Radiant Well-being Yoga
501 West Avenue
North Augusta, SC

February 29 - March 2, 2008

Tuition: $220

 To register, call 803-613-0684

     What would it be like to be fully alive, awake, and whole? To live a life of vitality, expressiveness, and passion while remaining peaceful and equanimous under all circumstances? The ancient yogis sought just that by tapping prana, the vital life energy of the universe, to kindle a fire in the belly that could be channeled into a deep and abiding peace in the heart.

     Discover the secrets of their path. Cultivate an integrated practice to facilitate energetic attunement, raise the store of prana in the body, and channel that energy into transcendent states. In this  weekend intensive , you will:

• Practice and refinement of advanced pranayama techniques
• Integrate pranayama with breath retention (kumbhaka) and the locks (bandhas) in asana practice
• Enhance your attunement to prana and the subtle body
• Channel its flow to deepen and intensify your meditation practice

     Take your practice to the next level with an intense synthesis of asana, pranayama, meditation, and dance - opening yourself to transformation, joy, peace, and wonder.

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Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health
Lenox, MA

March 23-26, 2008
4 days/3 nights, Sunday - Wednesday

Tuition: $225

 To register, call 800.741.7353 or visit
Kripalu.org

     Open the door to meditation. Find a place of solace, healing, and rest in today’s fast-paced and stressful world. Cultivate an inner sense of well-being that endures beyond the changing circumstances of your life. Open your heart to greater love and compassion. Find the courage to face and transform your own and other’s suffering. Discover your capacity for deep healing.

     This intensive will explore a range of meditation techniques and their potential to calm the mind, relax the body, open the heart, cope with difficult emotions, alleviate suffering, and lead you home to your true nature. Brief periods of seated meditation - verbally guided interspersed with periods of silence - will alternate with presentation, movement, discussion, and sharing. The retreat will include the Dances of Universal Peace, a meditative practice drawn from the Sufi tradition, utilizing music and movement. Participants may meditate seated either in a chair or on the floor. Whether you are new to meditation or have an established practice, this retreat has something for you.

       All-inclusive pricing for this 3 night retreat starts at $456 for tuition, room, meals, yoga and dance classes, sauna, whirlpool, trails, and other amenities.

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Yoga for Life
Charlotte, NC
Yoga for Life

May 3 - 4

Tuition: $45 single workshop, $160 entire weekend

 To register, call 704 - 344 - YOGA (9642) or send check payable to:
Yoga for Life
1920 - B Cleveland Avenue
Charlotte, NC 28203

Yoga in the West is often identified with the physical practice of asana alone.  Yet classically, asana was only one way of cultivating awareness of and working with prana, the vital life force energy of the body and the universe. This weekend of workshops is intended to bring prana back to the forefront of our practice to cultivate a powerful, energy-based, and deeply meditative yoga.

For the ancient yogis, prana was the tangible manifestation of the higher Self and the key to expanding awareness. Asanas were used to free prana and open the energy channels. Pranayama was used to purify the nadis (energy channels), raise the store of pranic energy in the body, and redirect its flow. And controlling the flow of prana in the body was understood as central to controlling the fluctuations of the mind and opening the door to transcendent states.

This series of workshops intended to put that theory into practice. We will refine advanced pranayama skills and integrate them into our practice of postures.  We will raise the store of pranic energy to a clearly perceptible level and use that prana as both a meditative object and an inner guide to the unfolding of our yoga.

Workshop schedule:

Saturday, May 3
            9:00 am – noon           The Power of Advanced Pranayama
            2:00-5:00 pm               Mindfulness in Motion: Uniting Asana and Meditation

Saturday, May 3
            9:00 am – noon           Stoking the Fire: Raising the Store of Pranic Energy in the Body
            2:00-5:00 pm               Surrendering to Prana: The Experience of Spontaneous Flow

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Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health
Lenox, MA

June 22 -27, 2008
6 days/5 nights, Sunday - Wednesday

Tuition: $325

 To register, call 800.741.7353 or visit
Kripalu.org

     What would it be like to be fully alive, awake, and whole? To live a life of vitality, expressiveness, and passion while remaining peaceful and equanimous under all circumstances? The ancient yogis sought just that by tapping prana, the vital life energy of the universe, to kindle a fire in the belly that could be channeled into a deep and abiding peace in the heart.

     Discover the secrets of their path. Cultivate an integrated practice to facilitate energetic attunement, raise the store of prana in the body, and channel that energy into transcendent states. In this retreat, you will:

·         Practice and refinement of advanced pranayama techniques

·         Integrate pranayama with breath retention (kumbhaka) and the locks (bandhas) in asana practice

·         Enhance your attunement to prana and the subtle body

·         Learn how to work with this energy for both personal and spiritual development

·         Channel its flow to deepen and intensify your meditation practice

·         Give expression to this life-force energy in prana-infused dance

     Take your practice to the next level with an intense synthesis of asana, pranayama, meditation, and dance - opening yourself to transformation, joy, peace, and wonder.

     All-inclusive pricing for this 5 night retreat starts at $725 for tuition, room, meals, yoga and dance classes, sauna, whirlpool, trails, and other amenities.

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