10 Day Thailand Retreat (RETREAT FULL)
Please join us for the first Yin Yoga Community Retreat with Sarah
and Ty Powers and Paul and Suzee Grilley in Thailand at Tao Gardens Resort.
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Dec 12-22, 2008
Yoga enhances the vibrancy of our body, heart and mind. Meditation cultivates
a realization of our essential nature—our innate clarity. Both systems
bring us home to ourselves. Taking time away from our busy schedules to
commit our attention to our inner development naturally accelerates our
evolution, while also bringing us into new and refreshed ways of being
with ourselves and our life.
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flyer PDF 1MB (RETREAT FULL)
 We
look forward to gathering many of the International Yin Yoga teachers
and practitioners (beginners welcome) for this special retreat. Sarah,
Ty, Paul and Suzee will alternate leading classes in Yin or Yang style
practices as well as Mindfulness Meditation classes. Each day we will
have several meditation sessions, and two yoga classes interspersed with
time to enjoy the healing arts and medical facilities at Tao Gardens.
We will also explore the surrounding area of Chaing Mai together, visiting
an ancient Buddhist temple, riding Elephants, and visiting the famous
Night Market.
Yin yoga is an essential complement to our active, strong practices and
lives. The Yin style keeps the body supple at its core while encouraging
stagnate chi (prana) to flow throughout the joints, balancing the organ
and meridian systems.
 This
retreat will be a rare opportunity to study with both Sarah and Paul,
as well as to experience the diverse ways of practicing Yin and Yang Yoga
in a setting like Tao Garden and the surrounding area of northern Thailand.
This retreat will give you an opportunity to enjoy Paul's articulate and
humorous style, Suzee's graceful and flowing sequences and Sarah's meditative
and integral approach. Ty will lead the morning and evening mindfulness
meditations.
Tao
Gardens Integrative Medical Center:
Receive personalized attention from a licensed clinician, controlled by
a doctor, providing first rate technologies such as; live blood microscopy,
liver and gallbladder cleanses, anti-parasite treatments, colonic hydrotherapy
as well as;
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Acupuncture
Dietary Advice
Pulse and Tongue Diagnosis
Five Elements Aromatherapy
Muscle Tendon Therapeutic Treatment
Oil Therapeutic Treatment
Accupressure Foot Reflexology
Infrared Sauna
Abhyanga & Shirodhara
Whether you are balanced or feel your health is compromised, Tao Gardens
offers many effective world class therapies to assist your body's ability
to function at it's most optimal.
Tao
Gardens Healing Arts Center:
Ayurvedic and Thai massage, Mineral Hot Spring Therapy massage (Geysers
and Sulfuric mineral baths, recognized for their great healing properties
for detoxifying the body, improving the circulation, smoothing & rejuvenating
the skin as well as healing various skin conditions), Herbal Treatment
Services such as Face & Body Massage, Thai Herbal Steam Bath, Acne
Deep Cleansing, Face Scrub with Herbal and Facial Pack and many other
services.
Tao Gardens Healing Arts Center is especially renowned for Chi Nei Tsang,
an abdominal massage which heals the internal organs.
Paul Grilley has been practicing and teaching since
1979. He learned the Yin Yoga of Paulie Zink in 1988. He originally studied
anatomy and physiology with Dr. Garry Parker, then went on to study kinesiology
at UCLA and acupuncture theory at Emperor's College in Santa Monica. He
first met Dr. Motoyama in 1989. Since then his understanding of Yoga and
Meditation has been deepened by Dr. Motoyama's Meridian Theory, which
states that the connective tissues of the body are the meridians of acupuncture
and that they are regulated by energy centers in the spine called chakras.
Suzee Grilley is a former member of the Nikolais Dance
Theatre with whom she toured the world. Suzee is artistic director of
the DanceSpace, in Ashland. Drawing from over 20 years of experience,
Suzee teaches modern dance technique, improvisation, composition and Capoeira
for dancers. Paul and Suzee live in Ashland, Oregon and can be reached
at: www.paulgrilley.com
Sarah Powers began teaching in 1987. She interweaves
the insights and practices of Yoga and Buddhism into an integral practice
to enliven the body, heart and mind. Her yoga style blends both a Yin
sequence of long held poses to enhance the meridian and organ systems,
combined with a flow or Yang practice, influenced by Viniyoga, Ashtanga,
and Iyengar teachings. Sarah feels that enlivening the physical and pranic
bodies, as well as learning to open to our emotional afflictions is paramount
for preparing us to deepen and nourish insights into our essential nature--a
natural state of awareness. She draws from her studies in Transpersonal
Psychology, as well as her in-depth training in the Vipassana, Tantric
and Dzogchen practices of Buddhism. She teaches trainings and silent retreats
with her husband Ty. They live with their teen-age daughter Imani Jade
in Marin, California.
 Ty
Powers has been practicing yoga since 1987 and managing yoga
retreats since 1992. Ty is a graduate of the Dharma Leader training program
at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, under the guidance of Jack Kornfield,
James Baraz and Ajahn Amaro. He has been co-teaching diversity daylongs
at Spirit Rock for a few years. His primary teacher is Tsoknyi Rinpoche.
Date:
Dec 12-22, 2008 (RETREAT FULL)
Location:
Tao Gardens Resort, Thailand
www.tao-garden.com
Meals:
Tao Gardens serves 3 fresh and delicious organic asian meals a day, vegetarian
and non-vegetarian.
Cost:
double: $2,395.00 per person before July 1, 2008. $2,695 after July 1
single: $2,995.00 per person before July 1, 2008. $3,295 after July 1
$350 Deposit
non-refundable or transferable
Price includes teachings, dbl occupancy room, meals at Tao Garden plus
airport pickup.
Price does not include airfare, travel insurance or other travel related
expenses or Tao Garden treatments, or optional outings.
For assistance with airfare:
Call KAKO TRAVEL in Oakland. 510 601 6000 or email kako@kakotravel.com
For more information, please call 408.269.7807 or .
Please click here for Retreats Terms,
Conditions, & Cancellation Policy
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10 Day Thailand Retreat
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10-15, 2009
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2-8, 2009
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July 13-20, 2009
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Sept. 24-30,
2009
Italy Retreat
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