Yoga and Ritual:
The Path to the Here and Now
Sun July 6 - Sat 12, 2008
at the Blacktail Ranch
Price: $1595
Join us for this unique retreat as JJ and Baxter bring their extraordinary yoga teachings to the Blacktail Ranch and its ancient Native roots. JJ and Baxter will be joined by the Feathered Pipe's own India Supera who will lead ceremonies at the sweat lodge, sun wheel, medicine wheel and in the pre-historic cave, intended to bring us fully into the present moment and all that it has to offer us. Appropriate for all levels. Bonuses included music-making, chanting and lots of laughter as well as optional massage and horseback riding.
JJ Gormley (Registered Yoga Teacher RYT500 and E-RYT500), is the founder of the Sun and Moon Yoga Studios in Virginia. She has a very diverse background having studied from many traditions since 1979, most recently the teachings of Desikachar. In 1989 she began teaching yoga and in 1993 opened her own yoga studio, which operated, out of her basement for two years before moving to retail space in April of 1995. She has recently moved to Eureka, MT and travels back to VA to keep her "hands in the mix" at Sun and Moon. As Director of the Teacher Training Programs at Sun and Moon, she continues to correspond with and coordinate over 60 students in the three programs and the Teacher Training Faculty. She has produced six yoga videos/DVDs, and a chanting CD which can be purchased on sun and moon's website: www.sunandmoonstudio.com Please visit JJ's personal website: www.yoginijj.com for more information and current teaching schedule.
Baxter Bell, MD, has been actively deepening his understanding of yoga and relaxation since making the stress-reducing move from a career as a busy family doctor to that of a yoga teacher and medical acupuncturist. Baxter is featured in Yoga Journal's DVD, "Yoga for Stress," and has written articles for Yoga Journal, Yoga for Everybody, and International Journal of Yoga Therapy. He is blessed to have studied extensively with Rodney Yee, Patricia Walden, and Erich Schiffmann, and has recently been influenced strongly by the work of TKV Desikachar and Donald Moyer. His students tell him they appreciate the clarity and precision of his instruction, as well as the humor and enthusiasm that he brings to his teaching. His web site is: www.bellyoga.info