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Sunday, March 27th, 2011
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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Saturday, March 19th, 2011
The Monkey Valley Retreat Centre is truly in the wilderness. Our nearest neighbours are about 30 kilometres away.
Monkey Valley is surrounded by crown lands on all sides, affording an exceptional experience of privacy and feeling of being away from civilization. The retreat centre is off the grid, which means that ...
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Thursday, January 6th, 2011
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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Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Luckily, most of the diversions at Monkey Valley are more fun than cleaning up dead mice! This is how I spend my time not writing:
• Get winter tires put on the Tracker.
• Get chips repaired on Tracker windshield (much cheaper in Merritt than in Vancouver). The chip repairer is amazed that my ...
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Monday, November 22nd, 2010
As you know, I came to Monkey Valley this November to write. And as many writers can verify, it is a law of the universe that just about any mundane chore can seem more important when there's writing to be done. Monkey Valley provided me with myriad (which literally means 10,000) ...
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Saturday, November 6th, 2010
I'm back at Monkey Valley for the month of November, working on a personal writing project. I arrived November 3, to balmy conditions. No frozen water pipes! The road was dry and easy to drive on! All systems were running in the house! It is so nice to reap the ...
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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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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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