Date: 09-18-2010 From 9-18-2010 to 9-19-2010 Time: See Details
Embodying the Light: A Vinyasa Weekend with Teacher and Author Rolf Gates
Offsite Location: See Details Instructor: Rolf Gates
"That which we heal in ourselves, we heal in the world. And that which we heal in the world, we heal in ourselves." – Rolf Gates
Don't miss this opportunity to study with Inspiring Yoga Master & Author Rolf Gates!
One-Day Vinyasa Intensive Retreat Saturday, September 18, 8:30am - 5:30pm The Lab School, 4759 Reservoir Rd, Washington, D.C. DIRECTIONS
Being Still with Skill: Meditation Workshop Sunday, September 19, 9:00am - 12:00pm Herndon Studio, located 2 miles from Reston Town Center DIRECTIONS
3-Hour Vinyasa Session Sunday, September 19, 2:00pm - 5:00pm Herndon Studio, located 2 miles from Reston Town Center DIRECTIONS
COST: • One Day Vinyasa Intensitve Retreat: $175 • Being Still with Skill: $65 • 3 Hour Vinyasa Session: $65 • Entire Weekend: $250
Embodying the Light: One-Day Intensive Retreat Saturday, September 18th
The Experience - Set aside a day to focus on the practices that lead us to a visionary and expansive relationship to life! Together let’s develop the skills we need to do less and accomplish more. Yoga is a means for realizing the hidden potential in each moment.
This intensive will be a blending of dynamic practice and self-study. We will use our time together to clarify the relationship between what we love, what we believe in, and what we do.
The Intensive Retreat will include: two intensive vinyasa sessions, alignment instruction, pranayama (breath work), meditation, as well as a period of training and practice in creating the future we want to live into.
Being Still with Skill: Meditation Workshop Sunday, September 19, 9:00am - 12:00pm
"... And this is the point of spiritual practice; to make us teachable, to open up our hearts and focus our awareness so that we can know what we already know and be who we already are." - Rolf Gates
Yoga is the cultivation of inner space and the ability to use it well. In this meditation workshop, we will explore the opportunity presented to us in the teachings of the Buddha and Patanjali and how these great contributions to consciousness weave beautifully together to enhance the quality of our daily lives. The morning will be spent in lecture, discussion and guided meditation experience.
3-Hour Vinyasa Session Sunday, September 19, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
"The obstacles in our path are the path. We all know more than we think we do, and we are stronger than we believe ourselves to be. We come to our mats, and to our lives, to learn by going where we have to go." - Rolf Gates
Join Rolf for this dynamic 3-hour session blending Vinyasa, Pranayama and Meditation. This practice is intentionally challenging but open to all who wish to explore yoga as an evolutionary journey. The only “requirement” is that you show up, do your best, and let your best be good enough. Plan to flow deeply into this session and bring your towel.
About Rolf:
Rolf Gates, author of the acclaimed book on yogic philosophy "Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga" conducts 200- and 500-hour vinyasa intensives and teacher trainings throughout the country and abroad. Rolf and his work have been featured in numerous magazines to include Yoga Journal, Natural Health and People Magazine and as one of Travel + Leisure's Top 25 Yoga Studios Around the World. A frequent conference presenter, this year he was the keynote speaker at the 10th Annual Midwest Yoga Conference in Illinois and is a featured expert in the newly released "Add More –Ing to Your Life: A Hip Guide to Happiness". Rolf is also the co-founder of the upcoming Yoga and Recovery Conference at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, Calif. to take place in November 2010.
Rolf is honored to be a contributor to the Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines of Modern Manhood, which is being featured on national television and print publications including Ron Reagan's Air America, Fox and Friends, EXTRA, and The Tyra Banks Show, among others. (All proceeds from this project go to support groups working with men and boys at risk).
Rolf also works one-on-one each week with clients in his Yoga Life Coaching program. A former social worker and US Airborne Ranger who has practiced meditation for the last sixteen years, Rolf brings his eclectic background to his practice and his teachings.
