Illuminate Your Shadow : A Solstice Yoga Retreat
June 20 -24, 2010 at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health • www.kripalu.org

Celebrate the longest day of the year by releasing your sadness, fear, pain, and suffering into the light of the summer solstice. Take this opportunity for solar healing, receiving the sun’s warmth, joy, and energy at its fullest capacity.

Because the summer solstice offers direct and sustained sunlight, we will set our intentions to illuminate our dark places by letting in the light and applying nature’s rhythms and laws to our yoga practice. In this 4-day retreat, we will practice.

• Yoga
• Pranayama
• Meditation
• Deep relaxation
• Fun and reflection
• Chanting and puja.

Join Chaya Li Sharon for a workshop that will reset your internal clock, renew your yoga practice, and deepen your commitment to spiritual inquiry. The name Chaya means “shadow” in Sanskrit, and is associated with worshipping the sun, the illuminator of infinite causes and effects, the bestower of good health, and the friend of all.

CE credits are available.

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Tap Dance for the Zen of It: A Yoga and Tap Dance Retreat that will Change Your Life.
June 27-July 1, 2010 at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health • www.kripalu.org

You are invited to the ultimate yoga and tap dance experience. Come explore, integrate, and understand the body, mind, and soul connection as you use the rhythm and synchronicity of music and dance as a doorway to the sacred flow of your life. In this retreat, you will develop:

• basic tap dance skills with technique and theory
• coordination, motor memory, and fine and gross motor skills
• alignment, placement and weight shifts
• movement vocabulary using correct tap terminology
• rhythmic awareness, clarity and sensitivity to tempos
• basic improvisational skills which enhance creative thinking and risk taking
• strength and stamina
• a kinesthetic perception
• enhanced concentration and focus
• an awareness of style

In addition, you will learn tap dances such as the shim sham shimmy and other combinations/dances choreographed by Chaya Li Sharon. Come dance your heart out to Broadway, rhythm, swing, and blues tunes.

Learn more about this program:

• Read a review of this program.
• Read participant testimonials of this program.
• Read about Chaya's illustrious career in dance...
• Watch video clips of participants of Chaya's "Tapping into Your Soul" program.
• Rate Chaya's video clips; Benny Goodman Swing, Shim Sham, Sky & Funky Rhythm, & This Can't Be Love.
• Buy Chaya's DVD, Funky Rhythm Tap; Stompin' in the City with Sharon.
• Visit the International Tap Association website.

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