Namaste Yoga Center - Events and Retreats
Coming Events
April 18-20, 2008 Retreat "Abiding as Presence"
Our spring retreat at Villa Maria Catholic Life Center begins with dinner Friday evening and ends with lunch on Sunday. Through the ancient practices of pranayama, meditation, body sensing, yoga nidra and satsung there is the opportunity to know yourself as you truly are - perfect just as you are. Social silence will be held during this meditative retreat. Yoga students of all levels are welcome! Partial scholarships available upon request.
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Early bird prices (add $25 after March 15)
$285 for double room
$385 for single room
Fall 2008 Retreat ~ September 26-28, 2008
Check back for more information.
Past Events
Poetry
An Evening of Ecstatic Poetry 2/29/2008
Luxurious, Sensual Couple’s Yoga!
Couple's Valentine Yoga 2/16/2008 PDF 59kbSaturday, February 16, 2008
3:00-6:00 pm
$25/couple
In this loving practice, each lover moves toward the other in turn:
Allowing,
Relinquishing Control,
Submitting…
Back and forth until there is complete surrender…
For love is surrender of the individual self to the Divine Self.
Only 1 partner needs to be a Yoga practitioner. Reserve your place today!
Call 217-698-8177 or email info@namasteyoga.com
Open House Celebration with Mary and Nancy
Saturday, December 15, 200710:30 am – 12:30 pm
- “60” years
- “60” Sun Salutations
- “60” Chants of the Gayatri
- “60” Blessings for Namaste
We chanted, did 60 Sun Salutations, created a dreamcatcher of 60 blessings for Namaste and enjoyed light refreshments!
Fall 2007 Namaste Retreat - Perfect Just As You Are
September 28-30, 2007Villa Maria Catholic Life Center, Lake Springfield
In the early fall 2007, the Namaste community and friends enjoyed a meditative, silent retreat on Lake Springfield at Villa Maria. Our annual fall retreat is a very special time set aside for us to "greet each moment just as it is." It is not an enforced silence, but rather a "social silence." Participants embraced the luxury of being in present awareness -- of being at ease in their quiet harts. The theme of the retreat, "perfect just as you are," encouraged anything to arise and pass through. Rather than striving or straining to silence our minds, we simply relaxed into pure awareness, the ground of our being that contains the mind.
A thought from William Butler Yeats describes this quiet stillness with yet another image: “We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us to see their own images and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even fiercer life because of our silence.”
We found being together in silence revealed a presence that transmits itself loud and clear, if we attune to it. This awareness that exists beyond words allows our experience to be completely fresh.
If you are drawn to the
idea of being in retreat with other Yoga practitioners, engaging in hatha Yoga, body sensing, pranayama,
meditation, Yoga Nidra, and satsung, make plans to join us for future retreats
soon to be announced for 2008.