Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Yoga
& Writing Retreat
February 14-21, 2009
Cost:
$1950 U.S.
($1800 prior to 11/15/08 and in addition, $100
alumni discount)
Above: Lake Atitlan with
volcanos in the back ground.
Yoga and writing retreats in Guatemala with Charles and Patricia Lewis are held each year at a Yoga Retreat Center on the shore of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, considered by many to be the most beautiful lakes in the world.
Since their first collaboration on a Yoga and Writing retreat in 1995, Charles MacInerney and Patricia Lewis have continued to offer 2 or 3 retreats each year, in Texas, Massachussetts, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico. Both are well established in their own respective fields, and together, they work seamlessly to combine, body, mind and soul into a truly unique experience that attracts those who love yoga and writing from around the world.
Surprisingly, many of the participants are yoga students with little writing experience, and many are writers with little yoga experience. Under the sure hands of Patricia and Charles the yogis fall in love with writing, and the writers with yoga.
Registration fee is $1950 for double occupancy delux room. Private rooms may be available for an extra fee, subject to availability. $500 non-refundable deposit required to hold space. Balance due January 15, 2009. Alumni of previous retreats led jointly by Patricia & Charles will receive a $100 discount.
Price includes:
- Accommodations for 8-days and 7-nights
- Three gourmet vegetarian meals per day (fresh fish available upon request)
- Daily Yoga classes (see Schedule)
- Daily Writing workshops (see Schedule)
Please contact Charles prior to booking flights to discuss options for meeting up at the airport, or making your own way to the retreat center.
WHY
MIND/BODY WRITING? Stories are waiting in our bodies to be
told in our own voices. Memories are stored not only in our
brains but, perhaps even more powerfully, they are hidden
in our muscles, our glands, our guts, our breath. They are
wrapped in feelings. The practice of yoga, the joining of
body and mind, can open pathways into the feelings, memories,
stories and images embedded in the tissues.
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This workshop is designed to help you shift your awareness and write from those deeper levels of consciousness. Through Hatha Yoga we will get in touch with our kinesthetic sense of self. We will use special meditation techniques to slow the mind and create and sustain a sense of the sacred throughout the retreat. A variety of special exercises utilizing tactile, visual, auditory, kinesthetic and olfactory "prompts" will help us reach deeply held images, and we will learn how to use Mind Mapping & Clustering techniques to generate, associate and manipulate ideas and information in new ways.
By collaborating, Charles & Patricia attract an interesting mix of students. Patricia draws both amateur and professional writers, many of whom have little or no experience of yoga. Charles draws yoga students who may often have little or no experience with writing.
There
are usually a few students with experience in both writing and yoga, and
a few with no experience in either.
All levels of students are welcome, and all are made to feel comfortable in both the writing and the yoga. Although most participants choose to participate in all of the various activities and exercises, students are encouraged to consider the entire retreat as free time.
It is common to find a student napping in a hammock, kayaking, or reading, while others are participating in a workshop or class.
Patricia is usually assisted by at least two writers and is a master at creating safe environments from which even the most tentative students find the courage to write from the heart and share their unique voice with the group.
Charles is also assisted by at least one other yoga teacher with whom he works closely to ensure that new students get a solid introduction to the basics, and learn how to adapt each exercise to meet their needs and abilities, while more advanced students are challenged and encouraged to take their practice to a new level.
We hope you will be able to join us for Eight days and Seven nights of Creative Writing, Hatha Yoga, Meditation, Visualization, vegetarian cooking, and the renewing pleasures of Villa Sumaya and the incomparable Lake Atitlan.
