16th Annual Winter Retreat
February 17 - February 24, 2024
Lara Warren
Contacto:
larawarren68@gmail.com
Sobre el retiro
Join Lara on the Pacific Coast of Mexico in February of 2024—this is her 16th year bringing a group here, and Mar de Jade has become a home away from home. All the participants feel the same way, and most choose to return year after year as well. What’s not to like?! Temperatures range from the mid-70s to 80s during the day and cool down to the mid-60s in the evening—for a week-long yoga retreat.
Each morning, we start an active 2-hour yoga class followed by a superb breakfast in the open-air dining area that overlooks Chacala Beach and the ocean. There are several hours between meals and classes to take part in the numerous activities and excursions on offer, such as whale watching, hiking, shopping in local markets excursions, and spa treatments, or choose to relax beach and/or pool-side and soak up the sun and view to your heart’s content. Before sunset and dinner, Lara will teach relax you’re further with a delightful restorative and pranayama class.
Programa
Pago y Políticas de Cancelación
$1850 – $3,500 depending on accommodation (from shared dormitory to luxury rooms with ocean views*). This 7-day retreat includes 2 yoga classes daily; delicious, balanced buffet-style breakfast, lunch, and dinner, full use of facilities including a hotel, pool, lounge, and Chacala Beach; retreat studios and jacuzzi (spa services are extra—as are excursions and activities).
Sobre los maestros
Lara Warren
Lara first explored B.K.S. Iyengar’s «Light on Yoga» when she was twelve years old. Enthralled with the pictures of «Guruji» performing a myriad of postures, a year later, she went to her first Iyengar Yoga class in London. In university, she practiced with a Shingon Buddhist group which combined Chinese Yoga with seated meditation and martial arts. From the first class she ever taught, she knew she had found her calling. Lara received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England in 1992. Lara moved to New York City soon after she graduated from University. In New York, she studied Iyengar Yoga with Robin Janis and Mary Dunn, began building the HipJoint Yoga Studio where she was director from 1994-2014 and worked as a project manager and environmental organizer with the Council on the Environment of New York City. In 2001, she decided to go full-time into teaching yoga. Lara felt that as an environmentalist she was running from crisis to crisis busy trying to transform her surroundings or influence policy with much effort but without much success–; while as a yoga practitioner and teacher the effects she experiences and witnesses are much more immediate and tangible. She believes that as dedicated practitioners of yoga, we are empowered on a very visceral level to make positive and lasting changes in all aspects of our lives. In addition to a daily practice of yoga, and raising her beautiful daughter, Lara is happiest when playing guitar, traveling the world or simply staying closer to home and enjoying all NYC has to offer. Joy and ease; challenge and transformation; evolution and peace are what Lara looks for in her life and practice, and some of the elements with which she hopes to imbue her students. yogawithlara.com