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Lightness of BEING
By Michael Stusser
The value of quiet time, reflection and tranquility is priceless. Finding a
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In this season of giving, gifting a person an experience that they normally would not allow themselves to have is a way to care for someone, especially a person who is overly stressed. Rare moments of deep relaxation to disconnect from the rapid pace of life and settle into timelessness.
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Imagine taking 3 to 5 hours to allow your self a deep dive into utter peacefulness and total renewal? Picture a special place built to be a respite for inspired beauty, vitality and peacefulness. Feel what it would be like stepping through the door knowing that the next few hours will lift the weight of the world from your shoulders.
If this sounds like a good idea for someone you care about who seems too stressed – perhaps you deserve the gift as well. We are so much more capable of handling life’s ups and downs when we are calm, centered and at peace.
Michael Stusser is owner and founder of Osmosis Day Spa in Freestone. Since 1985 he has worked to cultivate an unmistakable meditative environment on his 6-acre property with Kyoto style landscape gardens. He has brought together many hands and hearts that have worked together to manifest a vision of healing beauty and transformation.
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