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Did you know that Piha is holding the WORLD surfing Campionships from this Wednesday, 20th January, for a week.

We are fully booked in the weekends until February BUT we do have a chalet available from Monday afternoon 18th January until Friday 22nd for the SPECIAL summer rate of $395.00 instead of the usual $500. Wow. That includes three meals a day, linen, wonderful company at mealtimes and the championships just across the road on the beach!

Ring as soon as you read this - or email - so that you can get here first thing Monday morning. Phone 09 8128 775; or bev@tewahiora.co.nz

Remember, we close for the first 3 weeks of February for our annual holidays! Be in NOW for summer at Piha!

October 2009 Our Winter Special ends at the end of this month - unless you can convince us to keep it going for you - then we'd be very happy to oblidge!

Many of you have been asking about workshops and I thought it would be a good idea to remind you of what Te Wahi Ora has available.

One of the best ways to do these workshops is by getting a couple of your friends together and make a weekend of it. Two groups have done this recently and it works out well.

We can offer a selection of topics women have found most useful in their personal journeys. Fees are dependent on the Workshop chosen and the number attending.


Myers Briggs Temperament Indicator
One of the easiest and fun ways of understanding your own and others behaviour.

Enneagram
An ancient sacred psychology that provides an understanding of our ‘sacred task’ and of our ‘shadow side’ as well as affirming our strengths.

Maya Angelou’s Poetry and Life
Maya, the best selling black author in the world, believes that poetry needs to be magical, musical, mystical and lyrical! From her video you’ll learn some of her poems, explore her experiences familiar to you, and write about your life in a similar style.

The Greek Goddess and Archetypes
The feminine’s characteristics and potential is revealed through exploring the attributes of seven of the Greek goddesses.

"Awakening the Heroes Within"
Carol Pearson's book has a wealth of research on the growth and development of women from their birth to old age. These are explored in our three stages of life and our 12 styles of 'being'.

Clowning
An ancient dramatic art that is for fun and entertainment, yet teaches important truths from insights discovered through contact with your inner child to your own powerful inner ruler.

Everything around us is speaking of Spring, the garden, the sun, the later sunsets - even the staff are searching out new tasty recipes for the warmer weather. While you are tasting our workshops you can also be tasting our great food! See you soon.

NEW WINTER DEALS


YOU CAN STAY AT PIHA FOR A WEEK OR MORE .....

FOR $298 PER WEEK, (Monday - Friday) all inclusive. Some women will be able to help with our costs by offering to pay the GST of $37.00 per week as well as the board, but we wanted to make the 'Artists Winter' possible for all women.

This idea began because I decided that when I was 70 I'd want to do some 'writing'! Then I thought, it would be good to be surrounded by other people who wanted to write, or paint, or compose songs, or re-create their lives or create a healthy body for themselves, or even just have a long holiday! I thought they could join me for my 70th year! The next thought I had was, "why not begin it NOW during the winter months of May - October 2009? So we are!

We still take guests of course at $125.00 per 24 hours. They will still enjoy the wonderful service of breakfast being brought to their rooms; lunch will be laid on in one of the dining areas and then dinner will be in front of the fire. The difference for the 'boarders' will be that they help themselves to breakfast and lunch that the chef prepares and then we all join in for the evening meal by the fire.


"Te Wahi Ora is a place for women and therefore we want to make sure that women CAN come, so please feel free to negotiate costs", WE MEAN IT! So begin planning your winter retreat dates NOW.

What do you think of our Artists Winter?

Read more below to be convinced!

Or ring 09 8128775 to make a booking.


Or email us pihabevholt@clear.net.nz

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

What a wonderful summer it has been. Wonderful guests; much walking, swimming, eating, reading, talking and sleeping! Winter is just as good! The season brings it’s own charms with, wrapping up warmly, cosy fires, time be still, invigorating and dramatic weather, hot milky drinks or mulled wine!

And when the urge to move strikes, you'll be encouraged to enjoy the shelter of bush walks when it is windy or the wide open spaces of the beach walks in the rain or in safe winter sunshine!

Today one of our guests had enjoyed a brisk walk along the beach and returned with hair flying and skin glowing - she had been energized by a massage just hours before and now she sank into a comfortable easy chair and devoured two big bowls of hot, meaty vegetable soup! Two hours later she was packed and ready to return to her family of boys for another action packed term of being mother!

One solo mother who is a student, has been saving $10 out of her housekeeping money towards a much needed three day holiday for herself.

We had a woman from New York come for two weeks and she talks, not only of returning but of being "quite changed by the experience".

Did I ever tell you about one guest who, over the years, came 107 times? She had a busy schedule; so at the beginning of each year she put the monthly dates of her visits into her diary and not only did it help support her life but she became a wealth of wisdom and encouragement to Te Wahi Ora. We miss her now that she is retired.

As I've said before, we are planning to be here for women for the long haul. So we must find a way of being financially sound. We now need staff which is a new experience for us and means that Te Wahi Ora has more financial demands on it. But it also means that I'm more relaxed and the food and services are superb!

PHOTO BY: Deb Ball

Contact us by phone 09 812 8775 for speed if you'd like to make winter bookings or to enquire of our SPECIALS of the new season.


More and more another group of women are beginning to find their way to Te Wahi Ora and they are .... older women. (i.e. Anyone my age and over!)

Here are two such women!






For when Joan Erikson (wife of the famous Erik Erikson who, with Joan's assistance, put forward the 8 stages of human development) was in her 90's and Erik was dying, she decided to re-write the 8th stage and add a 9th stage! "We were young when we wrote it originally" she explains, "now I know more of the aging process. Time for a re-write!"

"You're an original, Joan" says a friend, in the book "A Walk on the Beach" by Joan Anderson (I've just ordered 3 copies!)

"Not really," she answers, "Deep within every life, no matter how dull or ineffectual, something eternal is happening."

Now that is what I want to explore this winter with any woman who is willing to come into sacred space created over many years by many women, space for us to discover the "something eternal" that is happening!

Joan Erikson continues "the negative pulls of old age, are greater and therefore an aging person has to strive that much harder to gain strength. I didn't want to admit to myself, how difficult this last stage was - more difficult than any of the others."

We've got some exploring to do together, don't you think? And it looks as though this 9th stage deserves more time and energy than we have been led to believe!

YOU book in: pihabevholt@clear.net.nz ($125 all up for each 24 hours; $298 per week or feel free to negotiate a price!) Phone 09 812 8775

I'll get the log fire going and the hot soup;

Let's discern that "something eternal" that is happening in our lives and give this 9th stage our best shot!