Summer Retreats: Learn to Pause & Relax Into Your Life

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I have been leading an annual Summer Weekend and Mid-Week Retreat at Kripalu since 2005. Offered in the beauty of Kripalu’s natural environment, these retreats are known for their exquisite combination of yoga, meditation, and time in nature.

Year after year students express – that no matter how they arrived – they leave with a deep sense of renewal, healing, gratitude, and inspiration.

THE PERFECT COMBINATION

These summer retreats have all the ingredients to make the most memorable and renewing experience: An amazing natural environment, nourishing local food, like minded yogis combined with deeply impactful yoga practices. Jillian artfully weaves together mindfulness with slow-flow vinyasa, restorative yoga, conscious relaxation, deep listening practices, and time in nature. Her emphasis is on internal observation, rhythmic breathing, the balance of effort and ease, and compassion practices. 

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JULY 15-17: LEARNING TO PAUSE: A Yoga, Meditation and Nature Retreat.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.—Viktor Frankl  Explore the space between stimulus and response, where you can leave behind your habitual solutions and cultivate a living relationship with the present moment. As you learn to relax into this space—the pause—and see life and yourself more clearly, you can flow forward with more clarity, wisdom, presence, and wholeheartedness. From this place of centered awareness, your actions become a direct reflection of your deepest insight, compassion, and skillfulness.

JULY 17-22: RELAXING INTO YOUR LIFE: Balancing Strength and Openness

When you pause, relax, and come into the present moment, you immediately have more resources at your disposal and a greater capacity to handle any situation. You grow lighter and more spacious. Your overall stress level decreases, which has a positive effect on your physical, emotional, and mental health.  This retreat combines slow yoga, relaxation, meditation, contemplation, and mindful walks in nature to help you balance your ability to be strong and open in life’s ever-changing now. You take home a compassionate practice that draws you back to the present, over and over again.

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A SAMPLE DAY

Early Morning On Your Own

  • Wake, stretch, and stroll down the hall to a 6 am Kripalu Yoga class

  • Delight in a deliciously nourishing breakfast.  

  • Spend some quiet time alone, enjoy a meditation walk, or bundle up and stroll the grounds.

Morning Retreat Program WITH JILLIAN (8:30 am).

Enjoy time to unwind and sink in deeply with a well-paced combination of slow-flow vinyasa, restorative poses, meditation and deep relaxation. All levels will have guidance to personalize the practice.

Lunch Time BREAK ON YOUR OWN

  • Drop into an invigorating all campus YogaDance® class

  • Nurture your body and your soul with an amazing organic lunch.  Enjoy eating picnic style outside or in the cafeteria or cafe with new friends.

  • Go for a swim, relax with a book, or schedule a healing Kripalu massage.

Afternoon Retreat Program WITH JILLIAN

Class will combine a mindful nature walk, gentle yoga, deep relaxation. We will finish the day with closing meditation and optional journal entry for the evening.

Late Afternoon On Your Own

Evening

  • Chat with new friends while enjoying a fabulous all-natural meal

  • Curl up on a couch for some solitude.

  • Attend a concert or workshop or have a healing arts session

  • Detox in the sauna before heading off to bed.

MORE UP COMING RETREATS AND EVENTS

 Narrative Medicine Conference. 6/19-24. Kripalu, Lenox, MA. 
I am honored to present in this ground breaking event at Kripalu. This event is for caregivers, doctors, nurses, yoga teachers, aspiring writers, and anyone interested in personal narrative as a healing path to recovery. Come unplug with myself and expert in the field of narrative medicine through thoughtful discussions, breath work, yoga and writing exercises. 

Nantucket Yoga Festival 7/10-12. Nantucket, MA. 
Join me on the amazing island of Nantucket with 20 amazing teachers including Stephen Cope, Lilias Folan, and Todd Norian. And use my special guest discount code: JP16 to register and get $50 off on full pass or $25 off a day pass.

Annual Autumn Fall Foliage Retreat 10/28-30. Sheffield, MA. 17th Annual Autumn Berkshire Retreat.