Evenings at Kripalu
there’s something happening every evening—365 days of the year.
Kripalu presents a variety of informative, engaging, and inspirational evening programs every night of the year, including experiential workshops, concerts, workshop samplers, and dance events.
Kripalu’s evening programs are free of charge to Kripalu guests and staff, as well as Berkshire Kripalu Community (BKC) members. Occasionally we host special ticketed events, such as concerts, book signings, and dances.
Dinner is available for an additional $18. Tickets may be purchased through Registration, the Front Desk, or the Kripalu Shop.
All evening programs begin at 7:30 pm unless otherwise specified. Please check the Guest Information Boards on-site for more information.
Evening Event Descriptions
Sunday Meditation
Learn and practice meditation to calm the mind, relax the body, and open the spirit.
Monday Drum Circle
This transformative hands-on workshop with Kripalu drummers will guide you through a series of world beats, enabling you to discover and explore your own innate rhythms. Whether you drum regularly or have always wanted to try, join us. Bring your drum or use one provided. Dancing is strongly recommended.
Tuesday Cooking Workshop
Feed your body, mind, and spirit as one of Kripalu’s kitchen staff shows you how to prepare a nutritious and delicious meal. You’ll take home the recipe and so much more!
Wednesday Kirtan
One of the oldest sacred music traditions of the world, the kirtan (call-and-response chanting) comes to us from India. Using ancient Sanskrit mantras, the kirtan calls upon sacred energies that serve to quiet the mind, remove obstacles, and bring us back to the center of our being.
Thursday Meditation
Learn and practice meditation to calm the mind, relax the body, and open the spirit.
Friday Experiential Workshop
Our workshops take the ancient themes of yoga and offer them as current and viable tools for modern living. Integrate this information into your body and spirit through activities like movement, stretching, conscious listening, journaling, and more. Check daily schedule for our host of topics.
Saturday Concert
Award-winning songwriters, soulful singers, amazing instrumentalists, and much, much more await you in an exceptional evening of unique and exhilarating music from throughout the world.
Special evenings
Yoga on the Dance Floor with Ekayani and the Tom Glide Space
Saturday, July 31, 2010
7:30 pm
Join us for this unique act—a combination of world-class electronic dance music and live vocals inspired by the spiritual tradition of India. Emmy Award-winning producer Joshua Greene says, “Unprecedented. Lifts dance music to a place of yogic transcendence. This is the sound of the future. Recommended for anyone seeking higher consciousness with an irresistible beat.” Come experience a special blend of Sanskrit and Bengali mantras and world and reggae dub music! www.ekayaniandthetomglidespace.com
Admission: Free for in-house guests; $10 for general public.
100% Happy 88% of the Time
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
7:30 pm
Take the “ow” out of “now” and put the “ha” in “change” with Beth Laipides’ kaleidoscopic vision of where we’re all heading on this slippery slope of changing times. 100% Happy 88% of the Time is a turned-on tour-de-force that combines story, science, standup, multimedia, music, and metaphysics. It also features eviction, back pain, Hollywood humiliation, love advice, New Age adventures, yoga, and more!
Beth launched a revolution in comedy when she brought her artistic sensibilities to standup and took the form in a deeper, more personal direction with her Un-Cabaret. Now she’s bringing her comedic skills to bear on her own spiritual journey, and the results are not to be missed!
Admission: Free for in-house guests, $10 for general public tickets.
Green: A Force of Nature with Dance Monks
Saturday, August 7, 2010
7:30 pm
Green: A Force of Nature is an interdisciplinary project that explores our intimate human connection with the divine in nature. In this evening choreographed and performed by Rodrigo Esteva and Mirah Moriarty, the founders of Dance Monks, dance videos created in partnership with Muir Beach and videographer Marcos Duran will be projected as part of the performance.
Admission: $10 for general public; free for in-house guests and participants in Body Prayers: Dancing with the Land.
Kirtan with Russill Paul, The Bhakti Boys, and KDZ: The Kripalu Drummers
Saturday, September 4, 2010
8:00 pm
Join Russill Paul for an estatic evening of call-and-response chanting that captures the authentic yogic power of mantra. He will be accompanied by the Bhakti Boys and Kripalu’s phenomenal drum group, KDZ.
Admission: $10 for general public; free for in-house guests.
Lecture and Book Signing with Daniel G. Amen
Saturday, October 16, 2010
7:30 pm
In Change Your Brain, Change Your Body, award-winning psychiatrist and best-selling author Dr. Daniel G. Amen offers 10 very simple steps to help you live longer, look younger, be thinner, and decrease your risk for Alzheimer’s disease, depression, heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.
Based on his brain-imaging work with tens of thousands of patients, Dr. Amen has discovered two major secrets why most diets don’t work. Contrary to what you might think, they have nothing to do with your lack of desire to lose weight or your willpower. In fact, he shows that for some people, the harder they try to lose weight the more difficult it becomes. Come find out how knowing about your brain will make losing weight and keeping it off a whole lot easier.
Admission: Free for everyone.
Experience Yoga Hip-Hop with MC Yogi and DJ Drez
Saturday, October 16, 2010
8:00 pm
With fresh rhymes and ancient mantras, MC Yogi and DJ Drez will transport us into a world where gods and goddesses meet turntables and tablas. Combining kirtan-style chanting with Indian mythology, world grooves, and hip-hop, MC Yogi channels a new sound for the next generation of contemporary mystics and urban yogis.
Admission: $15 for general public; $10 for in-house guests; free for participants in Devotion in Motion: Yoga, Art, Storytelling, and Music.
TantraNova Man
Saturday, November 13, 2010
7:30 pm
Artist and TantraNova practitioner, Freddy Zental Weaver, takes his audience on a truly entertaining and often hilarious journey through his life experiences concerning intimacy, sex and love. All the good stuff! The play is packed with storytelling, drumming, singing and movement. All are used in service of demystifying those intimate, personally impacting moments that so often go unexamined or trivialized, like your first exposure to sexual energy, your first orgasm or your first true love. View a TantraNova Man trailer here.
Admission: $10 for general public; free for in-house guests and participants in Secrets to Lasting Intimacy: A Workshop for Couples and Singles.
