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YOGA & SKIING RETREATS

January 4-9, 2009
February 13-15, 2009: Warm & Cozy Valentine's Weekend
March 1-6, 2009

check out Ski Fit on Skinet.com!
Strengthen your Ski Season with yoga 6 week series:
The 5 Warrior Warm-Up
Core Work - Twists & Abs
Yoga's Got Your Back
Hips & Legs
Get Balanced with Yoga
Strengthen & Lengthen Your Legs


Above: winter morning out back at the Big EZ Lodge

January & March 5 day retreats: $2,950 per person based on double occupancy; we will place you with a roommate if you do not have a travel companion. Single accomodations are very limited and are an additional cost, please inquire. A non-refundable deposit of $500 is due to hold your reservation.

February Long Weekend retreat: $1,595 per person per person based on double occupancy.

Our Winter retreat location is featured in the November 08 issue of SKI!

BIG EZ LODGE, BIG SKY, MONT.
Big EZ Lodge provides 360-degree vistas of Montana's Madison range and the Gallatin National Forest...rooms in the lodgepole-pine main lodge are named after a state.

 

What do yoga and skiing have in common?
Balance, flexibility and focus.
below: slopeside yoga!

Yoga helps cultivate these qualities, so it follows that practicing yoga can help improve ski technique. Let's face it - we love skiing for its adrenaline rush. But the other side of this coin is the potential for injury that can arise from common ski scenarios, like ending up on a black when you meant to stay on a blue, weather changes, crossing paths with an out-of-control skier, etc. Think of yoga as insurance against injury; it prevents injury by addressing your body’s imbalances and fostering both strength and flexibility.

Yoga also encourages a focus on the breath, which is the starting point for managing fear or a tense physical body. By being able to concentrate on your breathing, transitioning your movements with grace, and cultivating an awareness of body balance and alignment, any level of skier will get more out of their time on the mountain and be less injury-prone.

Our yoga for skiers program will focus on:

Included in your retreat:


Lone Mountain: yes, this is where we ski!
a typical day on our yoga & skiing retreat:

7 am-8 am yoga class. get warmed-up for the morning on the mountain! our a.m. yoga class will focus on strengthening and stretching in preparation for skiing - we'll build some internal heat too.

8-9 am breakfast.

9 am-3 pm SKI. You may return to the Lodge for lunch, or have lunch on the mountain if you plan to ski after you eat. For non-alpine days, there will be other options for activities during this time, including additional yoga sessions, snow-shoeing or cross-country skiing. Additional activities may be scheduled with the help of the Lodge, click here for the full menu of winter choices.

4:30-6:30 pm apres-ski yoga. We'll work out all the kinks from your skiing with a gentle, restorative practice while continuing to explore alignment and balance in asana to help improve ski technique.

7 pm drinks by the fire & dinner served shortly after!

Warm & Cozy Valentine's Yoga & Ski Weekend
Fri-Mon, February 13-16

 Join us for a warm, cozy weekend of winter-intention setting and Valentine's celebration. Bring your spouse, significant other, mom, dad, sibling, friend...anyone you love! We'll practice plenty of fireside yoga, enjoy massages and sip wine with our gourmet meals. Price includes one day lift ticket to alpine ski OR 1 day ski pass for cross-country skiing (equipment rental not included), one hour-long massage and 1 glass of wine from Namaste Vineyards each evening.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

dogsledding is an add-on activity option!

You'll be experiencing some of the best skiing out west here in Montana - visit the links below to read more about Big Sky and Moonlight Basin:

Big Sky Resort
Moonlight Basin's press room - lots of great articles

Testimonial

A short trip from Portland, Oregon to Eastern Montana to visit my dad, in addition to my quest to get my annual 'snow fix', turned out to be one of my best vacations ever. The 5-day yoga and skiing adventure was invigorating, strengthening, and grounding, and will stay with me...The amazing skiing at Big Sky, the absolutely magical Big EZ Lodge, and especially the peace and motivation that Margaret, her yoga and the retreat instilled in me were incredible and life-changing. It is an experience and a guft that we all deserve to give ourselves.
-Lori, OR
(repeat retreater in 2008! attended yoga & ski and yoga & hike)

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Your Own Private Ski Resort
Big Sky
Montana, U.S.A.


Montana is like a shell game: while most people head here in summer, the real prize might very well be hidden in winter at Big Sky, which boasts 3,600 spectacularly skiable acres, (almost) uniformly excellent conditions, vaulting Rockies views, and an average of only two skiers per acre - meaning lift lines are pretty much unheard of. Much of the annual 400-inch snowfall is the bone-dry talc that local skiers reverently call "cold smoke", and while there's extreme white-knuckle skiing for sure (an aerial tram to the 11,166-foot summit of the Matterhorn-like Lone Peak offers skiers a 4.350-foot vertical drop, the second steepest in the nation after Snowmass, Colorado), and good 50 percent of the resort's 150-plus trails are perfect for the intermediate.