Thank you Amy, thank you Desert Renewal Center, thank you self, thank you family – I am so very very grateful for this last week – I found my spirit and my center again, and direction for my future.

Part of what made this retreat so magnificent for me was the clear heart and yoga mastery of Amy. Truly, she is a master teacher and a gifted facilitator. Almost every moment of the retreat time we shared as a group was powerful and helpful for me, and in many ways, it was a retreat about self-nurturing, so it was like getting to be at one of my own retreats only better. I highly highly recommend Amy.

Next:my takeaways but let me leave you for now with a few sensory impressions:

A candlelit room overlooking the Tuscon valley filled with people moving in their own varied yoga practices, a dance of shadowy forms, as the sun slowly brightens the sky over the distant mountains and fills the room with the clear desert light

A blue bowl of hot oatmeal studded with raisins, silvered almonds, roasted walnuts and prunes

The saguaro cactus – I am in love with these creatures!

A room full of people holding bridge pose while sobbing, praying, chanting, shaking and otherwise clearing the channel to better realize we are all Spirit

Me realizing my inner "pusher" is making me insane, then going on a hike and listening to spiritual teacher Adyashanti on my I-pod and then sitting in the shelter of a rock in the Sonora desert meditating with him using the prayer "Not my Will But the Heart’s Will" and experiencing letting go off that voice while the wind sways the saguaros and the sun warms my face 

And so much more but my family home now