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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nYes, there will yoga offered by yours truly on most mornings – in a gorgeous 16th-century chapel, no less. I invite you to come, even just to rest on a mat or a chair. But if you skip and sleep in, that\u2019s ok too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t get me wrong, I am into yoga. I have been practicing and teaching it for almost 20 years now. But I have never been super-bendy, even when I was younger. When I started yoga teacher training, one of my friends asked, \u201cHow are you going to teach it if you can\u2019t even do the poses?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I never intended to teach\u2026.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
I wanted to learn about yoga to heal myself. In my early thirties, I suffered a major injury that resulted in all-over body trauma. I had to leave my office job and focus on recovery. I found that path through Music – Art – Yoga<\/strong>, which is why it\u2019s the byline for my website and professional persona. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What a wonderful journey I\u2019ve been on these past couple of decades! I wouldn\u2019t give it up for anything. It led me to a life of creating music, expressing my true self, and stirring new passions. A big part of that was becoming a teacher and later a yoga therapist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s not about acrobatics. It doesn\u2019t matter how flexible you are or aren\u2019t. It\u2019s about moving your body in the ways it wants to move. According to yoga philosophy, the goal of yoga is to \u201cclear the static of the mind.\u201d When your system is in balance, the static-clearing is easier to do. So I help people get there, even stiff bodies like me! The yoga that I teach is meant to be gentle and all-inclusive. FOR EVERY BODY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Through my life experience and training, I am skilled at making people feel better. This is always my goal, whether it be a performance, class, private session or retreat. <\/p>\n\n\n What\u2019s making me<\/em> feel better lately is sharing the beauty and flavor of southern Portugal (aka the Algarve). So this retreat might fall under the umbrella of \u201cwellness tourism.\u201d I\u2019d rather call it just plain fun. We move a little, we eat a little, we walk a little, and smile – a lot. We have new experiences in the awe-inspiring Algarve. Then we wake up the next morning and do it all again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A nice routine for a week, don\u2019t you think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is not a yoga retreat Some see \u201cyoga retreat\u201d and think of super-bendy bodies doing poses for hours each day in some remote locale. That was never my intention, which is why the word \u201cyoga\u201d is not in the title of my Portugal offering. So what exactly are we talking about here? This is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1383,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1485","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evefleishman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evefleishman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evefleishman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evefleishman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evefleishman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evefleishman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evefleishman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evefleishman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evefleishman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/hqdefault.jpg?ssl=1\")
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<\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\nWhat people have wrong about yoga<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
So what\u2019s the deal with the retreat?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nRenew, Relax, Retreat with Eve in southern Portugal<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"