COME AWAKEN IN PARADISE!!!

Bali, Indonesia
March 8-16th

Dear Friends,

I am truly delighted to invite you to join us for an inspirational week of personal growth and self-renewal presented by my dear friend and beloved Teacher, Mark Whitwell, as part of the first ever BaliSpirit Festival; a celebration of yoga, dance, music, love and gratitude. Start the Balinese New Year with an extraordinary experience that will be sure to nurture your soul, relax your mind, and rejuvenate your body in one of the most sacred places on Earth!

Inspiring and Healing Yoga with Mark Whitwell:

SILENCE: March 5th -7th (OPTIONAL Supplement)
Experience the Balinese New Year, Nyepi, when the entire island is wrapped in a blanket of silence and peace.

INHALE: March 8th-12th
Join us for a week of transformative and enriching yoga designed specifically to accommodate your personal needs. Mark Whitwell, founder of Heart of Yoga, will lead two classes a day, including special sessions on Your Own Yoga (designed just for you), and the Yoga of Relationship, along with nightly meditations. This promises to be a joyful, heart-opening week, allowing plenty of time to take in the beauty of your pristine surroundings, while learning new skills to bring yoga into your everyday life back home or strengthen your existing practice.

EXHALE: March 13th -16th
Emerging from the "cocoon" of our private retreats, we now move to Ubud Center, the cultural heart of Bali, which embraces us for four days and three nights of creative exploration and uplifting celebration, with abundant time and space for connecting with new friends from around the world. Exhale offerings include: workshops in yoga, dance, meditation, raw foods, martial arts, drumming with nightly concerts and kirtans, including a half-day celebration featuring performances by all of the incredible international artists participating in this festival. On the morning of the final day, we will enter the Sacred Monkey Forest for a mass blessing by local Balinese priests in the inner sanctuary of the temple.

INHALE & EXHALE Package includes:
· Airport transfers to/from Ubud*
· 8 nights/9 days accommodation based on double occupancy
· Private yoga retreat guided by Mark Whitwell during Inhale
· Daily breakfast, lunch March 9th-12th, welcome dinner March 8th- vegetarian options
· Cultural fieldtrip to Holy Temple, Springs or Monkey Forest
· 3-day Exhale Festival pass for workshops, classes and nightly music
· Final cleansing ceremony at Monkey Forest Sanctuary
· And don't forget the world-class surf breaks!
* flight arrival info must be submitted 2 weeks prior to festival.

SILENCE Nyepi Supplement Includes:
· 3 nights accommodations based on single occupancy
· Daily breakfast

ACCOMMODATIONS:
Natura Resort & Spa Bali is located 3 kms, north east from the center of Ubud, in the traditional village of Laplapan. Untouched by the hands of time, here, Natura offers an innovative concept in environmentally aware guest accommodation by implementing a design that enhances the beauty of the natural site, while upholding the highest standards for environmental protection. The preservation of existing vegetation and the protection of the river and wildlife were paramount in the design of the fourteen luxury villas.

The Natura Resort & Spa gives an opportunity for guests to see and experience first hand the unique religious lifestyle of the Balinese people; an ancient island culture vibrating with the spirit of the past. Stroll through the seemingly endless rice terraces almost on your doorstep. Relax in the riverside spa, exploring the traditional beauty and healing rituals of Bali. Go for a mountain bike ride, or visit some of many historical and religious sites within easy touring distance. If your need is to simply get away and relax, Natura has you in mind.

ROOM FACILITIES:
Each villa features a mini bar, ceiling fan and individually controlled air-conditioning, personal IDD phone system, satellite television, CD/VCD sound-system, hair-dryer, personal safety deposit box, tropical fruit basket and welcome drink on arrival, complimentary bottled water, private lounge, plunge pool in several villas, large open-air veranda, garden and river view. All villas contain a marble bathroom with vanity units, WC and glassed showers.

RATES:
INHALE/EXHALE Package
March 8-16th, $ 1,900*
*Based on dbl occupancy
Private Room Supplement $400

SILENCE: Nyepi
March 5-7th
Pre-festival Accommodations - $290

AIRFARE:*
Wendy Simon - wendy@pacificharbortravel.com
Linda Schwedock - linda@pacificharbortravel.com
or call 800-435-9463 *Airfare is not included in above prices.

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY MICHAEL FRANTI
International musical sensation, peace activist, and yogi, Michael Franti will be headlining the official festival opening celebration with a special benefit concert for Bumi Sehat, a foundation/clinic which provides free pre-natal, delivery, and post-natal care to hundreds and hundreds of Balinese families every year.

CHANNEL G will also be hosting a special evening of conscious films focused on the positive healing and seva, or service, taking place around the planet! logo

Please feel free to contact me directly at : deborah@channelg.tv with any questions that you may have regarding this lovely retreat and festival. Again, I look forward to sharing this amazing experience with many of you as we honor ourselves by allowing this special time to explore our own intimate union and connection to the source!

Aloha,

Deborah Bassett
Development Director, Channel G
Co-producer, Mark Whitwell Bali Yoga Retreat 2008

Truth is not something we have to seek out. It is not something that is absent and far away, requiring great effort to find. Truth is present within you as the Life that is you. Mark Whitwell takes us back to the time when yoga was first developed-to the shamanic past of the Upanishads, when yoga was practiced as a means of acknowledging, enjoying, and participating in the very source of Life.

For more info and to register please visit: http://www.heartofyoga.com, http://www.balispiritfestival.com, or e-mail Deborah at: deborah@channelg.tv

Please read the heart of yoga blog over at wordpress.

The Heart Of Yoga non profit organisation will be sponsoring students from the middle east to train as Yoga teachers. This will take place in May 2007.

 

Already Yoga is being taught in troubled areas and deep friendships have been formed among students and teachers from very different ethnic, religious and national identities. The common understanding of the non duel philosophy of Yoga has created love and caring among people who may otherwise be in conflict. During the recent Israeli Lebanon war teachers from both countries remained in support and constant communication with each other. We see this as the long term solution for the world. The understanding that god and all ordinary conditions are the same and that all people may directly enjoy the nurturing field that surrounds mother earth is achieved through Yoga practice. This is rapidly spreading through the contemporary world as it did in ancient times, as it is universal to all cultures and languages.

 

For more information on this project please refer to www.heartofyoga.com