Aging Gracefully: Movement is Life

Our Aging Gracefully Retreat is designed by our staff Yoga Therapist and Restorative Exercise Specialist, Kristin English. It is a perfect fusion of Therapeutic Yoga, principals of modern Biomechanics with an emphasis on moving in and with nature.  Kristin is a student of and is certified under Katy Bowman’s Nutritious Movement Program.  This retreat will share principals from Katy’s best-selling book, Dynamic Aging.

In the modern world, our sedentary lifestyle promotes stagnation and improper function of our bodies. Even if we exercise an hour a day we are considered “active sedentary”.  This leads to unhealthy physical, mental, and emotional patterns.  On this retreat we will reframe some popularized ideas of health that might not be serving us in the way we may expect.  For instance, the paradigm of “exercise” as our primary tool for a healthy body and nervous system is outdated and, in many cases, leaves us in this “active sedentary” category. We will consider how all our daily “movements” can be in themselves a nutrition and a preventive medicine, shifting us out of this epidemic of sedentarism and into a more empowered and joyful aging experience.  Your body will be moved down to the cellular level and will leave energized with new life force.

Your guide Kristin English combines years of experience in complementary modalities to help support and guide you toward simple and profound truths. She believes in and shares nature, movement and principals of Yoga and Meditation to create a harmonized and holistic experience.  She shares through creating presence, simple tools for being in the moment, through which we can discover our inbuilt ability to heal ourselves. Vedanta’s natural and pristine environment is the ideal setting to take a pause and to work on personal transformation. Joining this thoughtful program will have a soothing and strengthening effect lasting far beyond our weekend together.