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4 days ago
A goal for the start of 2010….
How to go on a yoga retreat
It made me
go ohm 
"Not what I expected"
How I did it: I guess I had hopes and expectations as to what I was going to be doing. I thought I would get up and begin a discliplined yoga practice. I mean after all I flew 3,000 miles from east to west coast and drove up from Sacramento to Nevada City to get to "The Expanding Light Retreat". I did a four-day stint. I barely practiced any yoga.
But I did meet a lot of super interesting people. I was "attacked" by three baby fawns on my way back from the store as they were intent on getting my ice cream cone. I ate a lot of healthy food. I hiked the area and spent some time looking at the lotus pond. I helped someone who was grieving to spread her loved one's ashes. I went swimming with a bunch of the other guest members at this beautiful out-of-the-way lake.
I smelled the sagebrush and red wood pine my entire time there. I basked in the sun. I played a Haronium for the first time ever. Didn't practice much in the way of yoga but it was an experience.
Lessons & tips:
- Be open to experience, it might be more important then practicing yoga
- That is *NOT* me in the picture. Some amazing yogi person I found on flickr. Hope she doesn't mind me borrowing it for show.
Resources: http://www.expandinglight.org/
I went here.
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12 months ago
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I am saving to do this Jivamukti Yoga Retreat in May and I am also saving to do this Anatomy & Physiology training starting in April.
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