Jivaka Wellness Center

David Wells is not just a guy who can lead a pack of baby elephants. He is also one of the most generous, unflappable, funny, game, and highly skilled teachers we've ever met. We're thankful he came back to WV to share the Thai Yoga practice of Reusi Dat Ton – making sure that each student felt both challenged and safe. One of the most inspiring parts of the weekend was hearing folks who came to last year's workshop talk about the benefits they've felt from keeping up a regular Reusi Dat Ton practice since then: recovery from injuries, maintaining mobility, and more.

Kiki and Cris might have figured out a way to do a pretty convincing Reusi fake-out (see 2nd-to-last slide), but Dave has convinced us to walk the real-deal walk. 21 reps of each sequence, every day! We're doing it and we're pumped. 💪🧘🙇🙏

Early Bird discount ends this Saturday, Sept 12! Register at the link in our bio

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It's the *eleventh* time we're putting on our sensory awareness retreat, Come To Your Senses. We'd like to think it just keeps evolving and getting better each time. But one thing it's always included: a personal toolkit of skills for navigating, surviving, appreciating, and celebrating everything that daily life brings.

There are periods of spacious intentional silence. There are also experiments that are playful and fun – but it's not just a game. And it's not about having to learn brand-new habits either. Instead, you'll get to recognize innate abilities you've had all along. You'll make the best discoveries: the ones that cannot be taught.

October 9-12 at Saranam Retreat Center
Montrose, WV
Registration link in our bio

It's the last day for the early bird discount on registration for the Thai Yoga workshop with David Wells this September! See the link in our bio.

See the other link in our bio to sign up for the 8-week workshop series, Yoga Beyond Asana, with Kiki! It starts in August.

And see the other other link in our bio to sign up for our newsletter, which is not so frequent, but is certainly more frequent than our posts on here are.

https://www.jivakawellnesscenter.com/store/p/reusi-dat-ton-thai-yoga-workshop

REUSI DAT TON (THAI YOGA) 5-DAY WORKSHOP — Jivaka Wellness Education Center Register by July 18 for the early bird discounts! SEPTEMBER 19–23 Join Certified Yoga Therapist David Wells to learn traditional Thai Yoga, Reusi Dat Ton. These gentle low-impact techniques help you increase flexibility, range of motion, circulation, mobility, and energy, while reducing aches, p

Our work emails and website have not worked in 7 days. The process of transferring to via has been the opposite of seamless. Have you tried to email us in the past week? We have no idea.
1. We are using all of our emergency meditation skills to try and deal with this moment. Also, here is a poem that we love, that also brings to mind a dear friend we lost one week ago today.
2. The first email that we were unable to send was last Thursday, to share the news of Rafe's death, along with an announcement that we were dedicating our yoga and meditation practices that day to him and his family. We were sure we'd be able to do this by *today* – a whole week later. Today we're dedicating these same practices to Rafe again, with all proceeds going to , a local organization he loved and supported enthusiastically.
Rafe was a legend, to put it lightly. We miss him a lot. We'll put links about him in our stories.
(Also in our bio is a Zoom link, to join our weekly donation-based meditation sit, which Rafe and Lenore often attended. It's the same link every week, Thursdays at 7pm ET.)
3. We also hoped to announce our cool new website, with its cool new features. Instead, we learned that it might be another 5 business days before we have a working website or email addresses, which is not cool.
Anyway, everything is impermanent and fleeting – means of communication, feelings, our planet, ourselves. This moment. Please hold.

Our last retreat of the year!
Early bird discount ends this Sunday!
Sign up at the link in our bio!
Drop any questions in the comments - or ask them at the Zoom we'll have this weekend (we'll share details in a story in our Highlights)!
Here's one more sentence that ends in an exclamation point!