Yoga Retreat

Yoga and the Importance of Healthy Living

May 23 - 30, 2009 - with Lorraine Taylor
March 7 - 14, 2009 - with Sara Granstrom and Lorraine Taylor

About the Retreat

This retreat focuses on food and healthy living. By making simple changes to our diet, we will discover how this can dramatically improve our digestion and energy levels. We will look at what the yogic tradition says about food and how this can support our practice and our health.

According to ayurveda, the classical Indian health system, food is meditation. By exploring that idea and the system itself, we will discuss and reflect on how to develop supportive eating habits.

Mornings offer breath work and Mysore-style Ashtanga practice. Afternoon lectures are combined with soothing restorative yoga classes and lots of time for questions. In the evenings we will have kirtan, tratak, mantra, meditation, and movies. Throughout the retreat, there promises to be lots of 'food for thought,' and a practical healthy-cooking class or two ensures that you keep up the good work when you get home!

About the Teachers

Sara completed her Centered Yoga Training in June 2005. She is a dedicated and focused student of yoga, which is evident in her teaching and sharing of the practices. Sara has studied both Pranayama and Asana intensively and is a senior graduate of Centered Yoga Institute. She teaches yoga regularly in Stockholm, Sweden, and is developing her own center on Gotland, Sweden. In addition, Sara is a student of and practitioner of ayurveda and nutrition. Sara spends about four months a year teaching at Yoga Thailand. For more please see her full bio.

Lorraine teaches full time at Yoga Thailand, and is a long term practitioner of yoga in many forms, including Ashtanga yoga. She is dedicated to the study and practice of Pranayama and Asana, and is a resident of Samui, with her husband and young son. She recently owned and ran the Yoga Café here on Koh Samui, and has many other wide and varied experiences. She brings a light sense of humor into her teaching. (Must be a result of that Liverpool, come Irish, background.) For more please see her full bio.

The Daily Schedule

The schedule is subject to change at the discretion of the teacher.

 

7:00 am	Morning herbal tea
7:30 am	Intention and Day Opening Breathwork-Pranayama and Meditation
8:15 am	Asana Practice: detailed guidance in the Asanas, develop and grow a self-practice from the Ashtanga Yoga series going through in led detail and mysore style
10 - 11:30 am	Brunch Buffet
4:00 pm	Special workshop covering both Asanas and Pranayama as well as the selected philosophical or anatomical topic. There will be some discussion and Q&A and some time working on the breath, poses and restorative yoga
6:00 pm	Dinner Buffet
6 - 9:00 pm	Steam room available
7:30 pm	Evening program - video, satsang, meditation

* Special group excursion during the week to some of the natural wonders of Koh Samui or its neighboring islands.

All our rooms have direct sea view with their own private balcony and bathroom.

The rate is inclusive of:

• Full yoga program
• Fully equipped accommodation with AC
• Full brunch and dinner buffets
• Mineral drinking water
• Herbal steam room
• Salt water swimming pool
• Wi Fi internet
• Service charge
• VAT government tax