Juice Fasting and Silk Painting Retreat

Cleanse Your Body, Nourish your Soul
August 15th to 22nd 2009
Our seven day session will take place in the beautiful Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, just 25 minutes from Yosemite National Park.
Our secluded site is in a private community on Pine Mountain Lake, in an air-conditioned house with lovely lake views and room for up to six participants.
In these peaceful and serene surroundings, you will experience, through your juice fast, clarity of mind and a feeling of well being as you take your silk painting classes with Natasha Foucault, internationally known artist and silk painting teacher. Using photographs and sketches, we will make fine art, realistic silk paintings with a goal of three paintings completed. All silk painting materials will be provided.
Our days will include a jog through the forest, a swim in the lake, and several sessions of silk painting, with breaks for juices and yoga. The last two days, you will be served fresh raw fruits and vegetables.
All activities are optional and you may schedule your day to suit your needs.
There will be one to two trips to breathtaking Yosemite Valley, and kayaks available for the lake, tied to our own dock.
Using the principles of the Optimum Health Institute in San Diego, your food will be prepared by a naturopathic professional. All fruits and vegetables used will be organically grown.
Your $950 fee will include;
Round trip transportation from San Francisco Airport
Room and board
Tuition for silk painting classes, including all materials
Entrance fees to Yosemite
Health consultations
Massages available for an additional fee.
For further information and registration information, contact Natasha Foucault at nfouko@yahoo.com or
415-826-5022. www.natashasilkart.com

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In my younger, free-wheeling days I traveled all over Europe by myself. When I was 27, I visited a journalist friend in Holland, with a few dozen of my silk paintings from Russia in my suitcase, hoping to sell them, to get by. He had great connections, and he arranged my first ever gallery show. I was deliriously happy when I sold several paintings, and there were even favorable reviews in the local papers! A year later, I found a way to move to the USA, and in 2016 started my gallery, "Silk and Stone", in Half Moon Bay.

While my eight years at Silk & Stone in that cozy jewel-box space at 431 Main Street had been absolutely wonderful, we just found about four times the space at 714 Kelly Ave, Half Moon Bay, just off Main. What a joy it is to be in this historical building, with its spacious layout, built-in platform for my painting area, glowing wood floors and walls, and great lighting. In the future, I'll be able to hold classes there as well.

I have always dreamed of having my own gallery in a space large enough to fully display my paintings and wearable art, as well as the work of many talented local artists.