Raffle!

As promised here is the list of fantastic prizes for Saturdays raffle.Thank you so much to everyone who has been so generous in contributing these wonderful prizes. 

"Nurtured Family Nurtured Earth" (pictured left) an original watercolour painting in a beech frame by Jaine Rose www.jainerose.co.uk

Set of 4 cd's ~ Drum Songs from the Heathen Hills, Weathered Edge & Old Silverhead by Carolyn Hillyer and Dartmoor Roundhouse by Nigel Shaw from Seventh Wave Music www.seventhwavemusic.co.uk

A  Mooncup from Feminine Wear www.femininewear.co.uk

2 Gift Subscriptions to The Mother magazine www.themothermagazine.co.uk

Life Without School & Stretch Marks, by Veronika Sophia Robinson ~ kindly donated by Jacqui Ferguson

The Drinks Are On Me, The Birthkeepers  by Veronika Sophia Robinson

**NEW** The Mystic Cookfire by Veronika Sophia Robinson

Set of cards from Sacred Celebrations www.sacredcelebrationcards.com

A Babasling baby Sling www.thebabasling.com

"Abundant Health" book donated by the United Chiropractic Association.

The Method Home Detox Kit  www.methodproducts.co.uk

Earth Friendly Baby Gift Set www.healthqueststore.com 

A wooden toy from Past and Present gift shop, Haslemere

Who They Really Are by Christina Fletcher 

Parent Mentoring session with Christina Fletcher

1 year subscription to Nexus magazine www.nexusmagazine.com

2 x 1 year subscriptions to Juno magazine www.junomagazine.com

1 x Large veg Box from Riverford Organic home delivery

1 x voucher for a medium Fruit & Veg Box from Abel & Cole

Car Parks and getting here

For all of you who are travelling to Haslemere for Nurtured Family Nurtured Earth, here is a link to a map showing the way from Weyhill, right next to Haslemere where there is more parking than in the town centre. It is a 15-20 minute walk in to the museum from there.... also on the map is the train station, so you can see the short route in to town from there too :-)


There are 3 car parks in the main town which are a little closer ~ also on the map ~ but just wanted to give you a few options as it may well be busy.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=51.089049,-0.716686&spn=0.013397,0.038581&z=15&msid=213901394411498222339.0004a45d01b9d89041511

Safe a peaceful journeys everyone.


Looking forward to seeing you all next weekend x 

To all of you who have registered for Nurtured Family Nurtured Earth, a huge Thank You!

I have sent out an email with a few important details to you all ~  here are some of the main points, just in case for some reason you haven't received it;

Please bring a picnic lunch and come hang out in the garden with us. We are running a small kitchen on site with drinks, fruit and home made light snacks & refreshments for sale but we are not selling lunches this year, so please come prepared. There is a supermarket just minutes from the museum though if you don't manage to grab your lunch before you leave!

We hope you will find plenty to amuse yourself with; there are many Children's Activities, a Healing Tipi, Tai Chi and a Herb Walk running alongside the main talks all day, culminating with a Community Drumming Circle (please bring along a djembe or percussion instrument if you wish) to end the day at 4 pm which we hope you will all enjoy. Please have a look through the schedule to make sure that you know whats happening & when.

Please buy a raffle ticket (or 10!) on the day ~ The raffle is looking amazing, with more donated gifts coming in all the time, I will update the blog soon with a complete up to date list. There will be many opportunities to purchase tickets for the raffle so please take them up. Particular highlights are a Beautiful Original Watercolour by the inspirational artist Jaine Rose & copies of Veronika Robinsons books, The Drinks are On Me, The Birthkeepers, Life Without School and  (hopefully!) her newest offering The Mystic Cookfire.

Please do have a great time! and sign our guest book, which will be on The Red Thread's table in the market room. Let us know what you have liked and what you would like different next time :- )


Here is a link to directions to the museum

http://www.haslemeremuseum.co.uk/visit.htm

Please be aware that there is no parking at the museum ~ there are a few car parks in town, but we recommend coming by train into Haslemere as there is a good service on the Waterloo/ Portsmouth line. It is just a 15 minute walk from the station to the museum or a very quick taxi ride, thus avoiding having to park in town.

We have a programme of activities running for your children to join in with if they wish.
It is really important for everyones happiness and safety, that children should be accompanied by an adult at all times. Our numbers do not allow for Creche facilities and so there must be a responsible adult with your children at all times whilst on the museum grounds.

So looking forward to spending time with you all in 2 weeks!

blessings x

Nurtured Family Nurtured Earth

Well, so far it has been an eventful year around here, but it is about to get a lot more interesting and exciting, as we are now able to publish a working schedule of events at Nurtured Family Nurtured Earth. The day is now just 3 weeks away, and continues to draw in magic, surprises and amazing Raffle Prizes as it grows! I will blog shortly about all of the fantastic donations we have had for our raffle, for now though, I am very happy to bring you the schedule below. 

Thank you once again to everyone who is working so hard to bring this day into being; for us it is much like a community labour and birth (only with more emails...!) and I am so so grateful to all of you who are working so hard for us, mopping brows and getting ready to catch, and most importantly to ENJOY, Nurtured Family Nurtured Earth as it unfolds into being on June 4th. 

I can't wait to see you all on the day. Blessings x

Talks in The Haslemere Room
10.30 Doors Open
10.45 - 11.45 Discussing Vaccination and Natural Immunity, Anna Watson of Arnica Parents
12.00 - 13.00 “Nurturing The Whole Child In Education” Maggie Curry of Heartwood Small School project
13.30 - 14.30 “Parents, Architects of The Future” with Patrick Houser of Fathers To Be International. Which came first the parent or the child? When does parenting, and for that matter childhood, actually begin? What real choices do we have as parents regarding the future wellbeing of our children?
14.45 - 16.00 “The Nurtured Family” with Veronika Sophia Robinson, Editor of The Mother magazine. Veronika will share ten threads of nurturing to weave into family life. She'll offer ideas which are easy and practical, and can be implemented by any parent seeking to bring more consciousness to their daily life.
 

Childrenʼs Activities in the garden (children must be accompanied by an adult at all times)
10.30 Doors Open
11- 11.45 Relax Kids session in the yurt, with Katharine Bowdidge. Come along for a fun adventure in your imagination~ includes some movement and games, stretching (gentle yoga poses) breathing, affirmations and visualisations, a calming story to help mind and body relax.
12- 13.00 Music for parents and children with Len of the Len Tyler Music School, meet under the shelter in the garden
13.15 - 13.45 Meet Alfie! with Paul Robinson ~ a ventriloquist show for kids of all ages in the yurt.
14.00 - 14.30 “A Mongolian Story” Story telling with Lynne Fornieles and Willow of Heartwood Small School Project, in the yurt.
14.30- 16.00 Kids Activities with Etudeo in the yurt.
 

Garden Schedule
All Day Tʼai Chi in the Bell Tent with Dean Dalrymple, running 40 minute sessions of Tʼai Chi through the day, suitable for all abilities.
13.30 - 14.30 Herb Walk: Come rain or shine the wild stuff will thrive. Whether you call them wild plants, herbs or weeds, they can probably help you improve your health. Learn the identity of some of Britainʼs wild flowers and trees and how they work with your body to heal various ailments. Led by Medical Herbalist Tim Carpenter. Meet at the foot of the steps to the annexe in the garden at 13.30 to join this fantastic walk.
16.00 - 17.00 Please join us for a Community Drumming Circle, led by Drumheads & the Guildford Drum Circle in the garden for a dynamic end to your day.
 

Healing Tipi

The therapists of The Indigo Touch will have a table in the market room and be running a healing area all day in the Tipi in the Garden, please check out the schedule and drop in.

10.30 - 11.15 Dee French ~ offering Nutritional Advice, please drop in
11.15 - 12.00 Emma McGuire ~ introduction to Homeopathy and First Aid Remedies
12.00 - 12.45 Tamara Kircher ~ Chinese Massage (Tui Na) for children
12.45 - 13.30 Jacky Milner Walker ~ Baby Massage Demonstration
13.30 - 14.15 Carina Petter ~ Talk on Cranial Osteopathy
15.00- 15.45 Alex Sams ~ Bach Flower Remedies

 

Introducing ~ The Tai Chi Tent at Nurtured Family, Nurtured Earth

I am very excited to let you all know, that Dean Dalrymple is very generously coming along to run Tai Chi sessions throughout the day, in the museum garden.

Dean has been practising and teaching tai chi and chi gong for 18 years. His training has taken him to Malaysia and Thailand and he has taught in a variety of teaching environments including Adult Education and Tai Chi festivals. Although he has practised tai chi as a martial art along with Malay and Philipino systems, it is as a moving meditation that Dean finds tai chi has its greatest benefit. 

During Nurtured Family Nurtured Earth, Dean will be leading 40 minute sessions of gentle Chi Gong (slow mindful movements) and meditations. He'll be holding the sessions in 'The Bell Tent' which will be pitched in the museum's grounds- simply sign up for a time slot on the board outside the tent. 

The sessions are an invitation to you to simply let go of tensions rather than a challenge to 'learn' what is being shown.  

Sounds amazing, well, you'll know where to find me if I am suddenly missing ... x

The Warp and Weft

Over the time since I first started The Red Thread, I have been contacted by many women from all over the country who have set up similar groups for themselves where they live, as a response to reading about ours.

I am more pleased and moved than I could ever express that The Red Thread calls to so many of us because, for me, that is so much of what this work is about ~ encouraging and inspiring each other. As women, if we come together in loving support of one another, we can move mountains. There are few more important or courageous jobs than the one that we do ~ fearlessly raising and nurturing the next generation ~ and in order that we do it to the very best of our ability, it is essential that we create community and support systems for ourselves. 

It is too easy in todays society to inhabit a world of separation. We have almost all been brought up within this paradigm and it is essential that we learn to feel and see beyond it. To choose solitude is one thing and I do choose it often for many reasons, not least because I like my own company, but equally, I sometimes need to reach a little way beyond myself and feel a welcoming hand to steady me when I wobble; to hear a loving voice on the end of the phone; to be among other women who reflect the best of me right back at me; to be among friends. I have been blessed in this lifetime to know some truly remarkable women and to have some wonderful friends who shine like stars in the firmament, guiding and inspiring me every day. It is soothing to the soul to be among like minds, kindred spirits, and this is what the Red Thread is aiming to provide ~ a space for us all to come together in.

It is only with the ongoing love and support of my friends that I have been able to reach out and reawaken the spark of The Red Thread within so many others. Please get in touch and let me know about your Mothers/ Womens circle and lets share our stories and continue to weave the Red Thread for the good of us all.

Roll Up Roll Up....

Tickets are now available to Nurtured Family Nurtured Earth here

http://nurturedfamilynurturedearth.eventbrite.com/

Entry is free but please consider donating to support us if you are able to, via the button on the right.
We are starting from a budget of zero and it is only due to the love and generosity of our inspiring speakers;
Veronika Robinson of The Mother magazine, Patrick Houser of Fathers to Be International, Anna Watson of Arnica Parents and Maggie Curry of The Heartwood small school project;

in donating their time and abundant energy for free, that Starr and I, along with the women and families of The Red Thread, can realise our dream and create this wonderful event. Every little bit donated will help to support us in this adventure!

Tickets are actually going at an almost alarming rate, so if you are planning on joining us then do please go along and register your interest soon.

So looking forward to connecting up with you all in June!

Keeley x