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LifeForce Yoga for Emotional Fitness Retreat with Allie Middleton

August 12 - August 16

Wiawaka Center for Women, 3778 Route 9L
Lake George, NY 12845 United States
Enjoy a lovely retreat and a series of LifeForce Yoga for Emotional Fitness Sessions from 9am-12noon, Monday – Friday, Aug 12 – 16, 2019. (nb: Wednesday class will be held from 2-5pm)

Join Kripalu-trained yoga therapist and energy medicine practitioner, Allie Middleton, JD LCSW E-RYT,  in this 5-day workshop. Each dawn Allie will offer a meditative flow on the dock followed by a three-hour gentle intensive. The rest of the time is for you to enjoy optional contemplative practices about camp. Revel in self-care with the many treasures of beautiful Lake George.

Curriculum includes specialized yoga practices from the ancient wisdom traditions and texts. Learn mudras and meditations to pair with mindful movements. Allie will also share energy medicine practices designed to clear old energy from your body and mind. Join us to open and illuminate your heart in a sacred container for transformation and fun.

Wiawaka is a lovely location, so don’t miss this! We’ll have optional evening stargazing yoga on the dock in the evenings and a fire on Friday night.

Please contact the front desk to make reservations at (518) 668-9690 option 1. This retreat will fill up quickly!

More info here.

 

Allie Middleton

JD, LCSW, E-RYT500, C-IAYT, LFYP-2

Allie has been practicing yoga and meditation for 40 years. After a diverse business career leading innovative start-ups in New York City, she began to commit her life and work to energy healing practices.  As a wilderness trainer, she traveled the world teaching individuals and teams undergoing change to learn and practice deeply integrative and harmonizing ways of living while pursuing their heart’s desire. Knowing that clinical expertise would help her serve others in their personal transformation, she pursued graduate clinical education, taught at the graduate level and became a licensed clinical social worker and master coach and trainer in Neuro-Linguistic Programming. In addition to being a mental health first responder to the 9/11 disaster, she served as the clinical director of a community mental health agency and brought yoga and expressive arts into 12 programs. She worked to develop yoga programming for staff and clients at the New York Office of Mental Health and in peer-run programs, using LifeForce Yoga combined with embodied presence practices from the Presencing Institute. Now, she teaches widely and supports emerging leaders in health care as well as business with mind-body integration coaching and mind-body program development. She blends LifeForce Yoga with other mind-body integration practices in public and private psychiatric rehabilitation settings and is an experienced leader, advocate and conference presenter on the integration of mindfulness and yoga into health care reform. Allie integrates LifeForce Yoga into her leadership development coaching in business settings and in her coaching practice and trainings globally. Allie maintains a private yoga therapy practice and teaches LifeForce Yoga internationally at conferences and retreats. She and her husband live in the Hudson River Valley in New York and enjoy traveling to sacred sites, near and far.

 

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Start:
August 12
End:
August 16
Website:
https://wiawaka.wordpress.com/yoga-for-emotional-fitness/

Venue

Wiawaka Center for Women
3778 Route 9L
Lake George, NY 12845 United States + Google Map
Phone:
518-668-9690
Website:
https://wiawaka.wordpress.com/yoga-for-emotional-fitness/

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