5-Day Yoga Retreat (Event Id 41) 5-Day Yoga Retreat (Event Id 41)
Venue: SMAC Participant Cost: $1250 double occupancy $1550 single occupancy Prices above include room, w/shared bathrooms, 3 meals per day plus all retreat activities. $975 includes retreat activities and 3 meals per day (no lodging) 50% payment due with registration with the balance due by July 31, 2010 All payments are non-refundable unless your spot can be filled. Primary phone: 775-337-2990 with Kim Orenstein August 10-15, 2010 If you truly want to know yoga you must engage and embrace personal transformation. This retreat will help you accomplish the transformation. There is nothing more conducive to the learning and understanding of a yogic state than withdrawing from habitual surroundings and busy schedules and then to immerse yourself in an environment of discovering a truth larger than self-definitions allow. Wake up to a daily morning asana practice and breakfast in silence. Late mornings and afternoons include “asana playground,” alignment and adjustment of postures, breathing deeply with pranayama, enjoyable meditation practices plus cooking classes, discussions regarding our relationship to the energetics of food. Fill your free time developing new relationships, find a quiet corner to continue your study, catch an extra savasana, or wander through the high desert or historic mining town. Evenings are filled with musical kirtan, yin & restorative yoga practice and ecstatic trance dances. This will be a week no committed yogini or yogi will want to miss! Students of all levels are welcome. The accommodations are an historic 135 year old four story brick building that has been restored and renewed for creative retreats. The SMAC Center hosts our stay and sits perched overlooking the Comstock in Virginia City, NV., a 1/2 hour drive east of Reno...close enough, but also far enough away to get the feeling of “re-treat.” Accommodations are simple, with local artists adorning the hallways and galleries. Wi-fi is available at the center, but we suggest you take a break from the outside world and turn off all technology. Arrive Tues 5 pm, dinner at 6 p.m. Depart after lunch on Sunday Kim Orenstein, M.S., E-RYT is the founding director and mistress of teacher training at Yoga Loka in Reno, NV. She has a Master’s Degree in Exercise Science and Wellness and has been instructing people in the movement of their bodies for nearly 30 years. Kim’s yoga practice began in 1992 following a knee surgery that suspended her mountain bike racing and professional dancing. It began with study in the Krishnamacharia tradition (Astanga, Iyengar and Viniyoga), plus Forrest Yoga, Yin Yoga and Pilates and continues with explorations of the fluid body, yoga dance, iRest yoga nidra and Meditation Secrets for Women (Camille Maurine). She is also a certified Yoga of the Heart® instructor, working with people living with debilitating diseases. “My intent in teaching yoga is to inspire people to discover how to move through life effectively and gracefully by learning to dissolve the disconnections to themselves and others.” Chef: Michelle Reynolds comes to us with more than 25 years experience as a vegetarian chef. Michelle's business as a "traveling chef and culinary coach" includes over 15 years as a retreat chef including 8 years as the lead chef at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Michelle has also owned and operated three multi-cultural vegetarian restaurants. She is renowned for her creation of delicious, healthy, natural foods prepared with an approach of mindfulness and an intuitive style . In addition to serving three scrumptious dietary friendly veg-aquarian gluten-free meals per day for us, Michelle will also apply her talents through cooking classes and guiding us toward an understanding of our relationship with food. Students of all levels are welcome.
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