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Cooks And Catering
Brigita Caters – blacovara at gmail.com. Brigita loves cooking for retreats because of the intimacy, transformation and connections they create. She is passionate about food that supports the work of the participants, nourishing their hearts and souls. Private chef, catering and education, guests love her wonderful food from organic, locally-sourced, wild-crafted ingredients. blacovara at gmail.com. www.brigitaskitchen.com.
Chris Theberge – Chris has a passion for nutrient dense, savory and soul satisfying food – offering a range of delights from raw foods to real foods/traditional diets. A trained holistic chef, she worked in the San Francisco Bay Area as a catering chef for 10 years. She is particularly interested in locally sourced and high vibrational foods for digestion and health including probiotic foods. Chris is also a VortexHealing™Divine Energy Healing practitioner. christine.theberge@protonmail.com. www.christinetheberge.com 415-290-2707.
Casey Eason – Casey enjoys cooking for groups in the same setting for several days. His style is simple, clean, light and memorable. He can cook anything and everything, loves multiple courses, loves doing fish, (which he can get super fresh twice weekly,) and loves creating amazing desserts, keeping flour and dairy to a minimum. Casey has cooked for everyone from Barack Obama to Chris Hastings. He’s been a chef on large private yachts that travel through the Caribbean to Bonaire, and he’s also worked extensively in Vail, Park City, and Martha’s Vineyard. ceason321@gmail.com. Or Instagram: @kc_eason.
Cooking Studio Taos – Chris and Valerie Maher. Cook with James Beard recognized chef or have him cook for you. Chris specializes in hands-on cooking classes, team building, private chef services and private dinners featuring cuisine from all over the world. www.cookingstudiotaos.com. 575-776-COOK.
Yoga Classes
Soma Yoga – Brigita Lacovara – blacovara at gmail.com. A deeply relaxing somatic experience. Inspired by the Feldenkrais Method and a style of health yoga from the SriKali Ashram in India, this class rewires the brain and the nervous system for connections within the body and within our lives.
Rise & Shine Yoga – Brigita Lacovara – blacovara at gmail.com. For all levels/body types, learn the fundamentals, gain mobility and strength, and understand your body better.
Slow-Burn Vinyasa – Brigita Lacovara – blacovara at gmail.com. A challenging vinyasa class holding postures and slowing transitions between poses to keep awareness in body.
Massage And Other Forms Of Healing Work
Taos Rocks – Ana Chavez- 575-751-3309. Massage and hot stone therapy.
Advanced Intuitive Bodywork, Subtle Body Energetic Healing, Shamanic Soul
Recovery work, and Channeled Guidance Wisdom – Robyn O’Boyle – 575-779-
6802, empoweringalchemy@gmail.com, www.empoweringalchemy.com
Barepause Bodywork – Sarah Torinus – sarah@barepausebodywork.com,
www.barepausebodywork.com. Slow down, turn inward, rest, and receive. I help
facilitate your deep relaxation, lessen your muscular tension, and assist your nervous
system with regulation. Leave each session feeling held in your healing, restored in your
energy, and at ease in your body.
Facials by Jill – Jill Moore – 575-770-2445. Organic facials, waxing, lash/brow tinting.
Acupuncture – Ana Easter, DOM, RN – 575-999-5950. Energy healing with
acupuncture, sound healing and essential oils.
Primitive Skills Classes – Dustin Freyta, (Facebook: Yaniwa Josto) – 575-770-9308. Learn basic survival skills from a Native, such as fire making, archery, instinct shooting, hunting, tracking, building shelter, flint knapping, land reading, navigation, survival first aid. 15 years experience. Classes last 3-4 hours.
Empowering Alchemy – Robyn O’Boyle – 575-779-6802,
empoweringalchemy@gmail.com, www.empoweringalchemy.com. Advanced cranial-sacral therapist, shamanic facilitator, Reiki master teacher, reflexologist, intuitive bodyworker, sound healer.
Crystalline Harmonic – Brigita Lacovara – blacovara at gmail.com. A rejuvenating and centering sound immersion. Guests lie down and listen to the alchemy of crystal bowls meeting the human voice. Transformed, each person receives just what s/he needs.
Polarity Therapy – Solange Leboucher – 575-613-0043.
Tibetan Bowl Sound Therapy – Jeremiah Glauser – 808-446-0845. “The body not
only needs touch, it needs sound therapy which enhances bio-acoustic frequency in the body.”
Music And House Concerts
DJ Adem Joel – ademjoelmusic@gmail, soundcloud.com/laaylines. Blending elemental aspects both organic and hyper-cosmic, ranging from tropical Afro house all the way down to subterranean sonic spectrum of ground rumbling baselines blended with enchanting melodic frequencies. My Laay Lines Project is intended to connect us with the sonic pallet of the crystalline energy grid of the Earth and provide listeners with a way of reconnecting to our planet through dance and music.
Electronic Musician Vic Hennegan– www.vichennegan.com. Vic Hennegan has been writing, recording, producing and performing electronic music for years. As a live performer he has done such shows as The Gathering Concert Series in Philadelphia, Cyberstockof Los Angeles, Ecstatic Dance, 5 Rhythms dance, Soul Motion, Northern California Dance Collective and many other venues around the world. With computers, samplers, vocals and synthesizers, Hennegan’s instinctive hand creates the techno-trance and ambient music in a wildly fun, uplifting spiritual experience that will take your soul on a journey to the center of ecstasy.
N’GomaKundi- West African Percussion Group – contact Vanessa Morgan – 970-403-4150, www.durangodrums.org. Movement and rhythm are necessary for life. The beating of our hearts, our breath, neurons firing at a certain tempo in our brain, and countless other functions all have rhythm. Dis-Ease can be seen as a disorder in the bodily rhythm and loss of our connection to the universal rhythm of flow. Trance dance and drumming support mending of the psyche, discovering knowledge of the Self, visioning and expansion of consciousness. Just as our ancestors did, we can use the drum to restore balance and maintain physical, mental, and spiritual health within ourselves and our tribe. It reduces stress, chronic pain, boosts immune function and deepens self-awareness and engenders a sense of connectedness with all of life.
Grace and Paul Jones – 575-377-5017. Amazing and poignant Native American flute music with drums.
Jeremiah Glauser– 808-446-0845, primordialsound108@gmail.com. Bagpipes, mandolin, and penny whistles accompany his original music of love, loss, triumph, and the paradox of life itself.
Restaurants Near And Far
Carson Café & Grocery – 505-470-7420, great food, pizza, coffee, as well as beer/wine, (no carry
out), just 7 minutes away across from the Carson PO. Karaoke every Friday night! Very fun!
Artesian Restaurant at Ojo Caliente Spa & Mineral Springs – 25 minutes away, fabulous food,
beer and wine.
Martyrs Steakhouse – 40 minutes away in the center of Taos, great food, full bar.
Orlando’s – 35 minutes away in El Prado, excellent New Mexican food, beer/wine, gets busy!
Lambert’s of Taos – 40 minutes away, center of Taos, American fine dining, full bar
Stella’s Italian Restaurant – 40 minutes away, center of Taos good Italian food, beer/wine
Mondo Italiano – 45 minutes away, south side of Taos, good Italian food, full bar
We have numerous great cafes in and around Taos: Sol Food Café, Elevation, World Cup, Coffee Apothecary, Taos Valley Lodge Espresso Bar, and Koko, to name a few.
Adventure Within 30 Minutes
Ojo Caliente Spa & Mineral Springs – 505-583-2233, www.ojospa.com
Llama Trek Adventures – 1-800-758-LAMA (5262), www.LlamaAdventures.com
Rio Grande del Norte National Monument – Hiking trails. www.riograndedelnorte.org
La Cieneguilla Stables– 575-751-2815, Hwy 68, Pilar, NM. Trail riding and lessons.
Los Rios River Runners – 575-776-8854, www.losriosriverrunners.com
Far Flung Adventures – 575-758-2628, www.farflung.com
Big River Raft Trips – 800-RIVER-GO, www.bigriverrafts.com
Eske’s Paradise Balloons, – 575-751-6098, www.taosballooning.com
Cumbres y Toltec Scenic Railroad – 1-888-286-2737, info@cumbretoltec.com, (60 mins away).
Other Activities
Taos Pueblo – www.taospueblo.com
Taos Ski Valley – www.taosskivalley.com, www.skitaos.org
The Harwood Museum Foundation – www.harwoodmuseum.org
Puye Cliff Dwellings –www.puyecliffs.com
Vietnam Veterans Memorial – www.vietnamveteransmemorial.org
Taos Center for the Arts – www.tcataos.org
Bandelier National Monument – www.nps.gov/band/index.htm
R.C. Gorman’s Navajo Gallery – www.rcgormangallery.com
Museum Association of Taos – www.taosmuseums.org
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