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Adventure in Intimacy Description: Taste the sweetness of reconnecting with your partner by attending the Adventure in Intimacy workshop led by internationally renowned relationship experts Hedy and Yumi Schleifer. This workshop will teach you the essential skills that will allow you and your partner to reboot your relationship, reconnect with each other more deeply than you ever thought possible, and rediscover the joy of being together. Couples are able to participate privately in their relationship rediscovery as opposed to just passively absorbing lecture materials. Learn how to turn blame into cooperation, renew the passion and pleasure, and transform frustration into gifts that benefit your relationship! When: Friday - Sunday, August 6-8, 2010, 8:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. daily Where: Asheville Renaissance Hotel, 31 Woodfin St., Asheville, NC 28801 Cost: $895 per couple; $695 per couple for previous graduates ($200 deposit required to register. Tuition includes workbooks, supplies, morning & afternoon snack.) For more information or to register visit: www.HedyYumi.org. To register by phone call 305-604-0010 or email Geoffrey@HedyYumi.org. [All day event] Writing the Body's Wisdom: A Zen Writing Retreat for Women Description: Friday, August 6 - Sunday, August 8 Great Tree Zen Temple, Alexander, North Carolina Alexander is 15 miles north of Asheville, NC. With Peggy Tabor Millin, writing teacher and award-winning author of Women, Writing and Soul-Making: Creativity and the Sacred Feminine. A safe, supportive circle of women is the perfect place for taking this empty-handed leap into your creative self. You need not be a writer and no meditation experience is required. The agenda includes optional meditation (instruction available) and group writing to prompts. Come with an open mind and empty notebook and leave with an open heart and a notebook of inspiration. Accommodations limited to 10 women. Commuters welcome. For details, see our website at: http://www.clarityworksonline.com/retreats/zen-writing-retreat-2010summer 7:00am 8:00am 9:00am [9:00am-5:00pm] Quilt Show at NC Arboretum Description: Cultural Heritage Comes Alive at The N.C. Arboretum During the Asheville Quilt Guild’s Annual Show! Western North Carolina’s rich ultural heritage comes to life on August 6, 7 and 8 at The North Carolina Arboretum as it hosts the Asheville Quilt Guild’s 28th Annual Show. The popular show is a judged event featuring more than 250 quilts of exceptional craftsmanship from across the U.S. and worldwide. The three-day show offers live demonstrations, a vendor’s mall and more! This year’s theme is “Stars Over the Mountains.” The show runs Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Entrance to the Quilt Show requires an $8 per personal vehicle parking fee to The North Carolina Arboretum and $5 admission fee for the Quilt Show. Visitors to The NC Arboretum during the Quilt Show will also be able to explore engaging indoor and outdoor exhibits, including: *Balance and Beauty: A Visual Celebration of Rural Life, featuring paintings by Margaret Scanlan at the Baker Exhibit Center *Inflorescence, a new outdoor sculpture exhibit throughout the Arboretum’s gardens by Jason S. Brown and Elizabeth Scofield that features a variety of botanical forms created from synthetic nylon fabric Visitors are encouraged to explore the Arboretum’s 65 acres of cultivated gardens, 10 miles of hiking and biking trails, engaging exhibits, and bountiful opportunities to connect with nature. For information, call 828.665.2492 or visit www.ncarboretum.org. The mission of The North Carolina Arboretum is to cultivate connections between people and plants. The NC Arboretum is located next to the Blue Ridge Parkway entrance at Milepost 393. From I-26, take Exit 33 and follow Blue Ridge Parkway signs for two miles to the entrance ramp. Visit www.ncarboretum.org/plan-a-visit for parking fees, property hours and building hours. For general information call 828-665-2492 or visit www.ncarboretum.org 10:00am 11:00am 12:00pm 1:00pm 2:00pm 3:00pm 4:00pm 5:00pm 6:00pm 7:00pm 8:00pm 9:00pm

Description:

Taste the sweetness of reconnecting with your partner by attending the Adventure in Intimacy workshop led by internationally renowned relationship experts Hedy and Yumi Schleifer. This workshop will teach you the essential skills that will allow you and your partner to reboot your relationship, reconnect with each other more deeply than you ever thought possible, and rediscover the joy of being together. Couples are able to participate privately in their relationship rediscovery as opposed to just passively absorbing lecture materials. Learn how to turn blame into cooperation, renew the passion and pleasure, and transform frustration into gifts that benefit your relationship!

When: Friday - Sunday, August 6-8, 2010, 8:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. daily

Where: Asheville Renaissance Hotel, 31 Woodfin St., Asheville, NC 28801

Cost: $895 per couple; $695 per couple for previous graduates

($200 deposit required to register. Tuition includes workbooks, supplies, morning & afternoon snack.)

For more information or to register visit: www.HedyYumi.org. To register by phone call 305-604-0010 or email Geoffrey@HedyYumi.org.

Description:

Friday, August 6 - Sunday, August 8
Great Tree Zen Temple, Alexander, North Carolina
Alexander is 15 miles north of Asheville, NC.
With Peggy Tabor Millin, writing teacher and award-winning author of Women, Writing and Soul-Making: Creativity and the Sacred Feminine.
A safe, supportive circle of women is the perfect place for taking this empty-handed leap into your creative self. You need not be a writer and no meditation experience is required. The agenda includes optional meditation (instruction available) and group writing to prompts. Come with an open mind and empty notebook and leave with an open heart and a notebook of inspiration.
Accommodations limited to 10 women. Commuters welcome. For details, see our website at:
http://www.clarityworksonline.com/retreats/zen-writing-retreat-2010summer

Description:

Cultural Heritage Comes Alive at The N.C. Arboretum During the Asheville Quilt Guild’s Annual Show!

Western North Carolina’s rich ultural heritage comes to life on August 6, 7 and 8 at The North Carolina Arboretum as it hosts the Asheville Quilt Guild’s 28th Annual Show.

The popular show is a judged event featuring more than 250 quilts of exceptional craftsmanship from across the U.S. and worldwide. The three-day show offers live demonstrations, a vendor’s mall and more! This year’s theme is “Stars Over the Mountains.”

The show runs Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

Entrance to the Quilt Show requires an $8 per personal vehicle parking fee to The North Carolina Arboretum and $5 admission fee for the Quilt Show.

Visitors to The NC Arboretum during the Quilt Show will also be able to explore engaging indoor and outdoor exhibits, including:

*Balance and Beauty: A Visual Celebration of Rural Life, featuring paintings by Margaret Scanlan at the Baker Exhibit Center

*Inflorescence, a new outdoor sculpture exhibit throughout the Arboretum’s gardens by Jason S. Brown and Elizabeth Scofield that features a variety of botanical forms created from synthetic nylon fabric

Visitors are encouraged to explore the Arboretum’s 65 acres of cultivated gardens, 10 miles of hiking and biking trails, engaging exhibits, and bountiful opportunities to connect with nature.

For information, call 828.665.2492 or visit www.ncarboretum.org.

The mission of The North Carolina Arboretum is to cultivate connections between people and plants.

The NC Arboretum is located next to the Blue Ridge Parkway entrance at Milepost 393. From I-26, take Exit 33 and follow Blue Ridge Parkway signs for two miles to the entrance ramp.

Visit www.ncarboretum.org/plan-a-visit for parking fees, property hours and building hours. For general information call 828-665-2492 or visit www.ncarboretum.org