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Movement Meets Mindfulness: Intermediate Yoga at Montreat

Program No. 24011RJ

Deepen your practice by connecting mind, body and spirit during lectures and classes with the introduction of mindfulness and meditation techniques from expert instructors.

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6 days

5 nights

15 meals

5B 5L 5D

Check-In, Registration, Welcome Dinner, Orientation

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Linking Body Mind and Breath, Walk around Montreat

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Concept of “prana” and the “chakras," Hike or Nature Walk

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“Mudras”...a point of inner stillness and calm, free aft/eve

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Building on the deeper practices. "Marga,"

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final session together, lunch and departures

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At a Glance

Link breath, movement and mindfulness with Road Scholar during a week of limber learning as your understanding of yoga and how it can vitalize your daily life grows. Expert instructors will help connect a base knowledge of postures and breathing to mindfulness and meditation techniques during this yoga program for intermediate students. Each day will include a morning and afternoon yoga practice for strengthening, healing and relaxation, as well as lecture time to address yogic concepts. Join expert yoga instructors and other intermediate students as you integrate an understanding of yoga history, mindfulness and meditation into your practice.

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Designed for intermediate yoga enthusiasts, those that have a moderate amount of yoga experience.

Small Group

Love to learn and explore in a small-group setting? These adventures offer small, personal experiences with groups of 13 to 24 participants.

Best of all, you’ll…

Connect mind and movement as instructors help you introduce mindfulness, meditation and awareness of your energy centers into your yoga discipline.
Develop your understanding of yogic principles and concepts with expert yoga instructors in the classroom, then put what you’ve learned into your practice.
Learn how improving core strength supports overall mental and physical health, prevents injuries and helps you get better sleep.

General Notes

The Retreat Difference: This unique, often basic and no-frills experience at a Road Scholar Retreat includes opportunities for early morning exercise, interaction with the local community for insight into local life, an authentic farm-to-table or locally sourced meal, a live performance or event, and a value-priced single room. Opportunities are available for traveling companions to attend a different program at Montreat during the same week. Due to the nature of this program, listening devices are not available. For an easier yoga experience, check out "Yoga for Wellness and Daily Living: The 8 Limbs of Yoga" (#22381).

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Martha Nelson

Martha Nelson has been teaching yoga in the mountains of Western North Carolina since 2009. In addition to teaching yoga to Road Scholars at Montreat for more than 10 years, she teaches privately, at the local YMCA, for conferences and retreats, as well as in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Her interest in Eastern culture and philosophy began as a teen. She pursued these studies finishing a bachelor’s degree in intercultural studies at WWC which included a semester shared between Sri Lanka and India.

Please note: This expert may not be available for every date of this program.

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Tracy Bailey View biography

Tracy has been on the program staff of Montreat Conference Center since 1986. She began working with Elderhostel programs in 1989, and in 1997 assumed the additional role of on-site coordinator. A native of the area, she graduated from Asheville-Buncombe Technical College in 1981. Her favorite hobbies are hiking, pottery and reading. Tracy married Sam in 2007, and added three daughters to her family. In addition to her own grown children, she and Sam have been foster parents since 2010. They have four grandchildren.

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Movement Meets Mindfulness: Intermediate Yoga at Montreat

Program Number: 24011

Yoga For Wellness: Healing with the timeless teachings of yoga

by Gary Kraftsow

Mainstream America is finally catching on to what Eastern countries have known for thousands of years--that yoga is not only a great, low-impact way to increase flexibility and reduce stress, it is also useful in healing any number of afflictions, from common aches and pains to chronic diseases and emotional setbacks. In this easy to follow guide for practitioners at all levels, America's leading teacher of Viniyoga emphasizes the physical as well as the spiritual components of healing through yoga. Beginning with a general introduction, he then includes case studies and specific yoga sequences designed to address individual ailments. Best of all, each step of each posture in a sequence is clearly illustrated with its own photograph. The exercises in this book are truly transformative and certain to help those searching for alternatives to mainstream medicine and those looking for a way of becoming more involved in their own physical well-being.

The Heart of Yoga: Developing a personal practice

by T.K.V. Desikachar

The first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to viniyoga--yoga adapted to the needs of the individual. • A contemporary classic by a world-renowned teacher. • This new edition adds thirty-two poems by Krishnamacharya that capture the essence of his teachings. Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who lived to be over 100 years old, was one of the greatest yogis of the modern era. Elements of Krishnamacharya's teaching have become well known around the world through the work of B. K. S. Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, and Indra Devi, who all studied with Krishnamacharya. Krishnamacharya's son T. K. V. Desikachar lived and studied with his father all his life and now teaches the full spectrum of Krishnamacharya's yoga. Desikachar has based his method on Krishnamacharya's fundamental concept of viniyoga, which maintains that practices must be continually adapted to the individual's changing needs to achieve the maximum therapeutic value. In The Heart of Yoga Desikachar offers a distillation of his father's system as well as his own practical approach, which he describes as "a program for the spine at every level--physical, mental, and spiritual." This is the first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to the age-old principles of yoga. Desikachar discusses all the elements of yoga--poses and counterposes, conscious breathing, meditation, and philosophy--and shows how the yoga student may develop a practice tailored to his or her current state of health, age, occupation, and lifestyle.

The Inner Tradition of Yoga: A guide to yoga philosophy for the contemporary practitioner

by Michael Stone

There is more to the tradition of yoga than toning and strengthening. At the root, there is a vast and intriguing philosophy that teaches the ethics of nonviolence, patience, honesty, and respect. Michael Stone provides an in-depth explanation of ancient Indian yogic philosophy along with teachings on how to bring our understanding of yoga theory to deeper levels through our practice on the mat—and through our relationships with others.

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