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Welcome! Here you can sign up for the upcoming Yoga/Surfing and Life Balancing retreat in Mancora, Peru. Just click on the Pay Pal cart below to select the Room option that you would like! Any question? You can email me directly at balanceyogaretreats@gmail.com

Yoga Retreat Deposit and Fees

Yoga Retreat Deposits and Fees

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Refining Your Balance: Yoga, Surfing and Life Balancing Retreat


Just as all things in nature are continually growing and developing in order to achieve the ultimate blossoming state, we too as humans are constantly expanding, pruning and adjusting in order to fully allow the authentic expression of who we are in this moment. To live in balance requires a moment to moment practice of awareness and integrity and a commitment to express the inner knowing that each one of us uniquely has to offer.
Right now it is a particularly essential moment to refine our ability to live in balance. Our world seems to be moving and developing at an ever more rapid pace; to find our balance within this world must be a deliberate act of focus and presence. This workshop is specifically designed to empower each participant to find their own unique expression of balance in their lives. Each one of the planned activities provides the tools of creation from which you will craft your balance.
Practicing yoga and meditation help us to find a centered and grounded state from which to make conscious choices about our lives. Surfing is a practice of finding your balance within flow, and the challenge of keeping your balance in a constantly changing environment.
This workshop will help deepen your relationship to the balance in your yoga and surfing practices, by linking the two in a mutually supportive way. Your yoga instructor will guide you through the process of finding balance and growth in your Asana practice, while surfing instructors will help you to find your balance on the board. Using these practices, finding balance in our own bodies, we will then extend this metaphor into the balancing of our own lives.
Lucine, a certified life coach will guide you through exercises that help you to reflect on the areas your life where you may not be in balance, where you may be stuck, or not realizing your full potential, in order to enable you to consciously create a balance that inspires you. She will help you to identify the practices, relationships and patterns in your life that serve you, support you and encourage your growth. This retreat promises not only relaxation and renewal, fitness and health, but also an energy of empowerment that will invigorate you and motivate you to move into new places in your life.

Balance the thrill and adrenaline rush of surfing with relaxing and expansive yoga practice. Balance physical exercise and outdoor adventure with delicious meals and a pampering in the luxurious retreat center, on a beautiful sandy beach of the Pacific. In the loving hands of a highly experienced yoga instructor and certified life coach and several knowledgeable surf instructors, your practice will grow and deepen, no matter what level you are currently at.



Preliminary Workshop Schedule:

Day One:
-Afternoon/evening: Arrival and Orientation/Room assignment
7pm-Dinner
8pm-Guided Meditation

Day Two:
7am: Yoga Practice
9am: Breakfast
10:30: Basic Surf Lesson for All: Beach Learning, Orienting the Body, Hopping Up, etc.
11:30: Surf Class Group 1, Beach Trip or Rest and Free time for all others
1pm: Lunch
2:00: Group Session: The Wheel of Life: Examining Your Balance
3:30: Surf Class Group 2, Beach, Rest and Free time for Others
5:30: Yoga Practice
7:00 Dinner
8:00: Rest and Relaxation

Day Three:
7am: Yoga Practice
9am: Breakfast
11:00: Surf Class Group 1, Beach Trip or Rest and Free time for all others
**Individual Life Balancing/Coaching Sessions Available Per Request
1pm: Lunch
3:30: Surf Class Group 2, Beach, Rest and Free time for Others
**Individual Life Balancing/Coaching Sessions Available Per Request
5:30: Yoga Practice
7:00 Dinner
8:30: Group Session: Practices that Restore: Examining Practices to Rebalance our Lives

Day Four
7am: Yoga Practice
9am: Breakfast
11:00: Optional Trip to Hot Springs and Mud Baths otherwise Beach time, Horseback riding or Free Time
1pm: Lunch for those who remain at center
Beach, Rest and Free time for
3:00-5:30 Partner Yoga/Thai Massage
6:00**Individual Life Balancing/Coaching Sessions Available Per Request
7:00 Dinner
8:00: Optional Group Share/Check In about Workshop Experience
Day Five:
7am: Yoga Practice
9am: Breakfast
11:00: Surf Class Group 1, Beach Trip or Rest and Free time for all others
**Individual Life Balancing/Coaching Sessions Available Per Request
1pm: Lunch
3:30: Surf Class Group 2, Beach, Rest and Free time for Others
**Individual Life Balancing/Coaching Sessions Available Per Request
5:30: Yoga Practice
7:00 Dinner
8:00: Guided Visualization: “The Circle of Excellence” Stepping into my Balanced Self
Day Six:
7am: Yoga Practice
9am: Breakfast
11:00: Surf Class Group 1, Beach Trip or Rest and Free time for all others
**Individual Life Balancing/Coaching Sessions Available Per Request
1pm: Lunch
2:00: Group Session: Letting Go of Obstacles
3:30: Surf Class Group 2, Beach, Rest and Free time for Others
**Individual Life Balancing/Coaching Sessions Available Per Request
5:30: Yoga Practice
7:00 Dinner
8:00: Fire Ceremony
Day Seven
7am: Final Yoga Practice
9am: Breakfast
10:30-12:30: Final Surfing Classes or Open Surfing for those interested/Beach and Relaxation time for others
**Individual Life Balancing/Coaching Sessions Available Per Request
1:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 Packing
3:00-4:00: Closing Ritual, Integration Circle: Where we are going next:
Goodbyes and Photographs
4:00 Leave the Center for Transportation to Lima/other destinations

About the Instructor
Lucine Eusani is a yoga teacher trained and certified at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lennox MA, and also trained in Vinayasa Flow yoga. She has five and a half years of yoga teaching experience in the USA and internationally, in England, Peru, Denmark and Colombia. The focus of her yoga teaching centers around using the practice as a space of integration and reflection, as a metaphor help people to find stuck places in their lives and move through. She is also trained and certified as a Life Coach, a Motivational Coach , Weight Loss Coach and a Social and Emotional Intelligence Coach, as well as a Neuro-Linguistic Programming Master Practitioner from the Global NLP Training Institute. She currently works as a facilitator in a shamanic healing center in Iquitos, Peru.
www.lucineeusani.com
lucine.life.coach@gmail.com

About the Center
Samana Chakra’s stunning location, unique tranquil accommodations and spiritual feel, make it an ideal place for Yoga and wellness. The beachfront access to white sands and some of the best waves in South America make it a perfect destination whether an expert surfer or a beach bum! Check out the place at:

www.samanachakra.com

Cost of the Workshop
All costs listed here include: Luxury (shared) Accommodations 3 Gourmet Vegetarian Meals (with Fish Options)Daily, 2 Daily Yoga Sessions, One Group Life Coaching Activity Daily, Beach Front Access, Wifi Internet Access, Daily Housekeeping, etc.

Individual Coaching Sessions, Yoga Classes and Surf Lessons are separate expenses and can be arranged by contact the organizer: lucine.life.coach@gmail.com
Other additional services or activities can be arranged on location such as: massage, Kite surfing lessons, Spanish classes, fishing trips, or horseback riding, for additional fees.

Costs will vary slightly depending on sharing accommodation.
SPECIAL EARLY SIGN-UP DISCOUNT ON ALL RATES: Sign up and pay 50% DEPOSIT in the month of August and RECEIVE $500 OFF any of the rates!!
To receive this discount you must sign up and pay 50% deposit in the month of August.
Double Shared

Double Villa with Garden View $ 1,779, USD price per person **$1,279 for all of August
(Available for up to 6 people)

Double Villa on Ocean front $ 2,079.00 USD ** $1,579 in August
(Available for up to 12 people)

Private Ocean-Front Villas
*With King size bed for couples $3,550.00/couple **$3,050.00/couple in August
(4 private villas available)

To make your deposit over Paypal, and click on the Paypal link at the top right of this blog

Or contact Lucine directly at lucine.life.coach@gmail.com

By telephone: US: 1 310 439 3119 or Peru:+51 65 965 852 458

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Taking the time to LISTEN



I've received comments from may people about the fact that I have been out of touch with the cyber world for far too long now. I live in the Amazon jungle, surrounded by amazing shamanic teachers and healers of the Shipibo community who have given me so many tremendous life lessons on how to heal and reconnect to our true selves. Every day offers me a new opportunity to learn from these amazing beings, from the plants and animals of the jungle, and from myself.
Working as a life coach, a mediator, and a facilitator of healing workshops, I had always thought of myself as a "good listener". However this time that I am spending in the jungle, living removed from the input (and often distractions) of the modern world and all of its chaos,has been a whole new level, a doctorate course in the art of listening. My job is about listening, to the stories of those who come seeking transformation, healing and growth, and to these healers, and the wisdom that they have to share from living in deep connection to the plants and the earth the likes of which many of us have never known. This lifestyle of listening has taught me infinitely on how to listen to my own guidance as well, to go inward and connect with my intuition. I still have many questions, the difference is that I used to always seek the answers outside of myself. I find that when I give myself the time and space to listen, that all sorts of insights and awareness will naturally arise. When I sit with a question, the answer always arises in the most interesting and unexpected ways. I find this to be true with most people that I meet and work with. So often we are desperately searching for the answer, for something that we are seeking in our lives and look around in the world, everywhere we can possibly find, for a solution that we already KNOW inside of ourselves. Often, I find, an answer may be so obvious that we can tend to overlook it, like the scenery that we pass by every day and fail to notice that it's there.

I have been living in this way of listening and reflecting for a while now, and I feel strongly that these lessons I am learning need to be shared with the world. There are many people who do not have the opportunity that I have been given to spend time in deep relationship to nature, surrounded by these powerful teachers who offer wisdom and profound "knowingness" in the most simple ways of their being. In this moment, when the world seems to be taking on a more and more frenetic pace every day, we find less and less time to do exactly what is most needed. Giving yourself the gift of learning how to slow down precisely when it feels that you need to speed up, can offer invaluable rewards.

I will be taking the time over these next several weeks to share in my blog some of the insights that I have come upon in the time that I am spending in the jungle with these shamans. I will also share some photos and hilarious stories of life in the jungle. I hope that these stories and insights are of use to you or someone that you know.

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