Calendar of Programs
Thursday, March 18, 2010
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 …
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Divine Mantras, Enlightenment, and Samahdi
Is enlightenment just a metaphor, or can we achieve enlightenment here, in this life? If there is a literal light that shines from within, what is its nature, where does it come from, and what effects does it have? more …
Friday, March 26, 2010
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, March 28, 2010
Kripalu YogaDance™ Teacher Training: Chakra Fusion, Level 1
Assistant Program Director: Jurian Hughes 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 …
Friday, April 2, 2010
Afro-Caribbean Groove: Drum, Dance, and Song
For all ages and experience levels. Experience the healing power and beauty of Afro-Caribbean music and dance in a way that honors how the rhythms live and breathe in their original settings. more …
Jesus in the Lotus: The Mystical Doorway between Christianity and Yogic Spirituality
Join Russill Paul for an Easter weekend exploring what it means to be a mystic in the fullest sense of the word, drawing inspiration from the teachings of Jesus and the great Christian mystics as well as eminent rishis and yogis of the Indian spiritual tradition. more …
The Creative Soul Journal
What brings a smile to your face? What feeds your soul? What images do you relate to? Which colors call you? Who are you? Explore these questions and more as you paint, collage, and build a visual journal from start to finish that expresses your creative soul. more …
Sunday, April 4, 2010
The Voice of Trauma: A Sound Approach to Healing the Wounds of Childhood Trauma
For psychotherapists, life coaches, and yoga teachers. The voice is a mirror of the soul and a link between psyche and soma. In this experiential workshop, noted music therapist and psychoanalyst Louise Montello demonstrates how expression can be inhibited by unresolved trauma that wreaks havoc in mind and body. more …
How to Write and Publish Spiritual Books
So many of us have an important book inside, one with a spiritual theme that we want to share with the world. Yet we often feel overwhelmed by the prospect of completing a manuscript and getting it published. more …
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Coming Home to Your True Nature Through the Written Word (Cancelled)
Program cancelled. Remember when you wrote your first book at age five? Remember the drawings you did when you were eight that were so expressive? Or maybe it was dancing that gave you that lightness of being, that powerful connection to something bigger than your tiny self. more …
Friday, April 16, 2010
Visual Storytelling
Meet America’s best-loved unknown cartoonist, Nina Paley, creator of the internationally acclaimed animated film Sita Sings the Blues. This weekend with Nina is an invitation to experience, create, and express. more …
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Integrated Movement Therapy®: Yoga-Based Therapy with Children, Level 2
Take the next step in your Integrated Movement Therapy® (IMT) training with this advanced course that builds on the foundation laid in Level 1. We will explore in depth the basic philosophies and six core principles of IMT and also focus on Brain development Neuro-anatomy, including the location and function of various parts of the brain Brain function as it relates to specific diagnoses or conditions in children Activities that address specific areas of brain function Goal writing to satisfy funding and agency requirements How to structure IMT sessions. more …
Friday, April 30, 2010
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 …
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Kirtan Flight School
If you are inspired by kirtan and want to explore the practice more deeply, this workshop is for you. Kirtan is an Eastern form of call-and-response mantra chanting currently experiencing a creative renaissance in the West. more …
Friday, May 7, 2010
Mother's Day Weekend Celebration: Let Your Yoga Dance®!
Come enjoy a weekend dedicated to honoring Mother Earth and all mothers and mothering relationships. Learn to nourish yourself in a sacred and delicious dance of yoga through the body’s seven chakras or energy centers. more …
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Authentic Writing, Yoga, and Active Compassion: A Yoga as Muse Retreat
What happens to your voice when yoga awakens you to the self within and the selves without? Find out in a retreat-style workshop where you will learn specific ways to integrate the tools of yoga into a creative writing process that helps uncover your authentic voice. more …
Watercolor: A Holistic Approach to Painting
For absolute beginners (everyone else is welcome, too). In times of economic uncertainty, it becomes even more important to find simple ways of adding richness to your life. more …
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Shake It! Dance to Heal Your Stress
Discover simple, soulful, and joyful ways to release tension through movement, mindfulness, therapeutic body dialogue, and the expressive arts. Using a dynamic integration of body-centered and movement therapies, Daniel Leven will guide you back into a natural sense of vitality and relaxation. more …
Friday, May 21, 2010
Yoga Ecstasy Spring Rejuvenation Retreat
Movement, rhythm, and music have been used by cultures throughout the world for millennia to induce healing and ecstatic states of being. Join yogini and dancer Micheline Berry, along with DJ Drez and Kripalu’s KDZ master drummers, for an unforgettable and inspiring weekend retreat of vinyasa flow yoga, world beat music, ecstatic dance, healing food, bodywork, and the wild nature of the Berkshires in springtime. more …
Sunday, May 23, 2010
American Musical Theater as a Spiritual Experience
Have you ever felt waves of joy surge through you as you let your voice ring out with the songs of Rogers and Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, and the Gershwins? more …
Sacred, Safe, and Wild, for Women Only: A Magic Soul Ride
For women of all ages, shapes, and stages of life. No experience required. Women wear many hats: mother, sister, daughter, friend, queen, crone, bitch, caretaker, wild child, goddess, lover, temptress, and more. more …
Friday, May 28, 2010
Change Your Life Without Getting Out of Bed: How to Relax About Love, Money, and Everything Else
SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) has responded to life’s challenges in innovative ways, transforming them into opportunities. She’s written 15 best-selling books in bed—and created a successful brand of pajamas. more …
Tribal Jam! Moving with the Rhythm
The rhythm’s gonna getcha as the music Shakes Your Soul. You’ll JourneyDance your way to feeling powerful and whole. Find pulse in the beat, Let Your Yoga Dance to bliss. more …
Friday, June 4, 2010
Sacred Dance Journey: Healing Movement for Women
For all women; no experience with yoga or dance required. Replenish and soothe your soul in a weekend of yoga, dance, meditation, and good company. more …
Sunday, June 6, 2010
More Natural Singer: Finding Your True Voice
This extended version of Claude Stein’s Natural Singer workshop offers more individual attention, group singing, and technique. Celebrate the magnificent healing power of your own voice. more …
Kripalu YogaDance™ Teacher Training: Chakra Fusion, Level 2
Assistant Program Director: Jurian Hughes 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, June 13, 2010
The Way of Story: The Craft and Soul of Writing
Catherine Ann Jones has had 10 of her plays, including Calamity Jane, produced in and outside of New York City. Writer of the television series Touched by an Angel, she is also a winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Award. more …
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Funky Rhythm Tap for the Zen of It: A Yoga and Tap Dance Retreat
For beginners and advanced beginners; no yoga or tap experience necessary. You are invited to the ultimate yoga and tap dance experience. Come explore, integrate, and understand the body, mind, and soul connection as you use the rhythm and synchronicity of music and dance as a doorway to the sacred flow of your life. more …
Inner Fire Yoga and Kirtan Immersion
Inner Fire Yoga is a dynamic practice that evolves moment-to-moment as a call to grace. A merging of hatha and bhakti yoga, it is an approach of embodied devotion that fosters the awakening of spirit through surrender and love. more …
Friday, July 2, 2010
Bhakti Shakti: Chant, Dance, and Yoga Celebration
Crank it up and celebrate with the Bhakti Girls—four unique and soulful teachers with a whole lot of vibe. With these amazing guides, you’ll be moving and grooving all weekend long, liberating your heart and your bones so you can flow back out into your life inspired and alive. 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 …
Monday, July 5, 2010
Zen and the Art of Harmonica: Playing with Life, Death, Love, Grief, and the Whole Nine Yards...
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 9, 2010
Spread the Word: Adventures in Amateur Storytelling
Everyone has a story to tell. What’s yours? For the past eight years, Beth Lisick has curated the Porchlight Storytelling Series in San Francisco, a wildly popular event for amateur storytellers. more …
Yoga Wave, Dance Craze
Spend three days moving with fluid power and dancing from the pulsing currents within. This workshop will integrate elements of Shake Your Soul and Kripalu YogaDance™ with Afro-Caribbean dance, all accompanied by live drumming. more …
Friday, July 16, 2010
Holistic Hooping: A Fusion of Meditation, Yoga, and HoopDance
Join in a journey dedicated to your personal growth and empowerment through conscious movement. This fusion of yoga, meditation, and HoopDance will include shamanic/ecstatic dance sessions, asana practice with a hoop, chakra explorations, light-body visualizations, sacred-geometry teachings, and other powerful self-healing modalities. more …
Sahaja Flow: A Yoga Trance Dance Immersion
with guest musicians Benjy Wertheimer and John de Kadt Join this annual gathering for movers and shakers of all backgrounds to awaken and deepen connection to the oldest and most universal forms of yoga on the planet—trance dance and collective chant. more …
Sunday, July 18, 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 …
Sharing Your Life Story: From the Page to the Stage
If the story is in you, it has got to come out. —William Faulkner Everything in your life, from the mundane to the extraordinary, is a story waiting to be told. more …
Friday, July 23, 2010
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 …
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Drawing Closer to Nature Through Art and Yoga
Art and yoga are complementary practices that can help us recover our lost sense of unity with nature. As we draw closer to nature through these practices, we also draw closer to ourselves, tapping into the creative soul that exists in us all. more …
The Comedian's Way: A Creative Path for Writers, Performers, and Other Humans
Tap into your seventh sense—your sense of humor—with creativity teachers and devoted yogis Beth Lapides and Greg Miller. Comedy is a unique tool for entertainment and self-knowledge. more …
Friday, August 6, 2010
Meditation and Creativity: Practices that Free the Mind
“Spirituality is so important that it ought to be fun,” says John Tarrant. In this retreat you will experience meditation as a creative act, through the use of koans, which throw overboard our standard issue worries and speak to the creative force in us. more …
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Let Your Yoga Dance®: Teacher Training for Special Populations
For teachers and practitioners of many backgrounds: yoga, dance, Kripalu YogaDance™, physical therapists, and bodyworkers. There are thousands of people who yearn to move their bodies, dance, and do yoga, but are prevented from taking part in these activities by injuries, disease, or depression. more …
Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words
For lovers of poetry and those who have yet to discover its power; no experience necessary. Poems, prayers, and other sacred writings are the language of the soul. more …
Wild Hips, Gypsy Heart: Belly Dance as Self-Empowerment
For women only; beginners are welcome. Unleash your primal energies and learn to move your hips in a million ways as Melina shares her family’s ancient belly-dance secrets. more …
Friday, August 13, 2010
Vocal Essence: African Songs, Chants, and Movement
Discover the magic of human vocal production with Aisha Kahlil, who sings and tours with the internationally renowned a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock. more …
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Painting and Yoga in the Berkshires
Join artist and yoga teacher Linda Novick for a wonderful week of yoga and painting in the beauty of the Berkshires. As your mind and body relax with yoga, your natural creativity will come pouring out through painting. more …
Friday, August 20, 2010
TaKeTiNa: The Healing Power of Rhythm
TaKeTiNa is a whole-body experience that enables you to use rhythm as a doorway to inner healing. The instrument employed in TaKeTiNa is your own body. more …
