Living Yoga...Food is Medicine Retreats: Spring & Summer 2016

Living Yoga Retreats: 

Northern California 

We are gearing up for an opportune time to cleanse the body/mind and release any toxic build up from winter.  Like nature around us, it is the onset of Spring where the old, dead debris and waste gets ushered out by the fresh blooms and sprouting of new, vital growth.   

I'd like to invite you to recalibrate your health potential by synchronizing your life and lifestyle with the cleansing cycles of our living earth! Join us on a delicious, nourishing, cleansing yoga and food odyssey! Learn how to rewire your body systems to achieve optimal health, healing, and fitness through strong yoga conditioning and healthier eating habits! 

On retreat, the recalibration occurs at dawn!  We wake together to the sound of singing bowls for sunrise meditation...learning to cultivate deep contentment and joy by stilling the ripples of the mind and establishing our sacred space within.  This space is the eye of the storm where you become empowered in your divine self, your highest soul expression and where you fill with compassion and self-love for your human self, your ego identity. 

 Then, we increase body/mind awareness and conditioning of body systems with a well-rounded yoga posturing class that gives you a physical tune up in vitality.  Ready for nourishing fuel, we alkaline w/ vitamin and mineral rich green juices in the morning to help support elimination pathways.  In the afternoon, we recharge with superfood smoothies to counterbalance oxidation.  The morning and afternoon discourse take place while we drink our liquid nutrition drinks above.  We weave heightened understanding of yoga, ayurveda, food, & sacred living into our day.  All are taught and discussed as ancient sciences for living potential. 

 Preparing all meals together, we gather around to learn how to establish, prepare, and serve organic, plant-based meals as medicine to help our bodies reach optimal nutrition for optimal health.  First we will focus on how to purify your diet and clean out your digestive tract; second, learn how to eat to flush out & strengthen liver function; third, how to heal your intestinal lining; fourth, how to balance hormones; fifth, how to fortify your immune system; and sixth, how to eat for deep nutrition through superfoods...  

When these steps are taken on deeper and deeper levels each season or each retreat, your body becomes equipped to return to homeostasis, the place of optimal balance whereby all cells are vital w/ life force and given proper building blocks to regenerate wellness!  They begin communicating and interacting in the right gears at the right times.  From here, health and healing can improve because the proper conditions have been layed as groundwork.  

We cannot come to true health without laying the groundwork, the foundation for all body systems to function properly!!!!

Focusing on the sacredness of food and the medicine each plant offers, radishes for sulphur which is good for the skin, blueberries in our smoothies to reduce oxidation in the body, and hemp seeds to boost the quality of protein intake for example, your relationship to food and eating will change for the better.   

Our digestion well cared for by healthy eating habits like eating together, chewing fully, and eating slowly, a practice of ritual is remembered and enjoyed, a big missing link in our modern society.  

So, in essence, joining us on our living yoga & food is medicine retreats, whether for a weekend intensive or a full week, is an odyssey about returning to sacred living and eating.  Here are some delicious peaks at the qualilty of our meals: 

Buckwheat pancakes w/ blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, coconut cream, lemon zest and sprinkled w/ mint leaves

         Stealcut Oatmeal w/ coconut milk, coconut shreds, cinnamon nut trail mix and a drizzle of grade b maple syrup

Broccoli & black bean Asian stir fry w/ brown rice & ginger namo shoyu sauce

Sauteed brussel sprouts and potato salad w/ homemade cesar dressing, avocados, hempseeds, red bell peppers & tomatoes

With open, personal time in the afternoon to enjoy the uniqueness of our N. California retreat home (different & unique each time), everyone has space for inner reflection.  We end the day with afternoon yoga posturing and sunset meditation, initiating the inner alchemy of transformation to occur into the evening and especially during a good nights sleep.  After the group prepares and eats dinner, we open to community building, sharing, and celebrating with song/mantras... 

From the gorgeous master bedroom of the house...all rooms in this retreat house last year in tasteful Asian, zen decor and style

The support and encouragement around time well spent, together with others, in this light, serves as a great reminder of what we are each truly capable of when we take the time to stop and remember and learn how to honestly care for ourselves.  In this way we are all more able to take care of others.  The world from the inside out, is improved...one person at a time...learning and incorporating better habits and practices, more nourishing foods, and surrounding ourselves w/ people who want to thrive and live their potential!

Group Hike along the coast: Trinidad, CA 

Our N. California view from our retreat house last year

Trinidad, CA 2015!

Trish (Prema) in the kitchen w/ all the important spices in front: cumin, coriander, ginger, tumeric, cinnamon, rosemary, basil, etc. The meals featuring different ethnic cuisine w/ 80% vegetable/herbs based  20% carb/protein/good fats

Mediterranean dinner: Cauliflower & Carrot Tahini w/ millet toubouli, spinach salad w/ raw goat feta, and cucumber yogurt...fresh parsley and squeeze of lemon 

Always bring the level of nutrition and digestibility up whether its a squeeze of lemon, sprinkle of hempseeds, or drizzle of olive oil...  

Living Yoga...Food is Medicine Retreats 2016

Spring & Summer Retreats available: 

1) May 20th-May 22nd 

2 nights 3 days

 $648 -$864

*50% deposit to register 

*30% non-refundable 

*full payment due April 20th 

*no refunds April 20th on

2) July 22nd-July 24th

2 nights 3 days

 $648 -$864

*50% deposit to register 

*30% non-refundable 

*full payment due June 22nd 

*no refunds June 22nd on

Summer Only: 

June 24th-June 30th

6 nights 7 days 

$1296 -$1512

*50% deposit to register 

*30% non-refundable 

*full payment due May 24th 

*no refunds June 24th on

Details & Reservations

Early Bird 10% discount

(before due date of full payment)

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Call Trish Pascual

808-269-2638

trishteaches@gmail.com