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A Transformational Retreat Invites Guests to Get in Touch with Their 'Inner Activist' to Effect Change and Experience Personal Growth
Utne Magazine Presents its First 'Revolutionary Women' Event Nov. 10-13 at the Crossings Spa in Austin, Texas
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MINNEAPOLIS – Utne magazine is looking for a few good women. The cause? A transformational retreat and eco
spa, hosted by the iconic magazine’s Editor in Chief Nina Utne and a variety of visionaries and
practitioners who most inspire her for the ultimate Utne tea party—a weekend of exploration
and friendship, movement and massage (www.utne.com/spa)* Call
it just one way to get in touch with one’s "inner activist." The long weekend will take place at
The Crossings Wellness Spa in Austin. Texas, November 10-13.*
This intimate gathering
offers valuable face time with contemporary women leaders as well as nourishment for body, mind and
spirit. Whole-hearted, wise and inspiring, the event will challenge participants to ask, “What do I
stand for?” Event-goers will leave more prepared to express the fullness and passion of their
convictions.
“After publishing a magazine for more than 20 years that has covered
everything from the environment to politics to activism, feminism, spirituality, leisure and more,
we decided we’d offer the women who read Utne an event that speaks to their minds, bodies
and hearts,” says Nina Utne, Editor in Chief. “Lots of publications offer readers events like
cruises or exotic tours, but ‘rEVOLUTIONary Women’ is more practical, more intimate and more
environmentally sustainable. Attendees will leave feeling refreshed, re-energized and ready to be a
force for good, both to themselves and the world.”
Led by the Editor in Chief, the event
promises to be loaded with inspired conversation and insights into how to respond to the social
problems that beset us. Nina Utne expresses her convictions through the magazine and through her
personal actions, including her recent arrest in Washington D.C. while protesting the war in Iraq.
(Utne is one of the cofounders of the women’s peace group Code Pink.) A personal account of the DC
ordeal–including her friendly and empathetic conversation with her arresting police officer and
later her jailor– are posted at the Utne website at http://www.utne.c
om/web_special/web_specials_2005-09/articles/11802-1.html -- including these samples below.
I have never considered myself an activist, but, increasingly, I find that I
can't not act. So I felt compelled to show up in Washington D.C., to contribute whatever I could
and to experience the power that comes of knowing that we are not alone. I figured I'd do whatever
CodePink needed me for, whether tying balloons or running errands or tracking down details. As it
turned out, I ended up spending a lot of the weekend at the epicenter of the action—with Cindy
Sheehan— doing whatever needed doing.
At one moment, I was grabbing likely looking women
in a hotel lobby, trying to find someone who had decent looking black shoes in Cindy's shoe size—
and was willing to loan them on the spot (I found someone) and the next taking notes on precisely
what a high level politician had said to Cindy so that he could be held accountable and then
rubbing her shoulders in the car. I learned a lot about her— her shoe size, the sound of her voice
when she's talking to her children, her eating habits, her deep connection with her sister Dede,
her stamina and her vulnerability, as well as about her adaptability, her common sense and quick
mind and her salty and almost omnipresent sense of humor.
*Austin Participants
to Explore Variety of Topics, Techniques
Participants at the Austin event will explore
teaching modalities that include voice, movement and individual/group exercises—from dynamic and
inspired women from a variety of backgrounds, including:
Frances Moore Lappé, Author,
Visionary: Frances Moore Lappé has authored 14 books, including the bestseller Diet for a Small
Planet. In 2002, Lappé released the 30th anniversary sequel to Diet, written with her daughter,
Anna Lappé: Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet. In it, the two Lappés pick up where the
original Diet leaves off. Together, they set out on a round-the-world journey to explore the
greatest challenges we face at the new millennium.
Anna Lappé, Author, Thought Leader:
Anna is also a regular public
speaker and commentator on food politics, globalization,
and the media. Her articles have been widely published in the U.S. and Canada, appearing in The
Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and the Globe and Mail, among others.
Jodie Evans, Activist, Code Pink Co-Founder: Jodie Evans has worked on behalf of
community, social justice, environmental and political causes for more than 30 years. She cofounded
Code Pink with Medea Benjamin in October 2002. She has most recently been instrumental in creating
Camp Casey in Crawford, Texas and is a key strategist and supporter of Cindy Sheehan.
Nina Simons, Social Entrepreneur, Communicator, Producer: Nina is co-executive director
of Bioneers/Collective Heritage Institute and has co-produced the Bioneers Conference since 1990.
Named an Utne Reader “Visionary” in 1996, Nina has developed a sequence of innovative
communications strategies to increase public awareness about key social and environmental issues.
Rachel Bagby, Author, Activist and Celebrated Vocal Artist Rachel Bagby, JD
(Stanford) is an internationally recognized vocal artist and writer who is committed to empowering
others to also develop the extraordinary potential of our ordinary capacities for listening,
reading nonverbal cues, scanning the environment, and giving voice to life—with what she has aptly
dubbed “vibralingual” wisdom.
Marcela Lorca, Acclaimed Guthrie, Theatre Movement
Director: Marcela Lorca became Movement Director for the Guthrie Theater in 1991, and has since
coached more than 70 plays. She is also Head of Movement for the University of Minnesota/Guthrie
Theater BFA Actor Training program.
Zhena Muzyka, Environmental/Social change-agent,
Mistress of Tea Ceremonies: Zhena Muzyka founded Zhena’s Gypsy Tea in 2000.
Host Nina
Rothschild Utne, Chair and Editor in Chief of Utne magazine: Nina is also a writer, political
activist, mother, and community-builder. A vegetarian at three (a meateater at 48) and a yoga
practitioner from age 15, Nina holds a BA in English and American Literature from Harvard
University and a masters degree in Human Development from St. Mary’s University.
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