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The 6th Annual Yoga As Muse for Authentic Creativity Retreat with Jeffrey Davis Taos, New Mexico, March 20-25, 2011 (Sunday to Friday) at the historic Mabel Dodge Luhan House Special 2011 Focus:TRACKING WONDER, THE PORTAL OF POSSIBILITY Sign up before September 30th, 2010 to receive a discount. Experience the wonder of using yoga as your muse with author and yogi Jeffrey Davis. Six days and five nights of workshop and retreat, solitude and conviviality at the magical Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico, where you can visit with the ghosts of D. H. Lawrence and Georgia O'Keeffe. SPECIAL TOPIC: Wonder is not kid's stuff. It turns out to be rather adult stuff. Wisdom, emotions, and creativity - all borne from wonder. So how do we creative adults with cluttered lives invite in and keep around this stealthy emotion? What conditions and habits common to productive creative people can we draw from and make our own? How can yoga’s science of movement, breath, perception, and mental witnessing aid our explorations? Those questions in part will put us on the trail of wonder. Tracking wonder is mindfulness mixed with delight and creative action. If you’re a writer, photographer, artist, or person aspiring to deepen your creative practice and creative life, then you’re invited to join the tracking party. • You’ll learn what wonder is (as opposed to curiosity, fascination, awe, and joy) and how to recognize it throughout the day as source for renewed insight and enthusiasm. • You’ll practice four habits common to productive creative people to cultivate wonder. • Learn the essence of Yoga As Muse - how to integrate yoga sequences, breath work, & meditation into your creative practice. • You’ll also likely discover how tracking wonder helps you become less reactive and more creative in times of dramatic change and fertile confusion. Afternoon sessions ground us in craft and optional share & feedback sessions using the Center To Page Feedback Method that assures safe and effective experiences. Optional evening activities include meditation, viewing a film about a creative person (performance artist Meredith Monk, artist Louise Nevelson, or tightrope walker Phillipe Petit), a group dinner, and a nighttime creative Yoga Nidra (Yoga of Deep Sleep) experience. The last evening culminates in a Participant Reading & Showing. Ultimately, you will come away with a full tool belt so you can return home ready to enter a portal of possibility in your daily creative life. You will have the freedom to do as you wish at this retreat. Collectively, though, we will explore how to write and create by tracking wonder. Absorb the free time & wide New Mexico space to honor your muse, to walk to the Taos Plaza, to hike in the Taos Ski Valley, to walk-n-talk with a new friend, to visit the Taos Pueblo, to meet with Jeffrey for a private coaching session, or to rejuvenate your spirit & soul. Read this participant's online review of the 4th Annual Hudson Valley retreat from Suite101. Read this YAM Retreat Review. Follow the easy steps below, or call us at 845-679-9441, and we can walk you through the simple online registration process (Sorry, we cannot take credit card information over the phone). REGISTRATION: The limited spaces fill up quickly. Download the Registration Form (PDF) By Mail Please print, fill out, and mail the registration form along with a check for the appropriate amount made payable to Center to Page, LLC at 156 Upper Whitfield Rd, Accord, NY 12404. Online (credit card or check) Please fill out the registration form, and use the PayPal system below. NOTE: Please be sure to add 3% to your PayPal payment.
RATES: Early-Bird Cost if registered in full by September 30: $1150.00 Cost if registered before December 1: $1190.00 Cost after December 1: $1290.00 Add $200 for one of the limited single rooms in Juniper House. Add $330 for one of the limited single rooms in the Main House. Fee includes dinner the first night, breakfast and lunch the next four days, and breakfast the last morning; tasteful double lodging; all tuition; and all materials & "journey goodies." CANCELLATIONS: Cancellations made 45 days of the retreat will be refunded 100%. Cancellations made within 45 to 31 days of the retreat will be refunded 50% or will receive a full credit for a future CenterToPage retreat. Cancellations made within 30 days of the retreat can not be refunded. THE MABEL DODGE LUHAN HOUSE is the place in Taos to explore your creativity. A renegade New York socialite, Mabel Dodge left behind city comforts to carve her creative path on the Taos arroyos. She and her lover Tony built the charming "adobe farmhouse" that we rent for your retreat. Some of you will sleep in rooms where Georgia O'Keeffe, D. H. Lawrence, Ansel Adams, and other creative luminaries rested their spirits.
In March, the last hints of winter fading, the house is quiet. We often have the whole space - minus the delightful staff - to ourselves. The Mabel Dodge chef extraordinaire will pamper us with her renowned breakfast buffets and lunches. Inevitably, spring weather greets us. Available rooms will vary according to retreat size, but register early to request your favorite room. Don't fret about double lodging, though. We'll put night owls with night owls, the quiet ones with quiet ones, and so forth. A few private rooms will be available at an extra cost, but previous participants with roommates often leave with a new friend. * notebook, pen, laptop (if you wish) * comfortable clothes for movement * walking shoes * clothes for temperatures ranging usually in the sunny 50s and 60s (Check the weather, though!) * an inspiring book * anything you've written that you want to develop or read aloud (not required) * copies of the common readings * a flashlight Fly into Albuquerque Airport, rent a car or take a shuttle directly to the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, or drive. We will send detailed information that will make your travel a cinch. 1.845.679.9441 |
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