Naked Yoga Retreat coming to the Triangle Inn Palm Springs in December

In just a few weeks, we'll be hosting our December Naked Yoga retreat, and we're really excited to be featuring two incredible yoga instructors from San Diego (in addition to our own local favorite - Scott Sarber). 

Our longtime friend Peter Smith joins fellow San Diegan, Paul Tucci for some incredible yoga classes that will help take the stress out of the Holidays!

Peter Smith has practiced yoga for 9 years and taught for 5.  His classes consist of hatha yoga asanas and focus on alignment. In addition, Peter adds intention to the asana practice so that students develop sensitivity and a discriminating body mind awareness. His classes are good for beginners and more advanced students!

Paul Tucci, Hatha Yoga Teacher, has been doing yoga for 10 years and has studied yoga with both Ana Forrest (Seattle)  and Eric Schiffman (LA). What brought him to yoga was his curiosity. What kept him there was the path of healing his body & mind. Years of back pain receded as he learned the yoga poses. He brings this compassion to both the new and experienced students, as well as the  students with injuries. He currently teaches for FIT-X, the SD Yoga Loft, The La Jolla Sporting Club, and is the director for the SD Men's Naked Group in San Diego.

Scott Sarber teaches yoga in Palm Springs, and has a regular weekly class at the Triangle Inn Palm Springs on Saturday mornings. His yoga influences include Kundalini, Iyengar, Ashtanga and Anusara. He says his Greatest Teacher has been his beautiful, compassionate daughter, Jacquelyn. Scott is a devotee of AMMA, and is Yoga Alliance Registered. He is also a AFAA Certified Personal Trainer and  AFAA Trained Spin Instructor.

Event Details are as follows: 

Dates: December 11-13, 2009

Location: Triangle Inn Palm Springs

Cost: Special rates are available. Call for details and to book your reservation.    

THREE NIGHT PACKAGE:
Three nights lodging (Fri., Sat., Sun.)
Six yoga classes (a la carte - sign up on arrival), plus individual instruction as available
Breakfast

Lunch (optional add-on)
Social hour

TWO NIGHT PACKAGE:
Two nights lodging (Fri., Sat. or Sat., Sun.)
Four yoga classes (a la carte - sign up on arrival), plus individual instruction as available;
Breakfast

Lunch (optional add-on)
Social hour

Reservations and information:

800-732-7555 or 760-322-7993

2009 Nearly (OK, mostly) Naked Halloween Party!

This year's Nearly Naked Halloween Party ended up being mostly naked (which suited everybody just fine!). Mark, Dan, Stephen, David and I shopped, decorated, and costumed ourselves into oblivion but the result was a FABULOUS Party! Lots of fun and lots of great guys.

It was really great (for me) to get to meet some local guys. Stephen and I tend to get tied to the hotel sometimes, and often miss out on the locals scene. What a blast, though. Dan set up a Crime Scene with Yellow Caution Tape and Mark marked out bodies (and body parts) with black tape on the pavement. The rest was a combination of skulls, jack-o-lanterns and everything else Halloween.

We were all also quite happy that this year the weather worked in our favor ad gave us a nice warm (ish) night. Last time we had a Nearly Naked Halloween Party we all just about froze to death (and trust me, naked men and cold weather do not make for good eye candy - can you say turtle?). :)

One of the very best parts of the night was the Shadow Dancing. Dan brought over his set-up (from his Birthday Party). It was really fun (to be a viewer - I left the dancing to the folks (like Andy, Jallen and more) who were good at it.

I have to say it would be an excellent TING event (HINT. HINT.) for Spring TING 2010. Michael and Clyde got a bit of it on their iPhone so hopefully they will send it to me and I can post it.

Pictures (the ones I took) are up on the Triangle Inn Social Network. If anybody eldse took some, feel free to post them!

Best,
Michael

PS - Next week is PRIDE, then there's LEATHER PRIDE, then Perry is visiting, and then it's Thanksgiving! Did I mention that last night was NEARLY a full moon? :)