Calendar of Programs
Friday, September 3, 2010
Devotion: Crafting Your Journey Inward Through Memoir
How do we begin to know our own stories, and tell them in a way that feels universal? How can we structure our inward journeys so that they resonate with others? more …
Kirtan Trance Dance: Getting High on Mantra
Leave your worries behind and allow the sacred power of sound to bring you fully alive in a workshop that blends high-energy chanting with devotional bliss. more …
Friday, September 10, 2010
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 …
Sunday, September 19, 2010
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 …
Sunday, September 26, 2010
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 …
Friday, October 1, 2010
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 …
Sunday, October 3, 2010
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 …
Monday, October 11, 2010
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 …
Friday, October 15, 2010
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 …
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Sensuous Sleeping Artist: Awakening the Creative Healer Within
Is there a sensuous sleeping artist inside you, longing to come out and play? Were you told that you had “no talent,” and did you believe those negative messages about your natural creativity? more …
Sunday, October 24, 2010
JourneyDance™ Teacher Training Intensive
Take a powerful and transformative journey: Dance your fiery rhythmic beats. Rise and fall in waves of melodic passionate pulsation. Dive into the ocean of your emotions. more …
Friday, October 29, 2010
Dancing Through Life: Exploring Your Body’s Wisdom Through the Nia Technique
Whether you are a dancer or have never moved your body beyond the boundaries of your private space, you will find your bliss through this exhilarating and lively blend of yoga, martial arts, and dance. more …
Writing the Mind Alive: An Introductory Proprioceptive Writing® Weekend
Proprioceptive Writing (PW) is a highly effective method for exploring your psyche through writing. A simple technique that anyone can learn, it is practiced to music in 25-minute sessions under stress-free conditions. more …
Sunday, October 31, 2010
How to Hear Yourself: A Proprioceptive Writing® Immersion
For the last 35 years, Linda Trichter Metcalf has been a pioneer of writing as a way to access inner thoughts, explore them with impassioned curiosity, and set them free. more …
Friday, November 12, 2010
Old Friend From Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
For writers at all levels. Natalie Goldberg’s book Writing Down the Bones not only sold over a million copies, it also launched a revolution in the way people practice writing today. more …
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Sweater Chop Shop: The Alchemical Sewing Circle
No experience is necessary; all the materials supplied. Circles create alchemy, the magical recycling of elements from one thing into another. Come together with others and learn the skills to construct uniquely designed sweaters using all recycled materials. more …
Friday, November 19, 2010
Zumba® and Dance Weekend: Ditch the Workout and Join the Party!
Beto Perez is the creative genius behind the Zumba Fitness Program, which has revolutionized the way millions of people think about exercise. Beto will offer two Zumba classes this weekend, with Ann Saldi, lead Zumba teacher and personal trainer, teaching the other sessions. more …
Friday, November 26, 2010
Bollywood Dance and Bhangra Dance
Bollywood and Bhangra are the hottest dances around, and they require a balance of core strength and fluidity. Renowned Bollywood choreographer Pooja Narang of Bollywood Axion in New York City will be teaching basic steps and energetic dance moves that can help you stay fit, discover the source of joy and movement within—and maybe even melt away those extra pounds for some. more …
The Healing Power of Drumming, Ritual and Chanting
Chanting, overtone singing, and humming to the rhythms of the frame drum are ancient technologies for synchronizing mind and body for psychological, physical, and spiritual healing. more …
The Natural Singer
Come celebrate the magnificent healing power of your own voice. Whether you already sing, or have always wished you could, this workshop provides a remarkable environment and opportunity to improve your voice and sing your heart open. more …
Sunday, November 28, 2010
YogaDance Teacher Training: Chakra Fusion, Level 2
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 …
Sunday, December 5, 2010
SomaSoul® Somatic Expressive Therapy Training: Moving Your Body’s Story
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 …
Friday, December 17, 2010
Celebrating the Season with Soul and Song
Join this weekend sing-along! We will celebrate our own journeys and each other in a song-filled weekend of self-exploration, discovery, play, and healing. more …
Women, Writing, and Soul-Making: A Writing Workshop for Women
For women writers of all levels. Accept the gifts of the winter solstice and enter the womb of creativity through the feminine gateway of writing. To write from the feminine is to access the creative center in the belly rather than the intellectual center in the brain. more …
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Dancing with Spirits: Afro-Cuban Music, Dance, and Tantra Yoga
There is no easier way to free your spirit and connect with heart-bursting joy than to hit the dance floor to a blazing salsa tune. Experience the deep, soul-shaking effects when you respond to the call of the drums by opening the heart and body to your internal rhythms. more …
Monday, December 27, 2010
Painting the Light Within: Watercolor for Self-Expression
Jeanne Carbonetti’s exciting new workshop takes you to the heart of watercolor as self-expression by working directly with light. You will learn the craft of picture making (focus, composition, values, color, and texture), the art of reading images, and the special technique of watercolor glazing. more …
The Yoga of Yes: Celebrate a New Beginning
Celebrate the dawning of the New Year in a special way. Discover the joy of being in your body and in community through yoga, movement, and improvisational play. more …
Thursday, December 30, 2010
JourneyDance™: Open to the Joy of Life!
Ignite your creativity and compost your craziness in a New Year’s weekend dedicated to your highest healing. Using the tools of embodiment, energy work, JourneyDance, ritual, theater, and voice, Toni Bergins will guide physical and energetic explorations to deepen your awareness and soften your mind and heart. more …
Friday, December 31, 2010
Art and Yoga Retreat
Spend New Year’s weekend engaged in a dynamic blend of yoga and art. This meditative combination will help you tap into your inner world, release the past, and move into 2011 with creativity and awareness. more …
Sunday, January 2, 2011
The Writing Warrior: Deepening Your Writing by Bravely Facing Yourself
The winter season and the New Year create the perfect environment for reconnecting with and recommitting to your writing. The writing process creates a different path for all who take it. more …
Kundalini Yoga and Expressive Arts for the Fifth Chakra and Thyroid
This program is designed for everyone with an interest in the healing power of yoga and the expressive arts. The fifth chakra is the energetic center of self-expression, language, teaching, communication, and embodying dharma. more …
Friday, January 7, 2011
Drum Into the New Year! Yoga and Hand Drumming with Members of KDZ
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, your nature with nature. —Joseph Campbell For everyone. Infuse your New Year’s intentions with rhythm in this dynamic, fun-filled weekend of African hand drumming and Kripalu Yoga. more …
Friday, January 14, 2011
Drumsong: The Art and Spirit of Drumming
The rhythm of the heart is the body’s own music, and drumming can call forth this inner music. Inspired by the rhythms of Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and indigenous shamanism, Ubaka Hill weaves poetry, song, and vibrational healing into her original drumsongs. more …
The Nia Technique: Dancing Through Life with Sound and Silence
Do you want to experience your body in a way that every movement feels like you are dancing? This program will tap into the joy of movement by inviting you to dance both sound and silence through the Nia technique, an invitation to dance your uniqueness. more …
Friday, January 28, 2011
Writing Inner Wisdom: Spiritual Growth Through Journal Writing
We dance ’round in a ring and suppose/ but the Secret sits in the Center, and knows. —Robert Frost Every spiritual practice holds that wisdom from a higher mind becomes accessible when we turn within. more …
Sunday, January 30, 2011
The Write Way to Wellness: A Journal Therapy Intensive for Helping Professionals
For mental-health and health-care professionals and other experienced facilitators of personal process. It’s no secret that writing out thoughts and feelings builds bridges to inner strength, self-understanding, and mind-body awareness. more …
Friday, February 4, 2011
Masala Bhangra Workout®
For all fitness levels. Dance your way to fitness! The Masala Bhangra Workout® is an exercise dance routine that blends the traditional high-energy folk dance steps of Bhangra, which originated in the state of Punjab, India, with a dash of Masala, which means "spicy" in Hindi. more …
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Dancing the Internal Body
Acclaimed New York City choreographer and dancer Maureen Fleming creates surreal movement poetry that gives birth to a new vision of the body. Her distinctive approach to sculptural movement can help you access creative inspiration and learn to move in new and transformative ways. more …
Friday, February 11, 2011
Awakening Bhakti: A Celebration of Divine and Human Love
Join Jai Uttal, Daniel Paul, and friends this Valentine’s Day weekend and awaken the romance that has no beginning or end, the love affair with the greatest lover of all, who lives forever inside of our hearts. more …
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Pure Bliss: Self-Care Using the Expressive Arts
Do you want to bring into awareness aspects of yourself that you sense are there but can’t clearly see? Now is your chance to engage and awaken those aspects through creative exercises designed to take you on a journey of self-discovery. more …
Friday, February 18, 2011
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 …
Sunday, February 20, 2011
SomaSoul® Somatic Expressive Therapy Training: The Somatic Healing Process
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 …
Monday, February 21, 2011
I See You/You See Me: A Photography Workshop for Teens and Parents (Adults)
For parents, preteens ages 11+, and teens; no photography experience necessary. Seeing You/Seeing Me offers teenagers and parents the opportunity to use portrait photography to explore the many facets and moods of their relationships. more …
I See You/You See Me: A Photography Workshop for Teens and Parents (Ages 11–17)
For parents, preteens ages 11+, and teens; no photography experience necessary. Seeing You/Seeing Me offers teenagers and parents the opportunity to use portrait photography to explore the many facets and moods of their relationships. more …
Friday, March 11, 2011
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 …
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Moving Through the Steps
For people in a 12-Step program or recovery process who have been alcohol- and recreational drug-free for one year. Come prepared to do deep personal growth work in this intensive retreat as you strengthen your connection to the principles of recovery and the universal wisdom inherent in the 12 Steps. more …
Friday, March 18, 2011
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 …
