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India Retreat: Sacred River Tour & Kerala

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YOGARASAYANA INDIA RETREAT FALL 2014

SACRED RIVER TOUR & KERALA

September 26 – October 14, 2014
with Arun Deva and Jutta Hecht
Yoga, Ayurveda, Sacred Rivers, Temples, Taj Mahal, Regional Cuisines, Elephants and More…
ITINERARY:
Sept 26: Arrive Trivandrum early morning: transported on to Somatheeram/Manaltheeram

Sept 26-30: 5 days of rest, rejuvenation, massages, swimming, yoga, ayurveda and yummy foods: Soak it in!

Oct 1: Neyyar Dam: Early morning visit to elephants. Sivananda Ashram.

Oct 2:  Flight to Delhi, capitol of India.

Oct 3: Rishikesh by train. Traditional evening aarti on the Ganges.

Oct 4: Morning White Water rafting. Later in the day, visit Parmath Niketan on the other bank of the river and stay for another amazing evening aarti.

Oct 5: Hike to Neelkanth Temple.

Oct 6: Explore Rishikesh.

Oct 7: Agra to see Taj Mahal by sunset

Oct 8: Visit Agra Fort, then onwards to Mathura.

Oct 9: Vrindavan. Eternal Home Of Radha Krishna: radhe radhe!

Oct 10: Varanasi.

Oct 11: River boat ride, Assi Ghat, Ganges aarti.

Oct 12: Sarnath. Where the Budhha first turned the Wheel of Dharma.

Oct 13: Delhi. Last chance to shop before heading home.

As for all the details:

PRICING:
Early Bird Special: $3800 per person.
Deposit must be received by June 1.
Full payment must be completed by July 1st.
(After July 1st any outstanding deposit will apply towards Regular Price.)

Regular Price: After June 1: $4100 per person.

Valid till August 1.
After Aug 1, prices will rise again to meet additional costs of late bookings.To learn more or to sign up for the Retreat: Please write Arun Deva at yogarasayana@gmail.com.

The above prices include the following:
At Somatheeram/Manaltheeram:

  • Garden Room Double Accommodation (Upgrades including to Single Occupancy available at appropriate extra charges)
  • 3 full meals each day (Except on day we travel to Neyyar Dam: Breakfast will be packed)
  • Daily Vinyasa Krama classes with Arun
  • 3 Afternoon Ayurveda Lectures with Arun/Jutta
  • One Cooking Lesson with Resort Chef
  • One afternoon excursion to Ayurvedic Medicine Plant
  • Airport Transfer to and from Trivandrum.
  • Evening entertainment (as offered by resort)
  • One excursion to Neyyar Dam.

On Sacred River Tour:

  • All group transfers, sightseeing and excursions.
  • All currently applicable taxes.
  • Most excursions entrance fees as applicable are included. (You will be informed of any additional that we did not plan for if and as they arise)
  • All accommodations based on twin sharing basis. (Please note, that the surcharge for single occupancy here is substantially more as they charge by the room)
  • All rail, air and road transportation included.

What is NOT included:

  • Airfare not specifically included above, including to/from your own starting and ending destinations, whether in India or elsewhere.
  • Tipping
  • Additional costs you may incur as a result of taking this trip including but not limited to passports, visas and other incidentals.
  • Additional incidentals you may incur such as laundry, phone calls, alcoholic beverages, any foods or drinks not specifically covered above, or any items of a personal nature that are not expressly mentioned above..
  • All meals not expressly mentioned above. (This includes most lunches and dinners on the Sacred River Tour.)
  • Any transportation not expressly included above.
To learn more or to sign up for the Retreat: Please write Arun Deva at yogarasayana@gmail.com.

Greetings from distant shores…

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Ah Greece, you are enticing and sensual. I still remember the face you showed me the first time I visited you. You did not even share your amazing azure seas with me. Just the din and clamor of protests and discontent in the heart of Athens and a lot of smoke and confusion. I left you sick as a dog and yet you called me back. And took me to a hillside of olive groves looking down on crystal clear aquamarine waters. Last year with you was amazing. Ah but this year. This year in the same spot you started to heal me. What an amazing adventure this Retreat was! The waters, the intimate group hungry for Ayurveda, the heartfelt foods and the clearness of snorkeling your pristine waters with your colorful fish.

Now, enriched, I am on my way to India to meet another intimate group of yogin for the pure yogarasayana experience at Somatheeram! And a palace, temple, tiger and culinary experience par superior: Rajasthan!

As we live, we flash in and out of conscious states that shift like quicksand. Nurture like ambrosia. Keen our senses with resolve. Open our hearts wide. Bring out our essential truths (and sometimes desperate deceptions). And allow us occasionally to make the exactly perfect decisions that can only come from the frictionless balance between willing and surrendering.

Below please find links to recent articles published by Light On Ayurveda Journal (a peer reviewed journal) and Whole Life Times.

Next up on the Yogarasayana Journey: November in Salt Lake. Workshops in So Cal.

May peace be upon you,
Arun

Articles:

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Yoga’s Power to Heal: The eight limbs of the Royal Path

 

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Our most honored chefs: Stavros & Julia

View from Mani-Sonnenlink Bio-boutique Retreat Center

View from Mani-Sonnenlink Bio-boutique Retreat Center

Radiating peace after yoga cikitsa

Radiating peace after yoga cikitsa

The most healing foods

The most healing foods

Radiating joy after radiating peace :)

Radiating joy after radiating peace :)

 

Summer 2013 Schedule: Texas, Greece & India!

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DALLAS, TX: JULY 26-28

End of July is Dallas, TX for an Ayurveda 
Immersion: 
So pleased to return to Ricky Tran’s Krama Yoga Center:
The Secrets Of Ayurveda: Deepening Your Yoga Journey
July 26-28.

This Special Weekend Immersion deepens the yogic journey. In the Vedic sciences, it is Ayurveda that is relegated the responsibility of our health paradigm. For thousands of years, Ayurveda included yoga practice and therapy as one of its tools. Along with diet, lifestyle, treatments and herbal medicines. Come learn how take care of your body, mind and your spirit.

SEPTEMBER 6 – 13 MANI, GREECE 
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Dear Friend,
One of the highlights of 2012 was our Ayurveda retreat in Mani with Arun Deva, renowned Ayurveda therapist and lecturer, and his subsequent seminars and consultations in Athens at NYSY. Ayurveda is a 5,000-year-old system of natural healing, that is based on understanding the balance between the five fundamental elements that make up the universe–space (akasha), air (vayu), fire (agni), water (apu) and earth (prithvi)-and also make up the human physiology. Understanding this classical Indian medicine system or ‘Science of Life’, one can understand how nature works, and how bodies get in and out of balance. It gives us tools on how to eat, exercise, think, and how to live in an optimum way.

While Arun was here we asked him for an in-depth training in Ayurveda for Yoga teachers and practitioners. Now this in-depth course is offered for the first time in Greece through this special retreat in Mani this September. Aimed at giving us a good understanding and a great experience of its benefits, this Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy Immersion retreat will include theory, practice, delicious ayurvedic meals and time to relax, swim, and connect with a great team of practitioners.

Please check the information and register quickly as spaces are limited:

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in Mani-Sonnenlink

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with
Arun Deva,
DASc, AYT, ERYT-500, YTRx
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&

Vivi Letsou, 
M.A., B.S., ERYT-500,
offering Morning Yoga

Long time Ayurveda Therapist and Lecturer, Arun Deva, joins us from Los Angeles for an in-depth study of the secrets of Ayurveda, Yoga, and Yoga Therapy. Extremely valuable for Yoga Teachers and serious students of Yoga, this course will give you many wonderful tools for understanding and applying the healing aspects of Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy into your life, practice, and teaching.

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Daily Schedule Includes
7.30-8am Pranayama & Meditation
8-9.45am Dynamic Yoga Practice
10am Healthy, holistic & Ayurvedic Breakfast with traditional Mani produce
11-1.30pm Morning Lecture: The Science of Ayurveda & Yoga Therapy
1.30pm Lunch
5.30 or 6pm Afternoon Lecture
8pm Light Dinner, Chanting, Meditation
10pm Evening Rest
First Day, Sept 6, Starts at 5pm.
Last Day, Sept 13, Ends at 2pm.
 

Register Today

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KERALA~RAJASTHAN, INDIA!
SEPTEMBER 22 – OCTOBER 10
we still have some room. Jutta and I welcome you to join us:
yoga, ayurveda, massage, temples, forts, wildlife & adventure

JUNE & BEYOND: From SLC to India!

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Hari Om!

In the last 5 years the yogarasayana travel cycle has grown to include many new and exotic places including the mysterious Greek Isles!

So it is with great pleasure that we return to more familiar haunts such as Salt Lake and Las Vegas and the amazing Moksha Festival right here in its home town! And find another (sort of) exotic locale: Boston~ for a Presentation on Ayurveda for SYTAR: the grand Conference of the International Association Of Yoga Therapists (IAYT).

All this before departing for a teacher training module in distant shores: Mani, Greece! Please come join yogarasayana for this, yogin-s! 

And a new direction in the India Retreats: From the familiar and safe haven of Somatheeram in Kerala to the wild adventuring in Rajasthan! Early Bird runs out soon!

And in between, in July, is the first Yogarasayana Study Course for Yoga Teachers and advanced and curious students: Weaving The Basket to be held in the lush mountains of Utah.

If any of this sounds like your cup of tea, please read on…

MAY 29 – JUNE 12, SALT LAKE CITY

consults, treatments, vinyasa krama, & workshops

JUNE 13 – 16, BOSTON

SYTAR CONFERENCE
Ayurveda 101 for Yoga Therapists
June 13, 2013
1:00 – 4:30 PM

In this seminar you will get an overview of Ayurvedic medicine and learn about the basic theories and practices that underpin this ancient sister science to yoga. We will cover the knowledge base in the first hour and move into how Ayurveda overlaps and compliments yoga and yoga therapy specifically in the final sessions. The seminar will be a balanced mix of lecture and experiential offerings and will support Section 1.31 of the Standards: Knowledge of the basic perspectives on health and disease from yoga and Ayurveda relevant to the practice of yoga therapy.The presentation will include the following:

  • Hilary Garivaltis, Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda: Historical overview and introduction to Ayurvedic Theory
  • Larissa Hall Carlson, RYT, Kripalu Yoga teacher and Ayurvedic Consultant: How to nuance your yoga practice and pranayama with Ayurveda
  • Arun Deva, DAS, AYT, ERYT-500: Making The Case For Uniting Yoga and Ayurveda For Therapeutic Purposes: A Comparative Overview Of Supportive Principles

JUNE 20 – 23, LAS VEGAS
consults, vinyasa krama & ayurvedic cooking

JUNE 29 – 30, TEMECULA

The Dharma of Food

Saturday, June 29th
1:00-4:00 PM
In this workshop we will discover the Ayurvedic approach to food with special reference to our current food dilemma.
$35/$45 at the door

The Sacred Art of Eating:

An Ayurvedic Cooking Workshop
Sunday, June 30th / $45
This 3-hr hands on cooking & Ayurvedic eating workshop is 
limited to 15! Please plan on reserving your space in advance as it will sell out fast.It is being held at a private home in Temecula.

Please pay and register online

JULY 12 – 14, LOS ANGELES – MOKSHA FESTIVAL

Middle of June is the Moksha Festival, LA’s own Kirtan, Yoga and Ayurveda Fest.
Arvind Chittumalla has put together a stellar lineup for 3 days of celebrating including Jai Uttal, Snatam Kaur, Wah!, and MC Yogi.
The yoga and Ayurveda lineup is also pretty amazing and I am so happy to be included in both:
Offering a yoga class: Vinyasa Cikitsa Krama – A Therapeutic Flow. by Arun Deva
And a lecture: Why Vegan, Why Raw, Why Now – A contemporary Ayurvedic perspective

JULY 26 – AUGUST 4, UTAH

Yogarasayana Study Course: Weaving The Basket

10 Day Intensive in The Mountains of Utah
For Teachers & Dedicated Students

SEPTEMBER 6 – 13 MANI, GREECE 

Beginning September takes me to Greece and the beautiful Mani-Sonnenlink Resort for Ayurveda & Yoga Therapy ImmersionCredit: 35 Hours
*NYSY 500 Hour Master Yoga Teachers Diploma
*Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Credit
*Arunachala Yoga & AyurvedaLong time Ayurveda Therapist and Lecturer, Arun Deva, joins us from Los Angeles for an in-depth study of the secrets of Ayurveda, Yoga, and Yoga Therapy. Offered for the first time outside of his native India and the United States, this Ayurveda Immersion course will lead us into the science of Ayurveda and the deeper studies of Yoga and Yoga Therapy. Extremely valuable for Yoga Teachers and serious students of Yoga, this course will give you many wonderful tools for understanding and applying the healing aspects of Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy into your life, practice, and teaching.For more information on the course, please click here.

SEPTEMBER 22 – OCTOBER 10, INDIA

yoga, ayurveda, massage, temples, forts, wildlife & adventure

From Greece I fly to join Jutta Hecht for the fifth annual Yogarasayana India Retreat:
Anywhere along this journey that you would like to join me, I would be the happier and better for your company.
Namaste~
With love & light,
Arun