In keeping with its annual yoga tradition, Studio Abhyas organized a yoga retreat at the Himalayan Village, Sonapani recently. Week-long retreat starting June 23, 2008, was conducted by yoga exponent Navtej Johar. It was attended by 18 participants from India and abroad. The retreat included nearly eight hours of yoga practice daily on an average. The days would begin at the break of dawn with an energizing three hour sessions of asana practice. Lectures on the Yoga Sutras, talks on the finer points of yoga and pranayam would follow next, after breakfast. The days would draw to an end with some more asana practice and sessions of Vedic chanting and meditation. Removed from the din of the city streets, set in the middle of a pine forest, the retreat was however not just about yoga, making new friends or gaining greater clarity about daily yoga practice. It was also about solitary walks in the neighboring pine forest; soaking in the beauty of rain soaked lush green jungle around; watching the fog enveloping us in its embrace, making us forget about the hot climes back home. And most of all, the yoga retreat was about being in communion with nature. Our nature!

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