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Kripalu Consultations


Nutritional Consultation

Enhance your energy, health, and nutritional wisdom. Personalize your approach to nutrition based on an understanding of your unique needs, health concerns, activity patterns, and lifestyle. Take home a meaningful and realistic guide with practical strategies you can integrate into your life to nourish your body, mind, and spirit. Phone consultations are also available.
50 minutes: $125; 80 minutes: $190

When it comes to nutrition, I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not an expert. But I do know that my eating habits needed a push in the right direction. I was notorious for skipping breakfast in lieu of cup after cup of caffeinated coffee, having take-out for dinner, and indulging in late-night snacking. At the same time, I believe that my body could feel better if I changed the way I ate.

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Kripalu’s Nutrition Consultation is exactly what I needed. Overall, I’m healthy, but I learned that my eating habits were unhealthy, unbalanced, and that over time, disease is a manifestation of that imbalance. My nutritionist outlined the goal of our time together at the start. Her aim wasn’t just to tell me what to eat and what to avoid. She wanted to help me find the path to wellness by using food as medicine.

Through discussion and a short written form I filled out, she was able to speak directly to my current state of health and address my personal challenges. She not only talked about the kinds of foods I might try, but also addressed the emotional context of nutritional imbalance and issues. I admitted that I sometimes eat out of stress or even just boredom. I felt comfortable and supported in my burgeoning desire to eat better—like talking to a close friend.

At the end of the session, I went home with some ideas on how I might change my habits: build a ritual around regular meal times, switch to tea instead of coffee, and of course, eat breakfast. What was most helpful were the materials she gave me to make it happen: a shopping list to stock my kitchen, healthful recipes, and a seven-day sample menu.

The nutritionist also reinforced the importance of taking time to do things for myself, things that bring me joy. Changing my eating habits wouldn’t be an easy task and maintaining personal time to do the things I love can help me cope with the changes.

So far, I’ve started small. I eat breakfast every day and I think more consciously about the meals I create. The consultation left me confident that I can make these changes and stick to them, but I know that if I need the extra support, she’ll be just a phone call away.
—Ashley W., Editor at Kripalu


Digestive Distress

Are you experiencing digestive issues that are making life uncomfortable? Do you have chronic constipation, diarrhea, or heartburn? Work with a nutritionist to identify the source of your digestive problems and develop a meal plan that will allow you to have pain-free digestion and a healthier body overall.
50 minutes: $125


Healing Your Relationship to Food

Gain clarity about how your personal psychology, biology, and emotional patterns affect your eating behavior and how mindful living is your most powerful tool for change. Learn to listen to and enjoy your body in order to make good food choices that meet your body’s unique needs. Let go of old patterns and transform your relationship with food.
50 minutes: $150


Advanced Mind-Body Coaching

Are you finding deep happiness to be elusive? These sessions focus on reducing the effects of stress in your life so you can free your energy up for the things that make you happy. Guided by Dr. Susan Lord, you will develop tools for responding effectively to the stressors in your life, whether it’s major change, general anxiety, or simply life’s ups and downs.

Drawing on years of experience offering one-on-one counseling as well as developing and teaching mind-body approaches, Dr. Lord helps you take an integrated perspective that leads to small, yet significant, changes so you can live your life to the fullest.
50 minutes: $150; 80 minutes: $205


Kripalu Life Coaching

Are you in transition? Needing to jumpstart a healthy lifestyle change? In a process of grief and letting go? Kripalu Life Coaching weaves together the wisdom of the yogic traditions with the power and will of the Western approach to life to ensure your success. Your coach will help you identify and clarify your goals and create incremental steps that point you in the direction of making your intentions real. Together, you will develop an action plan that reflects both ways of being (mindfulness) and ways of doing (right actions to take)—grounding your plans with depth and energy. You will leave the session prepared to be more fully present in the moment—and to move forward in your life.
50 minutes: $80; 80 minutes: $130

I’d never had Life Coaching before Kripalu, but I’ve always known something was missing, so I was excited for the session. I needed to figure out why I was so organized at work and yet in my personal life I was basically the poster-child for procrastination, and even laziness.

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I was nervous as I waited for the meeting to begin, but found myself falling easily into the moment, acknowledging the parts of my life and my habits that I wanted to change and actively identifying ways that I could implement those changes. The session was like having a conversation with an old friend. The Life Coach possessed a genuine interest in my progress and a sincere hope for my success.

The session provides the infrastructure in which you get to watch and observe yourself without judgment; to notice how you feel in relationship to your choices. It was so fulfilling to state my wants out loud; to voice my desire to create more time and spaciousness for myself, put the me back into my life.

The Life Coach provided guidance as I developed lifestyle and habit changes so basic and simple and yet would be such an improvement on my quality of life: get more sleep but wake up earlier, become less “plugged-in” and more mindful of me, organize my personal life just as I do my work life.

The Kripalu Life Coaching session—and especially the follow-up call a few weeks later—helped me take a plan on paper and put it into action. I’m already feeling more well rested, less stressed during the early part of the day, more relaxed at night knowing I have a routine.
—Ashley W., Editor at Kripalu


Ayurvedic Specialist Consultation

Address your specific individual health concerns in an in-depth one-on-one consultation with vaidya (Ayurvedic physician) Rosy Mann, a specialist from India with extensive Ayurvedic training and experience. This consultation is ideal for people looking to enhance an existing Ayurvedic practice, for individuals wanting to incorporate Ayurveda into their lifestyle, and for those with chronic conditions that require important lifestyle changes in order to heal. Rosy’s areas of expertise include panchakarma (detoxifying programs and procedures), Ayurvedic nutrition and cooking, Ayurveda for women, pulse analysis, and Ayurvedic herbology. Rosy is also a senior faculty teacher with the Kripalu School of Ayurveda.
50 minutes $150; 80 minutes: $205


Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultation

Ayurveda means “the science of life” and is about being in harmony with the rhythms of nature. This 5,000-year-old scientific system correlated its findings through the comparison of the human being and the natural world. Body type and pulse diagnoses are used to identify imbalances in the body or to measure what the body is working to correct. We study daily habits and rhythms and how they connect to the natural rhythms of nature. We then evaluate and prescribe gentle changes that will help to alleviate longstanding problems.
50 minutes: $100; 80 minutes: $160


Kripalu Body Dialogue

Take the time to integrate the insights and energy that may have been awakened during your visit at Kripalu, or you can explore more deeply the core issues in your life. Dialogue and other guidance techniques through the supportive, loving presence of a Kripalu facilitator will help reveal the wisdom of your unique life process in the privacy and safety of a one-to-one session.
50 minutes: $70; 80 minutes: $115


Personal Training

Let our personal trainers customize a workout program that addresses your specific goals and concerns.
50 minutes: $80; 80 minutes: $130


Kripalu Yoga Therapy

True healing occurs when we bring all levels of a person’s being into balance. Yoga therapy is the facet of the ancient science of yoga that focuses on health and wellness on every level: physical, energetic, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Kripalu Yoga Therapy is a multi-layered healing journey that brings balance to the body and mind through the use of breathing exercises, hand mudras, postures, lifestyle awareness’, deep relaxation, and meditation. The healing journey is unique to each individual, therefore we select, adapt, and modify the practices of yoga appropriately for each individual to facilitate optimal health and healing.
50 minutes: $100; 80 minutes: $160



Private Kripalu Yoga Instruction

Work one-to-one with an experienced Kripalu Yoga instructor to receive instructions designed for your specific needs. Refine your structural alignment, design your own sequence, learn posture modifications, restorative yoga postures, or how to meditate. Experience the benefits of receiving immediate feedback and having your questions and needs regarding yoga met. No previous yoga experience is required.
50 minutes: $75; 80 minutes: $120


Take Kripalu Home Kripalu Healing Arts now offers telephone follow-up sessions for our Nutritional, Ayurvedic Specialist, and Life Coaching consultations. Inquire by calling 888-738-1822.

Rates apply through December 31, 2012.

Healing Arts are available by appointment only.

To schedule Healing Arts services:

While at Kripalu Center, you may schedule a service at the Healing Arts Desk, located on the first floor and open from 8:00 am–7:30 pm daily. Kripalu bodywork appointments are available Monday thru Friday 11:00 am–9:00 pm and 9:00 am–9:00 pm Saturday and Sunday. Kripalu one-on-one consultations are available Monday thru Saturday 9:00 am–6:00 pm. We recommend you schedule your Healing Arts services one to two weeks in advance of your stay to ensure availability. From outside Kripalu call: 888-738-1822, Monday–Friday, 9:00 am–7:00 pm (EST) and Saturday and Sunday, 9:00 am–5:00 pm (EST).

Gratuities are not included in the price of your service and are greatly appreciated by our dedicated therapists.

Cancellation Policy You may cancel or change your appointment time up to 24 hours in advance of your treatment. For same day changes or cancellations you will be charged a 50% forfeiture fee. If you fail to show up for your treatment, the full charge will apply. Please note Treatment time is not extended for late arrivals; this includes late arrivals due to program presenters running over their scheduled time. If you arrive more than 30 minutes after your scheduled time, your appointment is automatically cancelled and the full charge is applied.



The Healing Arts Department at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health supports health and healing through massage, skin- and body-care, Ayurvedic treatments, lifestyle consultations, and more. Appointments are available for guests taking a program at Kripalu as well as for visitors (who may want to consider a Kripalu Day Pass).