Our body/minds change as we age. How can we keep them vital and healthy and combat the all-too-prevalent stereotype of aging as a time of illness, endless medications, and decline?

During this workshop we will experience the following practices:

• Yoga posture to balance strength and flexibility

• Yogic breath work to quiet the nervous system
• Meditation to help us come to center and reduce stress
• Dream to connect us with our inner wisdom
• Learning from the land about collaboration and sustainability
• Image-making, journaling and poetry to deepen insight and access play
• Learning about food and nutrition for enhancing vitality
• Relationship and community building to sustain us in our daily lives

Facilitators

Rocky Delaplaine has been teaching Iyengar yoga classes on a weekly basis in the Washington D.C. region since 1991. She is a published poet with her first full-length book of poems coming out in October, 2019. She co-leads an annual retreat combining art and yoga near Charlottesville, VA. She is a daughter, mother, grandmother, aunt and member of a large extended family that spans from Florida to Canada, and from East coast to West. Rocky is 65 years old.

Suzanne Stevens is the founder of Hope Springs Institute, co-leader of the Hope Springs Women’s Leadership Collaboratives, co-leader of Celtic Connections and a consultant for small businesses focused on creating space for healing and sustainability. In her early years, Suzanne ran a group home, taught school and was an associate director at Procter and Gamble. She and her husband have 7 children, 11 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. Suzanne is 77 years old.