Renew. Create. Heal!

A Transformational Journey: Exploring Yoga, Ayurveda and the Alexander Technique

Learn how to:

• Release stress and tension throughout your body.
• Have less pain and discomfort in your everyday movement.
• Identify and trust your instincts with confidence
• Bring new awareness into your asana, pranayama and meditation practice.
• Change your diet and lifestyle habits so you feel healthy and rejuvenated everyday.
• Turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Come join us on the Big Island of Hawaii …immerse yourself in a 5-day retreat at the beautiful Kalani Resort where you will:

• Integrate the hands-on approach of the Alexander Technique into your asana, pranayama and mediation practices.
• Develop self-care practices of diet and lifestyle from an Ayurvedic perspective.
• Transform your stress, fatigue, and pain into a balanced and healthy lifestyle that works.
• Nourish your body, mind and spirit with new understanding.

What Yoga, Ayurveda and the Alexander Technique have in common is that they all work on waking us up consciously into the present moment. They use different tools while the underlying essence is the same.

This retreat not only offers you an immersion into daily Yoga and Ayurveda practices that support health and well-being.  It will also give you a clear understanding of the Alexander Technique where you will learn to “think with your body” in such a way that allows less tension as you move…whether in walking, working at your computer, driving a car, sports or yoga.

The value of Yoga is demonstrated in our daily lives and in relationship with family and co-workers.  This is developed through daily practice, requires great self-observation & awareness.  Slowly, our capacity to respond and to be truly in relationship with the world increases.  Thinking is a process, and being-aware is an experience.  By experiencing the true power of Yoga our lives are changed forever in a very practical way.

Applying the Alexander Technique to Yoga will help you to create a clearer understanding of how our habits of life interfere with our Yoga practice, both on and off the mat.  You will learn how to transform an ordinary Yoga practice into a smart Yoga practice that allows for deeper change with less effort.

Our workshop is designed to meet your individual level

• New Students: Build a practical foundation in Yoga, Ayurveda and the Alexander Technique.
• Experienced Students: Deepen your understanding in these three disciplines.
• Yoga/Ayurveda/Alexander Teachers or Trainees: Enjoy advanced training taught by senior teachers.  Our teaching faculty all have at least 20 years of teaching experience each.

About Our Teaching Faculty

Carol P. Prentice

Carol has a passion for working with and helping others heal themselves. If given the right tools, she believes that you can heal and transform your own life.  At a very young age she experienced a traumatic back injury and was forced to rely on the western ways of surgery and medication to ease her pain. This experience led her to a lifelong pursuit of healing herself and in teaching the Alexander Technique, Ayurveda and Yoga. Carol graduated from Alexander Training Institute in San Francisco under the direction of Frank Ottiwell in 1986; she furthered her studies with first generation Alexander Teachers Marjorie Barstow, Walter & Dilly’s Carrington and Marjory Barlow.  Carol is a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist and Pancha Karma Specialist (Ayurveda Body Therapies) and a graduate of the California College of Ayurveda, where she is currently a faculty member. Carol has been a student of yoga since the early 80’s, but it wasn’t until she met Mr. TKV Desikachar in 2009, that she experienced the true healing side of yoga. She enrolled at the Healing Yoga Foundation, with Chase Bossart and Kate Holcomb, a 500-hour teacher-training program in the tradition of T. Krishnamacharya.  As Ayurveda and Yoga are the sister sciences to each other, Carol along with her Alexander training has developed a hands-on approach to working with these 3 systems of learning to help empower people in their own process of healing.

Chase Bossart

Chase Bossart, M.A. is a longtime personal student of Mr. T.K.V. Desikachar. A daily-life practitioner with deep theoretical understanding and a clear, warm and engaging presentation style, Chase uses humor and practical examples to make the teaching experiential and accessible. He has extensive experience in the therapeutic application of yoga in the tradition of S’ri T. Krishnamacharya and T.K.V. Desikachar. Chase is the former Director of Therapy & Education at the non-profit Healing Yoga Foundation (www.HealingYoga.org) in San Francisco. He gives frequent workshops on a broad range of yoga topics throughout the U.S. and especially loves to lead experiential workshops demonstrating yoga philosophy’s practical applications in daily life. More can be found on his website www.ChaseBossart.com.

Elizabeth Cunningham Bossart

Elizabeth Cunningham Bossart holds a Masters Degree in Ayurvedic Medicine from Mt. Madonna Institute. She completed the 500 hour Yoga Teacher Training through Healing Yoga Foundation. Elizabeth has a private practice, Sukha Wellness, located on Union St. in San Francisco. She is currently a Teacher Intern for Mount Madonna instutute. With a decade of teaching experience, Elizabeth leads and co-leads talks, workshops and retreats in the Bay Area and around the US. More can be found on her website at: www.sukhawellness.com

Michael D. Frederick

Michael is an internationally recognized teacher in the field of Psycho-physical Re-education. He trained as an Alexander Teacher in England with Walter Carrington and in America with Marjorie Barstow, both master teachers trained by F. M. Alexander. Michael studied in the U.S. and Israel as a Feldenkrais Practitioner. Since 1974, Michael as extensive Yoga training in both the U.S. and India with the teachings of T. Krishnamacharya and T.K.V. Desikachar.  He is the founding director of the first three International Congresses on the Alexander Technique and has organized over 150 workshops in the U.S. and Europe since 1978. Michael was voted best Alexander Teacher in Los Angeles magazine’s “Best of LA”. www.alexandertechniqueworkshops.com

Info & Registration

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Or contact Carol Prentice
Phone: 800-676-1458 or 530-559-2873
Email: [email protected]

Workshop Fee Information:

Important Pricing Information: Our program prices are income related. When you book, please choose the low, medium or higher price list, based on your personal income.  The choice is yours. We want to ensure that our course is accessible to people of diverse means.  If you cannot afford the lowest program, please contact Carol Prentice. Limited work/study is available as well as a payment plan.

Early Bird Registration Fee
Tuition only: Paid by July 8

Lower: $975.00,  Medium: $1325,  Higher: $1550.00.
(Pricing for Room and Board is separate. Please see list below.)

Late Registration Fee
Tuition only: Paid after July 8

Lower: $1075.00,  Medium: $1425,  Higher: $1650.00.
(Pricing for Room and Board is separate. Please see list below.)

Discounts offered:

$200.00 tuition discount for full time students. This applies for students in a 3 year teacher training program, a college or university or high school.

Accommodation fees:

Kalani is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) charity. Your stay here supports our educational mission, preservation of ancient Hawaiian cultural sites, and the development of a model sustainable community.

Included: Accommodation as selected below, all meals at Kalani, use of Kalani facilities.

Not Included: Airport transfers, and flights to/from Hilo airport (ITO.) Continental Airlines has direct flights from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Hilo; Hawaiian Airlines, and go! Mokulele both offer intra-island service between Honolulu and Hilo.

Current accommodation rates:

For room descriptions, please visit the Kalani website.

Prices subject to change without notice.