INCREASINGLY PLEASANT

We’re thrilled to announce that Sage Mountain Center is now fully operational for the 2024 season! We invite you to delve into the diverse range of experiences we offer. As the weather becomes increasingly pleasant, we anticipate spending more time outdoors, which means these blog updates will likely shift to an every-other-month format.

If you’re interested in visiting us, we’re accepting reservations through September 2024, or until the onset of the winter forces us to dial it back. We offer two convenient time slots for your visit to Sage Mountain Center: 10 am or 2 pm.

For our loyal followers, you might have observed a minor increase in our prices. This change mirrors the significant time and effort we’re investing to elevate your experience and to delve deeper into the research we have lined up for Sage Wall. Once you email us for an available date (smc@sagemountain), you will receive your registration/payment link and you’ll be good to go.

Also, Mike Collins of Wandering Wolf has posted a fun short video revealing some of the new things going on this season. And subscribe to his channel to see all the latest on Sage Wall developments. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d01sXNlfNLs

As a reminder, Linda Welsh (co-founder and operator of Sage Mountain Center) has written her first book of poetry, published by Warbler Press! Congratulations on these profound reflections on dying and death. Pick up your electronic, paperback or hardback copy  at this Amazon link.

“A love song about Life. As intimate and open as footprints in the desert with its thorns and yucca blossoms.”
—Jan Elpel, author of Society of Poets

“Welsh uses nature’s changing expressions to breathe acceptance into the deeply intimate process of death and dying…making death a much more acceptable inevitability.”
—Cyndi Fonda, author of Body of Secrets: Finding My Voice Inside a Famous Family

Facing the Mountain: Poems on Dying and Death, Caregiving and Hope offers comfort for those in bereavement and explores the interwoven themes of dying, death, caregiving, and hope in human nature and Nature itself. In this deeply honest, transparent, and questioning collection of poems, Linda C. Welsh explores the complexities of caring for people in their most vulnerable time of need within the context of a death-phobic society. An innovative fusion shaped from direct experience in the care of the dying, surrender to the transformative forces of life, and reverence for the living world, Facing the Mountain is a lyrical exploration of grief, aloneness, renewal, awakening, and longing.

With Appreciation,

The Sage Mountaineers