Detox Flow: Beginning to Advanced Yoga Practices
with Stephanie Keach, E-RYT 500

March 27 - 29, 2009
at Prama Institute
310 Panhandle Road, Marshall, NC 28753
Telephone: (828) 649-9408 www.pramainstitute.org

$325, including lodging, yoga, and all meals.
All levels welcome. Apply now!

Please plan on arriving Friday, March 27, around 12 pm.

Daily Schedule:
Friday, March 27
12:00 - 2:00 pm ARRIVAL. Also lunch will be served, an Ayurvedic vegan cleansing meal. This is also time when Stephanie will be checking in with students about the rest of the weekend.
2:00 - 4:00 pm Advanced yoga class (meditation, asana, chanting, pranayama)
4:00 - 5:30 pm student teaching
5:30 - 6:30 pm break
6:30 - 7:30 pm dinner will be served, an Ayurvedic vegan cleansing meal
7:30 - 8:30 pm meditation, then silence.

Saturday, March 28
7:00 - 7:30 am meditation
7:30 - 8:30 am breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 am break
9:30 - 11:30 am Advanced yoga class (meditation, asana, chanting, pranayama)
12:00 - 2:00 pm lunch will be served, an Ayurvedic vegan cleansing meal
2:00 - 2:30 pm ayurvedic massage techniques
2:30 - 4:00pm assisting kriyas, question/answer period
4:00 - 5:00 pm student teaching, adjusting
5:00 - 6:30 pm break
6:30 - 7:30 pm dinner will be served, an Ayurvedic vegan cleansing meal.
7:30 - 8:30 pm meditation, then silence.

Sunday, March 29
7:00 - 7:30 am meditation
7:30 - 8:30 am breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 am break
9:30 - 11:30 am Advanced yoga class (meditation, asana, chanting, pranayama)
11:30 - 12:30 pm inversions and pranayama, anatomy of inversions
12:30 - 2:00 pm lunch will be served, an Ayurvedic vegan cleansing meal, this will include dessert!!

Preparations for two weeks prior to March 27 - 29, 2009:
Please begin to eliminate from your diet:
caffeine
meat
alcohol
recreational drugs

Please limit your consumption:
dairy
garlic
pepper/chile type spices

Please begin/restart/continue a daily asana practice:
30 minutes minimum each morning:
- 1 minute kapilabhati pranayama (breath of fire) comfortable crossed legged
rest 1 minute in forward fold, switch cross of legs and repeat again
- 10 minute sun salutations (any)
- 5 minute shoulderstand (with or without blankets, minimal variations)
- 5 minutes savasana
- 5 minutes nadi sodhana pranayama (alternate nostril breathing) comfortable crossed-legged position
(If any of these things are foreign to you, please don’t do them, we will cover them in class)

Please drink daily, one cup in the am and one cup in the pm:
detoxification tea - Yogi Tea: Detox Tea, for instance, or any other brand is fine.

The entire three days will be a little more comfortable for you if you can prepare yourself ahead of time. Cleansing practices can sometimes be really intense if there are a lot of toxic build-up, or ama in sanskrit/ayurveda. Please do your best. At first detoxing is uncomfortable, but once a nice layer of ama build-up is gone, the energy you will feel is incredible, truly yogic.

This is a silent, detoxifying, rejuvenating Retreat that aims at these goals:
These two and a half days will prepare you for a deep cleansing this spring. We will rid ourselves gently to vigorously, of any residues from previous food or chemical choices, and by sunday afternoon, we will feel clean and energized! Practices will range from hot sweaty asana, gentle ayurvedic massage, nostril cleansing, cool restorative poses, deep meditation practices, subtle pranayama practices, and delicious chanting. There will be dietary guidelines with appropriate meals served, to cleanse our highest selves. This intensive is appropriate for all levels of practitioners. Meals and lodging fully included.

This retreat will be mostly silent, to allow for another type of cleansing for the mind.

Please bring the following to class:
notebook, paper, (there will be some journalling assignments), to take notes, pen/pencil, your own sticky-mat , water, comfortable clothes to practice Yoga and meditation for all sessions. Cell phones turned off.
For our am sessions be prepared to sweat! Please wear yoga clothes to each session. Please bring any yoga props you are used to using (mat, blanket, bolster, strap, block, eyebag). If you own a neti pot, please bring. If you own a meditation cushion please bring. We will have extras of everything.

Directions:
From Asheville, North Carolina
Take 19/23 North towards Weaverville (approx. 10 miles).
At Weaverville, take 25/70 North towards Marshall/Hot Springs.
Go approximately7 miles, after a long down hill and crossing a bridge, proceed up the hill and turn left onto Ivy River Rd (25/70 Business to Marshall) and alongside the Ivy River towards Marshall.
Go one mile to the T intersection of Ivy River Rd. and 251, take a left onto a four lane bridge on 251. Heading south along the French Broad River towards Asheville, a garage and a church will be on your left.
Continue along the river for approximately 1 mile to Panhandle Rd. and take a left.
Go one quarter of a mile to mailbox 310 on your left (among a bank of 5 mailboxes); just past these mail boxes take a right up the hill through an open metal gate onto Ananda Girisuta Drive.
Proceed up the hill past a white house on your right. About 100 yards up the hill, there will be a gravel parking lot on your right. If going to the dome, take a right into the parking lot, park and walk up to the dome on the knoll entering the door covered by a porch on the right side of the dome.

From Winston Salem (on I-40 West)
Take 240 West, then 19/23 North to Weaverville (approx. 10 miles), then follow directions from Weaverville above.

From Knoxville (on I-40 East)
Take 240 East, then take 19/23 North to Weaverville (approx. 10 miles), then follow directions from Weaverville above.

From Johnson City, Tennessee
Go South on Hwy. 23 for approximately 50 miles to Mars Hill and take Hwy. 213 west for 15 miles. At the T intersection of 213 and 251, take a left onto Hwy. 251 South. Go 5 miles and take a left onto Panhandle Rd. Then follow the directions from Panhandle Rd. above.

From Spartanburg, South Carolina
Go East/North on I-26 for 60 miles to Asheville and take I-240 East. Then take 19/23 North to Weaverville and then follow directions from Weaverville above.

Cancellation Policy:
$50 of payment is nonrefundable and nontransferable.

Please feel free to email me any questions, as this is probably unlike anything you have had to prepare for before! steph@youryoga.com

Scholarships for our teacher training program are available through the YogaBasics.com website. yogabasics.com

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