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IMMERSE - A Ouray Yoga, Hot Springs, and Nature RetreatJuly 30th - August 3rd, 2025
More details:
https://www.marysusanstults.com/ouray-womens-yoga-hot-springs-hiking-meditation-retreat
Explore, practice, and connect on your yoga mat and in the mountains!
Retreat yourself in the ever-charming and exquisite town of Ouray, Colorado and the San Juan mountains next summer alongside a bevy of wonderful women! Ouray, a town known as the Switzerland of the Unites States, is one of Colorado's crown jewels and for good reason.
Surrounded by emerald green and blue towering mountains, alpine lakes and waterfalls, wildflowers, trails, and endless adventure and beauty, Ouray is sure to capture your heart and provide plenty of nourishment for the body, mind, and spirit.
Join us in the most beautiful corner of Colorado on retreat for a deep and joyful dive into our yoga and meditation practices, nature, and into life lived well. Together we'll make the most of our days in a yoga, hiking, meditation, art, hot springs, and nature adventure retreat for all women.
We'll revel in and ground with daily yoga and meditation practices, hikes to enjoy some of the areas local gems and picturesque views, and a painting workshop or two. We'll treat ourselves with plenty of soaking in the hot springs, a day adventure to Telluride, an evening yoga nidra practice, and time to relax and unfold into the beauty of the present moment.
Deposit:
$500 non-refundable deposit
BYOB:
Students are welcome to bring their own SUP board and paddle if they wish.
Hot Springs:
We will enjoy hot springs on site at our lodge and hotel as well as two trips to the Ouray Town Hot Springs Geothermal Mineral Pools for some post yoga and hiking soaking and relaxation.
Ouray Hot Springs geothermally heated mineral pools range from 104 degrees in contrast to 75 degrees fahrenheit or 40 to 24 degrees celsius. Located in the heart of the San Juan Mountains, certainly used by Ute Indians. Ouray is a true gem of the Rocky Mountain Region consequently referred to as the “Switzerland of America”. The hot springs pool, surrounded by 13,000-foot snow-capped peaks, also has five separate geothermally heated pools. As a result, the pool has an adult only soaking section, two fast water slides (over 48″ to ride or pass the deep water test), the obstacle course and climbing wall in the activity pool (over 12 years old or pass the deep water test), 8 lap lanes for a workout pool, two family and soaking, geothermal and playing pools.
This year-round hot springs, most noteworthy, has been operating since 1927. It is certainly large, holding 750,000 gallons of sulfur-free mineral water. Similarly, other great minerals also include iron, manganese, zinc, fluoride, and potassium. First, the original source of hots springs is a mile up the river, near the Ouray Box Canon waterfall (another must-see) and Ouray Ice Park (the first man-made ice climbing park in the world with international ice climbing), where hot water comes out of the ground as a result of 150 degrees Fahrenheit or 66 degrees celsius. Another source, located next to the pool 120 degrees Fahrenheit or 49 degrees celsius. Finally, the cold water source is a result of domestic city water also a local spring known as Weehawken Spring consequently is used for lap lanes and activity pools.
The City of Ouray owns and operates the pool, so visit The City of Ouray’s Website. Above all, our family-friendly swimsuit required hot springs, is beloved by soakers due to the quiet adult areas as well as our spa featuring massages.
Enjoy soaking under a blanket of stars or during the daytime when the breathtaking scenery of the San Juan Mountains and of Ouray shines.
Revitalizing in these hot springs in this scenic setting is popular year-round.
Yoga:
We will be practicing a sustainable, strong, dynamic, and compassionate yoga practice and flow marrying together the traditions of Iyengar and Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. We will slowly and mindfully weave our way through alignment-based practices each day taking time to workshop asanas and come-see-come-look moments giving students the opportunity to demo postures as we practice. Expect longer holds, break-downs of alignment and postures, and a focus on the breath. Classes are appropriate for all levels from beginners to advanced practitioners and teachers. We ask students to be truly curious and expect to take a deep and joyful dive into the practice and your own inner ecology and wilderness.
Meditation:
We will be practicing guided Vipassana and Mindful Meditation during the retreat including breath meditations, heart meditations such as the Loving Kindness/Metta Meditations, and compassion meditations.
Hiking:
We will be getting out for a couple of hikes during our time on retreat. They will be moderate in difficulty. We will hike in Ouray, and also squeeze in a hike in Telluride to a more hidden waterfall. Please bring good and supportive hiking shoes, a daypack to hike with, a reusable water bottle, a hat, sunscreen, and layers as we know Colorado weather can change in a flash.
Day Trip to Telluride:
We will be getting out very early one day to head out to Telluride to get on the water for a morning Stand Up Paddle workshop and adventure on Trout Lake before heading back into town for a hike to a hidden waterfall and some time to explore town.
What's Included:
Shared lodging - private queen or king bed in shared rm (2 ppl per room - 1 person per bed) or private room
Daily Breakfast
Two dinners
Daily yoga with Mary (1-2 practices per day)
Daily vipassana guided meditation
Two trips to Ouray Hot Springs Pool
Painting Workshop (1-2)
Yoga Nidra Practice
Writing Workshop
Optional Al La Carte Stand Up Paddle Workshop on Trout Lake during our Telluride Day Adventure
Day adventure to Telluride to hike, enjoy town, paddle, and adventure
Tea
Wifi
Incredible community
Free parking at hotel
Lodging: Hot Springs Inn
WELCOME TO THE HOT SPRINGS INN~
YOUR HOME AWAY FROM HOME IN OURAY!
Questions:
Email [email protected]
Retreat Guide:
Mary Susan Stults
www.marysusanstults.com/
Born in Fort Payne, Alabama, I was raised in Cedar City, a town in southwest Utah about an hour from Zion National Park. An avid nature lover, I grew up exploring the many hiking trails, rivers, rocks, mountains, canyons, and the endless outdoor beauty of Utah and Colorado with my family and friends. Despite growing up landlocked I grew up with a deep love and appreciation for the ocean and water and that passion has only grown with each passing year. After moving to Boulder, Colorado in 2001 to attend the University of Colorado-Boulder, I made Colorado my mountain home for over 20 years until I traded the mountain life for the island life and moved to Hawaii in 2018 to the Garden Island Kauai.
My yoga and meditation practice and path began with my mother as a child at home in 1992 and continued in the studio at the age of 14 in 1997 with the practice of Ashtanga Yoga as taught by Sri. K Pattabhi Jois. I practiced Hatha, Ashtanga Yoga, and Iyengar Yoga as taught by BKS Iyengar throughout highschool and early college and in 2002 began practicing at Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor's studio, the Yoga Workshop in Boulder, Colorado.
Years later I had the blessing and great fortune to be introduced and led to Master and Mentor-Teacher Maty Ezraty with whom I studied intensively, mentored with, and assisted until her recent passing. Over thousands of hours and many years of study, mentoring, and practice, Maty influenced my practice and life on and off the yoga mat greatly and will forever be my greatest teacher and influence. Maty encouraged and influenced me to delve deeper into the yoga practice and approach both the daily practice of yoga and life from the subtle body. Over the years I have had the opportunity to practice and learn with many wonderful yoga and meditation teachers aside from Maty including Dharma Mittra, Judith Hanson Lasater, Richard Freeman, Seane Corn, Peter Doobinin, Carrie Owerko, James Brown, Jack Kornfeild, and many others. I look forward to studying with Chuck Miller and Dona Holleman in the future.
I teach internationally and in the U.S and am a certified 500+HR E RYT Yoga & Meditation teacher, educator, and practitioner, a WPA/Paddle Into Fitness Certified Stand Up Paddleboarding (SUP) and SUP Yoga teacher, certified Kids Yoga teacher, certified Adaptive Yoga teacher, and am known by all for my enthusiasm, heart, and positive outlook. I teach a knowledgeable, dynamic, refreshing, and compassionate alignment-based yoga practice that intelligently weaves together the traditions of Iyengar Yoga and Ashtanga Yoga. Many describe my energy as contagious, finding my nurturing, wise, soulful, & patient style of teaching to be welcoming & supportive to all. For me being a student of the practice of yoga is as important as being a teacher, we are students first, and teachers second.
Expect the teachings to be greatly reflective of Maty Ezraty, Sri. K Pattabhis Jois, and BKS Iyengar, as well as from my near 30 years of practice, and classes are open to anyone ready to explore more deeply. I invite all students to let go of expectations, to be truly curious and compassionate, and to embrace and befriend an explorer's mindset within our own inner ecology. I approach and understand yoga as a spiritual practice and discipline and a healing art. We learn to trust our own intuition and innate wisdom, "we do not learn to be intuitive, we already are." The Yoga practice is a re-remembering and recognition of our wholeness and of the truth that we are always evolving, transforming, and are under constant construction; there is infinite room for learning, progressing, and creative expression. The practice offers a moment to awaken and a continuing opportunity to return home to the beauty of our own being and self. As a friend says, "This practice intends to provoke us & to inspire the bigger questions triggering one’s own awakening…the truth is-It is never complete, it is never finished, it’s infinite."
I wholeheartedly believes that Yoga, Meditation, and Stand Up Paddleboarding, and SUP Yoga are for everybody, and am passionate about sharing these gifts, as well as my love of nature, adventure, travel, living well, environmentalism, ocean conservation, and the outdoors with all ages.
#liveyourpractice #includeitall
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Ouray, Colorado, United States
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