New Year Yoga Retreat

Hi Everyone,
We are going to run a relaxing, beautiful retreat 4 -8 Jan 2011, to start the year on a more spiritual note. Please, forward this on to anyone who may be interested!

Please note: If a non-yoga practising spouse/other wants to join you - they are quite welcome. There is a pool, sauna, games room with TV, etc available for them to relax and enjoy while you're yoga-ing. This is a retreat so nothing is compulsory, however they may join in with anything (maybe a time to be introduced to yoga??)

This will be a luxurious retreat with good food, beautiful sunsets, mountain walks, swimming, yoga-related activities and of course, meditation and yoga.
See advert below and have a look at the web page referred to (costs, dates...).

PS we are only taking 15 people - so book soon!

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4-8 January 2011 - a 4-day Yoga Retreat

in the most beautiful part of South Africa, Stellenbosch

* Consider having a spiritual New Year and set the tone for 2011.
* Spend time rejuvenating and re-energising yourself.
* Deepen your yoga practise and re-discover your peaceful centre within.

This New Year Yoga Retreat may be exactly what you need.

This retreat is designed to deepen your yoga practice, re-connect with nature, have some quiet time and enjoy the company of like-minded people.

Webpage to look at: http://www.asanga.org.za/retreat.htm

Run by: Anne & Martin Combrinck (together 38 years experience)

from: Ananda Sanga Yoga Centre
Somerset West, Western Cape, South Africa

Tel: +27 21 855-1470

www.asanga.org.za

Yoga Teaching

I have been teaching yoga since before 1987. First it started when my teacher of many years, mentored me into assisting her teach her regular weekly classes, then sometimes standing in for her, then starting my own small class ... all this while still working full-time as an Analytical Chemist for the CSIR in Durban, South Africa.

After much further yoga reading, training and experience I eventually gave up my career as research chemist, moved to the beautiful Western Cape to a small village called Somerset West, in 1991. Here Martin (husband) & I opened a small healing centre then known as Essentially for Health, which encompassed our Yoga school called Ananda Sanga (named by 2 great teachers from the USA). We offered massage, reflexology, aromatherapy (all by Sarah); nutritional councelling; lifestyle education; meditation and of course I taught yoga classes.

By 1996 we required larger premises and built the existing Ananda Sanga with an octagonal shaped yoga room, and some smaller rooms and buildings. Joined by 3 other teachers yoga classes were offered 2 or 3 times a day. These included specialised children's classes, senior citizen classes, and private yoga therapy. Sarah had returned to England by this stage so it was only Yoga, Meditation and Ayurveda on offer.

Since then 100's of people have trodden the path up to the beautiful octagonal room, their lives changed by yoga, for the better.