Special Program

Yoga Retreat with Ashtanga yoga, music and chanting

March 8 - 15, 2008

With Ron Reid & Meenakshi of Downward Dog Yoga Centre, Toronto

About the Retreat

Yoga Thailand is pleased to host our friends from Toronto. Ron and Meenakshi have a great reputation amongst their students in Canada. They combine their talent with the gift of music and fun during the week with us.

About Ron & Meenakshi

RON REID

Ron Reid has been practicing Yoga for 30 years and teaching since 1988.

He is co-owner and director of the Downward Dog Yoga Centre in Toronto, Canada. He has practiced and studied the ashtanga system extensively,and has studied with Sri K. Pattabhi in both India and in North America.

He teaches Ashtanga and vinyasa yoga in a variety of settings (workshops, teacher training, improv and other exploratory classes), as well as pranayama, and yoga lab workshops across Canada, the U.S. the UK and Europe.

Ron is one of Canadas top teachers, approaching teaching in an inspired, informed and non-dogmatic way. He places the needs of the students ahead of the demands of the practice.He endeavors to blend tradition with innovation, and to balance precision with grace. Students will find his refined approach to practice both challenging and rewarding.

MARLA MEENAKSHI JOY

Meenakshi (Marla Joy) first traveled to India in 1988 to study meditation and the philosophy of the Vedas with Swami Shyam, as well as other learned scholars in the Himalayas. She is a Certified Meditation and Yoga Philosophy teacher from the International Meditation Institute in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, Himalayas.

She currently teaches Ashtanga Yoga, Restorative Yoga, Yogadance, Meditation, Yoga philosophy, Sanskrit, and Chanting privately and in yoga studios in Canada, the U.S. the UK and Europe. She has been teaching Sanskrit and yoga philosophy in Teacher Training courses since 2000. She has been a practicing Shiatsu Therapist since 1993, and has a healing and informative touch. She also leads Kirtan (call-and-response chanting) with her band SWAHA, with inspired musical compositions with her partner/keyboardist, Ron Reid. She has produced two CD's of Sanskrit chanting ("Prayers" and "Salutations") which are widely available.

Meenakshi and Ron have currently released their new CD "Vishnu's Dream"...music for yoga, trance dance and trance-formation, and they have more CD's to come for chanting, meditation and relaxation....stay tuned!

For more on Ron and Meenaskhi, visit www.swaha.ca and www.downwarddog.com

The Daily Schedule

7:30 am	Mysore style practice
9:30 - 10:30 am	breakfast buffet
1 - 2 pm	lunch buffet
4 - 6 pm	See the week of retreat below
6:30 - 7:30 pm	dinner buffet
7:30 - 8:30 pm	evening program
8:30 - 9 pm	meditation/ quiet time

In Your Retreat Week:

Day 1: Mysore in a.m/ Pranayama and meditation in p.m.
Day 2: Mysore in a.m./ Philosophy and Chanting in p.m.
Day 3: Mysore in a.m./ Yoga Lab (technique class) in p.m,
Day 4: Mysore in a.m./ Restorative and Meditation in p.m.
Day 5: Yoga Jam class in a.m./ Yoga Lab (technique class) in p.m.
Day 6: Mysore in a.m./ Yoga Lounge vinyasa class in p.m.
Day 7: Mysore in a.m./ Restorative and Meditation in p.m.

The rate is inclusive of: