Retreats & Events
Shakti Rising Winter Celebration
Women's Yoga and Tantra Retreat for Healing, Empowerment and Positive
Connections
At Hawkwood College, Stroud, Gloucestershire
4.30pm Friday
12 - 4pm Sunday 14 February 2009
So many wonderful yoga sessions to choose! Here, hot from the oven, is the provisional programme for Shakti Rising Women's yoga retreat in February (pdf).
It includes Dawn Light Meditations in the Woodland Meditation Space, Hatha yoga sessions to enliven and energise at every stage of women's lives, Yoga Dance sessions in the main hall at Hawkwood, Woodland walks in beautiful Cotswold Hills, uplifting music and song, and more!
All served up with warm Cotswold hospitality and gorgeous meals in sparkling company. Take a look at the timetable, and treat yourself (and your sister, mother, best friend, daughter, favourite students!) to a place. We are looking forward to seeing you there.
If you would like to chat
about the event, please call Uma on 07595 322 779.
We will be honouring and affirming the feminine energy through yoga, dance, chanting, story telling, positive connection networking, meditation and relaxation. The programme includes morning hatha yoga and meditation, mudras and mantras for lunar practice, restorative yoga, yoga nidra, vegetarian food, chanting, dancing and gorgeous country walks in the Cotswold hills. There will be vibrant goddess yantras for tratak, and mantras and poems in praise of the divine feminine spirit.
An irrestible and inspiring array of yoga workshops on offer with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and colleagues from yoga and ayurveda: including sessions on mantra, mudra, asana, pranayama, mudra, bandha, tratak. Also puja, arati and kirtan (devotional singing). Yoga therapy and ayurvedic healing for the cycle of woman's life: from menarche to menopause and beyond. Also one to one sessions of healing therapies (reflexology, Shiatsu, Thai yoga massage and Ayurvedic therapies) available.
There is a bubbling spring with beautiful healing waters in the lovely grounds of Hawkwood College, splendid Cotswold views, cosy accommodation with roaring fires, plenty of delicious vegetarian food (all dietry needs happily accommodated at breakfast, lunch, supper and two breaks - morning teas and snacks, and afternoon tea) and friendly staff to take care of all our needs, two lovely light practice studios and and a woodland meditation space.
We celebrate together the stages of a woman’s life cycle – from girlhood through menstruation, fertility, infertility, pregnancy, post-natal phase, menopause, wisdom-phase – all with yoga.
Provisional programme includes: Friday evening: Welcome, deep relaxation and orientating your yoga practice with insights from ayurveda and tantra. Saturday: from dawn til 10pm, a choice of seven yoga, tantra, dance, movement and healing workshops around the issues of coming into womanhood, menstrual cycles, fertility, pregnancy, mothering with rituals and yoga. Sunday: from dawn til 4pm , a choice of six yoga, tantra, dance, movement and healing workshops to support postnatal recovery, mothering, peri-menopause yoga and yoga for the great change, the movement towards our wisdom years.
Costs
Residential :
The full stay: Friday afternoon - Sunday afternoon:
£289
full price for room shared with one other person
£260 early bird
booking price (before 31 October) full stay (sharing)
£320 full
price for single room
£300 early bird booking price full(before
31 October) stay(single room)
Sisterly bargains:
for women booking more than one place at a time: £270
each full price if you are coming with your mother/grandmother, sister/daughter/niece/best
friend or yoga sister and you share a room together.
Non-residential rates:
£190 Friday afternoon - Sunday afternoon
including suppers Friday and Saturday
£50 per day (Saturday and
Sunday) not including suppers
£15 Friday evening women's yoga sessions
7.30 - 9.30pm
Pregnant women welcome. Babes in arms welcome. No extra charge for babies.
Price should not be a barrier to attendance, please email Uma to discuss concessionary rates and skills/energy exchange options.
BOOKING:
You can pay for the retreat by paypal (this is our preferrred way of payment: any credt or debit card is accepted, no need to have a paypal account), or if this is not possible, then by sending a cheque made out to Uma Dinsmore-Tuli for the amount appropriate to your type of booking.
Please enclose with the cheque your contact details, including
email. Send to Shakti Rising 2010, Tanglewood, Gunhouse Lane, Bowbridge,
Stroud, GL52DB. Thank you.
RESIDENTIAL RATES
EARLY BIRD BOOKING OPTION:
Book before 21 December for a special low-cost price:
£260 for fully residential place, sharing with one other woman.
Shakti Rising 2010 Residential Full stay, full price for room shared
with
one other: £289
Shakti Rising 2010 Residential Full stay, full price for single room: £320
Shakti Rising 2010 Residential Full stay, Sisterly bargain for women
booking more than one place at a time: £270 each full price
Non-residential rates:
Shakti Rising 2010 Non-residential Friday afternoon - Sunday afternoon
£190 (including suppers Friday and Saturday)
Shakti Rising 2010 Non-residential day rate: Saturday or Sunday not
including suppers: £50 per day
Shakti Rising 2010 Non-residential: Friday evening session only 7.30
-
9.30pm: £15
For any questions or further details please email yoga@sitaram.org
Photos from previous years' Shakti Rising
Baby Eric leads the morning hatha class
A gorgeous campfire and singing was part of the programme
Yoga for the great change with Wendy and the giant balls
Chanting in the yurt with Uma
