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BREATHING TIME YOGA
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The Gift of Winter Solstice at Breathing Time Yoga
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The Gifts of the Winter Solstice:
A Quiet Day of Practice and Reflection
Do you find yourself overwhelmed by the hustle and bustle of December? Is it challenging to quiet down the noise and take time for yourself? Do you want to find the true gifts of the season and find the quiet, still place where the inner light is kindled and you can reflect on the year that is passing set an intention for the year to come?
Then come join us for a day long Winter Solstice Retreat on Sunday, December 19th. On that day, Breathing Time Yoga will become a special quiet sanctuary where you may enjoy specially designed yoga practices that will deeply relax you and connect you to your inner wisdom.
Here’s what we have planned for you:
- 6:30am - 8:30am Aggie Stewart will guide you through yoga practice that prepares you for quiet reflection and meditation. The fully integrated practice will include poses, breathing techniques, sound, and guided meditation.
- 8:30am - 10:30am Quiet time with optional activities.
During this time, the studio will be a space for quiet reflection and relaxation. You may choose to meditate, read, journal, draw, enjoy some freshly brewed herbal decaf chai, or even take a nap. We also have two special optional activities set up for this time: - Walk the labyrinth. Cris McCullough wil created a labyrinth for us to walk in meditative silence and reflection -- walking in toward the center and our inner truth, and then walking out from the center back into our outer reality.
- Acupuncture. Cris Monteiro of Providence Community Acupuncture will be offering treatments to induce deep relaxation in Studio B. You will be able to rest in a restorative yoga pose, or in a lounge chair for your treatment, and you’ll be able to stay there as long as you like during this 8:30 -10:30 session
- 10:30am - 11:30am Karen Lee will lead you in Yoga Nidra (the yogic sleep) that will deeply relax, and help to quiet the narrative driven mind, awakening the inner witness and experiencing spacious timeless being.
- 11:30am - 11:45am Karen will continue the Yoga Nidra into waking mindfulness, emerging from our rest with slow conscious movements to prepare us for a mindful meal together.
- 11:45am - 1:00pm Mindfully eating and enjoying fresh vegetarian food and mindfully cleaning up. If time and weather allows we will enjoy a meditative walk in the fresh air to stimulate healthy digestion.
- 1:00pm - 2:30pm Quiet Time with optional activities (see morning description)
- 2:30pm - 3:30pm Karen Lee will lead you in a yoga nidra to explore your inner landscape, encountering and welcoming the darkness within as a messenger that is pointing us to our true nature. During this experience, inner blocks may be transformed as we come to understand our true nature more deeply.
- 3:30pm - 5:00pm Aggie Stewart will lead an Evening Yoga Practice to help crystalize the knowing that has come to us during our retreat to set intention for our lives going forward from this time and affirm our essential nature.
- 5:00pm - 6:00pm Quiet reflection time and departure
We encourage you to participate in the full day, but if you are welcome to attend as much as you are able.
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Register Now
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Sunday, December 19, 2010
Schedule of Events
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6:30am - 8:30am Morning Yoga
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8:30am - 10:30am Quiet time with optional activities
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10:30am - 11:30am Yoga Nidra
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11:30am - 11:45am Waking mindfulness
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11:45am - 1:00pm Vegetarian lunch
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1:00pm - 1:30pm Quiet time with optional activities
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2:30pm - 3:30pm Yoga Nidra
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3:30pm - 5:00pm Evening Yoga
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5:00pm - 6:00pm Reflection
Pricing
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Day long retreat $108
Registration required by December 17 for those who wish to participate in lunch
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Early rate (by December 11) $98
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Donate $10 worth of non-perishable food and receive $10 off
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Add $10 per acupuncture treatment
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Karen Lee
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RYT-500, MAT, Yoga TherapistAs director of Breathing Time Yoga, Karen is dedicated to creating a space for holistic healing through yoga, movement, and meditation. Karen is an educator, teaching the students what they need to know to practice and how to match the practices to their unique needs and interests.
Karen has been studying Viniyoga since 1994. She has studied extensively with Gary Kraftsow of the American Viniyoga Institute (AVI), and is an AVI Yoga Teacher (500-hr) and AVI Certified Yoga Therapist. Karen also holds a Master of Arts in Teaching from RISD.
Karen is a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, where you may view a full
profile
of her experience, training, philosophy and publications.
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Aggie Stewart, RYT 500
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RYT-500, Certified Yoga Therapist
Aggie Stewart, MA, is a certified yoga teacher at the 500-hour level and a certified yoga therapist. She trained as both a yoga teacher and a yoga therapist with Gary Kraftsow, founder and director of the American Viniyoga Institute (AVI). A member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT), Aggie has presented on her yoga therapy work with people who have rheumatoid arthritis at IAYT’s Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research and is preparing a paper on that work for publication in International Journal of Yoga Therapy, an annual, peer reviewed journal of scholarly and research-based articles related to yoga therapy. She has a particular interest in yoga therapy’s efficacy for addressing the effects of trauma and a wide range of auto-immune conditions. She teaches Back Care Basics (a 2part series), Tension Tamer, and Lighten Your Mood at Breathing Time Yoga.A professional writer and editor as well as a yoga therapist, Aggie incorporates art and creativity into all levels of her work with clients. In 2012, she joins AVI as faculty in training for its professional training programs.
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