Calendar of Programs
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Drawing Closer to Nature Through Art and Yoga
Art and yoga are complementary practices that can help us recover our lost sense of unity with nature. As we draw closer to nature through these practices, we also draw closer to ourselves, tapping into the creative soul that exists in us all. more …
Five Days to Establish Yoga, Breath, Meditation, and Deep Relaxation
Give yourself the gift of an established yoga practice. This 5-day retreat is specifically designed for people interested in creating and maintaining a regular yoga practice. more …
Life Coaching Crash Course: Unraveling Your Personal History
It is easy to understand that the way you have interpreted or “connected the dots” of everything you have experienced in your life has led you to exactly where you are right now. more …
Luminous Revelation Yoga (Cancelled)
This program has been cancelled. You may be interested in Randal Williams’ program, Five Days to Establish Yoga, Breath, Meditation, and Deep Relaxation. more …
Puppets, Music, and Celebration
For children ages 5-11. Express yourself through performance, music, puppets, and fun. Lesley Smith is a world-class ventriloquist, puppeteer, and singer-songwriter. more …
Tantra Shakti: The Power and Radiant Soul of Yoga: A ParaYoga® Master Training and 5-Day Intensive
This 5-day yoga training is open to practitioners and teachers of all levels, even if this is your first ParaYoga® training. At least 5,000 years ago, tantric visionaries, inspired by the deepest reverence and passion for unveiling the sacred beauty and mysteries of life, developed what we know as the practice of hatha yoga. more …
The Comedian's Way: A Creative Path for Writers, Performers, and Other Humans
Tap into your seventh sense—your sense of humor—with creativity teachers and devoted yogis Beth Lapides and Greg Miller. Comedy is a unique tool for entertainment and self-knowledge. more …
Women in the Woods (Cancelled)
Program cancelled. For women. Since the dawn of time, women have sourced nourishment, wisdom, and inspiration from their connections with the earth and other women. 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 …
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Digestive Health: A Holistic Approach
Restore your digestive health naturally. Do you suffer from chronic gastrointestinal symptoms? Do find yourself taking expensive medications or over-the-counter drugs just so you can eat without discomfort? more …
Friday, August 6, 2010
Answering the Modern Mystic’s Call: Cocreating Your Highest Potential
At this time of significant planetary change, come discover what it means to answer the modern mystic’s call. Renowned intuitive Robert Ohotto will guide you through a powerful weekend designed to ignite your highest potential as we enter this new decade. more …
Body Prayers: Dancing with the Land
Our bodies are the physical manifestation of spirit. When we listen to the subtle voice of the body, movement arises as a natural prayer, a way to communicate with life’s own breath. more …
Meditation and Creativity: Practices that Free the Mind
“Spirituality is so important that it ought to be fun,” says John Tarrant. In this retreat you will experience meditation as a creative act, through the use of koans, which throw overboard our standard issue worries and speak to the creative force in us. more …
Mountain Spirit: Family Adventures in the Berkshires (Adults)
For parents and teens ages 12-18. Come to the Berkshires this August and create memories that will last a lifetime. This summer workshop, specifically designed for parents and teens ages 12-18, offers an amazing opportunity to enjoy the outdoors, practice yoga, laugh, and deepen your connection to one another. more …
Mountain Spirit: Family Adventures in the Berkshires (Kids)
For parents and teens ages 12-18. Come to the Berkshires this August and create memories that will last a lifetime. This summer workshop, specifically designed for parents and teens ages 12-18, offers an amazing opportunity to enjoy the outdoors, practice yoga, laugh, and deepen your connection to one another. more …
Partner Yoga for Couples
For couples. Bring your beloved to a fun-filled, spiritually uplifting, and invigorating weekend of partner yoga for couples. As you learn how to breathe and flow together on the mat, you’ll learn how to find ease and balance in your relationship off the mat. more …
Root to Grow: High-Energy Vinyasa and Music
Discover your inner power and flow. The vibrational rhythms of all music are the inspiration for this upbeat and high-energy vinyasa workshop. With music we come together, and through yoga we unite. more …
Yoga and Kayaking
Have you ever dreamed of learning to kayak? Join Johnny Snyder, world-class kayaker and professional guide, and Greg DiLisio, popular Kripalu program leader, and set off on flat-water adventures in the magic of the Berkshires. more …
Yoga for Emotional Health: Focus on Anxiety and Depression
For yoga therapists, yoga teachers, and everyone working with the health challenges addressed by the workshop. No yoga experience is necessary. Developed by Gary Kraftsow, Viniyoga Therapy draws on ancient insights, applying the tools of asana, pranayama, chanting, meditation, relaxation, prayers, and personal ritual to help individuals achieve wellness, improve function, reduce suffering, regain self-confidence, and find happiness in the face of any condition. more …
YogArts for Kids
For kids ages 5–11. YogArt is an integration of yoga, creative arts, and outdoor fun; be prepared for your kids to refuse to go home! Calling all kids who love to collect stuff outdoors, do creative art projects, have fun, and make friends. more …
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Yoga for Healing the Lower Body, Including Low Back, Sacrum, and Hips
For yoga therapists, yoga teachers, and everyone working with the health challenges addressed by the workshop. No yoga experience is necessary. Developed by Gary Kraftsow, Viniyoga Therapy draws on ancient insights, applying the tools of asana, pranayama, chanting, meditation, relaxation, prayers, and personal ritual to help individuals achieve wellness, improve function, reduce suffering, regain self-confidence, and find happiness in the face of any condition. more …
Anusara Yoga: Creating a Radiant Heart, Sharp Mind, and Vibrant Body
Participants should have at least six months of yoga experience; no Anusara experience is necessary. When your heart is soft, your mind clear, and your body optimally aligned, you experience the ecstasy of being. more …
Beautiful Mind Vinyasa Sequences: A Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training Intensive
For yoga teachers. What makes a vinyasa class truly great is a teacher who can reliably lead a multilayered class built upon a strong physical workout that opens up a spiritual depth of exquisite beauty. more …
Let Your Yoga Dance®: Teacher Training for Special Populations
For teachers and practitioners of many backgrounds: yoga, dance, YogaDance™, physical therapists, and bodyworkers. There are thousands of people who yearn to move their bodies, dance, and do yoga, but are prevented from taking part in these activities by injuries, disease, or depression. more …
Music, Puppets, Masks, and Myths
For kids ages 5-11. This music and performance workshop with musicians and performers Lisa Karrer and David Simons encompasses world music traditions, stories, and dynamic performances such as the Balinese Monkey Chant, based on the Hindu epic The Ramayana. more …
Reimagine, Rejuvenate, Reclaim Your Life After 40
Crafting a meaningful, passionate, healthy life in midlife and beyond. This program is designed for women and men over 40 who want to reinvigorate their life with joy and health. more …
Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words
For lovers of poetry and those who have yet to discover its power; no experience necessary. Poems, prayers, and other sacred writings are the language of the soul. more …
Wild Hips, Gypsy Heart: Belly Dance as Self-Empowerment
For women only; beginners are welcome. Unleash your primal energies and learn to move your hips in a million ways as Melina shares her family’s ancient belly-dance secrets. more …
YogaSlackers Summer Camp Retreat
For those with at least 6 months of yoga experience who are in good health and injury-free. Relive the fun and excitement of going to summer camp in a 5-day adventure with the YogaSlackers, a group of friends who have developed a style of yoga that is practiced on a slackline (a kind of tightrope). more …
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Yoga for Healing the Upper Body, Including: Upper Back, Neck, and Shoulders
For yoga therapists, yoga teachers, and everyone working with the health challenges addressed by the workshop. No yoga experience is necessary. Developed by Gary Kraftsow, Viniyoga Therapy draws on ancient insights, applying the tools of asana, pranayama, chanting, meditation, relaxation, prayers, and personal ritual to help individuals achieve wellness, improve function, reduce suffering, regain self-confidence, and find happiness in the face of any condition. more …
Friday, August 13, 2010
Freedom and Flow with Baptiste Power Yoga
Experience yourself like you never have before in a sweaty, adventurous, and inspiring vinyasa flow based on the dynamic yoga style created by Baron Baptiste. more …
Gluten-Free Baking and Cooking: Healthy Alternatives and Tasty Treats
Share your personal experiences with living and/or cooking gluten-free in this hands-on and demonstration cooking and baking workshop. Guided by Lee Tobin, Whole Foods Market Gluten-Free Bakehouse Team Leader, you will learn about the gluten-free diet and explore strategies and resources for adapting to a gluten-free lifestyle. more …
Living an Awakened Life
You are already fully awake and enlightened, but to the extent that you are lost in the past and future world of thought and the illusory world of the mind, you have disconnected from your true nature. more …
OM Yoga: Let’s Twist Again Like We Did Last Summer
Join Cyndi Lee for her annual summer workshop at Kripalu and experience OM Yoga, a dynamic and elegant practice that combines vibrant vinyasa with satisfying, precise alignment, and the centering effect of mindfulness. more …
Reflect, Reclaim, Re-Balance: A Women’s Self-Renewal Retreat
For women only; no yoga experience necessary. Do you long to reconnect with who you are? Are you in career or life transition? Do you crave time for quiet reflection, rest, and renewal? more …
The Core of Yoga: A Total Abdominal Awakening
Access your body’s core, find your authentic center of balance, and allow layers of physical and mental tension to unwind and dissolve. This embodied anatomy program includes penetrating abdominal and pelvic work, asana, pranayama, bandha, joint explorations, tranquilizing relaxations, therapeutic self-massage—and plenty of sweat! more …
The Soulmate Secret
Have you ever wondered what it takes to find the love of your life, someone who will love, cherish, and adore you? This inspiring, informative, and dynamically creative workshop with best-selling author Arielle Ford will give you specific tools to take control of your romantic destiny. more …
Vocal Essence: African Songs, Chants, and Movement
Discover the magic of human vocal production with Aisha Kahlil, who sings and tours with the internationally renowned a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock. more …
Yoga Evolution: Alchemy for Yoga Transformation
Call forth physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual transformation in this innovative weekend with yoga instructor, kirtan singer, and Ayurvedic practitioner Travis Eliot. more …
YogArts for Kids
For kids ages 5–11. YogArt is an integration of yoga, creative arts, and outdoor fun; be prepared for your kids to refuse to go home! Calling all kids who love to collect stuff outdoors, do creative art projects, have fun, and make friends. more …
Sunday, August 15, 2010
CircusYoga® Camp for Adults
Did you ever dream of running away with the circus? Join CircusYoga founders Kevin O’Keefe and Erin Maile O’Keefe for a week of circus and yoga, and all the combinations that arise out of that union. more …
Fitness and Yoga Retreat
Outdoor exercise, yoga, and nutrition—the ultimate vacation getaway for active people. For everyone in good physical condition and able to hike three miles a day. more …
Functional Yoga Therapy: Hands-On Experience in Assessment and Treatment Planning
Program change Mary Northey will no longer be co-presenting this program. For yoga teachers, yoga therapists, physical therapists, massage therapists, and other body movement practitioners grounded in yoga. more …
Insight Yoga Teacher Training Intensive: Yin/Yang/Mindfulness Level 1
For teachers and dedicated practitioners with at least 2 years of yoga experience and a strong interest in meditation. Deepen your understanding of the experiential, philosophical, and practical application of yoga and mindfulness meditation. more …
Painting and Yoga in the Berkshires
Join artist and yoga teacher Linda Novick for a wonderful week of yoga and painting in the beauty of the Berkshires. As your mind and body relax with yoga, your natural creativity will come pouring out through painting. more …
Shaktipat Workshops: Divining and Designing Workshops That Transform
For teachers, aspiring workshop leaders, and helping professionals. “Shaktipat” is a Sanskrit term for transformational moments when shakti—the inner, evolutionary energy—is set free to quicken personal evolution. more …
Teaching Yoga for Scoliosis (Students)
For yoga teachers and students of all levels. Take part in the first teacher training program designed specifically to train yoga teachers how to work with students who have scoliosis. more …
Teaching Yoga for Scoliosis (Teachers)
For yoga teachers and students of all levels. Take part in the first teacher training program designed specifically to train yoga teachers how to work with students who have scoliosis. more …
