May 17th-20th 2012

Yoga Retreats 2011 and 2012, Meditation Retreats, & Writing Retreats 
Austin, Texas, Mexico, and Guatemala
with Charles MacInerney 

Raja Yoga retreats, Hatha Yoga retreats usa, Meditation retreats and Yoga and Writing retreats are held in Texas at retreat centers near Austin & Houston, as well as in Yelapa Mexico, Costa Rica and Lake Atitlan Guatemala. These Yoga vacations are led by Charles MacInerney who is often assisted by several yoga instructors from around the USA Mexico, and Guatemala. Charles has led over 80 retreats since 1991 and they continue to grow in popularity.

For those who want time for themselves, these retreats can be considered as a yoga vacation. For those who like to stay active, the retreats have a full schedule including two or more Hatha Yoga classes per day, meditation, workshops and excursions. Students are encouraged to pick and choose what they wish you participate in, and take as much time for themselves as they need. Read Testimonials at bottom of this page. Join us for some of the best yoga retreats available.

Other dates

UPCOMING RETREATS with Charles MacInerney
December 2-4, 2011	Yoga & Meditation Margaret Austin Center Chappell Hill, Texas
March 2-4, 2012	Raja Yoga Retreat Margaret Austin Center Chappell Hill, Texas
May 11-13, 2012 (Mother’s Day Weekend)	Yoga & Meditation Margaret Austin Center Chappell Hill, Texas
May 17-20, 2012	Yoga & Writing Cedarbrake Renewal Center Belton, Texas
September 27-30, 2012	Yoga & Writing Stump Sprouts Retreat Berkshires,Massachusetts
October 5-7, 2012	12th Annual Texas Yoga Retreat Radha Madhav Dham, Austin, Texas
November 30- Dec 2, 2012	Yoga & Meditation Margaret Austin Center Chappell Hill, Texas

TESTIMONIALS

“I met Charles MacInerney at the 1999 Southwest Yoga Conference in Austin. I enjoyed his comments during the panel discussion and especially appreciated the opportunity to attend his Free Yoga class after the conference. He handled the overflow crowd at his studio quite smoothly and led a great program. I just returned from his December Raja Yoga Retreat at the Margaret Austin Center and have to tell you that it ranks among the best retreats that I have attended. He has a wonderful way of setting people at ease and creating an environment where participants feel safe expressing and exploring new ideas. I was able to find a deeper understanding of my own spirituality during his retreat, and am still enjoying the “high” almost a week afterwards. I found that he presented concepts in very simple terms and brought them to life with great examples from all walks of life, including his own! I have highly recommended his programs and web site to others, and look forward to connecting with him again in the future.” Sue Gantz, Corporate Trainer, Yoga Teacher

“As an M.D., having practiced medicine for 25 years, I have become acutely aware of the critical importance of integrating “body, mind and spirit” if one is to achieve wholeness and lasting health. This mind/body creative experience was a wonderful opportunity for me personally to work toward that goal that I have long tried to stimulate in my patients but have often not been able to achieve myself. This workshop was for me a magical experience and indeed a sacred endeavor.” Don Charles Wukasch, M.D. – Thoracic Surgeon, Houston Texas

“Charles, I am sending a belated note to thank you for the great time I had at the retreat. I also wish to say that when you showed us how to do alternate nostril breathing, it changed my daily headaches. Every time one hits, no matter (well, not completely) how bad it feels, a few minutes of alternate nostril breathing will give me hours of relief… All the work you put into the planning, hiring, instructing, guidance and leadership was appreciated. I had such a great time that I am hungry for more knowledge and more techniques in yoga and meditation and breathing…. I would recommend your retreats for anyone.” Susan K.

“Charles always speaks from his heart. And his heart is so wise, so sweet… and so funny! Charles, the place, the other participants, the ideas, the emotions, the insights, the food, the fun — everything about the retreat was extraordinary. It has been weeks since I attended Charles MacInerney’s yoga and meditation retreat, but I still feel deeply affected by it. When was the last time you were so profoundly affected by something that it changed your life? What a profound experience. Thank you, Charles.” Terry Masters Owner/Director of Master School

“I shall forever draw pleasure and reap benefit from what I experienced and learned at the Mind/Body Creative Writing Retreat. The exercising and nurturing of the body was balanced with the same consideration for the mind and soul. The structure commanded respect for self and others, creating a safe environment in which to let your hair down, take off your masks and work, relax and play – or just retreat from it all!” Jan Rasmussen

For more information about Raja Yoga, Hatha Yoga and Meditation retreats, held in central Texas, Costa Rica and Mexico please follow links to individual retreat pages.

Texas raja yoga retreats and hatha yoga retreats are held at the Margaret Austin Retreat Center near Brenham, between Houston and Austin. Yoga and Creative Writing Retreats are held at Alma de Mujer, a few miles West of Austin in the hill country. Mexico yoga and writing retreats are held in the small fishing village of Yelapa, near Puerto Vallarta. The Guatemala yoga and meditation retreats are held at Villa Sumaya retreat center on the shores of Lake Atitlan.

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Melanie Cooper Yoga Rocks Retreat Greece

28th April to 5th May

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The mysteries and secrets of spiritual eroticism are presented in conjunction with the relevant information from Yoga, Chinese Taoism, Tibetan Buddhism, alchemy, and Middle Eastern Imsak. Printed supplemental material is provided. The syllabus includes these subjects:

1. Modern Sexology
2. The difference and separation between orgasm and ejaculation
3. Analysis of the curves of pleasure and methods of retention/control of the sexual energy
4. The different forms of orgasm
5. Meditations of transmutation-sublimation of the sexual energy
6. Hatha Yoga relevant to the tantric practice
7. Healing
8. Medical correlations with Tantra
9. Specific forms of training for men and for women
10. Study of the tantric sexual union.

Price: 1,200 pesos
Next dates: 5-6 May 2012

http://agamayogamexico.com/retreats-workshops/tantric-sexuality/

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Friday 13th – Sunday 15th April 2012 – 3 days/2 nights

$440* twin share Early Bird! Book by March 13 and Save $50; $490 twin thereafter

Retreat in the ancient coastal rainforests of the Great Ocean Road Hinterlands for three days of purifying yoga, meditation and culinaria at Wildwood, Pennyroyal, a unique place of peace nestled among twenty aches of private bushland.

Take your yoga off the mat and into the kitchen. Learn to prepare food from the yogic perspective, ‘hands-on’, with daily cooking sessions and interactive workshops exploring the connections between yoga and nutritious delicious energizing yogic cuisine. Develop a deeper understanding of your body, how it works, and how it responds to what you put in it. Explore the creation of amazingly good food that’s good for you (and the planet) on a unified physical and spiritual plane. Learn how to integrate a simple and practical yogic approach to daily cooking in modern life.

Be guided in the yoga room and in the kitchen by Australian Yoga Retreat’s own Tom Schroeter. Yoga teacher, vegetarian chef and herbal medicine student, Tom’s passion for communicating yoga graces his passion for food.

Enjoy a weekend retreat combining great yoga, organic food, and deep forest meditation.

What’s included:

• Daily yoga sessions, each morning and arvo of the retreat
• All meals – interactive brunch and dinner communal food preparation and celebration workshops that will feed you well for the entire retreat – cook, eat, learn, yoga!
• Learn how to integrate a simple and practical yogic approach to cooking in daily modern life
• Cooking workshop notes, recipes and more
• Comfy share accommodation
• All yoga, mediation and yoga foodie workshops from arrival at 3pm Friday to departure 11am Sunday morning

What to bring:

• Yoga mat (plus a belt, block and blanket if you have them)
• Notepaper and pen
• Apron and tea towel and favourite kitchen knife (if you have one)

Accommodation

• Share accommodation in the Wildwood Bunk House, complete with cosy doona and extra large beds with crisp linen
• Travelling solo? No problem, let us allocate room share for you with a fellow yogi/yogini

How do I get there?

• Within 2 hours drive of Melbourne CBD and Melbourne Airport, Wildwood retreat can be accessed via the stunning Great Ocean Road or via the inland Geelong – Colac Highway.
• From Geelong, turn left at Wichelsea on Deans Marsh/Lorne Road. Turn right at Deans Marsh School on (Pennyroyal Valley Rd) and travel about 6 km’s past Gentle Annie Berry Farm and you’re there.
• From Lorne, travel 20 km’s along Lorne – Deans Marsh Rd and turn left at Pennyroyal Station Rd, then left again at Pennyroyal Valley Rd. Travel 3km’s past Gentle Annie Berry Farm and you’re there.
• Check out a map here

Remember, all our retreats are about the exploration and learning of yoga, coupled with the fun of an adventure holiday, so if you’re a yoga teacher or trainee teacher, we can help you apply for industry association Professional Development Points with a Retreat Journal documenting the learning outcomes of your retreat experience. Ask us how.

Bush Regeneration weekends offer a balanced mix of outdoor activity in the beautiful bush surrounding the ashram plus participation in regular daily yoga practices. 4th-6th MAY $50 MORE DETAILS BELOW Description The Bush Regeneration Project focuses on restoring and regenerating the bushland by weeding, planting and maintaining areas of regeneration. Your efforts over the weekend are a way of practicing seva yoga – the yoga of selfless service. The work is not hard but a moderate level of fitness is required. Please wear long pants, long sleeves and sturdy shoes. Also bring a water bottle, sunhat, and insect repellent. Level: Suitable for all, including beginners to yoga Cost $50 includes all meals, yoga classes & accommodation Duration Starts with dinner on Friday night at 6 pm and concludes Sunday afternoon. Bookings essential.

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If it is anything like Apple’s past products, the new iPad will be a sleek, gorgeous gadget, hand-assembled by underpaid workers forced to put in illegal and dangerous amounts of overtime.

 

Apple says it cares about workers and requires its factories to follow the law. Well, we want to give Apple a chance to prove it.  As Apple customers and potential customers, we deserve to know whether the new iPad was manufactured illegally and unethically like past Apple products.

I would love to think that issues like these would have been a priority to a man of Steve Job’s stature and perceived enlightenment.

You can read more here - http://sumofus.org/campaigns/ipad. Use the form at the right of the page to sign the petition.

The five day intensive training program offers the opportunity to study and learn to teach a full 75 minute Core Yoga class, blending the ancient principles of Yoga with the modern precision of Pilates for a dynamic and inspiring class that will strengthen and streamline the body, enhance posture and body awareness, reduce tension and stress, and build strength and support in the abdomen and low back for better overall health and wellbeing.

Nisargadatta

Hatha Yoga Pradipika starts with the Shatkarmas or cleansing processes, these processes are to remove the blockages in Nadis (psychic / pranic energy channels). A particular disorder or disease is due to blockage in pranic channel supplying vital / bio energy to the particular organ related to disorder. Cleansing techniques removes this energy blocks and the pranic energy starts flowing without hurdles, thus balancing the entire body and mind. The purification is the first in Hatha Yoga, once the body is free of disease, the next step is recommended and that is asanas.

Hatha Yoga Pradipika is one of the most authentic text books on Hatha Yoga, written in 1200 AD by Swami Swatmarama, a great Yoga Guru who formulated the principles of Hatha Yoga and systematically explained various techniques, its effects on body, mind and states of consciousness. This is a comprehensive text on Asanas, Pranayama, Cleansing techniques, Mudras (Mental attitude or gestures), Bandhas (Energy locks), Nada (Sound) Meditation and many more guidelines for following the path of Yoga.

Swami Swatmarama was the follower of Natha Tradition, (followers of Adi Nath or Lord Shiva), taught by great Gurus like Gorakshanath and then Matsyendranath. This is the tradition of sages who live in caves or Himalayas and renounce material life adopting sanyasa.

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