YOGA & SKIING RETREATS
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January 4-9, 2009
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March 1-6 , 2009
$2,950 per person based on double occupancy; we will place you with a roommate if you do not have a travel companion. Single accomodations are very limited and are an additional cost, please inquire. A non-refundable deposit of $500 is due to hold your reservation.
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What do yoga and skiing have in common?
Balance, flexibility and focus.
left: slopeside yoga!
Yoga helps cultivate these qualities, so it follows that practicing yoga can help improve ski technique. Let's face it - we love skiing for its adrenaline rush. But the other side of this coin is the potential for injury that can arise from common ski scenarios, like ending up on a black when you meant to stay on a blue, weather changes, crossing paths with an out-of-control skier, etc. Think of yoga as insurance against injury; it prevents injury by addressing your body’s imbalances and fostering both strength and flexibility.
Yoga also encourages a focus on the breath, which is the starting point for managing fear or a tense physical body. By being able to concentrate on your breathing, transitioning your movements with grace, and cultivating an awareness of body balance and alignment, any level of skier will get more out of their time on the mountain and be less injury-prone.
Our yoga for skiers program will focus on:
- warming up the muscles for cold weather
- creating proper body alignment
- breathing techniques to calm the mind
- core strength building
- increased flexibility in the hips
- increased flexibility and strength in the knees
- upper body strengthening to balance out the
lower-body intensity of skiing
Included in your retreat:
- yoga welcome package
- daily yoga program of minimum 2 session options per day
- 3 days of lift tickets
- ski shuttle to mountain base
- 3 gourmet meals a day
- evening program options, to include health and wellness presentations/discussions
a typical day on our yoga & skiing retreat:
7 am-8 am yoga class. get warmed-up for the morning on the mountain! our a.m. yoga class will focus on strengthening and stretching in preparation for skiing - we'll build some internal heat too.
8-9 am breakfast.
9 am-3 pm SKI. You may return to the Lodge for lunch, or have lunch on the mountain if you plan to ski after you eat. For non-alpine days, there will be other options for activities during this time, including additional yoga sessions, snow-shoeing or cross-country skiing. Additional activities may be scheduled with the help of the Lodge, click here for the full menu of winter choices.
4:30-6:30 pm apres-ski yoga. We'll work out all the kinks from your skiing with a gentle, restorative practice while continuing to explore alignment and balance in asana to help improve ski technique.
7 pm drinks by the fire & dinner served shortly after!
dogsledding is an add-on activity option!
You'll be experiencing some of the best skiing out west here in Montana - visit the links below to read more about Big Sky and Moonlight Basin:
Big Sky Resort
Moonlight Basin's press room - lots of great articles
A Traveler's Life List
Your Own Private Ski Resort
Big Sky
Montana, U.S.A.
Montana is like a shell game: while most people head here in summer, the real prize might very well be hidden in winter at Big Sky, which boasts 3,600 spectacularly skiable acres, (almost) uniformly excellent conditions, vaulting Rockies views, and an average of only two skiers per acre - meaning lift lines are pretty much unheard of. Much of the annual 400-inch snowfall is the bone-dry talc that local skiers reverently call "cold smoke", and while there's extreme white-knuckle skiing for sure (an aerial tram to the 11,166-foot summit of the Matterhorn-like Lone Peak offers skiers a 4.350-foot vertical drop, the second steepest in the nation after Snowmass, Colorado), and good 50 percent of the resort's 150-plus trails are perfect for the intermediate.