Calendar of Programs
Friday, September 3, 2010
Buddhism 101
Revolutionary Buddhist teacher Noah Levine, author of Dharma Punx and Against the Stream, turned his own troubled life around through the powerful practices of Buddhism. more …
Radiant Health: A Weekend Retreat for Women
Looking for the perfect getaway? Need to de-stress, rebalance, and reclaim your vitality? Designed by certified holistic health nurse and senior Kripalu Yoga teacher Sudha Carolyn Lundeen, this wellness retreat will nurture your body, mind, and soul in a relaxing, fun, and informative environment. more …
The Shaman's Way of Healing: An Introduction to Healing the Luminous Body
Shamans understand that we all have a luminous energy field surrounding the physical body that holds a record of all our emotional, physical, and spiritual traumas. more …
Monday, September 6, 2010
Facilitating Transformational Workshops: An Introduction to Group Dynamics
For anyone interested in gathering and leading groups. Bringing people together in groups invites collective wisdom and individual truths to emerge. more …
Friday, September 10, 2010
Being Together: The Art of Loving: A Workshop for Couples
For all couples—young, old, married, unmarried—of any sexual orientation. An enduring love is one of life’s greatest treasures. It is a treasure created and sustained by being fully present together—aware, open, and wholeheartedly immersing ourselves in whatever experience life has to offer us. more …
Better Birth: The Ultimate Guide to Childbirth from Home Births to Hospitals (Cancelled)
Program cancelled. For pregnant women and those considering pregnancy; couples and singles welcome. BornClear is a unique childbirth preparation course endorsed by renowned doctors and mind-body scientists, and featured on the Today show. more …
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 …
Opening to Essence: Integrating the Enneagram and Yoga
Yoga and the Enneagram are both profound paths of personal transformation. Each involves engaging an inner witness, working with breath to deepen self-inquiry and self-understanding, softening habitual reactivity, and coming home to your spiritual self. more …
The Nine Principles of Change: How to Make or Face Any Life Change with Optimism
Adapting to change is the most important life skill you can learn. This transformative workshop with Ariane de Bonvoisin, best-selling author of The First 30 Days, is designed to help you deal with all of life’s changes—big and small, personal and professional. more …
Women, Food, and God: A Transformational Path
The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. No matter how sophisticated, wise, or enlightened you believe you are, how you eat tells all. more …
Sunday, September 12, 2010
A Buddhist Healing Ritual: Dakini Heart-Essence Chöd
Please note that due to visa issues in India, Dungse Rigdzin Dorje Rinpoche and the monks and nuns of Zangdokpalri have cancelled their U.S. tour and are unable to lead their Healing Chöd programs scheduled at Kripalu this year. more …
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 …
Manifest Your Destiny: The Union of Mind, Asana, and Chakra Study (Cancelled)
Program cancelled. Harmony and balance of heart, mind, body, and soul create a direct path to manifesting your dreams into reality and living the life you choose. more …
Awakening Healing Energy (Cancelled)
Program cancelled. The human energy field has been the subject of much contemporary research, while the yoga tradition outlined a practical system for accessing subtle energy thousands of years ago. more …
Thursday, September 16, 2010
The Widow Wears Red Pajamas: Exploring the Art of Dying Beautifully
For people of all ages and all spiritual traditions. Health-care professionals welcome. Dying beautifully is something to look forward to—a joyful celebration of life, thoughtfully planned to create comforting memories and give peace to both the living and the dying. more …
Friday, September 17, 2010
Change Your Inner Talk, Change Your Life
We’re talking to ourselves every waking moment. How we talk to ourselves creates our experience of the world-our moods, work performance, self-esteem, health, energy, and relationships. more …
Goddess Getaway Weekend
For women and teen girls only, 13 years and older. Join world-renowned teacher Sierra Bender, author of Goddess to the Core® and creator of the Boot Camp for Goddesses®, as she shares her 4 Body Fit® approach to whole-self health care for women. more …
One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps
The Buddha said that craving is the cause of suffering. Twelve-Step programs work with the deepest forms of craving—our addictions. How can these two traditions work together? more …
Spiritual Liberation: The Answer Is You
Are you ready to break your contract with mediocrity and stop being an extra in your own life? “If you’re feeling claustrophobic playing your current life role,” says Michael Bernard Beckwith, “this is an indication that you’ve outgrown your part. more …
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Create the Life You Want
We live in an abundant universe; rich, vibrant, and generous. Why can some people tap into this abundance and create the life they want, while others struggle with an ever-present sense of lack and limitation? more …
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Inner Quest Intensive
All-inclusive price: $520 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 …
Friday, September 24, 2010
Healing Your Aloneness: A Six-Step Inner Bonding Pathway to Wholeness
This workshop teaches you how to access spiritual guidance and experience the unconditional love and wisdom that is always available and which heals your aloneness. more …
The Adventure of Self-Discovery: A Holotropic Breathwork™ Experience
This is a rare invitation to experience Holotropic Breathwork with Stanislav Grof. This practice, originated by Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof, allows direct access to your own inner healing wisdom. more …
Wisdom of the Shaman: Practices for Healing and Transformation
The Huichol Indian practice of shamanism involves living through the heart as well as the body and spirit. The Huichols believe that the power of love is the foundation for all other power. more …
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Integrative Weight Loss
Learn how to 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 …
The Transformative Power of Being: The Non-Dual Yoga of Delight, Wonder, and Astonishment
Peace arrives when we cease trying to make this moment different, when we choose to live deeply, directly, and simply from what we are-the mystery of pure being. more …
Transforming Rage: Women Making Inner Peace Possible
For women only; no yoga experience needed. Rage sits at the crossroads of personal transformation. It is the daughter of our traumas, the twin of our shame, the burden of our denied histories, the foreign language of our emotional pain, and the wisdom that helps us heal. more …
Friday, October 1, 2010
Past Lives, Parallel Lives, Future Lives: All in the Vast Present Moment!
So much of what is meaningful about who you are and what is possible for you comes from your ability to access fresh ideas and make them real’and that includes sensing other lives you may be living elsewhere in time. more …
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration
Explore leading-edge concepts from Frequency, the new best-seller by Penney Peirce. This workshop will teach you how to succeed in what Penney calls the new energy reality. more …
Women's Mysteries: Walking with Beauty and Power
For women at all stages of life. In the past, women in native cultures were taught special ways to keep themselves beautiful and healthy. They were shown by example how to use their unique female powers to help their people. 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 …
Friday, October 8, 2010
Lifewalk: The Hero's Journey and the Spiritual Quest
Lifewalk guides you through the ancient stages of the Hero’s Journey, to help you find healing, gather strength and wisdom, and regain your inherent spiritual power and love. more …
Passionate Man: Embodying the Wild and Sacred Masculine
Across time and culture, men have gathered and bonded in rituals of initiation and brotherhood. Without a ritual structure for the honored masculine, many men feel disconnected and lost in a mundane world. more …
Sex, Pleasure, and Intimacy: A Retreat for Couples
For couples of any length of commitment and any sexual orientation. Would you love to feel passionate and at ease in your lovemaking? Most of us remember a time when sexual relating was a joy, when we were easily aroused and didn’t worry about whether we were “doing it right. more …
The Magic of Animal Communication
Have you ever wondered what your animal is thinking? Amelia Kinkade knows, and she can teach you to understand your animal’s thoughts. Here is your opportunity to discover what your animal friends want, need, feel, and think. more …
Monday, October 11, 2010
Shamanic Yoga for Healing and Evolution
For yogis with at least one year of practice. This vinyasa yoga workshop will employ shamanic techniques to assist the somatic release of stagnated energies. more …
Unleash Your Calling: An Intensive to Create the Work and Life You Love
Do you crave meaningful work? Do you yearn to express yourself creatively, help the world, and get paid for it? Your wildest dreams are not frivolous. They are your source for inspired abilities and explosive direction. more …
Friday, October 15, 2010
Awakening Joy: Ten Steps That Will Put You on the Road to Real Happiness
Develop your natural capacity for well-being and happiness in this weekend program based on James Baraz’s popular book and online course. Presenting Buddhist principles and other supportive strategies in a user-friendly way, this workshop will help you awaken the joy within through experiential exercises, silent and guided meditation, singing, writing, and fun. more …
Creating Transformational Experiences: Awakening Group Wisdom
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, you will harness your dreams and explore your purpose and path as a leader. more …
Guided From Within: A Nurturing Yoga Retreat
For yoga students with at least one year of yoga experience. Yoga has a remarkable way of helping you tap into deep places of awareness and feelings of well-being, self-confidence, and resilience. more …
Have Your Comfort Foods Taken You Hostage?
Have your “comfort foods” taken you hostage? Most of us know what we’re supposed to eat, but it’s another thing to bypass comfort food for healthier choices. more …
Healing Mind and Body: Medicine Buddha and Tibetan Medicine
According to traditional accounts, Tibetan medicine was first taught in India by the Buddha and in the eighth century CE was brought to Tibet, where it has flourished in an unbroken lineage to the present day. more …
Yoga for the Nervous System: Healing Anxiety, Insomnia and PTSD
Unlock the power of your mind-body network to calm your mind, quiet your nervous system, and relax your physical body. Conditions such as anxiety, insomnia, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) involve hyper-arousal of the nervous system as well as the mental and physical bodies. more …
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Mind-Body Integration: Energy Dynamics as a Path to Wholeness
For therapists, bodyworkers, and those pursuing a healing path who wish to understand powerful techniques for moving energy through the body. Would you like to learn how to work with energy as a healing modality? more …
Unlearn Your Pain: A Mind-Body Approach to Chronic Pain
Are you tired of being in pain? Have medical and alternative treatments failed to give you relief? Medical doctor Howard Schubiner has developed a comprehensive program that helps people understand the source of chronic conditions such as fibromyalgia, back and neck pain, tension and migraine headaches, irritable bowel and bladder syndromes, TMJ, and other related syndromes. more …
Friday, October 22, 2010
Attention Dynamics®: Navigating the Transformative Mind
Attention Dynamics® is a wholly new and simple way to grasp and practice traditional meditation techniques. This cutting-edge approach breaks down the complex processes of inner change into simple, step-by-step instructions. more …
Calm Your Inner Critic and Quiet Your Anxious Mind
Many of us live with the constant “self-talk” of a harsh inner critic. The critic’s voice thwarts spontaneity, holds us hostage to anxiety, dampens freedom of expression, and keeps us feeling inadequate. more …
Happier: Positive Psychology and Yoga
Can you learn to be happier? Absolutely! Author of Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment, Tal Ben-Shahar taught the most popular course at Harvard University—Positive Psychology, the study of optimal human functioning. more …
