Patricia Brown and Surya Chandra Das teach yoga retreats and meditation retreats

surya Surya-Chandra Das began studying hatha yoga and meditation in 1988 and has taught classes and yoga retreats since 1990. His teaching of yoga asana and pranayama is influenced by his studies with T.K.V. Desikachar in Madras, India,Victor van Kooten, Angela Farmer, Richard Miller,a variety of teachers in the Iyengar tradition and the teachings of yin yoga. Studies in Authentic Movement and Continuum Movement have contributed to his interest in exploring the formless contained within the form of yoga postures. Surya's has also been influenced by the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti, who stressed the need for each individual to directly discover their own truth without dogma, ritual, or technique.

Surya-Chandra is a long-time student of Vipassana meditation and Advaita, the non-dual tradition of Ramana Maharshi, having studied with Ramesh Balsakar, Adyashanti and others.

Surya's teaching is a blend of the various teachings he has experienced and his own explorations. Nondual Awareness or Presence is the foundation of the retreats. Surya is interested in helping participants understand the depth and breadth of Yoga - that it is so much more than performing asanas (postures) and can permeate every aspect of our lives well beyond the retreat. He supports and encourages a student to let go of striving and becoming; to increase their capacity to live with conscious awareness of the wisdom of body; to be present for conditioning from a non-judgmental and somatic reference point, allowing us to live from the natural joy, ease and openness of Being.

p brown Patricia Brown has been teaching yoga and meditation retreats since 1981.

Her work asks one to be open to discovery, to the innate self-sensing capacity of the body and to the recognition of one's true nature.

Initially studying in the Iyengar community, she later found inspiration from the exploratory and self-referenced work of Angela Farmer and the breathwork of the viniyoga teachings. During this time she was among the first teachers to bring yoga to Maine.

She is a long-time practioner of Vipassana meditation and brings many years of study in movement meditation based on inner listening in the form of Jungian based Authentic Movement and Continuum to her teachings.

Patricia is also influenced by the non-dual teachings of Advaita, the tradition of Ramana Maharshi, and the teachings of Richard Miller and Neelam with whom she has been a student for the past several years.

Her teaching arises from 30 years of study, practice and teaching and is the integration of her own process with classical yoga asana, yin yoga, meditation, bodysensing awareness practices and the art of inquiry.

Patricia creates an environment of openness for anyone wanting to have the supportive space to take a deeper look at themselves and their life, offering practices which orient toward remembering the ever present ease of one's true nature.

In addition to facilitating retreats, Patricia has a private practice and is available for spiritual mentoring in person or by phone. For more information read here.