Recipes for Radical Well-Being at the Ranch
“Let’s be curious and creative and fall in love with awkward, uncomfortable, the reality of every day grief and embracing not knowing what to do.”
-Katheryn M. Trenshaw
Welcome to Radical Well-Being and welcome to Rancho la Puerta which offers one of the biggest menus for well-being every single week of the year and on every level. This is one of the best places in the whole wide world to be inspired with “recipes” for well-being. (That is not just MY opinion. Year after year, Condé Nast votes this one of the best destination spas in the world.)
This is an invitation to take some simple recipes for well-being inspirations into YOUR day-to-day life.
How can we truly be comfortable with discomfort? Perhaps the answer to this holds the ultimate key to resilience, fluidity and sustainability that we are seeking for our well-being.
A few years ago, I was caught completely off guard at a moment when my basic understandings of beauty, health and well-being had to be re-defined. It is scary and magnificent to be alive. Facing our mortality up close and personal can do incredible things for our perspective. At least it did for me.
“Bigger, better, faster, more” are not working out so well generally speaking. And, they do not seem to bring true contentment or well-being. Radical well-being Is more about living awake, vulnerably with what is, rather than what could be, should be, or would be.
I love a good list. I have been dubbed a “list queen”. What’s on your To DO list? And what happens when you consider it in conjunction with the fact that you are definitely going to die? I also love a good Venn diagram. And this is my current favourite.
There, in the sweet spot between To-Do List(s) and Awareness of Death is what matters most and what is essential in life. Let’s live while we are here, aware of our impermanence. Let’s remind ourselves and each other what is essential in that sweet spot in the Venn diagram. Let’s consider the importance of being a little kinder, no matter what happens next. We’ve all got that same fatal condition called life.
Let’s be curious and creative and fall in love with awkward, uncomfortable, the reality of every day grief and embracing not knowing what to do.
Rancho la Puerta has invited me and some fabulous collaborators to come and offer workshops on this very topic as an important part of health. We’ll be sharing lots of fabulous “Recipes for Radical Well-being”.
Beginning with ‘Living Awake: Grief, Grace and Gratitude’, with Dr Lilli Rosenberg from November 30 to December 7. This will be followed by ‘Wild and Precious Life: Women Living with and Beyond Breast Cancer’, with Dr. Ulrike Schoneck from December 7 to 14.
What are your favourite ingredients for radical well-being? Which ingredients do you find most essential in that sweet spot?
Come feast with us. On the menu…
Fresh Organic meals - mainly plant-based colourful food beautifully presented. A feast for the eyes, soul and body. Tick.
Daily exercise that you can enjoy, with a huge variety to mix it up regularly along with beautiful sustainable architecture and eco-friendly places to practice. Tick.
Long meandering walks in gorgeous vegetation and fresh air. Just moving about your day to day activities is designed to achieve your daily requirement to take 10,000 steps rather modestly. Add a mountain hike and this may easily double… not to mention the number of “flights climbed” equivalent that your phones health tracker might report you will have climbed. Tick
Good company. Inspiring people with whom to enjoy time, activities, educational workshop opportunities and meals. Tick.
Places to relax and just BE in silent still reverie. Meditation. Sound Healing. Hammocks. Hot tubs. Just to name a few. I often suggest the “hammock class” which is so often overlooked as a viable well-being activity. Tick.
Music. Live world class concerts and musicians performing for your aural delight. Tick.
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Katheryn M. Trenshaw will be co-facilitating with Dr Lilli Rosenberg Living Awake: Grief, Grace and Gratitude Nov 30 - Dec 7, 2019 and with Dr Ulrike Schoneck Wild and Precious Life: Women Living With & Beyond Breast Cancer from Dec 7 - 14, 2019 at Rancho la Puerta. Katheryn will also be a featured artist in the Bazaar del Sol Gallery for several weeks in November and December at the Ranch. Come join her for a glass of wine and learn more about her colourful creative original oeuvres.
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Katheryn Trenshaw is an international artist, educator and creative catalyst / consultant who offers training and facilitation in movement, art and Radical Well-Being. She conducts educational events, workshops, multimedia project and undertakes consulting for individuals, groups and organisations.
Dr. Lilli Ruth Rosenberg developed a model of Learned Happiness which synthesizes research in Neuropsychology, Buddhism, and Transformational Learning. Katheryn and Lilli met at the ranch four years ago and together, they make for an abundant bouquet of sixty years of training, experience, and teaching. A multitude of modalities include meditation, integrative health, somatic practices, dynamic communication, movement, and creative expression. Their complimentary styles provide a safe atmosphere for diving deep, connecting with love, and transformation into Living Awake.
Dr. Ulrike Schoeneck and Katheryn will present a series of talks and workshops. They each hold Medical / Academic training respectively and both have an extensive background in somatic and contemplative practices which include long silent retreats. This combination means they offer something very unique and integrative for health and well-being. They are also able to handle a much broader range of questions and concerns from different angles and experiences that they offer together.