Retreat Day 3

A Tuning the Air Journal

Saturday August 7, 2010 – Retreat Day 3

• 6:00am – Rise
• 6:30am – Curt and Tony walk to W. Broadway to join team
• 7:00am – Sitting
• 7:45am – Breakfast prep
• 8:00am – Breakfast
• 9:15am – Work in the Circle with guitars – Tony presenting a bell ringing exercise
• 10:30am – Meet to complete presentation of reports on professional life: Jaxie, Curt, Sandra, Tony.
• 12:30pm – Lunch prep
• 1:00pm – Lunch
• 3:30pm – Report on Seattle Circle Guitar School
• 4:00pm – Tea (continue SCGS discussion)
• 4:30pm – SSG I meeting
• 5:00pm – SSG IV meeting
• 5:30pm – Vayu Prana Meditation
• 6:15pm – Dinner prep and AT/Breathing work with Sandra
• 7:00pm – Dinner
• 8:30pm – Personal meetings
• 9:30pm – Work in the Circle with guitars

NYC was kind to us; I managed to sleep with open windows and no A/C. When Tony and I stepped out onto W 4th Street at 6:30am it was noticeably less hot than previous days. Not so much cool, but welcomingly warm; my body warmed up from the simple exertion of a brisk walk to SoHo, rather than simple existence in the sauna of NY in August.

For the work in the Circle this morning, Tony introduced an exercise he is doing with the NY Circle, involving traditional bell ringing changes. Very challenging for us.

After lunch Jaxie, Tony and I presented a report on the status of the Seattle Circle Guitar School. The ensuing discussion went into and through Tea (Tony preparing Turkish Coffee for the second day in a row!). Very good feedback, as well as some brainstorming about related reading, plus potential donors to help us get through the initial period. The photos of the Kids Circle performing at Tuning the Air was again a big hit, meeting universal enthusiasm. The videos of that show were also very effective, not to mention a source of amusement – never a bad combination.

Awesome Pad Thai from the kitchen team of Jaxie, Tom and Robert. Associatively, a number of kitchen-related Guitar Craft histories, recorded by Tony.

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