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Body & Mind: Yoga and Mindfulness in Tumultuous Times
November 01 - November 03, 2019
Mark Epstein, M.D.
Lucienne Vidah
Yoga and meditation are both invaluable tools for the management of anxiety, and both have emerged in American mainstream culture over the past decade. Needed now more than ever, each comes from ancient living traditions whose purpose is to help us live our lives without debilitating stress, depression, fear, resentment, muscle tension, fatigue, or addictive craving.Too often, however, as is often the case in modern Western culture, when yoga is practiced simply as exercise or when meditation is taught solely as stress relief, their greater therapeutic potential is neglected. Join Buddhist psychiatrist Dr. Mark Epstein and Senior Iyengar Yoga teacher Lucienne Vidah in this special retreat designed to make room for a deeper appreciation of these living traditions, helping to integrate them into our daily lives.Suitable both for relative beginners and for long-time students of meditation and/or yoga, this retreat consists of four extended periods of intensive yoga, three deep-dive discussion sessions, mindfulness instruction, group meditation practice, and Q&A. While the bulk of the retreat is designed to foster the integration of body and mind that both yoga and meditation hold dear, there will be ample time for healing spa treatments, mountain hikes, journaling, and conversation among fellow participants.Please note: a minimum of one year of recent yoga asana experience is required to comfortably participate.ScheduleFriday, November 1st
ABOUT THE TEACHERs
Mark Epstein, M.D.
Mark Epstein, M.D. is a psychiatrist in New York City and the author of a number of books about the interface of Buddhism & psychotherapy, including Thoughts without a Thinker, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart, Going on Being, Open to Desire, Psychotherapy without the Self, ...
Lucienne Vidah
Lucienne Vidah is deeply interested in the body and its functioning—as a tool for artistic expression in dance, for healing through bodywork, and as a tool for sharpening the mind in the practice of yoga. While pursuing a BFA in Dance in her native Amsterdam, she met Cle Souren...
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