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Dear Feathered Pipe Friends,

Hoping this finds you well wherever you may be in this wondrous world! Things continue to progress at nature''s own pace here at the Ranch this summer. Without a full schedule of programs, we are attending to many long put-off projects and finding time to imagine other ways in which to accentuate the grandeur of the land. Mother Nature is more than lending her hand with the new aspen-pine forest continuing to reach toward the azure blue sky above, and our new resident moose yearling having made the lake his/her habitat of choice.

Deepest Gratitude

We wanted to again share our great appreciation for your enthusiastic involvement during our 45th Anniversary Celebration. Almost all programs continue to be available for your viewing, including India''s Memorial. Opportunity to donate, if you haven''t had a chance, is there at the end of each program''s video. Please know every little bit helps.

Your generous giving is truly helping us weather these challenging times. It has made clear to us all just how important and valuable the mission India entrusted us with is, and the importance of community in manifesting a more inclusive, healthy and peace-filled tomorrow. You have our commitment that we will honor your belief in us.

Registration is Open

Registration for our 2021 Retreat Season opened yesterday with almost all of our programs being available for your exploration. Only a few remain to be listed and/or made available, with registration for those remaining starting on August 15th. We have number of programs that are already nearing full house, so best to get in earlier than later.

Again wherever you may be in the world, please take best care of yourself and others, see the beauty in the simple things, and keep faith in the goodness of Life. Hope to see you next summer!

Faith & Gratitude,
Feathered Pipe Foundation

Faith & Blessings,

Feathered Pipe Foundation
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Helena MT 59624
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Dear Feathered Pipe Friends,

Hoping this finds you well wherever you may be in this wondrous world! Things continue to progress at nature''s own pace here at the Ranch this summer. Without a full schedule of programs, we are attending to many long put-off projects and finding time to imagine other ways in which to accentuate the grandeur of the land. Mother Nature is more than lending her hand with the new aspen-pine forest continuing to reach toward the azure blue sky above, and our new resident moose yearling having made the lake his/her habitat of choice.

Deepest Gratitude

We wanted to again share our great appreciation for your enthusiastic involvement during our 45th Anniversary Celebration. Almost all programs continue to be available for your viewing, including India''s Memorial. Opportunity to donate, if you haven''t had a chance, is there at the end of each program''s video. Please know every little bit helps.

Your generous giving is truly helping us weather these challenging times. It has made clear to us all just how important and valuable the mission India entrusted us with is, and the importance of community in manifesting a more inclusive, healthy and peace-filled tomorrow. You have our commitment that we will honor your belief in us.

Registration is Open

Registration for our 2021 Retreat Season opened yesterday with almost all of our programs being available for your exploration. Only a few remain to be listed and/or made available, with registration for those remaining starting on August 15th. We have a number of programs that are already nearing full house, so best to get in earlier than later.

Again wherever you may be in the world, please take best care of yourself and others, see the beauty in the simple things, and keep faith in the goodness of Life. Hope to see you next summer!

Faith & Gratitude,
Feathered Pipe Foundation

Faith & Blessings,

Feathered Pipe Foundation
P.O. Box 1682
Helena MT 59624
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Dear Friends,

This is the first summer in 45 years that Feathered Pipe had to shut down operations for an entire season, creating profound hardship and unprecedented opportunity. I made my way to the Ranch in July along with a handful other faithful volunteer friends, where we busied ourselves working on the projects we could manage. Paths were cleared. New sit-spots were born in special but underused settings. (The new "Creek Sit" is my personal favorite-thanks Zane!)

I savored the chance to walk the land and brainstorm with Executive Director Crystal Water and dream about future possibilities. What now? Where do we go from here? How do we do it? Fresh in our minds, too, was the recent memory of early June, when we still held out a glimmer of hope that we could salvage some of our summer season. We were scrambling to work out how we could hold classes outdoors, weather permitting, to allow for easy 'social distancing.' Wouldn't it be great if we had an outdoor space to practice, at least in good weather? This idea has been a (Feathered) Pipedream for years. Imagine practicing outdoors on an auspicious site high on the sloping promontory across the lake with a panoramic view to woods and forests, emerging meadow, and nearby mountain ranges? And so was born the idea of The Nature Deck.

Help Us Deck Out Feathered Pipe

After surveying the property and exploring scores of options, we identified an ideal, relatively flat spot on the western hillside above the lake. It affords an airy, often breezy, dappled shaded area with a 360-degree view of the most captivating features of the Ranch: the lake, the stupa, the flourishing new growth that Mama Nature created to fill in the barren spot devastated by pine beetles in 2009, mountain ridges, and forest. It is accessed via a short, groomed trail that winds upslope from the creek footbridge. It will be a place where, in Wendell Berry''s words, we "come into the peace of wild things."

Thanks to our remarkable supporters, we''ve already raised more than half of the estimated $20,000 to build The Nature Deck; work is well underway thanks to some generous-hearted and talented volunteers. Our prayer is to finish it before the snow flies so we can begin using it for our programs next summer. Crazy miracles have worked for us in the past, after all. Will you consider a donation to help us finish the work?

With love, deep gratitude, and pranams,
Anne Jablonski
President, Feathered Pipe Foundation

Karma Tensum: An Affirmation Of Our Inherent Goodness

Tibetan Children's Education Foundation''s Karma Tensum''s life is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and a potent example of the role that education-of the heart and mind-plays in our individual and collective liberation. Here, he shares passionately about his life experiences, spiritual beliefs and his hope for the future.

Energy Medicine Yoga Summit: Moving From Trauma Into Joy

There is a point. Some call it the 'Tipping Point', some call it the 'Pain Point', some call it the '100th Monkey'. It is the point where a new paradigm becomes instantly available. The more of us who work to heal, the more of us who contribute to this great awakening, bring us ever closer to the possibility of Heaven on Earth.

Join Lauren Walker, creator of Energy Medicine Yoga, October 15 - 22, for enthralling dialogue with twenty-three leading voices and visionaries in the realm of healing, including Donna Eden, Angela Farmer, Nassim Haremein, Bruce Lipton, Eileen McKusick, Dr. John Douillard and many more.

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Dear Friends,

Summer continues to roll on here at the Feathered Pipe Ranch, with Josh and crew making many renovations and improvements to the facilities and grounds. We have been fortunate so far with rain and moisture continuing on into the month of August. The wildflowers and grasses grow high and the new forest in the meadow near the Stupa stretches higher and higher toward the sky.

We were honored to have an incredible, other-worldly ceremony up at the Stupa a couple weeks ago, by a dear Tibetan friend and performing artist Tsering Lodoe. To say that he opened the door to realms beyond and invited us all to step in, would be a gross understatement. It truly was a ''ceremony of passage'' which felt so befitting India. We offer it here for your viewing, for possible release and closure. Click here.

Support Your Virtual Community

With the effects of COVID19 still being felt by so many, we encourage you all to find ways to create and sustain community. Many of our teachers have moved their classes online during these times. In support, we have created an online sangha as a way to build the bridge between. Most are offering daily and weekly classes, with special online workshop opportunities happening throughout the year. Feel free to explore here.

Among our dear alumni who are offering their teaching online is senior Iyengar Yoga teacher John Schumacher, founder and director of Unity Woods Yoga Center, of one of the oldest and largest Iyengar Yoga studios in America. John recently made the difficult decision after more than 40 years of community service to close their brick and mortar studios in the DC area. Please do consider supporting them during this transition.

John sat down with freelance writer Andy Vantrease last month for an extended interview in honor of India''s passing and their more than three decades of friendship. We are privileged to share it with you here.

Stay safe, be well, and remain open to others.

Faith & Gratitude,
Feathered Pipe Foundation

John Schumacher: A Lifetime Of Yoga And Self-Discovery

The Feathered Pipe was honored to host John Schumacher along with Patricia Walden for a week-long retreat that became an annual reunion-like gathering of Iyengar yogis and yoginis for nearly 20 years.

Here, John reflects on his journey with BKS Iyengar, memories of teaching at the Feathered Pipe Ranch and the aspects of yoga and a lifetime of self-discovery.

Feathered Pipe Kitchen: Barley Vegetable Soup

For anyone who returns to the Feathered Pipe Ranch year after year, they know that soups have long been a lunchtime staple, with hearty and wholesome blends of vegetables, pulses and herbs that change from one visit to the next. Enjoy!

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Dear Friends,

Just wanted to share a quick update and note of appreciation to all of you who participated in India''s Memorial over the Fourth of July weekend and the week-long online workshop celebration of our 45th anniversary. We are completely blown away by the overwhelming and heartfelt response!

More than 1500 participants joined us during the 22 workshops taught by many of our most-loved and dear, teacher alumni during the week of July 6 - 11! It was so wonderful to see so many familiar faces as well as many, many new to us, throughout the week. Your kind donations were such a welcomed and needed blessing. Thank you from the depth of our communal heart.

45th Anniversary Online Workshop Recordings

As many of you know, we recorded all programs during our 45th Anniversary Celebration. We now have them all edited, processed and uploaded to our Vimeo account. They are accessible by our 45th Anniversary page, and you are welcome to enjoy any and all at your leisure. Most, if not all, will be available for at least the next two weeks while we continue our fundraising drive. Your generous donations are welcomed, and please DO support all of the program teachers by following their online offerings. (Links to their websites are on the individual program recording pages.)

India''s "A Life Well Lived" Recording

We are still in the midst of processing and uploading India''s Memorial program. (The file is HUGE.) We hope to have it uploaded and linked on our website by Wednesday at the latest. For those who were not able to join us live, we apologize for the delay. It will be viewable on the "A Life Well Lived" page. Stay tuned!

For those looking forward to next summer already, we plan to have all 2021 retreat programs listed soon with registration opening on August 1st! We have an incredibly inspired and diverse lineup running from the first week of June straight through to the last week of September.

Our Deepest Gratitude

Again, thank you all for your belief in us, for the love and appreciation you have so warmly shared, for your support during this past year, and knowing as India expressed in a recent tribute to her life in LA Yoga Magazine, "As silly as it sounds, I do believe the Feathered Pipe Ranch has changed the world. We were at the beginning of a big paradigm shift in America, and although I pictured it to be more extreme-like the Earth splitting on its axis and everyone valiantly choosing peace-I look back and know this place has been at the center of a lot of healing."

Faith & Gratitude,
Feathered Pipe Foundation

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"India Supera''s birthday is today. She loved the South Indian delicacy of dosa and chutney whenever she visited South India. She gave better lives to many of the poor, suffering, downtrodden, widows, destitutes and the hungry. Poor feeding of dosa and chutney will commence shortly."

Dear Friends,

As I was thinking about how to honor my mom''s birthday and her legacy of kindness, this touching note from our friend in Puttaparthi, India immediately brightened my day. Celebrating her birthday on September 4th, he attributes the seva work he does to India (the person), saying she taught him how to do it. In the process, he also understands how much my mom loved food and loved to feed people. Giving downtrodden and hungry people both attention and food, feeds their bellies and souls. That is the heart of seva work.

In fact, my mom was a master of helping people see that finding your path in life is really about planting a seed. It''s about "simply" starting somewhere with something. Thinking about what one simple thing you can do to change your world for the better and starting with that. From there you can start to realize your limitless potential. Many think you need to be "qualified" to do something, yet if you just start to do it, you start to learn how to do it and how to do it better. Before you know it, you''ve changed the world.

When one of us suffers, we all suffer. Anything we can do in life to remove any of that suffering, benefits us all. As India lived her life, she planted seeds of kindness everywhere and served as a model for others to learn how to reduce our collective suffering.

This year more than ever I''ve seen how many of the seeds of kindness she planted have grown into vast forests and flourishing gardens. Friends from all over the world have reached out to me, especially after India''s online celebration of life, to tell me the positive paths their lives have taken because of seeds that were planted in them by India and the Feathered Pipe.

In celebrating Feathered Pipe''s rich history and seeing it''s ripple effect of interesting people in the world, please read our latest interview with my dear auntie Net Net (known to others as Jeannette Hermann). I spent much of my early youth with her as we traveled the world together on all kinds of crazy (mis)adventures. Reading her interview, I am once again reminded of the incredible synchronicity that has blossomed and thrived at the Feathered Pipe since the beginning. When you are open for something, it simply manifests.

I invite you to join me and Feathered Pipe in planting a seed to manifest kindness. That can be a smile, a poor feeding, a donation to your favorite cause, taking time to be good to yourself, volunteering, absolutely anything kind that can help reduce suffering in the world. Doesn''t that feel empowering?

With love, kindness and a big slice of birthday cake,
Crystal Water

Jeannette Hermann: Synchronicity & Unwavering Dedication To Service

Jeannette Herman was a member of the founding group at the Ranch, after a vision quest and a "chance" meeting in Red Lodge, Montana she was led to the Feathered Pipe Ranch. Now splitting her time between a boat in Paris and a desert house in Tuscan, Arizona, Jeannette reflects on the electric energy of the pre-retreat days at the Feathered Pipe, her unwavering love of India Supera, and the work that led her to begin her own travel agency as a way to expand the minds and hearts of people all over the world.

Feathered Pipe Kitchen: Dharma Delight Ice Cream

In the Heartburn Sutra, it is said that the Dharma Delight Ice Cream is made only with natural emptiness. This recipe, which came neither gradually nor instantaneously after years of meditation and many dozen batches of ice cream, resembles the sutra's description in that it has no milk, no cream, no eggs, no sugar, no honey, no stabilizers, no preservatives, etc.

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Dear Friends,

As we approach the darkest time of the year, it is important to find ways to bring light, energy, meaning, and joy into our lives. Surely this is why we have so many winter traditions in which we come together with family, light candles, eat copious amounts of food with loved ones, and promote giving and compassion.

This year amidst the pandemic, these traditions have stayed constant, except with one incredible change. We have removed geographical limitations. Without having to worry about impossible commute times, the internet enables us to meditate with family spread across 5 cities, attend yoga classes with our favorite teacher on the opposite coast, and play a game with nephews in another country. It feels like time travel from the comfort of your own home. We have gotten creative in how we actually can connect and "be" with our community.

Through our Online Yoga, Health, & Wellness Sangha and our podcast The Dandelion Effect, Feathered Pipe Foundation has been developing ways to help our community connect and get inspired in this time of socially-distanced soul searching.

Our Online Sangha

Feathered Pipe''s Online Yoga, Health, & Wellness Sangha provide links to online classes offered by many of our favorite teachers. We hope to join teachers and students through this free networking service. If you are a teacher offering online classes and would like to be included, please contact us. Links back to Feathered Pipe are appreciated for mutual promotion.

To help us through these financially challenging times, some teachers are offering a commission to Feathered Pipe when anyone from our community signs up for their workshops. Upcoming online workshops that financially help support Feathered Pipe are Baxter Bell & Melina Meza''s Yoga for Healthy Aging Immersion (note that you were referred by the Feathered Pipe), January 22 - 24 and 29 - 31, and Lauren Walker''s The Ultimate Manifestation Course: Your Path to Magic and Miracles, starting January 1, 2021.

This Week''s Podcast

In the spirit of creating connections and inspiration, we are pleased to present the third edition of The Dandelion Effect Podcast. In Allison Radecki: For the Love of Food & Community, we discuss simple and creative ways to vote for good, clean and fair food systems. Allison Radecki is a food writer, culinary tour guide and a member of the first graduating class of Italy's University of Gastronomic Sciences. Able to converse and share recipes in a range of languages, she has spent her career traveling the world, learning about culture, tradition and people through the lens of food--where it comes from, how it's grown and by whom it's prepared. AND one of the places that helped shape her life''s journey is the Feathered Pipe Ranch.

The friendships that have blossomed and the paths many have found through Feathered Pipe are truly amazing. May we continue this tradition and expand it through the modern ability to be borderless and boundless in our connection, learning, and service.

With laughter, light, and love (of food),
Crystal

Allison Radecki: For the Love of Food & Community

Allison Radecki is a food writer, culinary tour guide, a member of the first graduating class of Italy's University of Gastronomic Sciences, and dear friend of the Feathered Pipe.

Allison reminisces about her favorite childhood dishes, introduces us to the foremost voices in the international Slow Food movement, and tells stories that will leave you saving for a one-way ticket to Italy to embark on your own Eat, Pray, Love adventure--or make you run straight back to your mother's kitchen.

Soft Peace And Childlike Wonder - Carie Garrett

A few years ago, I decided to create some new brain grooves. I decided to have a 4-week "calm and centered for the holidays" class; 4 weeks of discussions, study, and practices to keep us anchored and grounded in this difficult time for many. I wanted to be intentional in walking through these holiday weeks in the spirit of exploration and change and wanted to walk through them in the divine company of the amazing people in my community.

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Dear Feathered Pipe Friend,

We have received your registration for the Day 1 Online Workshops. Here are the Zoom links:

Judith Hanson Lasater & Lizzie Lasater: 45th Anniversary Fundraiser
Doing Nothing and Going Nowhere: Settling into What Is : Pre-recorded
Time: Jul 6, 2020 9:00 AM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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Cora Wen: 45th Anniversary Fundraiser
Sequences to Support Self Care: Live
Time: Jul 6, 2020 12:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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Sherri Baptiste: 45th Anniversary Fundraiser
The Art of Weights: Baptiste Method - Live
Time: Jul 6, 2020 2:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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Howard Levin: 45th Anniversary Fundraiser
The Feathered Pipe Ranch Story - Live
Time: Jul 6, 2020 4:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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These special events are made possible through your kind and generous donation to the Feathered Pipe Foundation - a registered non-profit 501(c)3 organization.

Ways to donate:

- By credit card: Donate here.
- Send check to Feathered Pipe Foundation, PO Box 1682, Helena, MT 59624
- Stock donation; you can donate stocks directly to our brokerage account. Find instructions for stock donation here.

Please know you can reach out with your questions or concerns anytime. Send your queries to info@featheredpipe.com.

Faith & Gratitude,
Feathered Pipe Foundation

Dear Friends,

We''d like to invite you to a very special online event. The Tibetan Children''s Education Foundation (TCEF), started under the nurturing umbrella of Feathered Pipe Foundation, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year! In honor of it, TCEF is hosting a Virtual Tibetan Culture Night Fundraiser. Please join us on November 21, 2020 at 8 PM Mountain Time. It will be fun and educational, not to be missed!

Two weeks ago, Feathered Pipe launched our podcast series called The Dandelion Effect. Our latest podcast features Sarah Bergakker and her work in using holistic methods to help first responders and nurses in dealing with stress. This podcast is incredibly relevant to the health crisis we find ourselves facing as country currently. We hope the podcasts will educate and empower you as we explore how to cultivate exponential growth of compassion through life, work, and interconnectedness, reminding us all how much we owe to the those on the frontline of the COVID19 pandemic.

The TCEF Story

Another incredible story of how a tiny seed of compassion blossomed and propagated is Karma Tensum''s and his intersection with the Feathered Pipe. Karma was carried by his mother from Tibet to India when he was 2 years old, and they arrived with nothing. The opportunity he ended up having through the kindness of sponsors of his education and a chance meeting with VJ and India Supera, ended up eventually enabling him to go to Harvard, move to the US with his family, and become the Executive Director of the Tibetan Children''s Education Foundation. He in turn has gone on to improve the lives of hundreds of Tibetans in exile though education, as well as enrich the lives of thousands of non-Tibetans through exposure to their intriguing and altruistic culture. You can read the full story of TCEF - "How India Supera and the Feathered Pipe Touched Tibetan Lives" here.

Karma and TCEF are near and dear to me. I was just 4 years old when I met Karma nearly 40 years ago as we traveled together on a harrowing adventure to Ladakh, India. Since then, our lives have been intertwined in many ways. In 2000 I joined the board of TCEF, which has been an incredibly fulfilling kind of work and incidentally turned out to be good training to become the Executive Director of Feathered Pipe Foundation. I''ve also been fortunate to have sponsored the education of a lovely Tibetan, Lodoe Gyaltsen who has completed his nursing degree and recently became a TCEF board member. To me, it just goes to show that seemingly insignificant bits of compassion really can make a difference for generations and spreading its seeds is truly a worthwhile occupation.

Please do join us for TCEF''s Virtual Cultural Night Fundraiser on November 21. Whether you are able to attend or not, please consider sponsoring a Tibetan child''s education, donating, and/or bidding on the auction items, which include gems like a Weeklong Workshop at the Feathered Pipe, Bollywood Dance Lessons, Buddhist Meditation Class, and a Tibetan Cooking Class. We hope to see you there and please spread the word to friends.

With love and compassion,
Crystal

The Dandelion Effect: Finding Purpose & True Resilience in the Pandemic with Sarah Bergakker

Sarah Bergakker is a certified nurse anesthetist and the founder of Mooxli, a company dedicated to providing self-care resources and continuing education for healthcare workers.

Mooxli is an acronym for ''MOve your mindset, OXygenate your soul, and LIve life differently''. It was born out of Sarah's personal experience in the healthcare industry for the last quarter century, navigating through emotional, mental and physical challenges that her professional training didn't at all prepare her for.

The TCEF Story - How India And The Feathered Pipe Touched Tibetan Lives

In the mid-1970's, when the country of India was under a national emergency proclaimed by Prime minister Indira Gandhi, the intrepid VJ Supera somehow found her way to the Tibetan refugee settlement of Clement Town in North India. Richard and Cathy Bayer, who were sponsoring some monks in a monastery there, accompanied her. VJ will tell you with a characteristic nonchalant giggle that it wasn't more than another of her post-hippie days' vacation, but that trip and those early connections laid the seeds of TCEF.

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Dear Friends,

Just wanted to share a quick update and note of appreciation to all of you who participated in India''s Memorial over the Fourth of July weekend and the week-long online workshop celebration of our 45th anniversary. We are completely blown away by the overwhelming and heartfelt response!

More than 1500 participants joined us during the 22 workshops taught by many of our most-loved and dear, teacher alumni during the week of July 6 - 11! It was so wonderful to see so many familiar faces as well as many, many new to us, throughout the week. Your kind donations were such a welcomed and needed blessing. Thank you from the depth of our communal heart.

45th Anniversary Online Workshop Recordings

As many of you know, we recorded all programs during our 45th Anniversary Celebration. We now have them all edited, processed and uploaded to our Vimeo account. They are accessible by our 45th Anniversary page, and you are welcome to enjoy any and all at your leisure. Most, if not all, will be available for at least the next two weeks while we continue our fundraising drive. Your generous donations are welcomed, and please DO support all of the program teachers by following their online offerings. (Links to their websites are on the individual program recording pages.)

India''s "A Life Well Lived" Recording

We are still in the midst of processing and uploading India''s Memorial program. (The file is HUGE.) We hope to have it uploaded and linked on our website by Wednesday at the latest. For those who were not able to join us live, we apologize for the delay. It will be viewable on the "A Life Well Lived" page. Stay tuned!

For those looking forward to next summer already, we plan to have all 2021 retreat programs listed soon with registration opening on August 1st! We have an incredibly inspired and diverse lineup running from the first week of June straight through to the last week of September.

Our Deepest Gratitude

Again, thank you all for your belief in us, for the love and appreciation you have so warmly shared, for your support during this past year, and knowing as India expressed in a recent tribute to her life in LA Yoga Magazine, "As silly as it sounds, I do believe the Feathered Pipe Ranch has changed the world. We were at the beginning of a big paradigm shift in America, and although I pictured it to be more extreme-like the Earth splitting on its axis and everyone valiantly choosing peace-I look back and know this place has been at the center of a lot of healing."

Faith & Gratitude,
Feathered Pipe Foundation

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Dear Friends,

In the year since my mom and Feathered Pipe Founder India Supera passed away, it''s hard to fathom how much craziness has happened in the world. It''s been turned upside down by the pandemic, we experience the anxiety of an election year, isolation and separation from loved ones, screen time overload, and general exhaustion.

It is during these especially challenging times, that it becomes even more vital to find ways to become creative, work towards something positive, and get motivated to change your life or someone else''s for the better so as to move beyond despair and into hope.

While I have been deeply mourning the loss of my mother, I have also been inspired by her legacy and encouraged to continue where she left off. This past year I''ve been continuously surprised and inspired by the stories of people who ended up taking their path in life because of confidence and direction they got through Feathered Pipe and India Supera. It reflects the lasting impact Feathered Pipe has had through it''s ripple effect in creating a more beautiful world.

The Dandelion Effect Podcast

We''d like to share the inspiration and increase the accessibility of the Feathered Pipe wisdom to you through our new podcast called The Dandelion Effect. Jean Shinoda Bolen recently wrote about the idea of the Dandelion Effect, how while we are separated, we are also able to spread seeds of ideas all around the world through the "winds of the internet." The analogy of a dandelion really is another way to express the ripple effect or planting seeds in people to become empowered and/or leaders to do good work in the world. You don't know where it is going to land or what will grow, but it could be pleasantly surprising.

My mom always loved actual dandelions, especially on the front lawn of the Ranch creating a big blanket of yellow. She never saw them as weeds. She also never saw people as "weeds" rather she saw they were beautiful and that they had potential to bloom and then spread their "seeds" as well.

I hope that through Feathered Pipe''s podcast The Dandelion Effect that we will succeed in spreading the seeds of India''s legacy of positive empowerment through diverse stories in crazy wisdom and miracles while helping you dream of basking in the sun in an expansive lawn of yellow dandelions with dear friends at the Feathered Pipe Ranch. Please view our workshop lineup for 2021.

Speaking of dear friends and lawns, please read our latest interview with Paul and Gail Wilson. While living a bit behind the scenes just near the Ranch, they have played an integral part since the early days. My honorary aunt and uncle in some ways are a bit like secret elves, watching out for the place and doing so much out of the goodness of their hearts. This summer on many occasions, I came home to the Ranch only to see like magic the lawn was perfectly mowed...

With gratitude and dandelions,
Crystal

Paul and Gail Wilson: Fertile Ground for Family, Food & Fellowship

On a fleeting fall day, Paul and Gail Wilson reminisce about the very early years at the Feathered Pipe Ranch, when they milked goats by candlelight (oops-fire hazard!) and grew vegetables according to the moon cycles. The two open up about their connection to the land, their extended Ranch family and the memories that bring them joy and laughter after all this time.

Feathered Pipe Kitchen: Potato Pancakes

Potato Pancakes are a lunchtime staple at the Feathered Pipe Ranch and are served typically with one of our "Soup King" Mike Wells' famed soup improvisations. Potato pancakes with soup are perfect for a chilly, sweater kind of day, or with fresh salad greens during the sunny warmth of summer. Enjoy!

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Dear Friends,

Summer continues to roll on here at the Feathered Pipe Ranch, with Josh and crew making many renovations and improvements to the facilities and grounds. We have been fortunate so far with rain and moisture continuing on into the month of August. The wildflowers and grasses grow high and the new forest in the meadow near the Stupa stretches higher and higher toward the sky.

We were honored to have an incredible, other-worldly ceremony up at the Stupa a couple weeks ago, by a dear Tibetan friend and performing artist Tsering Lodoe. To say that he opened the door to realms beyond and invited us all to step in, would be a gross understatement. It truly was a ''ceremony of passage'' which felt so befitting India. We offer it here for your viewing, for possible release and closure. Click here.

Support Your Virtual Community

With the effects of COVID19 still being felt by so many, we encourage you all to find ways to create and sustain community. Many of our teachers have moved their classes online during these times. In support, we have created an online sangha as a way to build the bridge between. Most are offering daily and weekly classes, with special online workshop opportunities happening throughout the year. Feel free to explore here.

Among our dear alumni who are offering their teaching online is senior Iyengar Yoga teacher John Schumacher, founder and director of Unity Woods Yoga Center, of one of the oldest and largest Iyengar Yoga studios in America. John recently made the difficult decision after more than 40 years of community service to close their brick and mortar studios in the DC area. Please do consider supporting them during this transition.

John sat down with freelance writer Andy Vantrease last month for an extended interview in honor of India''s passing and their more than three decades of friendship. We are privileged to share it with you here.

Stay safe, be well, and remain open to others.

Faith & Gratitude,
Feathered Pipe Foundation

John Schumacher: A Lifetime Of Yoga And Self-Discovery

The Feathered Pipe was honored to host John Schumacher along with Patricia Walden for a week-long retreat that became an annual reunion-like gathering of Iyengar yogis and yoginis for nearly 20 years.

Here, John reflects on his journey with BKS Iyengar, memories of teaching at the Feathered Pipe Ranch and the aspects of yoga and a lifetime of self-discovery.

Feathered Pipe Kitchen: Barley Vegetable Soup

For anyone who returns to the Feathered Pipe Ranch year after year, they know that soups have long been a lunchtime staple, with hearty and wholesome blends of vegetables, pulses and herbs that change from one visit to the next. Enjoy!

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Dear friends,

As our Executive Director Crystal Water said during the intro to the Musical Gift of Gratitude playlist that she assembled, 2020 has been a year we went from contemplating Feathered Pipe's survival to celebrating our realization that we are well on the path to thriving. That's due in no small part to our hardworking behind-the-scenes team, yet none of our success and optimism about the future would be happening without all of you.

Our eclectic and generous community of supporters, cheerleaders, and volunteers made it possible for us to look back on this challenging year with relief - and gratitude.

We would be pleased to have you accept our gesture of thanks in the form of a 1.5 hour online gathering happening at 12pm ET (9am PT) on New Year's Eve (31 December). It's my privilege and joy to share about an hour of accessible-to-everyone mindful movement plus a compassion meditation with you. The idea is for all of us, together, to say Bye Bye 2020 - and prepare to greet the coming days and months and year ahead with a shared commitment to the common good. No experience with any movement or meditation modality is required. Every body is welcome! Come as you are.

After the movement and meditation portion of our gathering, it's open mic time! It's a chance for you to connect with old and new friends. Plus, enjoy some time with Crystal as she shares some glimpses into what 2020 was like at Feathered Pipe and what we're looking forward to accomplishing together with you in 2021.

This is a 100 percent FREE event that's all about saying thanks to you. Optionally, if you are inspired and in a position to help us meet our end-of-year $52,600 fundraising goal, the happy news is that we've secured $26,300 in matching fund pledges thanks to some generous Ranch friends, our Executive Director, and our board of directors. This means any donation you make can be doubled. Since we announced our year-end fundraiser, we're already up to $33,500 raised, which is healthy progress in meeting our goal.

If a donation isn't in the cards for you? No sweat! Please join us on Thursday, New Year's Eve, so you can accept your well-earned thanks from Feathered Pipe as we all prime hearts, bodies, and minds for the times ahead.

Register for your Zoom spot here.

I look forward to seeing many of your faces on Thursday.

Love,
Anne Jablonski
Feathered Pipe Foundation, board president

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Happy Holidays, Dear Friends!

While the holiday season takes a different form this year, it remains a time of gratitude and connection. We''d like to extend our thanks and share three gifts with you.

THANK YOU! Thanks to many volunteers, generous donors, grants, support of all kinds from our Feathered Pipe community, and our talented team we have gone from contemplating our survival to actually thriving during this extraordinarily challenging year.

Gift 1: Feathered Pipe Mixed Tape 2020: A Musical Message Of Gratitude - When thinking about a way to thank our Feathered Pipe friends, I remembered my favorite from-the-heart gift, a mixed tape. It took time to contemplate and compile, it connected you with your friends each time you listened, and it became the soundtrack to your life. With that sentiment in mind, we created a "Mixed Tape" that brings the soul of Feathered Pipe by sharing music performed by friends for friends. Just getting this all together brought joy to my heart. I hope you watch, listen and ENJOY!

Gift 2: The Dandelion Effect podcast''s latest episode with Baxter Bell & Melina Meza: Sleep, Setting Boundaries and Seasonal Wellness - Baxter and Melina have taught at the Ranch for many years and will be here again in 2021. With the podcast we bring them to you with useful and timely gems of wisdom.

Gift 3: Bye Bye 2020: A Feathered Pipe New Year's Eve Online Gathering - December 31 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET will be time to connect online during a led compassion meditation and yoga/mindful movement class, followed by some 'open mic' time for us all to catch up and find out what's been happening at the Ranch. Free and accessible to all. More details below. Reserve your free spot here.

With your help we did a lot of positive work.

While the Ranch was closed, we took the opportunity to make many improvements to the facilities including creating several new outdoor meditation and sitting areas, adding prayer wheels to the Stupa, building the Nature Deck, rebuilding aging balconies and tent platforms, laying a new slate walkway, and many other needed repairs, as well as the purchase of a UV mat sanitizer.

Online we have created the Feathered Pipe Online Sangha (stay tuned for many new updates in the coming weeks) to help support and network with many of our favorite teachers, had a very successful 45th Anniversary Online Workshop Celebration and (re)connected with old and new friends and teachers, and launched our podcast The Dandelion Effect to be a source of inspiration and remind us of our interconnectedness through this time of isolation.

Bring in the New Year Fundraising Campaign - $26,300 in matching funds pledged! The Feathered Pipe''s Board, Executive Director and a few generous friends have collectively pledged an incredible $26,300 of matching funds for donations made during our yearend fundraising campaign! This is really encouraging for us and will help see us through until our 2021 season. Please help us unlock these funds and your donation can have twice the impact! Donate here.

We are confident in Feathered Pipe''s bright future and we couldn''t have accomplished all of this without YOU. Our hearts are full of gratitude. Thank you.

Hope to see you online on at our Bye, Bye 2020 class.

Wishing you and your family happy and healthy holidays,
Crystal

Baxter Bell & Melina Meza: Sleep, Setting Boundaries and Seasonal Wellness

Today, Baxter and Melina join us from their home in Oakland, California to talk about the power of routine, the physiological effects of being in community, the roles that sleep (by 10pm!), local foods and 20 minutes of daily exercise play in your overall health, and how setting boundaries can be the ticket to finding more space-and creativity-in your day.

Bye Bye 2020: A Feathered Pipe New Year's Eve Online Gathering

Dec. 31, 2020 12p ET/9a PT

It's been a year, right? Are you ready to bid it farewell? And turn positive intention in the direction of the year ahead? We sure are - on both counts. But before this unprecedented year comes to a final close, we want to honor and acknowledge that we would never have made it through 2020 without our community's unwavering support, faith, love, volunteer spirit, and cheerleading.

Join us for a FREE class and community gathering. Accessible to all. Following the led class, there will be a chance to connect with your Feathered Pipe pals.

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(406) 442-8196

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