Eat,
Pray, Local...
Contemplative
Yoga and Kayaking on the Dan River
Does
your spiritual practice include your body and its resonance with the
world of nature? Are you longing to engage more deeply in the
environment you inhabit, but feel too busy much of the time? Have
you wanted to get out into our local mountains and rivers, but don't
know where to go?
In
this day long retreat into nature, we will give ourselves permission
to take our time, gradually slowing down enough to come to a place of
deep listening. The day begins at Moore's Springs Camp with a
gentle yoga practice designed to prepare our ears for listening, our
eyes for seeing and our bodies for kayaking. Afterward, we savor
nutritious juices prepared with love by our local foodie Debra Edds.
The kayak trip down the river in the afternoon will be a 2-3 hour
sensory awareness practice, much of it experienced in silence. At
the end of the day we return to camp, recover with a short yoga
practice, and enjoy a vegetarian feast and celebration around a fire.
Friday, April 26,
2013
9:00 am until after
supper (planning to eat in the 5 o'clock hour)
Fee
is 175.00 and includes
yoga instruction and river guidance by Sydney Hughes-McGee, kayak
rental and shuttle service provided by The Dan River Company, a juice
breakfast and vegetarian supper provided by Debra Edds and day use of
Moore's Springs Camp (mooresspringscampground.blogspot.com.)
Price will be adjusted if providing your own kayak or food.
Overnight camping available for additional charge.
No
yoga or kayaking experience necessary.
To learn more please
contact Sydney Hughes-McGee, RYT500
336
775 7313 or wsyogatherapy@clearwire.net
Yoga for Anxiety
In
this workshop you will learn how a yoga practice can help
you navigate through experiences of fear and anxiety. You
will develop skills that have been proven to change the nervous
system from the sympathetic to parasympathetic response- from stress
to relaxation. By slowing movement down and increasing
sensory awareness, as well as employing specific yoga breathing
techniques, you will discover the ability to change your
physiological response to stress.
We
will also study yoga teachings on the nature of the mind,
which invite us to befriend uncomfortable and even intense feeling
states while recognizing them as transitory. The goal is to find an
internal presence that both holds you in compassion and allows you
the freedom to change.
$75.00
Saturday,
March 30, 2013
12:30
- 6:00 pm
Winston-Salem Yoga Therapy
, 2424 Reynolda Road
Sydney
Hughes-McGee,
LMBT 1243, RYT500 is a Viniyoga instructor and has practiced as a
massage therapist for over 20 years. She taught the
Viniyoga Stress Reduction Program at Aetna in High Point, NC, as well
as Yoga for Stress Management to medical students at Wake
Forest University. At her studio students come into a
new relationship with their bodies by finding breath, attending to
sensations and discovering their living anatomy.
