Katie's Summer Teaching Schedule

Mountain Yoga: Montclaire, Oakland (http://www.mountainyoga.org/)
Mondays 4:30-5:15 p.m.

Namaste Yoga in Rockridge, Oakland, (http://www.namasterockridge.com/)
Wednesdays 7:30-9 p.m.

Piedmont Yoga: Oakland (http://www.piedmontyoga.com/)
Thursdays 5:30-7 p.m.

Retreat to Maya Tulum with Nova Loverro Sprick and Katie Silcox

Inside Out-Outside In: A Journey to Self
May 30th - June 6th, 2009

Join yoginis Katie Silcox and Nova Loverro Sprick for a body-invigorating, life-changing, heart-opening, belly-laughing, mind-clearing week at Maya Tulum, Mexico. Through the practice of asana, breathwork, journaling, visualization and meditation, we will play with and discover the connection between our inner/individual world and our experience of the tangible world around us. Truly, unless our practice is altering the quality of our lives for the better, we have not discovered the real power that yoga can give us.In the words of the renowned naturalist, John Muir, "....for going out, I found, was really going in." This workshop is open to all levels of students who delight in finding new openings in body, heart and mind.

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Powerful woman in all senses, Nova Loverro Sprick taught yoga for ten years and was certified in Anusara Yoga in February of 2006. Her passion for learning and incorporating yoga into all aspects of her life, including being a mother and wife, a lover of art, nature and food and more recently as a cancer survivor, has been her source of inexhaustible enthusiasm to teach and offer from her heart. Nova discovered Anusara Yoga and John Friend in 2001, where she received the invitation to open to the beautiful dance of life in all things great, small, beautiful and ugly.
Katie Silcox has taught yoga in Europe, Asia, Central America and currently teaches in the San Francisco Bay area. Katie was taught in India, in the home of famed yogis A.G. and Indra Mohan, two of Krishnamacharya's last students. Katie brings an original mix of classical yoga, Tantric practices, and Southern-belle enthusiasm to her students. She is also a dedicated student of Yogarupa Rod Stryker and is currently pursuing advanced education in Aryuvedic Medicine a focus on Yoga Psychology as Applied to Women's Issues.


Our retreat is located on the Riviera Maya in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico between the pristine blue ocean, the emerald green tropical forests and the jungles. For more info, check out Maya Tulum.

HOW TO RESERVE: It is easy to reserve your spot now, simply email Katie Silcox at jesseespain@yahoo.com. You may also reserve your space directly through Maya Tulum at reservations@mayatulum.com

Details: Pricing from $1290 double occupancy, includes 8 glorious days, 7 balmy nights lodging in a luxury beach-side bungalow, 3 healthy meals daily, minimum 2 yoga workshops daily, yoga psychology workshops, course material, guided beach-side meditations.

Yoga Bhavana, What does it mean?

Bhavana is a word that means "cultivating feelings" as can be understood as the underlying intention behind our practices. Wikipedia defines it as "development". Budhha used it when speaking about citta-bhavana, metta-bhevana and vipassana bhavana ( development of the mind or the cultivation of the heart (citta means both heart and mind); the development/cultivation of loving-kindness; the cultivation of tranquility and the development of insight.)