Calendar of Programs
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Embodyoga®: Deepen Your Practice From the Inside Out
Developed by Patty Townsend, Embodyoga is an invitation to enter the bodymind with clear awareness, unwavering acceptance, compassion, and awe. Using asana and special pranayama techniques, this innovative workshop takes you on an experiential journey deep within the layers of your bodymind. more
Friday, March 9, 2012
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
Getting High: Yoga, Meditation, and the Infinite Pharmacy Within
To achieve true freedom from negative behaviors and thoughts, it is often necessary to move stuck energies out of the body and release stuck belief patterns from the mind and heart. more
Holistic Eye Care: Improve and Save Your Sight Naturally
The eyes are the windows to the soul. This eye-opening workshop offers a holistic approach for those who want to improve and preserve their eyesight and become less dependent on glasses or contacts. more
Thai Yoga Massage: A Life Skill for Everyone
When you give a great massage you feel more alive, aware, and joyous. The well-being of your family, friends, and community can be permanently uplifted by your choice to share compassionate touch—it is literally one of the best things you can do. 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
The Power of Positive Being: The Science of the Soul
Are you ready for a powerful change in your life? Positive Psychology addresses important questions about how we lead our lives, find happiness and satisfaction, and deal with life’s challenges. more
When the Body Says No: Stress and Mind-Body Unity in Health and Illness
Mind and body form a non-dual unity. Science has now demonstrated that our emotional life is inextricably connected with our physiology. Emotional stresses play a major role in the onset of illness, most particularly the stress caused by the suppression of so-called negative emotions such as sadness or anger. more
Yoga Without Struggle
How do we begin to let go of the constant tug of war between who we are in the present moment and the ideas and expectations we hold for ourselves? How do we release a yoga practice that is full of desires in order to come to our mat with the innocent eyes of amazement and joy? more
Sunday, March 11, 2012
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
The Self Behind the Symptom: How Shadow Voices Heal Us
Underneath many physical or psychological symptoms, a part of you is struggling to be heard. Somatic therapist Judith Hendin teaches a process that uses subtle energy work, soulful movement, and insightful dialogue to access those messages. more
Yogic Breathing and Asana Retreat: Silence and Simplicity to Deepen Practice
For yoga practitioners and teachers of all levels. Enrich your asana practice with liberating yogic breathing techniques, also called pranayama. These simple practices can strengthen the body, purify the mind, enhance overall balance, increase health, and heighten your clarity. more
Vibrant Visionary Collage: Art, Zen, and Yoga Immersion for Women
Find your artist self in this spring collage retreat for women, taking the time and space to explore your personal sense of vibrant color. Guided to your creative zone by collage artist Karen Arp-Sandel, open your heart to contemplative practices like Zen meditation, yoga, and walking the labyrinth. 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
Foot Reflexology Training Level 2: The Science, Art, and Heart
For healing arts practitioners and everyone who wants to help themselves and others. Deepen and refine your reflexology skills as you learn to further support your clients in their healing process. more
Gardening Immersion: From Seed to Supper
Are you interested in starting a small vegetable garden or berry patch but not sure how to begin? Do you want to know which vegetables are the most nutritious and easiest to grow? more
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Know Thy Selves: What Do We Do With All These Voices in Our Heads?
Have you ever wondered, “What are these voices in my head? One minute I feel this, the next I feel that. What’s really going on? Why do I react the way I do, and why can’t I relax? more
Thursday, March 15, 2012
An Introduction to MBCT for Depression Relapse Prevention: The Mindful Heart of Psychotherapy
For mental-health professionals and students. This training in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is for professionals interested in the interface of mindfulness in clinical treatment. more
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
Friday, March 16, 2012
Creating Ease: An Introduction to Yoga, Meditation, and Stress Management
What will your life look like in 5, 10, or 20 years? Are you setting the stage today for a fulfilled and vibrant life? It’s never too late to discover the profound healing benefits of yoga, meditation, and stress-management techniques. 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 Ashtanga practice. more
Journey Dance™: You Are the Prayer
Shed your old stories and limiting beliefs for good and begin to create a brilliant new vision of yourself and your work in the world. Deepen your divine dance, illuminate your path to service, and make space for grace in this weekend with JourneyDance creator and somatic healer Toni Bergins and interfaith minister and spiritual teacher Adam Sutton. more
Mind, Mood, and Food: A Food As Medicine Seminar on Optimal Nutrition for the Brain
Don’t miss this Food As Medicine seminar featuring world-renowned mind-body medicine expert James S. Gordon and four cutting-edge clinicians in medical nutrition therapy who present the latest in science-based practices to improve brain health. more
Solemate: Master the Art of Aloneness and Transform Your Life
For people who are single, divorced, or seeking greater independence within their partnership. Are you ready to gain mastery over your own life? Many people spend years waiting for a “soul mate” to make them feel complete. more
The Power of Imagery: Strengthen the Pelvic Core, Liberate Your Spine
Create a fresh understanding of the way your body is designed in order to liberate your ability to move freely and create health. This workshop with Eric Franklin, founder of the Franklin Method, concentrates on the pelvic core and the spine, a masterpiece of design containing more than 100 joints and associated muscles and ligaments. more
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 500-Hour Certification: Module Four
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, March 18, 2012
Deep Writing Workshop
Give yourself the gift of a week in the embrace of your writing. Eric Maisel’s Deep Writing workshop is simple in structure and powerful in effect. more
Detox for Health and Healing
Your jump start for healthier living. Detoxification is a natural body process that is compromised when our system becomes overloaded from poor diet, allergies, stress, infections, and toxins such as heavy metals. more
Feeding Your Demons: Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict: Kapala Training Level 1
A “demon” is anything that plagues or blocks you—fears, illnesses, PTSD, eating disorders, addictions, depression, anxiety, or just our run of the mill ‘stuff. more
Live Your Yoga, Teach Your Yoga
For all yoga teachers. This training gives you confidence in your innate magnetism as a teacher and human being and in your ability to communicate the ancient practices of yoga as accessible experiences for students of all levels. more
Yoga for the Rest of Us
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
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, March 23, 2012
Medical Qigong: Power of the Subtle Bodies
According to Taoist tradition, our subtle bodies—which include the qi, or energetic body, and the emotional body—are the root cause of most disease and premature aging. more
Now What? Finding Career Clarity and Life Direction From the Inside Out
Are you reevaluating your career or looking to do something radically different with your life? Instead of struggling on your own with life’s toughest questions, join Laura Berman Fortgang, author of Now What? more
Seven Stages of Practical Enlightenment
Enlightenment is an often-used word, but its meaning is not commonly understood. For centuries, it was thought that enlightenment was a place you eventually reached if you were disciplined in your spiritual or religious practice, but it is not a place at all—it is an evolving process and a continuous journey. more
Stilling the Mind: A Profound Course in Meditation
Discover the secrets that yogis have used across millennia to still the mind. Sitting with meditation master Mark Griffin makes your meditation process straightforward and easily attainable. more
The Power of Clarity: Using EFT to Access Your Inner Guidance
Learn how to use advanced applications of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) to eliminate resistance to success, release blocks to mental and emotional clarity, and allow abundance to flow into all areas of your life. more
Yoga and Deep Relaxation Retreat: The Gift of 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: The Art of Attention
Your attention is ultimately your only art, your true offering to the world through your work, creativity, relationships, and daily practices. And your yoga is an ideal context for reawakening and refining your attention in order to optimize your talents in every aspect of life. more
Advanced Studies in Yoga and Ayurveda
For those with a thorough introduction to Ayurveda and yoga (see prerequisite below). At the heart of any integration of yoga and Ayurveda is the understanding of how prana (life force) and agni (internal fire) support each other for health and healing—prana kindles agni, and agni liberates prana from the tissues, endowing it with light and intelligence. more
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour New York: Session 4
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour will be offered in New York City at YoGanesh Yoga Studio in Chelsea. This non-residential training will be offered 10 weekends from February to June. more
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Heal Your Mind, Rewire Your Brain: Harnessing the Power of Neuroplasticity
Integrate the latest brain research, learn to manage stress, and break the mental patterns that keep you trapped in habitual and unproductive attitudes, thoughts, and behaviors. more
Sacred Sexuality: Introduction to Tantra Yoga
Prana Regina Barrett and John Rene Berard are a husband-and-wife team who have shared a Taoist, shamanic, and yoga-based tantric path for 15 years. They have designed a retreat of safe and sacred sharing that includes movement, breath, play, sacred touch, communication, and intimacy. more
Advanced Yoga Practices: Deep Meditation Training and Retreat
Are you looking for a complete yoga system based on traditional teachings? Would you like to start or expand a daily practice of inner silence? Could you use support as you learn, including an online community, free lessons, audiobooks, and more? more
Gentle Yoga and Meditation for Vitality and Serenity
Enjoy the calm, peace, and self-acceptance of yoga no matter what shape you are in. Rudy Peirce takes a gentle approach, infusing his sessions with humor and warmth as he invites you to go at your own pace in this ultimate “chill-out” yoga program. more
Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease
Five days to heal your heart and circulatory system. Alarmingly, one in three Americans has some type of cardiovascular disease—and that rate is increasing. more
The Painting Experience: Awakening the Creative
The power inherent in painting is that it can awaken a wild vein of passion that will not go back to sleep. Using only the simple tools of brush, paper, and paint, the Painting Experience invites you on a highly personal journey of daring and discovery, made possible through a safe environment and the support of Stewart Cubley and his experienced staff. more
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Inner Quest Intensive
All-inclusive price: $562 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
The Power of a Loving Heart: Devotional Chanting and Loving-Kindness Meditation
Cultivate your natural capacity for faith, compassion, and love with leading spiritual guides Krishna Das and Sharon Salzberg. Combining the complementary practices of devotional chanting and loving-kindness meditation, we come together to discover and celebrate the power of the heart. more
Friday, March 30, 2012
Breath~Body~Mind© Level 1 Training for Transformation and Well-Being
Based on extensive research, this workshop with medical doctors Richard P. Brown and Patricia Gerbarg combines a variety of effective breathing techniques to relieve stress and improve mood, mental focus, and heart and lung function. more
Creating Great Relationships Through Family Constellations
Whether you’re single or in a relationship, this workshop is designed to get to the heart of what separates you from the closeness you desire. Come experience Family Constellations, a three-dimensional learning process aimed at revealing hidden dynamics and unconscious family loyalties that limit your ability to have successful relationships. more
Creating Transformational Workshops
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, harness your dreams and explore your purpose and path as a leader. more
Exploring Partner Yoga
For all singles and couples; no experience necessary. Husband-and-wife yogis Charles and Lisa Matkin invite you to discover aspects of yourself and your yoga practice you couldn’t experience on your own, while also improving your body mechanics. more
Health is Wealth: Make a Delicious Investment in You!
Gain the skills and confidence you need to bring your health up to the next level with good old-fashioned home cooking. This fun, upbeat workshop teaches you how to shop for, cook, and nourish your body with the best food money can buy, even if you’re on a tight budget or short on time. more
HeartMath®: Activating Your Heart’s Intelligence
Explore the new understanding of the heart: how the physical heart sends powerful healing commands to your brain and body. See HeartMath’s science in action, showing how heart-based emotions like compassion, appreciation, and love become access codes for the integration of your spirit and your humanness. more
Let the Sun Shine In: A Jivamukti Yoga Weekend
For those with at least 3 months yoga experience. Claim your own illumination! In order to embody the light that you are, you’ve got to lighten up, and the diverse practices of yoga are the perfect way to do that. more
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Sacred Yogic Spaces™: Laying Down Your Roots
Lay down your roots and grow into your personal power as you learn to accept yourself and create a harmonious relationship to life. This workshop explores your lower chakras through the lens of asana, yoga philosophy, tantra, Ayurveda, kundalini, and Surat Shabda Yoga. more
Transforming Stress: Mindful Living and the Art of Nourishment
Address the impact stress is having on your life. Are you feeling overwhelmed, stressed-out, or anxious? Do you experience symptoms associated with high stress levels, including weight gain, illness, mild depression, or fatigue? more
Five Days to Establish Yoga, Breath, Meditation, and Deep Relaxation
Give yourself the gift of an established yoga practice. This retreat is specifically designed for people interested in creating and maintaining a regular yoga practice. more
JourneyDance™ Teacher Training Intensive: Module 2
For people who have already completed JourneyDance Teacher Training Module 1. Join Toni Bergins and DJ Root and reconnect with the growing JourneyDance teacher community. more
Panchakarma
An ancient, cleansing ritual for today’s world… Special rate: $2,364 (includes tuition, healing arts, and nonrefundable $55 application and intake consultation fee). 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 Jaguar Path: Yogis and Shamans in the Modern World
For yoga teachers, healers, and evolving individuals. The Jaguar Path is a four-part course that will train you in the use of yogic science and philosophy as energy medicine. more
Yoga Ed.™ High School Instructor Certification
For yoga teachers and educators with yoga training. This comprehensive certification prepares you to successfully teach the Yoga Ed. curriculum to teens as physical education and to teach the High School Tools for Teachers program to educators as professional development. more
Friday, April 6, 2012
Change Your Inner Talk, Change Your Life
Discovering the secret to conscious inner talk can transform your life. Join author Robert Gerzon for a weekend that teaches ways to get your mind working for you instead of against you. more
ChiRunning® and Kripalu Yoga: Moving with Ease and Joy
Interested in running pain free? Trying to bring some excitement to a stagnant running program? Learn how to apply the principles of ChiRunning and Kripalu Yoga to experience how joyful running can be. more
CircusYoga® Community Retreat (Adults)
Did you ever want to run away and join the circus? CircusYoga creates a relaxed, playful, and energized environment that invites people of all generations to explore challenging yet accessible experiences. more
CircusYoga® Community Retreat (Kids)
Did you ever want to run away and join the circus? CircusYoga creates a relaxed, playful, and energized environment that invites people of all generations to explore challenging yet accessible experiences. more
Kula Flow: Vinyasa for Strength, Detoxification, and Levitation
For students who have practiced asana for at least 1 year and have some experience with vinyasa. Your center, your hara, is your emotional brain. The physical heart of your yoga practice is your belly. more
Kundalini Yoga For Women: Grace, Strength, and Love of Life
Empower yourself to be relaxed, happy, radiant, ageless, and beautiful-inside and out. Shakta Kaur Khalsa, author of Yoga for Women, offers Kundalini Yoga and meditation techniques that strengthen and balance your most important body systems. more
Prana Yoga Immersion
For yoga practitioners with min. 2 months of experience with basic postures as well as yoga teachers. Prana Yoga uses chakra sound vibrations and basic breathing techniques practiced while holding yoga postures to bring you fully present, creating a deeper experience of prana (life force) within you. more
Radical Acceptance: Buddhist Practices that Heal Difficult Emotions
One of the deepest forms of suffering in our culture is the pain of believing that "something is wrong with me." Feeling that we are continually falling short is like a toxic gas we breathe, making it difficult to be truly intimate with others and at home in our body, heart, and mind. more
Reverent Rememberance: Dancing with Souls Passed
Honor your family, friends, and pets who have passed on, reconnecting with their gifts of love, inspiration, and joy. This workshop makes space for grief using the five most powerful healing tools shared by every culture: music, dance, stories, nature, and silence. more
Waking Up to an Engaged and Vital Life
Light a new fire in your life by honoring the emptyings and rebirths that are happening all the time. Something in you is ending at the same time other interests, qualities, and gifts are coming back to life. more
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Awakening Shakti: Exploring Anusara Yoga® and Your Creative Power
The divine feminine creative power known as shakti comes in infinite forms. By understanding how these energies manifest in your life, you can reveal and unlock your innate capacity for personal evolution. more
Death and Resurrection: The No-Body Intensive: An Advanced Course
This guided exploration of your belief system lovingly investigates and questions the main aspects of identity, bringing to awareness everything identity is made of. more
Happily Ever Now: Kundalini Yoga and the Law of Attraction
Simple tools to change your attitude and your outlook can help you navigate your way to happiness. In this workshop, learn how your mind and emotions work together to effectively deal with core stressors and change old patterns. more
Shiatsu: Zen Mind, Yoga Body
Enjoy giving and receiving transformational bodywork through an accessible approach based on assisted yoga postures. Rooted in yoga therapy, energy medicine, and meridian theory, shiatsu rehabilitates connective tissue and reverses the effects of aging and injuries. more
SomaSoul® Somatic Expressive Therapy Training: Mentorship Graduation Module
This 5-day training is a requirement for all those in the mentorship professional track who are graduating from SomaSoul training. In this completion module, you Deepen and reinforce your SomaSoul facilitation skills Reconnect with the tribe of SomaSoulsters you have been studying with online Discover your next steps in personal power as a SomaSoul facilitator Ground yourself in the foundations of SomaSoul as the group continues to explore the art and balance of being, seeing, and doing with others. more
Spring Deep Clean: Eat, Move, Lose!
Here is the wake-up call your body needs! It’s time to shed winter lethargy and experience spring renewal! Join nutritionist, food expert, and popular Kripalu presenter John Bagnulo for a 5-day cleanse to help you lose the metabolic clutter that’s sapping your energy. more
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Instruction: A Teacher's Certificate Training
For certified yoga teachers. Research done at the Justice Resource Institute’s Trauma Center is establishing empirically that yoga may be helpful for people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). more
Thursday, April 12, 2012
SuperHealth®: Breaking Habits and Addictive Behavior: From Recovery to Self-Discovery
For yoga teachers and students, healthcare professionals (psychologists, nurses, counselors, doctors) and anyone in the process of making meaningful lifestyle changes. more
Turning Life’s Triggers into Opportunities to Change
Learn how to use life situations that trigger old reactive behaviors and turn them into golden moments of opportunity. Renowned intuitive Robert Ohotto invites you to see each trigger as an invitation to find out more about yourself, transforming reactivity into your highest potential. more
Friday, April 13, 2012
Gateway to Freedom
Dive into tantric teachings that lead to your own divinity. In this program, Swami Nirmalananda uses body, breath, and mind to propel you past the places where you usually get stuck. more
Goddess to the Core® Workout Certification Level 1: Inside Out Workout
For all women, including yoga teachers, personal trainers, and women’s or girl’s group leaders. Sierra Bender’s Goddess to the Core® workout redefines fitness, beauty, and power by teaching women to lead from the inside out with power, purpose, and passion. more
Kick-Start Your Health: The Power of a Plant-Based Diet
Test-drive a plant-based diet and see how this approach can help you feel better and more energetic than ever. Whether you have considered experimenting with a vegan diet to be kinder to the planet, help animals, maximize your health, or savor the world’s greatest foods, this workshop offers a short, fun, no-long-term-commitment way to give it a try. more
Reboot: Mindful Springtime Hiking and Deep Yoga Relaxation
Refresh the vital realms of body, mind, and breath on this magical getaway with masterful guidance. Take the time to connect with springtime rhythms in the beautiful mountains of the Berkshires. more
The Scientific Foundations of Iyengar Yoga Practice
Drawing on more than three decades of experience integrating Iyengar Yoga principles with anatomy, physiology, neuroscience, and psychology, Roger Cole teaches how to use the right technique at the right time to perfect your alignment, free your movements, maintain your stamina, hone your focus, and immerse yourself in the joy of the asanas. more
The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life
Arielle Ford is a best-selling author on a mission to share what she knows for sure: “True love is possible for anyone, of any age, if you are willing to put in a little time, energy, intention, and attention. more
WAVES: A 5Rhythms® Moving Meditation
Join Jonathan Horan in an exploration of the instinctive, intuitive world within, an exquisite, wild kingdom hidden in the hands and hips, roots and limbs, bones and breath, spirit and flesh. more
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour New York: Session 5
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour will be offered in New York City at YoGanesh Yoga Studio in Chelsea. This non-residential training will be offered 10 weekends from February to June. more
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Goddess to the Core® Professional Training Certification
For women. Put your female spirit into action and learn to lead the Sierra Bender Empowerment Method (SBEM), a unique multimodal method of healing that breaks the cycle of stress and disempowerment and redefines health, fitness, beauty, and self-worth for women and girls to reclaim, restore, and rejoice in their core feminine essence. more
Healing the Heart and Mind: A Radical Approach to Resolving Interpersonal Wounds
Most of us have been hurt by someone close to us—a partner, friend, parent, sibling, child, colleague—leaving us feeling bitter, devalued, and emotionally raw. more
The Light Body® School First Session (South): Medicine Wheel
There are shamans who will tell you that memory is not kept in the brain-neither is consciousness for that matter-but in the body and the fields of energy that surround the physical body. more
Yoga and the Pursuit of Happiness
For millennia, philosophers and poets from every culture have been fascinated by the pursuit of happiness. Both Aristotle and the Dalai Lama have called happiness our most fundamental human desire, and its pursuit is written into the Declaration of Independence. more
Five-Day Spring Detox
Is your body ready for an overhaul? This retreat is meant to detoxify the body, mind, and spirit so you can shed the layers that weigh you down. This program includes Three hours daily of vigorous, all-levels yoga for detoxification Myofascial release to unravel tension and release toxins in the tissues Nutritional information and whole-foods supplements to aid detoxification Pranayama and meditation to release mental toxins Afternoon workshops on detox, inversions, and more. more




