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Green Gulch: Yoga and Writing Retreat WORDS TO LIVE BY: A YOGA AND WRITING RETREAT FOR WOMEN at beautiful Green Gulch Farm in Muir Beach, California, Join Dashka Slater and Julie Rappaport for a day that nurtures body and soul. The Workshop: Throughout the day, we will be reading and sharing our work in a supportive and non-judgmental atmosphere, and learning techniques that you can apply to your regular writing and yoga practices. Our day will begin with a lively and centering yoga practice followed by breathing and meditation. We will then move into a series of writing exercises designed to help you find your story, break out of old habits and patterns, and cultivate playfulness and curiosity. After a delicious, vegetarian lunch, we will hike along coastal bluffs dappled with lupines and sticky monkey flower, taking time to write along the way. The day will close as it began, with asana, meditation and breathwork that will leave you feeling calm, invigorated, and ready to continue with the twin practices of yoga and writing. Workshop Leaders: Dashka Slater is the recipient of a 2004 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her children‚s book, Baby Shoes, was named one of the best children‚s books of 2006 by both Booklist and Nick Jr. Magazine. Her novel, The Wishing Box, was named one of the best books of 2000 by the Los Angeles Times. She has been practicing yoga for ten years. Julie Rappaport is a yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and writer who has been teaching yoga for over fifteen years. She is intrigued by the links between contemplative practices such as yoga and meditation, and creative disciplines like writing, music, and dance and has explored these links for many years. Julie has also written for the Oxygen Media online health site and many others, and is the author of the Tarcher/Penguin book, 365 Yoga, Daily Meditations. She is currently immersed in writing fiction. For more information, visit: http://www.dashkaslater.com To register, email: info@dashkaslater.com |