Calendar of Programs
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Ayurvedic Bodywork: Treatments for Rejuvenation Level 1
For bodyworkers (see note below). For thousands of years, Ayurvedic treatments have been used to cleanse, heal, and harmonize body, mind, and spirit. more …
Giving Children the Gift of Yoga: Radiant Child Yoga Training
There is a $135 materials fee for manuals, books, CDs, and DVDs payable to the presenter at the first program session. For yoga teachers of all traditions, schoolteachers, and parents; previous yoga experience not necessary. 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 …
Hiking, Yoga, and Qigong: Finding Flow in Nature
Hike through the beautiful Berkshires on trails that will take you to waterfalls, a beaver dam, old growth trees, and panoramic views. Break at midday with a picnic lunch, an optional swim, and qigong practice in nature. more …
Kids' Summer Fun: Homemade Instruments, World Music, and Performance Skills
Please note that the faculty information for this program has been updated from what is in the summer catalog. For kids and preteens ages 5–12. more …
LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner Training for Depression and Anxiety: Level 1
For yoga teachers and mental-health professionals. Learn to help students and clients focus, relax, and have greater access to feeling states. This program interweaves ancient yogic wisdom with current findings in neurobiology. more …
More ChiRunning®: A Runner's Retreat
Experience a revolutionary running technique that combines the inner focus of tai chi with running. By blending body alignment with relaxation, you’ll learn to run with more ease and fluidity than you ever imagined, transforming running from a sport to a mindful practice. more …
Shakti Sadhana: The Ultimate Women’s Yoga Retreat
Join three of America’s most dynamic female teachers for a women’s retreat dedicated to awakening, cultivating, and radiating the divine creative force of shakti present within us all. more …
Zen and the Art of Harmonica
What better way to focus on the breath than with the inhalations and exhalations of a catchy blues/rock rhythm, Prana-Harmonica™ style? And even as a non-musician, you’ll discover that learning to play blues, rock, folk, and classical music on the harmonica is a great way to build creativity and self-expression. more …
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Swingolf: The Golf/Yoga/Massage Motion
Experience the dynamic free swing of tournament-playing professionals with Les Bolland’s Swingolf—a holistic approach to golf coaching. Incorporating yoga, muscle-opening shiatsu massage, breathing, and an emphasis on mental and physical harmony, Les’ approach guides students on the path to finding their own natural, dynamic, and flowing swing. more …
Friday, July 10, 2009
Anticancer: Personal Strategies to Prevent or Help Heal Cancer
All of us have cancer cells in our bodies, but not all of us will develop cancer. As a physician and scientist who developed cancer 16 years ago, David Servan-Schreiber learned all he could from the scientific literature about how to benefit from conventional treatment and strengthen his natural defenses at the same time. more …
Awakened Masculine “Embodied Presence” Weekend
For men only. When a man knows why he is here, the world acknowledges his presence. His communication of “self” must come from a deep reservoir of authenticity—and that reservoir is accessed through the conduit of purpose. more …
Divine Feminine: The Invitation
For women. Would you like to live a more sensually integrated life connected with sacred sexuality? This workshop, led by Caroline Muir, founder of the Divine Feminine Institute, and Joan Heartfield, the institute’s director, is an education and practice in advancing your intelligence, understanding, and consciousness of human sexuality. more …
Finding Peace in the Chaos: Living in Joy Amidst the Waves and Storms of Daily Life (Cancelled)
Program cancelled. For everyone. We are all searching for that elusive yet essential inner peace that enables us to stay calm, focused, centered, joyful, and blissful amidst the trials and tribulations of life. more …
Megayoga: Yoga for Curvy Bodies
Are you waiting to lose weight before you try yoga? Wait no longer. Megan Garcia, plus-size model, Kripalu Yoga teacher, and best-selling author of Megayoga has created a weekend of groundbreaking, curve-friendly yoga. more …
Mysteries of Vinyasa Revealed
Vinyasa, the process of arising, abiding, and dissolving, can refer to anything—each inhale and exhale, each day moving into night, each season. more …
Pranic Healing: Harness Natural Tools for Physical and Emotional Health
Pranic Healing, developed by renowned energy worker Master Choa Kok Sui, is a powerful technique that enables you to quickly address the energetic causes of pain, stress, and disease. more …
Staying Close to What Is Sacred: The Wisdom of Our Lives
Staying close to the sacred is more a matter of presence and attention than travel to some secret or exotic place. Staying close means making a pilgrimage to the heart of where we are. more …
The Mandala of Asanas: Essential Tools for Teaching Flow
Experience a creative and energetic approach to a core mandala of 108 yoga asanas based upon an integrated understanding of the movements of prana, lines of energy, the relationship of opposites in the body, and how to open and strengthen the core structures of embodiment from the shoulders to the hips, and from the muscles and bones to the subtle body. more …
Yin and Yang Yoga: The Transforming Cycle of Energy
Join Yin Yoga’s founding master, Paulie Zink, for a comprehensive introduction to the Taoist art of yoga. Cultivated from the healing practices and spiritual philosophies of ancient China, Yin and Yang Yoga is based on the Taoist principles of living in harmony with nature, including the five energetic elements of earth, metal, water, wood, and fire used in Chinese medicine. more …
YogArt for Kids
For kids and preteens ages 5-12. YogArt is an integration of yoga, creative arts, and outdoor fun; be prepared for your kids to refuse to go home! Calling all kids who love to collect stuff outdoors, do creative art projects, have fun, and make friends. more …
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Every Day Counts: Strengthening Resilience, Deepening Transformation
“This meeting, one chance,” wrote a Japanese poet once. We have only one opportunity to create an engaged, meaningful, generous, passionate life. more …
Healing the Light Body School Session 1: 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 …
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 …
Riding the Vinyasa Wave: The Evolutionary Power of Prana Flow in Changing Times
For adventurous yoga students and teachers of all levels. Life is change. Learn to surf. —Swami Satchitananda Experience a transformational summer intensive and the universal power of yoga through Prana Flow, an energetic, creative evolution of Shiva Rea’s vinyasa flow teachings. more …
Romancing the Beloved
For couples and singles. We all want to be claimed by love. But how do we respond to love’s invitation and the demand to surrender, to open fully to love? more …
The Painting Path: Beyond Right and Wrong, Painting for the Joy of It!
Is there an artist inside you longing to find expression? Many of us yearn to paint with the ease and abandon of children, but self-criticism and harsh judgment prevent us from doing so. more …
Yin and Yang Yoga Teacher Training
For yoga teachers and practitioners of all levels. The art of Taoist Yoga is about following your own path. This week, master teacher Paulie Zink will gently guide you to open to the artist within by teaching yoga as a creative expression of the authentic self that honors and fosters the uniqueness of each student. more …
Friday, July 17, 2009
Anusara Yoga 101
For students of all yoga traditions and at all levels, including beginners. Come learn the basics of Anusara Yoga—the elegant simplicity of its Universal Principles of Alignment, blended with the tantric philosophy that all beings have been blessed with the divine essence of goodness. more …
Beautiful Mind, Beautiful Body: Vinyasa Rasayana Yoga Weekend
Happiness and vitality appear in life only when our juices are abundant and free flowing. We are all in danger of becoming stuck, rigid, and dried up, both physically and emotionally, due to the choices we make. more …
Cutting Through Obstacles: Healing Chöd - A Rare Buddhist Healing Ritual
Healing Chöd is an ancient Buddhist ritual known for its power to heal mental and physical sickness, remove karmic obstacles to spiritual growth, and address human suffering. more …
Kids' Summer Fun: Homemade Instruments, World Music, and Performance Skills
Please note that the faculty information for this program has been updated from what is in the summer catalog. For kids and preteens ages 5–12. more …
Structural Yoga Therapy™
Please note that the faculty information for this program has been updated from what is in the summer catalog. For all levels, especially yoga teachers and yoga therapists interested in learning assessment procedures. more …
The Love Your Body Workout: The Form and Freedom of Nia Technique
Nia is movement medicine for the body and soul. Because it feels so good, it has been called the “Love Your Body Workout.” An integrative approach to health and wellness, Nia creates a loving relationship with the body in which our innate sense of pleasure becomes the source of body conditioning. more …
The Secret Spiritual World of Children
For parents, grandparents, caregivers, teachers, health-care providers, and all others involved with children. Children have spiritual capacities and experiences that shape their lives in enduring ways, yet their rich inner worlds have gone largely unrecognized. more …
Yoga and Kayaking
Have you ever dreamed of learning to kayak? Join Johnny Snyder, world-class kayaker and professional guide, and Greg DiLisio, popular Kripalu program leader, and set off on flat-water adventures in the magic of the Berkshires. more …
Yoga, Meditation, and Relaxation for Beginners
Yoga is an ancient path that promotes wellness by accessing the natural depth and potency of our very own being. While simple and immediate, the journey can also present challenges. more …
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Blooming Open: A Yoga, Meditation, and Nature Retreat
Get relaxed, rooted, and radiant! Come discover your most grounded, wide-open self, the state yogis call ”true happiness.” Yoga offers many asana and meditation techniques to help you practice being in this state, and little by little, your moments of practice stretch into a lifetime. more …
Creative Kids Yoga®: Level 1 Certification
Join movement pioneer Rosemary Todd Clough to learn how to seamlessly integrate yoga and creative dance into the work and play of childhood. Drawing on the Kripalu approach, you will explore state-of-the-art research on brain development and bodywork for children. more …
Fitness and Yoga Retreat
Outdoor exercise, yoga, and nutrition—the ultimate vacation getaway for active people. This invigorating program offers you a structured fitness experience in a retreat-like atmosphere. more …
Organic Juice Purification Retreat
Revitalize on all levels and align with a higher sense of self. Purification evokes a profound rejuvenation of body, mind, and spirit. This supervised program offers a nurturing, user-friendly approach to detox, diet, and life. more …
Quest For The Limitless You
Every so often in life you catch a glimpse of the transcendent force, the compelling mystery some refer to as "Soul." Such glimpses allow you to perceive from a new vantage point how to live your life. more …
Raising Your Vibration: A 5-Day Anusara Yoga Intensive
For intermediate yoga students (see prerequisites below). Do you want more time for your yoga practice? Give yourself the gift of five full days of Anusara Yoga, and deeply connect with yourself, your practice, and other devoted yogis. more …
Sharing Your Life Story: From the Page to the Stage
If the story is in you, it has got to come out. —William Faulkner Everything in your life, from the mundane to the extraordinary, is a story waiting to be told. more …
The Art of Vinyasa Yoga
There is a growing underground movement of living a healthier and happier life filled with gratitude. Learn to practice, live, and teach a unique style of flow yoga where breath and movement become a radical expression of what makes you feel most alive inside and out! more …
What Do Women Want?: Healing and Transformation in Challenging Times
For all women. Why do so many women reflect on their lives and relationships and ask, "Isn’t there supposed to be something more?" Gina Ogden and Maril Crabtree bring their listening hearts and "grandmother wisdom" to guide you in exploring your emotional, spiritual, and erotic nature. more …
Thursday, July 23, 2009
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 …
Swingolf: The Golf/Yoga/Massage Motion
Experience the dynamic free swing of tournament-playing professionals with Les Bolland’s Swingolf—a holistic approach to golf coaching. Incorporating yoga, muscle-opening shiatsu massage, breathing, and an emphasis on mental and physical harmony, Les’ approach guides students on the path to finding their own natural, dynamic, and flowing swing. more …
