Calendar of Programs
Friday, February 17, 2012
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 26, 2012
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 …
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 …
Sunday, March 11, 2012
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 …
Friday, March 16, 2012
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 …
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 …
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 …
Sunday, March 25, 2012
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
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, April 1, 2012
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 …
Friday, April 6, 2012
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 …
Sunday, April 8, 2012
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 …
Friday, April 13, 2012
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 …
Friday, April 20, 2012
The Natural Singer: Find Your True Voice
Come celebrate the magnificent healing power of your voice. Whether you already sing, or have always wished you could, this workshop provides a remarkably safe environment to finally find your true voice and sing your heart open. more …
Sunday, April 22, 2012
SomaSoul® Somatic Expressive Therapy Training: The Art of Co-Facilitation
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, April 29, 2012
Moving Medicine: Radiant Health
Emilie Conrad teaches that all fluids are basically one element, resonating with all other fluids. They function as a kind of umbilical cord supplying us with the pulsing undulations of life. more …
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Jump-Start Your Memoir: Write It from the Heart
Tell your story, bit by bit, piece by piece, age by age. This workshop is about honoring your voice and writing your own story in your own rhythm. A distinguished writer herself, Nancy Slonim Aronie says, “I don’t think anyone can teach writing. more …
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Let Your Yoga Dance® Teacher Training: Chakra Fusion, Part 1
Give yourself the gift of a lifetime: healing through joy, grace in motion, and the dance of your own creativity. Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training is the first and only chakra yoga-based dance training of its kind. 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 20, 2012
The Voice of Freedom: Music, Sound, and Yoga in Trauma Recovery
The voice is a mirror of the soul and the link between psyche and soma. In this workshop, noted music therapist/psychoanalyst Louise Montello and master yoga instructor Shari Friedrichsen demonstrate how expression can be inhibited due to unresolved trauma and how this inhibition can wreak havoc in the mind and body. more …
Friday, May 25, 2012
Tribal Jam! for Kids
For kids and preteens ages 5–14. Move, play, and have fun! Drum in a circle, dance to the rhythm, and make art. Bring your favorite CD and a musical instrument if you have one. 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 1, 2012
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 …
The Mantras of Spiritual Warriors
Get in touch with the spiritual warrior within as you practice chanting mantras from the Sikh and Kundalini Yoga traditions that open, balance, and rejuvenate the third and fourth chakras. more …
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
The Yoga of Shakespeare: To Thine Own Self Be True
Shakespeare brings to light common patterns of human nature and spiritual inquiry that match teachings in revered yogic, Buddhist, and Zen texts. He wrote, “To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. more …
Friday, June 22, 2012
Embodied Meditation with Live Music for Women: Awakening Feminine Rhythm
For women; no prior yoga experience needed. Embodied meditation with live music offers a way to come home to the wisdom of your body and express the wisdom of life flowing from within. more …
Sunday, June 24, 2012
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 …
Friday, June 29, 2012
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 …
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 …
Sunday, July 1, 2012
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 …
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 13, 2012
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 …
Sunday, July 15, 2012
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
Friday, July 27, 2012
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 …
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, July 29, 2012
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 …
Sunday, August 5, 2012
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 …
Friday, August 17, 2012
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 …
Sunday, August 19, 2012
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 …
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 …
