Workshops & Retreats

Why should you practice Yoga?

"To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in themselves which has to be fanned into flame.”
BKS Iyengar

March 12-14th Iyengar Yoga Source in Cranston Rhode Island

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Iyengar Yoga Springs Weekend Retreat with Mary Reilly
March 26-28, 2010
Country Club of Boyne
Boyne Highlands

A weekend of Iyengar yoga classes, great food, wonderful accommodations, and the community of like-minded souls beckons. Could there be a better cure for the winter blues?

Four yoga asana classes, two pranayama classes (breath work), and a philosophy session will be offered. Free time to rest or take advantage of the trails is built into our schedule At least six months experience in yoga is suggested (See below).

The retreat will take place in a small private setting within Boyne Highlands, the beautifully appointed golf and tennis clubhouse. We will have it to ourselves and all yoga classes and meals will take place
there. Overnight lodging will be at the Heather Highlands, a hotel property of Boyne just 5 minutes away. The rooms offer two very comfortable queen beds and the luxury of a fine hotel. Those staying there will have access to the Heather Highlands indoor/outdoor heated pool. All participants will have access to the main lodge pool, steam room and sauna, minutes from the retreat setting.

Chef Edgar Jacobs has planned a delicious Indian-themed vegetarian menu and all meals from Friday’s dinner through Sunday brunch are included. In addition, snow permitting, participants will be offered a discount on a trail pass on Boyne’s groomed cross country trails or free snowshoeing.

Yoga Retreat: Experience Needed

The yoga retreat will be a nurturing and safe place to learn and deepen your experience of yoga. In the Iyengar tradition, each pose is taught with attention to detail, improving both awareness and bringing the true healing power of the asana to it's best expression. It is not competitive, it is meditation in movement. In order to start in a place where we cna begin this kind of work, I would like for students to be familiar with the standing poses, how to spread the legs to do them, how to turn the feet , the basic shape etc. ( Refer to Light on Yoga by BKS Iyengar and start with UtthitaTrikonasana, )You do not have to know every sanskrit name, but I would like for you to have worked at least a basic set of the standing poses before.

We will be doing preparations for inversion or the inversions, we will work on backbends, again with preparatory poses, and you can work these more as others may go on to the final pose. Thats the beauty of yoga, even a stage of a pose has the integrety to heal and bring us riches.
If you want to discuss this more , e-mail me at msreilly@freeeway.net.

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