Yoga Body Buddha Mind Retreat with Cyndi Lee
Join Cyndi Lee, founder of OM yoga, as you embark on a journey to invite your body and mind back into balance. With humor, depth, and authenticity, Cyndi will guide you in combining physical yoga and Buddhist mindfulness, bringing ancient wisdom alive and making it relevant to the realities of contemporary life.
This powerful union of yoga and Buddhism offers a recipe for awakening, enlivening, and transforming the energy of our bodies and minds in a way that carries into our lives off the yoga mat and meditation cushion. It becomes a way of living that infuses the daily adventures, encounters, and relationships of our lives with the energy of practice.
Each of the four sessions offers a dharma talk, meditation and asana practices, including restorative and action sessions.
Retreat will be on the beautiful campus of Randolph college in Lynchburg, VA. Between workshops you can explore local galleries, paddle up river, relax at a quaint café, hit the trails, or relax in a spa.
Through yoga practice, you will explore how alignment, breathing, balancing, stretching, and strengthening provide the ideal opportunity to apply the Buddhist meditation techniques of watching your mind, recognizing your habits, and opening your heart. Four dharma talks with sitting and walking meditations will help cultivate awareness and compassion—aspects of practice that help our minds become unbiased, wakeful, and connected.
This powerful union of yoga and Buddhism offers a recipe for awakening, enlivening, and transforming the energy of our bodies and minds in a way that carries into our lives off the yoga mat and meditation cushion. It becomes a way of living that infuses the daily adventures, encounters, and relationships of our lives with the energy of practice.
Schedule:
Making Friends with Yourself
* Friday, 6:00-8:30
Introducing mindfulness meditation, and exploring how it can be incorporated into slow, flowing asana sequences as a method for developing strength, stability and clarity of mind and body.
Dynamic Equilibrium
* Saturday morning: 10:00-12:30
Finding balance in how we work with our own mind as a basis for being "not too tight, not too loose" within our changing lives. Standing poses will provide the vehicle for riding balance with our body.
Obstacle as Path
* Saturday afternoon: 2:30-5:00
Enriching our practice by learning that the difficulties we discover are really the juice for going deeper -- even in hip opening!
Falling in Love
* Sunday morning: 10:00-12:30
This heart opening/back bending class to help us fall in love with ourselves as the template for developing loving kindness and compassion for others.
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Fees:
Workshop series:
Earlybird Discount: $175 by May 1st.
Cost after May 1: $190
Individual Session Pricing*
One Session - $55
Any Two Sessions - $110
Any Three Sessions - $165
*Remember to email us after registering and tell us which sessions you will be attending.
Accommodations:
Dorm Accommodations: Dorm accommodations on campus are available in student dorm. Bed linens are provided. Food not included, but small kitchen for food storage available on the floor. Shared bath. Two nights: Friday/Saturday. $100 for both nights (same price single or double occupancy). See registration page for booking dorms.