Calendar of Programs
Friday, September 10, 2010
Being Together: The Art of Loving: A Workshop for Couples
For all couples—young, old, married, unmarried—of any sexual orientation. An enduring love is one of life’s greatest treasures. It is a treasure created and sustained by being fully present together—aware, open, and wholeheartedly immersing ourselves in whatever experience life has to offer us. more …
Better Birth: The Ultimate Guide to Childbirth from Home Births to Hospitals (Cancelled)
Program cancelled. For pregnant women and those considering pregnancy; couples and singles welcome. BornClear is a unique childbirth preparation course endorsed by renowned doctors and mind-body scientists, and featured on the Today show. more …
Finding Ease at Your Edge: Relaxation, Mindfulness, and Vinyasa
When you are in the midst of a life challenge—big or small—do you tense up, get aggressive, turn away in fear? One of the greatest benefits of yoga is that it trains you to stay calm in the eye of any storm. more …
In-Sight: A Photography Workshop
Participants must have digital cameras and enjoy taking and reviewing photos. Photographer Todd Shapera seeks to empower you to begin to see and encounter your world in new ways through your camera. more …
Introduction to Yoga and Meditation
Are you interested in yoga and meditation but don’t know where to begin? Do you want a safe and welcoming environment for exploring the basics? Would you like to take home practical tools for using yoga and meditation in your life? more …
Opening to Essence: Integrating the Enneagram and Yoga
Yoga and the Enneagram are both profound paths of personal transformation. Each involves engaging an inner witness, working with breath to deepen self-inquiry and self-understanding, softening habitual reactivity, and coming home to your spiritual self. more …
The Nine Principles of Change: How to Make or Face Any Life Change with Optimism
Adapting to change is the most important life skill you can learn. This transformative workshop with Ariane de Bonvoisin, best-selling author of The First 30 Days, is designed to help you deal with all of life’s changes—big and small, personal and professional. more …
Vegetarian Express: Quick and Easy Vegetarian Cooking (Cancelled)
Program cancelled. Dreaming about making quick, delicious, and nutritionally balanced vegetarian meals? Come excite your palate and expand your repertoire with Leslie Cerier’s inspirational recipe lineup. more …
Women, Food, and God: A Transformational Path
The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. No matter how sophisticated, wise, or enlightened you believe you are, how you eat tells all. more …
Sunday, September 12, 2010
A Buddhist Healing Ritual: Dakini Heart-Essence Chöd
Please note that due to visa issues in India, Dungse Rigdzin Dorje Rinpoche and the monks and nuns of Zangdokpalri have cancelled their U.S. tour and are unable to lead their Healing Chöd programs scheduled at Kripalu this year. more …
Your Spacious Self: Clear Your Clutter and Discover Who You Are
“This is not your typical clutter-clearing workshop,” says leading space-clearing expert and author Stephanie Bennett Vogt. She defines clutter as any thing or thought that gets in the way of accessing your highest purpose and deepest wisdom. more …
Manifest Your Destiny: The Union of Mind, Asana, and Chakra Study (Cancelled)
Program cancelled. Harmony and balance of heart, mind, body, and soul create a direct path to manifesting your dreams into reality and living the life you choose. more …
Awakening Healing Energy (Cancelled)
Program cancelled. The human energy field has been the subject of much contemporary research, while the yoga tradition outlined a practical system for accessing subtle energy thousands of years ago. more …
Detox for Health and Healing
A 5-day jump start for healthier living. Time for a detox? Detoxification is a natural body process that is compromised when our system becomes overloaded from a variety of causes that include poor diet, allergies, stress, infections, and toxins such as heavy metals. more …
Thai Yoga Massage 5: Lotus Palm School Certification (Cancelled)
Program cancelled. Read more about the full Lotus Palm certification program. For students who have taken Thai Yoga Massage 1–4 or equivalent Thai Yoga Massage training. more …
The Aquarian Teacher: Kundalini Yoga Teacher Certification Level One, Segment 3
If you want to learn something, read about it. If you want to understand something, write about it. If you want to master something, teach it. —Yogi Bhajan Yogi Bhajan, master of Kundalini Yoga, arrived in the United States in 1969 with the stated purpose of creating teachers, not gathering disciples. more …
Kripalu Foundations of Ayurveda: Session 1
Take part in an integrated curriculum designed to make Ayurveda an exciting exploration that results in you feeling more connected to your self, others, and seasonal rhythm—while giving you the confidence to bring this ancient technology to your clients, friends, and/or family members. more …
Thursday, September 16, 2010
EMDR and Integration-Based Stress Reduction: Trauma Tools for Professionals
For psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, mental health practitioners, LMFTs, LCADC, and LPCs. While traditional methods for treating trauma often prove unsuccessful, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) has been empirically validated as effective with trauma-related disorders. more …
The Widow Wears Red Pajamas: Exploring the Art of Dying Beautifully
For people of all ages and all spiritual traditions. Health-care professionals welcome. Dying beautifully is something to look forward to—a joyful celebration of life, thoughtfully planned to create comforting memories and give peace to both the living and the dying. more …
Friday, September 17, 2010
Change Your Inner Talk, Change Your Life
We’re talking to ourselves every waking moment. How we talk to ourselves creates our experience of the world-our moods, work performance, self-esteem, health, energy, and relationships. more …
Goddess Getaway Weekend
For women and teen girls only, 13 years and older. Join world-renowned teacher Sierra Bender, author of Goddess to the Core® and creator of the Boot Camp for Goddesses®, as she shares her 4 Body Fit® approach to whole-self health care for women. more …
Introduction to Yoga Nursing®: The Art of Caring
For caregivers and healing professionals alike. Previous yoga experience is not required. Yoga Nursing is an exciting new movement in health care and yoga therapy, a complementary approach to health and wellness that combines the riches of Kripalu Yoga methodology with traditional Western nursing practice. more …
One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps
The Buddha said that craving is the cause of suffering. Twelve-Step programs work with the deepest forms of craving—our addictions. How can these two traditions work together? more …
Reboot: Mindful Autumn Hiking and Deep Yoga Relaxation
Reboot your outlook and rejuvenate body, mind, and breath in this masterfully guided, magical getaway in the beautiful Berkshire Mountains. Celebrate your vital force with mindful hikes under the open sky in the cool air and natural colors of autumn. more …
Spiritual Liberation: The Answer Is You
Are you ready to break your contract with mediocrity and stop being an extra in your own life? “If you’re feeling claustrophobic playing your current life role,” says Michael Bernard Beckwith, “this is an indication that you’ve outgrown your part. more …
The Promise: Advanced Yoga for EveryOne
Yoga is not a linear process; it is direct intimacy with life, and it is available to everyone. This weekend, Mark Whitwell offers yoga’s advanced practices in a way that you will be able to integrate and make your own, whether you are just beginning to practice or have years of experience. more …
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Dynamic Healing: Massaging Clients Through Severe Illness: Advanced Training for Massage Therapists
For licensed massage and bodywork practitioners. Are you prepared for the day a long-time client tells you they’ve been diagnosed with cancer? more …
Create the Life You Want (Cancelled)
Program cancelled. We live in an abundant universe; rich, vibrant, and generous. Why can some people tap into this abundance and create the life they want, while others struggle with an ever-present sense of lack and limitation? more …
ChiRunning® and Kripalu Yoga: Running as a Holistic Practice
Interested in how yoga and mindfulness can enhance your running? Come learn how to apply the alignment and relaxation principles of yoga and ChiRunning in your life with cross-country, track, and marathon coach Ryan Miller. more …
Nutrition and Cooking Immersion
Create health right in your kitchen. Do you want to eat healthier foods and cook more? Do you want to understand more how the food you eat affects your body and mind? more …
SomaSoul® Somatic Expressive Therapy Training: The Expressive Body and the Contemplative Mind
SomaSoul is a mind-body healing therapy that integrates the expressive arts, body psychotherapy and somatics for self-discovery and healing. The SomaSoul Training is a series of four 5-day modules offered over the course of seven months. more …
Sweat, Sequencing, and Somatics
Delve into a cutting-edge combination of yoga and deep-tissue structural bodywork. Over the last few years, David Vendetti and Todd Skoglund have discovered that by combining proper warm-ups, purposeful posture sequencing, isometric resistance stretching, and structural bodywork, a truly astonishing deepening of practice can be found. more …
The Yoga of Regeneration
Yoga is every person’s direct intimacy with reality, an entirely abundant, regenerating, and nurturing power. This is yoga from the heart, for the heart, and it promises health, intimacy, well-being, and joy. more …
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Inner Quest Intensive
All-inclusive price: $520 The all-inclusive price includes open-dorm housing & meals. Participants sleep in dormitories or the program room along with other IQI participants of the same sex, and are served a simple and moderate diet. more …
Friday, September 24, 2010
Bearing Witness to the Wholeness of Life
Bernie Glassman is a potent and creative force in Western Buddhism and a leading proponent of social engagement as spiritual practice. He has created new paths, practices, liturgies, and organizations to serve the people who fall between the cracks of society. more …
Core Fusion®
Core Fusion is a transformational mind-body fitness experience that allows you to work from the inside out to consistently improve body tone and energy. more …
Flow and Let Go: Awakening Vitality with Vinyasa and Restorative Yoga
Rejuvenate the flow of “prana shakti,” the energy of your innate life force. Enjoy the journey of flowing with breath in warming, active postures to prepare the body and mind for experiencing deep relaxation in supported, passive postures. more …
Healing Your Aloneness: A Six-Step Inner Bonding Pathway to Wholeness
This workshop teaches you how to access spiritual guidance and experience the unconditional love and wisdom that is always available and which heals your aloneness. more …
The Adventure of Self-Discovery: A Holotropic Breathwork™ Experience
This is a rare invitation to experience Holotropic Breathwork with Stanislav Grof. This practice, originated by Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof, allows direct access to your own inner healing wisdom. more …
Wisdom of the Shaman: Practices for Healing and Transformation
The Huichol Indian practice of shamanism involves living through the heart as well as the body and spirit. The Huichols believe that the power of love is the foundation for all other power. more …
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 500-Hour Certification: Module 3
Learn the deeper facets of teaching yoga, from asana and pranayama to the internal practice of stilling the mind and attuning to the multidimensional body, mind, and spirit. more …
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Sitting, Standing, Walking: Creating New Body Pathways
This program takes a look at things you have been doing for most of your life-sitting, standing, and walking. These ordinary activities may be in the background of your attention, but they are not separate from who you are. more …
Integrative Weight Loss
Learn how to lose weight and maintain a healthy body naturally. If you know that going on another diet isn’t the solution, come nourish yourself and invite changes that will continue to unfold long after you return home. more …
Paint and Dance from the Source: A Magical Journey to the Beloved
Come venture into the Temple of Paint and Dance. Combine these two powerful and ancient rituals for healing, moving back and forth between dancing and painting on a journey of radical breakthrough to the authentic Self. more …
Thai Yoga Bodywork: Foundation Course
Practiced for centuries in the temples of Thailand, Thai Yoga Bodywork incorporates the Buddhist practices of mindfulness and compassion with assisted yoga postures from the Ayurvedic tradition. more …
The Power of Mantra and Ceremony: An Evolutionary Intensive
The ancients so understood the power of Sanskrit ceremony that for thousands of years they kept the methods for doing them under wraps. Pujas and yajnas (water and fire ceremonies) remained largely secret until the early part of the twentieth century. more …
The Transformative Power of Being: The Non-Dual Yoga of Delight, Wonder, and Astonishment
Peace arrives when we cease trying to make this moment different, when we choose to live deeply, directly, and simply from what we are-the mystery of pure being. more …
Transforming Rage: Women Making Inner Peace Possible (Cancelled)
Program cancelled. For women only; no yoga experience needed. Rage sits at the crossroads of personal transformation. It is the daughter of our traumas, the twin of our shame, the burden of our denied histories, the foreign language of our emotional pain, and the wisdom that helps us heal. more …
Yoga and Deep Relaxation Retreat: The Gift of Yoga Nidra
This nourishing retreat is the perfect antidote to a busy and fragmented life, and a wonderful opportunity to come back into harmony, balance, and wholeness. more …
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Williamson Muscular Retraining: Introduction for Bodywork Practitioners and Yoga Teachers
For bodywork practitioners and yoga instructors. Are you looking for a more whole-person approach to your bodywork practice or yoga teaching? Imagine actively engaging in a dialogue with the kinesthetic awareness of your clients and students, while teaching them to clearly sense how they unconsciously hold tension. more …
Friday, October 1, 2010
Anusara Yoga® Essentials: Universal Principles
Are you ready to go deeper? Seeking new perspectives? This workshop might be just what you are looking for. Anusara Yoga is a profound and elegant system that blends the ancient art of yoga with modern science. more …
Big Guy Yoga
This is a weekend for the guy who says, “I can’t do yoga; I can’t even touch my toes!” Alan “Big Guy Yoga” Haines creates an environment where the average guy feels comfortable learning yoga, even if he thinks he’s too out of shape or heavy to exercise. more …
Clean Food Made Easy and Delicious
This hands-on workshop will empower you to make healthy food choices for yourself, your family, and the environment. Whether you are just get started or have lots of experience with a clean eating approach, you will fuel your passion for cooking and eating for a healthy and vibrant life as you Explore the basics of eating clean to achieve easy, delicious, and sustainable good health Learn to apply the clean food philosophy to your unique constitution and lifestyle Consider how to combine foods for balanced and complete meals Create and share recipes featuring locally grown produce. more …
New Body Pilates: Transform and Empower From the Inside Out
Jennifer Kries is one of those rare teachers who can lead you to a place beyond exercise, into a whole new way to experience yourself. With a focus on breathing, alignment, and dynamic, flowing movement, Jennifer’s unique approach to Pilates will help you to sculpt your body as you cultivate deep, inner-core strength, confidence, radiance, and grace. more …
Past Lives, Parallel Lives, Future Lives: All in the Vast Present Moment!
So much of what is meaningful about who you are and what is possible for you comes from your ability to access fresh ideas and make them real’and that includes sensing other lives you may be living elsewhere in time. more …
So You Want to Write: How to Master the Craft of Writing Memoir
For writers at any level of experience. The memoir has become one of today’s most popular reads. So why is it so hard to write one? This hands-on intensive is dedicated to teaching the elements of the writer’s craft and putting those techniques to use so you can leave with great ideas to work on at home and the inspiration to keep writing. more …
Taoist Qigong: The Alchemy of Transformation
Learn a rare and revered method of qigong healing exercise from China, called Taoist Taiji Ruler. The hands are kept about a foot apart, as though holding a foot-long ruler, to generate a strong field of life force (qi) between them. more …
Yoga Fusion: The Ultimate Fall Yoga Retreat
This total fall rejuvenation brings together leading yoga instructors from Manhattan and Kripalu for a powerful weekend of collaboration and community. more …
Sunday, October 3, 2010
If Not Now, When?: Planting Positive Seeds Through Yoga, Breath, and Visualization
Coming to your yoga practice with a joyous heart, you set the intention for your practice, planting the positive seeds needed to grow to a higher vibration. 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 …
Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration
Explore leading-edge concepts from Frequency, the new best-seller by Penney Peirce. This workshop will teach you how to succeed in what Penney calls the new energy reality. more …
Healing Sounds Qigong: Purification and Renewal
Qigong is China’s ancient method of preventive and complementary medicine. In this intensive training, you will learn two of the great classical styles of qigong, the Liu Qi Fa, popularly known as Healing Sounds, and Xi Sui Jing, Bone-Marrow Cleansing. more …
Meridian Yoga Intensive: Opening the Energetic Pathways
When our meridian pathways are blocked, we experience emotional, physical, and even spiritual malaise. But when these pathways are opened, prana—universal life force—flows though us, bringing harmony, lightness, and joy to our being, aligning us with heaven and earth, sun and moon, wind and sky. more …
Revitalizing Cleanse: Nourishing Body, Mind, and Spirit
Do you feel sluggish, bloated, and out of sync? Tune up with this nurturing, sensible cleanse. You will not go hungry as you are guided through this sensible approach to detox, diet, and healthy lifestyle. more …
Women's Mysteries: Walking with Beauty and Power
For women at all stages of life. In the past, women in native cultures were taught special ways to keep themselves beautiful and healthy. They were shown by example how to use their unique female powers to help their people. more …
Yoga for the Rest of Us: Yoga You'll Love to Do
Also for those who want to lead adaptive yoga. Experience the many benefits of yoga in a safe, enjoyable and friendly environment, no matter what shape you are in. more …
YogaDance Teacher Training: Chakra Fusion, Level 1
If you can take a brisk walk, have a fair amount of energy, and are ready to experience the dance of your own creativity, give yourself this gift of a lifetime. more …
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Finding Refuge in the Moment: The Way of Haiku
cup of tea — the moon still until i sip it The present moment is a place of refuge that can be experienced in any place and at any time. Through the practice of writing haiku, we unclutter the mind, revealing a heightened awareness of what is essential and true. more …
Friday, October 8, 2010
Yoga Retreat: Evolving Through Your Yoga Practice
Immerse yourself in a masterfully guided experiential learning environment for yoga practice that will bring you home to a fresh and enlivening relationship with your whole, multidimensional self. more …
Lifewalk: The Hero's Journey and the Spiritual Quest
Lifewalk guides you through the ancient stages of the Hero’s Journey, to help you find healing, gather strength and wisdom, and regain your inherent spiritual power and love. more …
Passionate Man: Embodying the Wild and Sacred Masculine
Across time and culture, men have gathered and bonded in rituals of initiation and brotherhood. Without a ritual structure for the honored masculine, many men feel disconnected and lost in a mundane world. 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 …
Reboot: Mindful Autumn Hiking and Deep Yoga Relaxation
Reboot your outlook and rejuvenate body, mind, and breath in this masterfully guided, magical getaway in the beautiful Berkshire Mountains. Celebrate your vital force with mindful hikes under the open sky in the cool air and natural colors of autumn. more …
Sex, Pleasure, and Intimacy: A Retreat for Couples
For couples of any length of commitment and any sexual orientation. Would you love to feel passionate and at ease in your lovemaking? Most of us remember a time when sexual relating was a joy, when we were easily aroused and didn’t worry about whether we were “doing it right. more …
Shakti Namaskar: Embodying the Goddess
For women only. This women’s retreat (with option for teacher training) is designed to open our creative power, sustain life, and dissolve what binds us. more …
The Magic of Animal Communication
Have you ever wondered what your animal is thinking? Amelia Kinkade knows, and she can teach you to understand your animal’s thoughts. Here is your opportunity to discover what your animal friends want, need, feel, and think. more …
Yoga and Kirtan: Rejuvenate Mind, Body, and Spirit
At a cellular level, the human body is made of vibration, and just like a musical instrument, it can be out of tune. In this 3-day weekend, Jessica and Deena Robertson and their kirtan collective, Lila, will lead you through yoga classes that re-tune the body, mind, and spirit, and awaken a feeling of freedom. more …
Yoga and the Five Elements: A Retreat to Balance Body, Mind, and Spirit
Just as each season has unique affects on us, so do the universal elements of nature: earth, water, fire, air, and space. Keeping these essential elements in balance is considered by many traditions to be the driving force of health. more …
Sunday, October 10, 2010
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 …
Self-Awakening Yoga Therapeutics Teacher Training®
For yoga teachers and practitioners (min. 2 years). Applying experiences and principles from his book, Self-Awakening Yoga, Don Stapleton takes yoga inquiry back to its roots as a creative learning process in this training for yoga educators, therapists, and practitioners. more …
Monday, October 11, 2010
Shamanic Yoga for Healing and Evolution
For yogis with at least one year of practice. This vinyasa yoga workshop will employ shamanic techniques to assist the somatic release of stagnated energies. more …
Chakra Vinyasa: Liberating the Body Mandala
Experience an accessible and universal approach to the chakra system within vinyasa that awakens the essential truths of our energetic body to live in greater alignment with our authentic flow. more …
Dancemeditation™ Training: Spiritual Belly Dance
Can your feet see, your pelvis taste, and your bones sing? Whether you’ve been dancing for years or are just starting out, in this transformative training you will join master Sufi teacher Dunya Dianne McPherson for exquisite belly dance practices that will enliven your body, awaken your creativity, and deepen your spiritual communion. more …
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 …
Reboot Immersion: Mindful Autumn Hiking and Deep Yoga Relaxation
Immerse yourself in a 4-day yoga and hiking program that invites you to reboot your outlook and rejuvenate body, mind, and breath. Randal Williams and Larissa Hall Carlson are your masterful guides for this magical getaway in the Berkshires in which you will celebrate your vital force with mindful hikes in the invigorating air and natural colors of autumn. more …
Teaching Chair Yoga: The Sitting Mountain Series Teacher Training
For yoga teachers, yoga teachers-to-be, and health-care professionals. Do you have students, clients, or patients who cannot get down on the floor because of age, weight, disability, or inflexibility? more …
Unleash Your Calling: An Intensive to Create the Work and Life You Love
Do you crave meaningful work? Do you yearn to express yourself creatively, help the world, and get paid for it? Your wildest dreams are not frivolous. They are your source for inspired abilities and explosive direction. more …
Friday, October 15, 2010
Awakening Joy: Ten Steps That Will Put You on the Road to Real Happiness
Develop your natural capacity for well-being and happiness in this weekend program based on James Baraz’s popular book and online course. Presenting Buddhist principles and other supportive strategies in a user-friendly way, this workshop will help you awaken the joy within through experiential exercises, silent and guided meditation, singing, writing, and fun. more …
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
Through his brain-imaging work with tens of thousands of patients over the last two decades, Dr. Daniel Amen has come to understand that you can literally change your brain—and your life. more …
Creating Transformational Experiences: Awakening Group Wisdom
When you’re clear about your calling and you’ve got the right tools, you’re in a powerful position to help others. This weekend, you will harness your dreams and explore your purpose and path as a leader. more …
Devotion in Motion: Yoga, Art, Storytelling, and Music
Husband and wife team MC Yogi and Amanda Giacomini invite you to a fun and creative exploration of the yoga tradition. Each session will be a multi-sensory journey that weaves together yoga practice, mantra meditation, sacred art, music, dance, storytelling, and prayer. more …
Guided From Within: A Nurturing Yoga Retreat
For yoga students with at least one year of yoga experience. Yoga has a remarkable way of helping you tap into deep places of awareness and feelings of well-being, self-confidence, and resilience. more …
Have Your Comfort Foods Taken You Hostage?
Have your “comfort foods” taken you hostage? Most of us know what we’re supposed to eat, but it’s another thing to bypass comfort food for healthier choices. more …
Healing Mind and Body: Medicine Buddha and Tibetan Medicine
According to traditional accounts, Tibetan medicine was first taught in India by the Buddha and in the eighth century CE was brought to Tibet, where it has flourished in an unbroken lineage to the present day. more …
Tending the Sacred Fire: Living Yoga Sadhana
Within tantra, Ayurveda, and Krisnamacharya’s teachings of vinyasa, we thrive when we find the form of yoga practice that fuels, nourishes, and illumines what is needed to evolve our life. more …
Yoga and Kayaking
Join Johnny Snyder, world-class kayaker and professional guide, and Greg DiLisio, certified qigong, tai chi, and yoga teacher and popular Kripalu program leader, and set off on flat-water adventures in the magic of the Berkshires. more …
