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Title: From Garden to Plate: A Weekend Yoga Retreat with Vivekan
Location: Heathen Hill
Description: A blissful weekend of yoga and seasonal living. When not practicing invigorating and restorative yoga sessions with the seasoned yogi, we’ll be practicing yoga off-the-mat–eating mostly organic, seasonal meals derived locally, straight from the property!

It’s a wonderful opportunity to de-stress in the fresh country air, and immerse yourself in your yoga practice. Not to mention indulge in nourishing, nutritious and delicious seasonal cuisine! Yoga practitioners seek balance in the body. Eating local, seasonal foods helps guide us into greater harmony with the earth’s natural cycles; and therefore brings us healthy equilibrium.

Check out our blog re-cap from last year to learn more and browse pictures!

About Vivekan

Vivekan is the founder and director of Park Slope, Brooklyn’s Bodhisattva Yoga. He was certified under Jayadeva, a direct disciple of Swami Satchidananda. “I have been especially inspired by teachers from Tibet, China, India & the West: H.H., the Dalai Lama, the late Sifu Sheng Yen, the late Sermey Khensur Lobsang Tharchin Rinpoche, Khyongla Rato Rinpoche & the clear-thinking empiricist, Serge Ledan, MD. Vivekan’s exposure to eclectic yoga styles, along with his home practice, has led to his unique approach to instruction, which he terms as Inspired FlowsTM. “My Inspired FlowsTM differ from class to class - I never come in with a script; it is based on the premise that fun and effort are not mutually exclusive.”

Vivekan has been featured on MTV Brazil and Channel 9 News, and inside the pages of Time Out NY and The New York Times.

Prices:

Le Trailer Single: $525.00
Yoga House, Honeymoon, Campground Luxe: $435.00
Bring Your Own Everything: $350.00

Early Birds: Register by April 30 for a 15% discount!!!

Space is limited. To reserve your spot, please contact:
Jess Root
jessica@bodhisattvayoga.com
718.499.9642 (YOGA)

Start Date: June 30, 2010
End Date: August 1, 2010

Title: Keith and Katie “Bringin’ the Heat”
Location: Heathen Hill

Description:

Join Katie and Keith for a weekend of summertime yoga fun. What do you want to work on? What is confusing, unclear? What’s just so fun that you want to do it over and over again? Let us know, and that’s what we’ll teach. That’s right–we’ll be taking requests for this one, and we’ll have plenty of time to work and play! We’re looking forward to a weekend that hits all of the good stuff in asana — standing poses, backbends, forward bends, inversions, and restorative — as well as pranayama and meditation.

The food you’ll get will be grown right on the property. At breakfast, your dinner might still be growing. How’s that for local? Some of you know Lippy–she’ll be doing the cooking.

Here’s the Schedule:

Friday night: Yoga on the restorative side, followed by dinner.
Saturday: Breakfast, 3 hour yoga class, then lunch, time to yourself (hot tub? swimmin’ hole? play with the chickens?), and another 2 hour class. Dinner.
Sunday: 3 hour yoga class, Brunch, and we’re out!

About Keith and Katie

Katie Malachuk has been teaching with YogaWorks since 2005. She received her 200 and 300 hour yoga teacher certification through YogaWorks; as such she balances the movement of vinyasa with a focus on alignment and attention to the breath. She also includes yoga philosophy and seated meditation in every class. Katie received her BA from Harvard and MBA from Stanford, and she is a certified life coach and holistic health counselor. She is the author of two books on how to make the college and business school application processes into a journey of self-discovery, using yoga philosophy and life coaching. Visit  her website at www.katiemalachuk.com.

Keith Yzquierdo’s classes are alignment based. His teaching incorporates mindful movement, deliberate anatomical instructions, careful breath work, and deep concentration. Keith has a degree in mechanical engineering, has studied classical piano extensively, and is a ceramic artist. His teaching is influenced by the exactitude of his engineering past, as well as the fluidity of his music and art. He trained with YogaWorks in NYC under the guidance of Chrissy Carter. He currently studies with Carrie Owerko and Genny Kapuler. Visit his website at www.keithyzq.com.

Prices

Double:( all in) $345.00
Single: $425.00
Deluxe Camping: $345.00
Barebones Camping: $275.00

Start Date: August 6, 2010
End Date: August 8, 2010

Title: Being and Playing - Yoga at Heathen Hill
Location: Heathen Hill

Description:

Elizabeth and Kathy Wipff are excited to return to Heathen Hill for their 4th Almost- Annual Heathen Hill Retreat.
This year we will keep things simple: Yoga time will focus on the delight that brought us to the practice to begin with-a sense of play and wonder. The practice sessions will be wrapped around plenty of time to:
Spread your toes in the grass, turn cartwheels, sing songs, roast marshmallows, win at dominoes, talk to a new friend, swim, start a game of tag, get crafty, drink a glass of wine. Play!
Sit on the lawn, soak up the sun, float in the pond, listen to the frogs, knit a sweater , watch the chickens, walk through the labyrinth, stare at the sky, breath in and out, breath in and out again, take an extra savasana. Be!

See you there!

About Elizabeth and Kathy Wipff

Elizabeth Wipff and Kathy Wipff are mother and daughter who have been practicing and teaching together for many years. Kathy Brings her gentle mellow southern California vibe and Elizabeth balances it out with her focused no-nonsense New York approach. They both see yoga as ever evolving, contemporary and non-dogmatic. But mostly, they just think it’s fun!

“Come and Play with us!”

Prices

$395.00/Shared Double
$450.00/Single Room
$375.00/”Luxe” Camping
$350.00/Bare Bones Camping
Start Date: August 13, 2010
End Date: August 15, 2010

To reserve your spot please send $200.00 deposit ASAP.
For info: Elizabethwipff@yahoo.com

Title: The Kula Goes Wild! Anusara Yoga goes to Heathen Hill with Julie Dohrman
Location: Heathen Hill
Description: This long awaited weekend with Julie will feature 2 daily yoga classes, organic meals, and plenty of time to refresh yourself in the balance of nature. Retreats are a fantastic way to restore the body, mind and spirit, and build stronger bonds of friendship and kula. Heathen Hill is a full service yoga retreat center, yet offers a simple way of living for a perfect end-of-summer weekend getaway, with lodging, deluxe camping or do-it-yourself camping as well.

In between Julie’s uplifting Anusara classes, Heathen Hill will inspire you with so many options! You could swim, hike the paths, meditate in the labyrinth, hang out in the hot tub, walk the meadows barefoot, play badminton, read in a hammock, or at night simply sit by the campfire and look at the stars. Prices are all inclusive of lodging, meals, yoga, and all the R n’ R you can fit into this lush weekend away from daily life.

Bring a bathing suit, your own beach towel, free spirit, and desire to run wild in the meadows!

About Julie

Julie Dohrman is a certified Anusara® Yoga teacher and deeply playful student of yoga for 15+ years.
Her classes are spirited and progressive, and she weaves Anusara’s sophisticated system of alignment with stories, myth, and yogic teachings for a creative and smart approach to living as an urban yogi. Julie is one of the most sought after Anusara teachers in NYC known for her uplifting nature, and aims to inspire students of every level into their wildest potential for healing and transformation. She studies and apprentices regularly with Anusara founder John Friend, along with philosophy scholars Douglas Brooks, and Paul Muller-Ortega. You can often find Julie basking in the sun whenever it is out since she thinks she was a sunflower in a past life.

For more on Julie visit her website: www.shaktiyogany.com

Prices

Yoga House: $385.00 (double occupancy)
Deluxe Camping: $375.00 (BYO sleeping bag, pillow, blanket and towels)
Le Trailer Singles: $450.00 (limited number)
Bare Bones Camping: $285.00 (BYO tent, sleeping bag, etc)

Cost includes all meals, yoga,and lodging.
Transportation to Heathen Hill not included, but carpools will be arranged.
*Drivers get $30 off!*

Payment in Full reserves your spot.
Register with julie@shaktiyogany.com
Start Date: August 20, 2010
End Date: August 22, 2010

Title: Genny Kapuler Intermediate/Advanced - August 27-29
Location: Heathen Hill
Description:
More Info to come. Please Contact Heathen Hill

About Genny

Genny Kapuler has studied yoga since 1976 and has been teaching since 1980. She has studied three times in India with the Iyengar family. Her primary teacher here is Mary Dunn.

Before the birth of her child and before she began teaching yoga, Genny performed as a modern dancer; for many years she had her own company. She is also trained as an Alexander-technique teacher and is a practitioner of Body-Mind Centering.

In addition to her yoga training, Genny has studied anatomy extensively.

She applies this knowledge to her understanding and teaching of yoga, directing her students toward a deeper awareness in asana and pranayama through precision of alignment. Genny also uses the poetics of language to guide her students, and to create “a mind-state in the room that is gentle and focused.”

Through Iyengar Yoga, she says, students attain ever more precise alignment of the skeletal-muscular, organ, and nervous systems. Working towards harmony of body, mind, and spirit, they are able to move out into the world with more grace.

Prices:

Double pp: $445.00
Single: $525.00
Camping Luxe: $445.00
Bare bones camping: $375.00

We’ll start with a restorative practice on Friday at 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm followed by dinner.

DEPOSIT: Double $245.00; Single $325.00; Camping Luxe $245.00; and Bare bones Camping $175.00.
Checks to HEATHEN HILL YOGA

Start Date: August 27, 2010
End Date: August 29, 2010

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