(The following retreats are held at Land of Medicine Buddha, but are not presented by us. We are not responsible for the content or execution of these retreats. Each retreat group leader is responsible for the organization and course content of their own retreat.)

 July 30, 2010  - August 1, 2010 Brentwood Yoga Center Presents:
"Aligning with the Redwoods"  a Yoga Retreat of Joy & Acceptance with Sandy Carmellini and Kate & Jim Coughlin

In this pristine environment, where redwood forests and rolling meadows abound, you will find a safe and relaxing refuge.  Come and share this sacred space with like-minded people. Sandy Carmellini , Kate  & Jim Coughlin will be your hosts and guides. The retreat includes: a two night stay, 4 yoga classes and six vegetarian meals. This will be a special time to practice asana and feel the Joy & Acceptance that is so available in such a natural setting. Single room $470 per person, Double rooms are $375 per person and shared rooms (3-5 people) $350.00 per person. Deposit of $150 required upon registration.
Sandy Carmellini : Founder and creator of Brentwood Yoga Center is a graduate from the Yoga Room Berkeley's Advanced Teacher Training program. Her teaching style is Iyengar based, but her background in dance and education adds to her accepting approach in helping students thrive.
Kate Coughlin: Kate teaches yoga from the heart in the Iyengar and vinyasa tradition. Experience precision, detailed instruction, and individual attention with the joy of movement and self-discovery. Kate is the creator of Stanford University's Yoga program and a graduate of Erich Schiffman's teacher's program. She currently studies with Donald Moyer in Berkeley. Kate is an Experience Registered 500-hour Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance (E-RYT 500)
Jim Coughlin-RYT: Jim began practicing yoga in earnest in 1993. Jim has traveled to India extensively to expand his knowledge of yoga with his teacher Arun H.S. Jim teaches yoga with a sense of humor and grounded in the fundamentals of the Yoga Sutra's of Patanjali, the Bhagavad Gita, and the teachings of B.K.S. Iyengar. For more information, please call  (925) 240-6864 or contact www.BrentwoodYogaCenter.com or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

August 13 - 16 Creating Compassionate Cultures: Awakening Compassion through Wisdom in our home, workplace, and Community Since 1989, Pam Cayton founder of Tara Redwood School, California, has created, researched and implemented strategies for awakening compassion, wisdom and social responsibility in the hearts and minds of children and young people. Inspired by the late Tibetan master, Lama Thubten Yeshe, this secular program blends the best of Eastern and Western approaches in education. The curriculum is suitable for people working with children of any faith or culture. Participants will leave with tools, strategies and a foundation in understanding this comprehensive, integrated approach to awakening knowledge, strength, and compassion. Inspired by Lama Yeshe's Vision for Universal Education, Pam founded the first pilot school for Essential Education in the west in 1989 and is now offering workshops for parents, teachers, therapists, and anyone who wants to create a more compassionate society and culture.

In these workshops you will:

• Experience a range of practical tools and methods that you can immediately apply to transform family dynamics, work environments, classrooms, therapeutic approaches and educational environments.
• Explore methodologies that reveal the logic of compassion employing reasoning, dialogue and reflection.
  
• Practice techniques to transform your world, starting with your own mind.
• Become familiar with a systematic step-by-step process to becoming a true source of happiness for yourself and others.

We hope you can join us in spreading this empowering, universal approach to a more compassionate world.
For workshop content, contact details and bookings, see the tour schedule.
For more information about CCC and Tara Redwood School, watch the Tara Redwood School video.
Download the PDF flier HERE.

Feedback from Past Workshops:

"It worked for me on the personal and professional level. It reassures me that educational approaches I have only dreamed about can be made to work." – Curriculum Researcher & Workshop Participant in Australia

"Over the years I have attended many trainings on conflict resolution, peace, and nonviolent communication methods; I am always looking for a system of instruction that teaches children how to be fully human. This last training is the most comprehensive program I've found." – Elementary Educator and Workshop participant, California

"I got so much from the workshop... I came home inspired and have started using some of the ideas at home with my 3 children and it has changed the tone in our house so much already. I feel really motivated and excited about my future with my family." – Mother, Participant in Australia

"I loved your workshop. It was engaging and integrated compassion and wisdom seamlessly. Highly practical yet broad in its vision, I found myself inspired both personally and professionally." – Art Therapist & Workshop Participant in Australia

September 3-6, 2010: Labor Day Weekend -  Intensive T'ai Chi Ch'uan Seminar

Open to all practitioners of the Yang Style Short Form created by Cheng Man-Ch'ing. Form correction, plus instruction in t'ai chi sword, push hands and San Shou. (San Shou is moving-step push hands for two people, based on the Yang Style Long Form.) Offered by Inner Research Institute School of T'ai Chi Ch'uan. Instructor, Martin Inn, has been teaching t'ai chi ch'uan since 1969. Daily Schedule: Sword: 9:00 10:00 am; San Shou: 10:00 noon; Form Correction and Push Hands: 3:00 6:00 pm. Tuition: Form Correction and Push Hands: $285. Add Sword OR San Shou: $310. Add Sword AND San Shou: $325. (Cost of accommodations and meals is not included in workshop tuition.) For more information: Contact Martin  415-285-9408 / This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Visit the Inner Research Institute: http://www.iritaichi.org.

September 10 - 12 2010 - Phoenix Yoga - Women's Yoga Retreat with Vicki Noble and Phoenix Artemisia

Join us on the weekend of Sept 10-12 to celebrate our depth and heights as women. The weekend will bring re-empowerment and healing for our bodies, emotions and Self-concept, through Yoga, sadhana and ritual. Learn to facilitate well-being and inner resource for yourself and others with Reiki. Meet the Elements of your compassionate female warrior-within, exploring the Dakini Mandala. Create an art collage Mandala in a supportive environment to reflect on, integrate and merge with your Love, wisdom, integrity and power as a woman, reflected through the elements of the Dakini practice. Enjoy the company and wisdom of women together and in contemplative time in nature, to your heart's content. The retreat is taking place at Land of Medicine Buddha, a beautiful retreat center on 108 acres in the Santa Cruz Mountains, with wonderful hiking trails, yurt or cabin accommodations, and serene, light-filled Yoga halls. To register, please visit www.phoenixyoga.net/retreats.html or email Phoenix at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

September 17-19, 2010 - Asana Practice Retreat with Mary Lou Weprin

Mary Lou Weprin, Associate Director of the Advanced Studies Program at The Yoga Room, Berkeley, CA, will lead a weekend yoga retreat for intermediate level practitioners at Land of Medicine Buddha.  Mornings will be devoted to more strenuous asanas such as standing poses and backbends, and afternoons will focus on restorative poses, inversions and forward bends.  Participants should have at least 1 year of practice in the Iyengar method of hatha yoga. For further information, please contact her at www.mlweprinyoga.com

October 15-17, 2010 -  Yoga Weekend at Land of Medicine Buddha with Nikki Estrada

Please join me for a weekend of yoga and meditation at this beautiful Buddhist retreat center. Each day will be filled with flow yoga classes, meditation, personal time in nature and delicious vegetarian meals. For more details and pricing please visit www.nikkiestrada.com

October 27-31, 2010 - Jennifer Wellwood Retreat

The great 14th century yogi Longchenpa, in his songs of realization, declared: Awakened mind is self-knowing awareness equal to space. This vast expanse . . . is timelessly and innately present in all beings. His words point to the Buddhist teaching that we all have an intrinsic nature that is wide open and wide awake. Realization is the process of learning to recognize and abide in that nature, while transformation is the process of learning to live from it in each moment of our lives. This requires methods and understandings that allow us to see, meet, and work with the body-mind patterning that arises from our unresolved psychological material, and that keeps us from stabilizing in our innate nature and remaining transparent to it. In this retreat we will integrate deep spiritual and psychological work in the service of becoming able to both realize and embody our deepest nature.

Nov 5-7, 2010 - Vividly Woman Circles to Spirals

Vividly Woman founder Leela Francis invites you to join her on an enriching path of beauty and aliveness, connecting you more deeply with self, your sisters and the wisdom of the natural world. Savor the awakening of body and soul through explorative movement and dance, creative ritual and the circling community of Vividly Woman. Join us and answer the calling of your deepest truth. Embrace the wisdom of nature, dance your true sensual connection and open your heart to the circle of life. For more information contact Leela at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

December 3 - December 5, 2010 - From Memory to Memoir writing workshop with author Laura Davis

All of us carry untold stories. Many of us dream of putting these stories down on the page. This workshop will teach you how to transform scraps of memory and old family stories into a rich written. We will address the question, "How can I transform a personal story into something that has value and meaning for readers?" You will leave this workshop with strategies for writing about events that happened years ago with fresh immediacy. "But how can I do that?" you might ask. "There's so much I don't remember." This workshop will answer that question by teaching you to capture the memories you do have, enhance recollections that are vague or unclear, and write effectively and powerfully even about the parts of your history it is impossible to know for sure. For more information or to register, go to: http://www.lauradavis.net/Retreats/memory.html or email Laura: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 831-464-9517. 

January 14-16, 2011 - New Years Yoga Retreat with Anja Borgstrom

Practice yoga at a serene center devoted to healing and loving kindness - Be introduced to Tibetan Buddhist practices by the welcoming staff - Purify in the sauna - treat yourself to a melting massage - hike the nearby redwood trails - explore the coastal town of Santa Cruz. During our retreat explore a full-bodied practice including precision-flow, challenging postures with respect to individual needs, restorative poses, chanting, and meditation - all infused with subtle breath awareness. Anja Borgstrom has been teaching for 16 years, and is a graduate of The Yoga Room Iyengar-based teacher training program in Berkeley, CA. Anja is knowledgable, patient and compassionate. She is able to offer valuable individualized guidance in a group setting. Inspired by the amazing scope of yoga, Anja is trained in many niches: Hatha, prenatal, postnatal, back-care/restorative, and kids yoga. Anja's 2009 Land of Medicine Buddha retreatants say about their experience: Enchanting..rejuvinating..balancing..inspiring..energizing..peaceful
 

For information about past retreats held by private group facility rentals at Land of Medicne Buddha please click on the "read more" button below.