with Marti Yura E-RYT500, YACEP and Marnie Memmolo E-RYT500, YACEP, Cert. Ayurveda Health Coach
Next Offering January 16-18, 2026
“The contemplative life must provide an area, a space of liberty, of silence, in which possibilities are allowed to surface and new choices, beyond routine choices, become manifest. It should create a new experience of time, not as stopgap stillness, but as “temps vierge,” not a blank to be filled or an untouched space to be conquered and violated, but a space which can enjoy its own potentialities and hopes, and its own presence to itself. But not dominated by one’s own ego and its demands. Hence open to others – compassionate time…”
Thomas Merton, The Other Side of the Mountain
Daily life challenges us to find space and time for personal practice. Dive deep into your own personal relationship with yoga for an opportunity to notice where yoga is in your life and where it is not.
Through discussion, reflection, embodied lifestyle practices and meditation, this weekend offers teachers and yoga practitioners guidance,
space and empowerment tools to truly discover the importance of a regular personal practice from which to embody a yogic life.
Advance your own practice as you recommit to it time and time again. Required for Vista’s 300 hour continuing program – 20 CEU’s
In this weekend students will:
- Be immersed in the practice of yoga: Asana (postures), Pranayama (Breath Awareness), Chanting, Meditation, and Dharma (Wisdom Study).
- Learn techniques that address the emotional, mental, and physical to establish an authentic self-practice that will serve each unique individual
- Learn Ayurvedic principles to understand their personal constitution and through this lens how to adapt a practice to their individual needs.
- Learn how to adapt the practice to support a changing life and world, including
- questions of aging, cycles, injury, fatigue, seasons, time of day, etc.
- questions of aging, cycles, injury, fatigue, seasons, time of day, etc.
- Learn how to modify postures with the use of various props to make it accessible and to keep the practice fresh.
- Learn the importance of both active and restorative practice and when they’re applicable.
- Map the myo-fascial system through somatic movement and specific rolling techniques and practice ways to integrate these modalities into a personal practice.
- Discover through the text of the Yoga Sutras the barriers to practice and learn practical techniques to work with those barriers.
- Establish a steady meditation practice with emphasis on the practice of self-study, Svādhyāya.
- Learn to utilize a personal practice for teaching purposes (for teachers.)
Schedule:
Friday, January 16, 2:30pm-8:30pm
Saturday, January 17, 9:30am-6:00pm (Includes an Ayurvedic lunch)
Sunday, January 18, 9:30am-6:00pm
Investment – $425
Early Bird (before January 1st) – $375
Marti Yura
Marti’s journey has come full circle, from her first fitness studio in Charleston, SC in 1982, to the “birth” of Vista Yoga in Atlanta. Since 1979 her passion for physical and spiritual well-being has led her from teaching various forms of fitness, including personal training, to her discovery of Yoga in 1998.
Both dynamic and therapeutic, Marti’s classes are infused with a thorough understanding of the body, ancient wisdom, her nurturing spirit and a touch of humor.
She is a 500-hour ERYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher) with Yoga Alliance. After studying with a wide variety of Yoga teachers, she has been studying extensively with Tias and Surya Little, of Prajna Yoga in Santa Fe, New Mexico, since 2008, achieving her 500-hour certification with them.
She is also trained in Thai Yoga Massage therapy.