New River Yoga Retreat

Join internationally acclaimed yoga teacher, founder, and author, Todd Norian, and a merry band of heart followers as he takes you on the yoga adventure of your lifetime!

Our focus will be on the amazing five elements – earth, water, fire, air, and sky, and how they relate to our body and mind, surrounded by the most gorgeous natural setting of the New River Gorge area of West Virginia.

The spiritual heart opens when we balance the five elements within. When out of balance, you can become overwhelmed and stuck (too much earth), emotionally stressed out (too much water), unmotivated and lost (not enough fire) or you become a workaholic (too much fire), scattered or fearful (too much air), or spacey and ungrounded (too much sky).

The Ashaya Yoga® method brings about a balance of all five elements that leaves you feeling strong, confident, peaceful, openhearted, and ready to thrive in life. Safe and accessible to all levels of practitioners, Ashaya Yoga weaves together body, mind, and heart into an extraordinary blend of deep acceptance, recognition of a greater energy, and profound inner strength that helps us stand strong through all the storms of life.

WEEKEND YOGA SCHEDULE:
Friday

6:00-7:30 p.m. Dinner

7:30-9:00 p.m. Session: Open Sky: Bask in Your Vastness

Saturday

7:30-8:30 a.m. Session: Rich Earth: Transform Challenges into Change

8:30-9:30 a.m. Breakfast

9:30-4:30 p.m. White Water Rafting Adventure (as a full day adventure (10:30 Trip), lunch will be provided on the river trip. Get back by 4:30 p.m. to prepare for yoga.

5:30-7:00 p.m. Session: Delicious Water: Flow Like a River

7:00-8:00 p.m. Dinner

8:00-11:00 p.m. Dance to Live Music

Sunday

7:30-8:30 a.m. Session: Bright Fire: Flame of the Heart

8:30-9:30 a.m. Breakfast

9:30-1:00 p.m. Choose your adventure, Guided Hiking, Zip Line, Aerial Park, Mountain Biking.

1:00-2:00 p.m. Lunch

3:00-5:00 p.m. Session: Soothing Wind: Breathe Your Dreams into Reality, Integration and Closing

SESSION DESCRIPTIONS:
Embody the Five Elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Sky

Open Sky: Bask in Your Vastness

Enjoy a spacious, heart-opening practice including standing poses, backbends, hip openers, twists, and forward bends. Includes a sky meditation and deep relaxation.

Rich Earth: Transform Challenges into Life-Enhancing Change

Challenges never come to put you down. They only come when you are ready to rise up and stand strong in your power. Build core strength, flexibility, and balance with standing poses, hip openers, inversions (with modifications and prep poses), and backbends.

Delicious Water: Flow Like a River

Return to the flowing and healing waters within and release stress and tension. Enjoy a therapeutic sequence of flowing and soothing poses. Includes therapeutics for the lower back and hips.

Bright Fire: Flame of the Heart

Yoga is about learning to follow your heart. But that takes courage – courage to walk through the fires of life without being stopped by fear. Use the heat of fire to burn away what’s no longer needed and the light of fire to illumine your path ahead. Practice core integration, standing poses, hip openers, and backbends.

Soothing Wind: Breathe Your Dreams into Reality

Ignite your passion and breathe your dreams into the fibers of your being. Practice an inspiring sequence of postures that awakens your inherent potential for joy. Live fully, love fully, and laugh fully. Bring this fullness to everything you do and live your best life now. End with a deep relaxation integrating all five elements.

MEALS:
Meals: catered, buffet style, vegan/vegetarian/meat (chicken, eggs, fish, turkey)

Friday dinner
Saturday breakfast, lunch, dinner
Sunday breakfast, lunch (no dinner)

ALTERNATE ACTIVITIES FOR THOSE WHO DON’T WANT TO GO RAFTING WITH THE GROUP:
Zipline
Aerial Park

Mountain Biking

Guided Hike

Tuition: $525 includes meals. Camping is included with tuition. Cabin upgrades are available through ACE Adventure Resort.

Tuition includes:

All yoga sessions
6 catered meals
2 adventures: rafting and Sunday Adventure Activity
Live Concert and Dancing at The Lost Paddle.
See Website for more details including schedule, pricing, adventure options and more