A Summer Ouray Women's Yoga, Hot Springs, and Hiking Retreat

with Mary Susan Stults 

July 12th-16th, 2023

Spring Memorial Day Retreat Special

Register by June 2nd and save $150 on your summer retreat and alpine adventure in the San Juan Mountains

Locale: 

Ouray, Colorado 

(with a day adventure to Telluride, Colorado as well) 

Returning home. 

This summer join us for 5 days of yoga, hiking in the San Juan mountains, soaking in the hot springs, art and creativity, and so much more. 

Retreat to Ouray, Colorado this summer and enjoy a short week on the mat, on the trails, and soaking in the hot springs alongside other wonder women. 

Join us in the ever-charming and exquisite town of Ouray, Colorado and the San Juan mountains next June alongside a bevy of wonderful women and folks! Ouray, a town known as the Switzerland of the Unites States, is one of Colorado's crown jewels and for good reason.

Surrounded by emerald green and blue towering mountains, alpine lakes and waterfalls, wildflowers, trails, and endless adventure and beauty, Ouray is sure to capture your heart and provide plenty of nourishment for the body, mind, and spirit.

Join us in the most beautiful corner of Colorado on retreat for a deep and joyful dive into our yoga and meditation practices, nature, and into life lived well. 

Together we'll make the most of our days in a yoga, hiking, meditation, art, hot springs, and nature adventure retreat for all. We'll revel in and ground with daily yoga and meditation practices, hikes to enjoy some of the areas local gems and picturesque views, and a painting workshop or two. 

We'll nourish and treat ourselves with plenty of soaking in the hot springs, a day adventure to Telluride, an evening yoga nidra practice, and time to relax and unfold into the beauty of the present moment.

Deposit: 

$500 non-refundable deposit

Retreat Tuition: (Limit of 8 on this intimate retreat)

Private Queen Room (4 spots): $2299 + tax

Luxury Shared 2 Queen Room, 2 Beds, 2 Ppl (4 spots): $1999 + tax

Superior King Room Shared (6  spots): 1 Bed, 2 Ppl: $1899 + tax

Spring Memorial Day Retreat Special

Register by June 2nd and save $150 on your summer retreat and alpine adventure in the San Juan Mountains with Promo Code SUMMERINTHESANJUANS.

BYOB: 

Students are welcome to bring their own SUP board and paddle more if they wish. (Our paddle with be weather dependent) 

Questions: 

Please email us anytime at floatandflowllc@gmail.com

What's Included: 

Shared lodging or Private Lodging 

Daily Breakfast included at hotel

Three Dinners Out Together (entree included, apps and drinks not included)

Daily yoga with Mary 

Guided vipassana meditations

Two trips to Ouray Hot Springs Pool (we will carpool) 

Painting Workshop

Yoga Nidra Practice

Journaling/Writing Workshop

Day adventure to Telluride to hike, enjoy town, explore, and adventure

Retreat gift 

Tea 

Wifi 

Incredible community 

Free parking at hotel

***We will carpool over to Telluride all together in several cars, or ppl can drive themselves if they wish to ride alone. 

Ouray, Colorado 

Welcome to the Switzerland of America. 

Welcome to Ouray, the “Outdoor Recreation Capitol of Colorado.” Centrally located in Southwest Colorado, Ouray is the perfect basecamp for your explorations, offering a treasure trove of unique experiences all year long.

Situated in the heart of the San Juan Mountains in southwest Colorado, Ouray is known as the Switzerland of America.  Its rich history dates back to 1876 when the City was incorporated on October 2, two months after Colorado became a state.

Ouray is also The Outdoor Recreation Capital of Colorado with more than 60 activities that can occur right out your door!

Established in the late 1870s during gold and silver strikes, Ouray survived those boom-and-bust days because it's such a wonderful place to relax. Natural hot springs feed the Ouray Town Pool, where both locals and visitors come to soak in the therapeutic waters. It's said that Chief Ouray, the Ute Indian after whom the town is named, visited the pool often and held ceremonies in the local vapor cave.

Several waterfalls make for spectacular photos, and a popular activity for visitors is to take a short hike down to Box Canyon Falls, where the water thunders 285 feet from top to basin into a narrow canyon. The town's canyons, in fact, provide the location for one of the most popular winter events: ice climbing. Each January, Ouray proudly hosts the Ouray Ice Festival at the Ouray Ice Park, which features the easy access climbers relish.

Surrounded by deciduous trees such as quaking aspen and evergreens scrub oaks, the town also becomes a spectacularly colored canvas each autumn, drawing visitors who want a closer look at the brilliant foliage. The scenery, the sky-scraping San Juan Mountain peaks and a network of old mining routes are reasons the town is popular with off-roaders, Jeep tours and other backcountry lovers. The San Juan Skyway Scenic & Historic Byway is another popular way to see the area. 

A tour of the Bachelor-Syracuse Mine offers a look at what it was like to be a miner, as do displays at the local museum. One may also enjoy a historic tour either by carriage or walking with a ghostly tour guide.

Historic buildings, a wide range of affordable and comfortable lodgings (some with their own hot spring pools), unique artisan shops and galleries, and delicious, diverse restaurants (and the beloved Mouse's Chocolates) keep visitors coming back.

Hot Springs: 

We will enjoy two trips to the Ouray Town Hot Springs Geothermal Mineral Pools for some post yoga and hiking soaking and relaxation.

Ouray Hot Springs geothermally heated mineral pools range from 104 degrees in contrast to 75 degrees fahrenheit or 40 to 24 degrees celsius. Located in the heart of the San Juan Mountains, certainly used by Ute Indians. Ouray is a true gem of the Rocky Mountain Region consequently referred to as the “Switzerland of America”. 

The hot springs pool, surrounded by 13,000-foot snow-capped peaks, also has five separate geothermally heated pools. As a result, the pool has an adult only soaking section, two fast water slides (over 48″ to ride or pass the deep water test), the obstacle course and climbing wall in the activity pool (over 12 years old or pass the deep water test), 8 lap lanes for a workout pool, two family and soaking, geothermal and playing pools.

This year-round hot springs, most noteworthy, has been operating since 1927. It is certainly large, holding 750,000 gallons of sulfur-free mineral water. Similarly, other great minerals also include iron, manganese, zinc, fluoride, and potassium. First, the original source of hots springs is a mile up the river, near the Ouray Box Canon waterfall (another must-see) and Ouray Ice Park (the first man-made ice climbing park in the world with international ice climbing), where hot water comes out of the ground as a result of 150 degrees Fahrenheit or 66 degrees celsius. 

Another source, located next to the pool 120 degrees Fahrenheit or 49 degrees celsius. Finally, the cold water source is a result of domestic city water also a local spring known as Weehawken Spring consequently is used for lap lanes and activity pools.

The City of Ouray owns and operates the pool, so visit The City of Ouray’s Website. Above all, our family-friendly swimsuit required hot springs, is beloved by soakers due to the quiet adult areas as well as our spa featuring massages.

Yoga:

We will be practicing a strong, dynamic, and compassionate yoga practice and flow marrying together the traditions of Iyengar and Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. We will slowly and mindfully weave our way through alignment-based practices each day taking time to workshop asanas and come-see-come-look moments giving students the opportunity to demo postures as we practice. Expect longer holds, break-downs of alignment and postures, and a focus on the breath. Classes are appropriate for all levels from beginners to advanced practitioners and teachers. We ask students to be truly curious and expect to take a deep and joyful dive into the practice and your own inner ecology and wilderness.

Meditation: 

We will be practicing guided Vipassana and Mindful Meditation during the retreat including breath meditations, heart meditations such as the Loving Kindness/Metta Meditations, and compassion meditations.

Hiking:

We will be getting out for a couple of hikes during our time on retreat. They will be moderate in difficulty. We will hike in Ouray, and also squeeze in a hike in Telluride to a more hidden waterfall. Please bring good and supportive hiking shoes, a daypack to hike with, a reusable water bottle, a hat, sunscreen, and layers as we know Colorado weather can change in a flash.

Day Trip to Telluride: 

We will be getting out very early one day to head out to Telluride to hike, hang, have lunch, and enjoy some time to explore town. We will be carpooling for this day in several cars. 

Lodging: 

Box Canyon Lodge and Hot Springs 

Questions: 

Email floatandflowllc@gmail.com

Retreat Guide:

Mary Susan Stults

www.marysusanstults.com/

Been hanging out on the yoga mat since 1991. 

Senior yoga and meditation teacher, mentor, and educator Mary Susan Stults Sassone came to the path and practice of yoga as a child and young teen with her mother at home practicing for over 30 years, with over 13 years experience of teaching. Her love of movement and the arts began early with ballet and tap at three years old and grew with each passing year. 

Born in Fort Payne, Alabama, Mary Susan Stults was raised in Cedar City, a town in southwest Utah about an hour from Zion National Park. An avid nature lover, she grew up exploring the many hiking trails, rivers, rocks, mountains, canyons, and the endless outdoor beauty of Utah and Colorado with her family and friends. Despite growing up landlocked Mary Susan grew up with a deep love and appreciation for the ocean and water and that passion has only grown throughout her life. After moving to Boulder, Colorado in 2001 to attend the University of Colorado-Boulder, she made Colorado her mountain home for over 20 years until she traded the mountain life for the island life and moved to Hawaii in 2018 to the Garden Island Kauai.

Mary teaches a knowledgeable, dynamic, refreshing, and compassionate alignment-based yoga practice that intelligently weaves together the traditions of Iyengar Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, and Vinyasa. Many describe her energy as contagious, finding her nurturing, wise, soulful, & patient style of teaching to be welcoming, transformative,  & supportive to all. 

Up until her teacher and mentor's passing in 2019, when not teaching herself, you could often find Mary Susan attending or assisting a teacher training or Yoga intensive with her forever teacher & mentor, Maty Ezraty.  Mary's teachings and practices are reflective of her primary teachers and influences, Maty Ezraty, Sri K Pattahbi Jois, Richard Freeman, and BKS Iyengar.

Mary Susan teaches yoga, meditation, and sup yoga retreats, workshops, intensives, events, and trainings internationally, in the US, and at home in Hawaii. She offers mentoring for yoga teachers and students, yoga education and offerings, as well as guided adventure trips. 

She infuses her Yoga, SUP, and SUP Yoga classes, workshops, and retreats with her grounded yet light-hearted nature. For Mary, being a student of the practice of yoga is as important as being a teacher - we are students first, and teachers second. 

Mary Susan wholeheartedly believes that Yoga, Meditation, and Stand Up Paddleboarding, and SUP Yoga are for everybody, and is passionate about sharing these gifts, as well as her love of nature, adventure, travel, living well, environmentalism, ocean conservation, and the outdoors with all ages and all folks. #liveyourpractice