Rolling Meadows

Rolling Meadows, a yoga retreat center on 100 acres of fields, woods, streams and a spring-fed pond in the hills of coastal Maine, provides a rural sanctuary away from the demands and stimulation of one's daily life.  Yoga retreats for up to 10 participants are offered throughout the year offering classically-based, creatively-explored approaches to hatha yoga, body-based sensing meditation, authentic self-inquiry, nature and deep silence, creating an environment for deepening one's practice, personal renewal and spiritual reflection. 

The Yoga Retreats  for up to 10 participants are a result of the years of personal and facilitated retreats we have taken and led since 1980.  We have found that the format of yoga poses, sitting meditation, silence and unstructured time in the natural world creates an environment conducive to dropping the details of daily life and revealing the simple peace of our unencumbered being.

Yoga practice promotes physical, mental and spiritual health.  Emphasis is placed on developing strength, endurance, balance and alignment thru awareness of the body's sensations and the breath.   The classes are appropriate for the novice and experienced practitioner.

Restorative Poses and Pranayama offer deep rest and the cultivation of a refined attunement to stillness and quietude.

Self-Inquiry is an opportunity to awaken to the truth of who we are.   The embodied recognition and experience of long-held patterns of conditioned behavior lifts the veil that keeps us from peace of our true nature.

Meditation periods are approximately 30 minutes and draw on the Vipassana and non-dual traditions. Guidance will be offered in breath awareness and in open attention with the focus to relax and simply be with what is, as it is, without manipulation, so that we may come to rest in the natural state of awareness.

Unstructured Time   allows for walking the woodland paths, napping, taking a wood-fired sauna, a swim in the spring-fed, crystal clear secluded pond, or for doing nothing.

Silence is restful, being the mirror of our natural state.  Silent community creates a supportive environment in which to deepen understanding, awareness, openness and compassion.  Guidance and instruction are given in the meditation/yoga hall during the scheduled sessions.  There is ample opportunity for questions and discussions both in the sessions and in private interviews with the teachers.  The morning after arrival participants are asked to refrain from social conversation with one another during meals and free-time.  We call this "social silence."  This social silence ends after the morning session of the last day.

Wholesome Meals are prepared fresh three times daily.  Much of the food comes from the extensive organic vegetable gardens on the property. Patricia and Surya have a passionate interest in understanding the relationship between a wholesome diet and vitality and the meals served on retreat reflect this commitment.  The menu is vegetarian and includes dairy, and eggs. Special dietary needs can be accommodated with advance notice.