Texas Yoga Retreat

10/09/2026

Reminder⚡️Registration closes tomorrow, October 10th! ⏰

Last but not least, meet our final featured presenter: Jerome Shaw

Jerome is a lifelong student, Qi Gong teacher, Pranic living practitioner, and author dedicated to exploring and sharing the depths of holistic wellness and spiritual growth. He writes on Breatharianism and Pranic living, drawing on his own study of breath and life force energy to explore the body’s energy systems and their potential.

Jerome teaches as part of the weekly Qi Gong rotation at Shuniya Yoga Collective in Austin, where classes focus on clearing the mind, regulating emotion, and activating the body’s energy channels through breath-synced movement.

At TYR he’s offering:
🌀 Sun 9:30-10:45am: Qi Gong Energy Cultivation

Awaken your vitality, calm your mind, and reconnect with your natural flow of energy through the ancient practice of Qi Gong. Often translated as “energy practice,” Qi Gong combines flowing movements, conscious breathing, meditation, and focused awareness to release tension, improve energy flow, and cultivate balance. This practice is especially effective for nervous system regulation and stress reduction, leaving you centered, refreshed, and more deeply connected to your innate capacity for healing and vitality. A welcoming, rejuvenating class for all levels.

October 16-18 at Radha Madhav Dham. Register today at texasyoga.com.

10/04/2026

The Texas Yoga Retreat is just 2 weeks away! 🍂✨🧘‍♀️🦚

Day passes are now available if a full weekend doesn’t fit your schedule.

🗓️ Friday only: $160
🗓️ Saturday only: $370
🗓️ Sunday only: $245

October 16-18 at Radha Madhav Dham. Register today at texasyoga.com.

09/28/2026

Presenter spotlight! ✨

Meet John Sanchez 🙌

John is a personal trainer and certified Bikram Yoga and Inferno Hot Pilates instructor based in Austin, Texas. A transformative experience in his first Bikram class in 2013 led him to become a full-time teacher the following year, driven by a desire to share the healing potential he experienced firsthand.

In 2025, he founded Fitness In Reach, built on the belief that simple, effective methods are the foundation of lasting wellness. John relocated to Texas from New York, where he taught and practiced for many years, and now teaches live at PURE Yoga in Austin, where he describes teaching from a place of compassion, passion, and faith in the sequence and his students.

At TYR he’s offering:
🔥 Sun 11:15am-12:30pm — Inferno Hot Pilates

Inferno Hot Pilates is high-intensity interval training built on Pilates principles. The first part of class focuses on the glutes and core, the second is a heart-rate roller coaster designed to make you feel the burn and get results fast. We finish with a guided, empowering meditation. All you have to do is breathe. Everything else is optional.

Intensity: 8, for experienced yoga or pilates practitioners.

09/22/2026

https://roomtoevolve.substack.com/p/could-a-labyrinth-be-yoga-therapy One of our presenters, Jessica Goulding, has shared an article she wrote about labyrinths.

Exploring the five koshas through the practice of labyrinth walking

09/19/2026

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” ~Anaïs Nin

In 4 weeks, we’ll be back under the vast sky at Radha Madhav Dham for a weekend of yoga, breath, and community.

There’s still room if you’ve been waiting to say yes!

October 16-18. Reserve your spot today at texasyoga.com.

09/16/2026

Sponsor spotlight! 🙌

We’re happy to welcome Warrior Spirit Project as a sponsor of the 2026 Texas Yoga Retreat.

David and Charla Truesdale, founders of Warrior Spirit Project, welcome you to this year’s retreat and invite you to stop by the WSP table to meet them while you’re there.

Both are graduates of the Living Yoga Program, long-time attendees of Texas Yoga Retreat, and devoted volunteer yoga teachers. Through their nonprofit, running for 11 years now, they offer trauma-informed adaptive yoga and meditation at no cost to active-duty military, veterans, first responders, and their families.

Their 200-hour Warrior Yoga Teacher Training gives participants a chance to grow in their own wellbeing while learning to share these trauma-informed practices with others in a uniquely accessible way.

David and Charla lead from the WSP yoga space in Mount Vernon, Texas, where they keep an Honor Mat as a constant reminder of the warriors who can’t be present in the space, but who are always present in their hearts.

We look forward to welcoming Warrior Spirit Project to this year’s retreat!

Warrior Spirit Project

09/13/2026

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller

In 5️⃣ weeks, we’ll be back at Radha Madhav Dham for a weekend of yoga, breath, and community.

Texas Yoga Retreat has always been about more than the poses.

It’s the fresh air as you step outside 💨 Let nature become part of your practice: the great oaks, open sky, and slower pace.

It’s the food on your plate. 🍽️ Thoughtfully prepared vegetarian meals, shared with love.

It’s the faces around you. 💛 New friendships made, hearts opened, not by any one class or moment, but by the simple act of showing up alongside likeminded people.

October 16-18 at Radha Madhav Dham. 📍 Come join us. 🙏

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09/10/2026

Presenter spotlight! ✨

Meet our next featured presenter: Michelle Fajkus 🌾

Michelle is a Texas-born, Guatemala-based yoga teacher, retreat leader, writer, and sacred Mayan calendar guide. She’s been practicing yoga since 1993, teaching since 2002, and leading retreats since 2010. In 2012 she made her home on the shores of Lake Atitlán, where she began a deep study of Mayan cosmovision that has shaped her teaching ever since. She’s a trained interpreter of Mayan fire ceremonies and also offers personal Mayan day sign readings.

At TYR she’s offering two sessions:
🔥 Fri 4:00-5:45pm — Weaving Yoga Asana, Pranayama, and the Sacred Mayan Calendar, an active practice introducing the 20 energies of the Mayan calendar
🧭 Sat 4:15-6:00pm — Leading a Yoga Retreat: What It Takes, a discussion for teachers considering or already leading retreats

Come explore the sacred calendar through movement, and stick around for individual Mayan day sign readings throughout the weekend.

09/07/2026

Presenter spotlight time! ✨

Meet this week’s featured presenter: Terry Cortés-Vega 🙏

Terry began her training in mindfulness in 1998 with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, and in 2012 was ordained as a Dharma Teacher in his Order of Interbeing. She’s a resident Dharma Teacher at Plum Blossom Sangha in Austin, and for more than 30 years has led a weekly meditation and mindfulness class in jails and prisons. Since the 1990s she’s also organized a group that gathers to meditate outside City Hall during every ex*****on on Texas’s Death Row, bringing mindfulness into some of the hardest corners of public life.

At TYR she’s offering three sessions:
🌱 Fri 4:00-5:45pm — Beginning Meditation: Come Home to the Present Moment, no experience needed
🕊️ Sat 11:15am-12:30pm — Where Does Meditation Lead Us?
🌊 Sun 9:30-10:45am — The Freedom to Be: Meditation and the Spiritual Journey

Terry brings decades of practice and a rare depth of presence. Don’t miss this one.