YOGA AWARENESS WELLNESS RETREATS

Yoga Awareness wellness retreat on MauiYoga Awareness WELLNESS retreats are for students coming to Maui and wish to deepen their Ayurveda and Yoga experience. Yoga and Ayurveda are powerful tools of transformation when used together. Yoga Awareness offers you a variety of retreat programs so  that you can plan your own health and healing retreat on Maui . . . read more Wellness retreats.

Yoga works at a therapeutic level of releasing tension, aligning your spine and moving prana (energy) throughout your entire body . . . read more Yoga retreats.

Ayurveda is for health conscious people to achieve total health and positive transformation. This is a holistic program tailor-made to increase every individual's quality of life . . . read more Ayurveda programs.

A Yoga practice is an excellent combination with Ayurvedic treatments, like brother and sister these healing modalities are inseparable. As therapists we witness the benefits ten times more for our students when applying both of these ancient Vedic healing modalities together. It's like working with two hands rather than just one. Yoga and Ayurveda are our two proven methods for health and healing.

YOKO'S SECRET POWER SPOT

Yoko Nagashima returns to Maui, looking out over Kanaha BeachHere I am. I came back to Maui !

Over the last 2 years in Tokyo I had to focus on creating another potential career which was a major transformation for me. It was exciting but hard. The pressure and frustration put me under a lot of stress. Even though I practiced Yoga regularly my stress became overwhelming. I totally lost balance and I realized that I would have to take action and take care of myself.

Last Sunday I landed at my second home town "Maui" for a 7 day vacation . . . read more of Yoko's power spot.

WHAT DOES 'WELLNESS' MEAN TO ME ?

Laura Taliaferro & Yoko Nagashima at Yoga Awareness in Makawao, MauiWhen someone asks me "how are you" I have always replied "well".

This was my reply whether I was having a good day or bad, I was always 'well'. Before coming to Yoga Awareness, this was the extent of using the root word of 'wellness'.

It now has a whole new meaning to me. WELLNESS has become a life style for my family and me . . . read more of what Wellness means.

KAZUMA SURF FACTORY ~ HAIKU, MAUI

Kazuma surfboard factory in Haiku, MauiThanks Matt Kazuma Kinoshita, I love my new board !

A few days before colliding with a turtle surfing at Ho'okipa Beach, Maui I was at the Kazuma Surf Factory discussing with Matt about how best to customize an existing board shape that they rave about, to fit 'me'.

It's a 7 foot 4 inch mini tanker with a rounded nose, width 21 inches and 2.897 inch thickness, three skegs (fins). with a high performance short board feel and extra body for easy paddling and floatation. Plus Matt arranged for a blue watery tie dye acid effect on the topside of the 'blank' before fiberglassing the board. And ... I got a blue Dakine leash to match.

I appreciate your great advice Matt, you're a true shaper and some say a really cool pro surfer. I took my board out in small surf last Sunday at Ho'okipa where the turtles hang out. The board paddles and maneuvers easily, and it's really quick on turning with the rail holding the wave. I look forward to some bigger swells hitting our shores and feeling how it really performs . . . read more about Kazuma Surf Factory.

ps. Matt said that they get boards coming into their surf factory every week to repair because of the turtles at Ho'okipa, and have been waiting for someone to have a serious injury with a turtle encounter.
Ted Surman