Dynamic Yoga Retreat in Bali with Louisa Raszyk, 16-21st April 2016
Dear students and friends,
I hope this email/post finds you well and enjoying the cosy Parisian winter. I am still in Australia and will be back in Paris this June.
AtI have just visited the magical island of Bali, researching remote, authentic yoga retreat centres to find the perfect place to offer retreats to my Australian and European students (well, it’s not quite halfway, but it’s the best option I could think of!). I am happy to say that I have found the perfect retreat centre with a wonderful, professional staff, in the secluded north of the island, far from any touristed areas. Tejakula and Singaraja are some of the oldest spiritual centres on the island, and the beautiful deep Balinese spiritual energy is alive and well here. I will be holding the retreat from 16th -21st April, 2016, and if you wish to arrive earlier or stay longer, this can be arranged.
Villa Boreh is a very beautiful and special place that was built 15 years ago specifically to hold yoga retreats. The perfectly kept Balinese bungalow accomodations are woven seamlessly though leafy tropical gardens and small temple spaces, swimming pools and rest areas, cool quiet spa rooms, open air bathrooms nestled in tropical gardens, and all of this right on the ocean’s edge. It really is an exceptional place that has been constructed according to geobiology under the instruction of local priest and shamans using mostly Balinese architecture and materials. It is intimate and traditional, but still quietly and unobtrusively offers all the conveniences of a quality resort.
I propose a six day, five night retreat, offering six meditation, pranayama and asana classes in the mornings, and six late afternoon meditation and restorative, nourishing classes. You will have afternoon time free to simply relax, doze, read a book, do more yoga! Or explore, making the most of optional activities available: onsite spa treatments, visits to waterfalls, temples, the local healer, cultural tours with knowledgable and bilingual guides, scuba diving, sunrise dolphin excursion, etc. I have purposefully chosen a venue that is very remote – there are no distractions, no nearby town and tourist attractions, so that the particiapnts are invited to enjoy the experience of a true yoga retreat.
The first class will be the evening of your arrival, the last will be the morning of your departure. If you don’t know about me, please see the website of my Parisian studio, the Red Earth Centre, which I founded in 2003 www.redearthcentre.com. I am a Senior Dynamic Yoga teacher and shiatsu practitioner with 20 years’ teaching experience. The yoga I teach is based on self-inquiry and uses safe, accessible movements and shapes to allow the mind to soften and merge with a deeper consciousness. In doing so, we naturally become more intimate with life, more open to the present moment, and more present and open to those around us. The classes are appropriate for all people who do not have major injuries, illnesses or disabilities, in which case personal instruction is recommended.
The retreat will cost €1050 (AUS$1600) and this includes:
- transfers
- 12 yoga, meditation and postural classes (30 hours)
- all meals – delicious, healthy and prepared using Villa Boreh’s own organic garden produce
- beautiful shared accommodation (single accommodation available at an extra cost according to availability)
- use of the entire grounds including three pools
- fully serviced rooms with organic onsite spa products provided
- access to the custom built yoga shala and equipment at any time
- use of sea kayaks and snorkelling equipment
There are also optional activities which you may choose – onsite spa treatments, tours taking you to waterfalls, temples, the local healer, cultural tours with knowledgable and bilingual guides, scuba diving, sunrise dolphin excursion, etc.
I would love to see you there and to spend time doing yoga in this beautiful place.
Email me redearthcentre@yahoo.com if you are interested and would like to register.
With love
Louisa
Tantra Yoga Workshop with Godfrey Devereux – May 20th to 22nd
Tantra Yoga Workshop with Godfrey Devereux
We are very happy to announce that Godfrey will be back to the Red Earth Centre in Paris next Spring proposing a wonderful workshop. Places are limited and there is a lot of interest already shown, so please reserve soon to avoid any disappointment.
Friday, May 20th, 19.30pm
Talk: “The tantric roots of yoga” (Entrance free – please write or call to reserve, places limited)
The human body, as an extension of nature is an expression of the feminine principle. Yoga posture praxis cannot work if it is approached, even if only unconsciously, as a patriarchal, ascetic practice of transcendence. This talk will explore the tantric roots of yoga posture praxis and the deep fertility of the pleasures, obvious and subtle that it can provide.
Saturday, May 21st, 10am to 1.30pm – 3pm to 6.30pm
Making love, the art of intimacy
Making love is not a skill, but a frame of mind. Becoming intimate with your own presence as love is the only way to become able to be genuinely intimate in love with others. This workshop will explore the experiences, attitudes, and tools that can make genuine love a real possibility, while remaining clothed. Using yoga posture praxis and meditation godfrey will use refined and focussed instruction to invite you to experience the deep, impersonal love at the heart of human consciousness. Open to anyone interested in love and intimacy regardless of experience in yoga. There will be no sexual activity during this workshop, as we will be exploring the love upon which satisfying sexual activity depends.
Sunday, May 22nd, 10am to 1.30pm – 3pm to 6.30pm
The art of being pleasure
Pleasure is the natural expression of conscious awareness, and the subtle heart of the human body. To become free from the destructive pursuit of external and intense pleasures and the dependencies they generate, we need some alternative. Dynamic Tantra uses movement, stillness, intimate instruction and contact to access and release core sexual energy so that the pleasure nature of the body reveals itself. Then, perhaps, your experience of simply being alive can provide a satisfaction more lasting and nourishing than that provided by externally driven experiences, and you can find a genuine ease and freedom in your sexual nature. There will be no sexual activity during this workshop, as we will be exploring the energies upon which satisfying sexual activity depends.
Cost:
Friday talk: free
Saturday session: 100€
Sunday session: 100€
Both days 190€
Early bird (until April 15th) both sessions 180€
Registration open, places limited: contact
Workshop “Empty hand massage” February 28th – 10am to 6pm
Empty hand massage
with Mac McEvoy
Sunday February 28th – 10am to 6pm
Would you like to:
Learn how to communicate more deeply with your partner or friends?
Learn a skill that complements your yoga practice?
Just have fun for a day?
Empty Hand Massage Training Sunday 28th February Red Earth Centre
Most massage seeks to do or change something. This is different. It is about simply being with another person, communicating through meditative touch. ‘Empty Hand’ means touching with no intention. In this course we will explore how to deepen that touch, to begin to explore the mystery of another person’s feeling. Feeling not separate, feeling connected, feeling whole.
Mutual trust and respect are fundamental to being able to give and receive an impersonally loving touch. This course is not sexual or in any way intrusive or exposing. The emphasis is on gentleness and warmth, celebrating openness but cultivating sensitivity.
On this one day course you will learn how to give a simple, but complete and satisfying, whole body massage. Everyone will receive a certificate and a detailed set of notes.
About Mac
My interest in massage has developed over the last twenty years together with that in yoga and meditation. They seem to fit naturally together. I have studied a wide variety of forms, from Swedish massage through Thai and Ayervedic techniques.
My main influence recently has been Ma Sagarpriya DeLong with whom I have studied intensively for several years. Ma Sagarpriya is a world-renowned master of intuitive massage and the author of several books on the subject. She confirmed for me the notion that massage works best when not attempting to do or fix anything but rather as a profound form of joint meditation through touch, a celebration of being.
Tarif: 80 € (before February 1st)/ 90€ (after February 1st)
Registration open, places limited
Contact: redearthcentre@gmail.com
07 82 92 45 97
“Xandranamaskar” (moon salutation) December 19th, 15:00 to 18:00
Workshops “Back to Basics”
Saturday, December 19th – 15;00 to 18:00
Xandranamaskar (moon salutation)
Just before the holidays come and discover this soft and dynamic sequence.
Xandramaskar helps not only to warm up but specially to awaken and discover the intelligence of the body.
Xandranamaskar is the base sequence of the Dynamic Yoga Training Method. Many variations can be developed through this sequence, going from the obvious to the more subtle, from the easier to the more difficult in a harmonic and gradual progression (vinyasakrama).
In this workshop, led by Sergio, Xandranamaskar will be presented, explored and discussed in a way that eventually it can become a base for a more sensitive self practice.
Open to all levels, specially interesting for those who just begun with the Dynamic Yoga classes or for those who wish to incorporate themselves to the regular Dynamic Yoga classes. Also fruitful to more experienced practicionners wishing to uncover the delights of a more subtle and sensitive practice!
Tarif: 30 € (reserved)/ 35 € (drop in)
Workshop in French (English possible)
Registration open:
redearthcentre@gmail.com
07 82 92 45 97
Immersion Module 5 “Deepening”
Deepening, Immersion 5:
This last module of five, led by yoga master Godfrey Devereux focusses on applying the Seven Universal Actions of Yoga Posture Praxis by way of the Dynamics of Integrity to a range of deepening postures. These include backbends and simple arm balances for strengthening and integrating the body, and inversions for refining neuromuscular integrity and deepening internalisation. This immersion is open to anyone, teachers as well as pratititioners, interested in developing deep biomechnical integrity for application in more challenging postures
ATTENTION: Only two places available for this module! A previous contact with the Dynamic Yoga Training Method is required to participate in this last module!
Registration open for all modules. Places very limited!
Prices
Module full (4 days) : 380 €
Weekend only (2 days) : 200€
Only posture practice classes (9:30 to ca. 12:00) 45 €/class (only possible if beginning on Saturday)
Information et inscription
redearthcentre@gmail.com
07 82 92 45 97
09 50 31 57 25
Immersion Module 4 “Opening” 14th to 17th November
Based entirely on action and experience, the Dynamic Yoga Immersions constitute a comprehensive grounding in yoga posture praxis that can serve as a powerful basis for both satisfying self-praxis and effective teaching.
Led by Senior Dynamic Yoga Trainer Olivia Crooks assisted in Paris by Sergio Teodosio, each of the five modules is complete in itself, and supported by comprehensive notes on yoga posture praxis.
Each module can be attended individually.
The Immersion Modules are open to those who would like to deepen their understanding of yoga practise (which includes those even beginning their journey of yoga) and to those wishing to teach (or already teaching) yoga. Completion of all four immersion modules will make you eligible to continue on to the dynamic yoga ‘Teaching Skills’, 3 week, residential course in France in August 2015. Which is a 400hr Teacher training.
OPENING IMMERSION FOUR: focusses on using the Seven Universal Actions of Yoga Posture Praxis to develope the power, flexibility and resilience of the spine and its supporting musculature. You will learn how to apply the Dynamics of Integrity to mobilise and strengthen the spine as the core of the body, and the heart of yoga posture praxis. This immersion presents the dynamic extended flow of Suryanamaskr, and is open to anyone, teachers as well as pratititioners, interested in the bionechanical and energetic integrity of the bodimind. It is especially fruitful for newcomers to yoga posture praxis, and anyone who considers themselves to be an advanced practitioner.
Next Date for the immersions at the Red Earth Centre:
Module 5 – Deepening, 12th to 15th December 2015 (with Godfrey Devereux!)
ATTENTION: this last module is nearly full, please act quickly if you like to attend. Las module only open to students with a base in the Dynamic Yoga Training Method.
Registration open for all modules. Places very limited!
Prices
Module full (4 days) : 380 €
Weekend only (2 days) : 200€
Only posture practice classes (9:30 to ca. 12:00) 45 €/class (only possible if beginning on Saturday)
Information et inscription
redearthcentre@gmail.com
07 82 92 45 97
09 50 31 57 25
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Open doors at the Red Earth Centre – September 27th 2015
The Red Earth Centre opens its doors on Sunday, September 27th for a whole afternoon of free classes!
Everyone is Welcome, all classes are suitable for all levels! If you don’t have the code, just contact us !
Planning Porte ouverte septembre 2015 (classes are around 50 minutes long)
13:00 Strala Yoga – Sophie
14:00 Hatha Yoga -Dinusha
15:00 Soft Vinyasa flow – Miranda
16:00 Hatha Yoga – Christina
17:00 Mouvement dansé – Hella
18:00 Méthode Feldenkrais – Elise
19:00 Meditation – Sergio (30′)
Places are limited for all classes, please think about coming around 1o minutes before the beginning of the class you wish to visit. Places are given in a “first come, first served” policy.
Dynamic Yoga Immersion Modules: “Releasing” – October 3rd to 6th
In 2015 the Red Earth Centre will host the Dynamic Yoga immersion modules with senior dynamic yoga trainer Olivia Crooks. A unique opportunity in Paris not to miss.
RELEASING IMMERSION THREE: focusses on using the Seven Universal Actions of Yoga Posture Praxis to release the spine and its supporting musculature from habituated tension so that the body as whole becomes more stable and integrated. You will learn how to apply the Dynamics of Integrity to open and release the body while internalising and clarifying the mind. This immersion has a strong emphasis on forward bends, and is open to anyone, teachers as well as pratititioners, interested in the biomechanical and energetic integrity of the bodimind.It is especially fruitful for newcomers to yoga posture praxis, and anyone who considers themselves to be an advanced practitioner.
DYNAMIC YOGA IMMERSION MODULES
Based entirely on action and experience, the Dynamic Yoga Immersions constitute a comprehensive grounding in yoga posture praxis that can serve as a powerful basis for both satisfying self-praxis and effective teaching.
Led by Senior Dynamic Yoga Trainer Olivia Crooks each of the five modules is complete in itself, and supported by comprehensive notes on yoga posture praxis.
Each module can be attended individually.
The Immersion Modules are open to those who would like to deepen their understanding of yoga practise (which includes those even beginning their journey of yoga) and to those wishing to teach (or already teaching) yoga. Completion of all four immersion modules will make you eligible to continue on to the dynamic yoga ‘Teaching Skills’, 3 week, residential course in France in August 2015. Which is a 400hr Teacher training.
Dates for all modules in 2015:
Module – Nourishing, 21st – 24th February 2015
Module – Integrating, 18th-21st April 2015
Module – Releasing , 13th – 16th June 2015
Module – Opening, 3rd to 6th October 2015
Module – Deepening, 12th to 15th December 2015 (with Godfrey Devereux!)
Registration open for all modules. Places very limited!
Prices
Module full (4 days) : 380 €
Weekend only (2 days) : 200€
Only posture practice classes (9:30 to ca. 12:00) 45 €/class (only possible if beginning on Saturday)
Information et inscription
redearthcentre@gmail.com
07 82 92 45 97
09 50 31 57 25
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Urban retreat with Sergio, September 5th and 6th
Urban retreat with Sergio !
Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September 10:00 to 18:00
What is an urban retreat?
Half way between a conventional retreat and a workshop, an urban retreat offers the possibility to spend two days together, practicing yoga, eating, chatting and meditating. At the end of each day each one goes back home to sleep. Find the spirit of a retreat in town.
An urban retreat is an intelligent way to easy the transition between the holidays and everyday life.
Structure of each day
10:00 to 13:00 Yoga posture practice and savasan
13:00 to 14:45 Lunch together and resting time
15:00 à 18:00 Explorations and a short practice/meditation
During the afternoons we will concentrate in the exploration of the different aspects that could help us clarify the own practice and find eventually a regularity in our personal practice adjusting it to our availability.
We will have lunch together, I will cook tasty and healthy vegan and gluten free meals. Meals are included in the price.
We will have herbal tea and fruits permanently during the retreat.
Tariff:
Reservation mandatory, places limited to only 10 people
General tariff: 120 € whole weekend and meals
Tariff “early bird”: 100 € reserving and paying before August 26th
ATTENTION: For this retreat I will need two “Karma Yogis” to help me with the organisation and the cooking. If you are interested, please contact me (redearthcentre@gmail.com) . The Karma Yogis will be able to participate in all activities. Special Fee!
Inscription and information redearthcentre@gmail.com
Les salons au Red Earth Centre – Salon 3: danse and music
Les salons au Red Ear
th Centre
On Saturday July 18th from 8pm on we have the pleasure to receive Louisa Raszyk and Achim Schulz for a soirée of danse and music.
As always we offer something to drink and some snacks!
Don’t miss this salon which is the last one before the holidays.
Entrance free, collection