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Liz Getman

Retreats • Yoga • Meditation • Cacaoga® • Beyond Asana

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Retreats

Liz’s retreats are a balance of stillness and reflection, adventure and exploration, spiritual practice and fun. Enjoy a week of yoga and meditation designed to restore and recharge your body, mind, and spirit.

Podcast

Beyond Asana is a podcast for yogis and non-yogis alike looking to live a happier, more fulfilling life. At once funny and serious, the show invites us to consider how we can use yoga as a tool for transformative change.

Meditation

Expand your awareness. Sleep better. Realize your potential. Join Liz for a guided meditation from the comfort of your home or anywhere in the world.

Cacaoga®

A practice designed for individuals of all yoga and spiritual backgrounds, Cacaoga® unifies sacred cacao with gentle, heart-centered yoga and meditation. Take a class or a Cacaoga® guide training.

 

“Liz is an amazing soul and exactly the person you need to guide you through your practice. 5/5 would recommend her classes and retreats.”

- Kristen, Canada

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Upcoming Events
 

 
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Rising Recovery: Rumbling with Body Shame and Weight Stigma
Feb 23
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Rising Recovery: Rumbling with Body Shame and Weight Stigma
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Join Keri Johnson, PhD, LMHC, CDWF, E-RYT and Liz Getman, MA, E-RYT on Saturday, Feb. 23 from 2-5 p.m. for a wholehearted, trauma-informed, and mindfulness-based group approach to eating disorder recovery. Rooted in Dr. Brené Brown’s research on authenticity, vulnerability, courage, and shame resilience, our session will be broken down into three parts: education, group discussion, and tools to aid our continued healing.

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Yoga Retreat in Punta Allen, Mexico
Mar 2
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Yoga Retreat in Punta Allen, Mexico
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Do you love yoga, beautiful beaches, delicious fresh food, and adventure? Join Liz and Kate Keskinen in Mexico from March 2-8, 2019 at Sol Caribe, a gorgeous resort in the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve (south of Tulum). Explore the nearby Mayan ruins, swim in local cenotes (natural limestone sinks/caves), hike in the jungle, spend plenty of time relaxing, and practice lots of yoga. Kate and Liz are passionate about both restorative and physically powerful yoga practices, and we want to bring you a balance of both on this trip.

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Yoga Retreat in Runaway Beach, Jamaica
Apr 11
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Yoga Retreat in Runaway Beach, Jamaica
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Spend a long weekend in a private villa on Runaway Beach, Jamaica, practicing yoga, relaxing on the beach, and taking time to reconnect to your true self. Join Liz from April 11-15, 2019, for a heart-opening retreat with meals prepared by a private chef, twice daily yoga and meditation, private pool and jacuzzi, dance and Zumba, and much, much more.

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Happy #WanderWednesday! (Is that a thing? I’m saying yes, it’s now a thing.) . People often ask me why I spend so much time planning retreats. I get to travel, yes. What a gift! What an absolute dream. . ✨But it’s more than that.✨ . You know that feeling when you leave a yoga class, meditation session, or any other experience that has left you feeling light and fulfilled? As if you can do and face anything? Retreats invite you to enjoy that all day long, all week long, in a place that invites rest and introspection, with some adventure sprinkled in. . Making that available to people from across the world, across socioeconomic backgrounds, across spiritual practices is ✨the real dream for me.✨ I take a lot of time to plan to make my retreats as affordable as possible so the post-yoga feeling can be available to all. I’ll help you budget. I’ll help you shift your thought patterns. I’ll help you raise or save money. If you feel called, I’ll help you make it happen. . Pictured here is the sacred city of Cusco, Peru 🇵🇪 where I’ll be journeying to again this November. I don’t have any photos of myself in Italy 🇮🇹 yet, but plan to snap a bunch this August. These two trips still have room if a retreat is something you’ve dreamed about. . Questions? Thoughts? Ideas about how to make this a more peaceful, just world for all? Message me.
In some of my classes I’ve jokingly referred to any open-hearted lunge as the yogic form of the Care Bear Stare. 💫 If that phrase isn’t jogging your memory, the Care Bear Stare was the point on the Care Bears TV show when they all joined together to radiate light from their bellies and hearts. The goal: to form a ray of love and joy that would bring compassion 💗 into the heart of someone responding with violence and aggression in the world. And their collective power worked. . If only it were so easy... . But maybe it is—to a certain extent. Maybe responding with kindness to the unkind simply takes time, understanding, and patience. Like asana and meditation, this too is a practice. The invitation is to keep showing up again and again and again. . P.S. My other favorite phrase for this is Badass Love Beam. ⚡️🌈👊
Who else but you to walk with me along this beautifully confusing and sometimes scary journey? You’re my King today and every day. Without asking for anything in return, you always encourage me to follow and listen to my heart. When I don’t think I can do something, you remind me that I can and will, doing whatever is in your power to make it happen. Thank you for challenging me to be my best self and the best partner for you. I hope one day to support you just as selflessly as you show up in the world. (And thank you for doing our taxes.) I love you.
“Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.” - Dan Brown . Thank you, Florida, for helping me see and feel that light even in wintertime. Flipping myself flipping out. #PerspectiveShift #FlipOrFlop
Every six weeks or so I enjoy a kitchari reset. I’m not one to use the word cleanse (Helloooooo, trigger! My body is clean and beautiful already, thank you very much.), so I prefer reset. We press the reset button with other parts of our practice—movement, stillness, breath—every moment of every day, so why not press it for our digestive system? . Why kitchari? Kitchari is a staple of Ayurveda, the sister science of yoga, and thought as one of the most healing combinations of nutrients that are easy on our digestive system. Kitchari is traditionally a combo of yellow lentils or split peas, rice, digestive spices, and, sometimes, easily digestible vegetables. When I need a little extra flavor, I often add a squeeze or two of lime. Because I don’t use ghee, when I need an extra dose of good fat, I add a few slices of avocado. . Before inhaling this delicious dish, give thanks for its journey to your mouth and belly. Bless it. Remember that your food is divine, and so is your body.
New mantra/mission: LOVE ALL, SERVE ALL, BUT TAKE NO BS . I used to think loving and serving all meant being a quiet, observant peacemaker 24/7. But doing that meant I was sacrificing my own wellbeing and highest good for the sake of others. And, in all likelihood, because I wasn’t serving myself, I likely wasn’t serving those people either. . Thanks to my friend @elisa.omalley for helping me accept and love this about myself. Say yes to love, but no to BS. I know now that we can do both. . Happy Friday! Love y’all!
Isn’t it more fun to ✨glow✨ together? Stay lit, y’all. #GoToGlow . . . Image from @stephthorneblog
Happy Year of the Pig! 🐷 Did you know pigs are super lovable (like dogs!) and considered the fifth-most intelligent animal in the world (more so than dogs!). They are also emotionally sensitive beings and have excellent object-location memory. Hang out with a pig for just a few minutes, and you’ll see what I mean. I’m not usually one to push veganism or vegetarianism, even though I’ve been one of the two for almost 13 years. I believe information-sharing is important, but our actions and the way we live in the world are even more important. So here’s me, hugging and taking a selfie with this incredible creature in the hopes that it inspires someone out there to consider what we put in our bodies and how we can take better care of all living beings. 💗
Say it with me now: I LOVE MY MEAT SUIT BECAUSE ______________... . ...it takes me to beautiful places like the Florida Keys. . ...it can dance, jump, bend, twist, run, stretch, and silly walk to my heart’s content. . ...it’s the vehicle for my soul that ventures beyond time and space and any body-hating, booty-shaming thoughts I ever have. . How about you? . #YouAreLoved #EDRecovery #SelfLove #BodyLove #BodyPositivity
“True belonging is the spiritual practice of believing in and belonging to yourself so deeply that you can share your most authentic self with the world and find sacredness in both being a part of something and standing alone in the wilderness. True belonging doesn’t require you to change who you are; it requires you to be who you are.” - @brenebrown, Braving the Wilderness . Who am I? Who are you? This practice of self-inquiry is a sacred gift imparted from my teachers at @mahadevi.ashram and the great Sri Ramana Maharshi. Here in the beauty of this place, in the middle of the wild, I remember to sit, be still, and remember: “The truth about who we are lives in our hearts.“ - @brenebrown . Who am I? Who are you?
“i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)” - e.e. cummings #Anahatasana #MeltingHeartPose #HeartOpener #OpenHeart #OneLove #OneLivingFamily
Instagram 🥰 v. reality 🥴 #ThisIsUs . . . 📸: @katekeskinen