Calendar of Programs
Friday, June 21, 2013
A New Way of Being: Women's Self-Renewal Retreat
For women at all stages of life; 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
Friday, June 28, 2013
Navigating Life Change: Mindfulness From the Mat
Have you been discouraged by how hard it is to make real change in your life? Now you can master the art of change using easy-to-learn, yoga-based, mind-body processes and practices that bring more flow and less stress to daily life. more
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Releasing the Inner Magician: A Body-Centered Experience to Unlock Inner Resources
Are you using your inherent powers to work magic? This delightful retreat with Deborah Sandella, originator of the groundbreaking RIM Method, guides you to unleash hidden, inner resources for insight, healing, and decision-making. more
Advanced Chakra Training for Healers and Yoga Practitioners
We reach our greatest potential when we collaborate with life’s creative forces. Grace Jull sees the chakras as doorways for engaging with prana’s joyous power. more
Friday, July 5, 2013
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 7, 2013
Boot Camp for Goddesses® Level 1: The Awakening
For women of all ages and fitness levels. Explore the nature of the Goddess in a women’s workshop of laughter, tears, and sweat that awakens your Core Female Power using the Sierra Bender Empowerment Method®, a 4 Body Fit®, inside-out workout redefining fitness, beauty, and power to unleash the Goddess within. more
Boot Camp for Goddesses®: Goddess in Training (Teens)
For girls 13–17, at all fitness levels. Goddess in Training is where fluff meets tough—a workshop utilizing the Sierra Bender Empowerment Method®, a 4 Body Fit® approach designed to empower teenage girls to awaken their Core Female Power, take command of their space, claim their femininity, find their voices, and build self-worth from the inside out. more
Friday, July 12, 2013
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 identify what’s in the way of living your full potential right here and now. more
Sunday, July 14, 2013
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
Thursday, July 18, 2013
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
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Whole Person Well-Being: A Week of Inspired Living
There’s an easy trap to fall into when we’re trying to achieve happiness, health, and well-being. The trap is thinking that by addressing one dimension of our life, everything else just falls into place. more
Friday, July 26, 2013
Alchemy, Ariadne, and the Labyrinth
Please note The presenter has changed since the publication of our summer catalog. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. For everyone. The Labyrinth walk and the archetypal myth of Ariadne and her golden thread have much to teach us about the journey of the soul. more
Friday, August 2, 2013
Mothers, Daughters, and the Heroic Journey (Adults)
For mothers and their daughters ages 9–12. Mothers, you can choose to be a vital part of your daughter’s coming-of-age journey. Using theater games, visual arts, writing, and sharing, the creators of this weekend invite you and your daughter to explore what it means to thrive as an adolescent girl while you deepen your connection with one another. more
Mothers, Daughters, and the Heroic Journey (Kids)
For mothers and their daughters ages 9–12. Mothers, you can choose to be a vital part of your daughter’s coming-of-age journey. Using theater games, visual arts, writing, and sharing, the creators of this weekend invite you and your daughter to explore what it means to thrive as an adolescent girl while you deepen your connection with one another. more
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Mindfulness A–Z: Liberating Regret, Stuckness, and Perfectionism
Do you have trouble getting out of your own way? Do you have a fear of missing out? Do you want more freedom from self-imposed rules, expectations, and limitations? more
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Slow Down Enough to Open Your Heart
Share yoga teacher and massage therapist Lena Madsen’s deep knowledge of the eight limbs of yoga and the body’s energetic pathways in a summer week of heart-opening yoga practice. more
Friday, August 23, 2013
Healer Within™ Practice Leader Training: Mind-Body Energetics Certification in Medical Qigong
Learn to share Mind-Body Energetics in your community. Mind-body and energy-medicine methods—such as yoga, tai chi, qigong, and somatics—are growing rapidly in popularity, and not just in yoga centers and spas. more
Navigating Change: Integrating Endings, Initiating Beginnings
Often described as life-transforming by participants, this workshop teaches ways to navigate life’s changes with wisdom, power, and grace. Through deep teachings and guided experiences, you consciously explore lessons from your past, wisdom offered in the present moment, and visionary potentials for your future. more
Vibration Activation™: A Revolutionary Approach to Manifesting the Life of Your Dreams
Do you love your life? Sadly, most people don’t—because they’re living someone else’s life, playing by someone else’s rules. more
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Internal Family Systems Therapy: Embodying the Healing Wisdom
All the world’s religions teach that there is an untarnished essence within each of us, a Self from which wisdom, healing, and spiritual energy flow. more
Friday, September 20, 2013
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 and Christina Grof, allows direct access to your own inner healing wisdom. more
Friday, September 27, 2013
Honoring Our Ancestors, Healing the Past: A Weekend Retreat
This transformational weekend of healing, meditation, mantra, and joyful ceremony is under the nurturing guidance of Maya Tiwari, an extraordinary teacher considered an embodiment of the Spiritual Mother. 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 29, 2013
The Way of the Happy Woman® Retreat: Yoga, Meditation, and Life Balance for the Fall
For women at all levels of yoga experience. Calling all women who are ready to learn the power of their feminine rhythms! As a woman, you are innately attuned to nature’s rhythms through monthly cycles that mirror the larger cycles of the earth. more
Transform Your Relationships Using Nonviolent Communication
How do you respond to difficult people and challenging conversations? You can create closer relationships by transforming judgment and blame into mutual understanding. more
Friday, October 11, 2013
Strengthen the Mind: The Wheel of Awareness and the Integration of Identity
Daniel J. Siegel envisions consciousness as a metaphoric Wheel of Awareness in which the hub is a sense of knowing, while all points along the rim represent the wide array of things that can be known, from our five senses to our experience of mental activity. more
Monday, October 14, 2013
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
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 your source for inspired abilities and explosive direction. more
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Inner Quest Intensive
All-inclusive price: $570 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, October 18, 2013
A New Way of Being™: Women's Self-Renewal Retreat
For women at all stages of life; 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
Calm Your Inner Critic and Quiet Your Anxious Mind
Many of us live with the constant self-talk of a harsh inner critic who thwarts spontaneity, holds us hostage to anxiety, dampens freedom of expression, feeds perfectionism, and leaves us feeling inadequate. more
Leap of Perception! Refine Your Attention Skills to Ease Your Transformation
As the vibration of the world and your body accelerates, you enter a new kind of knowing—a leap in perception. Some describe this transformation as a shift into a different reality that functions according to new rules. more
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Remote Viewing and the Journey Inward: Exploring the Matrix of Your Soul
Until we embrace all that we truly are, we remain tethered to the past and limited in our spiritual development. David Morehouse’s Coordinate and Extended Remote Viewing technique teaches you how to travel inward to identify the events, emotions, and beliefs that are prompting your behaviors and manifesting your destiny in the world. more
Friday, October 25, 2013
A New Beginning: An Extraordinary Journey of Self-Discovery and Awareness
Would you like to be able to change your perception in any situation, no matter how challenging, and be happy? Discover greater clarity, shift habitual patterns that no longer serve you, and free yourself of inner conflict in this weekend journey of self-discovery and awareness. more
Frontiers of Trauma Treatment: A Weekend Retreat
For health professionals, yoga instructors, and others interested in the nature of trauma. Overcoming trauma means learning to fully engage in the present without being hijacked by survival-related emotions and sensations. more
Thursday, October 31, 2013
SuperHealth®: Breaking Habits and Addictive Behavior
For yoga teachers, students, health-care professionals, and everyone making lifestyle changes. SuperHealth is an innovative behavioral health and addiction-therapy system that rebuilds the nervous and glandular systems, recalibrates the imprint of habitual patterning on the brain, and inspires and uplifts the human spirit. more
Friday, November 1, 2013
From Grieving to Believing: The Soul in Transformation
Are you yearning for a loved one who has died? Do you feel regret or guilt, or just want to feel that soul connection again? Combining grief work with mediumship has never been done before at Kripalu. more
The Wisdom of the Enneagram: Moving Beyond Personality
Look past the veils of your personality type and habits to enjoy a more direct experience of your authentic self. Enneagram Institute faculty member Michael Naylor views the Enneagram personality types as nine distinct aspects of human nature that can be found in all of us, regardless of our type’s dominant orientation. more
Friday, November 8, 2013
18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
How would it feel to focus on the right things, use the best of who you are, and avoid the distractions that subvert your efforts? Award-winning author, speaker, and leadership coach Peter Bregman can help you discover your sweet spot and follow through on your most important priorities. more
Friday, November 15, 2013
Inspired Action: A Call to Live Yoga, Activate Change, and Embody Freedom
Take hold, take charge, and create the world you want to live in-a world of connection, cooperation, and commitment. Your life is filled with possibilities just waiting to be revealed. more
Sunday, November 17, 2013
The Five Core Skills of Mindfulness: A Direct Path to More Confidence, Joy, and Love
Mindfulness is a skill-based path that can powerfully enhance your life. Terry Fralich has developed a unique approach to the practice of mindfulness, taught to more than 15,000 people throughout the United States and Australia, which transforms negative emotions, habits, and reactions, and brings more confidence, joy, and love. more
Friday, November 29, 2013
Solemate: Master the Art of Aloneness and Transform Your Life
For people who are single, divorced, or seeking greater independence within their partnership. Are you ready to gain mastery over your own life? Many people spend years waiting for a “soul mate” to make them feel complete. more
Thursday, December 5, 2013
The Not So Big Life: Year-End Review
The end of the year offers a perfect opportunity to reflect on our lives and listen to what our hearts long to do. Although the holiday season can tempt us into accumulating more “stuff,” envisioning our dreams for the New Year reminds us that what we are really looking for is a sense of the real and an experience of true meaning. more
Friday, December 6, 2013
Hardwiring Happiness
Combining the power of the latest brain science with the wisdom of contemplative practice, this workshop presents practical methods for centering your brain in its natural state of gladness, love, and peace. more
Friday, December 13, 2013
Live the Life You Cherish
Claiming the life you want to live begins with devotion to spirit, love for self and others, dedication to your divine identity, and manifesting the spiritual intentions you set forth. more
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Kabbalah Retreat: Mystical Path of the Heart
Have you lived another year feeling the gap between where you are and where you want to be? Do you want to create a new beginning? Kabbalah is mindful mysticism for soul-centered living. more
Friday, December 27, 2013
The Sankalpa Retreat: Live Your Heart's Purpose
In Sanskrit, the word sankalpa means “intention born from the heart.” How long has it been since you spent time at the wellspring of your heart? more
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Dance into Joy: A New Year’s Celebration of Release and Renewal
Dance into the new year in a sacred community of celebrants, following the lead of body and breath. Sacred dance is one of the most ancient, transformative rituals. more




