak and more. Yet it is the little things that make it perfect - a secluded grove, a small turtle, owls calling, a big rock to warm on, a silent meal. This is a place to rest and harmonize your being. Healthy and delicious vegetarian (or vegan) meals.

For more information call Judy at 508-624-7519 or send an e-mail

"Taohe" means being in harmony with the environment.The sound of it is soft and clear.

At Taohe, twenty-seven acres of woods, a private lake and a 1930's cabin enable you to leave everything behind and discover yourself as a simple being of nature.

Taohe is nearby (30 minutes west of Worcester) and is yet miraculously secluded and a most prisitne natural environment. Here you can come back to who you are in your natural, open, friendly and quiet being as you find yourself amidst hemlock and oak, hills and lake, owls, moose, otter, hawks, deer, songbirds, sun, wind and water.

There are hundreds of acres of surrounding New England forest to hike. There is a canoe and kayak to explore the waterworlds. The cabin is primitive yet cozy as you learn to be without usual conveniences such as electricity and using a handpump for fresh water.

You may join a scheduled group retreat or tailor a personal retreat anywhere from a day visit to several days or a weekend. Your time at Taohe can be as structured or unstructured as you like. Scheduled retreat weekend may include individual and group time with periods of silence, walking, time in nature, laughter, song, journaling and sharing - and of course, sleeping and eating wonderful home cooked meals.

Taohe is a special place where you don't have to work at being in the moment - you're just quietly there.
                                                                                                      H.B. Natick

Thank you again for the solitude and quietude of this amazing place. There were 4 deer romping and racing through the woods and water across the lake this morning. It's so wonderful to feel (or be) a part of nature again! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.                     M.E. Sudbury

Ease is the voice  
  of the living earth
        telling an organism
    it is in harmony
                with its environment.