UK

Womb Wisdom retreat with Alexandra Pope

Stroud, Gloucestershire, February 10 – 12th 2012

Fully residential £300 single room, less if you share. Some non-residential places available.

Venue details at Hawkwood College site

Third year in this gorgeous venue. Go deep with yoga, womb-wisdom work and menstrual awareness with Uma and Alexandra. Full details are on the wonderful Women’s Quest site.  There are also loads of lovel pictures from previous retreats up on the Sitaram Website.

To book please contact Alexandra alexandra@wildgenie.com

 

Ireland

Spring Renewal weekend at Burren Yoga

13 – 15 April 2012

For bookings and full schedule please see the Burren Yoga website.

A really wonderful opportunity to practice yoga and meditation in the prana-filled environment of the Burren on the west coast of Ireland.  Purify your elements on all levels, let go of any obstacles or negative patterns, and reform yourself anew refreshed and replenished for the year ahead. Suitable for all levels and all ages – from beginners to seasoned yogi and yoginis.

This weekend will focus on key techniques to ensure optimum vitality, confidence and wellness as we let go of any negativities, replenish ourselves and get ready for the Summer ahead. Sessions will include effective sequences of asana and pranayama (movements and breathing) to promote the free flow of energy throughout the body. There will be deep relaxations and Yoga Nidra (psychic sleep) to tune into your own requirements at this time, enabling you to rest and heal profoundly in preparation for the coming summer months. All sequences will be tailored to the needs, abilities and intentions of each person attending, so everyone can work at their own level and promote their own well being most effectively.

Also we will build a personal toolkit of joint freeing sequences, postures, breath and sound work, and simple but profound meditations and awareness practices to utilize as you need in daily life.

There will be a mixture of energizing, revitalizing and restful practices, responding to the needs of the season, and the feel of the moment. Each session will reflect the nature of the day, time, and experiences of the group at that time. This approach to yoga, as a therapeutic and personal practice is a really fabulous way to establish or refine your own approach to yoga, and to boost your own deep sense of health, self-esteem, well-being and power.

Cost of the course: The cost of the course is reduced to €300 and includes accommodation and vegetarian meals. Further reduction to €280 for unwaged.  The food is cooked by Paddi the gourmet vegetarian chef who ran Seventh Heaven the well known restaurant in Galway city. A single room costs €60 extra. We eat lunch out locally and you will need to pay for this yourself.

All the bookings for this retreat are handled by the lovely Dave at Burren Yoga.

 

Women’s Yoga Week at Burren Yoga

13 – 19 July 2012

Cost,  €690 (€650 unwaged). All the bookings for this retreat are handled by Burren Yoga.

A fabulous chance to immerse yourself in womb yoga, in the company of other wonderful women, and in the truly uplifting environment of the Burren at the gorgeous Burren Yoga and Meditation centre – a haven of peace and openhearted warmth.  I love leading this week – it is a truly revitalising and healing experience. Highly recommended.

Uma will be leading daily yoga sessions designed to enhance your vitality, working with asana, pranayama, mudras, bandha, yoga nidra and meditations. This retreat is about yoga for women’s health and vital energy. It shares techniques to feel, nurture and build the feminine energy of Shakti for the practical healing and benefit of women in all stages of life. The course presents therapeutic and enlivening yoga practices to support all experiences of femininity throughout a woman’s life.

It is for beginners to yoga as well as those who are regular practitioners and also suitable for yoga teachers who sense that yoga could be of more practical use to all women in managing health, vital energy and well-being.

Yoga teachers will find this retreat to be an excellent opportunity to deepen their skills and understanding of how to respond to the needs of women’s health issues in their classes. Uma will provide tutorial support and professional development for teachers wanting to grow their skills in this area.

The programme includes morning Shakti yoga and meditation, mudras and mantras for lunar practice, restorative yoga, yoga nidra, and also theory classes. The morning hatha class will be a fully integrated practice of asana, (postures), pranayama (breathing), mudra and bandha (energy locks and gestures) threaded with mantra (sound). Every hatha class will be specifically tailored to meet the needs and abilities of the women attending, with particular attention to respecting the different points in the menstrual cycle, or the cycle of life (postnatal, perimenopausal, menopausal) which each woman finds herself in that day.

As an experienced yoga therapist, Uma will be tailoring the practices to meet the needs and abilities of every student. There will also be opportunities for one-to-one yoga therapy consultations on women’s health issues, and sessions of restorative yoga for vitality and peace: supported postures using props, to enable everyone to access the deep essence of poses with zero effort. This approach to yoga is deeply restorative and reviving.

The usual amazing vegetarian food is prepared by Paddi the chef, and daily organised outings into the Burren hills and by the sea with Dave Brocklebank who runs the centre. The course is presented in an enjoyable experiential way, and there are also theory classes which will give you background information and understanding of the principles behind the enjoyable yoga classes and the use of yoga to manage women’s health issues including menstruation, pre-menstrual tension, fertility, sub fertility, optimal fertility, assisted conception, feminine sexuality, and perimenopausal mood swings, headaches and hot flushes. Yoga practice will also address health issues related to the pelvic floor, including postnatal recovery and prolapse, and other issues of concern to women.

Devi puja (goddess worship through mantra) can be a very heart warming and empowering part of yoga for women; recognising and acknowledging the presence of the goddess within! So if you are interested, and the other course participants are interested, Uma can also lead sessions of mantra (chanting) focusing on the many aspects of the divine feminine energy within each and every woman.

The retreat combines theory and practice to offer you fresh perspectives, new understandings and a deep appreciation of the healing power of yoga as therapy to optimise your health and delight in feminine energy and vitality.

All the bookings for this retreat are handled by Burren Yoga.

Womb Yoga workshop at Yoga Loft Cork City

31 March – 1 April

Venue details at Yoga Loft website

Full details of timing and cost TBC. Likely to incolce an afternoong of Womb Yoga and some refresher work for women’s yoga teachers, in particular those teaching pregnancy yoga and postnatal yoga and yoga for women’s health

 

Italy

Womb Wisdom Retreat with Alexandra Pope

26 – 28 October 2012

Full Details on Womb Wisdom Retreat at Centro Kushi Ling

For this Italian retreat (October 26-28 2012) please mail directly to our wonderful Italian organiser Laura Tonello latonello@gmail.comYou can see the lovely venue here: http://www.kushi-ling.com/

We came last year and loved it so much everyone wanted to come back!