Oki-do Yoga and Zenthai Shiatsu LifeForce Retreat - BALI

Description

Combining yoga, healing and a holiday is a great way to travel! Winter time in Australia is a nice time to be in Bali too.

Teachers: Lisa Iselin (Nth Stradbroke Island), Peter Masters (Syd/Bris)

7 day course - all meals, accommodation and tuition included

Program:
* daily Oki-do Yoga classes
* healing Zenthai Shiatsu sessions
* living a simple Balinese village lifestyle
* developing intuition and awareness
* embracing the 5 elements
* beach and mountain walks
* rest, relaxation and rejuvenation!

Where: Shanti Agung Temple, Jasri, Amlapura - a small rural village on the east coast of Bali approximately 2 hours by car from Denpasar

When: Friday 1st June to Friday 8 June 2012

Getting there: Registration for the retreat is from 3 to 5pm on Friday 1st June. It's best to arrive in Bali the day before.

A good search engine for the cheapest flights etc is www.webjet.com.au

The taxi from the airport to the retreat venue takes about 2 hours and costs around $40. Accommodation at the retreat is twin share or double and there's a nice pool for cooling off too. The retreat finishes in the morning on Friday 8th June.

Bali: Bali is a special place, ideal for yoga and healing work.......the body, heart and energy channels open up! As well as enlivening daily yoga, fantastic zenthai massage and healing meditations, here's some other impressions from last year's retreat:

- silent beach walks
- sun rising over the ocean and islands
- brightly coloured fishing boats out at sea
- walking through long grassy paths
- the magnificent Mt Agung standing clear and solid (or shrouded in cloud)
- looking out over stunning green rice fields
- friendly, smiling Balinese faces, open hearts, caring for our needs
- new friends from Bali and Australia
- gathering chi
- delicious local organic food
- painting
- hugs
- temple offerings,
- letting go
- abundance
- connections
- fresh coconuts
- building life force
- purification
- intentions
-blessings

Last year quite a few people went to Ubud after the retreat.....to relax, do bike tours, cooking classes, arts and crafts, markets, massage, treatments etc. Accommodation, food and shopping are very reasonable......especially with the strong Australian dollar.

Cost: 

$1295 twin share accommodation

or $1450 own room

Limited spaces available - $300 deposit will hold your place.

 

Early Bird Special:

$1200 - paid in full by 1st March 2012.

 

For bookings and info: Lisa Iselin
tel (07) 3409 8693 0407 033 414
email: lisajiselin@hotmail.com

Teacher Profiles:

Peter Masters - (Syd/Bris)
BA, Dip Shiatsu YTAA STAA

Peter has a wealth of yoga and shiatsu experince to share. He originally trained at the East West Centre in Sydney with Marcea and Daniel Weber and with Dr Masahiro Oki at the Mishima Dojo in Japan. He studied and worked with Takao Nakazawa in Melbourne in the 80's and with Masako Kunino in Sydney and the Blue Mountains in the 90s. In 2002 he opened Zen Central in Brisbane. Peter believes that by taking care of our wellbeing we can experience life more fully and increase our capacity to contribute to the people and world around us.

Lisa Iselin - (Nth Stradbroke Island)
BA (Visual Arts) YTAA

Lisa is an environmental artist living on North Strabroke Island. She's been studying and sharing Oki-do Yoga for the past ten years, specialising in the healing art of Zen Yoga Therapy - corrective exercises for the mind-heart and body. She trained with Peter Masters and the Brisbane Oki-do study group and with Yuji Yahiro and the Oki-do Italia study groups in Rome and Naples. Lisa is also a Zenthai Shiatsu practitioner. Zenthai is a combination of traditional thai massage, zen shiatsu and osteopathic joint release techniques. She's been studying in Australia, Thailand, Laos and Bali with the founders of this style Gwyn Williams (Zenthai Shiatsu) and Arnaud L'Hermitte (Osteothai).

Her committment to practice comes through an inspired purpose to share the tools for positive change. In developing our awareness of the potential within each of us we're able to connect with our life force, touching our internal condition. A natural and innate healing process takes place. This can be very powerful and is as constant as our continual state of change.