Calendar of Programs
Friday, February 12, 2010
Shringara Sensual Rituals of Beauty: Henna and Vosges Haut-Chocolat Truffles for Valentine’s Day
For women only. This Valentine’s Day, embellish your body and soul with two of the world’s most ancient aphrodisiacs: henna and chocolate. more …
Yoga and Deep Relaxation Retreat: The Gift of Yoga Nidra
The perfect antidote to a busy and fragmented life, this nourishing retreat is a wonderful opportunity to come back into harmony, balance, and wholeness. more …
Anusara® Yoga Weekend: Asana as a Celebration of the Heart
For students of all levels and all yoga traditions; no Anusara experience necessary. Deepen your understanding and practice of asana as an artistic expression of your devotion to the essence of life. more …
Couples Bodywork: Thai for Two
For couples of all orientations. Enjoy a deeper sense of intimacy together and appreciation for each other. Couples Bodywork derives its power from yoga, Thai massage, shiatsu, and meditation. more …
Cross-Country Skiing and Yoga Retreat
Cross-country skiing is one of the best total-body, nonimpact aerobic exercises, and yoga is a superb way to prepare for and wind down from your cross-country workouts. more …
Deepening Your Love: A Retreat for Couples
For couples of any length of commitment and any sexual orientation. This soulful and practical couples retreat was developed by Kate and Joel Feldman more than 20 years ago, and has made a difference in the lives of thousands of participants. more …
Seven Windows to the Soul: Transformation Through the Chakras
This workshop will introduce you to the experience of the seven sacred energy centers, or chakras, that spin at the core of your being, generating your life patterns and physical health. more …
The Peaceful Warrior Experience
The film Peaceful Warrior portrays the encounter years ago of a young athlete named Dan Millman and an old service station attendant he called “Socrates. more …
Zumba® and Dance: Ditch the Workout, Join the Party!™
Ditch the workout and join the party with Ann Saldi, popular and energetic master teacher for the Zumba Fitness Program. A fitness formula that has revolutionized the way millions of people think about exercise, Zumba classes will give you a total-body workout as you dance to Latin and international rhythms. more …
Sunday, February 14, 2010
The Courage to Love: Awakening the Eloquence of the Body
How do you feel about loving? Have you been transformed by love or healed through loving another? Come explore the most fundamentally human of human questions, and the agony, hilarity, and wisdom of love with Nancy Mellon, a pioneer in therapeutic storytelling. more …
Monday, February 15, 2010
What Kids Like to Eat (Adults)
For parents and kids ages 6 and older. Learn how to make healthy meals and snacks that kids want to eat. Parents and kids alike will have fun designing nutritious menus and cooking the kinds of foods that kids enjoy—both vegetarian and nonvegetarian. more …
What Kids Like to Eat (Kids)
For parents and kids ages 6 and older. Learn how to make healthy meals and snacks that kids want to eat. Parents and kids alike will have fun designing nutritious menus and cooking the kinds of foods that kids enjoy—both vegetarian and nonvegetarian. more …
Awakening the Life Force: The Yogic Path of Prana and Purification
For students with min. 6 months of yoga and meditation experience. Prana is the life force that beats our heart, digests our food, heals us when we are sick, the energy that evolved us from embryo to adult. more …
Creation is Ecstasy: Manifestation Through the Chakras
Are you ready to create the life of your dreams? Would you like to learn a step-by-step method for making your dreams come true? Manifestation is joyous when you know how to break through the blocks that stand in the way. more …
Kids' Winter Fun
For kids ages 5-12. This winter fun program features a wide range of activities and games, including building musical instruments from low-cost and recycled materials (everyone gets to take instruments home! more …
Stress Relief Through Guided Relaxation, Imagery, and Yoga Meditation
Maximize your energy and health by finally getting the practical formula you need for managing stress using guided relaxation, imagery, yoga meditation, and sensible lifestyle changes as your tools. more …
The Listening Retreat
This deep retreat provides an antidote to our overstimulated lives. Today’s excessive input from 24/7 media, e-mail, voicemail, traffic, world affairs—as well as the demanding task of caring for ourselves and our loved ones—can leave us feeling cut off from our natural vitality. more …
Yoga Playgrounds Teacher Training: Spaces and Structures for Health and Empowerment
Please note the tuition for this program is incorrect in our Winter 2009–2010 catalog. For everyone with a regular yoga practice who wants to share yoga skills with children in school, home, studio, or therapeutic settings. more …
Friday, February 19, 2010
Cultivating Tenderness and Delight Through Yoga
1 year of yoga experience. Instead of knowing who or what we are supposed to be, the teachings of yoga invite us to look vigilantly at what actually is. more …
Goddess to the Core®: An Inspired Workout to Maximize Your Fitness, Beauty, and Power
For women only. Sierra Bender, founder of Boot Camp for Goddesses®, invites you to reclaim, restore, and rejoice in your feminine essence by redefining fitness, beauty, and power. more …
Meditation and Awakened Living
Treat yourself to a weekend of transformation with Harshada Wagner. The Sanskrit word “harshada” means “full of ecstasy, joy, and delight,” qualities he brings to his teaching. more …
Shiva-Shakti Fusion: JourneyDance™ and Lunarhythms Yoga™
Ready to let go, move, sweat, and surrender? Come free yourself from the weighty patterns of the past and move into present rhythms and passions. Forge ahead into new territory where you can manifest your true self and flow into unique forms of self-expression. more …
Snowshoeing and Yoga
If you enjoy yoga and outdoor winter sports, you’ll love this program. The miles of trails surrounding Kripalu offer exquisite vistas, snow-covered forests, and the opportunity to explore the beauty of winter in a leisurely way—on snowshoes. more …
Steadiness and Joy: An Asana Workshop for the Rest of Your Life
Patanjali’s sutra “sthira sukham asanam” establishes the idea of asana as a steady, joyous posture. Yet how do we actually cultivate these qualities in our practice? more …
The Power of Soul
Experience Master Zhi Gang Sha’s deep love, compassion, and joy as he teaches amazingly simple Soul Healing techniques from his new book, The Power of Soul. more …
Positional Therapy Level 1: Experiential Approach to Strain-Counterstrain & Muscle Energy Technique
For bodyworkers, yoga teachers, nurses, chiropractors, and interested individuals. This amazing therapy for recovery from chronic pain is very gentle and easy to learn and works when many other approaches fail. more …
Sunday, February 21, 2010
The Deep River Within: Living a Soulful Life in a Speed-Obsessed World
For women only. Beneath the busyness of daily life flows a deep river of creativity, passion, and silence, a place of contact with ourselves and what matters most. more …
Fitness and Yoga Retreat
Outdoor exercise, yoga, and nutrition—the ultimate vacation getaway for active people. This invigorating program offers you a structured fitness experience in a retreat-like atmosphere. more …
In the Chalice: Celebrating Your Body as Art
For women. Rediscover your own power and beauty as you tap into the deep well of wisdom, strength, joy, and creativity inside you. Using the four archetypes of the feminine as a point of departure, skilled facilitator Janet Parker has designed this 5-day retreat to empower and free you to be the magnificent woman that you already are. more …
Thai Yoga Massage 2: Lotus Palm School Certification
Read more about the full Lotus Palm certification program. For students who have taken Thai Yoga Massage 1 or equivalent Thai Yoga Massage training. Continue your Thai Yoga Massage training with a course that teaches you various ways to customize massages and make the experience even better for your clients and yourself. more …
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour Certification: Monthlong Intensive
Immerse yourself in Kripalu Yoga and learn to share the gift of yoga with others. Awaken the teacher within and discover how the tools of yoga can be used to cultivate health, facilitate psychological growth, and open the doors to spiritual transformation—for yourself and for your students. more …
Monday, February 22, 2010
Positional Therapy Level 2: Strain-Counterstrain and Muscle Energy Technique
Positional Therapy is a cutting-edge program for recovery from chronic pain that can be used for self-healing and with family, friends, and clients. Through simple hands-on techniques, the body’s habitual holding pattern in a particular area is released. more …
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Integrative Weight Loss: The Next Step
This unique 3-day program is designed exclusively for past participants of Kripalu’s popular Integrative Weight Loss (IWL) program. Building on the principles and skills explored in IWL, guests will share their experiences, learn new tools for overcoming barriers, and create sustainable strategies for maintaining a healthy weight and living as fully as possible. more …
Friday, February 26, 2010
Hike, Snowshoe, and Cross-Country Ski: Awaken to the Natural World
Join popular outdoor guide Greg DiLisio for a weekend adventure in the Berkshires. Your days will start off with qigong to cultivate energy so you can cross-country ski and snowshoe with confidence, power, and grace. more …
Introduction to Ashtanga Yoga
Join David Swenson, one of the world’s foremost instructors of Ashtanga Yoga, for an introductory workshop on the foundations of Ashtanga Yoga and the general flow of the practice. more …
Juicy Living, Juicy Aging Stress Makeover
International stress-busting humorist and guide Loretta LaRoche defines juicy as what is inherently colorful, sensational, racy, succulent, and lusty. more …
Natural Wakefulness: Discovering the Wisdom We Were Born With
This weekend is designed to encourage spiritual awakening. For many of us, this means waking up from the nightmare of materialism. The approach presented this weekend takes wakefulness as our original state. more …
Spark: Unlocking Human Potential Through the Body-Brain Connection
This program is a call to get in sync with your metabolic design and a revolution against chronic disease and obesity. Join medical doctor, Harvard professor, and author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, John Ratey, for a weekend that will teach you how to return to your evolutionary roots and unlock your full human potential. more …
The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters
Have you ever thought, “How did my life get so out of control”? Sarah Susanka, best-selling author of The Not So Big Life, can help you take your finger off the fast-forward button and discover how to re-inhabit your life from the inside out. more …
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Yoga, Mudra, and Meditation for Women: A Manifestation Retreat
For all women; no previous yoga experience necessary. Is it possible to create what you truly desire in life? We believe so! This extraordinary workshop is about learning how to manifest your dreams—whether you’re looking for your dream job, seeking a life partner, or dealing with challenges. more …
Yoga Therapy: The Pelvic Floor (and More!)
The pelvic floor is comprised of muscles that are often elusive and seem beyond our conscious control. Yet, the perineum and the pelvic girdle are an integral force behind most human functioning. more …
Zen and the Art of Harmonica: Playing with Life, Death, Love, Grief, and the Whole Nine Yards...
What better way to focus on the breath than with the inhalations and exhalations of a catchy blues-rock rhythm on the harmonica? David Harp, author of Three Minutes to Blues, Rock, and Folk Harmonica and The Three Minute Meditator, will not only have total beginners playing blues, rock, folk, and classical music within minutes, he will use the humble “Mississippi saxophone” as a route to mindfulness and self-awareness. more …
Transform Your Relationship with Food
For many people, food has become a source of temptation, frustration, and self-blame rather than a source of nourishment. If you are struggling with out-of-control eating—eating too much or too little, or making poor choices—this program is for you. more …
Yoga for Health
A solid foundation for cultivating the benefits of yoga in your life. Doctors and health professionals are recommending yoga for preventative health, to treat a variety of ailments, and for psychoemotional healing. more …
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Kripalu School of Ayurveda 4: Clinical
This course is part of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, which offers several options for Ayurvedic education and certification. Ayurveda, a sister life science to yoga, addresses the whole person and encourages individuals to actively participate in creating their own health and well-being. more …
Reconnective Healing Seminar: Levels I and II
For beginning and advanced healing practitioners. Discover why hospitals and universities across the country are investing time and money in an attempt to explain Eric Pearl’s unique healing abilities. more …
Revitalizing Cleanse: Awakening Body, Mind, and Spirit
Revitalize on all levels and align with a higher sense of self. Purification evokes a profound rejuvenation of body, mind, and spirit. This supervised program offers a nurturing, user-friendly approach to detox, diet, and life. more …
Friday, March 5, 2010
A Workshop on the Artist's Way: Creative Myths and Monsters
Don’t wait any longer. Discover and recover your creative self with Julia Cameron, author of the groundbreaking book The Artist’s Way. Stop telling yourself “It’s too late”; stop waiting until you make enough money to do something you love; stop thinking it’s just your ego whenever you yearn for a more creative life. more …
