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Weekend 1: November 5-7 with Special Guest Teacher: Dan Millman Weekend 2: November 12-14 with Special Guest Teacher: Gina Salá
Join Sherri Baptiste as she shares her wisdom and love of yoga with you.
During each one of these weekends Sherri Baptiste will skillfully guide you through a highly refined yoga practice and weekend retreat program. During each weekend yoga classes are included, in the Baptiste Method of Yoga. This system includes yoga postures, breath work and meditation offering world-class instruction. These weekends will offer you a wealth of techniques and tools for accessing and sustaining mental, emotional, and physical well being.
Sherri has been providing these Autumn Renewal Retreats since 1999 and has developed a fantastic weekend program for you. A yoga and fitness expert, Sherri 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. You will be encouraged to work at your own level of ability. Some yoga experience is recommended, with all levels of ability welcome. www.powerofyoga.com
Weekend 1: November 5–7
AWAKENING TO REALITY:The Truth That Sets Us Free
Special Guest Teacher:
Dan Millman, a former world-champion gymnast, martial arts instructor and college professor, is author of Way of the Peaceful Warrior (adapted to a feature film, and recently published graphic novel), and fourteen other books. His work has touched the lives of millions of readers in 29 languages. Dan speaks worldwide. His work has influenced men and women from all walks of life, including leaders in the fields of health, psychology, education, business, politics, sports, entertainment and the arts.
www.peacefulwarrior.com
AWAKENING TO REALITY:
The Truth That Sets Us Free
Dan shares radically-fresh perspectives on spiritual awakening and everyday life—a wake-up call for anyone seeking straight talk and real clarity. Through dialogue and direct experience, contemplation and partner dialogue, Dan will share topics that include:
• Surfing Reality’s Waves
• The Foundations of Spiritual Law
• How to Exert the Right Leverage
• A Shift That Changes Lives
Here is the foundation of the Peaceful Warrior’s Way —
living with a peaceful heart and a warrior’s spirit.
IN THE TRUE STYLE OF THE BAPTISTE TEACHINGS THIS RETREAT INCLUDES:
You'll need to arrive at 3pm on Friday for check in. Retreat program begins at 4pm sharp,
concluding after lunch on Sunday (approx. 2pm)
- 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. - YOGA POSTURES… taught by Sherri Baptiste for serenity, strength and beauty. You will be skillfully and gently guided through each practice, with ongoing modifications, and encouraged to work at your own level of ability.
- EVENING LECTURE… with Sherri Baptiste the power of meditation in many cultures and traditions, it’s practice and benefits.
- 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.
Don’t miss this opportunity with Sherri and her Special Guest Teachers
as they share this deeply spiritual
and energizing weekend with you.
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.
“Baptiste, as you would expect from her background,
is an excellent teacher. Her instructions and guidance
are both physically exact and spiritually uplifting.”
— Yoga Journal
Read what Yogi Times Magazine had to say:
‘A Retreat for the Soul’
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Weekend 2: November 12–14
POWER OF SANSKRITand BUDDHIST CHANTS
Special Guest Teacher:
Gina Salá is a vocalist, teacher, composer, chant leader and sound healer having performed at the UN sharing songs and sound healing techniques with a repertoire spanning 23 languages. She performs her global vocal repertoire focusing on the power of sound and was the lead singer for Cirque du Soleil’s “O”. Her mantra practice began over 3 decades ago as a child living in a hindu ashram. She has continued her studies with masters since 1992 also living in a monastery in Nepal and walking solo in the Himalayas. www.ginasala.com
POWER OF SANSKRIT AND BUDDHIST CHANTS:
Gina Salá will compassionately and passionately guide you deeply into the heart of chant. Exploring the meaning,
while practicing you’ll be introduced to Sanskrit and Tibetan Buddhist ‘Sound Practices’ awakening joy and inspiration from within.
This session is for the absolute beginner to the advanced chant masters. In this gentle, fun, workshop we explore cross-cultural singing/sounding techniques that will include:
• breath • tone • image resonance • improvisation
• mantra • mudra • rhythm tuning • joy-laughter • & more
Discover how our voices can bring great pleasure and peace
by bringing us fully into our bodies and this moment.
In this place, loving compassion arises.