Finding Balance in Ourselves and Our World: Vajra Yoga and Meditation Retreat

With Jill Satterfield

December 26, 2008 - January 1, 2009

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Join Vajra Yoga founder Jill Satterfield for this holiday retreat where your only responsibility is taking care of yourself, and celebrate the New Year.

Paying attention to our experience of presence, we can develop insight about our current state of heart, mind and body. Seeing things as they are we develop choices about what we would like to continue or what we no longer need. From this, we can create better balance in heart and mind, which automatically flows into the body.

We will experience mindfulness meditation sitting still and moving, yoga postures that will provide space for the body mind and heart to come together and communicate, as well as prescriptions for the heart, mind and body that can be taken home and applied as needed.

Using yoga, meditation and humor, we can seek to balance our inner world and be more helpful and available to the outer world as well.

There will be periods of seated meditation, walking meditation and meditation in yoga postures, and opportunities to practice both beginning and advanced asanas. This retreat is open to all levels of practice in both meditation and asana, but a year or more experience of yoga is suggested.

Tuition: $595 Program fees include 3 meals per day served by the Karme Choling kitchen.

About Jill Satterfield

Jill Satterfield, founder of Vajra Yoga & Meditation, has been practicing yoga primarily in the Iyengar tradition for 30 years and teaching for 20. She has been a student of Buddhism for 17 years, informing both her practice and teaching, during which Jill has traveled and taught with some of the most respected Buddhist teachers of our time. Jill teaches regularly with her teachers Mingyur Rinpoche and Ajahn Amaro. She has been hailed as one of the four leading yoga and Buddhist teachers in the US by Shambhala Sun. Jill is a founding faculty member of the Spirit Rock Center's Yoga and Buddhism teacher training and the Kripalu Institute’s Integrative Leadership Program. She teaches and lectures regularly on the mind-body connection.

Vajra Yoga is a pioneer in bringing yoga and Buddhism together into a seamless blend and has been taught at the Insight Meditation Society, Spirit Rock Center, the Garrison Institute, and Shambhala Centers around the US. Vajra Yoga has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Tricycle, Fit Yoga, Self, More, Shambhala Sun and Marie Claire.

This program is being held at Karmê Chöling Shambhala Meditation Center in Barnet, Vermont.  To register, please email registration@tailofthetiger.org with your name, address, phone number, email address, name of the program and choice of accommodations. You will be contacted for deposit information and confirmation of registration.