Calendar of Programs
show details of programs in progressFriday, May 24, 2013
Adventures in Sound Play
Paul Winter’s premise is that music-making is the natural birthright of every person, and that everyone has the ability to express themselves through sound. more
Being Intimate: A Retreat for Couples
For couples of any length of commitment and any sexual orientation. Your intimate partnership has the potential to nourish you, to make you stronger, happier, and healthier. more
Beyond the Prison of Mind: Discover Your Inherent Essence as Freedom
When our experience is shaped by thought, our predominant perspective is divided into shoulds and shouldn’ts, rights and wrongs, desires and aversions. more
Cook and Sing Your Way to the Divine (Cancelled)
Program cancelled. For everyone. Celebrate the power of devotion through sacred sound and delicious food. This workshop explores all the ways cooking and kirtan (devotional chanting) can deepen your relationship with the Beloved through practices that embrace bhakti yoga, the yoga of loving devotion. more
Diving Into the Body: The Essentials of Energy Medicine for Self-Care
Explore the energy field, the basics of energy medicine, and the fundamentals of vitality and energy flow with medical doctor Ann Marie Chiasson, who began to learn and practice energy medicine prior to entering medical school. more
How to Read the Akashic Records: Accessing the Archive of the Soul and Its Journey
For millennia, the energy, wisdom, and compassion of the Akashic Records were accessible only to mystics and scholars. Now all seekers can access this infinite resource for themselves and others through Linda Howe’s Pathway Prayer Process. more
LifeForce Yoga® and Internal Family Systems for Your Anxious Parts
Do worry, anxiety, or fear keep you from seeing who you really are and fully engaging in life? Join the best-selling author of Yoga for Depression and a senior trainer in the Internal Family Systems model of psychotherapy and learn to access the natural compassion and wisdom beneath your anxiety. more
Yoga and Walking: A Soul to Earth Weekend
Enjoy a weekend of yoga practice combined with energizing walks and hikes in the Berkshires. Find your own balance between challenge and ease as you discover how combining these two practices can improve your physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. more
Yoga for a Better Back: Five Secrets for a Feel-Good Body Using the Franklin Method
Most pain in the body is caused by something we are doing. Once we can picture how the body is supposed to work and move, we can change the mechanics of our movements. more
Yoga Fusion: The Ultimate Yoga Retreat
Ready to amp up your yoga practice? Want to explore a variety of yoga styles? Looking to revitalize and retreat at the same time? Yoga Fusion brings together leading instructors from various traditions for a powerful weekend of collaboration and community. more
Friday, May 31, 2013
Awakening the Kundalini with Sacred Chants and Yoga
Snatam Kaur is a world-renowned teacher of chant and yoga whose dedication to peace, love, and well-being has inspired people throughout the world. This weekend, she shares profoundly healing and spiritually potent postures, movements, breathing, and mantra-chanting techniques designed to help you awaken your kundalini (life energy), and have it flow harmoniously throughout your body. more
Connect with Your Heart's Purpose, Create a Heart-Based World
A new world is birthing itself in the midst of the old, a world fueled by the intelligence of the heart. Howard Martin, executive vice president of HeartMath and coauthor of The Heart Math Solution, invites you to learn more about the next phase of planetary evolution and how you can take your wisdom and awareness to a new level by activating your energetic heart. more
Creating Ease: An Introduction to Yoga, Meditation, and Stress Management
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. more
Entangled in Darkness: Seeking the Light
You can revitalize your energy and rejuvenate your life. It’s not magic, but the results may seem magical! In this workshop, noted teacher, master healer, and New York Times best-selling author Deborah King leads you out of personal darkness into the radiant light of healing. more
Fit Soul, Fit Body: 9 Keys to a Healthier, Happier You
Brant Secunda and Mark Allen invite you to an extraordinary weekend of health and healing based on their groundbreaking best-seller, Fit Soul, Fit Body: 9 Keys to a Healthier, Happier You. more
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour DC: Session 5
For more information, visit Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training: Washington DC. more
Overcoming Expectation Hangovers®: Transform Disappointment into Opportunity
Are things in your life not exactly going as you planned or want them to? You may have an Expectation Hangover® which includes all the thoughts and feelings that arise when a desired result doesn’t occur or you are unable to meet your personal or professional expectations. more
Structural Yoga Remedies
Are you looking to live without pain? Practice the proper yoga postures for your specific condition and discover how easy it is to live pain free. When the body is in balance, many conditions, such as low back and neck pain, sciatica, knee pain, and other ailments, simply melt away. more
The One Thing Holding You Back: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Connection
Do you have an unrealized dream? Are you still waiting to tap into your full potential? What prevents you from manifesting your greatest life vision may be a reservoir of unfelt emotion. more
The Presence of Breath
Breathe your way to a more healthy and joyful you in a weekend that opens the door to profound life changes and self-empowerment. Utilizing the tools of Transformational Breathing and the Presence Process (the work of Michael Brown), this workshop takes you on a journey from the transfixed physical state to the vibrational state of Presence. more
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Fundamentals of Therapeutic Yoga
Learn basic techniques to consciously make your yoga more therapeutic and give you a new perspective on health. This workshop includes yoga practices to ease everything from normal aches and pains to more chronic or acute conditions. more
Swingolf for Health Professionals: Thriving On and Off the Course (Cancelled)
Program cancelled. For health-care practitioners of all kinds who also golf (from beginning golfers to seasoned players); eligible for 3 CE credits for dentists through Straumann USA, LLC. more
Detox for Health and Healing
Your jump start for healthier living. Detoxification is a natural body process that is compromised when our system becomes overloaded from poor diet, allergies, stress, infections, and toxins such as heavy metals. more
Quarter Life Calling: Creating an Extraordinary Life in Your 20s
For adults ages 20–29. Your 20s can be a time of possibility, inspiration, and the discovery of your deepest values and truths. It can also be a time of challenge as you begin creating the kind of life your soul is calling for. more
The 21 Stages of Meditation: Meditations to Explore the Self and Open the Heart
How do you develop the capacity to meditate? In Kundalini Yoga, in the tradition of Yogi Bhajan, you use sound, silence, and the challenge of different postures to train the mind and stabilize the Self. more
The Dance of Attachment in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: An Advanced EMDR Approach
For mental health clinicians who have completed the basic course in EMDR. This workshop is for EMDR-trained clinicians who work with clients that struggle with developmental trauma and have significant attachment issues. more
Total Immersion for Total Transformation
Get ready for five intense days of ecstatic rebirth. Raphael Cushnir creates a safe and gentle environment to help call forth your very best, using tools such as emotional-release work, journaling, small-group exercises, meditation, movement, yoga, chant, collage, subtle-energy practices, and mind-heart attunements. more
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour Certification: Part 2
Immerse yourself in Kripalu Yoga and learn to share the gift of yoga with others. Awaken the teacher within and discover how the tools of yoga can be used to cultivate health, facilitate psychological growth, and open the doors to spiritual transformation—for yourself and for your students. more
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour Certification: Monthlong Intensive
Immerse yourself in Kripalu Yoga and learn to share the gift of yoga with others. Awaken the teacher within and discover how the tools of yoga can be used to cultivate health, facilitate psychological growth, and open the doors to spiritual transformation—for yourself and for your students. more
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Revitalizing Cleanse: Nourishing Body, Mind, and Spirit
Do you feel sluggish, bloated, and out of sync? Tune up with this nurturing cleanse. Have no fear of going hungry as you are guided through this sensible approach to detox, diet, and healthy lifestyle. more
SuperHealth®: Yogic Science for Food and Relationship Issues (Cancelled)
Program cancelled. For all levels. SuperHealth is a precise and proven system of yogic science created by Yogi Bhajan. Using Kundalini Yoga and meditation as their foundation, SuperHealth techniques address a wide range of issues, including food and relationships. more
Friday, June 7, 2013
Awaken the Mindful Self: Five Steps to Living More Consciously
In today’s fast-paced and stress-filled world, many of us find ourselves living lives of quiet desperation. Through a simple, five-step practice, each of us can learn to live more consciously and compassionately in the present moment. more
Inner Fire Yoga and Kirtan Immersion Weekend
Inner Fire Yoga is a dynamic practice that evolves moment-to-moment as a call to grace. A merging of hatha and bhakti yoga, it is an approach of embodied devotion that fosters the awakening of spirit through surrender and love. more
Partner Yoga for Mothers and Daughters
For mothers and adult daughters, 16 years and up; all levels of yoga welcome, including beginners. Yoga is a powerful tool for dissolving habitual patterns that no longer serve you. more
Yoga and Beyond for the Rest of Us
You may have seen Peggy Cappy’s yoga programs on public television. This is your chance to experience Peggy in person as she teaches the many benefits of yoga in a safe, enjoyable, and friendly environment. more
Kripalu Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant Certification: Module Four
Take part in an integrated curriculum designed to make Ayurveda an exciting exploration that results in you feeling more connected to your self, others, and seasonal rhythm—while giving you the confidence to bring this ancient technology to your clients, friends, and/or family members. more
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Cutting Through Obstacles: Healing Chöd—A Buddhist Healing Retreat
Healing Chöd is a rare and ancient Buddhist ritual known for its power to heal mental and physical sickness, remove karmic obstacles to spiritual growth, and address human suffering. more
New Beliefs, New Brain: Rewiring Our Stories for Better Brain and Spiritual Health
Neuroscience and shamanism reveal the same thing: We have the power to heal ourselves. This hands-on intensive combines neuroscience principles with mindfulness practices in a holistic modality called Neurosculpting®. more
Pathway to Enlightenment: Reiki I and II (Shoden and Okuden) Japanese Gendai Reiki Ho
Awaken to the innate, healing wisdom of Reiki and deepen your connection to Source. This workshop includes traditional Reiki I and II attunements, a hands-on curriculum, and Reiki self-purification techniques that teach the practice of accepting all that is, as it is. more
Become Clear, Strong, and Joyful with Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga picks you up where you are and sets you down a remade human being. —Huston Smith, author of The World’s Religions Immerse yourself in the ancient practices of yoga for strengthening and deepening your connection with your true nature. more




