Aging + Vitality Retreat
Fri, Mar 13
|Hope Springs Institute
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?


Time & Location
Mar 13, 2020, 3:00 PM EDT – Mar 15, 2020, 2:00 PM EDT
Hope Springs Institute, 4988 Mineral Springs Rd, Peebles, OH 45660, USA
About The Event
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3 Days/2 Nights: $ 450 includes tuition, room, board, and supplies!
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
About the 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.