Seaside, Florida,
January 20-22, 2012
A weekend workshop, January 20-22, 2011
Seaside, Florida
For all levels, including beginners. Men and women encouraged to participate!
What will your life look like in 5, 10, or 20 years? Are you setting the stage today for a fulfilled and vibrant life? It’s never too late to discover the profound healing benefits of yoga, meditation, and stress-management techniques. Those benefits include
- Increased flexibility, stamina, strength, muscle tone, and range of motion in the joints
- Healthier breathing and sleeping patterns and cardiopulmonary functioning
- Detoxification and more efficient metabolism
- Overall well-being and ease in daily life.
We invite you to a weekend of gentle yoga and meditation suitable for beginners, but open to all, creative visualization, journaling, deep progressive relaxation (yoga nidra), conscious eating, and mindful walks in nature.
Come relax, refresh, and rejuvenate. Consider bringing a friend or family member—supporting each other when you return home can make a world of difference.
Note Bring a journal, appropriate outerwear, and sneakers. Saturday evening will be free for personal nurturing.
The Instructor
Vandita Kate Marchesiello, a Registered and Certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher, has been teaching and leading workshops and training programs in health, wellness and yoga since 1977. From 1989-99 she was the Executive Director of the Albany Kripalu Yoga Center where she trained teachers and students of yoga and volunteered extensively in the community. Since 2000 she has been the Director of the Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Stockbridge, MA where she is a senior faculty member and has pioneered such programs as Teaching for Diversity, a grant program to bring yoga to diverse and underserved populations. Her life has been blessed with family, friends, and the opportunity to do what she loves. Her CD, Transform, Relax, and Rejuvenate, continues to be a best-seller in the Kripalu Shop and on line. www.YogaNowAndThen.com
Where and When
The beautiful and spacious Lyceum Meeting Room, Seaside, Florida
Friday, January 20, from 6-9PM
Saturday, January 21, from 8AM to 3PM
Sunday, January 22, from 8AM to 3PM
The idea of this workshop was created over a cup of tea. I was at an advanced yoga teachers training at Kripalu in Massachusetts when I sat down with a beautiful, smiling woman in the lounge and introduced myself. Vandita and I just got more and more excited as we talked.
We talked about who we knew in the yoga community and how we got to where we are today. We talked about the challenge of balance in this fast-paced world. We talked about this lovely beach community and how I came to live and work here.
Out of that serendipitous encounter, I decided I wanted to begin an annual yoga retreat in Santa Rosa Beach. A workshop that welcomes people from near and far to practice together and supports yoga on and off the mat. I also want to take the mystery out of yoga and meditation and make it accessible to all levels of ability.
Then, I met Laurie Beck, owner of Pilates by the Sea in Santa Rosa Beach and a Kripalu afficiando, too. We discovered that we both had conquered a health challenge that served as a catalyst for change and gratitude in our lives. So part of the proceeds of this workshop will be donated to the Sacred Heart Cancer Center being created here in Miramar Beach, Florida.
Please accept our invitation to be proactive about your own health and make the commitment to your well-being. You might also give the gift of the workshop to someone you love as a present.
Would you join us in taking this annual workshop from an idea to a personal success for yourself and for the community?
We'll look forward to seeing you there!
With love and laughter in our hearts,
Pat Carlyle, Laurie Beck and Vandita Kate Marchesiello.
Sunday 3:30 to 5PM Pat Carlyle will lead a YogaDance Workshop
No experience needed for either workshop. Just come and enjoy, or take the time to relax and nurture yourself
