Even now, five years after his stroke, his daily activities consist of therapies -- physical therapists, trainers, piano lessons, language lessons, sewing lessons, yoga, and all sorts of classes and support groups to continue to stimulate his mind.
A dozen years ago, his friend Joan Ganz Cooney, Peterson's wife and the co-creator of the Children's Television Workshop, gave him a birthday gift of yoga lessons; after a while, he ditched the instructor, because he grew tired of listening to yogic philosophies, but he has kept up the yoga.
Her experience of meditation prior to the retreat had been restricted to a few minutes at the end of yoga lessons.
But they kept the emphasis on the cultural, with gamelan and cooking lessons offered alongside the more standard resort fare of yoga and spa treatments.
We bowed our heads and honored each other for what was truly a fulfilling first day of yoga training, with many more lessons to come.
The next conference to be organized by Yoga Journal, this month, will be aimed at gym owners and aerobics instructors as part of the World Fitness Convention in San Diego, and cardiovascular flow will undoubtedly get more attention than the lessons of the sacred yoga sutras.
Both these exceptional geographies, and the discrete teachings of hundreds of schools of yoga possess an instructive core and yield valuable lessons in the pursuit of wellness.
It offers a yoga and surf package including two sessions of yoga a day (at sunrise and sunset), group surf lessons each morning, and afternoons at the beach.
