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Wellness
Weekends & Relaxing Retreats
 Yoga Wellness Weekends
Why not take the time to learn about yoga or move your practice to a deeper level over a weekend? If you are a beginner, a weekend it’s a great way to start yoga. More adept yogis can advance their practice and combine their love of yoga with a relaxing, yet energy boosting weekend break!
Yogatree offers a series of inspiring wellness weekends. Most are suitable for all abilities even beginners, but do ask and we’ll find one that is just right for you! Each weekend is a stress-busting event, with great yoga, expert talks, tasty, healthy food and good company. This is a great way to advance or begin your yoga - working with at least two experienced teachers in an intimate group.
 If you are not local to Wicklow and need accommodation please contact us at info@ballycullenlodge.com. In the past we’ve been delighted to welcome visitors to Yogatree weekends and events from all over Ireland, the UK, USA, South Africa, Germany, Canada and Switzerland.
In addition, we also offer Master Classes and One-day Wellness Workshops. Some popular themes we repeat, but we always have something new to interest our regular students and bring new practitioners onto the path of yoga.
See One-Day Workshops
Wellness Weekends are held at the Ecology Centre in Wicklow town, County Wicklow
Join us in the gracious, spacious and light-filled Victorian halls, overlooking the Irish Sea and the beautiful bio-dynamic flower and vegetable gardens of the Dominican Ecology Centre for a potentially life-changing experience. Watch this space for details and dates of the weekend programmes in upcoming months. We are using the feedback from attendees to make the weekends even more relevant and enjoyable ... a blissful couple of days!
Let us know if any of the weekends below are of interest to you.
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 WEEKEND with GARY GARTER
Theme: “Yoga as a User’s Manual for your Body”.
Date: 9th & 10th January 2010
Who can attend? This weekend workshop is suitable for everyone, beginners as well as for those who have been practicing for many years and would like to understand their body better in order to get more out of their yoga.
About the guest teacher: Gary Carter is an inspiring teacher with an awesome knowledge of how the body moves, which he presents with great skill and entertaining humour! He established Natural Bodies in Brighton, England -- the first centre dedicated to the work and approach of Yoga Master Vanda Scaravelli.
About the workshop: Gary’s unique approach is not so much about executing postures, but to cultivate the conditions that allow the body’s natural intelligence to awaken. This also brings individuality to one's yoga practice, along with a deeper understanding of one’s body and how it moves in yoga class and in everyday life. His easy manner allows everyone to work at their own pace. Learning to discover and feel the movement of the spine and the breath becomes a deep-rooted part of the practice. Many students say it is like 'coming home’.
Gary Carter shows how a better understanding of anatomy can help us to make intelligent choices about the way we use our bodies. His workshops involve the use of props, illustrations and hands-on work to help demonstrate the principles that underlie how our bodies function. This weekend workshop explores the anatomy of movement and posture; through movement analysis, 3-D work and experiential anatomy. It will encourage participants to 'see' their own bodies more clearly, thus helping to relieve re-occurring aches and pains due to sports or other injuries or trauma. The classes also assist in resolving issues such as tightness in the shoulders and neck, which is so common in our modern lives – in which the intellect dominates and the body can be easily neglected. This weekend workshop is most helpful for rehabilitative issues. The course aims to help you take a flexible, intelligent approach to exercise with your own body.
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 WEEKEND with LINDA BREISTIG
Theme: “Yoga with elements of Qi Gong, Pilates & Energy work.”
Date: 20th & 21st February 2010
Who can attend?
This weekend is open to everyone, beginners as well as experienced practitioners. If you wish to bring new ideas, fresh understanding and deeper ways of working with your unique energy and complement your own yoga practice, this workshop is for you!
About the guest teacher:
Linda is a physiotherapist with working experience in Scotland and Norway. She has 16 years experience teaching yoga in Norway. During the last few years she has chosen to work full time as a Yoga and Pilates instructor. In addition, Linda is also qualified in other areas such as Qi Gong and 2 different healing arts.
About the workshop:
In addition to yoga, the workshop will include a session of Qi Gong each day. These are simple energy exercises which help stimulate the inner body and remove energetic blockages. As part of the workshop, there will also be a session will be on the “Art of Listening” to our body and mind. In the yoga classes we will learn the basic principles of Pilates which gives the practitioner a safe way of exercising his/her deep core structure, which are all important in any physical practice. Bringing in different elements of other practices into yoga will enable you to cultivate fresh insights to your own yoga practice and to further develop yourself.
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 WEEKEND with REGI KERSCHBAUMER
Theme: “Yin Yang Yoga”.
Date: Spring 2010
Who can attend? This weekend workshop is suitable for everyone, beginners as well as experienced yogis. If you would like to gently and deeply work into the muscles and melt tightness in connective tissues such as joints, ligaments and fascia, this workshop is for you. You will emerge with a whole new perspective on yoga and perhaps life!
About the guest teacher: Regi Kerschbaumer comes over from London every year to share her international expertise in Yin Yang Yoga. She is a gifted teacher with a warm and inclusive enthusiasm that encourages students at all levels. In addition to yoga qualifications Regi is a reflexologist and Bowen therapist with a thorough knowledge of Chinese Meridians.
About the workshop: This weekend is an ideal introduction to yoga and a wonderful opportunity to unwind and relax, restoring vital energy and taking advantage of the natural surge of energy in the spring. The theme is a relaxing weekend specifically designed to release stress and tension and allow the free flow of the body’s natural energies. Yin postures gently stretch and rehabilitate the connective tissues forming our joints, while Yang strengthens the muscles and improves circulation and flexibility. Suitable for yoga practitioners of any level, Yin practice also strengthens ‘chi’ (energy) and maintains the health of the meridians in the body and is the ideal complement to dynamic or “Yang” forms of yoga.
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 WEEKEND with SAM RAO - ONE DAY WORKSHOP
Theme: “My Health My Responsibility - Yoga for Men”.
Date: 25th April 2010
Who can attend? Men of all ages are welcome. Beginners as well as experienced yogis will find this workshop stimulating & informative.
About the guest teacher: Sam Rao’s instruction is extremely practical and useful for men at any level of interest or ability in yoga. Whether you have not exercised in years or are a marathon runner, this workshop is for you! Sam places great emphasis on precision in postures for very specific health benefits. Sam is a business man and yoga teacher, now proud to be in his 60, and a splendid example of robust wellbeing through the path of yoga.
 About the workshop: Sam explains with clarity how, for example, the inner workings of the lower body, i.e. appendix, prostate, bladder and colon, are readily assisted through certain postures that promote wellbeing in these vital organs and prevent the onset of degenerative disease.
All yoga practice is about working the body and quietening the mind. The asanas (postures) stretch the muscles and exercise the joints; then pranayama (breathing) nourishes the whole body while accentuating concentration and focus in the mind, and every yoga session concludes with a period of relaxation. The end result is to progressively feel both energised and calm, and ultimately experience a body totally free of discomfort. Under Sam’s patient guidance, it becomes apparent that each man is responsible for his own wellbeing and can actively participate in the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle and disease prevention through yoga.
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 WEEKEND with SARRA WHICHELOE
Theme: “Yoga and Traditional Dance”.
Date: 2010
Who can attend? Everyone who loves movement and music. No yoga or dance experience necessary. Men are most welcome.
About the guest teacher: Sarra Whicheloe is a professional Bharatanatyam dancer, based in London. She has trained in Southern India and in London since 2002 with eminent teachers. She has recently toured theatres in the UK with a solo piece called “Bhole Nath” on the transformative energy of Lord Shiva. She is a qualified advanced Iyengar Yoga teacher and performed at B.K.S. Iyengar’s 90th birthday celebrations. For more information visit www.sarra.co.uk
About the workshop: A stimulating, fun & joyful weekend of yoga and dance. Yoga to bring balance to the body & quietness to the mind, dance for the soul -- inspired by Indian Classical Dance. Enjoy flowing movement sequences that work with the breath as well as with imagery and poetry. Unwind to the soothing sound of Indian music and the rhythms of Indian Dance movement.
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