23 Days; I Arrive at Esalen…

Maria Lucia Bittencourt Sauer will be my first workshop leader…

A Sweet Giddy Nervousness Pervades my Being…like the first time I went to summer camp…

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining

~ John F Kennedy 

Aho…Another Bright & Beautiful Day here in the land afar (Cleveland) hahahaha

Marshmallow snow sparkles in the glorious sunlight bringing Joy & Perseverance

Bodyworkers Note: There is space in the Mar 13-April 10 workstudy program
Skills for Working with a Lifetime of Tissue History.  Get CEU's- enjoy a month at Esalen!

Email workstudy@esalen.org or get an app at esalen.org under workstudy!!!

http://www.esalen.org/workshops/workstudy.html

 Love to have you join us- Mary Anne 

A flash from the past

I love going to Esalen in the spring with my camera

check out these recent videos I took at Esalen . . . enjoy.

Babatunde Olatunji teaches the Farm/Garden crew drumming

The great Grammy winning drummer Babatunde taught drumming to those of us in the Farm/Garden crew that were interested with some private instructions for a few days  in 1989. More below...

 Esalen Staff Week group photograph

I'm hoping to hear something from or about any of the people we knew the years we were at Esalen.  Here

is a picture of the largest group of staff members I have from one of the years I was there...from the

Staff Week group photo 1989.  Pictured are all of the paid employees of Esalen at that time.The image is so wide

you have to pan right to see everyone.

I think I took this picture myself with a timer at the same time Tom Galloway was taking the 'official'

photo also with a timer.  The image is in black and white which is the film I was using at

My husband just bought a new fax machine which also has a scanner built in.  This has motivated me to scan into our computer some of my old photographs.  I thought perhaps other Esalen people would be interested in seeing some of them as they show a number of our friends from when we were living at Esalen from 1988 to 1990.

 I'll try a few now and see how it looks. If anyone would care to comment I'd like to hear...and of course we'd love to hear from anyone shown in the photos too.  I haven't done this before and have tried to make the images smaller but I'm rather stuck on 2nd one.  I'll have to update later if I can. Here are a few of the garden/farm crew both my husband and I (long before we were married) were in back then. 

RE: http://www.cbsnews.com/8601-202_162-5361217.html?assetTypeId=41&tag=contentMain;contentBody

Virtual Tour of Anne Frank House: http://news.aol.com/article/youtube-shows-video-of-anne-frank/700123?icid=main|main|dl1|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fyoutube-shows-video-of-anne-frank%2F700123

AND: http://news.aol.com/article/youtube-shows-video-of-anne-frank/700123?icid=main|main|dl1|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fyoutube-shows-video-of-anne-frank%2F700123 (see in entirety below)

This story about the Anne Frank footage popped up on my "AOL Welcome" page when I logged in this morning. After I read the article and looked the the rest of the YouTube videos linked to it, especially the haunting "virtual tour" of their home (hideout), I started to read the comments and then I started to get truly frightened: