Whether you consider yourself an experienced yoga student, are passionate about yoga but have not experienced a retreat, or are newer to yoga and interested in deepening your practice in a safe space... this trip may be the ideal experience. We are excited to be traveling stateside this year, no passport or long international flight needed!

Retreat is an opportunity to focus all of your attention on your practice. It’s like seated meditation, where we practice sitting in stillness for thirty minutes or so each day, and this gives us the ability to remain in meditative awareness all day long.  When you remove all of the distractions you normally encounter in daily living and dedicate an entire week to yoga, your practice will grow and deepen exponentially, and you will return home inspired, recharged, and forever changed.  Dancing Spirit Ranch provides an exceptional environment for this deep dive: open space, sacred land, healthy food and rustic luxury.  This environment practically begs you to slow down, simplify, sense your place in the world, and feel gratitude for this precious human existence. 

Your guide Sybil is an experienced retreat leader with twenty five years of yoga practice and more than ten years dedicated to teaching classes, workshops, and private students.  She provides a truly immersive yoga class, including meditation, breath work, and yoga philosophy and terminology.  Her students often remark that class feels like a moving meditation, not an exercise class.  Expect to move in ways you haven’t before, this isn’t your standard vinyasa class! You might get into a pose you never thought possible, or you might fall madly in love with slowing down and attuning to sensation. 

Daily practice surrounded by like-minded people immersed in nature opens the doors to self-awareness and contentment.  Add opportunities for yoga nidra (guided deep relaxation), sound healing, a visit to Glacier National Park or nearby Whitefish, or craft your adventure to make this retreat ideal for you!

Think Summer!

Bring your yoga clothes for practice, hiking shoes, day pack and water bottle for Glacier, bathing suit for paddle boarding , sweatshirt for chilly nights, raincoat for summer showers, a book for reading in a hammock, a journal for writing by the pond. 

Leave your formal clothes at home!

 All yoga props for class are provided.

POLICIES

All payments are non-refundable and non-transferable. Retreat can be paid for in 3 installments with balances due April 1 and July 1. Cancellations on or after 90 days prior to retreat dates are non-refundable and non-transferable. This cancellation policy is strict and firm. If you need to leave the retreat early there are no refunds or pro-rating of days. We understand there are things in life beyond our control, such as...

COVID

Which is why we STRONGLY recommend...

TRIP INSURANCE

We STRONGLY STRONGLY recommend you purchase "cancel for any reason" trip insurance. Most policies will refund up to 75% of your travel costs, some will refund 100%. Do your homework and find a policy that works best for your situation. Make sure Covid cancellations are covered. For 2022 Forbes recommends AIG Travel, C&F Travel Insured and TravelSafe among others. Most policies require the policy be purchase within 15-20 days of your initial trip deposit.

We begin with an opening ceremony followed by a casual yoga practice, ensuring a graceful transition from life to retreat. Float to dinner and afterwards, gather for sunset and a bonfire under the Montana sky full of stars.

While each day will look slightly different, with planned activities interspersed, Sunday through Thursday will loosely follow this schedule:

7:00 AM - Gayatri Mantra

7:30  AM - Yoga

9:00 AM - Breakfast

9:30 AM - Planned activity or free time

2:00 PM -  Lunch

2:30 PM - Planned activity or free time

6:00 PM - Yoga nidra (Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday)

7:00 PM-  Dinner

8:30 PM - Meditation (Monday, Wednesday, Saturday AM)

We'll start the day as we did Monday through Thursday but we end it with a Closing Ceremony. 

5:30 pm - final yoga practice followed by a gong bath

7:00 pm- dinner

8:30 pm - bonfire, music, closing ceremony

Take time this morning to do what feels right to you: 8am yoga practice? A meditation in the garden? A walk through the trails? Sleeping in? Whichever feels right to you is the right thing to do. Just remember to join us for a 9:30AM brunch!  Departures for the airport to follow.