Marieke's Art of Living

YOGA and Rejuvenation Retreat in East Bali

17-22 June 2012 5 nights/6 days

Spend time on yourself….Explore and extend your yoga practice. Immerse yourself in the unspoiled landscapes and cultural traditions of East Bali. Enrich your well being with nourishing food, soothing ocean breezes, a tranquil location.

"Grace, beauty, strength, energy, and firmness adorn the body through Yoga."
Yoga Sutra III.47

The last thirty years, with almost annual visits, Marieke has developed a great affinity with, respect and affection for the many Balinese friends and colleagues she has come to know over the years. The people, their modes of social organisation, their practice of Hinduism, their commitment to a flourishing and evolving culture in all its forms captures the imagination and has possessed an increasing population of westerners, since the 1930's, to live and make their lives there.

Much of the landscape and especially East Bali is still extravagantly beautiful, redolent with spiritual value, brilliantly organized around the rice-cycles, and capable of inducing both a sense of renewal and a meditative mode. It is also far from the maddening crowd and very safe.

This program’s daily focus and structure has an emphasis on yourself and the uplifting feeling that comes with yoga and meditation practice. This is an ideal way to combine enhancing your well being, achieving a sense of renewal, and awakening yourself. Being in a private environment, allows us to create a “yogic” space without distractions.

There could be no more idyllic a location for this experience than East Bali and Seraya Shores, established by Amanda Pummer. Seraya is a delightfully tranquil, unpretentious and thoroughly pleasing boutique-sized private property with individual villas dotted about a headland above the ocean beyond Candi Dasa. You are there for five nights. Surrounded by traditional villages that practice age-old customs, it is enfolded by the sea on one side.

HIGHLIGHTS:

Expert, empathetic, daily, dynamic, personalised yoga instruction with Baxter.
Resident chef, Sussa’s healthy delicious local cuisine, from the land and sea, overseen by Marieke.
Some visits to the heartland of traditional Bali, and access to natural healing practitioners and massage………or simply a total immersion in a yoga-conducive environment.
THIS DYNAMIC PROGRAM IS OFFERED TO A MAXIMUM OF 8-12 PARTICIPANTS, ENSURING PERSONAL ATTENTION.

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A Word about Yoga - an ancient practice for a modern world-

In the western mind, many myths abound about yoga being a mystic religion, being a cult, being only an exercise system or being a form of passive meditation. Yoga, from the ancient Sanskrit word meaning "to yoke or bind together", is an integrated system of physical, mental and spiritual disciplines and when practiced regularly over a sustained period, produces excellent physical health and feelings of well-being, integration and tranquility.

The most sensible thing to say about it is that under expert tutelage, yoga incorporated into your weekly or daily routine has the potential to bring you a fund of inner strength to live a more energetic life, to reduce stress, increase concentration, gain a sense of mind-body-breath awareness, and balance. Yoga gives the practitioner the ability to face the physical, mental and emotional challenges of contemporary life with strength, thoughtfulness, grace and equanimity. And, for people with ailments or injuries, it can also assist with pain and physical improvement.

The disciplines of yoga - developing physical, mental and spiritual well-being:

The physical discipline of yoga involves the gentle and mindful practice of the asanas or poses. Asana practice builds long term health and stamina, improving flexibility, muscle tone, immune response and circulation.

The mental disciplines of yoga teach self-awareness, deep concentration, and mindfulness, enabling students to respond calmly and with focus even in very stressful situations.

The spiritual disciplines of yoga encourage the practitioner to rise above selfish individualism to experience and value the connections that sustain all life on earth.

Whilst experienced yoga practice is by no means a requirement for enjoying and benefiting from this special week, a basic understanding of and some experience of yoga will be most valuable.

Knowing others is intelligence. Knowing yourself is true wisdom ~Lao Tse

Your Yoga Teacher: Baxter
A devoted student and teacher of yoga, Baxter undertook traditional training at Sivananda in South India and has a special interest in the anatomy and the therapeutical aspects of yoga. In the last few years she has developed a loyal following of students with her classes on the Mornington Peninsula, with private students and with school and corporate programs.
She continually studies the infinite subject of who we are and how we operate with a variety of teachers ranging from neuroscientists, spiritualists, yoga therapists and natural healers.
Baxter has also developed a popular “Yoga in Park” summer series, now in its third year and garnering a wide following.
She incorporates diet, asanas, and breath work according to the specific needs of each person.

Marieke Brugman will host this special Rejuvenation Yoga week.

Passionate about Bali, and with twenty years expertise of leading cultural and gastronomic tours around the world, this journey expresses a personal direction for Marieke with her passioante interest in and practice of yoga and experience in arranging yoga retreats also in Australia and India. Marieke with Baxter has been collaborating for a number of years, most recently helping to run very special intensive yoga retreats in Victoria. Marieke's further passion is about the food that supports an optimum yoga practice, so has a fascination for TCM and Ayurveda principles of diet, aspects of which she occasionally incorporates into her classes.

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Our life is the creation of our mind. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth:
not going all the way and
not starting. ~Buddha The Dhammapada
You cannot discover new oceans until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. ~ Anon