Chrisandra Fox official guest teacher for Hawai'i!

Chrisandra Fox is going to be a guest teacher for the retreat at Kalani!


This is from her bio (which she's currently rewriting :)) at yogatreesf.com:

Chrisandra's teaching draws upon the wisdom of the masters and the sacred knowledge found within dedication to the path of hatha yoga. She is a student of Hatha Yoga, meditation, Ayurveda, and Tantra. Her influences are many, though she has been particularly influenced by the work of Andrey Lappa, and by the Shadow Yoga school.

Chrisandra leads classes, workshops, and the Heart of Renewal retreats at Yoga Tree in San Francisco and abroad. She has modeled for Yoga Journal, and can be found practicing in Gravity & Grace (DVD) with Peter Sterios and Paul Grilley's Yin Yoga DVD. She is the Web Correspondent for Yoga Journal TV.

Grey's going to be teaching a class or two in Hawai'i

Grey's going to be teaching a class or two in Hawai'i, and he's just started teaching at Bernal Yoga!

He's also in charge of coordinating rides to the airport to and from Kalani, and you can reach him at: grey.wedeking@gmail.com

Peace,
Jamie

Grey's Bio from Bernal:

“I first took yoga classes in Berlin in 1994 in exchange for English conversation. I can only imagine that I did it because I thought stretching would be good for me. Seven years later, burnt out from 6 intense years of road bicycle racing, I turned to yoga hoping to find something I could practice for the rest of my life. So far, so good. I’ve practiced with a number of those teachers you’ve seen pictures of or read about in Yoga Journal, but the principal informant to my teaching style and practice is Jamie Lindsay, from whom I’ve taken countless hours of class, and whom I assisted in public classes and at teacher trainings. The practice will be more or less familiar to anyone practicing Krishnamacharya lineage, Astanga vinyasa derived asana, with a helping of Universal Vinyasa, and a side salad of energy and breath work. I believe that the work of the asana practice through the breath can bring light, consciousness and awareness throughout the body, inform the intelligence of the body, and bring equanimity, peace and joy to the mind and spirit.”

Cheap First Class Tickets SFO to Hilo, under $550

hi all,

just a quick note: Dennis just let me know that first class tickets are now on sale thru Hawaiian Airlines at around $550 between SFO and Hilo! Hope you're enjoying the day.

Peace,
Jamie

Hawaiian Airlines Tickets

p.s. the page for Kalani follows, and this year you call Dennis to sign up, at (808) 965-0468 x122

Kalani Retreat Center

Hawai'i Retreat approaches as the last blizzard melts

Hi all,

I'm loving New York, though I'm glad the most recent blizzard has almost melted and Spring seems to be on the way. And I miss all of you enormously, and can't wait for the retreat in Hawai'i coming up.

I hope everyone's coming back this year, but it's at least been wonderful seeing so many of you in NYC during the year, and give me a call so we can figure out how to get together on my way thru San Francisco especially if I won't be seeing you on the Big Island, and just so we can catch up!

Dennis is handling all the registrations this year, and you can reach him at: (808) 965-0468 x122

Big love!
Jamie

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P.S. Dennis said he could give everyone a free upgrade in room thru the end of April, since there's only us at Kalani for the retreat :)
hope you're all enjoying the day!
biglove,
jamie

See you in New York!

Hi all,

It has been a truly amazing fifteen years, and last night's going away party was one of the most wonderful experiences of my life. I am so thankful for my experiences teaching yoga in San Francisco, and for knowing all of you amazing people. Yoga has been the ground and center of everything that I have done for many years, and that isn't going to change, though navigating academia from that place will be a wonderful new challenge. And then there's surviving New York :)

I'm not thinking of this as goodbye, and I hope I will be seeing all of you in New York some time soon, if not here or in Hawai'i next year.

Thank you for all of these wonderful years of yoga!

My phone number won't change, and I'm on facebook if you want to stay in touch that way. This mailing list will prob'ly become a bit less active, as I don't know that I'll be teaching in New York. If I do, it won't be until Spring, at least. But I'll blog a bit about my trip to Europe on the way to New York, and about settling into Brooklyn.

With overwhelming gratitude, and love,
Jamie

Kalani 2010, Yoga Retreat on the Big Island, Hawai'i

Vinyasa Flow Yoga Retreat with Jamie Lindsay:

A nine night retreat in paradise! The energy of Kalani is absolutely magical, the food is just delicious, and we’ll be doing a ton of vinyasa yoga. At least two classes a day, with a few optional advanced workshops thrown in there for fun, and the two daily classes will be a mix of meditation, breathwork, detail-oriented alignment precision holds, light flowing energy-awakening vinyasas, comprehensive Universal Yoga-style joint mobility openings, and powerful fiery sun salutation practices, with some restorative to help integrate the energies released by so much yoga, and some partner play for fun. We’ll have some side-trips as well, for snorkeling, and lava walks, and afternoons on the black sand beaches!



Hi all,

Most of you were inclined towards returning to Kalani, and many of you expressed an interest in a somewhat longer retreat (with more vegan desserts :)). So I've booked a retreat for next year, close to the same time: May 29 thru June 7. It's two days longer than the last retreat, total of nine nights (ten days). I strongly encourage everyone to arrive before dinner on May 29th, and to plan for an afternoon flight on June 7th!

If you register before I leave San Francisco -- July 24th -- I'll give you a $100 discount on the retreat, and Kalani will give you a free upgrade in accommodation (which varies according to your inclination. Dennis wrote, for example: "so they can pay for a lodge shared and get a lodge private. or pay for a private and get a cottage. or pay for a cottage, and be in the tree house.").

Also different this time: Dennis will be handling the booking, and I won't. So you can reach him on his direct line: 808-965-0468 x122. He'll ask for a $200 deposit, and 100 is
refundable up to a 2 months before the retreat begins.

Also different, I'm going to be flexible about people coming for shorter times. For example, if you want to come for 7 rather than 9 nights, you can pay a mostly pro-rated tuition and do just that. Also this time, partners are quite welcome to come, and Kalani will give them a nice partner rate. You can check with Dennis for details when you call him.

The rates for the retreat, for all nine nights, are:

lodge single pvt bath: 2035
lodge double pvt bath: 1585
lodge single shared bath: 1765
lodge double shared bath: 1441
camping: 1225
cottage single: 2125
cottage double: 1675
tree house single: 3025
tree house double: 2125

I'm looking forward to seeing all of you before I leave ;)

Love,
Jamie



About Jamie Lindsay:

While practicing standing backbends during an Ashtanga practice in 1997, Shiva nearly knocked me over with a first blast of kundalini. I've been a devoted teacher and practitioner of yoga ever since. I am grateful to all of my teachers, and I enjoy all styles of yoga, but my teaching tends to focus on accurate alignment within vigorous Vinyasa as a means to liberate the breath, prana, and ultimately kundalini, and more simply, as a tool to assist in the continuous learning of the capacity to simply pay attention. Attention heals. This practice is the love of my life, and sharing it is a great joy.



Kalani's Website

Retirement, Hawaii, next year's retreat?

Hi all!

Hawaii was absolutely amazing, my favorite retreat yet :) and Kalani was so easy, though next time there will be more vegan options at all meals, and I'm definitely diving with the Mantas!

Lisa took amazing pictures if you'd like to see:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lmpicard/collections/72157619779026962/

And she wrote a sweet review for her blog:

http://lisapicard.blogspot.com/2009/06/chefs-and-yogis.html

My last classes in San Francisco will be July 19th, and I'll be teaching my usual schedule at Grace Cathedral, Yoga Tree, and James Howell Studio until then. Afterwards, you can find me in Brooklyn!

For next year, I'd love to go ahead and start planning another retreat, so if you're interested PLEASE let me know immediately about it, and if you have preferences. I'm inclined towards going back to Kalani, as it's set up so perfectly, but if you know of another destination that wouldn't be prohibitively expensive, let me know!

biglove,
jamie