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Yoga Retreat for ASL Interpreters:Transformation through Traumawith Lila Lolling, ERYT500 & Andrea Schock, NIC
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 - Sunday, May 20, 2018
$325
WITH
Lila Lolling &Andrea Schock4.125 RID CEUs being offered2.10 GS & 2.025 PS
Tuition: $325 + Accommodation or Ashram day rate
This personal and professional yoga retreat for ASL Interpreters is designed to teach you how to live yoga on and off the mat, while giving you tools to confidently interpret yoga classes and workshops. This special retreat is offered only once-a-year and often fills as it is limited to 30 participants.
This year’s theme is “Transformation through Trauma.”
For five days, sign language interpreter Andrea Shock, NIC and yoga instructor Lila Lolling, ERYT500 will guide you through yoga, meditation, interpreting yoga practicums, and vicarious trauma workshops. This long weekend is dedicated to personal investigation and spiritual transformation. We begin our day in community meditation and end the day in the same manner. It is a time of self-reflection, professional development, and community connections.
Join us for this beautiful retreat and learn yoga practices and teachings that will improve your overall happiness, health, and vitality.
Early registration is highly recommended.
RETREAT SCHEDULE
Wednesday, May 16
2pm – Arrival and Welcome
4pm – Is Yoga a Religion and Ashram Tour
6pm – Organic Vegetarian / Plant-based Dinner
7pm – Community Meditation, Group Welcome & Introductions
Thursday, May 17
6am – Satsang (meditation, chanting in Sanskrit, spiritual lecture)
8am – Yoga Basics in ASL
9am – Chair Yoga: Conscious Processing Breaks for the Workplace
10am – Organic Vegetarian / Plant-based Brunch
11am – Selfless Service – Karma Yoga
12pm – 2:30pm – “Processing Vicarious Trauma: Professional Session 1”
3pm – 4pm – Self-Care Practicum
4pm – Interpreting Strategies – Ideas, Vocabulary, Spacing, etc.
6pm – Organic Vegetarian / Plant-based Dinner
8pm – Satsang with interpretation
Friday, May 18
6am – Meditation Walk: weather depending
8am – Adapted Yoga for ASL Interpreters
10am – Organic Vegetarian / Plant-based Brunch
11am – Selfless Service – Karma Yoga
12pm – 2:30pm – “Exploring the Sacred Heart: Personal Session 1”
3pm – 4pm – Self-Care Practicum
4pm – Interpreting Practicum: interpreting yoga with evaluations
6pm – Organic Vegetarian / Plant-based Dinner
8pm – Satsang with interpretation
Saturday, May 19
6am – Satsang with interpretation
8am – Heart-centered Yoga Class
10am – Organic Vegetarian / Plant-based Brunch
11am – Selfless Service – Karma Yoga
12pm – 2:30pm – “Feeling Empowered in Trauma”
3pm – 4pm – Self-Care Practicum
4pm – Interpreting Practicum: interpreting yoga with evaluations
6pm – Organic Vegetarian / Plant-based Dinner
8pm – Satsang with interpretation
Sunday, May 20
6am – Satsang with Interpretation
8am – Power of Your Breath, Pranayama and Yoga Class
10am – Organic Vegetarian/Plant-based Brunch
11am – 12:30pm – Concluding Circle: Certificates & Ceremony
Kindly note room check-out time is 12pm
Please note that the retreat facility is about 2 hours outside NYC. If arriving by plane, it is best to fly into LGA. You will the need to rent a car or take a bus to Port Authority Bus Terminal to catch a bus to Woodbourne, NY.
Retreat Cost
$325 Tuition + Accommodations. Tuition includes manuals, certificates and personalized journal. Accommodation includes two meals daily and access to Russian sauna and hiking trails.
For more information please visit: Lila’s website
Arrival & Departure Information
• Wednesday – 2:00pm onwards
• Sunday – 12:00pm (room checkout)
Planning to arrive and depart here by bus? See more information.
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Andrea Schock, NIC
Andrea graduated from Columbia College Chicago’s ITP in 2006 with a degree in ASL-English Interpretation. She later obtained her RID certification in 2009. She has been interpreting full time in a variety of settings throughout the New England area for the past twelve years. In addition to her interpreting experience she has been an avid yoga practitioner for the past fourteen years. Her love and passion for Yoga and the Deaf community intertwined when she attended her first Yoga Retreat for Sign Language Interpreters in 2014. It is after this first retreat that she had a calling to provide accessible Yoga to the Deaf community.
Lila Lolling, ERYT500
Lila has been teaching classical yoga for nearly two decades and she graduated from an ITP in 1996. She has been interpreting and teaching traditional yoga teachings within the Deaf community since 2004. As a board member on an ASL yoga nonprofit, Lila has a front-row seat as Deaf yoga teachers develop yoga signs, techniques, and teachings in ASL. www.lilalolling.com
