Clear Yoga Retreat

The power of practice, patience, and the radical acceptance of change.

Join Jess for a 4 day retreat of Iyengar Yoga, pranayama, and meditations.

This retreat offers to nourish the many levels of our being from the powerfully physical to the quiet space within. Each yoga asana session will build upon the previous session logically and sequentially. Each evening has an optional session to quieten your mind for the night. In between, Menla offers a magical array of mountain walks, delicious food, supportive company, and the quietness of your own self care.

The power of practice gives us the agency to keep showing up, whatever obstacles we encounter. Showing up for practice is, ultimately, showing up for ourselves.

Practice requires and cultivates patience. Patience is not simply a state of mind; it is an embodied experience—a physical, mental, and emotional pause. It is a slowing down that gives us space to observe what may be holding us back and to recognize the conditions we place on ourselves before allowing deeper understanding to emerge.

Patience is not passivity. Rather, it is a radical and transformative acceptance of where we are, while creating space to move through the challenges of our stressful and busy lives.

Iyengar Yoga uses yoga postures (asana), breath practices (pranayama), and meditation to cultivate patience, agency, and self-reflection.

Jessica is a senior level Iyengar Yoga teacher with 28 years of teaching experience. She teaches in the Hudson Valley, in the North East, and abroad in the UK and Europe. Jessica works with methodical detail that builds awareness of movement and form. Her classes are playful, challenging, and healing. She is well practiced in Iyengar Yoga therapy as an effective tool to help injuries and other conditions. This is her sixth year hosting a retreat at Menla.

Schedule

Thursday April 8th

• 3 – 7 pm Check in
• 4:30 – 6pm Welcome and Yoga class
• 6 – 7 pm Dinner
• 7:30 – 8:30pm Restorative and pranayama practice (optional)

Friday April 9th

• 8 – 9 am Breakfast
• 9:30 am – 12 pm Yoga class
• 12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch
• 4 – 5:45 pm Yoga class
• 6 – 7 pm Dinner
• 7:30 – 8:30 pm Evening Chanting with Leslie Freyburg (optional)

Saturday April 10th

• 8 – 9 am Breakfast
• 9:30 am – 12 pm Yoga class
• 12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch
• 4 – 5:45 pm Yoga class
• 6 – 7 pm Dinner
• 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Q and A by the fire (optional)

Sunday April 11th

• 8 – 9 am Breakfast (and check out of rooms)
• 9:30 am – 12 pm Yoga class
• 12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch
• 1:30 pm Departure

*Please note this schedule is subject to change.