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WOMEN'S SPRING YOGA AND MINDFULNESS RETREAT
SILVER LAKE, NY
March 21-23, 2025
Heart Centered Awareness: Women's Yoga and Mindfulness Retreat
Join us for an all-inclusive retreat designed to rejuvenate your mind, body, and spirit amidst the serene beauty of Silver Lake in upstate NY. This transformative experience invites you to dive deep into your Heart Center, reconnecting with your innermost desires and aspirations for growth and clarity.
Why Attend?
- Reconnect with Your Spiritual Heart: Through guided meditation sessions and gentle yoga practices, you'll find clarity and insight into what truly matters to you.
- Renew & Restore: Embrace the opportunity to rest and recharge, leaving behind the hustle and bustle of daily life.
- Embrace Sacred Wisdoms and mindfulness practices that guide you from busy thoughts and constant Doing, into non-doing.
- Discover the Peace that rises from settling into the Sacred Simplicity of non-duality.
Highlights!
- All meals and accommodations
- Daily guided meditation and yoga sessions
- Workshops and activities focused on Unity Consciousness and Non-Duality.
- Learn how to shift your Awareness into Heart Centered Consciousness.
- Sound Bath experience with Sandra K of Sunflower Vibrations
- Access to beautiful nature trails and scenic views
Costs and Inclusions
$495 per person
Includes EVERYTHING > Accommodations, all meals, instruction and more!
DEPOSIT $145 to hold your space
>>> $495 if deposit of $145 received February 28, 2025
>>> Balance also due by March 1, 2025
INCLUSIONS:
* 2 Nights shared room lodging with private bath. Some larger rooms with shared bath.
* All healthy meals…let us know your diet requirements
* All bedding, linens, towels…etc.
* Daily yoga
* Daily meditation / mindfulness / pranayama training
* Wisdom Teachings
* Sound Bath Experience with Sandra K
* Bonfire and Light Ceremony with floating prayer lamps
* Mindfully guided Nature Hike
* Deluxe Retreat Packet with all teachings and trainings
* Welcome Gift
How to Register
You may register below online using Paypal, credit card, or debit card.
Or call the Retreat Host, Melinda Johnston at 585-672-5250.
Check payments are also accepted.
Mail to:
BUDDHI INSTITUTE
1400 Winton Road N.
Suite 102-A
Rochester, NY 14609
Space is available on a first come, first serve basis.
Upon registration, you will be contacted to discuss any dietary requirements you may have. In addition to standard healthy meals, we can accommodate vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, and dairy free diet plans.
Deposits are non-refundable after February 4, 2025
Final payment is due March 1, 2025.
What to Expect
Rest. Restore. Recharge!
Let us welcome the arrival of spring on the Equinox Weekend Yoga Mindfulness Retreat for women.
Spring is the season to plant new seeds of consciousness that truly align with your Highest Good...your Soul's blueprint.
Expect a weekend of wisdom in a relaxed learning environment:
- Daily Yin YOGA ...easy for beginners!
- MEDITATION / pranayama training
- WISDOM teachings for Heart Centered Awareness
- ENERGY healing practices for vitality and clarity
The Spring Season is always the time to re-align with your True Nature.
The winter season gives cause to the desire to hibernate.
But early spring is the season to cultivate our Inner Landscape and ALIGN with Heart Center.
The Retreat Center
The retreat center is nestled amidst the breathtaking scenery of Silver Lake. On the north side of the property, is the picturesque waterfront area, featuring an outdoor chapel, a serene prayer labyrinth, and sundeck.
Your time here is yours to enjoy. Below is a suggested schedule of activities. Come to all…come to none…it’s your choice.
Meditation and Mindfulness
This retreat will offer several meditation sessions, spiritual wisdom workshops, and light restorative yoga for those who wish to deepen their practice. Nevertheless, you are welcome to hike off on your own, draw, paint, knit…reflect…or pray on your own. Our Saturday night bonfire celebration will include lighting biodegradable, floating prayer lamps! It will be a sacred experience to see all of our Heart Aligned prayers shining brightly together.
Overall, your peace is my peace. However, our meals will be provided by the Center, so we will need to follow their meal time schedule. Any diet can be accommodated…vegetarian, gluten free…dairy free, etc.
Accommodations
Private Lodge Guest House!
We retreat in Wilmott Lodge. The history of the building melds beautifully with dorm style accommodations, creating an ideal place for our group.
.Our Lodge offers two meeting/lounge areas, one with a gas fireplace. One space will be open for our gatherings, and the other for yoga and meditation.
The outside deck on the west side has views of the lake and the pool.
The east side has a stone patio with a terrace that blooms in the spring and summer.
Our retreat house also has 2 kitchens with refrigerators and other amenities.
The Rooms
The 16 rooms in the retreat house are dorm style. All beds are twin size, and rooms have either or 2 or 3 beds and private or shared bathroom.
If you need a roommate, we will help you pair up with someone perfect.
All towels, pillows, and linens are provided, so no need to bring that with you, unless you have a favorite blanket that you can’t live without! : )
Plenty of "Space"
Your time here is your own. There are plenty of places on retreat grounds to find solitude or engage in meditative contemplation
You are free to join the activities below, or go off on your own to journal, hike, pray, meditate...peace is yours to discover!
SAMPLE DAILY SCHEDULE
Dates: March 21-23, 2025
Friday
Arrive by 5 pm
6:00 pm – Dinner
7:30 pm – Welcome and Opening Circle
Saturday
7:30 am- Free time or optional sunrise meditation
8:30 am – Breakfast
10:00 am- Mindfulness Training
11:00 am – Light Yoga and Meditation
12:30 pm – Lunch
1:15 pm – Free Time
3:30 pm - Sound Bath Experience
5:00 pm – Evening Reflection
6:00 pm – Dinner
7:30 pm – Bonfire, Star Gazing, and Light Ceremony
Sunday
7:30 am- Optional Sunrise Meditation
8:30 am – Breakfast
10:00 am- Light Yoga and Meditation
11:00 am – Spiritual Wisdom Circle and Closing
12:15 pm – Lunch
1:15 pm – Depart
Inclusions
* 2 Nights shared room lodging with full bathroom
* All healthy meals…let us know your diet requirements
* All bedding, linens, towels…etc.
* Daily yoga
* Daily meditation
* Wisdom Teachings
* Soundbath Experience
* Fire ceremony
* Welcome Gift
Please call Melinda Johnston for more details or to register: 585-672-5250
Need a Spiritual Tune-Up??
Signs that you need a Spiritual Tune-Up...
- You have been over-giving and are feeling depleted.
- You are not taking time for yourself, or when you do, it doesn't feel enjoyable, or truly rejuvenating.
- You find yourself easily and frequently distracted.
- You know deep within that you are not aligned with your Best Self, therefore, not living your best life.
- You’re having difficulty managing feelings like grief, anger, irritability and overwhelm.
This retreat experience will provide you the opportunity to release the Lesser (what pulls on you) and rise into a renewed sense of clarity, and profound heart centered Awareness.
Retreat Leader
Melinda Johnston, M.Msc.
International Author, Inspirational Speaker, Spiritual Philosopher and Coach, Intuitive Healer, Wellness Consultant
Melinda has over 30 years of study and practice in religious culture, practical philosophical, metaphysical sciences and understanding for the historical “webs” of human history, which have impacted most of our modern religions and spiritual practices.
She has created a variety of alternative methods for celebrating life and seeing the “sacred” in simplicity. Her knowledge offers students and clients a unique insight into mindful inner dialogue, which in turn honors and expands one’s innate wisdom and allows for one’s perfect state of wellness to exist.
Because she is well versed in multiple facets of religious and sacred philosophy, including the Eastern philosophies of Buddhism and Vedanta, Metaphysical consciousness, and the Science of Yoga, her gentle teaching method allows one’s self knowledge to expand to deeper level, naturally.
As owner of the Buddhi Institute her goal is to teach practical methods and programs that incorporate mindfulness, along with other ancient wisdom, for the integration of mind and spirit so a sense of complete wellness arises almost effortlessly into one’s day to day living.
Her teaching process is simple, kind, nurturing, and Absolute. From personal experience, and in years of guiding others, she knows:
“We all have this wisdom within. Each of us have the Inner Guru that is waiting to Awaken
Yoga Instructor
Sandra Kurzdorfer
Sandra currently runs Sunflower Vibrations.
She has been teaching yoga since 2010 and practicing since 2003.
Sandra began her studies in Kriya yoga and earned her 200-hour certification from Blue Lotus in Anusara inspired yoga. She has since been certified and specializes in Yin yoga, Restorative yoga, Therapeutic yoga, Sound Bathing and VST (Vibrational Sound Therapy).
She runs Yin and Sound Bath workshops regularly. Her focus is on healing the physical body while relieving emotional and mental stress through mindful awareness to the breath in coordination with gentle movements, correct alignment, sound and vibration.