Calendar of Programs
Friday, March 19, 2010
Creating Ease in Your Life: An Introduction to Yoga, Stress Management, & Meditation for Every Body
What will your life look like in 5, 10, or 20 years? Are you setting the stage today for a fulfilled and vibrant life? It’s never too late to discover the profound healing benefits of yoga, meditation, and stress management techniques, including Increased flexibility, stamina, strength, muscle tone, and range of motion in the joints Healthier breathing and sleeping patterns and cardiopulmonary functioning Detoxification and more efficient metabolism Overall well-being and ease in daily life. more …
Discovering the Formless Through Form: An Iyengar Yoga Weekend
Yoga is an experience of the timeless and formless. But how do we, living in a world that recognizes clocks and borders, touch the infinite that lies beyond? more …
Enjoying Difficult People, Including Yourself
Would you like to transform difficult relationships? Deepen your compassion when you feel hurt? Develop heart connections with people you care about? more …
Enlightenment, Embodiment, and Healing Subconscious Memory
Science and spirit come together through Sue Morter’s work with bioenergetics, directed at embodying the Divine in daily life. Based on the Bio-Energetic Synchronization Technique, this dynamic, hands-on, and practical workshop removes subconscious interference created from past experience and inherited, unresolved emotional patterns that keep you from integrating your full human and divine potential. more …
Plug In and Shine On: A Jivamukti Illumination Weekend
For students with a current asana practice (min. 6 months). Claim your own illumination! To become enlightened, we’ve got to lighten up—and yoga practices are a great way to take yourself lightly, in mind and in body. more …
The Opening the Heart Workshop™
Experience a safe environment in which to access feelings, work through blocked emotions, disentangle from the past, reconnect with core truths, and learn to live more fully from the heart. more …
The Yoga of Cooking: Creating Healthy Relationships with Your Kitchen and Your Food
Does the thought of going into your kitchen and cooking meals on a regular basis create feelings of dread or despair? Would you like to experience the healing potential that lives in your food? more …
Touching Souls Through Partner Massage
For all duos (partners, friends, yoga buddies, and loved ones). Touch is one of the most basic forms of communication, one that we all understand at a deep physical and soul level. more …
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 500-Hour Certification: Module 2
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, March 21, 2010
Divine Mantras, Enlightenment, and Samahdi
Is enlightenment just a metaphor, or can we achieve enlightenment here, in this life? If there is a literal light that shines from within, what is its nature, where does it come from, and what effects does it have? more …
Educate, Don't Medicate: The Clearminded Children's Training Program (Cancelled)
Program cancelled. For parents and teachers. Become a Clearminded Educator, helping children to overcome the symptoms of ADD/ADHD and depression by using complementary and alternative strategies. more …
Energetic Alignment and Hands-On Assists: Essential Tools for Teaching Flow
Each asana has its own energetic alignment based upon the movement of prana, energy lines, and the relationship of opposites in the body. An integrated understanding of this movement will allow you to open and strengthen the core structures of embodiment from head to toe, and from skin to subtle body. more …
Health and Vitality in Midlife
A transformational approach to aging. It is never too late—or too early—to take charge of your health. Contrary to popular belief, aging does not have to mean a slow downward spiral of aches, pains, and disease. more …
Megayoga: Yoga for Curvy Bodies
For women of all levels; beginners welcome. If you think you have to be built like a pretzel to bend like one, Megan Garcia can introduce you to your body in a whole new way. more …
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Transformative Communication: A Foundation for Powerful Living
Please note the dates and tuition of this program have changed. The information differs from what appears in our Spring 2010 catalog. David Wolf brings a unique blend of empathic connection, penetrating insight, and grounded spiritual perspective to help you master powerful communication tools as a foundation for profound self-realization. more …
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Digestive Health: A Holistic Approach
Restore your digestive health naturally. Do you suffer from chronic gastrointestinal symptoms? Do find yourself taking expensive medications or over-the-counter drugs just so you can eat without discomfort? more …
Friday, March 26, 2010
Now What?: Finding Career Clarity and Life Direction from the Inside Out
Are you reevaluating your career or looking to do something radically different with your life? Instead of struggling on your own with life’s toughest questions, join Laura Berman Fortgang, author of Now What? more …
The End of Seeking and Struggle: Awakening Beyond the Dream of Duality
When our experience is shaped by thought, our predominant perspective is that of a self and world divided by shoulds and shouldn’ts, rights and wrongs, desires and aversions. more …
The Natural Singer
Come celebrate the magnificent healing power of your own voice. Whether you already sing, or have always wished you could, this workshop provides a remarkable environment and opportunity to improve your voice and sing your heart open. more …
Writing in the Sand: Jesus and the Soul of the Gospels
Join Thomas Moore, the best-selling author, psychotherapist, and theologian who redefined psychotherapy as care of the soul, and his wife, artist and yoga teacher Hari Kirin Kaur Khalsa, for a monastic-style weekend retreat. more …
Yoga: The Art of Attention
Your attention is ultimately your only art, your true offering to the world through your work, creativity, relationships, and daily practices. And your yoga is an ideal context for reawakening and refining your attention in order to optimize your talents in every aspect of life. more …
Yoga: The Integrated Path
Uncover your natural integration in this inquiry of body, breath, and mind. Using asana, pranayama, and meditation, world-renowned yoga instructor Rodney Yee will encourage your exploration of these questions Is your life energy drained by unnecessary conflict? more …
Prana, Marma, and Agni: Advanced Studies in Yoga and Ayurveda
For those with a thorough introduction to Ayurveda and yoga (see prerequisite below). At the heart of any integration of yoga and Ayurveda is the understanding of how prana (life force) and agni (internal fire) support each other for health and healing—prana kindles agni, and agni liberates prana from the tissues, endowing it with light and intelligence. more …
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Healing the Light Body® School First Session: The Serpent Path (Medicine Wheel Option)
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 …
Sacred Yogic Spaces: Laying Down Your Roots
Lay down your roots and grow into your personal power as you learn to accept yourself and create a harmonious relationship to life. This workshop will explore your lower chakras through the lens of asana, yoga philosophy, tantra, Ayurveda, kundalini, and Surat Shabda Yoga. more …
Five Days to Establish Yoga, Posture, Breath, Meditation, and Deep Relaxation
This 5-day retreat is specifically designed for beginners and others interested in establishing a regular yoga practice. Yoga is an ancient, instinctive system of wellness that works by reconnecting the conscious mind with the natural healing power within. more …
Healing the Light Body® School First Session: 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 …
Kripalu YogaDance™ Teacher Training: Chakra Fusion, Level 1
Assistant Program Director: Jurian Hughes 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 …
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (Cancelled)
Program cancelled. This week offers an opportunity to learn and experience mindfulness as taught at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society, founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn. more …
Thai Yoga Massage 3: Lotus Palm School Certification
Read more about the full Lotus Palm certification program. For students who have taken Thai Yoga Massage 1 and 2 or equivalent Thai Yoga Massage training. more …
Yoga Ed.™ High School Instructor Certification
For yoga teachers and educators with yoga training. This comprehensive 5-day certification prepares you to successfully teach the Yoga Ed.™ curriculum to teens as physical education and to teach the High School Tools for Teachers program to educators as professional development. more …
Friday, April 2, 2010
Afro-Caribbean Groove: Drum, Dance, and Song
For all ages and experience levels. Experience the healing power and beauty of Afro-Caribbean music and dance in a way that honors how the rhythms live and breathe in their original settings. more …
Buddha and the Body: Meditation and Breathwork
How do we train ourselves to become more embodied, more present for a conscious experience of the here and now? Insight Meditation and breathwork are two profound, transformational tools to cultivate this awareness. more …
CircusYoga® Community Retreat (Adults)
Did you ever want to run away and join the circus? In CircusYoga, Erin Maile O’Keefe and Kevin O’Keefe create a relaxed, playful, and energized environment that invites people of all generations to explore challenging yet accessible experiences. more …
CircusYoga® Community Retreat (Kids)
Did you ever want to run away and join the circus? In CircusYoga, Erin Maile O’Keefe and Kevin O’Keefe create a relaxed, playful, and energized environment that invites people of all generations to explore challenging yet accessible experiences. more …
Expand Your Range, Advance Your Yoga Practice
For experienced beginners and long-time practitioners. Experience a new sense of freedom in your practice. Calm, peace, and passionate equanimity can be yours through a gentle, mindful approach to the full expression of yoga. more …
Initiation: The Shaman's Way of Healing
Shamanic initiation is the most direct way we can heal the emotional wounds that otherwise keep us locked in a cycle of self-inflicted suffering and personal crisis. more …
Jesus in the Lotus: The Mystical Doorway between Christianity and Yogic Spirituality
Join Russill Paul for an Easter weekend exploring what it means to be a mystic in the fullest sense of the word, drawing inspiration from the teachings of Jesus and the great Christian mystics as well as eminent rishis and yogis of the Indian spiritual tradition. more …
Love Has Forgotten No One
Real love is divine in nature, and it must be experienced, for it is beyond words. Like spiritual masters throughout the ages, you can learn to dissolve the illusions of time and space and return to reality, which is perfect love—an all-encompassing love that is innocent, unflawed, immortal, invulnerable, and forever fearless. more …
Radical Acceptance: Buddhist Practices that Heal Difficult Emotions
One of the deepest forms of suffering in our culture is the pain of believing that "something is wrong with me." Feeling that we are continually falling short is like a toxic gas we breathe, making it difficult to be truly intimate with others and at home in our body, heart, and mind. more …
The Creative Soul Journal
What brings a smile to your face? What feeds your soul? What images do you relate to? Which colors call you? Who are you? Explore these questions and more as you paint, collage, and build a visual journal from start to finish that expresses your creative soul. more …
The Essentials of Freedom-Style Yoga
Erich Schiffmann is a one-of-a-kind teacher in the American yoga world. His unique Freedom-Style Yoga offers an intuitive approach to yoga as the art of living. more …
Sunday, April 4, 2010
The Voice of Trauma: A Sound Approach to Healing the Wounds of Childhood Trauma
For psychotherapists, life coaches, and yoga teachers. The voice is a mirror of the soul and a link between psyche and soma. In this experiential workshop, noted music therapist and psychoanalyst Louise Montello demonstrates how expression can be inhibited by unresolved trauma that wreaks havoc in mind and body. more …
YogaKids®: The Complete Starter Kit
For teachers, parents, homeschoolers, health-care practitioners, and everyone with an interest in teaching yoga to kids; no prior yoga experience is required. more …
How to Write and Publish Spiritual Books
So many of us have an important book inside, one with a spiritual theme that we want to share with the world. Yet we often feel overwhelmed by the prospect of completing a manuscript and getting it published. more …
Jin Shin Do®: BodyMind Acupressure™ Basic Class
For massage therapists, bodyworkers, health-care providers and interested individuals. Jin Shin Do (JSD) is a gentle form of Japanese acupressure that accesses the bodymind through the meridian system. more …
Our Life, Our Death
What is it about facing death that makes life seem so precious? What can be learned by looking courageously at your inevitable death? Spend five days finding your own unique responses to these human questions by engaging in meditation, writing, discussion, lecture, and group work. more …
Panchakarma
An ancient, cleansing ritual for today’s world… Special rate: $2,400 (includes tuition, healing arts, and nonrefundable $55 application and intake consultation fee). more …
