SAMPLE SCHEDULE
General daily schedule: (each morning practice will have journaling cues… you are invited to bring a journal with you to practice, and welcome to spend time in the shala or elsewhere journaling afterward)
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06/18: arrive, settle in to rooms. If you arrive early, set down your bags and make yourself at home
4pm Welcome ceremony - meet your retreat community
5pm Fire ceremony (locally initiated leaders):
7pm Dinner
8:15-9:15pm Myofascial release and restorative yin yoga to remedy travel weariness and melt you into a good sleep
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06/19 6:30 am: morning dip in the sea! **optional**
7-9am (water element): Morning practice: asana and pranayama
9am Breakfast: Smoothies, fruit, yogurt and granola, hot water with lemon
Free time - see the ruins, swim in the Caribbean sea, explore the lush landscape…
11:30pm Brunch - breakfast/lunch combo (Ayurveda recommends largest meal midday)
Rest and digest or go play and explore
1-2pm: Philosophy in the Tara Stupa: koshas and vayus
Free time
4:30-6pm Practice (somatic movement + hatha)+ pranayama:7pm dinner
8:15 yoga nidra for sleep
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6/20: 6:30am morning dip!**
7-9 Morning practice and pranayama: fire element
9am breakfast
Free time
11:30pm brunch
2pm Temazcal: traditional sweat lodge
4:30-6pm Practice: slowing the mind
7pm dinner
8:15 restorative yoga for sleep and digestion
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6/21: 6:30am dip! **
7-9am practice: air element: special Solstice practice!
9am breakfast
Free time
11:30pm brunch
?3pm cenote sound bath
7pm dinner
8:15pm restorative yoga
6/22: 6:30am dip!**
7-9am practice: space element
9am breakfast
Free time
11:30 brunch
1:30-2:30pm: pranayama, chanting, meditation
4:30-6pm practice
7pm dinner
8:15pm yoga nidra
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6/23 6:30am dip!**
7-9 closing practice and ceremony
Intentions circle for going home (tree pose with hands together)
9am breakfast
Parting is such sweet sorrow! Packing up and heading out, but taking the fortification and sweetness of the time away, time in the practice, and the time together with us
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