Weekend of August 13-15, 2010

Rasa Vinyasa: The Art of Living Yoga

This retreat is dedicated to cultivating rasa through an integration of Prana Flow™ yoga, ayurveda, and yogic art as a natural way of bringing balance and sensuous communion to life.

"Rasa has many beautiful meanings," writes Shiva Rea. "In the arts, rasa is the transforming 'taste' that brings inner satisfaction to the beauty of dance, music, or painting. Within yoga and Ayurveda, rasa is the 'inner juice' associated with longevity, joy, devotion, and flexibility. Without rasa, it is said, our experience of yoga and life becomes dry, rigid, and routine. Rasa is part of what restores our essence and enhances our moment-to-moment satisfaction in being fully alive.

"We will explore a living environment for cultivating rasa that can be integrated into one’s life and practice of yoga back home. We will establish a natural rhythm of morning and evening meditation, afternoon freedom for personal rejuvenation, ayurvedic self-care including self-massage (abhyanga) and restorative herbal teas (rasayanas), food sadhana (eating in balance with your constitution and honoring the digestive fires) and micro-meditations for tasting life moment to moment.

"In Prana Flow yoga, the breath and flowing sequence of asanas becomes the river in which to awaken our full potential. The longer morning sessions will explore rasa vinyasa. These are full-participation sessions that satisfy our love of challenge and adventure that will complement the longer evening sessions of philosophy, poetry, yoga trance dance and meditation for shanti rasa (living peace)." Please bring a yoga mat.

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