Body Awareness
For centuries, ancient cultures knew what today’s scientific community is only beginning to acknowledge: a healthy body leads to a healthy mind, and vice versa. Our Body Awareness programs draw upon body and mind practices from venerable lineages hundreds of years old, yet backed by modern scientific evidence.
In ancient India and China, exercise and meditation were inseparable pathways to enlightenment. Today, the powerful techniques of meditation, yoga, tai chi and qigong provide antidotes to daily stress and offer lasting holistic benefits for the body, mind and spirit. Similarly, walking, hiking and running are frequently hailed as good means of physical exercise, as well as forms of moving meditation that clear the mind and improve one’s spirit.
Scientific research has revealed that an intimate connection exists between the health of the body and the state of our mind. True healing can only take place when we have the capacity to open to and relate to our bodies, minds and hearts. Our Body Awareness programs allow participants of all levels to explore and deepen the intimate relationship between mind and body in a safe, nurturing and natural environment.
We have all experienced the delight of being skillfully adjusted during our yoga practice. Skillful touch is a wonderful pathway to open students to the power and potential of developing a partner practice. Principle-Based Partner Yoga™
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Elysabeth Williamson
May 29–June 3, 2013
For new and returning participants alike, this annual retreat offers precious time to explore the possibility of living in brilliant ease by clarifying intentions and weaving together yoga postures, meditation and breathing exercises. These practices are
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Erica Kaufman
June 28–30, 2013
Discover ease of movement, stillness of mind, and the healing power of nature by integrating mindfulness awareness practices with hiking in the spectacular terrain that is Shambhala Mountain. While navigating the busy, high-tech world, we can
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Kay Peterson
June 28–30, 2013
Individual levels (Levels I-II, III, IV, V) may also be taken separately; please use the links below to register for less than all 5 levels. Cultivate strength of body and calmness of mind through the healing Taoist practice of qigong.
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Eva Wong and Acharya Dale Asrael
July 12–20, 2013
Our bodies hold emotions, images, patterns and stories. When we inhabit our bodies through mindfulness practice, we then know ourselves as complete and wakeful beings. We will play with the four postures of mindfulness, practice flowing
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Katharine Kaufman
July 24–28, 2013
Calling all women ready to tap into their deepest sensuality and richest creativity. This high-summer retreat brings together a tribe of like-minded women who are longing to embrace the most fertile parts of their feminine nature.
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Sara Avant Stover
July 27, 2013
Like trees in the forest or fish in the sea, we have an innate ability to live in greater harmony with our environment. While trying to navigate our busy, high-tech world, we can develop habits of
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Kay Peterson
August 1–4, 2013
The goal of this program is to teach people how to read a sacred text using both the deciphering method and the hermeneutical (text-listening) methods and integrate the Daoist philosophy of health with the practice of
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Eva Wong and Acharya Dale Asrael
August 13–18, 2013
Talk and Book Signing of Cyndi Lee’s new book: May I Be Happy: A Memoir of Love,Yoga, and Changing My Mind. 7:30pm at the Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl Street, Boulder, CO
Cyndi Lee
August 29, 2013
Many of us have a natural impulse to be helpful to others but are not as good at caring for ourselves. We tend to put our own honest needs last, leaving us with unhealthy feelings of
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Cyndi Lee
August 30–September 2, 2013
This popular retreat is based on Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche’s book, Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training the Body and the Mind. Geared for runners, walkers and other athletes, the book offers fresh insights
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Jon Pratt, Marty Kibiloski and Tarah Cech
August 30–September 2, 2013
This weekend retreat offers a rare pairing of the Feldenkrais Method combined with sitting meditation. The Feldenkrais method works with gentle novel movements that stay within a range that is easy. Through this guided personal exploration
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Katharine Kaufman and Kim Hansen
September 6–8, 2013
A nearly extinct energetic healing modality passed down orally from Tibetan monks throughout the centuries, Tibetan Cranial (TC) work reconnects us to our inherent healing capacity. While maintaining a state of prayer or mantra, practitioners read
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Shar Lee
September 19–24, 2013
