Wednesday, May 18, 2011

2 Great Retreats w/Gloria & Greg! Sonoma, Oct 17-20th, Costa Rica, Dec 7th-14th - Experiences that will change lives.


I have led multiple Yoga retreats and I never fail to be amazed at the astonishing effect these excursions to sanctuary have upon those who participate.  Simply put, something magical and mystical happens when a group of high-intentioned individuals make the decision to gather together in a breathtaking natural environment for the purpose of uplifting and expanding their consciousness.  The result is something beyond words, but I will attempt to express the sublime experience of a yoga retreat.



As near as I can explain it, something happens while at a yoga retreat that breaks the bonds of ordinary awareness and expands the consciousness of the individual to a level that would otherwise have taken months or years of ordinary living to attain.  This acceleration of evolution is mystical, meaning that the explanation of the change is beyond logic, reason, and commonsense rationale.  The term from quantum physics, “quantum leap”, comes to mind.  A quantum leap in physics is the phenomena where an electron orbiting the nucleus of an atom changes its position without having traversed the space between its old and new orbit and without taking any time to do so.  As scientifically verifiable as this phenomena is, it is also on the order of a miracle, for science has no explanation how this effect happens.

The great metaphysical question is now posed:  if an electron can do this, can a human consciousness do it as well?  Can a human consciousness make the jump from a lower state of awareness to a much higher, more powerful, more intelligent, more loving state of consciousness instantaneously?  And the overwhelming proof throughout the history of mankind is a resounding “YES!”  However, there is something a human desiring such a change must do in order to be eligible for such grace to descend upon them:  they must put themselves in the position for such a transformation to take place.  They must be willing to break the bonds of ordinary routine and engage a willingness, open-mindedness, honesty, and adventuresome spirit and seek experience that has the potential to produce such radical change.

A Yoga retreat is exactly just this sort of departure from the routine and ordinary, the commonplace and normative experience of regular daily life.  The Yoga practitioners who engage the willingness and eagerness of spirit and dive into the adventure of a yoga retreat put themselves into a vortex of radically expanding potentials and possibilities that would otherwise be unavailable had they not made such a decision.  A new world of experience, insight, realization, and fulfillment comes available to the yoga student who makes the choice to breakout of the ordinary by attending an excursion to a Yogic sanctuary because they followed their heart’s intention with an action that facilitates their heart’s desire.  It is a formula for transcendent experience that works every time.

This is what a yoga retreat can do for you.  It can lift you up out of old patterns of behavior and perception and set you on a new path toward your fulfillment and heart’s desire.  The wonderful human potential teacher Dr. Wayne Dyer loves to quote the great physicist from the early 20th century, Max Planck, who said “when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”  The implications of this spiritual, scientific, and metaphysical Truth are staggering.  What this axiom really means is that the effort expended to alter one’s perception is infinitely more powerful and dynamic than any amount of physical effort expended to change external circumstances.


Gloria & Greg specialize in local and international retreats.  Our local extravaganza this year will be at the gorgeous Mayacamas Ranch in Sonoma, October 17th - 20th.  Gloria's one of a kind international retreat will be in Costa Rica with her beloved teaching partner Deb Stone, December 7th - 14th. 

For more information and to register for Mayacamas Ranch in Sonoma in October, please visit:
 http://www.theyogafusion.com/retreats.php

For more information and to register for Costa Rica in December, please visit:
http://www.gloriousyoga.com/Retreats.html




The Yoga Fusion
2217-N San Ramon Valley Blvd
San Ramon Ca 94583

Thank you.





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