Flowering as a Dancing Prayer of Service IS Whole Body Yoga

A five day Women's retreat with Sofia Diaz

Asana, breath work, music, liberated bodily expression and intimacy are all the incidental steps of the yoga of a life lived as service. Let us find the mutuality of discovering our edge in yoga and creating great face-losing-art out of loving more than our self-conscious habits dictate.

May celebration be our each and every exhale and ecstasy be our great-fully embraced inhale.

Just what if we dared to tell the truth of our deepest happiness with every move we make in our ordinary life? Come if you dare to care more than you can presently contain on your own.

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.

Fees:

A deposit of $550 is due by May 15th, to reserve your space.
The 2nd payment is due May 15th, 2007.

Notes:

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

Options:

• Private Room $1195
  Only a few available
  • After May 15th $1345
• Triple $995
  3 in a room
  • After May 15th $1145
• Dormitory $895
  4-7 per room.
  • After May 15th $1045
• Camping $795
  Bring warm bedding.
  • After May 15th $945

Cancellation policy:

Before May 1st, 2007, $150 processing fee subtracted. No refund after May 1st.

Late payments policies:

No late payments are considered, you WILL lose your space and your total deposit. Your payments need to be received BEFORE due dates (please put the dates and amounts due in your calendar to remind your self).

Registration:

To register please call Mersedeh at 707-685-9320 or click the registration button above.

What to bring:

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

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