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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 be skillfully and gently guided through each practice, with ongoing modifications, and 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.
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.
Yoga as an evolutionary tool
Even though evolution is the most clear tendency in the Universe, as with any other tendency, we can oppose it or flow with it. Yoga believes that evolution is optimized when we tap into the unity of all existing things. Antonio will speak about three key yogic elements for integrating:
- Mind - through reshaping the mind practicing Sankalpa or resolve and therefore determining change.
- Body - by practicing twists, this very special type of asana that mimic ‘torsions’, the most evolutionary movement type in the Universe (think DNA, Galaxies…, they all are based on a spiral movement) and breath.
- Spirit, through practicing the first step of the ancient meditation technique: Antar Mouna; Through these three techniques Yoga helps us take evolution in our hands by turning it a personal and conscious process!
Antonio Sausys (BA Psychology, MA Body-Oriented Psychotherapy) is a somatic health practitioner and yoga instructor specializing in one-on-one yoga therapy integrating mind, body and spirit to fully embrace the experience of life.
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Sacred Sound Meditation: Bodhi K. Setchko is a multi-talented shamanic
flute healer, songwriter, composer, recording artist, producer, teacher and professional band leader. He will perform a shamanic sound session for us Saturday night. www.shamanicflute.com
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. - EVENING LECTURE… with Sherri Baptiste and Antonio Sausys.
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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