REGISTER SOON – June 28-July 2, 2025 – Summer Yoga Retreat with Kari

REGISTER SOON for the 2025 Summer Yoga Retreat with Kari – UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Kari is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT -500 level) with the Yoga Alliance since 1999 and Director of Kariyoga, Artful Alignment, and Eischens Yoga. 

REGISTER SOON FOR THIS SUMMER’S YOGA RETREAT WITH KARI… JOIN US for a 4  1/2 day summer immersive yoga wilderness retreat located at New Moon Lodge, Bear Lake, Michigan in beautiful Northern Michigan.

If you have participated in this retreat in the past, you know what a beautiful and healing experience this is that helps students heal and recharge their energy system, so each person feels more energized and at ease.

If you have never attended this retreat, I am happy to share with you the profound effects this retreat offers to help you balance your physical, mental, and emotional well-being, so you can feel lighter, calmer, and happier. Feel free to contact me at karitomashik5@gmail.com.

When: June 28- July 2, 2025
Days:  4 – 1/2 days from Saturday – Wednesday
Days/Time:  Morning Yoga Session: 8:30 am – 11:30 am & Afternoon Yoga Session: 3 pm – 6 pm  (EST)

Location: New Moon Lodge, 10040 Alkire Road, Bear Lake, MI. 49614

Airbnb Lodging & Yoga Information:  Home in Bear Lake · ★5.0 · 4 bedrooms · 5 beds · 2.5 baths

Join us for this transformative 4 1/2 day yoga retreat to align, energize, and heal your body-mind-heart-spirit connection.

We practice yoga, pranayama, and meditation in a natural setting to find inner balance and tranquility. Spending time outside and in a natural environment will guide and support you in finding greater harmony, health, and happiness, so you feel a deeper sense of inner calm, emotional stability, and overall well-being.

This retreat is designed to accelerate your self-discovery and growth and provide you with crucial tools to interpret and understand your experience for a more present and purposeful life.

Location: New Moon Lodge, 10040 Alkire Road, Bear Lake, MI. 49614

New Moon Lodge is located on a 40 acre organic farm located next to State Land that is beautiful to forest bathe in. The newly renovated New Moon lodge is a “green/organic” home and is home for this year’s yoga retreat. The beautiful yoga ashram has a multitude of gorgeous south facing windows offering exquisite light within and a beautiful view outside.

The yoga ashram overlooks a beautiful, organic garden, full of gorgeous flowers, herbs, and organic vegetables. We will have a small community garden plot,  so that we can harvest home-grown organic lettuce and kale, some herbs, and flower bouquets.  

Registration: Registration is limited to 18 people. Contact Kari at karitomashik5@gmail.com if you are interested in attending. We encourage you to stay to play. Space is already filing up. Register Soon.

1. Regular Registration by*: May 27, 2025, Cost $ TBD
2. Dharma Registration after*:  May 28, 2025 , Cost $, TBD
   All inclusive price paid in full
3. Day Trippers (local/yoga) Registration: Please contact Kari for 1/2 day and full day prices
4. Partial Registration Available: Please contact Kari for 2-4 day prices

*All inclusive payment paid to Kari Tomashik, P.O. Box 333, Honor, MI  49640. Payment by check encouraged. Contact Kari @ karitomashik5@gmail.com if you plan to attend.

Your Natural 2025 Summer Yoga Retreat Experience Includes:

• Daily Yoga Schedule – Two (2) yoga classes for four (4) days – plus one half day (1/2) of yoga on Wednesday; Unique yoga techniques such as Transformational Work, Artful Alignment, pranayama, and meditation.
• Deep, Nature Connection – Enjoy a deep, nature connection coupled with the crispness of the air to awaken your senses and infuse your yoga practice with a renewed sense of clarity, energy, and an enthusiastic spirit. A bonus – you receive a Vitamin D boost that improves your immune function and increases your positive outlook. 
• Farm-to-Table Gluten-free Meals –  Gluten-free breakfasts, lunches, & dinners are provided daily, and to the best of our abilities we will be offering locally-sourced and organic food options. Each day we share meals together and eat a light breakfast of rice cakes, organic nut butters and jellies, fruits, coffee and teas, and share in daily delicious, organic lunches and dinners. 
  • Head Chef
    Our Head Chef will offer as many as possible exquisite gourmet farm-to-table meals that are delicious and nutritious.
  • Food Allergies?  Please let me know with your registration if you have any mild or serious food allergies or sensitivities, so we can accommodate your needs. This is vitally important. 
• Lodging –  Enjoy natural beauty, breathe in the fresh air, listen to the birds and animals in the background, and gaze up at the stars.
  • Tent Camping and RV Camping
    Tent camping and RV camping is available.
  • Rooms available inside New Moon Lodge:  Lodging inside is Limited! 2 Private Rooms (1 already reserved) and Dorm style(2 Queen Beds for 4 people) indoor lodging is available on the second floor of New Moon Lodge. Contact me to reserve an indoor room. 
  • Camp Counselor
    Our camp counselor will orient you to the logistics of the Summer Yoga Retreat and yoga ashram, as well as help you set up your tent, RV, indoor room, etc. 
• Play – Each day will be filled with fun activities such as swimming in Lake Michigan, beach olympics, hiking in the forest or on the beach, beach fires and sunsets, and beach dancing.
• Rest, Art, and Intentional Solitude – If you want to take it slow and easy there will be quiet areas for art and/or journaling. 

2025 Summer Yoga Retreat – Highlights

• Daily farm-to-table gluten-free meals locally-sourced (as much as possible) and organic. 
• Daily yoga practice to achieve strength, flexibility, and connection between mind, body, heart, and breath. 
• Yoga postures that align, energize, and heal the body, mind, and heart for purposeful and conscious living.
• Learn conscious and controlled breathing techniques (pranayama) to promote relaxation, stress-reduction, and emotional healing.
• Daily meditation practice is scientifically proven to create lasting change by setting intentions in our mind and feeling positive emotions in our heart.
• Daily restorative poses to relieve tension and reduce pain.
• Gong therapy is a vibrational healing technique to soothe and relax the brain and nervous system. 
• Sauna therapy is an ancient healing tool to detoxify and ease pain. Excellent for cardiovascular health, and to look and feel our best.
• Art, journaling, and painting as a creative expression of abundance and gratitude. 
• Water therapy includes swimming in Lake Michigan, beach camp fires, beach olympics, and fun beach games.

Private Yoga Lessons with Kari 

Kari will offer one-on-one healing yoga lessons daily. Sign-up sheets will be available at the retreat. 

2025 Summer Yoga Retreat Daily Overview

•  Friday, June 27, 2025 = Arrival – Feel free to arrive early in the morning or anytime on Friday to set up your tent or RV, settling into your room, set up your yoga props in the yoga ashram (upstairs in the barn), as well as familiarize yourself with the Retreat Center.  
• Saturday – Wednesday (1/2 day), June 28 – July 2, 2025
  • 6:30 am – 8:15 am:  Breakfast: Coffee, Tea, Fruit, Yogurt, Rice Cakes, Butters and Jams. 
  • 8:30 am – 11:30 am:  Pranayama. Yoga. Meditation. Sound Immersion. Restoratives.  
  • 11:30 am – 3 pm:  Lunch. Beach time. Relaxation. Art.
  • 3 pm – 6 pm: Pranayama. Yoga. Meditation. Transformational work. Sound Immersion. Restoratives. 
  • 6:15 pm – 10 pm: Dinner. Beach fire. Beach games. Walk or adventure. Art.  

Prefer Lodging Off-Site?

If camping or staying onsite is not for you and you would like to attend this years summer yoga retreat, you could to stay in a near-by airbnb (I can make some recommendations) or book a room at a local motel. Please contact me if you need my assistance as I know friends who have wonderful airbnb’s.

Here are a few local motel suggestions;

1. Crystal Lake Resort, 498 N. Michigan Ave., Beulah, Michigan, 49617
2. Crystal Suites Resort, 171, N. Center Street, Beulah, Michigan, 49617
3. Crystal Inn, 475 N. Michigan Ave., Beulah, Michigan, 49617
4. Baymont Hotel, 1400 US Hwy 31, Beulah, Michigan, 49617

Healing Injury? For those who have a history of injury or trauma and notice that the effects of the minor/major injuries are beginning to interfere with your everyday lives, please note that all of the yoga classes are naturally healing.

Each yoga class is designed to help release stored pain, anxiety, stress, or tension you may be experiencing so that vital, healing energy – prana – can move freely through the entire body. When vital energy is flowing freely (not obstructed), you experience positive emotions, revitalized energy, mental clarity, lightness, pain relief, and an overall sense of well-being.

ALL ARE WELCOME

Whether you have attended any of my yoga retreats, workshops, or classes in the past or not, you are welcome to attend any or all of these retreat classes.

SKILL LEVEL: All levels are welcome. 

Beginner –  6 months of yoga experience is helpful
Intermediate
Advanced

PROPS

One yoga mat, necessary
One or two yoga blocks, necessary
Two firm bolsters or two firm blankets, if you have
One yoga belt, if you have
Two or three sandbags, if you have
Dharma wheel/medicine ball, if you have one

CANCELLATION POLICY

Your cooperation and understanding of this cancellation policy is greatly appreciated. If you have booked a space for the retreat and are unable to attend for any reason, please let me know as soon as possible, so that space can be offered to someone else. 

• For cancellations 30 days (5/29/2025) or more in advance of the retreat, 100% of the registration cost will be refunded.
• For cancellations up to 16 days (6/12/2025) prior to the retreat, 30% of the registration cost will be refunded.
• Cancellations within 15 days (6/13/2025) of the retreat, registration cost cannot be refunded.
• In the event of the cancellation of the retreat by the organizer, you will receive a full registration cost refund.  

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