Calendar of Programs
Sunday, April 15, 2012
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 …
Integrative Weight Loss
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 Light Body® School First Session (South): The Serpent Path
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 …
Friday, April 20, 2012
Body Mind Mastery: A Peaceful Warrior’s Path to Peak Experiences
For all ages and fitness levels. Master coach and author Dan Millman shares the fruits of a lifetime of training in martial arts, gymnastics, yoga, dance, and other meditative practices. more …
Getting Unstuck: Moving Beyond Depression, Anxiety, and Chronic Illness
Most of us hope for change or seek therapy when we feel stuck, at times when we find ourselves repeating the same self-defeating stories to ourselves and engaging in the same repetitive, unhelpful behaviors. more …
Healing Wounded Love: Cultivating Clear-Sighted, Loving Awareness
In an innovative synthesis of mindfulness and cognitive therapy, with methods and insights from Tibetan Buddhism, this program provides practical guidance for transforming emotional confusion into insightful clarity, fostering a more genuine connection with ourselves and the people in our lives. more …
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 …
Friday, April 27, 2012
Native American Spirituality: A Journey Through the Seven Directions
Discover your interconnectedness to all of life by taking a symbolic journey through the seven directions of Native American spirituality. These directions guide us to connect more deeply with our bodies, spirit, nature, community, relationships, and the greater spiritual reality. more …
Taming Your Outer Child: Overcoming Patterns of Self-Sabotage
While Inner Child work is about feelings, Outer Child work focuses on the behavior that derails you—breaks your diet or gets you attracted to all the wrong people. more …
The Radical Heart Of Buddhism
Learn to develop a greater sense of care for yourself and the world we share through the revolutionary spiritual practices of the Buddhist tradition of overcoming hatred with love, fear with faith, ignorance with understanding, and greed with generosity. more …
Sunday, April 29, 2012
The Inspired Life: Unleashing Your Mind's Capacity for Joy
Tired of feeling victimized by life circumstances? Then you’re ready to lead an inspired life. Award-winning author Susyn Reeve and Ananda Yoga Center founder Mary Angela Buffo designed this workshop to ensure that you embody your inspired life vision. more …
Living Passionately: Yoga Life Coaching™ Immersion: Powerful Tools for Your Unique Best Life
Want more connection with friends and family? Want to love your job or shift gears entirely? Whether you are looking to coach professionally, or simply want more out of your life, this program offers tools for success, laughter, and connection. more …
Cherokee Bodywork
Almost all indigenous cultures had direct, hands-on methods of healing, and the Cherokee were no exception. Learn the Cherokee art of healing touch, a form of bodywork that is rarely encountered today. more …
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 …
Neuroscience, Mindfulness, and Yoga for Transforming Trauma and Addiction: Professional Skills Training
For therapists, physicians, yoga instructors, bodyworkers, researchers, and others who work with traumatized people. This unique professional training examines the roots of trauma and addiction through the lenses of contemporary neuroscience and traditional Buddhist psychology. more …
Friday, May 4, 2012
The Second Journey: Every Woman's Odyssey
For women. The journey of finding yourself is a holy endeavor. You aren’t simply progressing through your life but becoming a scholar of self and soul. more …
Women's Qigong for Health and Vitality
For women only; all levels of fitness welcome. The ancient Chinese healing art of qigong has been a source of health and longevity for women for thousands of years. more …
Yoga Retreat for Women of Color™: Stir up the Pot-Bring on the Light!
Join four amazing teachers for a weekend of yoga, renewal, and reflection. Each day begins with sunrise yoga, rhythmic movement, and breathing practices to nourish the body. more …
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Discover the Power of Your Voice: Sound and Energy Practices for Self-Healing
Have you ever wanted to connect to your body in a way that taps into a core of strength and presence? This workshop teaches you to do just that, using the power of your voice to express and amplify your intention and as a healing tool for yourself and others. more …
What Are You Hungry For?: Yoga and the Psychology of Food and Body Image
For women only; no previous yoga experience necessary. If you struggle with an eating disorder, misplaced hunger, or compulsive food strategies, this workshop offers relief. more …
Women's Qigong for Health and Self-Healing
For women only; all levels of fitness welcome. Qigong is a system of self-healing used in China for more than two thousand years to maintain health, achieve longevity, and treat disease. more …
Friday, May 11, 2012
Living the Evolutionary Life: Through Death, Beyond, and Reincarnation
Robert Thurman, a senior American Buddhist practitioner and writer, invites you to develop a down-to-earth daily practice for living the evolutionary life that takes into account the reality of death, bardo transition, and future lives. more …
Mother-Daughter Yoga Weekend
For women and their daughters (teens ages 13 and up); all levels including beginners. Each one of us has a mother, and we also carry the archetype of mother within us. more …
The Way of the Happy Woman: Yoga, Meditation, and Inspired Living
For all women; no yoga experience necessary. Calling all women who do too much! This self-care retreat reminds you how to harness the healing power of ancient feminine wisdom with modern sophistication to find lasting harmony and happiness. more …
Friday, May 18, 2012
Fit Soul, Fit Body: 9 Keys to a Healthier, Happier You
Brant Secunda and Mark Allen invite you to an extraordinary weekend of health and healing based on their groundbreaking best-seller, Fit Soul, Fit Body: 9 Keys to a Healthier, Happier You. more …
LifeForce Yoga® Meets the Hungry Ghost: Mood Management and Addiction
How can you commit to happiness in the face of a challenging and sometimes violent world? This weekend helps you cultivate the compassionate inner space to embrace life’s challenges with a clear and peaceful mind and a courageous heart. more …
The Partnership of Reason and Grace
We are taught to form a partnership with either our intellect or our spiritual instincts-one or the other-as if these two forces are in conflict. But the conflict we experience within us is caused by the separation of these two currents of the life force, which are meant to flow together through our cells. more …
The Women's Workshop of Soulmate Attraction
For women. Declare your readiness to attract your soulmate in 2012. Demystify the Soulmate Attraction process in this nurturing, thought-provoking—and proven—workshop. 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 …
Energy Psychology: Self-Healing Methods for Bodymind Health
For mental health therapists and everyone who wants to learn self-healing methods for physical and mental health. Michael Mayer pioneered the integration of qigong and psychotherapy. more …
Integrative Weight Loss
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 …
Friday, May 25, 2012
A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids: Refresh Your Creativity
For women. Get ready for a one-of-a-kind retreat designed to rehydrate your soul and unlock your creative muse. The landlocked mermaid is a symbol of contemporary woman trapped in the paradox of being worldly and domesticated on the one hand, and untamable and intuitive on the other. more …
Being Intimate: A Retreat for Couples
For couples of any length of commitment and any sexual orientation. Imagine being able to talk about what you really feel and need. Imagine the freedom to be yourself-to dance easily together, touch one another affectionately and tenderly, and experience the satisfaction of knowing your partner is really there with you. more …
Friday, June 1, 2012
Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility
Ellen Langer’s book, Counterclockwise, is being made into a movie starring Jennifer Aniston. Ellen’s groundbreaking studies, including the Counterclockwise study, have led to a remarkable set of findings on the practical applications of mindfulness for health: When people are taught to be mindful in a fashion very different from meditation, they become more creative, healthier, and happier. more …
The Presence of Breath
Breathe your way to a more healthy and joyful you in a weekend that opens the door to profound life changes and self-empowerment. Utilizing the tools of Transformational Breathing and the Presence Process (the work of Michael Brown), this workshop takes you on a journey from the transfixed physical state to the vibrational state of Presence. more …
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Quarter-Life Calling: Creating an Extraordinary Life in Your 20's
For adults ages 21–29. Your 20s can be a time of possibility, inspiration, and the discovery of your deepest values and truths. It can also be a time of challenge as you begin creating the kind of life your soul is calling for. more …
Friday, June 8, 2012
The Power of Your Spirit
The power of Spirit is the most authentic, genuine, and lasting power you have in your life. You cannot control the world outside, but you can, with the power of Spirit, create a sense of inner purpose that brings about deep satisfaction and personal peace, no matter what is going on around you. more …
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Embodying the Dream: The Practice of Archetypal Dreamwork
Are you ready to step into your dreams, allowing them to awaken and enliven you? Mysterious yet practical, dreams beckon you into the alchemy of real change, which is felt in the body itself. more …
The Recovery Room: Somatic Therapeutics for Addiction and Mental Health Professionals
Freud was right! When you do a little R&R (relaxing and reclining), you are more likely to say what’s on your mind, identify obstacles, and challenge yourself with new behaviors for mind-body health. more …
Transforming Your Clinical Practice with EMDR: The Basic Course for Mental Health Professionals
For mental-health therapists. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a comprehensive, integrative psychotherapy approach for the treatment of a broad spectrum of issues, including disturbing life events, relationship problems, self-esteem issues, and complex trauma. more …
Friday, June 15, 2012
Couples Bodywork: Thai for Two
For couples of all orientations; no experience necessary. Enjoy a deeper sense of intimacy and appreciation for each other. Rooted in yoga, Thai massage, shiatsu, and meditation, Couples Bodywork is a great reminder to make spiritual time a priority in your relationship and a gift that the two of you can share throughout your lives. more …
Healing Your Soul's Past to Realize Your Soul's Potential
In this inspirational, experiential workshop, psychic Ainslie MacLeod, author of The Transformation: Healing Your Past Lives to Realize Your Soul’s Potential, takes you on a journey of profound spiritual healing and growth to uncover the blocks that prevent you from living your life to the fullest. more …
The Opening the Heart Workshop™
The Opening the Heart (OTH) philosophy recognizes that true health is based on a holistic model that includes mind, body, and spirit. This workshop draws on Gestalt, bioenergetics, focusing, witnessing, and mindfulness practices. more …
Sunday, June 17, 2012
PranaTantra-Reiki 1 and 2: Awakening to the Spiritual Dimension
Awaken to the innate, self-healing wisdom of Reiki and deepen your connection to Source. This workshop includes traditional Reiki I and II attunements, hands-on curriculum, and PranaTantra exercises that teach the practice of accepting all that is, as it is. more …
Refilling Your Well: A Self-Nurturing Retreat
Give yourself the gift of deep renewal. Spend a restorative time-out immersing yourself in nurturing activities that replenish your soul, increase your joy, and ease your stress. more …
Mindful Self-Compassion Training
How do you typically react to life’s difficulties, such as work stress, feeling rejected, physical problems, or financial hardship? Human beings instinctively fight negative experiences and find fault in themselves when things go wrong. more …
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
PranaTantra-Reiki Master Training: Align with Reiki Consciousness
Reiki Master training empowers you to experience the peace that is Reiki for yourself, and also teach others. In this workshop, you Receive the traditional Usui Reiki Master attunement and symbol to deepen your awakening to Reiki Move into acceptance and learn to guide others in accepting realities that were resisted in the past in order to protect the ego’s self-image Integrate the conflicting psychological and biological inner manifestations of struggle versus acceptance Learn Reiki I, Reiki II, and Reiki Master teaching protocols so you can teach and attune others with PranaTantra knowledge. more …
Friday, June 22, 2012
A New Way of Being: Women's Self-Renewal Retreat
For women; no yoga experience necessary. Do you long to reconnect with who you are? Are you in the midst of a transition? Do you crave time for quiet reflection, rest, and renewal? more …
Dive Deep and Play
Dance through your life with more freedom and fearlessness. Learn tools to playfully confront obstacles like self-judgment, no-saying, shoulds, coulds, can’ts, and won’ts. more …
Spiritual Life Tune-Up
Regular tune-ups keep your car humming along at the peak of its capabilities. Similarly, when you take the time to tune up your spiritual life, there’s an ongoing brightness in your daily experience. more …
The One Thing Holding You Back: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Connection
Do you have an unrealized dream? Are you still waiting to tap into your full potential? What prevents you from manifesting your greatest life vision may be a reservoir of unfelt emotion. more …
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Total Immersion for Total Transformation
Get ready for five intense days of ecstatic rebirth. Raphael Cushnir creates a safe and gentle environment to help call forth your very best, using tools such as emotional-release work, journaling, small-group exercises, meditation, movement, yoga, chant, collage, subtle-energy practices, and mind-heart attunements. more …
Thursday, June 28, 2012
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, June 29, 2012
Already Home
The deepest self inside of you, available in every breath, is the seat of all wisdom and knowing. You are already home. This nourishing weekend supports you in strengthening the muscle that helps you remember who you really are. more …
Peak Prosperity
Feeling concerned about the future? The convergence of the broken global economy, peak oil production levels, and fast-depleting natural resources virtually ensures that the next 20 years will be completely unlike the last 20. more …
Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living
This weekend is a cry for freedom from the conventional standards that obscure the call of your soul. It’s an invitation to a life of reverence, joy, and meaning without dogma. more …
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Chakra Detox Immersion: A Complete Physical, Mental, and Emotional Detox
1 year yoga experience. Free up blocks in your body and tap your true potential. In this immersion, strategically clear your body, mind, and heart while obtaining a concrete understanding of the chakras. more …
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 …
Still Small Voice Within: Meditation, Focusing, and Intuition Training
Einstein said, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” In order to climb out of any rut, resolve any problem, or sense your path from a new perspective, you have to shift your awareness. more …
Friday, July 6, 2012
Diving Into the Body: The Essentials of Energy Medicine for Self-Care
Explore the energy field, the basics of energy medicine, and the fundamentals of vitality and energy flow with medical doctor Ann Marie Chiasson, who began to learn and practice energy medicine prior to entering medical school. more …
Goddess to the Core®: An Inspired Workout to Maximize Your Fitness, Beauty, and Power
For women and teens. Sierra Bender-founder of the Sierra Bender Empowerment Method® and Boot Camp for Goddesses®, and author of Goddess to the Core®—empowers women to lead with power, purpose, and passion. more …
Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness
Can you learn to be happier? Absolutely! Author of Being Happy, Tal Ben-Shahar taught the most popular course at Harvard University—Positive Psychology, the study of optimal human functioning. more …
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Designing Your Destiny: Letting Your Soul Have Its Say
Are you living the life you want? Is your mission clear? This workshop reminds you that you are a work in progress. When you acknowledge your soul’s chosen direction, it’s easy to see that you don’t make one choice for all time, but rather constantly change and evolve. more …
Friday, July 13, 2012
Getting the Love You Want: A Workshop for Couples
For couples of all orientations, length of commitment, and stages of life. Take your relationship to the next level in a workshop based on the best-selling book Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples. more …
The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters
Have you ever wondered, “What is it that I’m really here to do?” Sarah Susanka, best-selling author of The Not So Big Life, has some suggestions to help you find your true passion and identify what’s in the way of living it today. more …
Friday, July 20, 2012
Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
For couples and individuals of all sexual orientations. Why does great sex so often fade for couples who claim to love each other as much as ever? Is it possible to want what we already have? more …
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 …
This Very Moment: Mindfulness in Psychotherapy
For psychotherapists, human-service professionals, and other psychologically minded people interested in personal development. Mindfulness has been successfully practiced for more than 2,500 years and is a deceptively simple way of relating to experience to alleviate human suffering. more …
Yoga for Emotional Balance: Healing Anxiety and Depression
Do you have a mental grasp of your problems, yet find it difficult to change? Anxiety, depression, and anxious depression are neuro-emotional patterns that hijack your mind, brain, and body, and prevent you from accessing your fullest potential. more …
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Integrative Weight Loss
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 Way of the Happy Woman: Women's Yoga Teacher Training
For women yoga teachers and practitioners with at least 1 year of yoga experience practice. Empower women, change lives, and harness your feminine power in the world’s only women’s yoga teacher training. more …
Trauma, Body, and Brain: Restoring the Capacity for Rhythm and Play
For licensed therapists, yoga instructors, and others interested in the nature of trauma. Traumatic experiences alter people’s relationship to their bodies in ways that leave them feeling uptight, helpless, disconnected, hurt, on edge, frantic, and at odds with themselves. more …
Friday, July 27, 2012
The Lovetarian Way: Create Subtle Shifts for Miraculous Change
Join best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein for a workshop designed to help you overcome fearful patterns and create positive change to last a lifetime. more …
You Can Rewire Your Brain for Bliss
Enlightenment is not reserved for the deeply spiritual—it’s a sacred gift for all to experience. Discover for yourself how specific lifestyle choices allow the brain to become more receptive to directed change, resulting in an unprecedented ability to rewire your consciousness. more …
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Using EMDR as a Contemporary Psychotherapy: An Advanced Course for Mental-Health Professionals
For mental-health clinicians who have completed the Basic Course in EMDR. Are you a mental-health therapist interested in deepening your Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) skills and integrating this powerful and effective approach into your clinical practice? more …
Friday, August 3, 2012
Partner Yoga For Couples
For couples. Bring your beloved to a fun-filled, spiritually uplifting, and invigorating weekend of partner yoga for couples. As you learn how to breathe and flow together on the mat, you learn how to find ease and balance in your relationship off the mat. more …
Psychology of the Chakras: A 7-Day Intensive
Are you ready for an initiatory journey into the sacred centers of yourself? Are you prepared to cross the archetypal rainbow bridge that connects everything into one indivisible whole? more …
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Women and Food: A Journey to Nourishment
A personalized, small-group approach to creating positive change. Do you want a healthy, happy relationship with food? Eating is one of our most essential human needs. more …
Friday, August 10, 2012
Use Your Brain to Change Your Age
Do you want to feel more fit, energized, and mentally sharp? You can! The fountain of youth is literally between your ears. A healthy brain is the key to staying vibrant and alive for a long time. more …
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Certificate in Positive Psychology
Exclusively at Kripalu There’s a scientific way to study happiness—it’s called Positive Psychology. A new paradigm of traditional psychology, Positive Psychology focuses on growing happiness, love, success, and strengths, rather than on overcoming depression, anxiety, neuroses, and weaknesses. more …
Friday, August 17, 2012
Women’s Retreat: Awaken Your Passion, Increase Your Self-Differentiation
For all women. Do you love your partner but want more passion in your relationship? Are you a single woman looking to explore your erotic and sensual potential? more …
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Breath, Body, Mind© Training for Stress and Trauma
For therapists and yoga teachers working with stressed and traumatized populations. Breath~Body~Mind integrates ancient and modern trauma-sensitive techniques to rapidly balance stress-response systems for self-care and healing others. more …
Friday, November 2, 2012
The End Result: Getting What You Really Want!
This weekend, Mike Dooley walks you through the entire process of reality creation, from thought to manifestation. Exercises and worksheets help define your dreams in terms of desired end results in ways that allow the universe maximum freedom to deliver your true heart’s desire as fast and harmoniously as possible. more …
