Business Spotlight
Welcome to the Business Spotlight:
Join us as we shine the spotlight on a local business each month so you can learn more about what sets them apart. You will also find our LOCAL LOVE DISCOUNTS listed Below with each interview so you can start shopping and saving today!
Introducing: TERRA ALTHA RETREATS
About the Owner:
Located in the Garden Shed Shops 2024 Main St, in the Art With Judy Ann Studios, nestled in the back of the quaint garden labyrinth. For more info contact Judy at judy@terraaltha.com or visit our website at terraaltha.com
Judy started her business with Art by Judy Ann in Cambria and has had a Gallery for over 20 years.
Her first medium was stained glass and she was very successful until she developed an allergy/illness from working with the stained glass supplies. Before COVID, Judy and her daughter, Brandy, held art classes and the series “Workshop Mamas” was a big hit with locals and visitors alike!
Currently, in Judy’s location at the Garden Shed, her clientele consists of 90% tourist or first time visitor and 10% local residents. Clients and visitors come in for art, art advice, spiritual and holistic suggestions. Due to a health scare later in her career, Judy educated herself with podcasts, seminars, any reading material she could absorb, to find a “cure”.
Looking for an alternative to main stream medical directives led Judy to create a whole different experience and has named it Terra Altha Retreats.
If Judy were to outline her ideal client/member, she/he would be open to learning about healing techniques, be willing to share concerns, people on a spiritual journey or questioning beliefs. Individuals looking for deeper meaning, self awareness and interested in practices like meditation, energy healing yoga, and plant medicine would find answers with Terra Altha Retreats!
Some inside information:
What is your favorite word? Eclectic
2. What is your least favorite word? Can’t
3. What excites you? Learning
4. What turns you off? Negativity
5. What sound do you love? Chimes
6. What sound do you hate? Leaf blowers
7. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? Counseling
LOCAL LOVE DISCOUNT:
Customer Rewards Program
We are a new business in Cambria that offers holistic retreats as well as private workshops sessions that can be catered to your specific group or event. We offer sound baths, Bio feed tunings, energy healing meditations, yoga, workshops, tea ceremonies and so much more. We would like to extend a 20% discount to locals on our programs, so you can get to know us.
We also offer a generous Buddy discount for our larger retreats, so check in with us to see special rates.
Introducing: Ball & Skein & More
About the Owner:
Annie has a serendipitous story. She worked for Amazon in the IT dept. and could work from anywhere, so she chose to move to Pacific Grove during the COVID years of 2020-2022. Walked into the local yarn shop and the woman’s name was Ann and she had a Bernese mountain dog, named Bash. Annie also owns the same breed of dog, and her dog is named Beverly. A friend asked her to visit who resided in Paso Robles and told her that Cambria had a fabulous yarn shop called Ball & Skein. She walked in and there was a sign on the counter that read: Would you like to buy a yarn and crafts store? Felt this was meant to be --- she calls it the Retirement Recon trip ; visited in Feb 2023 and signed transaction paperwork for the purchase in March.At that time, Annie was not ready to move and purchase a home here, so the original owners carried the store for her until October, when she was moved into her new home in Cambria and is here for good. Different vibe for sure, and she feels she was always meant to do this. She kept the original name of “Ball & Skein and More” because why mess with perfection ?!
Some fun facts:
Building and working on her website is an on-going project and she is enjoying every new process!
Adding new classes everyday and different ways to assist her ever growing clientele.
Annie grew up in Baltimore, Md ( pretty far from any ocean) and learned to knit from her neighbor at 13 yrs. old.
All of her employees knit and/or crochet and they take different roles in creating perhaps the displays, organization of product and giving incredible advice to fellow knitters that venture in to the store. Of course, lots of shoppers and visitors stop by just to see Beverly, the store mascot !
Some inside information:
What is your favorite word ? Serendipity
What is your least favorite word ? Moist
What brings you joy ? Beverly
What turns you off ? Mean people
What sound or noise do you love ? Ocean
What sound or noise do you hate ? Dyson hand dryers in public restrooms
What profession other than your own would you like to attempt ? Fashion designer/ glass blower
LOCAL LOVE DISCOUNT:
Customer Rewards Program
Get Rewarded every time you shop at Ball & Skein & More!
Every time you spend $200* you will receive a coupon for $15 off that never expires! If you've shopped with us in the past, you are already signed up and your rewards have started accruing automatically. If you are a 1st time shopper, provide your name and email address at checkout and you're enrolled!
*Excludes Classes, Sale Items and Sales Tax