Homemade Apple Pie: a delicious way to celebrate the fall!
Thank you Emily and Vivian for sharing stories about and providing delicious bread to eat. We had a blast!
Thank you Natalie for guiding such a restorative Red Tent last week!
Hiked to Margarette Falls with Lily. We both enjoyed the beautiful leaves
Next Saturday, November 14, is the second annual Shakti Handmade Holiday Fair. We have more vendors, and therefore, even more variety than we did last year. To help you prepare for this delightful event, I created a Handy Artisan Reference as well as provided some pro-tips for parking and other day-of-the-event suggestions. Feel free to pass this information along and encourage folks to drop by the fair.
The Shakti Handmade Holiday Fair is not only a great opportunity to find gifts for family and friends – it also is a wonderful way to support local female artisans who benefit from your patronage.
In addition to the nine artisans selling the handcrafted work, there will be chair massages, door prizes every 30-minutes, a bake sale, and brand-new Shakti swag. Please stop by between 10 am and 3 pm and meet the vendors, get something to eat, and enjoy the company. We had so much fun last year that I can’t wait to do it again this year.
Lots of love,
Kim
Chair massages by Cleo
🌿 $20 – First-time visitors and established table massage clients.
🌿 $25 – Returning chair massage event attendees who haven’t booked a table massage yet.
To make the event run smoothly, you can reserve your chair massage spot ahead of time by clicking here.
Books and Cleverness
Book-inspired pieces from hand-drawn pen and ink art on actual book pages to unique bookmarks to bookish ornaments to junk journaling packs as well as a curated selection of used books.
Chandra’s Earth Inspirational Jewelry
A symbolic jewelry brand that focuses on producing cold forged, one-of-a-kind, handcrafted, fashionable jewelry that is culturally diverse, artistic, and positively inspiring.
CINfully Divine Jewelry & Gifts
Each piece is intentionally designed and Reiki infused, created not only for adornment, but as a little touchstone for healing, grounding, intention, and connection.
EJ Creates
Sorta sweet, sorta spooky hand poured and hand painted unique resin art and items.
Linda Lowery’s Angels and Bumble Birdies
Mixed-media paintings, prints, bookmarks, and cards that feature Dreamtime Angels and whimsical Bumble Birdies.
Marla’s Bee Happy Apiary
Sarah Beth’s Pottery
Tickled Twist
Zentution
A word about parking…
There are limited spaces behind the house. The driveway needs to stay open: you cannot park in the driveway. If you cannot park behind Shakti in the Mountains, then please consider parking on the street or at Widener’s Insurance located off Baxter Street. Follow this link for detailed parking information.
For nearly thirty years, Kim Bushore-Maki has served Appalachia as both a pioneer and champion of holistic well-being and community health.
A licensed clinical counseling professional, she became the first Master level clinician at East Tennessee State University's Counseling Center, where she provided therapeutic services and directed the Sexual Violence Prevention Program and the Alcohol and Drug Prevention Program.
During her tenure at ETSU, she was a founding organizer of the Tennessee Coalition for Healthy and Safe Campus Communities as well as Tennessee's representative for the National Prevention Network. She drafted ETSU's first Sexual Violence Response Policy and coordinated the region's first "Take Back the Night" program and fundraiser (the oldest worldwide movement to stand against sexual violence in all forms), the proceeds of which funded the first SANE nurses at the Johnson City Medical Center. Kim also served as Interim Director of Disability Services for 11 months.
In 2010, Kim followed her intuition and vision to found Shakti in the Mountains, a thriving healing-arts center that draws on somatic expressive therapy, archetypal psychology, wisdom traditions, and regenerative economics. Kim continues to maintain a small private therapy practice and also leads healing programs and retreats, guides the Shakti Stewardship Program, and serves as a community-building consultant to justice-oriented initiatives committed to building safe, inclusive, vibrant, and resilient communities.
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