 Join SHERRI BAPTISTE as she shares her wisdom and love of yoga with you.
Sherri has been providing world-class instruction at these Autumn Renewal Retreats since 1999 developing a fantastic weekend program for you. She will skillfully guide you through practices that offer profound life-changing principles of yoga, health and fitness for body mind and spirit, in a simple way that is accessible to everyone, from all walks of life. Some yoga experience is recommended, with all levels of ability welcome.
- Yoga Postures - Sherri Baptiste will skillfully and gently guide you through each practice, providing ongoing modifications. During practice you will be encouraged to work at your own level of ability.
- Breathwork - there are many benefits from this natural process, bringing peace of mind, strengthening the body’s immune system, slowing biologic aging processes, awakening regenerative energies, balancing the nervous system, and enhancing creative powers. Taught by Sherri Baptiste.
- Deep Relaxation and Meditation - join Sherri Baptiste for periods of silence and contemplation, orientation to Zen practice and morning meditation with Zen monks.
- Bring Alive - Great Ancient Wisdom Self Realization Techniques along with Contemporary Science for both practical and personal development. These practices /skills are here to help you achieve personal and professional excellence.
Sherri Baptiste ERYT 500 is an inspirational yoga teacher at the forefront of training in America. Her retreats and teacher training programs provide an empowering, peaceful oasis in a hurried world, a place where students can find within themselves the tools and knowledge to support and maintain a happier, healthier and more spiritual lifestyle.
www.PowerofYoga.com
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 Ingen Breen, Special Guest Teacher carries the lineage of Soto Zen Spiritual Teachings forward with clarity and integrity. Ingen Breen is a Soto Zen priest and teacher in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi having received ordination and dharma transmission (2000 and 2009)
from Zoketsu Norman Fischer.
- Power of Present Moment: We spend most of our lives looking for something, some magical power. Yet in doing so we separate ourselves from the greatest magic of all, the present moment. While there are meditation practices to develop Siddhis and supernormal powers Zen reminds us of the magic in the normal. As an old saying puts it “What are my magical powers? I chop wood and carry water.” The goal of practice is simply to be present, or to simply be. Zen and Yoga, through their many forms, clearly point us to the present moment and offer us practices to enter the present. The magic of the present moment is that in it the universe is whole.
- Practice Session: Zen and the Art of Being Present. This session will consist of instruction in zazen (sitting zen) and kinhin (walking meditation) as well as their practice. And we will explore through dialogue and practice some of the Zen forms in the context of being present and discover how Zen and Yoga can help us appreciate being ‘not two, not one’.
- Long Term Benefits:
Reduce Stress and Anxiety, Improved Clarity of Mind, Supportive in Reducing Depression, Better Sleep, Higher Self Confidence, Inner Trust, Spiritual Connection.
Ingen Breen, first met Sherri Baptiste at Tassajara Zen Center where they dynamically co-lead two Power of Yoga & Zen Retreats. Ingen has served as Shuso at Tassajara Zen Mountain Centre in 2002 with then Abbess Zenkei Blanche Hartman. Ingen has been practicing Buddhism for over 20 years and lived in community for about 14 yrs. He has led sesshin and retreats in England, Sweden, Italy, Ireland and California and is a member of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association of America. http://www.ingenji.info
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 Special Guest Musician: Sacred Sound Meditation
Shanti Shivani will be gracing us with a beautiful enlightening evening session, internationally acclaimed teacher, vocalist and sound healer Shanti Shivani will sing a North Indian classical raga (musical mode) in the ancient Dhrupad style to set up a sacred space that allows the listeners to let go of the chattering mind and rest in the heart where they can experience Oneness with the Divine. During the second half of the evening the listeners will be invited to participate in call-and-response chanting of sacred mantras from various traditions. Kirtan is the name for devotional chanting. Shanti Shivani is one of the few Western pioneers bringing the sacred traditions of Nada Yoga and Dhrupad, the most ancient style of Hindustani classical music, to the West.
http://www.shantishivani.com
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- ACCOMMODATIONS… in the octagonal Green Gulch guest house constructed with traditional Japanese joinery methods.
- MEALS… delicious natural food… vegetarian including dairy and eggs, ingredients mostly grown on the farm will be mindfully prepared by Zen Center residents.
- MORNING HIKES… Mt. Tamalpais is a source of re-creation in the most literal sense of health, clarity, stillness and beauty.
The forces of nature are powerfully magnetic in this private place and this experience in nature will be deeply spiritual.
- EVENING LECTURE… with Sherri Baptiste and Walter Hurd.
Don’t miss this opportunity with Sherri and her Special Guest Teachers
as they share this deeply spiritual and energizing weekend with you.
View pictures of past retreats.
 Seido Lee de Barros Zen Priest and Dharma teacher in Shunryu Suzuki lineage will open our weekends leading you through an informative Zendo instruction, Dharma talk and Meditation.
- You’ll learn how to enter the Zendo
- Sitting and Mindfulness Techniques
- Buddhist Zen Meditation Insights
Lee Serves the San Francisco Zen Center, Green Gulch Farm and Tassajara Mountain Zen Centers as Dharma Teacher, Spiritual Adviser, and works with homeless, prisoners and hospice. |
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 Retreat Assistant: Peg Malone has practiced yoga for over 20 years. Introduced to Sherri Baptiste at Green Gulch in 2001, Peg went on to become a certified Baptiste Yoga Teacher, Massage and Yoga Therapist. Assisting Sherri for a variety of Baptiste Inspired Retreats, including a dozen held at Green Gulch Zen Center, she steps into each event with joy of heart, giving her full attention to detail and her commitment to the Yoga of ‘Being of Service’.
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