The Rigor of Being

Five day Men's and Women's Retreat with Sofia Diaz

This co-ed yoga retreat is designed to serve the clarification of how we are standing and being in our lives, what and how we are consciously and unconsciously serving or disserving in the life around us.

These times need the generosity of our Awareness. Through rigorous and purifying physical asana practice followed by highly structured partner and small group exercises we will engage in several days of deep sangha (community) practice addressing whatever challenges are up for each person attending as well as demanding celebration of the resources of wisdom we each are.

Intuition, deep honesty and profound all-embracing compassion will be the means of our exchange. We will use group reflection to bring heightened awareness to the gifts flowering in each of us that we might relax effort in our lives into being the river of life that flows with great certainty and grace through the challenges of the professional, spiritual and relational facets of our life.

Fees:

A deposit of $550 is due by August 15th, to reserve your space.
The balance is due September 15th, 2008.

Full-time Students: $100 off deposit.

Notes:

Fees include tuition for the retreat, lodging & meals. This event has filled up quickly in the past years; registration will be conducted on first come first served basis. Register early to reserve your space.

Options:

• Private Room $1350
  Only a few available
  • After August 15th $1550
• Triple $1150
  3 in a room
  • After August 15th $1350
• Dormitory $1095
  4-7 per room.
  • After August 15th $1295
• Ground Camping, or Van camping $995
  Bring own bedding.
  • After August 15th $1195

Cancellation policy:

Before August 15th, 2008, $200 processing fee subtracted. No refund after August 15th.

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