The Regional YMCA is a community service organization dedicated to building strong kids, strong families, and strong communities through the development of spirit, mind and body. ESCAPE to the Arts is funded 100 percent from private foundations, corporations, and community spirited people,
in order to provide a Fine Arts Program for children who might otherwise be excluded from similar opportunities elsewhere in the community, due to their inability to pay.
Barrie is Headmaster of "The Writer's Voice" and teaches a range of writing classes, from "Poetry & Prose" to
"Natural Journaling & Nature Writing" to "Short Story Writing" ... for adults and children.
The Indigenous Peoples Learning Network works to create sustainable economic solutions and eductaional programs for the benefit of both Western and Indigenous cultures. One of IPLN's programs is Earth Lodge Herbals, which makes natural herbal formulas for equine and canine ailments, and uses organic herbs from around the world, including tribal Nations.
Hygeia is a Holistic Health Store & Metaphysical Center based in New Milford, CT,
offering healing services, classes, books, crystals, candles, herbs and other natural health products. Barrie's Reiki certification workshops and other classes
are popular and regularly attended events.
FoxRaven Designs' artisans create unique fused glass and stoneware decor,
and create custom copper lighting and outdoor decorations, and websites.
One of the oldest and largest botanical gardens in the world, The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx is a museum of plants and a National Historic Landmark with 250 acres of gorgeous grounds, 47 gardens and plant collections, as well as thousands of shrubs and trees, 40-acres of the Forest that once covered all of New York, and the spectacular Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. Adult Continuing Education provides over 660 courses from flower design and botanical art and illustration to horticulture and botany classes. A century of scientific research and the world-renowned Library and Herbarium place the Garden in the forefront of efforts to identify, collect, and study the world’s plant life and understand the importance of plants to people and the environment.
A world class spa connected to an historic country inn. With 32 treatment rooms, the spa offers a wide selection of services ranging from traditional massages to a special selection of treatments designed especially for the award-winning Spa at Norwich Inn.
Mercy Center at Madison, is a conference and retreat center for human development. We offer a hospitality that reveres the value and uniqueness of each person and host and develop programs that enhance the quality of life in a changing world. Situated on forty acres of graceful lawns, and woodlands, Mercy Center overlooks 1110 feet of private beach on Long Island Sound, a setting of rare coastal beauty and tranquility.
With over 6400 acres, the Mohonk Preserve is New York State's largest privately funded nature preserve. Shaped over time, protected for you and your children, it's a world of Hudson Valley and Catskill vistas, sheer white cliffs, and stately hemlock forests. A natural environment for diverse species, such as hawks, ravens, beaver, and turtles, it's only 90 miles north of Manhattan.
