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Gearing up for the Ski Season

La Source has found a fantastic UIAGM guide to work with this winter. A local, Didier Tiberghien spent his childhood scouring the Grand Massif back country. Apart from his extensive mountain knowledge, Didier had just graduated with a PhD in Earth and Universal Sciences! He will guide on all of our ski touring courses and our eco-ski week.

Sean Newsom, the ski editor of the Sunday Times will be our first client on our eco-ski week pre X-mas.

Philosophising...

Our right brain sees things as they are.. as whole, interconnected, as one... our left brain organises everything, creates form and creates 'reality' as we know it. In our society.. we favour the left brain way of seeing the world. We are part of the growing momentum and shift towards opening right brain awareness and creating equal balance between the 2. Left brain is masuline (pingala) and equates to the right nostril and right side of the body - generally males get injured on their female or left side... Right brain, female, equates to left nostil (ida) and left side of the body. Females usually injure themselves on the right or masculine side.

We are like mini power stations.. every one of us... our energy, thoughts, feelings, spread in waves and vibrations to everyone around us and to the larger universe. Houses, rooms, cities, streets, mountains.. all carry a particular energy and we all sense it, albiet, generally on an unconscious level. We need to become more aware and have to make conscious choices about what we emit. Fear and negativity emit fear and negativity. Love and compassion emits love and compassion. Integrity emits integrity. Many of us feel we have not got a choice, but when we feel a strong emotion, the chemical and celluar reaction lasts for 90- seconds after which it is our choice. We can choose to hook into the feeling and emotion or we can choose to let it go. This requires self training and awareness. I have started to train the kids and it is amazingly affective. They have 90 seconds to go crazy and scream and shout.. Jay had more sweets than me! It is mine... I don't want to do that!... SCREEEEAAAMM and then.... they have the choice. Do you want to carry on feeling like this or are you ready to choose another way.

Family Adventure Week

Our first summer is over.. and we have been overwhelmed by how many wonderful people have come to share our space and adventures. We already have guests coming back for Autumn Rock Climbing and Yoga courses and, then Ski Touring Courses in the Winter. We have spilled over to the neighbours house as we have run out of space at the Lodge, but luckily our massive dining room can cope with 20+ people!

The last busy week was the Family Adventure. There were 5 families including ours - 9 children of 8 and under and 12 adults. The highlight of the week was swimming under a waterfall in Fer a Cheval. Closely followed by... hiking to a high mountain refuge with 2 'out of control' donkey's! We hiked to Refuge Anternne and on the way the kids stripped off for a dip in an icy stream.

Places have certain feelings, and this place just enables you to relax deeply and let go of 'reality'. There were 1300 sheep in the distance under an enormous cliffband. The shepard lived in a hut near the refuge and explained that under the cliff the grass was dry and therefore his sheep fattened better! Dunc, Warren and I slept under the stars, and everyone else was warmly tucked into a big open plan dorm on mattresses on the floor.

Another great day was the day Respect the Mountain had a rubbish collecting event. We all cycled to the Gorge du Tines and collected rubbish, had a BBQ and then went rock climbing or white water rafting. It was a great day.

Ski Touring

I have just posted our winter ski courses! We are really excited about meeting Didier - an unassuming lovely guy who will by our Mountain Guide. He is an aspirant UIAGM guide who spent his childhood scouring these mountains. He knows the area like the back of his hand and will be an indespensible part of our winter team. We will be discovering all the best off piste ski runs this winter! Didier, at 29, is also a Doctor of Earth and Universal Sciences. These amazing people just seem to appear like angels at the right time.

Climbers from all over the world are discovering our unique Climbing Holidays! It is great to meet such an interesting group of people every week. We are running back to back courses due to popular demand. Both Agniezka and John Falkiner who are instructing are really enjoying the weeks. It gives John a break from guiding the 4000m peaks!