Pure Light Yoga Restorative Retreat
with Cindy Brown and Richard Davis
Retreat November 17-19, 2023 -We are back from a most wonderful retreat and are planning for next year!! Stay tuned for a date.
Here are some photos from the weekend!
Why a Retreat with Cindy Brown and Richard Davis?
Cindy Brown combines her many years as a psychotherapist, Yoga teacher, Laughter Yoga leader, osteoporosis yoga teacher, and meditation teacher to create a deep healing and multi-faceted approach to yoga and spiritual practices. Cindy’s yoga classes are slow, deep and meditative with the goal of increased awareness and peace. She accommodates all levels in her classes and encourages her students to honor themselves in their individual process.
Richard Davis is a retired Professor of Film Scoring at Berklee College of Music, multi-instrumentalist, producer, conductor, and Kirtan leader. Richard has been leading and teaching about spiritual music for many years, and communicates his experience and knowledge of kirtan, raga, jazz, classical and pop music to students of all ranges of musical experience and ability.
Together Cindy and Richard combine their skills to lead a deeply healing, spiritual weekend of rejuvenation and self discovery.
This year we have also added a special treat!! We are flying our dear friend Leslie Gillman in from California to lead us all in a restorative qigong workshop.
RESTORATIVE QI GONG: BREATH/SOUND/GUIDED MEDITATION-Leslie Gillman
In this workshop, we will focus on restoring the body’s natural flow of qi or life force energy using a combination of slow breathing methods, Chinese healing sounds for purging and purification of the organs and ending with a peaceful guided meditation. Please join me for a deep dive into healing the body, heart and mind with a method you can utilize on your own for years to come.
Offerings for the weekend will include Yoga, Meditation, Laughter Yoga, Circle Dance, a Music and Sound Workshop, Chanting, Beach walks, Campfire sing along a GiGong Workshop and more. Leslie Gillman will also be offering private GiGong sessions by appointment. All registered attendees will be sent a detailed questionnaire so that we can accommodate every person’s interests and needs.
Click here to Register https://purelightyogacenter.com/index.php/register/
Osteoporosis Retreat
April 5-7th, 2024
Ferry Beach Retreat Center Saco Maine
Osteoporosis yoga, meditation, education, support, massage, relaxation, laughter yoga, chanting, and healthy food for bone health, all in a most beautiful setting. The retreat will be led by Cindy Brown with the assistance of her husband Richard Davis. Richard is available to lead workshops on chanting, provide live music for yoga classes. and if the group chooses he will lead a campfire sing along and other wonderful things. To learn more about Richard and Cindy click on the About page.
Why this retreat?? I feel that this retreat is the very best that I have to offer for men and women with Osteoporosis. I absolutely love leading retreats. I dare say it is my favorite thing to do. A retreat can be a life altering experience as it’s an opportunity to fully step away from life at home, turn inward and immerse oneself in healing, calming practices. This can be very powerful. It also helps to be in a lovely, soothing environment. Just being in the presence of others on the same journey and having the opportunity to connect, and support each other is invaluable.
This Osteoporosis retreat is especially poignant for me because as I am helping others with their healing, I too am working on my own healing. In all my research the key ingredients that keep coming to the forefront for systemic health and for maintaining/improving bone density are Stress reduction, digestion/absorption, adequate nutrition, mineral balance, weight bearing exercise, adequate sleep and hydration.
On retreat we will be focusing on all these things. We will practice silent meditation and will also have guided relaxation/meditations. We will cover all the information from the workshop in greater depth. We will be eating in the most bone healthy way – all the food will be prepared to avoid anti nutrients and to provide a healthy balance of nutrients (it will be delicious, I can guarantee that). We will provide the opportunity to walk, sing, laugh, dance and share with each other. We will observe silence at times and allow time for reflecting, journaling, reading etc. We will offer calming meditations at night to prepare for sleep. The yoga will of course be focused on bone health and will be gentle and adaptable for all.
To register for this retreat visit http://www.osteoporosisyoga.com
