The Feathered Pipe Newsletter is a monthly publication offering thoughts of inspiration from voices within the Feathered Pipe community. Here we share ongoing updates about our programs and activities as well as simply trying to bring a bit more light into world. Click the “Stay Connected” button below to receive our newsletter direct to your email inbox.
Jan 3, 2022 - Happy New Year! I’d like to start this year with HEARTFELT GRATITUDE! Thank you for participating with us on so many levels in the ways you have, whether it was by visiting, volunteering, working, or teaching at the Ranch, donating to Feathered Pipe Foundation, and/or joining us online. Read More
Dec 17, 2021 - So far, we've received $77,836 in donations! Can you help us reach our end-of-year fundraising goal of $100,000 and continue the Feathered Pipe dream? We are nearly there. A HUGE THANK YOU to those who have already donated. Read More
Nov 14, 2021 - The Feathered Pipe Ranch been organized, polished, drained, put into hibernation with the bears until the spring. As we count down the days till reopening, we will continue to stay in touch and hopefully delight one another with stories, the Dandelion Effect Podcast, and educational opportunities! Read More
Oct 17, 2021 - While dealing with moving through the intensities of losing my mother, Feathered Pipe founder India Supera, and facing prolonged pandemic anxieties, we put our collective energy into improving every aspect of the Ranch experience making it an incredible restart and revival. Read More
Sep 22, 2021 - What’s striking to me about Feathered Pipe in these times — and what accounts for my own continued commitment to it — is the authenticity and integrity of the people who work to create conditions so the “crazy miracles” can happen. Read More
Sep 5, 2021 - The Feathered Pipe Ranch is at its core a sanctuary of kindness and trust. It is there to nurture you in nature and support you in community. Is it magic or simply kindness? Maybe magic that manifests out of kindness? Read More
Aug 22, 2021 - Finding the Feathered Pipe Ranch while in the thick of my healing journey with Lyme Disease was one of the biggest blessings of my life, a crossing too serendipitous to be chalked up as coincidence. I was 27 years old, and I wrote a letter to India asking if I could come out and spend time on the land among kindred spirits. Read More
Jul 30, 2021 - Our elders’ stories are gateways to understanding their dreams. Their wishes and cravings, their failures and triumphs. This is how we begin to understand the nature of life and the full tapestry of bitter injustices that coexist alongside unexpected gifts and ‘crazy miracles.’ Read More
Jul 15, 2021 - The 'COVID era’ sparked epic struggles and surfaced profound questions for many of us. Has it been a lesson in patient perseverance for you too? Have you experienced vivid reminders of just how indispensable sangha is to our personal and collective well being? Read More
Jun 28, 2021 - While I think of my mom, India Supera (founder of Feathered Pipe) everyday and miss her deeply, I hear peoples' stories of the transformational experiences at Feathered Pipe and am continuously inspired to carry on her legacy at this beautiful place with all that it offers. Read More
Jun 19, 2021 - Our 2021 retreat season started off with one of the most profound experiences we have been a part of over these past 45 years. Twenty veterans along with Veterans Yoga Project teachers and staff came together after spending the past year and a half in study... Read More
May 30, 2021 - For many of you coming to the Ranch this season, your trip here may mark your inaugural foray ‘out into the big world’ after more than a year of quarantine, lockdown, isolation, and intense worries about health and safety. Read More