Weekend Or 3-Day
Retreats & Yoga Vacations

Spring into a greater fullness of being, discover, revisit or re-establish your purpose and intentions in this weekend retreat to our local mountains. Allow nature to inspire you with its unending movement toward growth and creation.

Along with yoga 2x daily and healthy, meal options.

We Will:
Hike
Meditate
Journal
Visualize
Chant
Dharma Talk

And generally enjoy being with like minded people amidst natural beauty.
**Plant yourself…Cultivate, Awaken**

FOR THE LOVE OF SUMMER
FOR THE LOVE OF THE SELF

This Retreat is a little more expressive and also more Asana oriented in the Morning we share a more vigorous practice of back arches and hard balances. In the late afternoon a challenging yet relaxing flow of forward bends and twists. Midday is open for your enjoyment (activities according to location). On Friday evening a Dharma discussion on the beauty of the self and why it’s our sacred duty to share our gifts and shine our light. Saturday night is show and tell talent night, well play some music, chant and talk and whoever wants to share their art or gift or whatever it is that turns them on. (No sales please). Can come up and share and shine. Rise and shine and share the love that you are. Theme is Courage It is not mandatory to bring a talent to share. Feel free to just come and enjoy and share the beauty of your self/company in the spirit of yoga. If you work in some medium difficult to transport perhaps pictures of your art or smaller version of it.

Harvesting the fruits of your practice – A Gathering of nuts before winter.

What purpose is our practice if were not evolving toward infinitely deeper levels of perfection. This retreat centers around the conscious (enjoyment or) experience of the fruits of your efforts/labor. Asana, Pranayama, Meditation.

Journaling and conscious eating (gourmet). In Friday night’s dharma discussion we will talk about the necessity of noticing our beauty, of recognizing our efforts ad realizing the changes our practice has already brought about. We’ll also consider the dangers inherent in acknowledging our greatness without humility or devotion.

Saturday’s yoga classes are from 8:30-10:30 and 12:30-3:00 as all of today’s meals are intended to be communal and as conscious as possible.

Morning: Meal in Silence
Lunch: (partners) Blindfolded/Flavor Isolation
Dinner: All try courses together and discuss tastes likes and feelings

Sunday Morning offers a nice vigorous flow to burn off some of last nights offerings to the gods. Finally a round or two of kirtan and a sampling of coffee and chocolates and a brief sharing on how enjoying food is analogues to enjoying spirit/soul/god.

Warner Springs?

The natural world flows with the rhythms of the seasons. Yet, strangely, we are now expected to continuously produce, to always be on, and to always be okay. A life pulse, changes, dies is renewed and shows us a way to be in rhythm with all the layers of our being.

Having the courage to allow ourselves to descend into silence and into the self leads to our remembrance revelation and revitalization. When the Northern Hemisphere goes to sleep, leans away from the sun, nature slows down, retreats, recollects and waits for spring’s emergence. (Somehow, though, we’ve made this the busiest time of the year.) This retreat will give you permission to slow down, to retreat, to say no and to deeply honor the rhythms of your self.

Friday nights dharma discussion centers around the courage needed to surrender to silence, to surrender to the hearts beauty and how we can surrender to the rhythm of the season and still honor your own natural rhythms.

Saturday Morning: Early sadhana
Silent Breakfast
Meditation walk
Vigorous practice

Saturday Afternoon: Lunch
Journaling on our own experiences
Meaning to the holiday’s (if before x-mas)
2 hour restorative/flow with crystal bowls

Saturday Evening: Dinner slide show with beauty
Discussion
Pranayama
Music
Meditation & Bowls

Sunday: Early sadhana
Early Sadhana
Silent Breakfast
Year end contemplation
Normal flow
Creative Writing
Closing meditation

COSTA RICA

Dennis Frate and Vida Asana
8 days (2 travel day’s)
Yoga – Surfing – Music

Saturday arrival all day: Food and evening sadhara
Sunday – Tuesday (7am – 8am Breakfast)
Thursday – Friday (8:30 – 10:30 – Yoga)
11am – 1pm – Surf
1pm – 3pm - Lunch – Rest
3pm – 5pm - Yoga
5:30 – 6:30 - Dinner
7pm – 8:30 – Sadhara

Wednesday - Special Activity
Volcano – Tobocan
River Rafting
Beach down South

Saturday - Departure