Deep Winter Refuge
A nourishing retreat with Lara Green and Ilana Berman
Are you in need of a soulful reset of body, mind, and spirit?
Are you seeking community that values depth and connection?
Are you longing for inspiration and reprieve from your daily routine?
A reverent container for growth, healing and rest.
Join us for an immersive weekend of yoga and meditation in the heart of winter.
With Winter as our great teacher, we’ll embrace hibernation and restoration. Expanding together in awareness and resilience by turning our attention inward. We will tend to the coals that stoke our inner fire and feed our lives. Utilizing the potent tools that yoga provides we will invite an embodied experience of Enoughness, Presence, and Connection with a deep inner well of nourishment.
As your guides, Lara and Ilana will lead you in restorative and invigorating yoga, breathwork, meditation, and engaging workshops. Cultivating a space of safety and reverence for whatever arises you will be guided in movement, supported with touch, tucked in and inspired.
Expect opportunities for quiet contemplation and deep rest as well as winterland adventuring, inspired play, and connection to body and community.
Add a therapeutic massage to your weekend experience, for an additional charge.
January 10th -12th 2025
What to Expect
A spacious weekend of yoga and mindful movement, exquisite nature and views, guided restorative practices, beautiful and peaceful accommodations, and gourmet vegetarian meals.
Sample Schedule:
Friday Saturday Sunday
4:00pm Welcome Practice 7:30am Guided Meditation 7:30am Guided Meditation
6:00pm Dinner 8:00am Silent Breakfast 8:00am Silent Breakfast
7:30pm Restorative 9:30am Morning Practice 9:30am Closing Practice
Practice 12:30pm Lunch 12:30pm Lunch
Free time to explore, rest,
and schedule a massage.
4:00pm Afternoon Workshop
6:00pm Dinner
7:30pm Restorative Practice
*Everything is optional
Location
Light on the Hill
209 Blake Hill Road
Van Etten, New York 14889
Light on the Hill retreat center is a healing and inspiring space for reflection, deep inner work, and spiritual growth. A sacred sanctuary for seekers, the center is located on 236 acres of woods, streams, gorges and walking paths.
You’ll enjoy beautiful accommodations and delicious vegetarian meals.
There are 18 single occupancy rooms and 3 double occupancy rooms.
Room preferences will be filled on a first come first served basis.
Price
$850 after 11/24/24
$250 Deposit to reserve your spot, remaining balance due by December 27th
Payment Options:
- Venmo to @Ilana-Berman
- Cash or Check to Ilana Berman, contact Ilana or Lara personally to arrange.
- PayPal or Credit Card through booking website - +$9 transaction fee.
Cancellation Policy
$250 deposit Non-refundable after December 1st 2024.
Cancellations before December 27th will be refunded minus the $250 deposit.
Cancellations after December 27th will be refunded at 50%.
Cancellations less than 48 hours prior to the retreat date will not be refunded.
Ilana Berman, LMT & E-RYT 200
Ilana established her practice in Ithaca, New York in 2011, and has been teaching in a variety of styles and venues in the Finger Lakes ever since. She graduated from her initial Yoga Teacher Training at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health and has completed several advanced trainings in the years to follow including: Guiding Meditation & Advanced Asana with Yoganand Michael Carrol, Freedom Style Yoga with Eric Shiffman, Embodied Anatomy: Breath Focus with Leslie Kaminoff & Practices in Embodied Teaching with Amy Matthews of The Breathing Project, and Pelvic Floor Yoga with Leslie Howard.
Ilana graduated from the Finger Lakes School of massage with 1000 hours of training and received her NY license in Massage Therapy in 2013. She has completed advanced training in Biodynamic Craniosacral work with Jenna Milner and Thai Yoga Massage with the Lotus Palm School.
Ilana’s classes, while ranging in content from powerful flow to Art of Relaxation, are based in cultivating deep and compassionate self-knowing. She enjoys using her passionate knowledge of the human body to offer experiments in what allows you to access your unique power and ease.
Read more about Ilana here.
Lara Green, E-RYT 200
Lara has been practicing yoga with joy since 2004. She earned her 200-hour Vinyasa Flow certification in 2012 in the jungles of Costa Rica with Frog Lotus Yoga International, and is currently studying at the 500-hour level with her teachers Vidya Jacqueline Heisel and Jen Yarro. She practices Vipassana meditation, and has a passion for bringing mindfulness to all aspects of life. In 2019 she completed a Foundations of Thai Yoga Massage certification with the Triple Gem School. She is currently lit up by supporting and mentoring new yoga teachers, and has assisted and co-taught yoga teacher training programs locally and abroad. Lara receives deep inspiration from her life’s work with children. For the last 20 years she’s worked in classrooms, summer camps, pre-schools, and family homes as a mentor and leader for young people. With a love for poetry, philosophy, music, and science, you’ll find eclectic wisdom and humor woven through her classes. Lara's aim is to create movement spaces that are light-hearted and playful without shying away from life's painful aspect. She is interested in looking deeply at the human condition, and believes that yoga, meditation, and active listening are powerful tools for radical healing and self discovery. Learn more about Lara here.