Āyurveda is a Sanskrit word meaning “life knowledge.” It is the name of the world's oldest holistic health system, which offers unique insight into creating balance among all facets of wellness — physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual — using tools such as diet, plant remedies, daily schedule and lifestyle practices, movement and yoga, meditation, breath work, color, and aromatherapy to establish harmony between body, mind, and the natural world.

Balance in mind and body within the context of nature is divine natural order, according to Āyurveda. Action taken to cultivate cooperation between mind and body and the environment yields the symptoms of health that lay the foundation for true happiness and longevity. As preventative wellcare, Āyurveda is behavioral medicine at its finest, making it a science of personal responsibility — one which trains you first intellectually, then intuitively, to make intelligent decisions that invite health and harmony into your experience.

Āyurveda recommends a cleanse to accompany a change in season, to clear and open physiological and psychological channels in the body and mind. Spring is an especially important time of the year, when nature re-awakes from the long, heavy winter and provides us with all the dietary and herbal tools we need to rid our bodies of excess fats and heavy proteins which keep environmental and emotional toxins bound in bodily tissues.

A Spring cleanse helps the body to identify stored fat tissue as useable energy, retraining and firing up digestive capacity within the GI tract, bodily tissues, and the mind. Accumulated and stored toxins are brought to the surface of tissues and gently escorted out through elimination channels. The results of the Spring cleanse are empowered digestive and immune systems as well as a purified mind to transition gracefully and energetically from the heavy, dulled winter into the light, auspicious Springtime.

The sophistication of the software and hardware of the human being is an absolutely magnificent phenomenon. And yet, without realizing it, we are getting in the way of its natural and spontaneous self-healing capability by inundating our systems with excessive consumption and exposure to toxicity. We are interrupting restoration and repair of our physical vehicles with careless lifestyles.

The goal of this retreat is to provide the tools and space for a gentle yet thorough cleansing of the body and mind, as well as a foundation for understanding how your physiology and psychology work together, why it is important to detoxify the internal organs and the sense organs, and how to use the things you are engaging with each day, knowingly and unknowingly, through environment, society, lifestyle, and diet, as tools to cultivate the physical state and state of mind of your own choosing.This retreat will include:

• An Āyurvedic mono-diet of kitchari and tisanes (herbal teas)

• Appropriate herbs to support detoxification (triphala)

• A ‘dinacharaya’ tool-kit of copper tongue scraper, nasal oil, mouth gargle, neti pot and salts, essential oils, body massage oil, and a candle to use during the retreat and at home following the retreat

• Daily group yoga, pranayama (breath work), and meditation

• Daily body work (massage or traditional Āyurvedic oil therapy)

• Daily Āyurvedic theory classes

• A cooking demonstration to learn about spices, kitchari, and ghee

• Daily opportunity to convene with Mother Nature

ScheduleThursday, May 23rd

• 3 - 5pm Check-in

• 5:30pm Welcome

• 6 - 7pm Vegetarian Dinner

• 7:15 - 8:30pm Intro to How / Why to Spring Cleanse

  •  Tool Kits distributed + instructions shared for morning rituals

• 8:30 - 9:30pm Yoga Nidra - led by Noël

Friday, May 24th

• 7 - 8am Yoga + Pranyama

• 8 - 8:30am Meditation

• 8:30 - 9:30am Kitchari Breakfast

• 10am - 12pm Āyurvedic Philosophy Class / Introduction to Āyurveda

• 12 - 1pm Kitchari Lunch

• 1 - 4pm Free Time for Being Outside, Resting, Journaling / Bodywork Therapies

• 4 - 6pm Āyurvedic Philosophy Class / 6 tastes + Seasonal Eating + Ritucharya/Dinacharya

• 6 - 7pm Kitchari Dinner

• 7:15 - 8:15pm Yoga Nidra - led by Noël

Saturday, May 25th

• 7 - 8am Yoga + Pranyama

• 8 - 8:30am Meditation

• 8:30 - 9:30am Breakfast - Kitchari

• 10am - 12pm Āyurvedic Philosophy Class / Digestion + Seven Tissue Layers

• 12 - 1pm Kitchari lunch

• 1 - 4pm  Free Time for Being Outside, Resting, Journaling / Bodywork Therapies

• 4 - 6pm Āyurvedic Philosophy Class / Agni + Food Sadhana

• 6 - 7pm Kitchari dinner

• 7:15 - 8:15pm Yoga Nidra - led by Noël

Sunday, May 26th

• 7 - 8am Yoga + Pranyama

• 8 - 8:30am Meditation

• 8:30 - 9:30am Breakfast - Kitchari

• 10am - 12pm Āyurvedic Philosophy Class

• 12 - 1pm Kitchari lunch

• 1 - 4pm  Free Time for Being Outside, Resting, Journaling / Bodywork Therapies

• 4 - 6pm Āyurvedic Philosophy Class

• 6 - 7pm Kitchari dinner

• 7:15 - 8:15pm Yoga Nidra - led by Noël

Monday, May 27th

• 7 - 8am Yoga + Pranyama

• 8 - 8:30am Meditation

• 8:30 - 9:30am Kitchari Breakfast

• 7 - 11am Check-Out of Rooms

• 10am - 12pm Cooking Class / Demo : Intro to Spices, Ghee, Kitchari

• 12 - 1pm Kitchari Lunch

• 1 - 1:30pm Questions + Closing

• 1:30 Departure

UPLIFT 011: CHANGE OF HEART

HOW TO AMPLIFY THE POWER OF YOUR HEART

SATURDAY, November 12, 2016 9:30AM- 6PM  &  SUNDAY, November 13, 2016 9:30AM-5PM

We’re excited to announce our second annual weekend gathering in NYC!

Change starts from within. We’ve decided to focus on the center point, the heart. Did you know that your heart emits electromagnetic fields which change according to our emotions? These magnetic fields can be measured up to several feet away from the body; the nature of them- whether positive or negative- can greatly influence our physiology and those around us. Connection to our heart is an important aspect of developing compassion. When we care for our heart, we are best suited to care for ourselves and others. 

The weekend will include knowledge talks and experiences by:
Theo Burkhardt, Vedic Meditation Teacher
Hari Kaur Khalsa, Kundalini Master
Noël Graupner, Ayurvedic Nutritionist
Sara Auster, Sound Therapy Practitioner

Tickets are $460 and include:
*Guided meditation and discussion with Theo Burkhardt
*Kundalini and physical wisdom discussion with Hari
*Ayurvedic health and wellness with Noël Graupner
*Sound meditation with Sara Auster
*Vegetarian meals: breakfast/lunch/snacks daily
*Take-home dinner by Splendid Spoon on Saturday & Sunday
*Saturday evening program and take-home package
*Gift bag valued at $300

A retreat with The Uplift Project will leave you feeling alive and better prepared to successfully interact to the demands of our time. 

A Women's Weekend: 

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Playa Samara is approximately 1.5 hrs by private air conditioned shuttle south of Liberia Airport on the western coast of Costa Rica. It is 45 min South of Nosara. Miles of white sandy beaches and on the edge of the jungle. Your stay will be in a secluded, private, gated, all villa compound just steps from the beach, with swimming pool, hot tub and outdoor dining area. Each villa includes its own fully equipped kitchen, outdoor hammock, master king bed with private bath and twin beds with a shared bath with view of the pool and garden.

Your Retreat To Paradise Includes:
Yoga Twice a Day with Tonia D'Angelo Slade
Daily Morning Meditation
7 Ultra Healthy Breakfasts and 5 Dinners Prepared by Nutritional Chef Noël Graupner
Surf Lesson, Daily Beach Fitness Walks or Run
Plenty of Downtime for Relaxing in the Hammock or on the Beach, and Exploring All the Wild Beauty of Costa Rica

Optional daily excursions such as ATV, Jungle Tours, Zip Lining, Horseback Riding, Snorkeling, etc., can be arranged for you.
* Airport transfers available, please inquire.

Exclusive Retreat
Limited to 12 Guests — Book Now!
 

Here you are, a woman in mid-life. Somehow your life didn’t turn out as you planned. Somewhere along the way you lost control, veered off the track and now you wake up in the morning and go through the motions of your day, living a ‘shadow’ life.

You remember what the super you felt like, but then life took a turn and you had a wake-up call.

You know that the path you are on is not likely to lead where you want to go. So now is the time to get YOU back on track. Remember who you are. Recapture your superhero and what makes you feel sexy, awesome and delicious.

Join me and reconnect with the person you are meant to be. I guarantee you it’s not the “shadow you” that has been walking around feeling bereft, confused and sad. There is an awesome you waiting inside for you to discover.

The Great Do-Over is a time for you to remember who you REALLY are – not who you were – and fall in love with yourself all over again (or maybe for the first time).

Whether you’re rediscovering or discovering yourself for the first time, you’ll leave this retreat knowing that you are amazing, fierce, formidable and a force to be reckoned with. You’ll inhale deeply and know that you are a heroine and don’t need rescuing because you’ve already rescued yourself…over and over and you can do it again. Most of all, you’ll experience a journey back to joy because you ARE joy and you have never left YOU…and never will.