LifeForce Yoga to Manage Your Mood

For all levels.

How can you commit to happiness in the face of a challenging and sometimes violent world? This weekend will help you cultivate the compassionate inner space that allows you to embrace life’s challenges with a peaceful mind and a courageous heart.

In this inspiring workshop, you will learn and practice breathing exercises, easy postures, guided meditations, and other experiential yogic tools for managing your mood. You’ll learn to strip away the obstacles that keep you from knowing the joy that is your birthright by

• Energizing and elevating depressed moods
• Relaxing and calming anxiety
• Working with the chakra system
• Deeply relaxing to bring balance to your emotional body.

Get empowered to become the agent of your own healing by creating a practice that specifically addresses your needs. Designed to be useful for both professionals and lay people, this program will leave you feeling refreshed, renewed, and enthusiastic about your at-home practice.

Recommended reading/listening Amy Weintraub, Yoga for Depression: A Compassionate Guide to Relieve Suffering Through Yoga (Broadway Books) and Breathe to Beat the Blues (audio practice CD).

• 11 credits for nurses (CS, NP, RN, LPN), $20 additional charge
• 11 credits for social workers, $20 additional charge
• 11 credits for certified counselors (NBCC), $20 additional charge
• 11 credits for yoga instructors (YA), $20 additional charge