YOGATOGRAPHY
Yoga & Creative Photography Retreat
October 11-14, 2012 (thurs-sun)
Long weekend in Clyde Park, Montana
at the luxurious Double T River Ranch
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Calling all yogatographers! What a great mix for getting a firm grip on your creative side, and tapping into the creative potential that a yoga practice can awaken. The days will be filled with creative exercises, yoga, photography classes and fun photo assignments, great meals and time on this gorgeous ranch to explore your own creative nature. For all levels of photographers and yoginis. We'll do yoga, take pictures, and maybe even take pictures of each other doing yoga.
Yoga & Creative Photography 3-night retreat:
- Ranch house master suite with private bathroom:
$1,950 per person - Ranch house single bedroom with shared bathroom:
$1,795 per person - Cabin single bedroom with shared bathroom:
$1,695 per person - Cabin double bedroom with shared bathroom:
$1,595 per person
For the cabin doubles, we will place you with a roommate if you do not have a travel companion. A non-refundable deposit of $500 is due to hold your reservation. To better plan your travel, we begin the retreat at 5 pm on the arrival Thursday and end at noon on Sunday. reserve online now!
The Yoga & Creative Photography program includes:
- 3 nights of luxury lodging at the Double T River Ranch.
- Daily yoga classes in the restored barn, that build body awareness, help foster an openness of body and mind, and tap into your creative potential through movement.
- Daily photography classes, demonstrations and fun photo assignments that will exercise your creative seeing and technical skills. You will learn to see more and become a better photographer.
- Gourmet, healthy, local food by our own private Chef Kate, to satisfy your creative cravings and fuel your creative spark.
- A selection of wine, including Namaste Vineyards, and local beers to savour after a hard day on the mat and behind the camera.
- Meditation, intention-setting & journaling.
CREATE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT...
BECAUSE IT DOES!
If you are like me, I am never satisfied with my current level of seeing and photographing. We can always learn and in order to grow, we need to pursue creative thought, train our bodies and our minds to stay in shape. The photo side of this retreat will explore and revisit sound basics in camera technique and lighting, as well as teach methods for exercising your creative nature. Join us for a merged exploration of yoga and photography. - Larry Stanley
Larry will be speaking about the following topics with demonstration, practice and insightful photo assignments:
- Vision
- exercises to help you see more
- figure drawing and using sketching to visualize and plan
- Lighting
- learn or revisit some solid basics with demonstrations
- seeing the nuances of light takes practice
- Technical
- aperture, f stop, ISO, shutter speeds, learning the mysteries of using your a flash
- Yin and Yang - you and your subject
- Being comfortable in your own skin – How to get over yourself and thereby see other’s more clearly.
- Personal interaction – the mystery of pointing a camera at someone. The comfort of your subject is more about you than your subject.
- Confidence
- Build good habits and free up your creative side
- Shoot in your head, not in your LCD
- Learn to play your role to make you a better photographer
This retreat is for all levels of photographers. You will need DSLR or better, with manual control of focus, aperture and shutter speed, and need to know basic camera use. You will also need a laptop to process your images for commentary and evaluation during class, or else a really good friend that is willing to share. You’ll need a USB memory stick to transfer images for sharing.
Larry Stanley and Margaret Burns Vap have been working together for years, and Big Sky Yoga Retreats is grateful to Larry for capturing the spirit of what we do in his pictures. When you love what you do, you want to share it in as many ways as possible, and so the yoga and photography collaboration was added to our retreat menu.
Please note that this retreat is based in Clyde Park, Montana, which was named for the Clydesdale horses raised there in the late 19th century. It is approximately 20 minutes north of Livingston, and one hour from Bozeman.
You will need to rent a car for this retreat, or we can put you in touch with your roommate/other retreaters to possibly rent together. We highly recommend adding on a day or two in either Bozeman or Livingston, and are happy to make suggestions based on your interests and travel plans. Both places make great starting points for visiting Yellowstone National Park, a frequest add-on for our retreaters.
Bozeman is sophisticated Western chic meets college town. Great shopping, dining, and some of the best hiking trails in SW Montana. Ask us for suggestions!
Livingston is caught between very cowboy and very hip. Tons o' cute shops and restaurants, and celebrity sightings are common. They call its location "Paradise Valley" for a reason. A visit to nearby Chico Hot Springs is a must, and our retreaters love staying at the Murray Hotel.
Setting up the Cowgirl Yoga shot...
and the gorgeous result!
