Date: Aug 14 -
City: Nelson BC
Facility: Shanti Yoga Studio
Address: The corner of Baker and Josephine, across from 'Nature's Health.' Go right up the stairs and to the end of the hall on the second floor.
Tuition: $12 drop in, 5 classes for $55, 10 classes for $110. No expiry date on passes.
Register: Click here to Register
Dear friends:
I am now teaching Soma Yoga at my usual time on Saturday mornings, 10am-11:30am, and Wednesday evenings from 5:30-7pm-a great time to do yoga.
Your first class is free with me. Just remind me that it’s your first, and I will offer it to you as a gift.
Soma Yoga is evolving, deepening and unfolding in some exciting new directions. For the next while we will be focusing on two key aspects of our being. We call these the sun and moon, awareness and heart, or the male and female aspects, and they belong to our essence or presence, not our personality. In our yoga practice we can learn to appreciate, cultivate and renew both of these aspects. Sometimes I call it the union of strength and tenderness.
We have also been focusing on building more core strength, grounding down into the earth, and experiencing how that core strength supports us in showing up for our life, and meeting each challenge as it arises.
The original purpose of yoga was to connect you with your authentic being, which is not a separate, static thing, but a living, flowing field of presence.
When we look at the body from the outside, it certainly appears as a solid object. But when we drop inside and open to our inner experience, all that we find is a stream of experience, sensation, and feeling. And when we let go a little more, we realize there is a lot of spaciousness and tenderness in this experience, an openness that lies at the heart of who we really are.
Soma Yoga gives us the opportunity in each moment to drop from the world of our thinking into the simplicity of feeling, breathing and letting go. When our yoga practice opens the heart, and reveals our connection to all living beings, it becomes a powerful force for transformation. This possibility exists for each one of us who is ready to receive it. All we need to begin with is our willingness.
Due to popular request, we will be offering the Soma Yoga Retreat in Yelapa this coming Feb. 2009. More details coming soon.
Here is the information on our Soma Yoga retreat in Yelapa Mexico.
Dropping from mind into Being
One week Soma Yoga Retreat/holiday
Yelapa, Mexico
Feb. 2009
The Place
Hotel Lagunita in Yelapa is 30 minutes south of Puerto Vallarta by water taxi. There are no cars here, just elegant and simple bungalows on the edge of the Pacific Ocean. Surrounding you is lush jungle, waterfalls, and all the sounds of nature.
For more information about the hotel go to http://www.hotel-lagunita.com
The Soma Yoga Program
Here is a precious opportunity to practice yoga in an environment that is deeply nourishing to body, mind and spirit. Without the tyranny of clocks, computers and cars, we begin to drop into the slow and natural rhythms of nature, moving as the clouds move, breathing in harmony with wind and waves.
This retreat will focus on entering a deep state of presence while practicing yoga, learning to open to what Eckhart Tolle calls ‘the inner body,’ the stream of life force in the body and breath. Experiencing your inner body awakens your natural connection with your heart, your spirit, your unconditioned awareness. It is this connection that regenerates and revitalizes your entire being.
We will explore some of the myths around the ageing process, and work with an embodiment journal, inquiry and contemplation to examine and renew our whole relationship with our body/mind.
The schedule
90 minutes of Soma Yoga and meditation each morning before breakfast.
2 hours in the late afternoon before dinner.
The rest of the day is free. You can swim, hike, boat, read, talk, write, or do absolutely nothing. I’ll be encouraging you all to follow your own energy and intuitive wisdom as you move through each day.
The Cost
$1100 for the yoga, double accommodation, including all gratuities, and 3 delicious meals per day, both vegetarian and non-vegetarian.
For more information about Shayla, and this retreat, call 250.352.7908 or 1.866.795.4968
