La Vie Yoga, LLC

First Retreat Summer 2024

CARBONDALE, COLORADO

Join us as we launch our inaugural retreat at True Nature Healing Arts in Carbondale, Colorado and treat yourself to a weekend of relaxation and rejuvenation!

Friday, July 19 to Sunday, July 21

Limited Spots Available

What’s included:

  • 2-night, 3-day stay at the Hoffmann Hotel, a brand-new Tapestry Collection luxury boutique hotel on the water.

  • 5 Kaiut yoga classes with Maryline. The Kaiut method helps the body reconnect with nature, promoting healing and well-being and is appropriate for all levels.

  • Your choice of a 1-hour full body massage with Jena or a Reiki session with Chelsie or Tekla (selection to be made during registration). Note there are limited spots available for each activity. If your activity of choice is already booked at the time you register, you will automatically be signed up for the alternative.

  • Daily journaling with Jen.

  • Daily hikes with Jen and Maryline.

  • Fire Ceremony with Chelsie

  • All meals including Saturday lunch in the outdoor biodynamic garden. Vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options available.

  • Healthy snacks, tea and water provided throughout the day.

  • Explore the Peace Garden including the Zen Garden, Labyrinth, Wishing Tree and Yoga Circle.

  • Walk barefoot on the Reflexology Path - a therapeutic mosaic of stones designed to massage and stimulate reflexology points in your feet.

  • All yoga props and mats are provided.

  • 10% off any spa treatment at True Nature Healing Arts including facials, reflexology, ritual baths, hot oil scalp massages, craniosacral therapy, myofascial release, body scrubs and wraps.

  • 10% off purchases at True Nature gift boutique.

  • Welcome gift bag kindly provided by Lululemon.

Pricing:

$1,800 per person for a Friday and Saturday night stay including accommodations in private King size room, all programming and meals. Limited spots available.

$999 per person for all programming and meals, accommodations not included.  Limited spots available.

FAQs

What airport do I fly into? The closest airport is Aspen (approx. 25 miles). The largest nearby commercial airport is Denver International Airport (approx. 190 miles).

When should I arrive? Plan on arriving early on Friday so you can enjoy a morning hike and yoga with the group before checking in to the hotel.  

What is the cuisine like? Healthy meals will be provided including vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options. Be sure to alert us of any food allergies and/or preferences in advance.

What are the accommodations like? Accommodations will be at The Hoffmann Hotel, a brand-new boutique hotel that is part of the luxurious Tapestry Collection by Hilton. Each guest will have his or her own private King room. The hotel is located approximately 8 miles from True Nature Healing Arts in Basalt, Colorado on the water amongst a mountainous backdrop of the Roaring Fork Valley.

Meet Our Team

Retreat Team

Joining us for our 2024 Summer Retreat

MARYLINE - Maryline is a Co-Founder of La Vie Yoga, LLC. At the Retreat, Maryline will teach yoga classes using the Kaiut method which she has extensively trained for and taught over several years. Both she and Jen will also take you on daily guided hikes during the Retreat.

JEN - Jen is a Co-Founder of La Vie Yoga, LLC. She brings her expertise in travel planning and itineraries to the Retreat. Jen will take you on daily hikes and guide you each morning through private journaling allowing you to start each day in a positive, meaningful way.

TEKLA - Tekla is an Intuitive Reiki teacher with 14 years of training in the healing arts. She studied East Asian medicine at the Tai Sophia Institute and learned the importance of being connected to Mother Earth through the teachings of Po Ha Ma Hepi, a Shoshone Medicine Woman. During the retreat, Tekla will use the beauty and simplicity of the Japanese art of Reiki to help you release negative energy, relax, reconnect and heal.

JENA - Jena is a Licensed Massage Therapist with over 1,300 hours of Therapeutic Massage Education from Full Circle School of Alternative Therapies and Denver School of Massage. She has extensive training in Ancient Energy Healing Modalities and knows how to apply them to both heal and relax. Jena has a profound ability to tap into the human body’s natural ability to health itself as she works with the interconnected tissues in an intuitive form of healing that affects you both physically and emotionally by removing blockages and obstacles that have been stunting your spiritual growth.

CHELSIE - Chelsie is a Reiki instructor, counselor and ceremony facilitator who will take you on a transformative journey during a fire ceremony where participants will be welcomed to a place of purpose, peace and divine grace through the lighting of candles, burning of sage and a ceremonial release of negative energy. Chelsie is passionate about using fire as a powerful tool to clear your mind and be present in life, performing ceremonies in an authentic, meaningful way.

Maryline’s Story

Co-Founder

Maryline is an artist, author, athlete, and yoga teacher. She was born in West Africa on the Ivory Coast to an African mother and French father. She left her birth country when she was one year old and spent the first 25 years of her life near Paris with her adoptive family. Maryline moved to the U.S. in 1993 after meeting and marrying her American husband.

Maryline has been a yoga student for two decades. She became a yoga teacher in 2005 and taught Hatha yoga for 15 years. In 2018, she discovered the Kaiut yoga practice. She connected right away with Francisco Kaiut’s method and embarked on his teacher trainings, first in Telluride, Colorado, and soon after in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 2019, she began to teach Kaiut yoga in Colorado. Since COVID-19, she opened her own virtual yoga studio — La Vie Yoga — where she teaches group and private classes. Maryline accumulated 600 hours (KYM) and continues her never-ending yogi education taking various virtual teacher courses with Francisco Kaiut.

Jen’s Story

Co-Founder

Jen Is a Southern California native freelance writer and travel blogger who recently moved halfway across the country in search of new adventures and experiences. She loves getting out in nature, unplugging from the world, exploring unique destinations and meeting new people.

Her entire life, she’s been surrounded by photographers, artists and writers starting with her paternal grandfather who was an adventurer in every sense of the word, a painter, photographer, writer and storyteller extraordinaire. Creativity flows from there to her mother and her generation, her siblings, cousins, and son.

What’s unique about Jen is her ability to tell a story coupled with photography of the places she visits.

Jen and Maryline first met while editing Maryline’s memoir and the two became fast friends. Following two neck surgeries, Maryline introduced Jen to Kaiut yoga as a way to help her with chronic pain and so, their partnership began.

La Vie Yoga

What Type of Yoga Will Be Taught at La Vie Yoga’s Summer 2024 Retreat?

La Vie Yoga’s Summer Retreat will be held in July in Colorado at which Maryline will conduct classes using the Kaiut method of yoga. This method is simple and can be practiced by anyone regardless of fitness level. Students will embark on a journey of personal discovery where they can realign themselves with the ways of Nature. This type of yoga is practiced on the floor and uses gravity as its main tool. 

This practice is non-aggressive and focuses on body awareness and the ability to be present, favoring the state of feeling instead of thinking. 

The ultimate goal is to combine a new biomechanical approach within the human body and create a new stimulus within the mind with optimum potency.