In the past, I’ve had community garden plots where bushels of roma canning tomatoes, culinary herbs, funky striped beets, and spicy mesclun were among my favorite crops.Will do that again some day! As a renting intervale farmer, I raised and sold many types of medicinal herbs one year.  I’m into rock and our tiny city yard has three rock walls, a stone patio and stone walkway. Each year I tear something apart and rebuild it, much to Bill’s distress (What? It was fine the way it was!!!) This year the walkway is up for a facelift.  ~ Andrea

Join Andrea O’Connor for a weekend retreat in Starksboro, Vermont from June 8 – 10th, 2012 – Branch Out! Yoga for Gardeners

In our yoga practice, through asana and pranyama (postures and breathing exercises), we learn to see ourselves more fully. When we move mindfully, our actions provide a pathway for self-discovery. We learn about our body’s strengths, but we also learn more about who we are and how we are in the world.

June 8 – 10

Branch Out! Yoga for Gardening with Andrea O’Connor

Cultivate Your Yoga Glow with John McConnell

September 14 – 16

Yoga and Nature: Connecting with your Inner and Outer Landscape with Martha Whitney

JUNE 8 – 10

Grow Your Yoga – Yoga for Gardeners with Andrea O’Connor

Shine Out – Cultivate Your Yoga Glow with John McConnell

SEPTEMBER 14 – 16

Yoga and Stone Building in Your Garden with Charlie MacMartin and Janet Carscadden

Yoga and Nature Retreat – Connect with your Inner and Outer Landscape with Martha Whitney

We’ll love to see you whether you purchase a ticket in advance or walk-in, but we’re encouraging advance ticket sales so we know how many to expect.

Buy Ticket Online Here or at the door for this Saturday, April 21 at 8:30 pm ($15)

Yoga Instructors and Students Gather in Burlington from around the world on Friday through Sunday, May 4 – 6 2012 at UVM Davis Center, Burlington, VT. Yoga workshops, Community-building, Fundraiser for VT Foodbank, Meditation, Ayurveda, Mindful Marketplace, Kirtan, Liberate Dance Party, Lectures, Therapeutic Treatments., Local Organic Catering,  All levels and people welcome!

The room was warm, the faces comforting, and the breath like an ocean’s symphony through the entire class. I didn’t want it to end as the hour and a half flew by too fast, as always. At the end of class, while we all laid in the final resting pose of Savasana, I realized that I never once moved moved off my mat. Perhaps a symbol of the transition into the new phase of becoming just a student again. Not leaving the secure space on my mat, and moving according to the instruction of the teacher’s words. We are all students and our own teachers, and I’m thankful for all of my mentors, especially my children. Which role do you play now, a student, as teacher or both?

I recently came across this quote, “Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) that flowed through me with tears, capturing the last five years of me teaching yoga, and why there must be change and time to continue to grow. Opportunities come and go, and it’s our choice to decide which to cease and when to do so. Respect and gratitude again for your kindness in teaching me so much about yoga, patterns, breath, public speaking, life and beyond! ~ Petra

This year’s festival will also feature the brand new Wanderlust Expeditions outdoor activities program, the Kula Village vending area, Wanderlust Farm to Table Dinner, Soulful Cinema, Winederlust wine tasting, Speakeasy talks, AcroYoga, hooping, and everything else that makes Wanderlust Festival the most epic yoga event of the year. Yoga, music, nature, and a whole lot more. Get your tickets now!

Developed by Lisa Flynn, E-RYT, RCYT and founder of ChildLight Yoga and Yoga 4 Classrooms™, Yoga 4 Classrooms™ is a research-based, low-cost and effective tool for teachers to use with their students for a peaceful and productive classroom. Through the use of Yoga 4 Classrooms activities, teachers can provide their students with opportunities to grow physically, mentally, emotionally and socially. The activities promote self-awareness, self-acceptance and self-confidence – the foundations of exceptional learning and a lifetime of health and wellness.

This 6 hour interactive workshop is open to administrators, classroom teachers, special education teachers, physical education teachers, guidance counselors and, speech and occupational therapists and others working with children in a school setting.

Cost of the workshop is $180 and includes a full-color, 230 page, illustrated Yoga 4 C Classrooms™ Manual.  Yoga 4 Classrooms Card Decks will be available for purchase.  In addition,  the workshop is approved through the University of Southern Maine for continuing education credit and is valid for PDPs from your credentialing organization (with approval), and Continuing Education Training Hours (CE’s) through Yoga Alliance for registered yoga teachers.

For more information or to register, visit www.yoga4classrooms.com .

Yoga 4 Classrooms™ is easy for teachers and students to use, and helps to create a more harmonious, learning-friendly school day. Y4C™ provides children with important skills they can use in and out of the classroom for life long health and well-being. Anyone can use and benefit from the Y4C™ program – teachers, students, parents, therapists. Absolutely no yoga experience is required. Other components of the Yoga 4 Classrooms program include the Staff Development Workshop, Classroom Residency and Y4C™ School.