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Exotic Senses of Morocco:
Cooking and Yoga with Jeanie Manchester

Let your senses absorb the sights, tastes and smells of Morocco, while exploring Morocco's culilnary, visual, and sensual treasures. Combine the art of taste with the art of well being, on this exceptional Moroccan adventure, September 10–19, 2008.

	Fall 2008– Morocco: A Feast for the Senses
	Sept. 10–19 / $4,940 (single), $4,595 (double)

Yoga with Jeanie Manchester

Jeanie has been an avid student of yoga since 1990. She has spent 15 years studying with John Friend and has received Anusara certification. She is a serious student of Dr.Douglas Brooks and Rajanaka Tantra philosophy. Her classes flow with metaphor, myth and story. Jeanie's gift of teaching internal alignment and breath comes from her many years as a senior teacher studying and teaching under Richard Freeman. Jeanie brings a unique combination of meditative flow and inquiry into her classes, as well as attending to the details of alignment. Jeanie often draws from myths, yoga philosophy and her everyday experience as a mother to illuminate the yogic process. Jeanie spent many years as a senior teacher at Richard Freeman's studio and has recently joined the staff of öm time, in Boulder, Colorado. www.jeaniemanchester.com

A realm of truly unfamiliar and fascinating places still exist, where the local people treat you like a traveler, not a tourist and where things might not always go as expected but are likely to be exquisitely memorable. You may see things you‚ve never seen before, like goats in trees, donkeys pulling carts full of herbs on a busy desert highway at the break of dawn.

Morocco is like the perfect tea, sweet and minty. It‚s the finesse of how to add the right spice to the right dish. It's the importance of rubbing couscous between your hands, infusing it with argon oil. It's picking and eating from the garden at Jnane Tamsna, where the seeds are collected and cultivated from around the world. Get to know the Berbers, the indigenous ones. One smile from Abdul could melt the snow from Mt. Toubkal. Get your hands on some tasty grilled fish right at the port in Essouira. Listen to the ever present winds whisper truth in a different language. Ride a camel on the beach in search of liberation. See if you can guess the secret ingredient of Miriam's lamb tagine. Shift your vantage point just enough to catch a shimmer of what you've been missing. Say hello to sickle moons and night skies, Hammam's and Jalil's aromatherapy garden. Make bread in a clay oven. Preserve a lemon. Say goodbye to the norm as you know it. Take a refreshing bath in exotic oils and shed a tired skin. Beware of the serpentine passage of time and watch out for the cobras in the Place Jma al Fna. But don't worry, they're harmless and lead a charmed life, as will you.

Find out more by reading the itinerary.