New Year New Body New Mind 2009:

A weekend workshop of Yoga and Pilates

Fawcett Mill Fields, Torbay, Lake District

Friday 23 Jan – Sunday 25 Jan
or Friday 30 Jan – Sunday 1 Feb

Pilates

Pilates focuses on building your body's core strength and improving your posture through a series of low repetition low impact stretching and conditioning exercises.Core strength areas are your back, abdominal and pelvic muscles. Through pilates, you will be able to develop these muscles without adding bulk, increase your flexibility and agility, and at the same time tone your stomach and thigh muscles.Pilates helps strengthen and re-align the body’s posture helping to increase movement after injury. However, it goes far beyond core muscles. As well as providing a complete body workout, it also helps develop a keen awareness of how your body works enabling your mind and body to work in harmony.

Yoga

Yoga has both preventive and therapeutic benefits. It has been shown to offer both physical and mental benefits to the body and the mind. The many physical benefits of yoga are: it improves flexibility and muscle joint mobility; strengthens, tones, and builds muscles; corrects posture; strengthens the spine; eases back pain; improves muscular-skeletal conditions such as bad knees, tight shoulders and neck, swayback and scoliosis; increases stamina; creates balance and grace; stimulates the glands of the endocrine system; improves digestion and elimination; increases circulation; improves heart conditions; improves breathing disorders; boosts immune response; decreases cholesterol and blood sugar levels; and encourages weight loss.

The Teachers

Matt and Lisa have been teaching yoga individually now for over 10 years and this will be the 1st weekend retreat that they have taught together. Matt has been practicing yoga for nearly 10 years now and has a deep devotion towards Ashtanga yoga- he has recently completed the advanced A series and is now working on advanced B of the Ashtanga system. Lisa has been a professional dancer for the last 14 years she has been teaching movement based classes for over 17 years. Lisa came to Yoga 12 years ago and she graduated from The Yoga Academy in 2006 with a Teacher Training Diploma in Hatha Yoga.

The Venue

Fawcett Mill Fields is perhaps one of the best-kept secrets in the Lake District; it is an absolutely astonishing place – the perfect venue for a yoga retreat. The Mill dates back to 1517 and has been patiently restored over many years to retain original features in stone and oak set in 5 acres of woodland that can boast a wildlife garden, herbaceous borders and a large lawn. To see for yourself please visit their website.

Accommodation & Food

The bedrooms at the Mill are bright, charming, comfy and clean – there are 3 double en-suites, 2 double rooms, 5 twin rooms and 1 triple (a twin and a double) The rooms will be allocated on a first come first served basis or on a request to share. There is also a 4 person sauna for that post yoga sweat and a couple of chill-out rooms for rest and relaxation The food will be completely vegetarian – vegan on request. Friday evening we will be serving hot soup and bread to all students as they arrive at the Mill. Breakfast which includes cereals fruit salads eggs toast etc will be at the slightly later time of 10.30 am. Saturday’s evening meal of chick pea stew and rice followed by a healthy dessert will be at 7.30pm

Workshop Itinerary

Friday

Arrivals from 5 pm
8 pm soup and introduction to the weekend

Saturday

7.30 a.m. – 8 a.m. Morning meditation
8 a.m.-10 a.m. Yoga
10.30 a.m. Breakfast
11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Free time including buffet lunch of soup and snacks
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Pilates
6.30 p.m. Dinner
8.30 p.m. Yoga Nidra (Yogis sleep) guided relaxation

Sunday

7.30 a.m. – 8 a.m. Morning Meditation
8 a.m. – 10 a.m. Yoga
10.30 a.m. Breakfast
12.30 p.m. – 2 p.m Pilates
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. free time including buffet lunch of soup and snacks
4 p.m. Departures

Cost:

£180 – this price includes 2 nights accommodation, all yoga sessions and all meals. Students who book early will get the option to reserve a room of their choice.

Directions:

Please ask Matt or Sarah for a detailed map or visit the Mill’s website. Let us know if you don’t have transport so we can arrange for you to travel with other students.

Bookings:

Contact Matt:

Tel: 07983 605 295

Email:

N.B. No refunds will be considered within the 30 days prior to the weekend retreat except in exceptional circumstances and at the sole discretion of the organisers. A non-refundable deposit of £50 will be required to secure your place on the workshop, with the balance due by 1st January 2009.