YOGA & MEDITATION | ENERGY HEALING | WELLNESS

OCT 27TH - NOV 3RD, 2018. 7 NIGHTS, 8 DAYS. Starting at $1500

Join Cynthia Lorena & Gopi Kinnicutt for a fun adventure on a surfing and yoga retreat in northern Nicaragua. It's the perfect vacation, carved out to nourish your body, mind and soul. Life is like surfing: we ride waves throughout the year, sometimes we fall and get pulled under by the current and other times we are lifted up by the fluid power beneath us. Surfing is like yoga: connected to the elements, powerful, freeing, meditative and above all fun. Immerse yourself in a week of sun and surf, good food, uplifting like-minded company, dynamic and restorative yoga, sacred chants and meditation, and other activities like volcano boarding, hiking and shopping. MORE INFO & SIGN UP HERE.

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Here’s a pic of me before I joined the 30’s club last Friday. Thank you so much for all the love over the weekend. Still recovering from an amazing weekend and it’s Tuesday night. Girl def can’t hang like she used to... peace out 20’s, it’s been real ✌🏼 Nothin’ like a good ol’ black and white photo of yourself doing chaturanga by the water for the gram... I resisted posting a quote, so you’re welcome for not being cliche. Can’t make promises for future posts though. In unrelated news, I’m excited for NYC tomorrow to see all my people and to celebrate my 30th with them! 🎈 📸 @emily.belson . . #yogainspiration #dcyoga #georgetown #yogaeverydamnday #yogapants #yoga #yogainstructor #vinyasa #poweryoga #fitspo I have been practicing yoga for over 10 years now and teaching for about 7 years. I found it in college, and wasn’t very impressed with it at first. For some reason, I kept going back and eventually got hooked. My practice has evolved and changed, and continues to do so. It has had its moments of feeling stagnant and boring, and moments that felt exciting with major break throughs. It’s constantly evolving, just as I am. Lately, my personal practice is focused a lot more on going inward and back to the basics in not only asana (postures) but philosophy. There’s something to be said about conquering poses, but where the real work lies is applying the philosophy to my daily life. Personally, that’s always been the hardest part. Some days it’s easier to be all “namaste” than others, but trying to stay grounded when you face hard news or learning to forgive the past is where I’m really honing in on my practice. I’ve never claimed to be enlightened nor do I pretend to be this perfectly grounded individual. If you’ve taken my classes you know that, because you’ve seen how I am and that I don’t take it all too seriously. I am still figuring all of this out- both body and mind- and it’s been 10 years. Still so much to learn and grateful for all that I have learned. Looking forward to many more decades of yoga 🙏🏻 📸 @emily.belson . . . . #thisis30 #yogadaily #yogainspiration #yogainstructor #yogaeverydamnday #yogapants #vinyasa #yoga #dcyoga #dcfit #fitspo Everything you see here from mine and @nikkipowersyoga store, @nourishandrefine is HANDMADE by ME! I not only make the product, I also design the packaging, cut the labels and place them, PLUS I give each batch reiki (energy work)! Each crystal is handpicked by me, and I carefully curate/design every crystal set we offer. You can now shop in person at @steadfastsupplydc in Navy Yard! Follow @nourishandrefine to see everything we are offering! 🌟 📸 @emcalary . . . #steadfastsupplydc #dc #dcstyle #acreativedc #forwomenbywomen #vegan #nontoxic #consciousliving #thatsdarling #crystals #crystalhealing #selfcare #candles I’m turning 30 in a few days😱 so here’s a pic of me pretending to walk down the street... But seriously, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I’m ready to let go of and leave behind as I approach a new decade, as well as what lessons I’m taking with me. Here’s to moving forward and to learning more valuable lessons. Thank God for meditation and yoga that got me through some of those tough lessons. There will be more long posts following this one about my insights on growing up. You’ve been warned! 📸 @emily.belson HAPPY FRIDAY! 🤸🏽‍♂️✨ . Left DC this morning and I’m currently traveling through Chattanooga to officiate and celebrate two of my dear friends’ wedding!! Came across a transcript from a wedding that Radhanath Swami spoke at and loved this quote: “...What is important is the sacred principle of why we are together, as partaners in life to help each other to become pure, to help each other to practice Yoga; yoga of life. The higher principle is to help each other to love God, to help each other to be instruments of God‘s love for the world. If that’s why we are married- and to love and protect each other- for that purpose- than nothing else is important.” . Hope you’re all enjoying the weather ☀️ 📸 @emily.belson Good morning from the rooftops of DC! Beautiful days like this remind me that the unpleasantly cold days and all the storms it took to get such a beautiful day are so worth it. ☀️🙏🏻 . Just taught a lovely morning corporate class on the roof! If you want to bring yoga to your office this spring/summer, message me! Enjoy this beautiful day!!!! . . #dcyoga #dc #dcrooftop #thedistrict #igdc #yogateacher #yogaeverydamnday #yogaeverywhere #vinyasayoga #poweryoga #grateful #mindfulness “Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured." -BKS Iyengar . Check out my stories for my schedule this week.m. Message me to be a guest at any class. 🙏🏻 📸 @emily.belson