Body, Breath & Happiness - Women's Yoga Retreat

A four day retreat with Sofia Diaz

May we all be free and radically in love with our greatest intuition of what existence is all about.

This retreat will combine asana, movement, breath work and a series of practices that communicate Sofia's unique understanding of the yoga of feeling. Participants will learn to integrate breath, yoga posture, and heart feeling to strengthen the body, release constricting emotions, and ground the whole being in happiness.

Date:
May 18th -
May 21st, 2006

Location:
Mount Madonna Center, in Seminar House

Notes:

Fees include tuition for the retreat, lodging and all meals.

Options:

Private Room $895
One available
Triple $795
3 in a room
Dormitory $745
In the large dome - bring warm bedding.
Camping $675
bring warm bedding.

What to bring:

Please bring celebratory clothing that you can comfortably move in, your yoga mat, note book & a water bottle.

Schedule
Thursday May 18th
2-4 pm	Arrival & Registration
5-6 pm	Dinner
7-9 pm	Introduction & Welcome
Daily Schedule
6:30-8 am	Yoga
8:15-10:30 am	Breakfast, Nature time, hiking, journaling, (Saturday 10:00 am Brunch breakfast & no lunch, snack @ 1pm)
12:30-1:30 pm	Lunch
2-3 pm	Private Sessions with Sofia
3:30-5 pm	Yoga
5-6:30 pm	Dinner
6-7 pm	Worship at Hanuman temple( optional)
7:30-9:30 pm	Yoga, Movement class and Q&A sessions
Sunday May 21
8:30-10 am	Breakfast, Nature Time & Journaling
10-12 am	Final Yoga Circle
12:30-1:30	Snack Lunch, End of Retreat, Departure

About the location:

The Center is located in the Santa Cruz mountains midway between Watsonville and Gilroy, atop Mount Madonna with a spectacular view of all Monterey Bay. This 355 acres of open meadows and redwood forests include hiking trails, volleyball, tennis, and basketball courts, a pond (we call it "The Lake") for swimming, a hot tub, a gymnasium for volleyball and basketball, and massage and herbal steam bath facilities.

Travel Notes:

For Road directions & transportation options to Mount Madonna if you are flying please visit mountmadonna.org.

About the Instructor

Sofia Diaz is a gifted teacher of Hatha yoga, sacred movement and feminine spiritual practice, deriving her style of teaching and body philosophy from the south temple arts and their accompanying scriptures. Along with 23 years of intensive study and daily practice of several traditions of yoga, she has apprenticed since 1982, to the dance and music masters of the Balasaraswati lineage of the sacred dance, Bharata Natyam.

She holds a Bachelors Degree in dance from Mills College in Oakland, California, and a Masters Degree in religious studies from the University of Colorado. She has most recently taught at the Department of Somatic Psychology at Naropa University and the University of Colorado in Boulder. Sofia has also founded a school of Hatha Yoga and sacred movement arts in Boulder Colorado.

She has published writings on yoga and sacred movement in both academic and popular journals and travels frequently, teaching women's yoga intensives throughout the world.

For more information, please www.SofiaYoga.com

Please call (707-685-9320) or email if you have any questions.

Flow, flow, flow, the current of life is ever onward. - Kobodaishi