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Baubo BellyDance Women's Workshops 2010 We are pleased to welcome Baubo Bellydance once again to Over the Rainbow. This year there will be a series of training workshops, events and residential workshops at OtR. Have a look at the Baubo website for further information. The Belly Dancer's Treasure Pack: Guinevere's illustrated guidance book and card set, (due out in 2010) is full of inspiration, tips and keys to reach your full potential as women and dancers. "Guineveres passion for the Middle Eastern Dance arts, poetry and images come together beautifully in the Treasure Pack." Keti Sharif. Residential Weekends at over the Rainbow 2010:
Explore the many sparkling
 es of your belly dance journey through a range of exciting workshops in 2010. We will focus our dance on some of the beautiful cards in the Treasure Pack... Baubo Belly dance is proud to welcome a range of practitioners within the art of drum and dance in these exciting workshops!
Volunteering at Over the Rainbow A tongue in cheek look at the first volunteering weekend held at Over the Rainbow, June 2009.... “A surreal exercise in volunteering, somewhere over the rainbow; or, a tale of ten And so they came – having heard the call, they came now to answer it. Each in turn, whether by day or night, passed thought those ancient iron gates and into the magical wilderness beyond… They came to do a job, and as each woman surveyed the landscape around the house, the enormity of that job was becoming clear…Just as well the longest day was still ahead.
The approach to the house was enough - at this point any woman thinking of a spot of gentle weeding between sips of chardonnay would have been well advised to ditch those gloves and scarper! Maybe it was the waft of Uncle Ralph’s amazing curry, maybe it was something less definable altogether. Day 1: the log run. Mission: To move the existing log pile from outdoor shed to indoor shed, then refill outdoor shed with freshly chopped logs from outdoor woodpile. Oh yes, and replant a large tree at lunchtime. In order to completely disorient those foolhardy enough to think they were reasonably fit, Marie introduced this impossible to finish task. This should sort the girls from the women she thought…. Though what it mostly did was to separate the women from their sensibilities. One or two of the women discovered a slightly disconcerting passion for axes and other tools of mass destruction. At the end of the day Marie silently congratulated herself as she cast her eyes over the weary bunch and thought; we’ll have no trouble tonight from this rowdy lot. Day 2: clearing the undergrowth. Mission: To tame the untame-able bush. This at first at least seemed a lot more genteel with pruning shears and gardening gloves – until it became clear the undergrowth was biting back. Amid the Armageddon-like scenes; fires burning everywhere and wild looking women in tank girl attire, Maxine did manage to get her hair done, and the installation of Helen (Post Modern Performance Cook) meant that tea breaks were about to take on a whole new dimension. Day 3: finishing what we’d started. Mission: To clear up before clearing off. Started with a yoga stretch to ease the aches of those new found muscles (thanks Rose). I must admit memory starts to fail me here – it had all become a blur of laughter and kinship in the great outdoors – the sort of bonding a group develops when everyone surprises themselves by what can be achieved with goodwill, friendships new and old and an irrepressible sense of humour. Throw in a little solstice magic and as we all found out the sky has no limits… Extra-curricular activities included an evening trip to the beach, badger spotting, free admission to Maxine’s faerie grotto, an explanation of the advances of neuroscience, and an introduction (for me at least) to drinking Port on the verandah. Oh and did I mention the endless innuendo and the look on Uncle Ralph’s face? So all in all, thanks to Marie for providing our free three day passes to the wonderful outdoor gym, the non-stop laughter workshop, the nature watch, the excellent board and lodge and the wildlife, of which we all became a part. " GW Volutneering weekend dates for 2010: June 17th-21st (now full, but let me know if you are interested in putting your name down on the list for the next weekend - dates tbc) For further information about volunteering weekends, email Marie.
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women, one weekend and a big to do list in the garden…
