West Wind Yoga Retreat

08/02/2026

Galentine’s check-in💕Winter is the season to tend the well that nourishes. Yoga has been the source of my well for 25 years, and Martha has been part of that source since 2011, back at my first studio on Moosic Street❣️

Time together here at our new workshop space today, 15 years on, was like a hot yoga hug, thawing us out in the middle of these freezing temperatures.

Teaching doesn’t always look like a yoga class, and mentorship moves beyond the mat. West Wind Yoga was created to hold space for relationships like this. Ongoing mentorship keeps us connected to source, lineage, and the deeper reasons we were drawn to practice in the first place.

07/02/2026

One of the things we’re most excited about…

Our home for Yoga Sanctuary 2026 sits just blocks from the Palace of the Grand Masters, right in the heart of Old Town Rhodes. When we’re not wandering the castle streets, exploring the island, or heading out to the sea, we’ll return to a completely private courtyard sanctuary tucked behind ancient stone walls.

It’s a quiet, enclosed space for morning coffee, evening conversations, reflection, and rest. A place to reset the rhythms between adventures and let the day settle.

Having both the energy of the medieval city and a peaceful place to land feels like the perfect balance, and we can’t wait to share it with you.

06/02/2026

🙏All teachers need teachers, no matter where we are in our yoga metamorphosis 🦋 and I go way back. Reconnecting at dinner before ytt morning class was extra special.

#26&2

18/01/2026

❄️ A new blog for a snowy winter Sunday. Enjoy ☃️

A quiet reflection on winter as a season of listening, rest, and attention. An invitation to slow down, notice what’s present, and allow clarity to emerge without force.

06/01/2026

❄️Winter is here and so is our first Winter immersion for the Water Element & Wisdom Body Kosha:
Session one: Into the Depths💧, starts this Sunday. We have space for 2 more.

Experience practice as the gateway to explore and understand our current seasonal energies: Stillness, Reflection, Will, Confidence, Intuition, Truth, and Potential.
I can’t wait to get started!

✋Send me a DM or comment below and I’ll reach out with info.

01/01/2026

✨Seasonal updates and what’s unfolding at West Wind Yoga — from winter immersions to returning to Rhodes, Greece.

25/12/2025

✨ Wishing everyone the magic of the season❣️

24/11/2025

🌀Our Dao Yin Yoga Sequence involves lots of circling movements to stimulate the pranic flow through our nadis and meridian channels. It also makes for a fun practice!

⏱️Filmed in time lapse for fun.

👋 Space available in our upcoming Winter Immersion ➡️ YA continuing ed credits, 😇vijnanamaya kosha - the wisdom body & Water Element, the element of transformation!

📲 DM for details.

02/11/2025

🎉 Happy Birthday to Erin who spent her special day co-teaching our first session of the Fall Season —Metal Element & Pranamaya Kosha!

Is it just me, or does each immersion keep getting better?!? 💫

👀 a peek inside our day ⤵️

💎 The Polished Jewel Icebreaker: becuase both pressure and space reveal the hidden gems of consciousness.

⚡️ Discovering Pranamaya Kosha, the energy body that animates us.

🤔 Self-reflection quiz: is your prana flow balanced, depleted, or in excess? How about your seasonal energy?

🌬️ Guided Pranayama Sequence: what an AMAZING process for everyone. Thank you!

We missed a few familiar faces (you know who you are 😉) See you at the next immersion. ♥️

18/10/2025

🍂 Autumn is here… but first, one final immersion into Earth Element’s seasonal gift of late summer balance, this Sunday in Prana Pathways Seasonal Training.

One more day to nourish that sacred space between summer’s outward yang energy but before winter’s inward yin energy takes hold. We honor time to “digest” all that summer fun so that we’re truly prepared for the coming fall reset of shedding and reflection.

Our theme this Sunday? Story of Self; a deconstruction and rebuilding of Manomaya Kosha. In yoga philosophy it’s the mental/emotional layer of self that dictates our moment-to-moment sensory interpretations of the world we live in, the stories we tell ourselves, and the patterns of behavior that shape us. ☯️

💫 It sounds super heavy, but you know I will keep it fun and enlightening! Taoist Qigong, Dao Yin Yoga, grounding meditation, evocative journaling, rich discussions, and a closing ceremony of something sweet. Can’t wait to see you!

🙏Namaste,
Lara

PS Want to join our November training immersion? DM or email. New participants welcome every season becasue each one is structured as its own cohesive training program. Space is super limited, so reach out today to snag the last open spots.

30/09/2025

😊 Thanks for a great September! See you in October.

24/09/2025

📿 Our retreat closing ceremony involved mala beads, for which we visisted the ancient Castalian Spring to activate them. Historically, visitors to see the oracle and even the Pythia Priestess herself, drank and washed from the spring to cleanse and purify before entering the Sanctuary.

✨It was a moonlit walk down followed by amazing stargazing, although the phone photo doesn’t capture that!

🧿 I think of the magic of the sacred connections from this night a lot these past few weeks. Such a perfect culmination of our week together and it jeeps me inspired.