Soma Yoga Retreat in Yelapa Mexico, Soma Yoga & Transformation

Dear friends and yogis:

One of my longtime yoga students, Tracey Scanlan and I are offering a Soma Yoga retreat in Yelapa, Mexico, Dec. 1-8. The full flyer is at the end of this newsletter. Please speak to us if you have questions. It’s going to be a marvelous retreat, an opportunity for deep renewal and awakening.

I have been encouraging all of my students to relate to their yoga practice as a living, evolving thing. If we do this, then our experience keeps growing deeper and more alive-we stay on the ‘living edge’ of what is unfolding for us.

Since the spring, we have been going deeper, opening up to ‘the inner body,’ the whole field of energy and presence that underlies our physical body. When we are able to directly contact the aliveness that the body is actually made of, our capacity to heal, regenerate and renew ourselves really opens up.

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.

Our fall schedule at Shanti Yoga studio is just starting. I am now teaching my Saturday morning class as usual, from 10am-11:30am, and a Wednesday evening class, from 5:30-7pm. Please come and bring a friend with you. Your yoga buddy receives their first class with me for free. And our new punch pass, 5 classes for $48, has no expiry date on it any longer.

And here is the information on our Soma Yoga retreat in Yelapa Mexico.

Dropping from mind into Being
One week Soma Yoga Retreat
Yelapa, Mexico
Dec. 1-8, 2007

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.

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, go to her website at http://www.barefootjourneys.net, or call 1.866.795.4968

Please contact Tracey Scanlan: for more info on travel and initial deposits.

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