Monthly Archives: November 2010
Respect & Consideration Policy
Booking and Payment Policy Please submit the registration form. After we have confirmed availability, we will send you a reservation confirmation via email. Reservations require at least 1/2 payment of retreat price within 72 hours of the time the reservation is made. We accept efectivo (US dollars or Guatemalan quetzales), PayPal, personal checks, money orders [...]
empty ribcage
I’m an aim-well, shoot sharp, sharp-tongued, sharp-thinking, fast-speaking, foot-loose, loose-tongued, let-loose, woman-on-the-loose loose woman. Beware, honey. ~Sandra Cisneros XX Perfection is a pine needle. I’d like to count the leaves in America. Everything is silent. Forest green. Orgasmic. I’d like to prick the present with peripheral awareness of everything and one thing at once. I’d [...]
Happy Day of Giving Thanks
a poem of thanksgiving Thank you, sun, for rising in the east, warming my brown skin. Thank you, lungs, for filling with air, even when I am sleeping soundlessly. Thank you, eyes, for seeing and blinking and winking. Thank you, toes, for balancing, for rooting me to this place. Thank you, spine, for aligning, for [...]
metta 4 guatemala
“If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is “thank you,” that would suffice.” ~Meister Eckhart I have lived in Guatemala since 2009. I am trying to help spread yoga and dharma here… and most of all to practice karma yoga! There is a lot of suffering, and also a lot of [...]
Practice Makes Imperfection.
“Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.” ~Pattabhi Jois Spiritual practice requires practice. This practice takes on a different shape and form for all of us. Hatha yoga, sitting meditation, walking, eating mindfully, painting, traveling to unexplored places, running, knitting, and listening to music, for example. No matter what your practice is, you must practice. [...]
Jesus wouldn’t do that.
“While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings’ love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.” ~The [...]
Spiritual practice requires practice.
Spiritual practice takes on a different shape and form for all of us. But without practice, spirituality does not have much meaning. The potent practice of mindfulness can occur in any moment; it only requires plain attention. It asks us to drop plans, projections, ideas and simply witness, perceive, and breathe. Spiritual practice is more [...]
Yoga Freedom Retreats
Deepen your practice. Connect with the present moment. We invite you to our empowering, rejuvenating yoga retreats. These unique getaways are designed to help you begin or deepen your spiritual practice by providing: – tools for healthy living and personal transformation – time to reconnect with nature + enlighten your spirit – a vacation from the [...]
