Calendar of Programs
Friday, September 3, 2010
A Pranakriya Yoga™ Retreat
For students with min. 6 months yoga experience. Immerse yourself in the practices of an ancient and powerful yoga tradition. Yoganand Michael Carroll spent many years as a monk in the Kripalu ashram engaged in the intensive study and practice of Swami Kripalu’s approach to tantric hatha yoga. more …
Kirtan Trance Dance: Getting High on Mantra
Leave your worries behind and allow the sacred power of sound to bring you fully alive in a workshop that blends high-energy chanting with devotional bliss. more …
Rejuvenate Your Life with Yoga: A Natural Yoga Workshop
For people at all levels of experience in yoga. The effects of stress, unhealthy habits, and too little exercise cause sickness and depression and keep us from fulfilling our life’s dreams. more …
Yoga and Kayaking
Join Johnny Snyder, world-class kayaker and professional guide, and Greg DiLisio, certified qigong, tai chi, and yoga teacher and popular Kripalu program leader, and set off on flat-water adventures in the magic of the Berkshires. more …
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Integrative Yoga Therapy Professional Yoga Therapist Training Program: Module 2
For yoga teachers who have completed a 200-hour Yoga Alliance-registered program and Module 1 of the Integrative Yoga Therapy training program; see note below. more …
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Yoga for Health (Cancelled)
Program cancelled. A solid foundation for cultivating the benefits of yoga in your life. Doctors and health professionals are recommending yoga for preventative health, to treat a variety of ailments, and for psychoemotional healing. more …
Monday, September 6, 2010
Pranayama for Meditators and Yoga Practitioners
6 months of yoga experience. Pranayama is often referred to as the heart of yoga practice. It has the power to open you to mystical states of consciousness that can magnify the effects of all your other spiritual practices. more …
Friday, September 10, 2010
Finding Ease at Your Edge: Relaxation, Mindfulness, and Vinyasa
When you are in the midst of a life challenge—big or small—do you tense up, get aggressive, turn away in fear? One of the greatest benefits of yoga is that it trains you to stay calm in the eye of any storm. more …
Introduction to Yoga and Meditation
Are you interested in yoga and meditation but don’t know where to begin? Do you want a safe and welcoming environment for exploring the basics? Would you like to take home practical tools for using yoga and meditation in your life? 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 …
Sunday, September 12, 2010
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 …
The Aquarian Teacher: Kundalini Yoga Teacher Certification Level One, Segment 3
If you want to learn something, read about it. If you want to understand something, write about it. If you want to master something, teach it. —Yogi Bhajan Yogi Bhajan, master of Kundalini Yoga, arrived in the United States in 1969 with the stated purpose of creating teachers, not gathering disciples. more …
Friday, September 17, 2010
Introduction to Yoga Nursing®: The Art of Caring
For caregivers and healing professionals alike. Previous yoga experience is not required. Yoga Nursing is an exciting new movement in health care and yoga therapy, a complementary approach to health and wellness that combines the riches of Kripalu Yoga methodology with traditional Western nursing practice. more …
Reboot: Mindful Autumn Hiking and Deep Yoga Relaxation
Reboot your outlook and rejuvenate body, mind, and breath in this masterfully guided, magical getaway in the beautiful Berkshire Mountains. Celebrate your vital force with mindful hikes under the open sky in the cool air and natural colors of autumn. more …
The Promise: Advanced Yoga for EveryOne
Yoga is not a linear process; it is direct intimacy with life, and it is available to everyone. This weekend, Mark Whitwell offers yoga’s advanced practices in a way that you will be able to integrate and make your own, whether you are just beginning to practice or have years of experience. more …
Sunday, September 19, 2010
ChiRunning® and Kripalu Yoga: Running as a Holistic Practice
Interested in how yoga and mindfulness can enhance your running? Come learn how to apply the alignment and relaxation principles of yoga and ChiRunning in your life with cross-country, track, and marathon coach Ryan Miller. more …
Sweat, Sequencing, and Somatics
Delve into a cutting-edge combination of yoga and deep-tissue structural bodywork. Over the last few years, David Vendetti and Todd Skoglund have discovered that by combining proper warm-ups, purposeful posture sequencing, isometric resistance stretching, and structural bodywork, a truly astonishing deepening of practice can be found. more …
The Yoga of Regeneration
Yoga is every person’s direct intimacy with reality, an entirely abundant, regenerating, and nurturing power. This is yoga from the heart, for the heart, and it promises health, intimacy, well-being, and joy. more …
Friday, September 24, 2010
Flow and Let Go: Awakening Vitality with Vinyasa and Restorative Yoga
Rejuvenate the flow of “prana shakti,” the energy of your innate life force. Enjoy the journey of flowing with breath in warming, active postures to prepare the body and mind for experiencing deep relaxation in supported, passive postures. more …
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 500-Hour Certification: Module 3
Learn the deeper facets of teaching yoga, from asana and pranayama to the internal practice of stilling the mind and attuning to the multidimensional body, mind, and spirit. more …
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Sitting, Standing, Walking: Creating New Body Pathways
This program takes a look at things you have been doing for most of your life-sitting, standing, and walking. These ordinary activities may be in the background of your attention, but they are not separate from who you are. more …
The Power of Mantra and Ceremony: An Evolutionary Intensive
The ancients so understood the power of Sanskrit ceremony that for thousands of years they kept the methods for doing them under wraps. Pujas and yajnas (water and fire ceremonies) remained largely secret until the early part of the twentieth century. more …
Yoga and Deep Relaxation Retreat: The Gift of Yoga Nidra
This nourishing retreat is the perfect antidote to a busy and fragmented life, and a wonderful opportunity to come back into harmony, balance, and wholeness. more …
Friday, October 1, 2010
Anusara Yoga® Essentials: Universal Principles
Are you ready to go deeper? Seeking new perspectives? This workshop might be just what you are looking for. Anusara Yoga is a profound and elegant system that blends the ancient art of yoga with modern science. more …
Big Guy Yoga
This is a weekend for the guy who says, “I can’t do yoga; I can’t even touch my toes!” Alan “Big Guy Yoga” Haines creates an environment where the average guy feels comfortable learning yoga, even if he thinks he’s too out of shape or heavy to exercise. more …
Yoga Fusion: The Ultimate Fall Yoga Retreat
This total fall rejuvenation brings together leading yoga instructors from Manhattan and Kripalu for a powerful weekend of collaboration and community. more …
Sunday, October 3, 2010
If Not Now, When?: Planting Positive Seeds Through Yoga, Breath, and Visualization
Coming to your yoga practice with a joyous heart, you set the intention for your practice, planting the positive seeds needed to grow to a higher vibration. more …
Meridian Yoga Intensive: Opening the Energetic Pathways
When our meridian pathways are blocked, we experience emotional, physical, and even spiritual malaise. But when these pathways are opened, prana—universal life force—flows though us, bringing harmony, lightness, and joy to our being, aligning us with heaven and earth, sun and moon, wind and sky. more …
Yoga for the Rest of Us: Yoga You'll Love to Do
Also for those who want to lead adaptive yoga. Experience the many benefits of yoga in a safe, enjoyable and friendly environment, no matter what shape you are in. more …
YogaDance Teacher Training: Chakra Fusion, Level 1
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, October 8, 2010
Yoga Retreat: Evolving Through Your Yoga Practice
Immerse yourself in a masterfully guided experiential learning environment for yoga practice that will bring you home to a fresh and enlivening relationship with your whole, multidimensional self. 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 …
Reboot: Mindful Autumn Hiking and Deep Yoga Relaxation
Reboot your outlook and rejuvenate body, mind, and breath in this masterfully guided, magical getaway in the beautiful Berkshire Mountains. Celebrate your vital force with mindful hikes under the open sky in the cool air and natural colors of autumn. more …
Shakti Namaskar: Embodying the Goddess
For women only. This women’s retreat (with option for teacher training) is designed to open our creative power, sustain life, and dissolve what binds us. more …
Yoga and Kirtan: Rejuvenate Mind, Body, and Spirit
At a cellular level, the human body is made of vibration, and just like a musical instrument, it can be out of tune. In this 3-day weekend, Jessica and Deena Robertson and their kirtan collective, Lila, will lead you through yoga classes that re-tune the body, mind, and spirit, and awaken a feeling of freedom. more …
Yoga and the Five Elements: A Retreat to Balance Body, Mind, and Spirit
Just as each season has unique affects on us, so do the universal elements of nature: earth, water, fire, air, and space. Keeping these essential elements in balance is considered by many traditions to be the driving force of health. more …
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Self-Awakening Yoga Therapeutics Teacher Training®
For yoga teachers and practitioners (min. 2 years). Applying experiences and principles from his book, Self-Awakening Yoga, Don Stapleton takes yoga inquiry back to its roots as a creative learning process in this training for yoga educators, therapists, and practitioners. 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 …
Chakra Vinyasa: Liberating the Body Mandala
Experience an accessible and universal approach to the chakra system within vinyasa that awakens the essential truths of our energetic body to live in greater alignment with our authentic flow. more …
Reboot Immersion: Mindful Autumn Hiking and Deep Yoga Relaxation
Immerse yourself in a 4-day yoga and hiking program that invites you to reboot your outlook and rejuvenate body, mind, and breath. Randal Williams and Larissa Hall Carlson are your masterful guides for this magical getaway in the Berkshires in which you will celebrate your vital force with mindful hikes in the invigorating air and natural colors of autumn. more …
Teaching Chair Yoga: The Sitting Mountain Series Teacher Training
For yoga teachers, yoga teachers-to-be, and health-care professionals. Do you have students, clients, or patients who cannot get down on the floor because of age, weight, disability, or inflexibility? more …
Friday, October 15, 2010
Devotion in Motion: Yoga, Art, Storytelling, and Music
Husband and wife team MC Yogi and Amanda Giacomini invite you to a fun and creative exploration of the yoga tradition. Each session will be a multi-sensory journey that weaves together yoga practice, mantra meditation, sacred art, music, dance, storytelling, and prayer. more …
Tending the Sacred Fire: Living Yoga Sadhana
Within tantra, Ayurveda, and Krisnamacharya’s teachings of vinyasa, we thrive when we find the form of yoga practice that fuels, nourishes, and illumines what is needed to evolve our life. more …
Yoga and Kayaking
Join Johnny Snyder, world-class kayaker and professional guide, and Greg DiLisio, certified qigong, tai chi, and yoga teacher and popular Kripalu program leader, and set off on flat-water adventures in the magic of the Berkshires. 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
Hike, Bike and Yoga
For people with a moderate fitness level; hikes and rides will have multi-level options. Hike and bike your way through the beauty of the Berkshires, including waterfalls, old growth trees, and panoramic views. more …
Yoga Break: Get Away for Fun and Inspiration
This is the break you’ve been waiting for! Whether you are new to yoga or have been practicing for a lifetime, have never been to Kripalu or are a regular who wants a new experience, this workshop offers the opportunity to have fun playing yoga with other yogis while creating your own unique retreat experience outside of workshop sessions. more …
Mindfulness Yoga: Body Of Peace
Everyone who explores the stillness of meditation must enter deeply into the experience of the body. The Indian sage Patanjali defined asana as “a posture that is stable and easeful. more …
