Calendar of Programs
Friday, June 22, 2012
Spiritual Life Tune-Up
Regular tune-ups keep your car humming along at the peak of its capabilities. Similarly, when you take the time to tune up your spiritual life, there’s an ongoing brightness in your daily experience. more …
The One Thing Holding You Back: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Connection
Do you have an unrealized dream? Are you still waiting to tap into your full potential? What prevents you from manifesting your greatest life vision may be a reservoir of unfelt emotion. more …
TriYoga®: Immerse in the Prana Flow
TriYoga is a revolutionary method founded by Kali Ray (Kaliji) that unites dynamic and sustained asana with pranayama and mudra. Guided by kriyavati siddhi (Kundalini-inspired yoga) as it flows through Kaliji, TriYoga is in the tradition of ancient yoga and results in a heightened flow of prana. more …
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Explore and Innovate Your Core: A Core Fusion® Immersion
Core Fusion is a transformational mind-body fitness experience that allows you to work from the inside out to improve body tone and energy. The brainchild of Elisabeth Halfpapp and Fred DeVito of Exhale Mind Body Spa in Manhattan, Core Fusion has been praised by New York Magazine as one of New York City’s best fitness classes. more …
Creating Health and Harmony: An Ayurvedic Retreat
Discover an Ayurvedic approach to living well. Are you interested in Ayurveda but not sure where to start? Join us for this enlightening and fun Ayurveda immersion retreat. more …
Evidence-Based Qigong (EBQ) Certification: Nurturing Mind, Body, and Spirit
For yoga teachers, practitioners, and everyone interested in learning qigong. Are you looking for new material to teach your students? Would you like to attract a wider audience with an evidence-based program of gentle, restorative, mind-body exercise? more …
Journey to the Core: Forrest Yoga for Body and Spirit
Are you ready to stretch your heart, spirit, and body, and strengthen the core of your being? This week of Forrest Yoga offers challenge and inspiration for beginners as well as experienced practitioners. more …
Let Your Yoga Dance® Teacher Training: Chakra Fusion, Part 2
For students who have completed Part 1. Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training Chakra Fusion Part 2 pulls everything together. After six weeks of at-home practice following completion of Part 1, you return to offer full hour-long Let Your Yoga Dance classes to your peers in a safe and sacred setting. more …
Thai Yoga Massage 1: Lotus Palm School Certification
Read more about the full Lotus Palm certification program. Start a career in Thai Yoga Massage, a dynamic therapy for physical well-being and spiritual energy. more …
Total Immersion for Total Transformation
Get ready for five intense days of ecstatic rebirth. Raphael Cushnir creates a safe and gentle environment to help call forth your very best, using tools such as emotional-release work, journaling, small-group exercises, meditation, movement, yoga, chant, collage, subtle-energy practices, and mind-heart attunements. more …
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Energy Intensive: Meditation, Yoga, and Breathwork
Come experience Kripalu Yoga’s unique approach to personal transformation in a program that’s practical, integrative, and fun. Two of Kripalu’s outstanding teachers lead this exploration of the profound relationship between energy and consciousness, which is the essence of yoga and the foundation of all mind-body approaches. more …
Swingolf: The Golf/Yoga/Massage Motion
For golfers of all levels and ages, from the beginner to the seasoned player. Tournament-playing professional Les Bolland offers a holistic approach to golf that incorporates yoga, muscle-opening shiatsu massage, breathing, and an emphasis on mental and physical harmony. more …
Friday, June 29, 2012
Already Home
The deepest self inside of you, available in every breath, is the seat of all wisdom and knowing. You are already home. This nourishing weekend supports you in strengthening the muscle that helps you remember who you really are. more …
Dharma Yoga Maha Sadhana:The Eight-Limbed Universal Power Behind All Action
Dharma Mittra, inspirational classical yoga master and leader in the West, invites you into “the life of a yogi.” Founder of the Dharma Yoga Centers in New York City, Dharma has a gift for helping students achieve confidence in poses and a clear understanding of the tenants of yoga. more …
Divine Journey: A Chant and JourneyDance™ Weekend
Let go into a profound transformational journey of devotion, traveling on movement, music, and chant to create a skyrocketing celebration of Self. All you have to do is dance and sing your heart out, connect to Spirit, practice yoga, share, and celebrate your true self. more …
Gentle Yoga for All: Unleashing Joy and Vitality
Yoga is a practice everyone can benefit from. Whether you are stiff, out of shape, in recovery, or you just aren’t sure if yoga is really for you, there are many ways to adapt your practice to suit your individual needs. more …
Hiking, Yoga, and Qigong: Finding Flow in Nature
Explore less-traveled, scenic trails of the Berkshires, guided by longtime program director Greg DiLisio. Hike to beautiful lakes, mountains, waterfalls, and serene forests. more …
Peak Prosperity
Feeling concerned about the future? The convergence of the broken global economy, peak oil production levels, and fast-depleting natural resources virtually ensures that the next 20 years will be completely unlike the last 20. more …
Salsa and Yoga: Relax, Renew, and Cut Loose
Return to a state of ease and inner peace through yoga, and then roll up your mat, hit the dance floor, and free your spirit to the intoxicating rhythms of salsa! more …
Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living
This weekend is a cry for freedom from the conventional standards that obscure the call of your soul. It’s an invitation to a life of reverence, joy, and meaning without dogma. more …
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Chakra Detox Immersion: A Complete Physical, Mental, and Emotional Detox
1 year yoga experience. Free up blocks in your body and tap your true potential. In this immersion, strategically clear your body, mind, and heart while obtaining a concrete understanding of the chakras. more …
Sharing Your Life Story: From the Page to the Stage
Everything in your life, from the mundane to the extraordinary, is a story waiting to be told. This workshop is an invitation for you to discover your own unique and powerful story. more …
Still Small Voice Within: Meditation, Focusing, and Intuition Training
Einstein said, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” In order to climb out of any rut, resolve any problem, or sense your path from a new perspective, you have to shift your awareness. more …
Yoga and Deep Relaxation Retreat: The Gift of Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra
Experience deeper levels of inner freedom than you ever imagined possible. Give yourself permission to rest, balance, restore, and tap into new sources of energy. more …
Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Path for Health, Healing, and Personal Transformation
Interested in learning how to use yoga to help treat and prevent a wide range of physical and emotional conditions? In this hands-on immersion, you have the opportunity to practice evaluating students and planning personalized therapeutic yoga routines in small groups, under the supervision of medical doctor Timothy McCall and his assistants. more …
Yoga for Life
An integrative approach to yoga on and off the mat. Whether you are new to yoga or looking to revitalize your practice, this immersion provides you with the tools and inspiration you need to make yoga, and its benefits, a regular part of your life. more …
Yoga, Shamanism, and the Dance of Nature
Celebrate life in this all-encompassing workshop that blends the power of yoga with an introduction to shamanism. Ray Crist holds the space for transformation and self-healing, teaching practical and grounded tools in a program that includes Daily all-levels yoga (mostly in nature) The four elements as presented by the Tibetans and by Peruvian shamans Dancing and celebrating in a fire ceremony The feminine/masculine dance of Shiva and Shakti Ayurvedic principles A drum circle Meditation Hiking to take in the summer’s nectar. 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 …
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
All Together Singing: Creative Ways to Make and Listen to Music With Your Family (Adults)
For families with children ages 5 and up. Kick off your summer with an infusion of family music and fun. This workshop promotes family harmony by helping you create music together in a safe, joyful, and playful space. more …
All Together Singing: Creative Ways to Make and Listen to Music With Your Family (Kids)
For families with children ages 5 and up. Kick off your summer with an infusion of family music and fun. This workshop promotes family harmony by helping you create music together in a safe, joyful, and playful space. more …
Friday, July 6, 2012
Diving Into the Body: The Essentials of Energy Medicine for Self-Care
Explore the energy field, the basics of energy medicine, and the fundamentals of vitality and energy flow with medical doctor Ann Marie Chiasson, who began to learn and practice energy medicine prior to entering medical school. more …
Goddess to the Core®: An Inspired Workout to Maximize Your Fitness, Beauty, and Power
For women and teens. Sierra Bender-founder of the Sierra Bender Empowerment Method® and Boot Camp for Goddesses®, and author of Goddess to the Core®—empowers women to lead with power, purpose, and passion. more …
Introduction to Meditation
Have you heard about the benefits of meditation and wondered what the practice is really like? Or perhaps you’ve had some meditation instruction but not yet found a technique that fits your temperament and lifestyle, one that allows you to sustain a regular practice. more …
Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness
Can you learn to be happier? Absolutely! Author of Being Happy, Tal Ben-Shahar taught the most popular course at Harvard University—Positive Psychology, the study of optimal human functioning. more …
Simple Summer Cooking with Moosewood Restaurant
Are you passionate about eating good, healthy foods and want some inspiration for your culinary explorations? Summer is a time when the menu is lighter and the accent is on quickly prepared, refreshing foods, including stir-fries, salads, and chilled soups. more …
Yin and Yang Yoga: An Exploration of Stillness, Alchemy, Power, and Flow
Paulie Zink’s approach to yoga is about finding and following your own individual path. Presenting his art in a personal, authentic, and accessible manner, Paulie gently guides you in opening to your intuitive heart and discovering the unique artist inherent within you. more …
YogArts for Kids
For kids ages 5-11. Calling all kids who love to collect things outdoors, do art projects, and make new friends. Come learn yoga, get your face painted, swim, and play. more …
LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner Training for Depression and Anxiety: Level 1
For yoga teachers and health professionals. This training interweaves ancient yogic wisdom with current findings in neurobiology. Learn an evidence-based yoga protocol to help your students and clients focus, relax, and have greater access to feeling states. more …
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Designing Your Destiny: Letting Your Soul Have Its Say
Are you living the life you want? Is your mission clear? This workshop reminds you that you are a work in progress. When you acknowledge your soul’s chosen direction, it’s easy to see that you don’t make one choice for all time, but rather constantly change and evolve. more …
Absolute Freedom: A Yoga and Meditation Retreat
Enjoy the luminosity of a clear mind, balanced body, and open heart with James Higgins, one of San Francisco’s most respected yoga teachers. Through soul-enriching asana practices and deeply nourishing periods of meditation and rest, you discover increased vitality and happiness in body, mind, and spirit. more …
Creative Kids Yoga®: Level 1 Certification
Join movement pioneer Rosemary Todd Clough to learn how to seamlessly integrate yoga and creative dance into the work and play of childhood. Drawing on the Kripalu approach, you explore state-of-the-art research on brain development and bodywork for children. more …
Radiance: Create an Amazing Life After Cancer
Life after cancer can be bold and beautiful, no matter when you were diagnosed or what treatment options you chose. This transformational retreat is for men and women who are ready to dive in and create an amazing life full of healing and joy. more …
Rhythm and Flow: Evolutionary Vinyasa Retreat
Global yoga teacher and flow expert Shiva Rea joins master musicians and drummers Donna De Lory, Mayapuris, KDZ: The Kripalu Drummers, and John de Kadt; and special guests Chris Tompkins and Demetri Velisarius to create this “Living Flow Yoga Camp” for yoga practitioners and teachers. more …
Riding the Wheels of Life: The Art and Flow of Cycling Yoga
For beginning through advanced cyclists and yogis. What is it about the power of both biking and yoga that transforms you instantly when you begin a ride or step onto your mat? more …
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Yoga of the Heart®: Cardiac and Cancer Certification Training
For yoga teachers and health-care professionals with a yoga background (see prerequisite). Would you like to share yoga with those at risk for, or living with, heart disease, cancer, and other life-altering illnesses? more …
Friday, July 13, 2012
Getting the Love You Want: A Workshop for Couples
For couples of all orientations, length of commitment, and stages of life. Take your relationship to the next level in a workshop based on the best-selling book Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples. more …
Iyengar Yoga for Back Care
This program teaches yoga as an approach to relief from chronic back pain, for conditions ranging from minor neck and lower back tension to severe scoliosis. more …
Poetry As Deep Play
Experience writing as deep play—a way to stimulate your creativity, engage your intellect, increase your powers of focus and concentration, and have fun. more …
Radiant Heart: Yoga and the Wisdom of our “Heart-Brain”
Explore the universal and ancient understanding of your heart center with physiological, energetic, and spiritual intimacy. Using the practices and philosophy of tantra, hatha, and bhakti yoga, discover how your heart’s innate intelligence can release your capacity for healing wisdom and love. more …
Rooted, Relaxed, and Radiant: A Yoga, Meditation, and Nature Retreat
Yogis believe the seat of wisdom is in the heart center, not the head. Through the practices of yoga and meditation, and by synchronizing your body and mind with nature, you grow more grounded and relaxed. more …
Tai Chi for Kids©: Peace, Focus, and Fun
For kids, ages 5–11. Children of all ages love the wonderful feeling that comes from the flowing movements of tai chi. Kids who are stressed find inner peace; hyperactive kids discover tools for self-control. more …
The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters
Have you ever wondered, “What is it that I’m really here to do?” Sarah Susanka, best-selling author of The Not So Big Life, has some suggestions to help you find your true passion and identify what’s in the way of living it today. more …
Yoga and Kayaking
Take the plunge! Explore a whole new side of yourself and find out what makes kayaking in the Berkshires so magical. Join the dynamic team of Greg DiLisio (certified yoga, tai chi, and qigong teacher, and popular Kripalu program leader), and Johnny Snyder (world-class kayaker and professional guide) for flat-water adventures combined with basic yoga and qigong techniques. more …
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Blooming Open: A Yoga, Meditation, and Nature Retreat
Discover the state yogis call “true happiness.” Contentment is not a mysterious occurrence-it’s a behavior, a conscious decision, a choice you make each moment of your day. more …
Nutrition and Cooking Immersion
Create health right in your kitchen. Do you want to eat healthier and cook more? Are you a stranger in your kitchen because of time constraints or feeling intimidated or overwhelmed? more …
Positional Therapy: Clinical Applications
For those who have taken Positional Therapy 1 or 2. Take the skills you gained in Positional Therapy 1 or 2 and learn how to apply them to common neuromuscular conditions. more …
Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease
Heal your heart and circulatory system. Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the United States, and one in three Americans have some kind of cardiovascular disease. more …
Revitalizing Cleanse: Nourishing Body, Mind, and Spirit
Do you feel sluggish, bloated, and out of sync? Tune up with this nurturing cleanse. Have no fear of going hungry as you are guided through this sensible approach to detox, diet, and healthy lifestyle. 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 …
Zen and the Art of HarmonicaYoga™
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 …
Friday, July 20, 2012
Anusara Yoga® 101
For students of all yoga traditions, at all levels, including beginners. Anusara Yoga is a seriously playful method of hatha yoga developed by John Friend. more …
Celebrating the Family: Thriving in Nature (Kids)
For families with children ages 6–13. Immerse yourself in an unforgettable adventure in earth-living skills and family fun. Bring your whole family to learn, laugh, grow, and discover as a community thriving in nature. more …
Celebrating the Family:Thriving in Nature (Adults)
For families with children ages 6–13. Immerse yourself in an unforgettable adventure in earth-living skills and family fun. Bring your whole family to learn, laugh, grow, and discover as a community thriving in nature. more …
Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
For couples and individuals of all sexual orientations. Why does great sex so often fade for couples who claim to love each other as much as ever? Is it possible to want what we already have? more …
The Dynamics of Perception: A Body-Mind Centering® Approach
Perception is the psychophysical process of interpreting sensory information that comes to us through multiple channels. This workshop explores how we filter, modify, distort, accept, reject, and use sensory information to bond, defend, and learn. more …
This Very Moment: Mindfulness in Psychotherapy
For psychotherapists, human-service professionals, and other psychologically minded people interested in personal development. Mindfulness has been successfully practiced for more than 2,500 years and is a deceptively simple way of relating to experience to alleviate human suffering. more …
Yoga Ed.™ K-8 Tools for Classroom Teachers
For classroom teachers; no yoga experience needed. You can easily improve your students’ health, learning, and behavior by integrating breath, postures, games, and visualizations into your classroom. more …
Yoga for Emotional Balance: Healing Anxiety and Depression
Do you have a mental grasp of your problems, yet find it difficult to change? Anxiety, depression, and anxious depression are neuro-emotional patterns that hijack your mind, brain, and body, and prevent you from accessing your fullest potential. more …
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Drawing Closer to Nature
Spend a week in the beauty of the Berkshires, discovering and savoring the wonder of summer flowers and fields, lush forests, and sparkling streams, and creating art from what you see. more …
Integrative Weight Loss
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 …
JourneyDance™ Teacher Training Intensive:
Module 1
For dance enthusiasts, including yoga teachers, dance instructors, and movement therapists. Take a powerful and transformative journey: Dance your fiery rhythmic beats. more …
Raising Your Vibration: A 5-Day Anusara Yoga® Intensive
For intermediate yoga students (see prerequisites below). Do you wish you had more time for your yoga practice? Give yourself the gift of five full days of Anusara Yoga. 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 Way of the Happy Woman: Women's Yoga Teacher Training
For women yoga teachers and practitioners with at least 1 year of yoga experience practice. Empower women, change lives, and harness your feminine power in the world’s only women’s yoga teacher training. more …
Trauma, Body, and Brain: Restoring the Capacity for Rhythm and Play
For licensed therapists, yoga instructors, and others interested in the nature of trauma. Traumatic experiences alter people’s relationship to their bodies in ways that leave them feeling uptight, helpless, disconnected, hurt, on edge, frantic, and at odds with themselves. more …
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Swingolf: The Golf/Yoga/Massage Motion
For golfers of all levels and ages, from the beginner to the seasoned player. Tournament-playing professional Les Bolland offers a holistic approach to golf that incorporates yoga, muscle-opening shiatsu massage, breathing, and an emphasis on mental and physical harmony. more …
Friday, July 27, 2012
Ease Into Yoga for Chronic Pain
Have you been struggling with a complex chronic pain condition such as fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, migraines, or neuropathic pain? Emerging scientific evidence suggests that yoga offers profound healing for people with chronic pain. more …
How to Grow a Yoga Practice
Explore how to grow your yoga practice in a weekend retreat that is ideal for beginners and seasoned practitioners alike. Randal Williams draws from 20 years of professional teaching experience to help you cultivate a practice that revitalizes your body, deepens your breath, quiets your mind, heals your heart, and benefits all your relationships. more …
Let Your Yoga Dance® Festival for Women in Wisdom Years
For women. Run like the wind to this moving celebration of spirit! Designed especially for women ages 35 and up, this festival is a fabulous, fun-filled, yoga-dancing event. more …
Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT)
Experience a new approach to eating, one that cultivates inner wisdom through a variety of mindful eating practices and guided meditations. National Institute of Health-funded research has shown Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness to be a powerful approach to addressing mindless eating that leads to struggling with weight, obesity, and disordered eating patterns. more …
Rhythmic Rejuvenation: Yoga and Hand Drumming with Members of KDZ
Revitalize your body and spirit in a dynamic, fun-filled weekend of Kripalu Yoga and African-influenced hand drumming led by Shaun Laframboise and Allison Gemmel Laframboise, members of KDZ: The Drummers at Kripalu. more …
The Lovetarian Way: Create Subtle Shifts for Miraculous Change
Join best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein for a workshop designed to help you overcome fearful patterns and create positive change to last a lifetime. more …
Yoga for Emotional Health: Focus on Anxiety and Depression
For yoga therapists, yoga teachers, and everyone working with anxiety and depression; no yoga experience necessary. Emotional health is fundamental to the maintenance of overall health and well-being. more …
YogArts for Kids
For kids ages 5-11. Calling all kids who love to collect things outdoors, do art projects, and make new friends. Come learn yoga, get your face painted, swim, and play. more …
You Can Rewire Your Brain for Bliss
Enlightenment is not reserved for the deeply spiritual—it’s a sacred gift for all to experience. Discover for yourself how specific lifestyle choices allow the brain to become more receptive to directed change, resulting in an unprecedented ability to rewire your consciousness. more …
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Tantric Yoga of Inner Transformation
Go deeply into the inner teachings of yoga for personal transformation. This workshop with yoga pioneer Gary Kraftsow helps you Build and free energy so that it can be directed inward Optimize physiology to stabilize and clarify the mind Reframe thoughts and emotions to transform behavior Realign actions with priorities Take steps to manifest your intentions Illumine the mind to allow the True Self to emerge. more …
Let Your Yoga Dance®: Teacher Training for Special Populations
For teachers and practitioners of many backgrounds: yoga, dance, physical therapists, and bodyworkers. Thousands of people yearn to move their bodies, dance, and do yoga-the elderly, people with Parkinson’s, MS, arthritis, Alzheimer’s, breast cancer survivors overcoming surgery, and others with special needs who may feel marginalized and unable to move as freely as they would like. more …
Prajna Yoga: Healing Practices for a Vital Body
Yoga practice promotes vital functioning and health in the body’s internal organs. When those organs perform optimally, we experience radiant health, vitality, and sustained energy. more …
Preventing and Reversing Diabetes
If you have type 2 diabetes or are pre-diabetic and are serious about changing your health and living a longer, more vibrant life, then don’t miss this program. more …
Using EMDR as a Contemporary Psychotherapy: An Advanced Course for Mental-Health Professionals
For mental-health clinicians who have completed the Basic Course in EMDR. Are you a mental-health therapist interested in deepening your Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) skills and integrating this powerful and effective approach into your clinical practice? more …
Yoga for Seniors Teacher Training
For yoga teachers with min. 1 year of yoga experience. Learn sound strategies for adapting yoga practice to older minds, bodies, and spirits in a training that combines the best contemporary, scientific knowledge about the physiology of aging with yoga’s traditional wisdom. more …
Yoga Ed.™ K-8 Instructor Certification
For yoga teachers and educators with strong yoga experience. This certification program opens the door to teaching yoga in public, private, and parochial schools. 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 …
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Stress Management
In a recent study, 75 percent of yoga students reported attending yoga classes for stress management, while 15 percent were using yoga specifically for depression or anxiety. more …
Friday, August 3, 2012
Karma, Relationship, and Transformation: Exploring the Ways of Karma and How it Helps Us Evolve
The Eastern traditions say that karma is the most powerful force in life. Your character, the way your mind works, and even your ability to practice yoga are said to be the result of karma. 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 learn how to find ease and balance in your relationship off the mat. more …
Yoga and Kayaking
Take the plunge! Explore a whole new side of yourself and find out what makes kayaking in the Berkshires so magical. Join the dynamic team of Greg DiLisio (certified yoga, tai chi, and qigong teacher, and popular Kripalu program leader), and Johnny Snyder (world-class kayaker and professional guide) for flat-water adventures combined with basic yoga and qigong techniques. more …
Yoga and Meditation Retreat
Join Stephen Cope for a weekend of delightful contemplative practice-a time of “coming home” to yourself. Author of Yoga and the Quest for the True Self and The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker’s Guide to Extraordinary Living, Stephen has created a retreat that weaves together Periods of deep, flowing, classic Kripalu Yoga Sitting and walking meditation Loving-kindness meditation Chanting Short dharma talks based on the wisdom of both the Buddhist and yoga traditions. more …
YogaGroove for Kidz: Hip-Hop, Break Dance, and Yoga
For ages 5–11. Enjoy the New Year’s weekend by creating and practicing new moves and yoga grooves! Each day of this fun-filled program begins with yoga warm-ups, breathing exercises, and yoga-inspired movement. more …
Psychology of the Chakras: A 7-Day Intensive
Are you ready for an initiatory journey into the sacred centers of yourself? Are you prepared to cross the archetypal rainbow bridge that connects everything into one indivisible whole? more …
Insight Yoga Teacher Training Intensive: Yin/Yang/Mindfulness
Deepen your understanding of the experiential, philosophical, and practical application of yoga and Buddhist meditation. This intensive draws from Sarah’s book Insight Yoga and trains you in both a receptive yin style and an active slow flow or yang style of yoga. more …
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 500-Hour Certification: Module Three
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, August 5, 2012
Women and Food: A Journey to Nourishment
A personalized, small-group approach to creating positive change. Do you want a healthy, happy relationship with food? Eating is one of our most essential human needs. more …
Camp Kula: Five Days, Four Teachers, Total Immersion
For students with a min. 2 years regular yoga practice, and yoga teachers from all traditions. Most of us are so consumed by our busy lives that we find it hard to fit in a 90-minute yoga class. more …
Rejuvenate and Reclaim Life After 40
Crafting a meaningful, passionate, healthy life. This program is designed for women and men over 40 who want to reinvigorate their life with joy and health. more …
The Comedian's Way: A Creative Path for Writers, Performers, and Other Humans
Develop your writing and performance skills for page, stage, or life with comedy gurus Beth Lapides and Greg Miller, who combine spiritual insights with comedy writing and performance pointers. more …
Integrative Yoga Therapy Professional Yoga Therapist Training Program: Module 1
For yoga teachers who have completed or are nearing completion of a 200-hour Yoga Alliance-registered program. Immerse yourself in one of the most established yoga therapy training courses available, focusing on the use of yoga as a true healing art. more …
Friday, August 10, 2012
Asana Adjustments with Thai Massage
For yoga teachers and practitioners. Thai massage is a dynamic bodywork therapy based on yoga and Ayurveda born many centuries ago in the temples of Thailand. more …
Sweet Sweaty Sukha Flow
For students with min. 6 months yoga experience. You know that feeling at the end of a great yoga class—the sweaty goodness of juiced-up muscles, the refreshing sensation of being cleansed from the inside out, the clarity of mind and breath? more …
The Joy is in the Journey: Enhancing Body, Mind, and Spirit with Yoga in Midlife and Beyond
Midlife is an ideal time to restore health and vitality and soften the impact of the aging process. This is the perfect program for everyone looking for a practical way to incorporate the benefits of yoga into their lifestyle. more …
Use Your Brain to Change Your Age
Do you want to feel more fit, energized, and mentally sharp? You can! The fountain of youth is literally between your ears. A healthy brain is the key to staying vibrant and alive for a long time. more …
YogArts for Kids
For kids ages 5-11. Calling all kids who love to collect things outdoors, do art projects, and make new friends. Come learn yoga, get your face painted, swim, and play. more …
Sunday, August 12, 2012
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 …
Anusara® Yoga: Creating a Radiant Heart, Sharp Mind, and Vibrant Body
For those with min. 6 months 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 …
Certificate in Positive Psychology
Exclusively at Kripalu There’s a scientific way to study happiness—it’s called Positive Psychology. A new paradigm of traditional psychology, Positive Psychology focuses on growing happiness, love, success, and strengths, rather than on overcoming depression, anxiety, neuroses, and weaknesses. more …
The Bliss Connection: Gentle Yoga and Yoga Nidra
The ancient yogis discovered dimensions of self beyond the tangible flesh and bones. Called the koshas, or sheaths, these realms include the breath body, the mental body, the belief body, and the bliss or joyful body. more …
Thursday, August 16, 2012
ChiRunning®: The Mindful Practice of Effortless, Injury-Free Running
For those able to run 1 mile without stopping. Running is one of the oldest and most natural of human activities, but many of us experience it as an activity that takes a toll, causing sore muscles, knee injuries, hip pain, or shin splints. more …
Friday, August 17, 2012
A Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Approach to Emotional and Mental Clarity
Mind your body and mend your mind isn’t just an aphorism. Learn skills and processes based on Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy from its founder, Michael Lee. more …
Divine Play: Hoop, Yoga, Dance, and Create into Bliss
Uplift your spirit and tap into the pulse of life as you celebrate, play, move, and create like never before! Indulge yourself with hula-hoops, dance, art, yoga, and more. more …
Mangalam Yantra Yoga: Tibetan Yoga and Meditation
Yantra Yoga is designed to help you awaken fully to your Buddha nature through the use of physical postures (asana), breath-control exercises (pranayama), and meditative practices. more …
The Joy of Living Meditation Retreat
Created by the brilliant Tibetan meditation master Mingyur Rinpoche, the Joy of Living Meditation Retreat shows you how meditation can help create a peaceful mind and a joyful heart. more …
Women’s Retreat: Awaken Your Passion, Increase Your Self-Differentiation
For all women. Do you love your partner but want more passion in your relationship? Are you a single woman looking to explore your erotic and sensual potential? more …
YogaGroove for Kidz: Hip-Hop, Break Dance, and Yoga
For ages 5–11. Enjoy the New Year’s weekend by creating and practicing new moves and yoga grooves! Each day of this fun-filled program begins with yoga warm-ups, breathing exercises, and yoga-inspired movement. more …
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Integrative Yoga Therapy Professional Yoga Therapist Training Program: Module 2
For yoga teachers who have completed a 200-hour Yoga Alliance-registered program and Module 1 of the Integrative Yoga Therapy training program; see note below. more …
Sunday, August 19, 2012
A Buddhist Healing Ritual: Dakini's Heart Essence Chöd
Healing Chöd is an ancient Buddhist ritual known for its power to heal physical, emotional, and mental illness and suffering. There are no instructions to follow or techniques to learn. more …
Ashtanga Mela: The Power of Community
Calling all Ashtanga yogis and yoginis to this summer’s Ashtanga gathering—a coming together of old and new friends. Take advantage of this opportunity to practice with kindred spirits, share experiences and insights with teachers and practitioners steeped in the Ashtanga tradition, and explore what it means to be a twenty-first-century yogi. more …
Breath, Body, Mind© Training for Stress and Trauma
For therapists and yoga teachers working with stressed and traumatized populations. Breath~Body~Mind integrates ancient and modern trauma-sensitive techniques to rapidly balance stress-response systems for self-care and healing others. more …
Lotus Flow™ Yoga Intensive: Radical and Poetic
For students with min. 1 year vinyasa experience. Reinvent your yoga practice so that it’s fresh and alive each and every day. Lotus Flow Yoga merges radical, fluid asana; poetry; and music into a dynamic and devotional dance. more …
Tai Chi Easy™ Practice Leader Training: A Healing Revolution Certification
The Tai Chi Easy Practice Leader Training is a 25-hour training that empowers individuals to share compelling and fun self-care practices. Tai Chi Easy blends a simple medical qigong technique with carefully chosen tai chi exercises. more …
Wild Hips, Gypsy Heart: Belly Dance as Self-Empowerment
For women; 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 …
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Swingolf: The Golf/Yoga/Massage Motion
For golfers of all levels and ages, from the beginner to the seasoned player. Tournament-playing professional Les Bolland offers a holistic approach to golf that incorporates yoga, muscle-opening shiatsu massage, breathing, and an emphasis on mental and physical harmony. more …
Friday, August 24, 2012
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
The book Writing Down the Bones transformed the way writing is viewed in this country. Come celebrate the 25th anniversary of this groundbreaking book in a weekend workshop with author Natalie Goldberg, who guides us in ways to Build a strong writing spine Cultivate confidence in our experience Believe that we have something to say and a way to say it. more …
Friday, August 31, 2012
Yoga and Kayaking
Take the plunge! Explore a whole new side of yourself and find out what makes kayaking in the Berkshires so magical. Join the dynamic team of Greg DiLisio (certified yoga, tai chi, and qigong teacher, and popular Kripalu program leader), and Johnny Snyder (world-class kayaker and professional guide) for flat-water adventures combined with basic yoga and qigong techniques. more …
Friday, September 14, 2012
Integrative Mudra, Pranayama, and Bandha Teacher Training
For serious practitioners, yoga teachers, and yoga therapists. This comprehensive training focuses on the yogic arts of mudra, pranayama, and bandha, three facets of an integrated approach to hatha yoga. more …
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour Rhode Island: Session 1
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour will be offered in Rhode Island at All That Matters in Wakefield. This non-residential training will be offered 8 weekends from September 2012 to March 2013. more …
Sunday, October 14, 2012
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 …
Friday, October 19, 2012
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour Rhode Island: Session 2
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour will be offered in Rhode Island at All That Matters in Wakefield. This non-residential training will be offered 8 weekends from September 2012 to March 2013. more …
Friday, November 2, 2012
The End Result: Getting What You Really Want!
This weekend, Mike Dooley walks you through the entire process of reality creation, from thought to manifestation. Exercises and worksheets help define your dreams in terms of desired end results in ways that allow the universe maximum freedom to deliver your true heart’s desire as fast and harmoniously as possible. more …
Friday, November 9, 2012
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour Rhode Island: Session 3
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour will be offered in Rhode Island at All That Matters in Wakefield. This non-residential training will be offered 8 weekends from September 2012 to March 2013. more …
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 500-Hour Certification: Module One
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 …
Friday, December 7, 2012
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour Rhode Island: Session 4
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour will be offered in Rhode Island at All That Matters in Wakefield. This non-residential training will be offered 8 weekends from September 2012 to March 2013. more …
Friday, January 4, 2013
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour Rhode Island: Session 5
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour will be offered in Rhode Island at All That Matters in Wakefield. This non-residential training will be offered 8 weekends from September 2012 to March 2013. more …
Friday, February 1, 2013
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour Rhode Island: Session 6
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour will be offered in Rhode Island at All That Matters in Wakefield. This non-residential training will be offered 8 weekends from September 2012 to March 2013. more …
Friday, February 15, 2013
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour Rhode Island: Session 7
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour will be offered in Rhode Island at All That Matters in Wakefield. This non-residential training will be offered 8 weekends from September 2012 to March 2013. more …
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour Rhode Island: Graduation Session
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour will be offered in Rhode Island at All That Matters in Wakefield. This non-residential training will be offered 8 weekends from September 2012 to March 2013. more …
