Upcoming Retreats Worldwide:

     
     

Retreat at Omega institute, Rhinebeck NY


22 -  27 Aug 2010   


"Advanced Yoga for Everyone: Developing a personal practice"

According to the great “teacher of our teachers” T. Krishnamacharya, yoga must be adapted to the individual, not the individual adapted to the style of yoga. For your yoga practice to be most fruitful, it must be in harmony with your body type, age, health, and even cultural background.
You learn to design your own personal yoga practice. No matter what style of yoga you are currently practicing, you can incorporate the insights gleaned from the development of a personal practice and make your yoga more efficient, powerful, and safe.

You also learn to integrate breath, asana, and bandha as a seamless process to produce a powerful practice that is right for you. As you deepen into your personal yoga practice, you discover more completely that yoga is your direct connection with reality, which is an entirely abundant, regenerating, and nurturing power. Everyone, from beginners to experienced practitioners, is invited to attend.

 

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Workshop at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California


Sept 3 - 5, 2010 

 


"The Yoga of Regeneration"

Experience a nurturing, regenerative power of yoga in natural, restorative athmosphere.

When you make a promise to practice yoga, yoga will meet you at every level, offering healing solutions to your unique needs. During this workshop you will learn an authentic yoga practice that takes you into account. It is a real yoga for real people. By the end, you will have a practical yoga designed personally for you, with your health, age, and lifestyle fully considered. The gifts of this yoga can benefit all aspects of your daily life—health, intimacy, wellbeing, and joy.

This workshop is suitable for everyone: longtime or beginning students of yoga.

 

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Course at Esalen Institute,
Big Sur, California


Sept 5 - 10, 2010

 


"Advanced Yoga for perfect Beginners"

According to yoga master Krishnamacharya, yoga was not meant to be a struggle to attain some future goal, but a direct participation in the nurturing force of life.

This course is designed to provide advanced yoga understanding and practice for those new to yoga. The program will also be helpful for yoga students of any level who wish to understand the principles of Krishnamacharya, "the teacher of our teachers." Participants will study how to apply these principles to the yoga they already know and love in order to make it efficient, powerful, and safe. Emphasis will be given to developing a personalized practice, which you can take away with you and continue to effectively practice for, in Krishnamacharya's words, "peace and power in your daily life.

 

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Course at Kripalu centre, Berkshires, Massachusets


17 - 19 Sept 2010

 

 

"The Promise: Advanced Yoga for EveryOne"

Yoga is not a linear process; it is direct intimacy with life, and it is available to everyone. This weekend, Mark Whitwell offers yoga’s advanced practices in a way that you will be able to integrate and make your own, whether you are just beginning to practice or have years of experience.

This weekend involves an interwoven promise. You promise to practice yoga, and in return you receive the promise of yoga’s gifts, including health, intimacy, well-being, and joy. In order to experience these benefits, your yoga practice must be adapted to you, not you to yoga. With Mark’s skillful and heartful guidance, you will

- Explore the five principles of advanced personal practice
- Dive into asana, pranayama, and meditation as a seamless process
- Discover how yoga transforms life into an intimate celebration with everything
- Experience the nurturing principle as a constant in your life from now on
- Return home with understanding and the embodied felt sense of your own joyful practice.

This program is a juicy and joyful event that will continue to reverberate through your daily life in very practical ways.
 
For all levels; no prior yoga experience needed.

 

 

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Retreat at At Kripalu centre, Berkshires, Massachusets

 

19 - 24 Sept 2010

 

"The Yoga of Regeneration"

Yoga is every person’s direct intimacy with reality, an entirely abundant, regenerating, and nurturing power. This is yoga from the heart, for the heart, and it promises health, intimacy, well-being, and joy. Mark offers real yoga for real people, and a nurturing, regenerative experience of practice in Kripalu’s restorative environment.

During this 5-day retreat, you will:

Explore asana practice deeply, including appropriate inversions, twists, and forward bends designed exactly for you
Experience the quality of breath and bandha as a seamless process that restores strength and nurturance to your life
Explore vinyasa krama, or appropriate sequencing
Discover the essential principle of receiving strength in yoga and life
Return home with the joy of unparalleled understanding and embodied yoga in your daily life.

Mark says: 'When you make a promise to practice yoga, yoga will meet you at every level, offering healing solutions to your unique needs. During this workshop you will learn an authentic yoga practice that takes you into account. It is a real yoga for real people. By the end, you will have a practical yoga designed personally for you, with your health, age, and lifestyle fully considered. The gifts of this yoga can benefit all aspects of your daily life—health, intimacy, wellbeing, and joy."

This retreat is suitable for everyone: longtime or beginning students of yoga.

 

 

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Retreat in Garden Island Resort, Taveuni, Fiji


November 1st to 7th 


NEW : With guest teacher Mark Breadner


Mark Breadner has studied, practiced and loved yoga his whole life. He was born into yoga - his mother and uncle were both yoga teachers. Mark’s goal is to take yoga back to it’s original purpose; to assist people toward their highest potential. This passion has lead Mark to immerse himself in the practice and study of all things spiritual, and having been fortunate enough to be close to many great teachers he understood that the common thread of their teachings is to open the heart and live an authentic life.
Mark's own learning and personal growth comes through life experience and from working in somatic psychotherapy, corrective exercise therapy, as a child life specialist for Operation Smile in developing countries and as a yoga teacher and trainer for over 20 years. This deep and extensive experience and knowledge has placed him in high demand as the yoga coach of elite sportspeople, training bodies and minds in preparation for the highest level of competition. Mark has worked behind the scenes with great teams to support the potential in inspiring athletes such as Ian Thorpe, Craig Stevens, Mick Fanning and Phil McDonald.
Mark’s knowledge and experience of both the technical and spiritual aspects of yoga has led him to the top of his chosen field, yoga education. He is recognized as the "real deal", using his grounded, down-to-earth approach to take ancient knowledge to the everyday. He teaches from the heart and these teachings are life-changing. Mark takes yoga people to a totally new level in their understanding and application of yoga.
Mark Breadner and Mark Whitwell are long term friends from over 20 years ago and share a history of working and teaching together. Their in-depth understanding of Yoga, its origins, and as a part of our daily lives, combined with different backgrounds and expertise, compliment each other in a harmonious way.
 

Prices:


All-inclusive of transfers, accommodation, meals, twice daily Yoga practice and lesson / discussion with Mark Whittwell and Mark Breadner. Flights not included. Price on bases of two people sharing a double /twin room

 
 

Ocean View Room   2,175 p/p
     

Ocean Front Spa room

   2,450.00 p/p
     
Single Supplement   US $200.00
     

 
 

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Teacher Training Course


November 9th to 22nd

 

Heart of Yoga teacher Training will give You:

 

Opportunity to explore deeply the practice of asana, including appropriate inversions, twist, forward bends designed exactly for you and your students.


Certainty to know the quality of breath and bandha as a seemless process in asana and pranayama that restores the strength and nurturing in life.

 

Explore vinyasa krama, appropriate sequencing.

 

Reveal the essential principle of strength receiving in yoga and life

 

Realize the practice and process of nurturing, regeneration and abundance as a constant.

 

 

Accommodation at Garden Island Resort


Double / Twin Room      US $ 4,500.00
Single supplement         US $ 400.00

  

Prices are per person and include transfers, accommodation, meals, Yoga teacher training program with Mark Whitwell. Flights not included.

 

 

Accommodation at Heart of Yoga Shala Cottages

 

Double / Twin Room   US $ 4,100.00
Single supplement   US $ 400.00

 

Prices are per person and include transfers, accommodation, daily lunch, Yoga teacher training program with Mark Whittwell. Flights not included.

 

 

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Retreat at Daku Resort in Savusavu, Fiji


11- 18th December 2010


Price:

Double / Twin Room AU $ 1,980.00
Single supplement    AU $ 300.00

 

Inclusive of: Domestic flights from Nadi to Savusavu return, transfers from Savusavu airport, accommodation and meals at Daku resort, twice daily yoga with Mark Whitwell, one massage, excursions as listed in the program.


Not included: International flights to Fiji, travel insurance, items of a personal nature eg laundry, bar bills, extra massages, scuba diving.
 

Program:

Mark Whitwell teaches a daily morning class (talk and practice) of 2 hours and an afternoon workshop of 2 hours. There is programme of local excursions to see Fijian culture, enjoy the fabulous marine life and just relax and have a massage or read a book by the pool. The course will be restricted to a maximum of 15 participants.

 

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