We're bringing back Yoga+Food, and we want to tell you about some amazing retreats happening at Heartland this Fall! A bunch of art-themed offerings, a Thanksgiving retreat, and retreats tailored for just the bros and just the ladies.
Love, FonLin
Retreat Discounts! Greenhouse YTT grads receive 10% off Yoga and Yarn retreat Dec 2. If you came on Yoga and Yarn last year you get 10% off too.
Wednesday, Nov 9
Yoga + Food + Hannah’s Pics from India Hannah Harpole is back from a several months long trek across India. Along the way she has meditated at the foot of of the Himalayas, learned the art of Ayuvedic cooking, studied in Mysore, and and walked the beaches of Goa. On Wednesday, Nov 9, she teaches a yoga class and gives a presentation of her travels.
Find out about our upcoming retreat to Goa in February too!
Wednesday, Nov 9, 7 pm, 281 North 7th St. #12, at Havemeyer St., Williamsburg, 917-655-5671
Heartland Retreats:
Heartland is an amazing, beautiful retreat center upstate, in Goshen, NY. This season at Heartland is a time to explore yoga in relation to music, art, and craft. We believe that yoga and art are intimately connected. Yoga is a path to the heart, and what is art but a reflection of the heart? We'll kick it off with a visit to Storm King Art Center and spend our time making music, painting, and knitting and crocheting. All the while eating local organic meals prepared by loving chefs. See below for details. www.theclearings.com
Heartland Work Study We are looking for a few good souls for the work study program. Trade work for time at retreats. Open hearted and hard working persons please apply! For any questions regarding retreats, work study, or if you would like to book a retreat, please contact FonLin at fonlin.nyeu@gmail.com, 917-655-5671
Heartland Schedule (see below for details about each retreat)
Oct 28-30
Halloween at Heartland and Storm King Art Center. Donation retreat.
Nov 4-6
Limitless Heart Yoga Weekend Retreat with Lee Schmidt
Live music with Seth Lieberman
Nov 18-19,
Broga: Yoga for Bros by Bros, A men's only retreat
With its founder Michael Lanzano, Stevie WF, Dominick Schiavone and Paul Manza
Nov 24-27
Thanskgiving Triple Treat!
With Summer, Julianna, and Paul
Eat tons of good (local) food and then do lots of yoga
Dec 2-4
Yoga and Yarn
A Women's only retreat!
Yoga for women, Yarn for warmth.
With Hannah, Christine, and FonLin
(Greenhouse YTT grads receive 10% discount)
Dec 9-11
Yoga and Painting
Yoga and Water Color retreat with Luke and Alison
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Oct 28-30
Halloween at Heartland and Storm King Art Center
Join us for a friends and family weekend! Halloween in the woods and a visit to Storm King Art Center. Nature based artworks and outdoor sculpture. Donation based weekend, suggested donation $25/day. Includes food and lodging.
Nov 4-6
Limitless Heart Yoga Weekend Retreat with Lee Schmidt
Live music and Kirtan chanting Seth Lieberman
Underneath it all there is limitless wisdom, infinite love, great joy.
Let’s occupy the heart with love!
Move together, be still together and let our path of yoga take us deep into the heart.
Set the breath free and unfetter the channels of energy in your body that are keeping you from being inspired towards the ultimate freedom.
Open the space in your heart and liberate your mind from the things that hold you back to recognize the sacred within. Come face to face with your inner wisdom. Smile!
Meditation
Breathing exercises and long asana classes
Yoga Sutra and Buddhist text discussions
Live Music class and Chanting
Fire ceremony
Delicious vegetarian meals
Hiking and relaxing in the beauty of nature at Heartland
Have fun together and alone.
All included $300
Early registration $275 by October 25
Includes meals and accomodations
For more info please contact Lee at Lee leejschmidt@gmail.com or call (917) 653-2893
Nov 11-13
Heartland Yoga Teacher Training
To inquire about Yoga Teacher Training please contact Paul at paulmanza@gmail.com
Nov 18-19
Broga: Yoga for Bros by Bros
with Paul, Michael, and Stevie
With its founder Michael Lanzano, Stevie WF, Dominick Schiavone and Paul Manza
A men's only retreat
How does yoga can suit the American man, without apology for, or the pressure to be, what
we are and what we are not? In order to change the American social, personal, and political landscape, we must re-imagine the American male. This weekend will definitely include yoga, and might also include shooting guns, lumbering, sleeping outside, knot tying, cooking together, crying, feeling, chanting, hugging, talking it out, and serious inversions. We will offer ancient and modern tools to move beyond the societal constraints toward enhancement and freedom.
We will examine our strengths, vulnerability, (in)flexibility, in order to create and foster a yoga practice that allows us to be who we are without pressure or apology. We will come together as men to delve into our own selves with honesty, humility, and bravery, to re-imagine what it means to be an American male and move beyond societal expectations.
Society prescribes what it is to be a man, oftentimes confounding what we permit ourselves to become. We feel this in our bodies and sense this in our thoughts. At times, our spirits are conscious of a tension. Let this be a weekend of deeply exploring who we are as men, and practicing deeply what kind of men we want to be. Let freedom be our guideline. Let us support our brothers in their journeys without expectations. No rules, aside from the urgency to be present, ought to shape us. Through the practice of yoga, we will stretch beyond our perceived limitations and be creative with our masculinity.
Suggested reading:
The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire, by David Deida
The Last American Man, by Elizabeth Gilbert
Cost: $325, Includes meals and accommodations
Nov 24-26
Thanskgiving Triple Treat!
With Summer, Julianna, and Paul
Eat tons of good (local) food and then do lots of yoga
Come have Thanksgiving with us! Your fave Greenhouse and Kusala teachers are joining forces to bring us an amazing Thanksgiving offering. Summer, Julianna, and Paul each have their own unique teaching styles, but they are all heart, and all in one weekend! FonLin and Stevie bring you their own authentic cooking styles, bringing together ancient cooking traditions with some serious heartiness. All local and all organic. And who doesn't like homemade granola!?!
4 day retreat: $425 Thursday, Nov 24-27
3 day retreat: $325 Friday, Nov 25-27
Camp $$275-225
Includes meals and accommodations
Dec 2-4
Yoga and Yarn A Women's only retreat!
Yoga for women, Yarn for warmth.
(Greenhouse YTT grads and previous participants receive 10% discount)
Yoga and Yarn focuses on yoga practices that are specific for women's needs. Meals will also be geared toward women's nutrition.
Yoga with Hannah Harpole (who has just come back from India, and has lots of stories to share!). We will explore yoga poses that are specific for women, as well as techniques for regulating one's menstrual cycle with the moon. We will do moon salutations, learn when to do inversions and backbends, explore pranayama and mudras that help balance the hormones.
Yarn with Christine Brandt. Knitters and crocheters of all levels are welcome on this ladies only retreat! Beginners will learn the basics of knitting and crocheting. From casting on, knit, purl, binding off, all the way to finishing your own piece for the winter. More advanced knitters will learn to read patterns or work on their own individual pieces.
FonLin will cook meals that based on Ayurvedic and Chinese traditions that focus on ladie's needs.
Hannah Harpole isinterested in how the physical act of creating space between the joints, muscle, tendons, ligaments, cells, blood of our bodies results in space within our thinking. She has also had extensive experience in women's health. Her classes are physical rigorous, and she is equally dedicated to the Ashtanga and B.K.S Iyengar lineage. Hannah recently traveled in India where she was honored to study in Mysore with Sharat, Rishikesh with Usha, and Dharamkot at the Himalayan Iyengar Institute. She was also was taught traditional Tibetan Meditation by, Sonam, a Monk of the Dalai Lamas family.Hannah also creates performances, films, and cooks vegetarian food.
FonLin is also a yoga teacher, but on this retreat she is going to cook for you, in an way that will make your body and mind feel amazing, using Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine traditions. Food to make your chi move!
Christine is an avid crochet and knitter. She can pretty much crochet or knit anything. Some advice on buying yarn and needles: For first time knitters, a good place to start is with a thick, chunky yarn, it will be easier to learn on. Find something that you will be excited to work with, that feels good to the touch that's in a color that you like. Get a pair of big needles, size 10 or larger. If yarn stores make you nervous, no worries, needles and yarn will be provided!
A great yarn store to get you started: Downtown Yarns, 45 Avenue A, New York City New York 10009, (212) 995-5991
http://downtownyarns.com/index.htm
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Downtown-Yarns/119283831462593
Cost: $325
Early Bird Special: $300 by Nov 15
Includes meals and accommodations
Dec 9-11
Yoga and Painting
Yoga and Water Color retreat with Luke Simon and Alison
3 day retreat: $350
Dec 9-11
Yoga and Painting
Yoga and Water Color retreat with Luke Simon and Alison
For beginners and devotees alike, vinyasa and restorative yoga with Luke, watercolor workshop with Allison, healthy meals, natural environs. Maximum 12 participants, $350/ea
For more info go to: www.future-saints.com/yoga-watercolor-retreat or email lukeprakash@gmail.com for more info
Luke Simon Luke has been exploring and enjoying yoga for 10 years. Originally from New Mexico, his love for yoga has taken him to many beautiful places and teachers. In 2006 he completed 200 hours of Hatha Yoga, Pranayama & Meditation training at the Sivananda Ashram in Kerala, India. He also hugged Amma for the first time, and has been deeply inspired by her hearty lifestyle of 'embracing the world'. In 2009 he completed Laughing Lotus' 200-hour Vinyasa training in New York City, where he continues to practice, study and teach.
Luke's class combines alignment and awareness with rhythm to bring back grace to the body and mind. Equally challenging and relaxing, classes usually include Sanskrit chanting, insight from the Yoga teachings and some good music. He sends great gratitude to all his teachers, including Amma, Walt Whitman and Rumi. Please visit his blog at future-saints.com.
Allison Maletz is a contemporary watercolor and mixed media artist. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London. She has taught people from age 8-80 and currently leads Foundation courses in Drawing and Painting at Marymount Manhattan College, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn Artist Gym, and the P.I. Art Center. She has exhibited various mediums in the Liverpool Biennial, New Contemporaries UK, Zoo Art Italy, The Royal Watercolor Society in London, and the Moscow Biennale for Young Artists at the MMoMA.You can see her work at www.allisonmaletz.com
It is her hope that by teaching watercolor she can help to resurrect one of the most well respected and cherished forms of artistic expression to date.
Heartland Yoga Teacher Training To inquire about yoga teacher training please contact Paul at paulmanza@gmail.com
