I am so excited this year to offer a raw food lifestyle for this retreat! The difference in all of our live's since going live is so profound that I am compelled to share this with others who desire to open up their life to the Divine force in such a way

           This year's retreat:

                               A woman in all her uniqueness...

can share with others a similar yearning for personal growth and attention, self-expression, having her own time to be with her very own hands and heart, to discover feelings and stories, to play and sing, to share in deep listening to others and to be listened to, especially by the birds and the wind, to sauna and sleep and weep and laugh under the light of the moon, to learn to prepare and eat healthy organic raw foods, and to meditate and contemplate and to experience just plain fabulous times with other women who are equally unique in their yearning to feel and be alive in all that is her life...

Cost: 5 day residential and meals                w $745.00
         3 day residential and meals                 w $545.00
        3 day non-residential including lunch w $345.00

Please e-mail me or call @ 425-486-2476 if you have more questions of would like to have a groovey flyer posted to you!

Waterblessings,

Alysia

Greetings to all,

Today is a sunny Seattle day! So much rain lately has produced a prolific burst of green everywhere, including happy weeds...

This spring has brought many changes to our land, we have extended the garden three times its earlier size to accommodate our penchant for green things to eat year round! New chicks for slug control and a lovely pair of wild ducks are hopefully about to fill the pond with fuzzling wonderments, especially for little boys...

What an awesome undetaking and blessing is required to be truly alive

Greetings!

Today was the second day in a row in a long, long time when the skies weren't completely gray! Yesterday was a day of gorgeous blue skies and temperatures in the 20's!

What a drab, wet and cold winter it has been here in Woodinville, at least.  But with all the weather we have been having,the much needed rain has brought the much needed snow that rests now upon the mountains. It is beautiful as well as a relief to see both mountain ranges with white peaks everywhere.

We are nearing 6 months on our raw food lifestyle, and yesterday for an unexpected birthday present I received a Vitalizer Plus, which is a groovy blender-like (without the blade) gizmo that creates a vortex in the water within the container. There undoubtly was an easier way to describe that, but you can go to www.vortexwatertech.com and learn more if you'd like. At anyrate, we are learning more about hexagonal water and the boys love to watch it happen! The animals definately seem to enjoy this "new" water, and it tastes so good to us as well. We already in one day notice differences, that is to say, detox continues!Everything we are reading about raw continues to be true, and the more we learn and experience ourselves, the more involved, motivated, and inspired we are becoming. We are deeply blessed with fantastic Farmer's Markets through the winter here in Seattle, and we eagerly await the time soon when we can begin to start our seeds in the greenhouse and work in our garden again!

Waterblessings to you,

Alysia

Greetings to you,

 Fall is upon us, with blue skies and the dropping of the alder leaves into the winding creeks, calling salmon upstream to a long journey back home.

 August has been an extraordinary month for me, marking a great change acoming. My two oldest companions, Chewie and Anubis were called upstream, and my dearest of friends, Judy Marz who introduced me to the Bon people has been diagnosed with lung cancer. As she walks between the wild side of somewhere here and gone, my life has received a nescessary dose of re-commitment to a life of being the best I can be.

Somedays and nightdreams are easier than others.

Life with two babes under the age of two is an awesome task for anyone, and at the ripening age of 46, I have made the choice to change my frequency  by eating a raw based diet to be able to stay atune with them. Someone yesterday asked me if that included sashimi... I laughed...they were serious...

Our whole household has gone raw, and we are learning how to make sure the boys have all their essential dietary and nutritional needs met. All I can say is, wow! so far. The energy level, the lighter we feel, the more active we become, and the more we can keep up with the boys! As Master Stanley taught me, you must eat conscious food to be conscious. I always believed this, but having moved farther afield from what primarily was a mainly vegetarian diet in the last few years, eating raw food feels like you're injesting light. You can actually feel your body, that is to say, I can feel my body absorb the nutrients and it feels like smiling from the inside out.

It just recently occurred to me that I could utilize my website to reach you, dear reader more than I realized. Perhaps it is that I am arising a wee bit out of tending to infants 24-7 and becoming aware of the world again. I must say, I feel that motherhood is changng me in more ways than I could have ever imagined.

Thanks for reading... I'm posting as well a letter I sent out to a few friends of "Nubie".

He is missed.

Waterblessings,

Alyisa

                                                Anubis

                 October 19th, 1992- August 29th, 2007

Dear friends who would wish to know about their beloved friend and teacher, Nubie... On Tuesday evening just after 11:00pm we had the awesome task of releasing this great soul back into the void. Ali and her wonderful connections, allowed us to administer the magic potion to Nubie that freed his spirit of such suffering. He went peacefully, willingly and comfortably. On Monday, I saw him sitting on Chewie’s fresh grave site and I knew the time was near. A few days before Chewie died, both Ali and I separately heard Poppy’s familiar howl echo through the house. I said to Ali that he had come back to help a friend cross-over. At the time, I didn’t think it to be Chewie.

 This time, she came for her large companion. As many of you know, Nubie has been on his way out for some time, particularly last October when he was down for the count. But up the giant rose and soon after came our sweet, sweet Raphael Lungtok. In March he went down again, this time it seemed via a stroke. Lisa Ganci was visiting and presto! Back up did Lazarus rise!The women gathered for a retreat in June and many attending were surprised that the white bear still roamed, albeit with a bent and sometimes twisted walk, but nonetheless always managing, tracking the whereabouts of the ever- pervasive soccer ball.

I send this to you because I trust that you loved him in your way as much I did, and that he loved your hearts as much as he did mine. It just was his nature to do so. He was a friend to all who met him, from kittens, to chickens, to children, to cranky old ladies. There is more at another time, when the moment is right, to share with all who might hear, the great teaching of just how he arrived at the gate of death’s door and what final riddle Anubis left for me to ponder. All I can say, is once again he has irrevocably changed my life. He held so much for me, shadow and light, giving me at first, the chance to catch my breath, and to breathe in again a potent love that would render me undone as I knew myself to be.  It is hard to truly miss a soul whose influence resonates everywhere I look. The old man that he had become, had us changing three sets of diapers a day!

The process evoked within me my long night of a dark soul. And in true Nubie fashion, he transformed his departure into a cosmic flashlight that I trust will lead me yet again, into the light of true living. His presence taught me to soften my angry and hardened heart into one that knows the power of saying yes to love and life, to motherhood, and to move more gently within the passage of time itself. He instilled within my core the gift of true patzienza, distilling it into a willingness to hope regardless of the abounding chaos. For many years to my good fortune, I have witnessed his devotion to all of you who were willing to be moved by that same force that was all of who he was. Always, I watched how he met each and every one of you. And the grace and beauty that radiated from your heart as you met him moved me so much as well.

Although his tired and worn frame now rests buried nearby,

 my life is abundant

 Glorious Nubie adventures and teachings, tears to laughter and love again

 children and chickens, treehouses and ducklings

 reassuring remnants of dog days and soccer balls

                                       “The king is dead, long live the king”