April 2008

Spring Activities

4 – 6 April • Adult £114 • Child £66

This is a weekend for all ages and anyone who likes to spring into action, in relaxed yet creative and productive fashion, in Spring!

Activities will include long breakfasts, dangerous conversations, bread making in the farmhouse kitchen, pizza-making in the barn earth oven, yoga sessions in the upstairs Hayloft, mathematics in the excitingly-studious Cat’s Room, campfire-making in the Pleasure Garden, a peek at poetry, prose, and poultry, and juggling with Jake, walking with Max and his minders, potato planting with the potato planters, playing word games or cards with the game-players, and maybe even just relaxing and connecting with one another.

Creative Music Weekend

11 – 13 April • Adult £114 • Child (11 – 18yrs) £66
with Surya Cooper, Elaine Samuels,
Andrew Walpole, and Linda Lee

A weekend for all music-lovers: – singing, songwriting and music! Bring your instruments.

Song-writing sessions will be led by singer-songwriter Elaine Samuels, whose list of musical credentials include being the founder of the Windsor Song-writing Festival.

Guitar tuition, all styles and levels, will be provided by Andrew Walpole – performer, song maker, and guitar teacher. Voice coach Surya Cooper will be offering yoga-based breathing and voice techniques and will familiarise us with vocal chords and diaphragm.

Linda Lee, founder and leader of the ever-expanding Swindon Scratch Choir, will get us singing in harmony to songs old and new, or even newly-written! The weekend starts on Friday evening and will end on Sunday at 4pm with tea, cake, and a final song.

More information available at:

http://www.elainesamuels.co.uk/creativemusicweekend.htm

http://www.lemonrock.com/lowershawfarm

Working Weekend – in the spirit of WWOOF

18 – 20 April • No Charge

For more information, see Working Weekends section.

Yoga and Massage

25 – 27 April • £114
with Barbara Hicks and Mary Maguire

Yoga works not only on the body but also calms and sharpens the mind and leads to all-round alertness.

Iyengar Yoga will be taught in a way that is suited to beginners and more experienced practitioners. The classes will focus on postures to improve flexibility, strength, and balance, and exercises to improve breath awareness.

The weekend will also include sessions on ways of giving and receiving a relaxing and toning massage, covering different areas of the body and incorporating shiatsu techniques.

There will also be an opportunity for a walk in the Wiltshire countryside.

Note. This course, with similar ingredients, will be repeated in October.