Yoga Retreat – Intensive Learning @ MFS

Final Day of Yoga Retreat

April 4, 2017April 4, 2017Blog Editor

Today we woke up early to practice an energizing vinyasa flow. As part of the last practice we were encouraged for one song to let go of everything and to be free as we danced around the room. Afterwards we headed to breakfast to enjoy our last meal together, homemade yogurt and grains and...

Yoga Retreat Day 5: Boat Pose … on a Boat

April 2, 2017April 2, 2017Blog Editor

Today we started with an intense vinyasa class that had a lot of ab work in it. After breakfast, we made mala necklaces/bracelets with the full 108 beads (one = wholeness, zero = emptiness, eight = infinity, plus a lot of other reasons for the number 108) to use as a meditation tool. Then we...

Yoga Retreat Day 4: Horseback Riding through Nature

April 1, 2017April 1, 2017Blog Editor

Today we started off with a vinyasa practice with awesome music to wake everyone up. After breakfast, we worked on making some yoga-inspired jewelry. Then, we had a lecture on the levels of listening (ignoring, pretending, selective, attentive, and empathic), which we followed by empathically listening to each other in small groups. To connect...

Yoga Day 3: I like the orchids

March 28, 2017March 28, 2017Blog Editor

We started off the day with yoga practice at 7:00am in the morning. Today’s morning practice was less physically intense than yesterday’s. Today we practiced ashtanga yoga. Each pose was drawn out and lasted for five breaths. After yoga we had a healthy breakfast of homemade yogurt and granola. We made bracelets and other...

Yoga Retreat Day One: Majestic

March 27, 2017March 28, 2017Blog Editor

Today was our first day at Pendle Hill. We started by meeting our awesome yoga instructor, Alex, and then practiced our first (very intense) yoga session. After a nutritious lunch, we traveled to Wissahickon Valley Park to experience nature through a very mountainous hike. We picked up some stones to create intention stones later...

We are Yoga?

March 24, 2017March 24, 2017Blog Editor

Yoga Day 1: We started out by eating some donuts in preparation for our big day. We did the name game. We indulged in multiple bond/trust exercises. We then got our first opportunity to execute our newfound knowledge of YOGA. We then got handed our journals, which we were allowed to decorate whatever way...