Puerto Vallarta Retreat Intensives
with Ty Chandler & Sharoni Fixler

"Long, uninterrupted, alert practice is the firm foundation for restraining the fluctuations." - yogasutra I.XIV

about PVRI

Join us in Puerto Vallarta, a resort town on Mexico’s Pacific Coast, for the annual continuation of an over 25 year tradition of our senior teachers Margot Kitchen and Shirley Daventry French at Casa Dulce Vida. These retreats are also inspired by the work of Faeq and Corine Biria and their summer intensives in France.

This retreat format asks us to meet ourselves through sustained practice, sequenced to progressively open the body through concentrated effort and awareness. In the yoga sutras of Patanjali, it's explained that yoga practice should consist of effort or action, self study and surrender or letting go. He goes on by saying that practice should be for long periods of time, uninterrupted and practiced with love and respect. As yoga practitioners we all face starting, stopping, and restarting, irregularity and procrastination. In these practice intensives we aim to create daily structure, high quality Iyengar instruction and a supportive atmosphere and community.

This style of condensed practice gives time to consolidate what has been learned in technical study. It helps a practitioner break undesirable habits and establish positive ones. Through the process we face ourselves. We face challenges and we also unearth our sensitivity and our strength, our inspiration and appreciation through a committed journey.

With the focus being more on practicing rather than learning new techniques and collecting more points, one has the opportunity to be in a more meditative state. Being with like minded practitioners creates a supportive atmosphere to assist in going beyond where we go when practicing alone. And finally, we aim to cultivate love and respect in order to stay the course of a lifetime of practice.

We welcome you to join us for a fruitful practice week together.

spring 2022: pre-registration open

Two or three weeks of PVRI Retreats will be running in 2022, based on interest. Let us know which week(s)/ levels of practice you’d like to join and reserve your space by filling out the registration form below.

Week 1: Restoration, Recuperation & Foundations
February 27 - March 5, 2022

+For beginner students who wish to discover yoga
+Those who have practiced other methods of yoga and who wish to know the Iyengar method
+Practitioners seeking deep recuperation and restoration
+Those who have stopped practicing for a while and wish to take it up again

Week 2: Level 1-2 Practice Intensive
March 5-12, 2022

+Practitioners with at least 1 year of regular practice - Iyengar method
+Serious practitioners of an alternate method who would like to discover the Iyengar tradition

Week 3: Level 2-3-4 Practice Intensive
March 5-12 or March 12-19, 2022

+Practitioners with more than 2 years of regular practice - Iyengar method
+Practitioners with a regular home practice who can hold sirsasana for 5 minutes with variations and sarvangasana for up to 10 minutes with variations

$1650 USD per week

Includes classes, accommodation and meals. Limited to a group of 20 students per retreat week.

Join the Puerto Vallarta Retreat Intensives group on Facebook to connect with other practitioners, share accommodations, arrange ride sharing, share pictures, etc.