Ease & Effort: Finding the balance

With Jacqui Rowley

August 8 - 10, 2025

  • $925.00 – For 1 guest in Private Room, Shared Cottage. Includes meals and classes.
Program is fully booked
Program is fully booked

We welcome Jacqui Rowley of San Francisco to offer a weekend retreat to help you strike the balance between work and relaxation.

For many of us who are moving too fast between work, family, friends, and the digital world, we still find it hard to slow down. If we are to feel balanced, then there’s nothing more urgent than learning how to slow down and simply rest.

Join Jacqui for a weekend of morning vinyasa classes, and evenings of slow flow. The mornings will include an athletic yoga flow class, exploring a peak yoga pose or family of poses. The days are free for hiking, reading, journaling and exploring the majestic grounds of Ratna Ling. Evening classes are slow and restorative with sound healing. This weekend is all about knowing how to move and make efforts, while balancing out with relaxation and non-doing.

If you are looking to chill out, deepen your practice, and connect in community, then this retreat is for you!

SCHEDULE (Subject to change):

Friday:

  • 3pm – Check in
  • 4:30pm – Slow Flow
  • 5:30pm – Dinner
  • 7pm – Opening Circle

Satuday:

  • 6:30 – Visual Meditation
  • 6:45am – Vinyasa Flow
  • 8am – Breakfast
  • 10am – Group hike (optional)
  • 12:15pm – Lunch
  • 2-3:30pm – Backbend Workshop (optional)
  • 5.30pm – Dinner
  • 7.30pm – Restore in Sound

Sunday:

  • 8.00 – Visual Meditation
  • 8.30am – Vinyasa Flow
  • 10am – Brunch
  • 12.00 – Check out

For directions to Ratna Ling – Ratna Ling Retreat Center 35755 Hauser Bridge Rd Cazadero, CA 95421

Accommodations are beautiful lux cabins


ADDITIONAL DETAILS

  • Transportation to/from Ratna Ling is NOT included – carpooling encouraged
  • Payments are nonrefundable and transferable to a future Ratna Ling stay or retreat
  • Each cottage includes TWO private rooms with queen beds, large dining & living area, gas fireplace,
  • spacious deck, jacuzzi tub, linens/towels/hand soap, kitchenette with tea & coffee, complimentary wireless internet. Towels and hand soap are provided.
  • vegetarian meals are served during our weekend together.

What people are saying about our retreats:

 “Ratna Ling is beautiful, the accommodations are wonderful, very comfortable.  I love the land and the animals and the trees – and the quiet.” “I am grateful that I got to lead a retreat at a place that is so special to me. We had such an amazing group of people.  Thank you for all your support.” “I love it here and hope to continue coming for many years.  The setting and sacredness of this space are the perfect place to retreat.”
“A very beautiful and relaxing place.  The cottage was really cozy.  The food was wonderful.  The staff was so nice.”
 “I loved having time to myself to reflect on my life and where I am going. Thank you Ratna Ling.” “Being able to move at my own pace is a luxury. And of course the food was delicious.”

 

About the Facilitator

Jacqui Rowley

Jacqui teaches an alignment-focused class, exploring the actions of each pose and building toward a theme for her classes. Born and raised in South Africa, her background is in ballet and modern dance. Her teaching is informed by the knowledge acquired through a lifetime of playing with the physical form. Jacqui's first yoga class was […]

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