We all need some extra self-care around the holidays. This women’s yoga day retreat is the perfect antidote to the holiday chaos. Get ready to nourish your spirit and replenish your inner light!
This retreat will be in the Great Hall on the grounds of the beautiful Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas. Just stepping onto the property prepares the body, mind, and spirit for something special to happen.
Surrounded by wildflowers, native plants, and sunshine, with a stunning view of the Savanna Meadow, “the Great Hall is one of the most impressive structures at the Wildflower Center. Its high ceilings, stone walls, floor-to-ceiling windows and wooden floors provide a warm and acoustically pleasing venue” for us to gather, practice, reflect, and rejuvenate.
December launches us into a season of high activity, right when the Earth is settling down. All of this doing calls us out of our being. There is always plenty to do – especially this time of year. This retreat is an opportunity to stop doing and simply be. Be in the season. Be on your mat. Be in the Light…return to your light.
Movement, breath, and meditation to foster inner brilliance will polish the lens of our perception so we can truly see the light in our lives– the present– as the greatest gift of all. Any remaining obstacles will be broken and tossed aside by the vibrations of harmonizing movement, leaving you cleansed and refreshed from the inside out.
This is an invitation to lighten up, have some fun, and love who and where you are right now. Enter the season of light fully lit up from the inside so your eyes twinkle with wonder and awe at the gifts that surround you in the here and now.
Here's the layout for the day:
9:30 Opening Circle and Centering
10:00 Chakra Flow Yoga* to Foster Inner Brilliance
11:30 Lunch provided by Primizie Catering
12:00 Sacred Places, Sacred Spaced Contemplative Walk
1:00 Keepsake creation
1:30 Restorative Yoga with Sound Bath and Rejuvenating Pranayama
2:30 You are welcome to stay and enjoy the Wildflower Center until closing at 5pm
*Chakra Flow Yoga is an exciting practice that combines chakra clearing + energy-boosting movement sequences, traditional yoga asana flow, therapeutic breath techniques, and guided meditation.
"The environment is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share. It is not only a mirror of ourselves, but a focusing lens on what we can become."
-- Lady Bird Johnson, 1967
Meet Your Facilitator
Jessica Goulding (E-RYT 500, C-IAYT, YACEP) has been in the body and movement world for thirty years. Her formative years as an amateur, and later as a professional dancer, teacher, and choreographer, instilled in her a deep, intrinsic understanding of body mechanics, energy management, and experience of Flow. Her continued studies and experience in yoga and spirituality since 2004 have made her an expert in her field of yoga and Yoga Therapy. She has led three meaningful international yoga retreats, as well as local day retreats, including Walking With Divine Feminine: Yoga and Labyrinth Experience. Jess deeply enjoys guiding her students through breath, movement, and meditation on spiritual topics so they can know themselves better and how they relate to the world and the Divine. She is a happily married mother of two teenagers and a Red Heeler dog named Lila.
