Bamboo YogaPlay Studio and Facilities Available for Your Retreat

Host Your Own Retreat or Teacher Training in Paradise!

Contact us at retreats@bambooyogaplay.com and we can help you set up the perfect package to suit your needs.

 

Hoopnotica Teacher Training

Thanksgiving Hoop and Surf Retreat

Saturday, November 19, 2011 – Saturday, November 26, 2011
Set sail in your hoop, on your surf board, on the waves of gratitude you feel for life….Meet hoop enthusiasts like yourself, learn new skills (surfing, hoop duck outs, hooping with minis), become an exceptional hoop instructor, sculpt your waist line and elevate your heart….Eat healthy and fresh foods, write in your journal, hoop jam all night, catch waves in the a.m….

This is your dream come true learning and living retreat.  An all levels experience that combines our internationally acclaimed teacher training (Levels 1 – 4!), with optional hoop programming in business development and interdisciplinary hoop education, PLUS surfing, massage and relaxation on the beach as you please!
Join Hoopnotica Master Trainers and Visionaries in Paradise for a week of inspiration, community and leadership!

Contact Jocelyn Gordon, Director of Teacher Training for more details:  jocelyn@hoopnotica.com
www.hoopnotica.com

 

Wild Wise Women Embracing Earth

 A Journey Back to Self

with Cheri Shanti, Sofiah Thom and Guest Teacher Sarah Wu of Punta Mona

February 3-11 2012

At Bamboo YogaPlay and Selva Armonia

Please join us in Costa Rica for another magical journey diving deep into the wisdom of your body and our Earth. 
After a successful Wild Woman Retreat in 2011, we are inspired to bring forth another circle of incredible women to play, express, and journey as we reconnect with the wisdom of our Earth and the wisdom of our beautiful moving bodies.

Cheri Shanti's Wild Wise Muse Series is designed to bring women into their most authentic essence through time spent with other women in nature. With a strong foundation in Creative Expression, this series also offers women solid tools and practical skills to enhance and empower their lives. www.cherishanti.com

Sofiah Thom creates experiences for women to connect to their grace, power, strength and authentic expression through embodiment practices such as Danyasa, her Yoga Dance Fusion and Expressive Healing Arts. Her biggest passion lies in inspiring others to live their potential, living artfully.

Sarah Wu is an avid naturalist, environmentalist, ethnobotanist, artist and Gaia theorist with a deep understanding of the complexities of sustainable living, transitional ethics and positive movement towards a more sustainable and evolved future.

Includes:

•   Daily Danyasa Yoga and Meditation
•   Drumming, Ecstatic Dance & Muse Ceremonies
•   Waterfall Hikes & Beach Time
•   Workshops on Permaculture, Earth Medicine, and Expressive Arts
•   Amazing Fresh Organic Meals
•   Shuttle from San Jose Airport to Bamboo YogaPlay (BYP)
•   Private or shared accommodation at local Resort walking distance from BYP
•   Breakfast at hotel, vegetarian lunch and first 3 dinners at Natural food restaurant in town
•   Six hours of workshop time at BYP
•   Shuttle from BYP to Selva Armonia and back to Airport
•   Five nights of private or shared accommodation at Selva Armonia
•   Continental breakfast, lunch and dinner
•   Natural Jacuzzi

The first three days will be spent at Bamboo YogaPlay, just a two minute walk to Dominical Beach, where the river meets the sea. Then up to Selva Armonia for four days nestled deep in the Costa Rica jungle perched over a spectacular view of the Pacific!

EARLY BIRD PRICES BEFORE DECEMBER 15, 2011 :

PRIVATE ROOM $1,350

SHARED ROOM $1,235

PRIVATE CABIN $1,410

SHARED CABIN $1,275

SPACE IS LIMITED -  RESERVE NOW WITH $300 DEPOSIT

Accommodation Options and Deposit

Deposit $300.00 Shared Room $1,235.00 Shared Cabin $1,275.00 Private Room $1,350.00 Private Cabin $1,410.00

For more info: 
www.cherishanti.com/womens.html
www.selvaarmonia.com
www.puntamona.org

 

A 200-hr Danyasa® Inspired Yoga Teacher Training For Living Artfully

Applicable to 200-hr Yoga Alliance Registry

March 9th-30th 2012

With Larry Thraen, Sofiah Thom and guest teacher Shawn Roop of Tantra Quest

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We invite you to be a part of this life enhancing experience for self growth and transformation -- an immersion into yoga and embodiment as a way of life.

This unique teacher training provides a solid foundation in the fundamentals of hatha yoga, tantra yoga, and vinyasa yoga, fused with principals of expressive healing arts, contemplative movement practice, and somatic psychology. Learn new flow sequences and philosophies for combining yoga with expressive dance, as well as initiation into the tools for guiding students in the arts of living a life well lived; bridging heaven and earth as one in this unique creative exploration.

We invite you to open up and receive the vital creative life force (shakti) which naturally wants to move through us.

Sofiah and Larry commit to helping each participant find their own authentic voice and teaching style with mindfulness, confidence and skill. The ultimate goal of this training is to provide you with tools for Embodiment, Empowerment and Expression as a yoga teacher and as as student of life.

Sofiah Thom believes that every person possesses an inner artist -- a unique, individual creative spark that just needs to be allowed or inspired to show itself. Sofiah's mission lies in nurturing this creative spark in others with the aim to inspire them to live to their fullest creative potential. As a dancer, somatic guide and ritual performer, this modern day yogini and temple dancer creates environments for transformation, self-discovery and pure bliss. By simply being in Sofiah's presence one feels her grace, strength and palpable sensuality as she invites you to get out of your head and into your body. For it is through your body that you come to access the innate power and creativity that lies within you, while providing the space for your life force to move freely through you and beyond.

As a daughter of healers, and an interdisciplinary artist with a degree in Dance Therapy from Naropa University, studies at the Tamalpa Institute in Expressive Healing Arts, and myriad trainings in bodywork, yoga and dance, Sofiah's deep understanding of the body and somatics shines through her work. Sofiah fuses dance, yoga, breath work, expressive healing arts and Tantric Buddhism into her Healing Arts and Yoga.

Learn to listen to your body as the inner teacher, giving yourself permission to follow kinesthetic delight as the impetus for your movements. Danyasa Yoga incorporates Sofiah's Bamboo Principles of Alignment, which encourage and inspire flexibility, strength, rootedness and openness as a means to awaken the fullest expression of who you are. Ignite your passion, free your mind and embody grace.

Larry Thraen (a.k.a. "Yoga Larry") is a 1000-hour RYT certified yoga teacher and trainer through the School Yoga Institute. He has been teaching and inspiring others through public and private classes for five years in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. Larry's passion for yoga is infectious. His mixture of challenging postures with his unique, upbeat personality is the recipe for a truly uplifting, enjoyable class.

Yoga Larry leads 200 hour RYT yoga teacher training programs in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil, and Little Cayman Island. His teacher trainings offer a non-authoritarian approach to improving physical, emotional, and spiritual health through the use of Sivananda, Hatha, Vinyasa and Ashtanga traditions. Central to his trainings are an inquiry into oneself, philosophy of yoga, and what makes a successful teacher. His wide range of knowledge and experience, humbleness, commitment to his students and their learning, and his sense of humor make for a truly creative, unforgettable, and transformative experience.

Guest Tantric Philosopher Shawn Roop of Tantra Quest offers classes, events, products and personal counseling based in Tantric wisdom. Shawn has been teaching creative ways to love, relate, grow and express since 2000. His desire is to extract the full nature of your beauty through ancient teachings that offer a contemporary path to living a life will lived. Shawn will be offering ten hours of Tantric philosophy teaching as part of this training.

This Teacher Training is designed for those with a desire to deepen their own yoga practice, those beginning to walk the path as a yoga teacher, or those wishing to expand their guiding skills as a yoga teacher. This training will teach you many vinyasa flow sequences to choose from, an understanding in your body of how to fuse your yoga with expressive dance, as well as initiating you with the tools to guide your students in this unique exploration.

Tuition $2,500 -- does not include accommodations on flights.

Save $300 with Early Bird Price of $ 2,200 if paid by January 15th, 2012

 

 

Yoga Retreat with Yoga Garden's Dharma and David Richards

April 1-7, 2012

Dharma & David are dedicated teachers to the True Science of Yoga. Dharma is an ERYT-500 with a concentration in the Classical lineage of Hatha Raja yoga. Dharma hosts workshops, intensives, retreats and teacher trainings nationwide and in the Caribbean.  Dharma's studies continue at the North Carolina School of Yoga with her beloved teacher Chandra Om, senior disciple of Sri Dharma Mittra. David is a certified yoga instructor with ongoing studies in the Classical and Anusara lineage. David and Dharma love to share their love and life of yoga with others by providing a safe, fun, nurturing and spiritually charged environment.

What's Included:

*  Roundtrip Ground Transportation to & from SJO International  Airport
*  Opening and Closing Dinner
*  Daily Breakfast & Lunch
*  Daily Yoga & Meditation classes
* Optional Adventure Tours & Massage including:   Horseback Riding, Wildlife Tour, Spanish Lessons, Surfing Lessons, Whitewater Rafting, Snorkeling, Diving & More!

For More info: info@yogagardennc.com

www.yogagardennc.com