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Yoga, Body
Yoga, Body
& Spirit
at Shambhala Mountain
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Combined Programs: Yoga Body, Buddha Mind with Cyndi Lee & David Nichtern and Getting Unstuck with Cyndi Lee
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July 19 - 27, 2007
Registration for these programs is now closed.
Yoga Body, Buddha Mind with Cyndi Lee & David Nichtern (July 19 — 22)
Discover how the mutual support of Hatha Yoga and Buddhist meditation can help us bring body and mind into balance. Through dharma talks and sitting and moving meditation, we will cultivate a ground of awareness and compassion, becoming more open, wakeful and connected. Through yoga practice, we will explore how alignment, breathing, balancing, stretching and strengthening can deepen our physical and energetic experience of meditation—watching our mind, recognizing our habits and opening to our world. Students at all levels of practice welcome.
Getting Unstuck with Cyndi Lee (July 23 — 27)
Vinyasa yoga, like all of life, is a continuous process of arising, abiding and dissolving. How can we become more awake to this experience? Drawing from OM yoga asana practice, mindful investigation, dharma talks, meditation practice, thematic sequencing, hands-on partnering and study groups, we will discover how to use our personal practice to open to fresh experience rather than use it to solidify our habits. Recommended for yoga students or teachers interested in uncovering more authenticity and richness in their practice.
Take advantage of our discounted rate when attending both programs.
Note: There is a free day between these two programs for you to relax, meditate and enjoy the land.
Cyndi Lee is the founder of OM yoga. A practitioner of both yoga and Tibetan Buddhism, Cyndi writes for Shambhala Sun and Yoga Journal and is author of several publications, including Yoga Body, Buddha Mind, OM yoga in a box and OM yoga & Meditation DVD/CD (coauthored with David Nichtern).
David Nichtern, a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage, is director of Buddhist Studies and Practice at OM yoga in New York City and former director of Karmê Chöling. He is also an Emmy/Grammy Award–winning composer/guitarist/producer and founder of Dharma Moon and 5 Points Records.
The Yoga Body Buddha Mind program is currently full. If you wish to be placed on the wait list to attend both Yoga Body Buddha Mind and Getting Unstuck, please send an email to the coordinator, Jo Francis at jofrancis@clear.net.nz with Yoga Body Wait List in the subject line. Registration remains open for Getting Unstuck.
The registration date for this program has already passed.
Yoga Body, Buddha MindBy Cyndi Lee and David Nichtern
A complete spiritual practice—or even just a healthy, satisfying life—requires working with both body and mind. Cyndi Lee and David Nichtern explain why yoga practice and Buddhist meditation is the perfect mind-body combination.
Sitting on our veranda at Strawberry Hill, a mountaintop retreat in Jamaica where we are teaching a workshop, it's easy to feel spacious and alive, vast and open, connected to sky and earth. This feeling comes naturally here but just as easily dissolves when we're confronted with the "too many people, too little time, too much to do" syndrome of everyday life back in Manhattan. Maybe if we lived here all the time we'd always feel boundless and accessible…ahhh…that's a trap. All of us tend to look outside of ourselves for the source of contentment, and that's exactly how we create our own discomfort. We forget that what we need to find this kind of well-being is completely available to us all the time. It's our own body and mind.
Strength, stability, and clarity of mind are said to be the fruits of mindfulness meditation. That sounds good, but if your back is sore, your digestion is sluggish, and your nerves are fried, it's tough to stabilize any kind of mental wakefulness or confidence. Yoga is a path to these same fruits, but when your mind is jumpy, sleepy, or full of angry thoughts, your body will reflect that with a tight jaw, saggy shoulders, or a knot in your belly. The body and mind need to work together in order to fully experience clarity of mind and radiant health.
Excerpted from: Yoga Body, Buddha Mind, Cyndi Lee and David Nichtern, Shambhala Sun, March 2007.
As a special gift to you, we are offering a free half year subscription to either Shambhala Sun or Buddhadharma magazine when you donate $25 or more to Shambhala Mountain Center.
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