Save the Date! June 17th, 2011

Franz and I immensely enjoy living in Colorado and being rooted back in the States after our year abroad in Nepal and India. This past summer we camped, hiked and explored the Boulder area and beyond; Franz for the first time, and for me it was a rediscovery of new and old places after several years away. One evening, while Franz's mother Anne was living here for the summer, she suggested we drive up to Gold Hill to listen to live music and have a beer at the Gold Hill Inn. We fell in love with the place: its natural charm, its history, the down-to-earth people...It all came together that night. We met with the owner a few days later and everything naturally fell into place. We'd spent months thinking about possible locations, from Italy to Oregon, and nothing felt quite right, but from the moment we sat down and ordered drinks, Gold Hill felt right.

It's a funny thing, but in my 8 years of living in Boulder I had never been to Gold Hill. I intended to go, to just drive up my favorite street, Mapleton Avenue and keep on going until I arrived there. Well, it never happened, not until now, not until Franz was with me. So we discovered it for the first time together. In my imagination, it had remained a charmed thought, Gold Hill. I imagined a small, historic town tucked away in the mountains, and it is just that. Sounds like a Nepali village, doesn't it? Colorado-style...

So stay connected to this blog in the upcoming months. We will begin posting all of the details. Until then, mark your calendars for Friday, June 17, 2011 & welcome to our journey!

The StarHouse: Our ceremony site (located 15 minutes away from Boulder & Gold Hill)

Surrounded by 200 acres of open space, rolling hills and pine forest, The StarHouse is a mountain temple dedicated to “spiritual and ceremonial practices, based on love of the Divine, honor for all beings, earth stewardship and community celebration.”
The StarHouse is a temple designed and built with the principles of Sacred Geometry at its core. Constructed in 1990, it is 12-sided, aligned perfectly to the four directions.

Based on the geometry of the Flower of Life (intersecting circles, which created the vessica pisces where the circle overlap), and integrated with the map of the chakras, The StarHouse resonates with energy, physically and spiritually.

Attention to details offer the reflection that The StarHouse is a work of art; a temple reflecting traditions from Tibet, yurt structures of nomadic people, and its own unique self…a mountain temple serving as a ‘meeting point which transcends dogmas’.