Three ways to make reservations and/or ask questions:
email Michal Reed I usually return email queries within 48 hours
559-539-2382 If I'm not home, leave a message and let me know when would be a good time to return your call.
P.O. Box 473, Springville, CA 93265 This is where you will mail your check, payable to Michal Reed. I'll give you directions and the street address when I speak with you.
Great Energy is run by me, Michal Reed. I will be your guide, your writing instructor, your facilitator. Depending on the sports options that you choose I may have my one of my sons help us out; if you'd like to go horseback riding, I will send you down the road to my friend's ranch.
My formal background: I have BA's in English (St. Mary's College) and Photography (California Institute of the Arts) and an MFA in art and critical writing (also CalArts). I am the author of Using Guided Visualization for Better Writing (Educational Impressions 1989) and have written for Artweek, Art and Text, Artpapers, Leonardo and other journals. My artist books have been shown in galleries throughout the United States and in England. My novel Black Algae is currently being considered for publication. I have taught at California Institute of the Arts and California State University Bakersfield. Currently, I am working at the local high school, teaching Art.
Though I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, over the 23 years that I have lived here I have used this wonderful rural area to learn to rock climb, windsurf, river raft, cross country and back country ski, snow board (though not locally), bushwhack (without too much whining), and have continued to backpack, cycle, swim and hike. My best ideas and solutions come to me when I am alone hiking, cycling or running; I would like to share with you these skills of integrating body/mind communication.
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