News and Updates

Upcoming 2010 programs are being posted regularly, check the Programs listings page.

 

Click here to download the 2010 Newsletter (PDF).

To download Stephen Priesthoff's Winter Solstice article, click here.

This hard copy newsletter is mailed once a year, and email  'flashes' 3 times a year.

Please contact us at pumpkin@taconic.net and put the word 'email' in the subject title--- so you can be added to our email communications. Please send us your postal address so you can receive our newsletter. (1184  Route 11 Craryville NY 12521)


 

ONGOING PROGRAMS AT THE HOLLOW

STUDY GROUP/DISCUSSION Tuesdays at 7:00 pm   currently reading - The Real World of Fairies by Dora Kunz, co-founder of Therapeutic Touch, a founder of Pumpkin Hollow, and a world reknowned clairvoyant.  info: 325-3583

HATHA YOGA CLASSES-  Thursdays at 5:30 pm/all levels welcome. call Carolyn:  325-4233

GENTLE YOGA CLASSES Thursdays at 4 pm (will resume in the spring)      "             "

THERAPEUTIC TOUCH WELLNESS MONTHLY GATHERINGS - call for info  325-3583

Therapeutic Touch Workshop--- 3/26-8 .  IT IS THE SAME WORKSHOP CONTENT BUT OFFERED IN 2 DAY WEEKEND FOR THOSE WISHING TO SAVE $.  Our regular 3 day TT workshops  cost more but offer more time for enjoying being at the Hollow.

Come discover the Four Seasons at the Hollow, each season has a unique beauty and energy.

We are open year 'round.

PRIVATE RETREATS at our retreat center

Come to the richly nurturing, creative surroundings of Pumpkin Hollow
Retreat Center with your friend, group, family or personal project or
pondering. Stay with us and access the healing and creative energies
encapsulated in the beautiful 130 acres of pristine woodland, flowing
waters and falls. Utilize the atmosphere of our beautiful octagonal
Meditation Center by the waterfalls and the solitude and seclusion of
the Healer's Sanctuary, set deeper in to the woods, overlooking the
glorious gorge. Stroll meditatively or enjoy the groomed trails for
fellowship and conversation.

A variety of accomodations are available for your stay. House
together or separately in small rustic, more modern and larger group
cabins, tentsites, or bedrooms in the farmhouse. Enjoy our warm welcome
into the community farmhouse- living room, library, dining room and
kitchen. Both privacy and fellowship are available and your personal or
group's needs are always important to our staff.


Healing Arts Day  Saturday July 18,  2009 ( be offered again in 2010 in different format tba)

 



An
internationally recognized complementary healing modality, Therapeutic Touch
originated in the early 1970’s at Pumpkin Hollow Retreat Center, Columbia County. 

Over thirty
years of clinical experience and research shows that TT can decrease the perception
of pain, induce a profound relaxation response, promote rest and sleep, reduce
stress and accelerate wound healing.  TT
can also have an effect on psychological and spiritual levels.  Therapeutic Touch is a gentle but powerful
intervention which can stimulate the body’s own natural healing ability.

On Saturday July 18, Dr. Dolores Krieger, co-founder of Therapeutic
Touch, is offering a community outreach/health promotional program: Healing
Partners.  Her public talk, Self Healing:
the challenges and responsibilities will focus on how we all can skillfully promote
our own healing. Her colleague, Shirley Spear Begley, coordinator of the TT
Mentorship program  at PHRC will offer a
lecture and demonstration on Therapeutic Touch; the benefits, the process and
the research.

Our Healing
Arts day (10:30 am – 4 pm) is an invitation for the local
residents to get acquainted with Pumpkin Hollow Retreat Center, enjoy a vegetarian lunch,
participate in a Group Healing Meditation and stroll the lovely sanctuary
grounds. A donation of $10 is requested. Please make reservations.

As a follow-up to our Healing Arts Day, TT treatments will be offered July 19-21 in the
afternoons at 2pm, (Sunday, Monday,Tuesday), and July 25-29, in the morning
at 10 am (Saturday through Wednesday).

$10
donation for the Healing Arts Day. TT treatment sessions are offered as a
service, there is no charge. But, it is important to register!


Email: pumpkin@taconic.net or call 518-325-3583
or 325-4233. Ask for Carolyn Kay Wheeler, RN., coordinator of outreach programs. 

 

see below News articles.



Helping Hearts and Hands at the Hollow
The heartbeat at the Hollow is strong, the energy alive and the spaces warm and welcoming thanks to the generous giving of time, loving work, money and intention througout the seasons.
It is wonderful to welcome home Hollowers of years past and new faces. Much fun has been had in the kitchen and on projects on the grounds and buildings. Many cabins as well as the main house and staff house have received refreshing upgrades and renovations thanks to hearts and hands who've given generously with the Hollow in mind.

There's always plenty left to do and the call goes out to you to come give from your heart and be filled with the joy and satisfaction that comes from being part of keeping such a beautiful place as Pumpkin Hollow alive and well for the benefit of all. Please join us for one or more of the work weekends or anytime there are programs -giving a helping handd here at the Hollow. Do consider a week, month or even the season of being a volunteer here!

Living and working here at the Hollow is a very fulfilling adventure. The more hearts and hands the merrier as the heart of the Hollow swells and shares it's magic with all who come to visit.

The "Adopt-A" program has been alive and well! We've seen 2 cabins benefit hugely by some of our dear friends' specified monetary gifts toward them. We've seen windows, curtains, floors, beds and decor, furniture and a station wagon arrive out of generous hearts. Remember too that the "adopt-a" program can be applied to your paying special attention to some space of the Hollow's grounds and gardens with your physical and/or monetary support.
Thanks from the heart of the Hollow to all who have participated in the wonderful year we've had in 2007!!!

 



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