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Please let us know if you are interested in being notified when we will offer it in the future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f1a93ff4988f4304f5e3e4/1626533235806-ENQQIJGP4XCFNDCFUB5C/Tea1.jpg Our Retreats - Each day will begin with a morning Yoga Flow, followed by breakfast … then… a Tea Ceremony with Sound Meditation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f1a93ff4988f4304f5e3e4/1626531098308-5MMMXG546AZK39FQQETR/Pool2.jpg Our Retreats - What you will experience during these retreats is: Along with sound exploration, our daily schedule is designed to take care of you in mind, body, and spirit. Imagine waking up to the sounds of the ocean, a beautiful expansive coastline, walking along the beach, relaxing by the pool, and enjoying the vast blue Baja sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f1a93ff4988f4304f5e3e4/1626531627391-ZQ9CIYGYKH7EHO7R4JJZ/big+group+beach+pavilion.jpg Our Retreats - Typical Daily Schedule: 7:00-7:30 tea and coffee 7:30-9:00 yoga flow 9:00-10:00 breakfast 10:00-12:30 tea ceremony/ meditation/sound journey /workshop 12:30-3pm lunch and free time 3:00/4:00 - 6:00 sound event or excursion 6:00-7:30 dinner 7:30-9:00 evening offerings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f1a93ff4988f4304f5e3e4/1632534690673-98K6OAEKB9Y3L479D0QM/Yandara_CreditMe_%40Soulfocus_Media-80.1.jpg Our Retreats - Activities Daily yoga flows Tea ceremony with Sound Meditation Crystal bowl Sound Healing Cacao ceremony with Shamanic Drumming and Dancing Tibetan bowl workshop and Sound Healing Create sound together in meditation Water and Watsu Sound Healing in the pool Transformational Breathing with Sound Bath Tuning Fork Attunements Astrology and Planetary Toning Satsang and kirtan singing Beach bonfire Adventure walks Visit to Todos Santos Aaaaamazing meals! Experiencing the beauty and nature of Baja https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f1a93ff4988f4304f5e3e4/1626545455594-84966XUJFXIMXIVJOROG/food+plate2.jpg Our Retreats https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f1a93ff4988f4304f5e3e4/1626542371869-BK7V9LTJW9JSLEEWO98H/Glamping_interior.jpg Our Retreats - Rest & Receive Retreat April 3 thru 8, 2022 has been Postponed until TBA During these retreats, Single and Double Occupancy Glamping Tents are available. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f1a93ff4988f4304f5e3e4/1626545626802-BIRRE60RAHUF98YPHOYA/Yandara+sunset.jpg Our Retreats - Travel Information: Arrival will be: Fly into Los Cabos International Airport (SJD) ideally between 12-4 so that our group can shuttle together to Yandara. . An airport shuttle will be arranged for you. Yandara is about 1 hour north of Cabo. Check in is at 3pm. Departure: Check out is 11am. Try to plan a return flight in the late afternoon (ideally around 2pm) so we have time for breakfast and a morning yoga class as a group. *Extending your stay: If you plan to arrive early or stay later, awesome! If you want to explore Baja on your own for a while and/or visit Cabo San Lucas, your best bet would be to rent a car. If you would like your own shuttle to Yandara we can help arrange that. Parking is available at the retreat center. Contact us: For more info or genral questions, please contact Sarasvati at thesoundartists@yahoo.com If you would like to speak with Sarasvati directly call +521 (612) 104 8582 (local Mexico #) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f1a93ff4988f4304f5e3e4/1626533650162-PCKWH0L0RENGQFCFHF28/hike.jpg Our Retreats - You will also have plenty of time to relax by the pool, nap in a hammock, be by yourself… Venture out to the beach, hike, gaze at the stars, and also take a trip into town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f1a93ff4988f4304f5e3e4/1626599647279-NP7BGP82PPQNPVJJSPTP/Glamping.jpg Our Retreats - Luxurious Glamping Tents Included: High-end quality furnished & comfortable Glamping Tents 3 healthy meals per day* Morning Yoga Flow Classes Morning Tea Ceremony w/Sound Meditation Many Sound Bath/Attunement experiences Excursions: Visit the artist town of Todos Santos, a guided hike to South Beach, and an afternoon swim or surf at Cerritos Beach. (TBD DEPENDING ON COVID RESTRICTIONS) Scheduled evening activities (ex: Sound Bath, Beach Bonfire, Restorative Yoga, Satsang etc.) and some nights will be open to simply enjoying the silence and the waves. Private Airport Shuttle to / from Cabos San Lucas Airport and Yandara. Optional Add Ons: Massages, Reiki Sessions, Astrology Readings, Surf lessons, and more. Not included: • Airfare, Alcohol, Tips, Travel insurance *Only one dinner is not included in the overall price, which will be during our trip to Todos Santos. There you are free to order whatever you wish, including alcohol :) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f1a93ff4988f4304f5e3e4/1628183139261-JKJJENNSYONSB55NUIMT/Beach2.jpg Our Retreats - Make it stand out South Beach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f1a93ff4988f4304f5e3e4/1626519570648-439XRKHAONN3CVZ0CHTH/Mercy+Tamboura.jpg Our Retreats https://www.thesoundartists.com/bios daily 0.75 2021-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f1a93ff4988f4304f5e3e4/1626511314731-8RLUCCO0RN45GH3V6OUC/Amber+2.jpg Bios - Amber - Yoga Teacher/Sound Artist As a child Sound and music were woven into daily life. Our living room was filled with instruments, not TVs and couches. This is where my love for sound originated. I remember all of us kids playing with the gongs and other fun sounds. Now it has come full circle, my own daughter, loves to play with my instruments and help me create mini sound baths. I have been training yoga teachers since 2009. My style of yoga is grounded in alignment and body awareness, blended with free form exploration and rhythmic movement. When I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2016, I naturally began searching for ways to improve my own health. I fell in love with restorative yoga in 2017, adding this to my classes, and quickly felt the benefits to the nervous system. This opened me to the joy of using sound instruments within asana. The gong and its powerful resonance immediately called to Me. I have experienced first hand the healing benefits that the sound instruments create. I now have a regular group I work with using sound and asana to heal body, mind and spirit. My long time experience in guiding yoga teacher trainings has given me an awareness of the needs of the group. My intention as a sound artist is to nurture and guide you through the soundscape to optimize the healing experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f1a93ff4988f4304f5e3e4/1627236985545-JJ9ESJ5Z8N2J6C2WOHXV/Sara+bio+pic2.2.jpg Bios https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f1a93ff4988f4304f5e3e4/1626513352833-MJCFDHO62Z9UE0G5BG9C/Mercy+Bio+Photo3.jpg Bios - Mercy - Musician/Sound Artist/Yoga Teacher I am called to the artistic life. For me it is a path of service, a way to share the subtle mystery and beauty of this creation … a way to move beyond personal identification and to experience together the ever-present flow of unity. Sound is such a basic ingredient of this connection. It knows no preferences and it touches so deeply into the fabric of our collective being. From the first moments of lying on my back in the grass as a young girl, gazing up at the clouds in the deep blue sky and plucking a tune on my mandolin to completing an MA in music composition at UCSC, sound has been my companion. I use sound to chant mantra, to share kirtan, to heal. I teach others how to use sound … how to play various instruments such as the harmonium, shruti box, and tamboura, how to find and use their own unique voice, and I guide them toward an appreciation for the healing benefits of sound. We learn about the science of sound, the far-reaching aspects of sound and the deepest inner realms of sound. I share many instruments. I remember thinking long ago that I was accumulating so many instruments, which was a bit confusing to the yogini in me, and so I made a vow to share these instruments I was so privileged to caretake. My first Tibetan bowl was a gift from my children and since then I have expanded the sound tools to Gongs, Crystal bowls, Tuning forks, some wonderful artisanal Planetary sound plates, Shaman drums and rattles, and even a Kailani, a unique tuned chime piece. I spent many years studying Acutonics, a tuning fork system that bases its protocols on acupuncture points, astrology, and the planets. From this I gained a wide perspective on the vibrational aspects of the planetary bodies and how they contribute to our health. Astrology has been a passion since I was a teenager, and my husband Shiva Das and I authored the astrology book Divine Love Astrology. I also enjoy the study of Hindustani Sangeet, the system of raga and tal that uses sound in an Ayurvedic manner to harmonize and heal. I was blessed to have some greats as my teachers, the late Maestro Alli Akbar Khan and the extremely gifted bansuri flute artist, Deepak Ram. Playing the sitar is my way to express this and I find it draws me into meditation and transports me to an ancient time realm of contentment. Currently I am enamored by the art of the Chinese Tea ceremony. I find the simple clarity of preparing tea in this way complements a morning meditation and appreciation of the day. And when a soft Crystal bowl or Gong or Tibetan bowl is added, the whole being melts into harmony and resonance. And finally, a life of yoga is my ground. Here I practice and learn to live in harmony as an Earthkeeper. I have practiced yoga since I was a young woman. I have earned an ERYT 500 and a YACEP designation with Yoga Alliance. Teaching yoga in all its aspects is my joy and my dharma, and to travel the inner realms of the Naad yoga sound stream is a destiny shared by all. Sound is Unity… yoga in motion. Unity in vibrational resonance is the experience of bliss. Our family has always been close. We practice yoga together and enjoy each other’s company in our leisure time. Sharing sound is such a natural expression of who we are. We are a happy bunch, and by these sound offerings we gather together with our greater human family to heal, transform, and celebrate. We offer sound for the highest good of all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f1a93ff4988f4304f5e3e4/1626513687121-PYAMJW8A81OZ5P2VGIT1/Das+5.1.jpg Bios - Das - Musician/Sound Artist/Astrologer Beginning around age 5, singing harmonies with my brother while our father played the piano, music has been an all important part of my life. I began playing drums at 11 and was soon consumed in the joy of playing rock & roll. At 21, I was exposed to eastern spiritual practices and kirtan music (group call and response singing & chanting) and for over 50 years now have been devoted to this musical sharing. This along with the spiritual practices of yoga and meditation, taught me of the deep connection music establishes between people, a connection that is both joyful and healing. My first experience with sound healing, although I didn’t think about it as such at the time, was in the 1970s when I met a kundalini yoga friend who had suspended a big Paiste symphonic gong from the ceiling of his Volkswagen van and had a mattress covering the entire back of the van where two or three people could lie down while he ‘gonged’ us. I will never forget the transformational, transcendental experience it evoked. I started off with some Tibetan singing bowls back then and have been slowly moving in that direction ever since. Over the years, I and my wife Mercy, along with our two daughters, Amber and Sarasvati, have accumulated many gongs, Tibetan and crystal bowls, tuning forks, chimes, bells, handpans, and many other sound instruments for doing sound baths, meditations, and restorative yoga journey’s as well as hosting trainings. My experience has convinced me that gongs and sound journeys help us to go beyond the limitations of the mind to access higher realms of consciousness where clarity and healing exist. We have all been at the Yandara Yoga Institute near Todos Santos, BCS, Mexico for the last 14 years where Mercy and I are part of the kirtan band ‘Jaya’ leading kirtans several times a week, and where we as a family do regular sound baths at the institute and in the local community. We are all certified yoga teachers, and I have been an astrologer for over 40 years. From being an astrologer and doing many readings (daily for the last 14 years) an ever-increasing understanding of life’s cycles and how the planetary vibrations work in affecting consciousness has enabled us to include working with planetary tones in our sound baths and healings. We are now doing several trainings around sound and sound baths each year and, starting next April, we will be offering sound bath experiential retreats where people can come to ‘Rest and Receive.” We are sound as every cell in our body is swirling and vibrating. Through the principle of entrainment, sound can affect healing both mentally and physically by breaking up and realigning energy, and inspiring positive feelings, which lead to positive thoughts and attitudes. The profound effect this can have on our lives is incalculable yet has been proven again and again in many people. And for me, the joy and satisfaction I experience when immersed in sound vibrations has and continues to help me find meaning and purpose. 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Ceremony https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f1a93ff4988f4304f5e3e4/1627200415820-T1MT8J56763LD08K4LFZ/cacao.jpg Our Offerings - Ceremony - We create together a Cacao Sound Bath ceremony … playful … soulful … honoring of Earth and all Beings … elemental … transformative … creative … and a journey of love … An offering to open the heart, release all fear, and celebrate being alive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f1a93ff4988f4304f5e3e4/1628426402456-LW59ZGRNVGH9E1AXUQHS/gongs3.jpg Our Offerings - Ceremony - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f1a93ff4988f4304f5e3e4/1627200373193-0K61J4UABGEK00738864/Mercy1.jpg Our Offerings - Ceremony - Cacao Ceremony Cacao Ceremony connects us with our deep sense of natural joy, enabling us to appreciate and honor the Nature that surrounds and supports us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f1a93ff4988f4304f5e3e4/1627113268433-J7WEWW82N05OKH14XOM6/Rest+%26+Receive.jpg Our Offerings - Ceremony - Sage & Palo Santo Smudging purifies the atmosphere and invites our ancestors.