February 2-9

Living an Inspired Life Yoga Retreat, at La Muse Retreat Center in France

Space in the heart, mind and body allows for creativity to blossom, ideas to flow – choices to be seen. This delicious spaciousness is more readily accessed when the body, mind and heart are drawn together, and synthesized in communication. Through the practice of yoga, meditation, visualization and breath – we’ll dip into our completely free selves, our inner most expansive view – this is where a creative life, full of choices and the joy in having them arises from.

www.lamuseinn.com/muses for a look at the wonderful rooms.

www.lamuseinn.com for general information and a sample schedule for the retreat.

February 27-March 15: 200 hr. Teacher Training Retreat

La Muse Retreat, Southern France

Through the direct experience of the body as the home for the mind and heart- physically and energetically – we can arrive at a state of full well-being and self-knowledge. If you have been seeking a practice that is meditative, personal, compassionate and sane, we invite you to join us. Whether you are interested in teaching in a yoga studio, on meditation retreats, a hospital, school, nursing home or just delving more deeply into a meditation and yoga practice, this is for you.

What the 200 – Hour Training Offers:

Meditation:

You’ll graduate with an established and sustainable meditation practice. The practices you’ll learn are drawn from the Buddhist Vipassana and Tibetan traditions.

Yoga:

You’ll have a deep experiential wealth of knowledge about all of the foundational yoga postures: standing poses, inversions, hip openers, backbends, twists and balance postures. You will develop a personal practice that allows you to self prescribe depending on your needs.

Breath Techniques:

You’ll know why you breath where you do, and where you don’t. You’ll learn how to increase your capacity for breath and experience the interdependence of breath, mind and heart.

Visualization Techniques:

Visualizations become actualizations; harnessing the heart and mind to create wellness and deeper inquiry.

Inner and Outer Alignment:

Energetic and subtle alignment as well as physical, structural anatomy – how the two are inseparable. This includes practice with the Central Channel and subtle Bhandha’s : how to diagnose and prescribe poses that are useful for a variety of needs – physically, energetically and emotionally.

The Psychology of the Body:

Yoga and meditation as therapeutic interventions.

Verbal and Physical and Poetics of Teaching:

How to develop kind and direct language skills, the artful gestures of adjustments and creating metaphors to enhance the ability to meet people where they are.

Compassion Practices:

The development of compassion, and ways to contribute to your community through compassionate, skillful action.

Meditation and Yoga for Communities in Need:

Applying these traditions and techniques to work with specific populations. Teaching those with living with chronic pain and illness, PTSD and at – risk youth.

There are several workstudy scholarships available, please write: jill@vajrayoga.com for details.