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SUMMARY:4 Day Yoga Retreat: Restoring our Natural Center of Balance and Peace
DESCRIPTION:In person | Commonweal Retreat Center\, Bolinas CA \nSingle room | WAIT LIST– $695 Early bird\, use promo code RETREAT\, exp. 8/1 | $735  regular – SOLD OUT\nShared room | WAIT LIST – $595 (per person) Early bird\, use promo code RETREAT\, exp. 8/1 | $635 regular (per person) \nCall Raama Das at 415-857-2552 to check for availability. \nBook now/In-Person \nThursday August 22\, 5pm – Sunday August 25\, 12:30pm\nOur August retreat will focus on restoring the natural sense of balance and peace that dwells in the heart of our being as our truest nature. Through meditative practices\, rest and reflection\, we will calm the mind\, come fully into the present\, and strengthen our connection to the unchanging spiritual presence within.\nJoin Claudia Bartsch\, Astrud Castillo and Swami Ramananda at this in-person 4-day retreat. It will include various Yoga classes for all levels of practice\, workshops\, meditations\, inspirational evening programs\, healthy vegetarian meals and free time for walks\, resting or reading.\nWe will practice periods of silence including Friday morning and the whole day Saturday. In this spacious silence\, we can strengthen our inner connection to peace and renew our personal commitment to live courageously in the light of awareness.\nWe are blessed once again to use the Commonweal Retreat Center in Bolinas\, known for the natural beauty of the ocean side location which is located on sacred Native American grounds. The practices of Yoga in this beautiful natural setting offer an opportunity to cleanse the body and mind of stimulants and toxins that we ingest through the mouth\, eyes\, and ears and find rejuvenation.\n\nSwami Ramananda\, C-IAYT\, E-RYT 500\, is the Executive Director of the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco\, C-IAYT\, and a greatly respected senior teacher in the Integral Yoga tradition who has been practicing Yoga for over 45 years. Ramananda offers practical methods of integrating the timeless teachings and practices of Yoga into daily life and transforming the painful aspects of human experience into steps toward realizing one’s full potential.\nHe leads beginner\, intermediate and advanced-level Yoga teacher training programs in San Francisco and offers a variety of programs in many locations in the U.S.\, Europe and South America. Ramananda co-developed the Stress Management Teacher Training program with Swami Vidyananda\, has trained many teachers to bring Yoga into corporate\, hospital and medical settings\, and has taught mind/body wellness programs in many locations. He is a certified Yoga therapist and founding board member of the Yoga Alliance\, a national registry that supports and promotes yoga teachers as professionals. He co-founded The Spiritual Action Initiative (SAI)\, which brings together individuals committed to working for social justice for all beings and for the care and healing of our natural world. His warmth\, wisdom and sense of humor have endeared him to many. \nClaudia Bartsch\, E-500CYT\, C-IAYT\, has been teaching yoga for 17 years. With over 1\,500 hours of training she offers an in-depth understanding of yogic practices and techniques and how to apply them for healing\, integration and transformation. In 2011 she bridged her interest in Western psychology and the yogic path and became a certified Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist. Additionally\, Claudia is a certified Stress Management Educator\, a trained Reiki and Shiatsu Practitioner. In her work she offers a unique blend of the various branches of yoga\, hands-on body and energy work empowering her clients to move towards greater resilience\, well-being and health. Please visit her website for more information: claudiabartsch.com \nAstrud Castillo has been teaching yoga since 2001 and sharing Kirtan internationally for the last 10 years.She trained in NYC at Laughing Lotus\, currently known as Body and soul Yoga collective and is a senior teacher and teacher trainer. She has studied the basics of yoga therapeutics and Vedic chanting with T.K.V. Desikachar in India. Her teaching has been inspired by her mentor and friend Mark Whitwell over the last 20 years. Astrud’s classes are warm\, welcoming and all inclusive. Her love and relationship to Bhakti Yoga\, the yoga of devotion\, is always illuminated in her teaching. There is always chanting in Astrud’s classes\, awareness around the breath and mindful movement. Astrud leads annual pilgrimages to India\, teaches Bhakti yoga with teachers in training and currently lives at the IYI in SF. Her slow flow class weaves together poses in a creative and mindful way using the breath as the bridge to deepen and explore the balance between effort and surrender and focus the mind.
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SUMMARY:New Beginnings Writing Group
DESCRIPTION:This session has been cancelled. \nNext session is Fri. September 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm PDT and is open for enrollment. \nOnline | $1-15 sliding scale \nIn these times of great change we will explore a path toward meeting ourselves where we are to give voice to all that matters! As we live with interruptions and chaos\, we can deepen into the roots of our creativity\, encouraging the river of expression to flow. Beginners and seasoned writers are welcome\, as we explore various forms of writing: poetry\, prose\, short stories\, memoir\, among others. Through writing exercises using everyday life\, place\, family\, images\, poetry of others\, while using pranayama\, meditation and the guidance of the Sutras we will build a body of work. Participants are encouraged to go at their own pace.\nTools we will Practice:\n\nThe Art of Paying Attention\nAcceptance\nPlay\nWriting from the Heart\n\nTogether we will combine self-care with our writing and discover what a writing practice means to us and how it may take shape.\n\nSusan Ford\, C-IAYT\, RYT-500\, began teaching in 2011 and has been an assistant trainer for the Basic Yoga Teacher Training at Integral Yoga Institute San Francisco (IYISF) since 2012. She specializes in gentle yoga and yoga therapy working with people with disabilities\, cancer\, heart disease\, arthritis\, aging\, bone health\, anxiety\, depression and asthma. Her focus is to help students to meet their bodies where they are by introducing and incorporating Therapeutic Yoga\, Raja Yoga\, Hatha Yoga\, pranayama and meditation. Susan has been a writer of poetry\, short stories and plays most of her adult life and has been repeatedly featured in storytelling events in Northern California. She has led writer groups\, tutored many in writing\, and regularly hosts poetry reading Satsangs at IYISF.
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