Land of Medicine Buddha Women's Pre-Equinox Weekend Yoga and Reiki Retreat with Vicki Noble, author of the transformative Motherpeace Tarot
"Shakti Woman", and "The Double Goddess: Women Sharing Power" and Phoenix Artemisia, Yoga Teacher RYT 500, Reiki Master Friday September 10th through Sunday September 12th, 2010 Register now to secure your spot!
Join us on a weekend near the women's holyday of Autumn Equinox to celebrate our depth and heights as women. The weekend will bring re-empowerment and healing
for our bodies, emotions and Self-concept, through Yoga, sadhana and ritual. Learn to facilitate well-being and inner resource for yourself and others with Reiki. Meet the Elements of your compassionate female warrior-within, exploring the Dakini
Mandala.Create an art collage Mandala in a supportive environment to reflect on, integrate and merge with your Love, wisdom, integrity and power as a woman, reflected through the elements of the Dakini practice. Enjoy the company and wisdom of women together and in contemplative time in nature, to your heart's content. The retreat is taking place at Land of Medicine Buddha, a beautiful retreat center on 108 acres in the Santa Cruz Mountains, with wonderful hiking trails, yurt or cabin accomodations, and serene, light-filled
Yoga halls.
Friday-
3PM or afterwards: arrive and check-in
5-6:45PM Yoga
7PM Dinner
8:30 Evening Intro talk and Slideshow: the Sacred Woman throughout History
Saturday-
7-8AM Sadhana - Chanting, pranayama, kriyas, Sun Salutations, + meditation 8-9AM Yoga asanas
9AM Breakfast
10-12Noon Dakini Mandala Teaching & Practice transmission
12-1:30PM Reiki 1st degree teaching and attunements
1:30PM Lunch, free time--hiking, have a massage, rest......
4:30-6:30PM Reiki 1st degree teaching and attunements, self or partner practice
7PM Dinner
8:30PM Screening of "13 Indigenous Grandmothers" DVD
Sunday- 7-8AM Sadhana - Chanting, pranayama, kriyas, Sun Salutations, + meditation 8-9AM Yoga asanas
9AM Breakfast
10-1PM Dakini Mandala group practice and Mandala Integrational Collage Artwork
1:30PM Lunch
2:30PM-4PM Reiki 2nd degree Attunement and practice, Closing Circle
I enjoy sharing knowledge and practices
for healing and soul-retrieval that I've been
blessed to acquire over 15 years of self-study, travel, and learning relationships with spiritual mentors and medicine people from many cultures. Yoga is my primary outlet for expressing the potential to kindle awareness that I feel exists in the perfection of all our life circumstances for awakening. I also draw from my studies and practice in shamanism and women's mystery traditions and earth-based ritual. I believe that in order to "re-member" who we are--to heal spiritually, emotionally and mentally-- the body and nervous system must be lovingly addressed, through practices that enable steadiness, lightness, and opening. In pursuit of this, I have studied Indian Ayurveda, and nutrition and herbalism from the Western, Chinese and Native American traditions.
Vicki Noble is a well-known and sought-after workshop and retreat leader, who travels all over the world. She is a shaman, a healer, a teacher of Tibetan Buddhism and tantric yoga. She is also an astrologer, the creator of the Motherpeace tarot deck, the author of 9 books, and a mother and a grandmother.
"Vicki is one of the most amazing and influential people I have met in the last two years. She possesses a sterling intellect and infinite compassion and is an uncompromisingly brave and gifted guide in bringing back-to-life these spiritual practices deriving from the sacred Feminine. Her skills and creativity are influenced by many decades of dedication and service as a Yoga teacher, meditator, writer, astrologer, priestess and shamanic practitioner. I highly recommend registering early for this event! It is ever the time for these teachings for women!"
---Phoenix
Cost and Accomodations for the Weekend Retreat at Land of Medicine Buddha:
Single - $446
Double - $356
Shared Yurt (3-4 women) - $326
Camping **only 3 platforms, reserve yours quickly**
Includes use of showers, all facilities. Bring your own tent, up to 3 people
per platform):
1 person with their own tent platform - $338
Two people sharing a tent platform - $298 each
Three people sharing a tent platform - $284 each
Commuting - $276 (limited number, register early!)
May be used in conjunction with:
Bring a friend discount ~ each take $30 off.
Participants must register and pay the deposit of $108 at the same time to recieve the discount. It is not necessary to pay in full at the time of registration to receive the $30 off, which will be credited to you when you complete payment for the retreat. Please make sure you note on the registration form who you are signing up with.
A non-refundable deposit of $108 holds your space and may be sent after registration opens. Click here to send Phoenix an email to put your name on a waiting list for preferred room options or for any help with questions about the retreat. Thank you~! A portion of the proceeds from this retreat go to the 13 Grandmothers' Council.
