At Beautiful Camp Mikell Retreat Village, Toccoa, Georgia Improve your knitting techniques and replenish your body and spirit at this retreat in the beautiful Northeast Georgia Mountains. Yoga practice and knitting workshops each day in an intimate and supportive environment. ••• The June Retreat is FULL. Please email Allison Adams to be added to the wait list. ••• “Sit and Knit with Me” Intrigued by a tricky pattern? Ready to...
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At the beautiful Dahlonega Spa and Resort! Improve your knitting techniques and replenish your body and spirit at this retreat in the beautiful Northeast Georgia Mountains. Yoga practice and knitting workshops each day in an intimate and supportive environment. ••• To register, call 706-865-7678. ••• “Sit and Knit with Me” Intrigued by a tricky pattern? Ready to try a new stitch technique? Want to try steeking but the thought of...
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“Knitting, like yoga, is a form of meditation. While you are knitting, you mind must settle and center on your hands, your fingers, the patterns that form, the precision of your work. The kind of yoga we practice, Iyengar, is also about precision. For the hour and a half of a yoga class, all you can think about is where exactly your physical body is in space—the way your ankle bone is sitting, how your pelvis is positioned, the turn of your upper arm bone. Like learning to knit, practicing yoga requires focus, attention, and commitment. In the same way we learn a sequence of stitches, we practice the poses over and over as a form of meditation until we are comfortable doing them for long periods of time. With both, the rest of the world falls away.”
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