Yoga & Meditation Retreats 2010
with Jo Pelly
plus Linda Lemieux for the basketry retreat

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Weekend (or 3 days) April 23 – 25th with water colour painting
All single rooms;  £180 superior, £150 economy
optional extra day (£20)

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Longer retreats 4 (or 5) days:
May 5th – 9th , with basketry
June 2nd – 6th, with water colour painting
July 7th – 11th, with water colour painting
All single rooms;  £260 superior, £240 economy
optional extra day (£20)

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An informal extra day is offered, to allow the experience to simmer on,
meditating, a longer Dartmoor Walk, more painting, or more yoga…

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Only 10 people on each retreat. Delicious vegetarian meals.
Hathayoga, strong - gentle, suitable for normally fit yogis,
pranayama, meditation with lead-in teaching.

Optional art or craft work to complement the yoga practices
Painting or drawing; Jo provides materials and basic guidance.
Willow and Rush weaving; Linda will bring her own locally grown willow and rush and all necessary tools to guide you through weaving a medium sized frame basket.
( for photos look at www.woodandrush.net )

normal daily schedule
7.00 Stretch and Pranayama
9.00 Meditation with lead-in teaching
10.45 Hathayoga suitable for normally fit yogis
Afternoon; walk, free time or optional painting or basketry
5.00 Meditation, sitting/walking with teaching, or more yoga
Evening; Meditation, slide-show, walking or free time.


First day, arrive about 4. 00 pm. First session (hathayoga) 4.45

Last day, depart after Sunday Lunch. If staying on, leave by 4.00 pm next day

Jo is BWY diploma qualified, and has trained with senior teachers in several traditions. She has evolved a retreat style that energises mind and body and brings us all to the quiet place within where we feel joyful and at peace.

The deep yoga  offers a chance to be uplifted by our innate natural life force, stimulated by Dartmoor’s special energies, reconnecting us with the core of being where life really is.

There will be strong yogasana and stretches for adepts, gentler limberings for others, we all work in ways suitable for our present state of health and energy. Iyengar-based yoga style, modified by other methods.

An upright sitting meditation posture with cushions is taught and encouraged. Some prefer to use a chair or even lie down. The sitting sessions are interspersed with walking-meditation. Walking meditation may be outside, (bring warm clothes and walking shoes).

Delicious vegetarian meals, we ask some help clearing up.

A relaxed silence upheld most of the time allows our minds to relax into spacious awareness .

Please bring bedlinen, towels, yoga mat, any special diet food, warm garments and shoes/boots for outdoor walking.

Info and booking
jo.pelly@yahoo.co.uk
Or talk to Paula on 07999 584 937
To book a place please send £100 deposit, (or full amount to save office work) to
Joanna Pelly, Bala Brook, South Brent, Devon TQ10 9ED mentioning any medical condition or special dietary need.
This place, previously Zeal cottage, is now renamed Bala Brook.
'Bala' is the name of the brook that pours down the edge of the property into the Avon, in Celtic it means stream of water. In Sanskrit, it refers to the energy required for spiritual evolvement.