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7 tips for hosting your own yoga retreat
Hosting and planning your own yoga retreat can be daunting. Here at AmaSer we are happy to share our insights. Here are our 7 tips on how to begin the process.
1. Secure that money
A boring way to begin things, yes, but securing funding is crucial. Especially during these difficult times. A lot of retreat venues require a deposit to book your retreat. This is a personal financial risk for you. In case you have to cancel for any reason, you are likely to lose your deposit. Take into account that many venues ask for minimum numbers of students to sign up in order for you to host a retreat. So try to secure this before if you can.
Other important costs to consider:
- Advertising the retreat
- Lost income from classes you’ll miss out on teaching when you are away
- Your own travel expenses
- How to budget for the retreat’s food, any excursions, and activities
2. Create your vision
Your vibe will attract your tribe. When your retreat is an authentic reflection of...
Basics of Ayurveda: The Science and Knowledge of Life
Ayurveda can be defined as “The science of the knowledge of life.” Ayurveda is closely connected to yoga and is an ancient system for living. It’s been around almost as long as yoga and it too originated in India.
Ayurveda is a holistic art and science that seeks to find balance in life. It does this by categorizing people into groups based on their unique habits, personality and behaviors. There are three doshas: Vata, Pitta and Kapha. The idea is once you see when and where you might be over saturated in a particular dosha you can analyze how it might serve you to add in a bit of the other two doshas to balance yourself out. It’s really full of common sense.
It’s interesting to read about each dosha and discover which one you lean towards! Let’s look at the 3 unique dosha’s.
The qualities of Vata are cold, light, dry, irregular, rough, moving, quick and changeable. Vata personalities tend to be lively and enthusiastic, slim and wiry, with...
What Is Functional Yoga?
What is Functional Yoga?
Original Piece by Avani | 2016
Functional Yoga is a term you’ll hear a lot around AmaSer, whether dropping in on public yoga classes or living on site for yoga teacher training. This is a somewhat new term in the field of yoga (considering the loooong history of the practice), though it is certainly not a new idea. The history of teaching anatomical alignment in the West served a purpose: to standardize the yoga poses in order to spread the study of yoga more effectively…and to more people much more quickly. Some of the cues for alignment work with a large population of bodies. And some do not (for example the dreaded: “shin parallel to the top of the mat” cue). This concept of standardizing is not uniquely Western. Iyengar Yoga as well as Yoga Works have sought to standardize these cues for decades.
There was a time that yoga was in such high demand that it was difficult for yoga studios...
