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Boa Ogoi Cultural Center Fundraiser | Maple Grove Hot Springs
When experiences bubble up out here, we’ve noticed that it almost feels irreverent to document them in the moment. With each wild,...
Jordan Menzel
Nov 22, 2021


Shoutout to Jennifer | Maple Grove Hot Springs
In a way, nearly everything in a land-based endeavor is seasonal. The weather, the phases of growth, the projects, the needs, and,...
Jordan Menzel
Oct 28, 2021


Silence After Sundown | Maple Grove Hot Springs
Our culture has an uncomfortable relationship with silence. When the Maple of old closed for business, it stood still, in utter...
Jordan Menzel
Oct 28, 2021


Sound Bath and Dancing | Maple Grove Hot Springs
Everything comes down to what we do when we hear the music start to play... Somewhere between childhood, adolescence, teenhood, and...
Jordan Menzel
Oct 21, 2021


Indigenous Peoples Day 2021 | Maple Grove Hot Springs
Lessons From the Shoshone Indigenous People's Day. A day that speaks to the soul of our land and now our very business. You see, long...
Jordan Menzel
Oct 10, 2021


How to Digitally Detox at Maple Grove Hot Springs
Our planet needs more than six hours to detox digitally. Smartphones and social media feel less natural by the day. The obvious sense of...
Jordan Menzel
Oct 4, 2021


Radical Leaps of Faith | Maple Grove Hot Springs
A Sunday thought on radical leaps of faith. Today, we welcome up a small yoga retreat, who, like the many diverse groups who gather on...
Jordan Menzel
Sep 11, 2021


Be Well Wim Hof Workshop Fall 2021 | Maple Grove Hot Springs
And just like that, another group of humans went from strangers to acting pretty strange, to feeling pretty familiar, and then,...
Jordan Menzel
Sep 4, 2021


Men Need Healing Too | Maple Grove Hot Springs
Men need to chill out. Over 80 percent of you reading this are women, and about the same breakdown exists for those who actually make...
Jordan Menzel
Aug 17, 2021


Is Maple Grove Hot Springs Kid-Friendly?
Sometimes, we get a question that goes like this: “Are you kid-friendly?” Our answer, of course, is unequivocally YES. We’re not fully...
Jordan Menzel
Jul 15, 2021


Juneteenth 2021 | Maple Grove Hot Springs
History, thankfully, is continually peeling back its layers to reveal a more diverse, raw, complex, and often painful yet representative...
Jordan Menzel
Jun 18, 2021


Suicide Prevention: Part 4 | Maple Grove Hot Springs
We have learned that hot water often holds space for hard conversations. Nearly every day, we lose 132 friends, family members,...
Jordan Menzel
Jun 5, 2021


The Source of the Experience | Maple Grove Hot Springs
Every morning, the Humans meandering around are reminded that this experience has a source. If you think about it, not many experiences...
Jordan Menzel
May 29, 2021


Introducing the Creek Pool | Maple Grove Hot Springs
As a steadily evolving restoration project, we find that yesterday’s problems often give birth to some of today’s most enjoyable...
Jordan Menzel
May 25, 2021


Welcome to the Riverhouse | Maple Grove Hot Springs
Welcome to the River House General Store. After over a year of laying dormant, unable to live out its intention of communal cooking...
Jordan Menzel
May 22, 2021
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