Heathen Hill Yoga

Heathen Hill is pleased to present these outstanding guest teachers

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June 12-14, 2015 – Summer Getaway Retreat with Merav Ben-Horin

Description

After a long snowy winter in our crowded city we are heading upstate to unwind, relax and renew.Come spend a weekend full of yoga at Heathen Hill, a secluded and intimate retreat center surrounded by beautiful nature. Enjoy 4 extended yoga classes,locally grown fresh gourmet food, and plenty of free time for chilling in the hummock, lying on the grass with a good book, walking in the mediation labyrinth, or playing volleyball, badminton, or whatever other game suits your fancy on the beautiful lawns. At night sit around the bonfire, drink wine and enjoy the star filled sky.

Prices

(include all meals, yoga sessions and accommodations):

Yoga House

$450  per person in a double shared room

New Big House

$430 per person in a triple shared room
$485 per person in a double shared room
$585 per person in a single room

Fancy House with private bath:

$525 per person in a double room
$700 per person in a single room

Transportation:

Carpool is the best option and Merav will help you get organized if needed. Public Transportation via Adirondack Trail is also available

About Merav Ben-Horin

Merav Ben-Horin is a yoga instructor and psychotherapist based in NYC. She was a dancer for over 10 years and began practicing yoga in 2004 in tandem with her studies in psychology. She specializes in alignment-based vinyasa as well as therapeutic yoga for emotional well-being. Born out of her interest in human behavior and movement, Merav recognizes yoga as a tool for personal growth as well as a proven way to develop focus and mind/body awareness.

As a yoga instructor, Merav incorporates principles from her background in psychology. She strives to offer a safe, non-judgmental environment for students to explore their bodies, observe their minds and confront and overcome their fears, limitations, or obstacles both on and off the mat. Merav currently teaches groups and private classes all around NYC and leads yoga and meditation workshops and retreats worldwide.

As a psychotherapist, Merav also incorporates yoga into her work with patients by combining yogic principles in conjunction with talk therapy. She works with both groups and individuals who struggle with trauma, depression, anxiety, eating disorders and substance abuse. Merav has received extensive education and training in psychotherapy and contemporary psychoanalysis. She completed her B.A in psychology at Hunter College and recived her graduate degree from NYU. She is currently in postgraduate psychoanalytic training and sees patients at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies.

Merav’s website: www.yogamerav.com
email: info@yogamerav.com
Cell :646-469 6865

Retreat Schedule

Friday:

Arrival at 4pm
5:30-7pm – Vinyasa Blend Restorative –unwind and restore
8pm-Dinner & Heathen Hill’s special home sangria!

Saturday:

9-11am – Morning practice focusing on energizing back bends and inversions
12pm – Lunch time
4-6pm – Evening gentle asana, yin, restorative & Pranayama focusing on emotion and tension releasing, hip openers, twists and forward bends followed by meditation
7pm- Dinner followed by bonfire (bring your own wine or beer of choice as well as your instrument if you happen to play any for an after bonfire party jam!!)

Sunday:

9-11am – Morning practice focused on facing fears & future challenges with arm balances and inversions
12pm- lunch time
2pm- departure – Back to the city with a clear, fresh, and spirited mind and body!

May 29-31, 2015 – Wesley Collier

Prices (All Inclusive)

Heathen Yoga House: Sleeps 8
$450 pp double

New Big Heathen Yoga House: Sleeps 10
$500pp double
$600pp single w/private bath

No-refund deposit: $150 by April 1, 2015
Full payment balance by May 1, 2015

Cash
Check: Wesley Collier

Schedule

Friday May 29
4pm arrive
5:30pm-7pm Meditation and Yin
7:30pm Dinner

Saturday May 30
6:30am-7am Sun Salutes and Meditation- 15m each
7am-7:30am Silent Meditation Walk
7:30am-9am Free time/Self serve breakfast
9am-11:30am DeepShit Yoga/Fry Phat/Stronger Arms
12:15pm Lunch on the lawn (weather permitting)

(rest, play time, relax ,swim, hot tub, read, nap)

4:30pm-6pm Fun on the Wall/Restorative
6:30pm Cocktails (byob/byow)
7:30pm Dinner followed by Bonfire and smores

Sunday May 31
6:45am-7:15am Sun Salutes and Meditation- 15m each
7am-7:30am Silent Medtiation Walk
7:30am-9:30am Free time/Self serve breakfast
9:30-11:30 Inversions/Home Practice Workshop
12pm Brunch
2pm Depart

Email Wesley at: wesley_yoga@yahoo.com

May 15-17, 2015 – Relaxing Yoga Weekend with Kimberly and Alison

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Description

Recharge and renew during a Spring weekend in the Catskills with yoga, good (vegetarian) food, fresh air, friends, and cookies! This is a great retreat for yogis who would like to learn more about specific pose or group-class instruction and haven’t had the time/opportunity to ask questions. In addition to (all-level) yoga classes throughout the weekend, we will offer a workshop detailing (alignment, modifications, etc.) a few poses as requested by the students in advance. We will also be offering a special retreat price of $75* for a private session for even more yoga fun! Free time can be spent boating, soaking in an outdoor hot tub, relaxing inside, and enjoying the beautiful outdoors.

*price only available during this weekend and the number of private sessions are limited. First come, first served. Please e-mail us about availability. Normal private-session rates are $95 or $125 per hour.

Price

Price includes lodging, meals, and yoga classes (does not include optional private sessions or purchase of any products). Prices vary based on accommodation type selected. All rooms share bathrooms, except as noted below.

Optional Mini (2 hour) Botanicals Workshop with resident herbalist: additional $30.
Description of Botanicals Workshop: We will focus on select plants while they are in their prime and most beneficial. Each workshop will begin with an explanation of the product we will be making followed by a stroll around the property. After we locate, observe and learn about the various botanicals we will be using, we will harvest the parts of the plant needed and head back to the Big Heathen kitchen. You will make the product and take it home.

Yoga House

$399 per person in a shared two-person room

New Big House

$450 per person in a shared two-person room (buy out a whole room for $525)
$400 per person in a shared three-person room or $450 per person if two people share this room

Private bath options:

$500 or $525 per person in a shared two-person room (buy out a whole room for $675)

Transportation

Please visit the Heathen Hill website for directions: https://heathenhillyoga.net/directions/. If you would like to arrange a carpool, feel free to contact Kim.

About Kimberly Wong

Kim (500-RYT) is a native New Yorker, Harrisite, Cal grad, attorney, and former long-distance runner who started seriously practicing yoga in 2011 to recover from illness and offset malaise and fatigue. She loves to teach and currently teaches every Saturday at Atmananda Yoga Sequence. She especially enjoys teaching alignment and modifications. She hopes to assist her students practice safely and achieve a few moments of calm, reflection, and vacation while remaining right here in the city.
Kim can be reached at kimwongyoga@gmail.com.
Follow Kim on Instagram: theGoobsterNY.

About Alison Whitehead

Alison (RYT-200 – currently completing RYT-500) grew up playing competitive team sports, running and biking. She has always enjoyed helping others to feel their best and enjoy life. Alison began incorporating yoga into her routine to help with her own training and stress reduction as well as for her bigger goal of teaching others the amazing benefits of a regular practice. Alison currently teaches Yoga for Athletes every Sunday afternoon at Studio in the Heights (in addition to weekly High Intensity Interval Training classes), and a Yoga for PTSD class at a local VA Medical Center. She focuses her classes on proper form and alignment while trying to also incorporate a bit of humor and mindfulness into each class. Follow Alison on Instagram: alison_fityogi and blog: http://www.ali-zen.com/

Schedule

Friday

Arrive after 3pm
6-8pm – Welcome and Vinyasa Flow
8pm – Dinner
9-10pm – Social Hour at the Big House – tea and cookies supplied (welcome to bring other snacks/beverages)

Saturday
Breakfast – Self-serve
9-11am – Morning practice & Workshop
12:15pm – Lunch
1-3pm – Optional Mini-Workshop with herbalist
5-7pm – Evening Vinyasa Flow
7:00pm – Dinner followed by bonfire

Sunday
Breakfast – self-serve
9-11am – Morning practice – tying it all together
12pm – Brunch
2pm – departure

October 10-12, 2014 – Yoga and Self-Massage with Laurel Beversdorf

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Description

Simplify your life with a weekend of self-care, deep rest, and organic home-cooking on the whimsical, rolling acreage of Heathen Hill. Immerse your body’s tissues in playful, creatively crafted yoga and self-massage classes. Roll out and revive sluggish muscles, mobilize and unburden stuck joints, sedate mind-body tension patterns, laugh and breathe. Leave feeling fantastic, rested and restored.

This retreat is appropriate for all levels. There will be 3 2.5 hour classes total. (2 classes on Saturday in the morning and early evening and 1 Sunday before brunch).

About Laurel

Laurel’s teaching style expresses yoga, first and foremost, as a practical tool to feel and live better in the body. With in-depth knowledge of anatomy and kinesiology, as well as vivid and playful teaching techniques, Laurel guides students toward developing keener body awareness, healthier movement patterns, and sharper intuitiveness to take self-care into their own hands. Laurel is a certified Yoga Tune Up® teacher, as well as a yoga teacher, teacher trainer and anatomy instructor for YogaWorks. She leads teacher trainings, yoga and self-massage workshops and retreats around the US and internationally.

Prices

$500 for a single
$425 for a shared double
$400 to camp

For Registration: email laurelbeversdorf@gmail.com

Oct. 3 – 5, 2014 – Kathy Wipff and Elizabeth Wipff – Yoga, Functional Movement, and Self-Care Strategies for Yogis and Athletes

Small-HH-EWMother Daughter team , Elizabeth and Kathy Wipff are back at Heathen Hill after a 2-year absence and they are bringing a whole new bag of tricks! The weekend will begin Friday evening with a deep, soothing self myofascial release session and some serious down-regulation. Then spend Saturday and Sunday clearing out the cobwebs in the joints and juicing up the muscles with a combination of Hatha Yoga, Yoga Tune Up® and Functional Movement.

Join us in the stunning setting of Heathen Hill in early Fall for peace, beauty, great food, deep relaxation and some fun!

About Elizabeth and Kathy:

Kathy Wipff has been a yoga teacher for 18 years. She began her studies in 1986 Marin County California with Iyengar yoga when it was the only game in town. Later she added an Ashtanga element to her training.

Small HH KWShe completed her first YTT in 1996 Diana Beardsley and Steve Walther at Center for Yoga in LA. and in 2002 at City Yoga with Naime Jezzeny and Anthony Benenati. She has also completed advanced teacher trainings and workshops with Rodney Yee, Paul Grilley, Gary Kraftsow, and Jill Miller. In 2013, she became a certified Yoga Tune Up® instructor. She did Crossfit for five years and holds a Crossfit Mobility Certification.

Kathy has been privileged to share the joy of her 30+ year yoga journey with her dearest daughter beginning at age four with a book called “Be a Bird, Be a Frog, Be a Tree.” Rolling around on the floor (walls, tables) playing yoga with friends and family remains one of her favorite activities.

Elizabeth Wipff is a lifelong yogi, avid CrossFitter, lead Yoga Tune Up® teacher/teacher trainer, and committed CrossFit coach with an insatiable eagerness to help students streamline movement, improve performance, and eliminate pain. Her athletic endeavors started early: she walked at 7 months, was roller skating at 3 and did her first yoga pose at 4! As a kid she played soccer and studied dance, Iyengar yoga, and therapeutic movement modalities. Elizabeth’s lifelong passion for movement; years of theater studies; love of show tunes; enthusiasm for fostering healthy functional movement in her clients; and knack for communicating information concisely and convincingly make her a sought after teacher.

She is a certified yoga teacher with studies in multiple disciplines from Iyengar-inspired alignment practices to creative, flowing vinyasa and has studied with Alison West, Rod Stryker, Dana Flynn, Rodney Yee, and Jill Miller. In addition, Elizabeth is a certified CrossFit trainer and USA Weightlifting L1 certified coach.

She has been teaching yoga, Yoga Tune Up® and CrossFit in NYC and nationally since 1999.

www.strongandbendy.com

Tentative Schedule

Arrive after 3:00 Friday
5-6:30 Unwind class.
Cocktails and dinner to follow (BYO Beverage)

Saturday

8:00-9:00 Optional functional movement workout
10:00-12:30 Yoga/Yoga Tune Up
Lunch and leisure time to follow
4:00-6:00 Restorative yoga
Dinner to follow

Sunday

8:00-8:45 Optional functional movement workout
9:00-11:00 Yoga/Yoga Tune Up class
HH’s famous Sunday brunch to follow
2:00 pm Departure

Price

Double Occupancy $480
Single Occupancy $540

For registration and information: Elizabethwipff@gmail.com

 

Sept. 26-28, 2014 – Annual Fall Yoga and Wine Tasting with Lip and Owen

Owen Before the Tastings

Description

Owen Kotler is a well known sommelier and concert clarinetist. He specializes in organic and bio-dynamic wine distribution for Artisan Wines. His deep knowledge and love for yoga and wine shine in his skillful, interactive, and uplifting wine presentations.

We’ll start with a tasting before dinner on Friday. Whites, maybe a sparkler?

Owen Kotler After the Tastings

Class Saturday 9 – 11:00am. Tasting before lunch. Hot tub. Snooze. Afternoon class 4 – 6pm

Evening tasting and pour. Dinner. Pour .

Sunday morning 9 – 11:00 no balance poses……. BRUNCH! coffee only……….

$450 per person

Click here for the printable registration form.