Archive for the ‘About Monkey Valley’ Category
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Karen Rempel is the director of Monkey Valley Retreat Centre. She leads retreats at the centre, and also apprentices on vision fasts in Colorado and California. She teaches tools to help people find healing and guidance in nature, including the medicine walk, medicine wheel, four shields of (human) nature, other ...
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
I've decide to share my beautiful Monkey Valley home with visitors from around the world who will be coming to BC for the Winter Olympics.
Here is the posting on Craig's List:
http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/van/vac/1484724729.html
If you have any friends who will be visiting BC this winter, and who are interested in a unique winter ...
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
Renting the Retreat Centre
The Monkey Valley Retreat Centre is pleased to create a rental arrangement customized to your needs, whether you are planning a private meditation retreat in nature or wish to bring a group of 30 for a yoga weekend. The remote location of the land is ideally suited ...
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Welcome to this unique log home overlooking Shrimpton Creek and the luscious valley it created (with the help of some glacier activity!). This virtual photographic tour takes you through the house, beginning with your entry from the deck into the log cabin.
The log cabin
The original log cabin was built about ...
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
As I mentioned in August, I have put Monkey Valley on the market. I was going to give you a virtual tour of my house today, but Wordpress is not cooperating with uploading photos. A final disruption from Mercury, who went direct this morning at 6:30 AM Pacific time?
So instead ...
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Saturday, July 18th, 2009
Well, before I even had a chance to text the picture of the new antenna from my cell phone to my email, the new power adapter was fried. Dang!
All that "Searching for service" was for naught, since the power adapter had fried after less than a day of receiving phone ...
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
There was a breakthrough at Monkey Valley this week. For two years now I have been suffering with my cell phone here. I could only get a signal by standing on a bench on my back deck and holding the phone in the air, or by climbing up on the ...
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
I had a productive 9 days at Monkey Valley, with the winter plumbing problems fixed at low cost, thanks to Kevin Thompson of Princeton, BC! Finishing work on the barn is well underway, too, thanks to Brent Ross and Tom. It is going to be bee-you-tiful, as my grandma used ...
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
The story of the Starshine Way sign was interrupted by my Christmas holiday trip to Berlin, so let me tell you now how it all turned out. When I last wrote to you about it, I had poured the concrete, and the sign was setting overnight in my laundry room. ...
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Sunday, December 28th, 2008
Have you ever noticed how humans tend to repeat things from the past, which didn't work out the first time, hoping that somehow it will work out this time around? Well, that was my experience of trying to replace my Starshine Way sign. As I mentioned previously, at first I ...
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