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Sonoma Family Camp at Venado Retreat

Sonoma Family Camp at Venado Retreat
June 30-July 3rd, 2017
Ages 4 yrs-Adult

Looking for a long weekend summer getaway for the whole family?
Want to spend quality time with the kids where you get a break as well?

Sonoma Weekend Family Camp at Venado is for YOU!

It's no accident that we all slow down, become more aware of our surroundings and feel a sense of contentment in nature. We created Sonoma Family Camp to offer an intergenerational experience that invites participants to step out of everyday habits and enjoy simple and often profound time spent in nature. This long weekend program of community, nature and arts will revive, surprise and rejuvenate both kids and adults. There is time in the schedule for families to engage together, as well as separate age-appropriate activities for both youth and adults. We'll engage the kids in fun activities in nature and theater while you rest, enjoy a massage, or go out wine tasting or bike riding in beautiful Sonoma County. But the fun doesn't stop there! We offer adult workshops in art, movement, voice and theater classes. As a family you can create family memories as we make s'mores and tell stories by the campfire, share spontaneous performances, compete in relay races, play improvisational theater games, make nature-based arts and crafts, hike and sing songs.

Enjoy Venado Retreat's secluded 33 acre property just 20 minutes West of the famed wine and food destination of Healdsburg, California. We are located just an hour 45 minutes from San Francisco and an hour and a half from Berkeley.
Ideal for children ages 4 - 11, but we can accommodate your younger or older children. Please contact Debórah at venadoretreat@gmail.com for toddler and CIT opportunities.

All meals are catered. Accommodations are bring your own tent or grab one of 3 rooms with private bath in the log cabin. Take advantage of our on-site massage therapist while the kids are in a session.

DETAILS & REGISTRATION:

Arrival: June 30th arrive: 3-5pm
Departure: Monday July 3rd, 2pm

Limited to 30 Participants-- Register Today!
Discounts provided for early bird registration, additional siblings and family referrals.

Registration Fees:
Adults: $450 Youth 3-12 $350 (youth 13-18 please inquire about our CIT opportunities)

Fee Includes:
All programs for both adults and kids
All (9) meals (dinner Friday to lunch on Monday including wine with dinner for adults)
Snacks, coffee and tea throughout the day
Space for your tent(s) and shared bathroom and shower
Hiking on secluded 33 acre forested property
Facility use including the log cabin kitchen, outdoor kitchen, decks,1200 sq ft Sun Dome dance tent and adult mountain bikes

Optional:
-Massage: on-site professional massage therapy (book asap to secure your slot!)
60 mins: $95
90 mins: $115

-Log Cabin Room accommodation: includes private full bath
Manzanita Room: 1 Queen bed, 1 twin, spa jet bath: $225 additional for the weekend
Redwood Room: 1 Queen bed, 1 twin, shower, downstairs: $225 additional weekend
Fir Room: 2 Double beds, 1-2 twin beds, spa jet bath upstairs: $300 additional for the weekend

-Glamping canvas tent by Lotus Belle with private deck: 16 diameter with bed(s) up to 4-5 people
1 Double bed, 1-2 twin beds, shared bath and shower $195 additional for the weekend

Ways to Save:
Early Bird Discount: ends April 15 (save $50 per person!)
Refer a Family: $25 discount for both you and the other family. Refer multiple friends for maximum discount! contact: venadoretreat@gmail.com for code
Work Exchange: 1-2 slots available in food prep or childcare in exchange for highly discounted fee
Please contact Deborah at venadoretreat@gmail.com

Program Schedule Outline:
Arrive Friday:
3-5pm check-in
6-7:30 dinner
7:30-8:30 first campfire/orientation
Hangout or Goodnight!

Saturday:
6:30-7:30am: intergenerational sit/spot or movement meditation (optional)
7:30-8:30: breakfast and cleanup
8:30-9am: prep for the day
9am-9:15 am Morning Circle/ALL
9:15-10:30 session 1
10:30-11:00 AM snack
11:00-12:30pm session 2
12:30-2pm lunch and cleanup
2-:00-3:30 session 3 (snack break included)
3:30-5:30 free time/optional dessert making
5:30-6pm End of Day Circle/ALL
6:00-7:30pm dinner and cleanup
7:30-9:30 campfire: games, songs and smores!

Sunday:
6:30-7:30am: intergenerational sit/spot or movement meditation (optional)
7:30-8:30: breakfast and cleanup
8:30-9am: prep for the day
9am-9:15 am Morning Circle/ALL
9:15-10:30 youth session 1
10:30-11:00 AM snack
11:00-12:30pm youth session 2
12:30-2pm lunch and cleanup
2-:00-3:30 session 3 (intergenerational/optional)(snack break included)
3:30-5:30 free time/optional dessert making
5:30-6:00 End of Day Circle/ALL
6:00-7:30pm dinner and cleanup
7:30-9:30 campfire: games, songs and smores!

Monday:
6:30-7:30am: intergenerational sit/spot or movement meditation (optional)
7:30-8:30: breakfast and cleanup
8:30-9am: prep for the day
9am-9:15 am Morning Circle/ALL
9:15-10:30 sharing
10:30-11:00 AM snack
11:00-12:30 camp breakdown, task assignments
12:30-2:00 lunch, cleanup and Closing Circle
2pm Checkout

The Staff:
Debórah Eliezer Adabachi, Program Leader, has been teaching adults and kids for 25 years. She founded and ran Swivel Arts Performing arts Summer Day Camp in San Francisco for 13 years and currently teaches throughout the Bay Area. A professional actor, voiceover and choreographer, she is the Co-Artistic Director of foolsFURY Theater which creates award-winning ensemble theater, produces the FURY Factory Festival, and offers workshops. She holds a certification from CIIS in Sound Voice Music Healing and a BA Cum Laude in Drama from SFSU. Venado Retreat is the realization of a shared dream, creating arts and nature programs for professional artists and the public throughout the year.
For more info about Venado visit: https://www.facebook.com/venadoretreat/?ref=bookmarks

Pamela Hollings, Program Leader, has been a Waldorf educator for twenty years, working with students ranging in age from 3 - 18 years and their parents. She is also an experienced outdoor summer camp leader and loves crafts of all kinds, hiking, tracking and other outdoor pursuits. She has studied with Weaving Earth and will join their full time program next year. Her first career was in the theater where she ran a company and directed many plays, and taught both voice and acting classes. She currently serves on the board of foolsFURY Theater and studies acting with Tom Bentley-Fisher. She's looking forward to being a loving 'aunty' to your children this summer.

Anastasia Beron: Massage Therapist: Anastasia's bodywork facilitates the body's innate capacity to create its own healing. Her work is rooted in Connective Tissue release, Neuro-muscular Repatterning, Thai Massage, and the subtleties of embodied Somatics practices. She believes that healing is a collaborative journey in which the work that happens on the table translates into re-patterning of movements and postures that speak to the root of pain, ultimately create lasting freedom in mobility and expression.
Anastasia is also a performing artist and dancer using body, breath, and text as tools for personal and collective healing. You can learn more about her work at alchemicalbody.com.