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Join me at Solace Institute for a
Back Bend & Inversion Heart Opening Workshop
We
bend forward all day, every day. Back bending is not a move made familiar
through constant daily repetition. Because of its novelty, back bending is more
challenging physically and more “loaded” emotionally. We need to approach back
bending with respect, intelligence, patience and gratitude.
The YIN/YANG elements of our
workshop are the joining of opposites, LUNAR and SOLAR energies, as reflected
in all of nature. A safely constructed heart-centered yoga practice
incorporates asanas both cooling and energizing. It is a control/surrender
relationship, which allows us to place, and hold the desired optimal curve of
the spine. The carefully sequenced postures build a gradual awareness of the
intelligent dynamic of spinal flexion and inversion.
We will start with a YIN practice,
slow, yielding and cool. As we become more awake to our own limits and safe
openings, the body is warmed and lubricated. We will ultimately move toward a
YANG practice, upbeat, hot and energetic. We then return toward YIN, revisiting
asanas and sequences to see how they have been changed by the YANG practice. We
will end each practice in shavasana,
before sitting in silent meditation together.
Please join us for a Yoga Retreat
focusing on Heart-Centered Yoga, and stay long enough to take in the fabulously
serene beauty of Northern Michigan in the autumn. It will contribute to your
healing as well as your education. You will leave with a greater
understanding of the anatomy of the spine and how to approach back bends and inversions
with acuity and confidence.
Friday, September 21
5pm: Hotel Check-In / Arrival
6-8pm: 30 minute introduction and syllabus, 90 minute YOGA practice.
(Dinner on your own)
Saturday, September 22
7am: Meditative Nature Walk (Optional)
9am-12pm: 3 hour Heart-Centered YOGA practice
12-1pm: group LUNCH provided
1-4pm: free time. Enjoy the Spa!
4-7pm: 3 hour Heart-Centered YOGA practice
7:30pm: group Dinner provided
Sunday, September 23
7am: Silent walk and Meditation on the Mountain (Optional)
8:30-10:30am: 1.5 hour YOGA practice, 30 minute closure
11am: Check-out
Tuition:
$325 - This workshop is most suitable for those with some yoga experience. Includes delicious snacks and meals, daily admission to Solace Spa, and Heart-Centered Yoga therapeutics with Sandra Carden, ERYT 500.
$335 for YOGA ALLIANCE teachers requesting 10 hrs CEUs
Register today for the Heart Centered Yoga Retreat by contacting Solace Institute at 231-549-7212. Space is limited!
Solace Institute is at Boyne Mountain, Boyne Falls, MI.
Go to http://www.boyne.com/EventsCalendar/Events/2012/September/HeartCenteredYoga.html to reserve online discounted lodging reservations or contact Boyne Mountain at 800-462-6963 and mention promo code 128YOGA.
Call or click now, ok? to see if there is still room. I'd love to open hearts with you.
Go to http://www.boyne.com/EventsCalendar/Events/2012/September/HeartCenteredYoga.html to reserve online discounted lodging reservations or contact Boyne Mountain at 800-462-6963 and mention promo code 128YOGA.
Call or click now, ok? to see if there is still room. I'd love to open hearts with you.
sandra
