MAY 2020
Yoga Retreat in Niigata Japan
Yoga Retreat featuring Onsen & Sake in Niigata Japan
Join us in Niigata for a weekend of daily yoga, exquisite nature, amazing food, quietude, onsen soaking, sake education (but more importantly tasting) at a sake brewery, laughter and joy and to celebrate the New Season!
The retreat is offered in Minami-Uonuma, Niigata prefecture. Niigata, a Japan’s snow country, produces one of the highest quality Koshihikari rice that is lovingly nurtured by local farmers and crystal clear water melted from snow. In this retreat our focus is for you to experience ”rebirth” as the fertile raw land is transformed into lush green rice fields during this rice planting season.
What we offer.
Twice Daily Yoga classes for mind body renewal (energizing morning flow with personal attention & adjustments to deepen your personal practice and a meditative evening flow to smooth out the evening and process the day).
Japanese style fresh farm/mountain to table meals
Visit to ancient Zen temple, Untoan for walking meditation with group or solo
Tour sake brewery, Uonumanosato, for local sake tasting and lunch
Beautiful indoor and open air onsen for rejuvenating and relaxing soak
Optional spa treatments to further relax and renew
Our morning vinyasa will set the tone for the day. The sequence will evolve out of the themes of rejuvenation and renewal. Expect a heat building, flowing practice that enlivens your body and mind, filled with asanas that encourage strength, cleansing, focus, fun and gratitude. Evening practice will wind us down and balance us out with a sequence full of smooth transitions, fluid flow, stretching and lengthening.
Ryugon is ideal for rejuvenating YOU! Finding the fun, physical and mental space, heat and sweat, patients and meditation, challenge and balance in our yoga practice surrounded by the absolute beauty of Niigata will be a complete renewing experience!
