Calendar of Programs
Thursday, March 11, 2010
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, March 12, 2010
Deep Happiness by Design
Your bodymind holds a blueprint for happiness that is unique to you. While hundreds of experts offer one-size-fits-all strategies and programs for achieving happiness, only you can access your body’s wisdom moment by moment to make the next decision, the next choice. more …
Energy Psychology: Tapping Acupuncture Points to Reprogram Your Brain
For health-care professionals as well as interested individuals. Energy psychology is a contemporary approach that draws from ancient spiritual practices and healing traditions. more …
Hard Core/Soft Core: An Agni-Firing Workshop
For students who have practiced asana for at least 1 year and have some experience with vinyasa. Your center. Your hara. Your emotional brain. The physical heart of your yoga practice. more …
Holistic Eye Care: Improve and Save Your Sight Naturally
The eyes are the windows to the soul. This eye-opening workshop offers a holistic approach to eye care for those who want to improve and preserve their eyesight and become less dependent on glasses or contacts. more …
Introduction to Meditation
Have you heard about the benefits of meditation and wondered what the practice is really like? Or perhaps you’ve had some meditation instruction but not yet found a technique that fits your temperament and lifestyle, one that allows you to sustain a regular practice. more …
TriYoga®: The Path to Sat Cit Ananda
TriYoga is a complete and revolutionary method founded by Kali Ray (Kaliji) that unites dynamic and sustained asana with pranayama and mudra. It is guided by kriyavati siddhi (kundalini-inspired yoga) as it flows through Kaliji. more …
Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants: Metaphors for Mindful Living
Robert Frost warned, “Unless you are at home in the metaphor, unless you have had your proper poetical education in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere. more …
Yoga for the Rest of Us: Yoga You'll Love to Do!
Also for those who want to lead adaptive yoga. Have you considered trying yoga but are concerned about being asked to do more than you are able? This weekend will introduce you to yoga’s many benefits in a safe and friendly environment. more …
Sunday, March 14, 2010
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 whatever gets in the way of accessing your highest purpose and deepest wisdom. more …
Buddha's Brain: Lighting Up Your Own Circuits of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
Throughout history, great saints and sages have entered extraordinary mind states by cultivating extraordinary brain states. This experiential program, taught by neuropsychologist and meditation teacher Rick Hanson, uses the new field of contemplative neuroscience to offer many practical ways to light up your own neural circuits. more …
Celtic Spirituality: The Wisdom of the Divine Feminine (Cancelled)
Program cancelled. The Celtic tradition places great importance on the role of the feminine in spirituality, a quality expressed through the Truth of Wisdom—a power present in the land itself, the Mother Goddess, and embodied in each woman. more …
The Self Behind the Symptom: How Shadow Voices Heal Us
For those interested in personal and/or professional growth. Underneath many physical and psychological conditions, a part of us is struggling to be heard. more …
Vibrant Visionary Collage: Creativity and Yoga Immersion for Women
For all women; beginners in art and yoga, as well as seasoned practitioners in both, welcome. If you long for artistic and contemplative immersion, this retreat is for you. more …
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 …
Moving Through the Steps
For people in a 12-Step program or recovery process who have been alcohol- and recreational drug-free for one year. Come prepared to do deep personal growth work in this intensive retreat as you strengthen your connection to the principles of recovery and the universal wisdom inherent in the 12 Steps. more …
The Art of Energy Healing Massage: Advanced Techniques for Professionals
For massage therapists, bodyworkers, nurses, those who practice touch-oriented modalities including energetic healing, and health-care practitioners. The true gift of touch therapies occurs when the practitioner is able to refine his or her own ability to drop into the subtle healing energies that flow in and around all of us. more …
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Accessing All That We Are: An Introduction to Voice Dialogue
For healing professionals as well as interested individuals. Voice Dialogue is a simple yet revolutionary method of speaking with the diverse inner voices or selves that are vibrantly real in everyone. more …
Thursday, March 18, 2010
The Power of a Loving Heart: Devotional Chanting and Loving-Kindness Meditation
Cultivate your natural capacity for faith, compassion, and love with leading spiritual guides Krishna Das and Sharon Salzberg. Combining the complementary practices of devotional chanting and loving-kindness meditation, we come together to discover and celebrate the power of the heart. more …
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 …
