Retreats

Contentment Overnight

Contentment Overnight Retreats in 2010

Sedona -- September 11 and 12

1-5 pm, Saturday and Sunday

Two-Day Workshop -- $80
25% Discount --reduced fee of S60
for AYA Members,Yoga teachers/students, seniors and Terry Cole-Whittaker's Masters
[Complimentary book valued at $17.95]

This two session worshop will guide you
through a CLEARING PROCESS

*Review your life thus far

*Forgive yourself and everyone else
*Set intentions from this day forward

*Learn to apply principles for well-being

*Practice the 4D's to transform upsets
*Manage your energy so that you thrive

*Make a commitment to cultivate contentment moment to moment

"Johanna's book is filled with wisdom. I want to purchase a copy for everyone I know as it brings peace of mind by reminding us to focus on our core essence...not the ego."
Janice Midkiff
Sedona Wedding Planner

Based on the principles in my book, this

workshop offers the chance to upgrade your happiness immediately. The workshop shares ancient wisdom for maximizing well-being and launching intentions to have your life just the way you want it to be. The content is not new, but the process of applying the principles to achieve concrete, lasting benefits is unique. This book and workshop provide an opportunity for you to gently complete and release the past. This creates an opening for you live freer in the present moment and design the life you want. I call this two-day workshop “Contentment Overnight” because you can slip into your own contentment like a pair of cozy slippers with just a little shifting. This playful venue is a lively, interactive gathering which will help participants reflect, release and renew. For details, please visit our website www.cultivatecontentment.com or call 928-282-9900

This book is for you if--

*You have read about the Law of Attraction, but have not known how to do it

*You have wanted to let go of past hurts, but were unable to

*You’ve not been able to forgive yourself or someone else

*You’ve wanted to be contented, but have let circumstances get you down

Learn what ancient sages say will help you--

*Curb your negative thinking and access inner knowing

*Transform upsetting moments into desired outcomes

*Forgive and release any transgressions by you or others

*Set specific intentions to raise the bar in your life, work and relationships

*Thrive by practicing core values for well-being

*Take charge of being the contented person you were born to be

In Cultivate Contentment: Using Ancient Wisdom to Thrive in Today’s World, author Johanna Maheshvari Mosca, Ph.D., explores principles for well-being taught by ancient yogis and adapts them to modern times. She shows how to apply the wisdom of Patanjali’s yoga sutras to achieve the peace and contentment that are so needed today. Dr. Mosca teaches how to curb the critical ego-mind, access true inner knowing, and use ancient principles to heighten our everyday functioning. She presents an original four-step technique for transforming dis-satisfying experiences into desired outcomes. This book guides you through a process to help you complete the past with gratitude and start anew.

Here's what spiritual leaders are saying about Johanna's new Cultivate Contentment book--

"Johanna assists you in applying 10 universal Spiritual Truths of the ages to your everyday life. If you are ready for personal well-being, then this is the perfect book for you."

Rev. Christian Sorensen, D. D., Head Minister,

Seaside Center for Spiritual Living, Encinitas, CA

“Cultivate Contentment lights the way to live more joyfully by applying the eternal teachings of the Yoga Sutras. This book is essential for those seeking to thrive in today’s world.”

Nischala Joy Devi, Author, The Secret
Power of Yoga and The Healing Path of Yoga.

“Johanna brilliantly relates Patanjali’s ancient teachings to life today, showing how we can all uplift ourselves and each other through the wisdom of the sages.”

Rama Jyoti Vernon, Co-founder of the
International Yoga College and the Yoga Journal

“Cultivate Contentment presents ancient principles in the light of contemporary life challenges. By gently shifting our perspective from a blaming and judgmental stance to one of reflection and gratitude, Johanna creates the possibilities for enduring positive change. Simple yet profound writing that reflects the author’s deep conviction, compassion and joyful engagement with life.”

Saraswathi Vasudevan, Director,

the YogaVahini School, Chennai, India

ESSENCE
January 2001
Sojourns for the Soul
Essence Magazine sent Author Akissi Britton to attend a 3-Day Sedona Spirit Yoga & Hiking Retreat following a stressful time in her life. For their Lifestyle and Travel Section, she was to participate in and write about the retreat experience firsthand.

In her article Akissi wrote—“After settling in, Johanna led my two fellow participants and me in a guided meditation. As I inhaled and exhaled deeply, visualizing my breath entering and leaving my body, I imagined the defensive barriers I’d erected for survival slowly crumbling. In the stillness that our meditation encouraged, I began once again to hear my inner voice whisper that everything would be okay.”

Akissi went on to describe the positive impact of the vortex yoga hikes, and a healing didgeridoo concert. She ended her article saying—“It wasn’t until later that I realized how carefully planned the retreat had been. Each activity took me further and further, as if to say, “Now you’re ready for a little more.” And I am ready—ready for a new year of love and healing.”

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VALLEY GUIDE
Summer 2005
Soothe Your Soul
Northern Arizona Single-Day Getaways to Rejuvenate the Spirit
Author Amy Abrams was happy to spend a day with us doing research for her article. She wrote about how she benefited from a psychic reading and three-hour vortex yoga hike with our Sedona Spirit Yoga & Hiking team. About her yoga hike, she commented that she was “impressed with the heightened vitality from postures at this exquisite vortex site…and the beauty and power of this sacred spot.”

Amy’s long Sedona adventure ended with a late yoga therapy appointment with Johanna, about which she wrote—“Johanna Mosca was eager to facilitate my spiritual growth with a one-on-one session in Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy—a combination of classical yoga and mind-body psychology that promotes a powerful release of tension from emotional issues held within the body. With Mosca assisting me through yoga postures and guided breathing with the aid of specifically chosen aromatherapy oils, I release old, deeply stored body memories. This is a profound process providing valuable insights and dramatic release of tensions form a difficult period in my life. I am so tired following the session that it is not until the next morning that I realize how light, peaceful, and free I feel. Now weeks later, I am enjoying the positive results of clearing deeply rooted negative emotion.”

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February 2003
SPUR Magazine wrote about a vortex yoga hike with Sedona Spirit Yoga & Hiking led by Johanna. They displayed photos of Johanna leading yoga and meditation at Bell Rock vortex.

The author wrote about how relaxing and pleasurable the experience was and the beauty and magnificence of the vortex site.

Vortex meditation in Sedona

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SHAPE Magazine
July 1998
Head Trips
Writing about a dozen “Holidays for Body and Soul,” author Katy Koontz included Sedona Spirit Yoga & Hiking as one of the spiritual vacations that “have a more lasting impact than your typical see-all-the-sights or lie-on-the-beach getaway that leaves you will little more than some souvenirs and a tan.”

Recommending our retreats, she wrote—“Adventure with Sedona Spirit Yoga includes American Indian spirituality rituals (medicine wheels, etc.), plus daily hike to power vortexes in Arizona’s red rock country.”

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