Lake Atitlan
- Guatemala Retreats
with Charles MacInerney
& Patricia Lewis
Facilitators
Charles MacInerney and Patricia Lewis have been collaborating to offer Yoga & Creative Writing retreats since 1995.
Patricia
Lee Lewis has led writing retreats
at Patchwork Farm in western Massachusetts, in her home state
of Texas, in Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica and the British
Isles. She celebrates our relationship to the earth as sacred,
to writing as a way of finding what is deepest within us,
and to teaching writing as a participatory, supportive endeavor.
She holds an MFA degree in Creative Writing from Vermont College,
and a BA from Smith College, Phi Beta Kappa. A national trainer
of workshop leaders in the Amherst Writers & Artists method,
her book of poems, A Kind of Yellow, won first prize for poetry
in Writer’s Digest’s International Competition
of self-published books. It is available at www.writingretreats.org.
You may reach her at patricia@writingretreats.org.
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Charles
is registered with the Yoga Alliance at the 500 hour level (the highest
registration currently available), and is the co-founder and serves on
the faculty of the Living Yoga Teacher Training Program. He is also the
co-founder of Texas Yoga, and helps organize and presents at the Annual
Texas Yoga Retreat.
Charles is a guest writer for Yoga Journal's "Ask Our Expert" column, and has been intereviewed for articles in Yoga Journal four times, on yoga retreats, creativity, heart disease, and Yoga for overweight students. One of Charles' essays (written on retreat with Patricia) appeared as the lead essay in a National Chess magzine in India. He has numerous essays published in regional publications through out the US, and on the internet.
Charles MacInerney has studied Yoga and Meditation since 1971. He teaches classes on Yoga, Meditation, Posture, Visualization, Breathing, Balance, Creativity, Concentration and biofeedback for a variety of businesses, corporations and institutions. He has worked with over 12,000 students in Austin, where he lives. In 1999 he was asked to present on "Yoga for At-Risk-Youth" for the 2nd Annual S.W. Yoga Conference, and was a panelist, answering questions about hospital based Yoga programs for Cardiac Patients.
The following year Charles presented at the 3rd Annual S.W. Yoga Conference on "Devotion in the Workplace" and was asked to be on the advisory panel to the conference. In 2002 Charles presented two workshops at the International Conference on Yoga for Positive Health.
Charles has led over 50 retreats since 1992, including 15 international retreats. For more information see his biography.
Charles
is also a professional public speaker with the National Speakers Association
and has presented numerous times on Mind Mapping; Stress Management; Meditation;
Visualization; Breath Work, and Self-Awareness Tools for Self Transformation;
at Regional and National Conferences, including the prestigious National
Wellness Conference. For more information about Charles MacInerney's speaking
career, please visit his website at ExpandingParadigms.com
Charles is usually assisted by at least one guest teacher which allows for more personal attention for participants.
