Kripalu's Summer 2017 Catalog

YOGA | AYURVEDA | MINDFULNESS | HEALTH | HAPPINESS | NUTRITION

Summer 2017 JUNE–AUGUST

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Explore the power of community.

175+ programs and trainings

to inspire, educate, and empower

SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE Kripalu R&R EXPERIENCE KRIPALU OUTDOORS 100+ programs offering CE and CME credits

Kripalu Yoga teacher Michael R. p. 65

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Established in 1974, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health is the premier destination for individuals and organizations seeking a joyful, inclusive, and compassionate environment for wellness, learning, and retreat. Located on a breathtaking campus in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, Kripalu offers more than 700 programs a year that deliver life-changing, immersive experiences to nearly 40,000 guests. The campus is also home to the renowned Kripalu Schools, offering certification programs to yoga teachers and Ayurvedic practitioners. The largest yoga-based retreat center in North America, Kripalu is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization.

Welcome to Summer at Kripalu OUR MISSION IS TO EMPOWER PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES TO REALIZE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL THROUGH THE TRANSFORMATIVE WISDOM AND PRACTICE OF YOGA.

DON’T MISS! 57 86 71 38 91 56 64 94 75 76 77

THE EMBODIED SOUL

Marta A. Elders, Stephen Cope, Maja Reinau, and more

BLACK YOGA TEACHERS ALLIANCE CONFERENCE Maya Breyer and more

NARRATIVE MEDICINE

Marie Howe, Lisa Weinert, Rita Charon, Stephen Cope, Jillian Pransky, and more

THOMAS M. CAMPBELL, T. COLIN CAMPBELL, and ERIN CAMPBELL The China Study in Practice

ROLF GATES

Teaching and Living the Yoga Sutras Being Still with Skill

BESSEL VAN DER KOLK, STEVEN GROSS, and LICIA SKY Trauma, Body, and the Brain

HARVILLE HENDRIX and HELEN LAKELLY HUNT Getting the Love You Want

ANA FORREST with JOSE CALARCO and team Forrest Yoga Advanced Teacher Training MIKE DOOLEY

Playing the Matrix and Getting What You (Really) Want

MARTHA BECK Navigating the Storm

DAVID KESSLER, NANCY LEVIN, and PAUL DENNISTON Healing a Broken Heart After a Breakup, Betrayal, or Divorce

4 Discover the right Kripalu Experience for you.

As a yoga-based retreat center, Kripalu provides experiential education for the whole person: mind, body, heart, and spirit. Our dynamic programs are designed to empower people to transform, heal, and grow. During your stay, we invite you to explore and enjoy everything Kripalu has to offer.

Also in This Issue 18 RISE 58 Making an Impact 104 Programs by Date 108 Plan Your Stay 110 Kripalu Affiliate Studios 112 Presenter Index 113 CE/CME Credits

Kripalu R&R and Group Retreats Yoga, self-discovery, health and wellness, fitness and the outdoors, creativity, wholefood meals ... whether you come alone or with a group, enjoy everything we have to offer at your own pace.

10 Kripalu Schools From skill building to self-development, our extraordinary faculty, nourishing learning environment, and community of like-minded peers help you move into the world as an inspired teacher and healer.

20 Presenters and Programs Choose from hundreds of transformative programs—led by exceptional teachers, authors, and luminaries—designed to inspire, educate, and empower.

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Kripalu R&R Relaxation a la carte.

Your all-inclusive stay includes a menu of self-care and nutrition workshops, outdoor activities, yoga classes, and more. Not to mention three delicious meals daily …

Kripalu R&R offers something for everyone. Whether you’re looking to connect with like-minded people or enjoy the quiet of our peaceful surroundings.

Come alone. A solo trip devoted to self-care invites you to unplug, but coming alone doesn’t

mean remaining solitary: Kripalu’s welcoming atmosphere offers plenty of opportunities to meet and bond with new friends.

Bring friends or family. Spending quality time with loved ones feeds the soul like nothing

else. You can partake in fun-filled activities together, or slow down, relax, and enjoy each other’s company— without the distractions of everyday life.

Tag along. Does your partner want to attend a program, but you don’t want to commit to that kind

of structure? Register for Kripalu R&R! Spend your day doing as much or as little as you’d like while your partner is in their program. You can reconnect at mealtimes, on a sunset stroll, or during one of our fabulous evening events.

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R&R

Move Yoga, meditation, hiking, and more—led by our skilled faculty.

Learn Discover the mind-body connection, building resilience, yoga off the mat, and much

more, in workshops with our distinguished faculty of nutritionists, yoga teachers, doctors, artists, writers, and life coaches.

Eat Enjoy nutritious meals from the Kripalu Kitchen and find out why guests consistently rave about our food.

Relax Integrate your day with a grounding meditation, treat yourself to a soothing Healing Arts

session (additional cost), or simply relax—savoring time that’s unplanned and unplugged.

All-inclusive prices start at $169 per night. No Saturday arrivals or departures.

FIND OUT MORE and view our activity schedules kripalu.org/rr

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Yoga and Ayurveda

Mindful Outdoor Activities

Mind and Body Wellness

Learn the basics of a yoga practice or the fundamentals of Ayurveda.

Summit nearby Yokun Ridge on a vigorous hike.

Attend a hands-on cooking demonstration.

Relish in the beauty of calm waters and floating meditation on a guided kayaking trip.

Explore your edge and practice basic yoga poses on a stand up paddleboard.

Move to the beat of a different drum in Kripalu YogaDanceÂŽ.

Explore daily Ayurvedic self-care routines.

Break down your favorite pose in a posture clinic.

Take a chair yoga workshop to learn how to practice yoga anytime, anywhere.

Learn yogic breathing tools designed to increase energy and release tension.

Join a group meditation.

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Creativity and Fun Experience the joy of movement and playtime in a hula-hooping class.

Create art in a collage, painting, or coloring workshop.

Play with poetry and verse and discover your inner writer in an engaging writers workshop.

R&R

Groups

No Plan

Team-building workshops, meditation classes, and more— bond, reconnect, or create new traditions by customizing any of our R&R workshops for

The best part of Kripalu R&R is you don’t have to plan a thing—fill your days with workshops, reading, walking, or just relaxing in our beautiful, peaceful setting.

your group of family, friends, colleagues, or students.

You choose your experience.

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Group Retreats Customized experiences, endless possibilities.

Our personal attention makes it easy to plan and register, so you can focus on your unique and refreshing retreat.

Create an unforgettable retreat. We offer varying levels of

customization to suit your groups’ objectives, and endless possibilities for an event you will all be talking about—and feeling the benefits of—long after you leave.

Bring your friends or family. Time at Kripalu is meaningful. Whether your

gathering is low-key or filled with activities, an R&R Group Retreat will nourish your spirits and allow you to refocus on what is most important.

Come with your organization. With our mindfulness-based approach to

leadership, your retreat can be the catalyst that shifts the paradigm of performance into one that enhances the work of you, your staff, and your entire organization.

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R& R G RO UP RET REATS

R&R Group Retreats

Custom Group Retreats

Group members decide how to spend their days as part of our regularly scheduled Kripalu R&R program.

Draw from our regular Kripalu R&R schedule, plus custom classes for your group—led privately by Kripalu faculty. In addition, custom group retreats include

The experience includes • Accommodations and all-natural meals • Kripalu faculty–led workshops, guided outdoor activities, and evening events • Use of our sauna, fitness room, private beach, walking and hiking trails, and more.

•T he ability to craft an experience tailored specifically to your group • Working with an advisor to coordinate the details of your stay • Exclusivity, privacy, and time to bond.

Please contact us for availability.

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The Kripalu Schools

Yoga | Ayurveda | Integrative

Why Kripalu?

IMMERSION LEARNING

E XC E P T I O N A L FAC U LT Y

Benefit from a unique experience that allows you to fully immerse in the practice and study of yoga, Ayurveda, and Integrative Yoga Therapy. Develop tools to cultivate health, create community, and transform your life.

Our faculty are extraordinary guides.

They provide an in-depth experience, an authentic commitment to teaching excellence, and a profound connection to the wisdom and practices that Kripalu offers.

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SCHOOLS

Inspiring trainings that allow you to deepen your practice and share your passion with the world.

Yoga Therapy T H R I V I N G L I N E AG E Over the last four decades, we’ve developed a potent teaching methodology that fuses the richness of the yoga tradition with ancient Ayurvedic and contemporary Western approaches to healing and self-development. Ours is a living tradition—an invitation to align with your true nature.

FOR MORE INFORMATION kripaluschools@kripalu.org See upcoming training dates on pages 12–17.

The Kripalu Schools are registered with the Yoga Alliance.

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Kripalu School

200-Hour Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training

300-Hour Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training

Gain the confidence you need to become an exceptional yoga teacher and emerge from our training inspired and ready to teach. Our residential program offers skills that empower your students and enhance your personal growth.

Immerse yourself in a supportive environment that allows you to expand your range, advance your teaching, and strengthen your practice. Open to 200-hour–certified teachers of any Yoga Alliance–registered school, you are eligible to become an RYT 500 upon completion of this training.

You learn • The principles and practices of Kripalu Yoga's foundational asanas • Basic anatomy and physiology applied to asana and pranayama • Safe hands-on assists • A comprehensive introduction to yoga philosophy • Skills for designing well-rounded classes.

Required Modules •T eaching Pranayama and Advanced Asana: Essential Practices for Yoga Teachers • Guiding Meditation for Transformational Yoga Teaching: Exploring the World Within

SUMMER 2017 TRAININGS

SUMMER 2017 TRAININGS

Electives (choose two) • Leading Vinyasa: Breathe, Feel, Flow • Uniting Yoga and Ayurveda: Balancing the Doshas • I nstructing Yoga for Special Populations: Yoga for Every Body

JUNE 25–JULY 21

JULY 21–30

Monthlong Intensive Coby Kozlowski and Michelle Dalbec

Guiding Meditation for Transformational Yoga Teaching: Exploring the World Within Jonathan Foust (Sudhir) and Michelle Dalbec

JULY 23–AUGUST 18

Monthlong Intensive Yoganand Michael Carroll and Larissa Hall Carlson

Find out more

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AUGUST 11–20

Leading Vinyasa: Breathe, Feel, Flow Coby Kozlowski Find out more

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SCHOOLS

Yoga teacher training is a life-changing, empowering experience.

Whether you’re seeking to establish your foundation or enhance your existing skills, our comprehensive certification programs are designed to deepen your practice and support your journey.

1000-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Our 1000-hour trainings are led by some of today's most sought-after yoga teachers and thought leaders. These trainings allow you to call forth your most inspired, empowered, and conscious self, in order to then go out into the world to serve your students and communities with greater insight, knowledge, and confidence.

SUMMER 2017 TRAININGS JUNE 30–JULY 2

AUGUST 4–6

Natural Spiritual Progress: A Dharma Yoga Intensive Dharma Mittra

Iyengar Yoga for Back Care Elise Browning Miller

JULY 7–16

Yoga for Scoliosis Part I Elise Browning Miller

Kripalu Yoga in the Schools Teacher Training Janna Delgado and Iona M. Smith JULY 16–21

Teaching and Living the Yoga Sutras: An Intensive Practice Retreat Rolf Gates JULY 16–21

Five Element Yoga Teacher Training Jennifer Reis JULY 23–28

Yoga for Seniors Teacher Training Kimberly Carson and Carol Krucoff AUGUST 2–11

Forrest Yoga Advanced Teacher Training Ana Forrest with Jose Calarco and team

AUGUST 6–8

AUGUST 8–11

More 2017 1000-Hour Trainings Inner Flow Shiva Rea iRest Yoga Nidra Level 1 Karen Soltes

Yoga for Scoliosis Part II Elise Browning Miller

Iyengar Yoga and Beyond Carrie Owerko

AUGUST 11–20

Sanskrit and Mantra Immersion Nicolai Bachman

Leading Vinyasa: Breathe, Feel, Flow Coby Kozlowski AUGUST 20–25

At Play with the Radiance Sutras: A Meditation Retreat and Teacher Training Lorin Roche and Coby Kozlowski

Learning to Teach Restorative Yoga Judith Hanson Lasater Tantra Yoga Immersion Todd Norian Find out more

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AUGUST 20–27

Pranayama, Mudra, Bandha, and Kriya Applied in Yoga Therapy Joseph Le Page, Lilian Le Page, and more

NOTE An application and acceptance is

required prior to registering for specific modules within the 1000-hour track and will be indicated when necessary.

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Kripalu School 200-Hour Foundations of Ayurveda A great beginning for anyone interested in pursuing Ayurveda professionally or personally.

Discover the power of this ancient science and how it relates to creating health and well-being in contemporary life. This in-depth program consists of two 9-day modules, and is the foundation and prerequisite for the other Kripalu School of Ayurveda trainings.

You learn • The core concepts of Ayurveda, including its philosophical approach and its practical applications • The fundamentals of Ayurvedic anatomy and physiology: the doshas, vayus, dhatus, and gunas • The basic Ayurvedic approach to digestion, nutrition, and seasonal eating • Dinacharya—daily routines for health and well-being • Introductory Sanskrit • Mantras for improving health and longevity • How yoga practice complements and supports Ayurveda • Ayurvedic psychology—the power of the mind in creating balance and health.

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of Ayurveda 300-Hour Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher Training

SCHOOLS

Ayurveda, yoga’s sister science, is the oldest continuously practiced healthcare system in the world.

Kripalu makes this time-honored system accessible and relevant to contemporary life with two Ayurveda certificate programs; both begin with Foundations of Ayurveda.

650-Hour Ayurvedic Health Counselor Certification

Build on the foundation of your 200-hour yoga teacher training with the specialized skills offered in our 300-Hour Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher Training.

Ayurveda provides valuable techniques that can help you guide your students to access their intuitive wisdom. This training consists of Foundations of Ayurveda, Uniting Yoga and Ayurveda, and one elective 9-day module, taken in any order.

Required Modules • Foundations of Ayurveda • Uniting Yoga and Ayurveda: Balancing the Doshas

After completion of Kripalu’s Foundations of Ayurveda, four 9-day modules qualify you to provide Ayurvedic diet and lifestyle recommendations that support overall health and wellness.

Elective Modules (choose one) • Teaching Pranayama and Advanced Asana: Essential Practices for Yoga Teachers • Guiding Meditation for Transformational Yoga Teaching: Exploring the World Within

You learn • Strategies for performing effective and safe consultations, with a minimum of 50 client encounters • Valuable techniques for health promotion and disease prevention • Pulse assessment techniques • Ayurvedic therapies • Tools for building a thriving holistic-health practice.

Required Modules • Anatomy, Physiology, and Herbology • Etiology, Pathology, Clinical Assessment, and Pulse Analysis • Clinical Assessment, Vata Management, and Women’s Health • Clinical Training, Ethics, and Working with Clients Find out more

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Kripalu School of Integrative Yoga 300-Hour Advanced Teacher of Therapeutic Yoga This program forms the foundation of our yoga therapist training.

Upon successful completion of the 300 hours, you receive a certificate and may apply through Yoga Alliance for the 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher designation.

The yoga therapy components of this program are based on our accreditation by the International Association of Yoga Therapists, not derived from our Yoga Alliance Registry RYS status.

Required Modules • Foundations of Yoga Therapy (module 1) • Yoga Therapy in Practice (module 2) Elective (choose one) • Complete an additional IYT module (4–8) • Complete Chapter 1 of the Internship (module 3)

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Therapy

SCHOOLS

Integrative Yoga Therapy (IYT) is based on a vision of health as a unity of body, mind, and spirit, and yoga is the vehicle that connects this experience of unity. For more than 20 years, IYT has been bringing together yoga’s most powerful tools—asana, pranayama, mudra, yoga nidra, mantra, and meditation—to create therapeutic yoga experiences for specific groups and one-on-one sessions.

800-Hour Professional Yoga Therapist Program

2017 Trainings APRIL 21–30

niting Yoga and Ayurveda: U Balancing the Doshas APRIL 30–MAY 7

In-Depth Anatomy of Asana JULY 24–AUGUST 6

Foundations of Yoga Therapy AUGUST 7–20

Yoga Therapy in Practice This training prepares you to design and teach therapeutic yoga for groups and individuals with specific needs or health challenges. You develop knowledge and understanding of the philosophy, theory, process, and application of yoga therapy using the IYT model, based on the five koshas.

Required Modules 1–8 • Foundations of Yoga Therapy • Yoga Therapy in Practice • Internship Program • Yoga Therapy Applied in Medical Settings • Yoga Therapy Applications Within the Mental-Health Field • In-Depth Anatomy of Asana

AUGUST 20–27

Pranayama, Mudra, Bandha, and Kriya Applied in Yoga Therapy Find out more kripalu.org/iyt

• P ranayama, Mudra, Bandha, and Kriya Applied in Yoga Therapy • Uniting Yoga and Ayurveda: Balancing the Doshas

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Cultivating Mindful, Authentic Leadership In the past 10 years, Kripalu has delivered life-changing programs to frontline providers in some of our most critical social institutions: human services organizations, K–12 schools, correctional facilities, law enforcement, and healthcare.

Introducing RISE, a revolutionary program in conscious leadership designed especially for individuals working in high-stress industries and organizations. Developed by the Kripalu Institute for Extraordinary Living in partnership with researchers at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, RISE represents nearly a decade of research by leaders in the fields of mindfulness-based tools, brain science, and human performance.

Anchored in the science and practice of mindfulness and Positive Psychology, RISE supports clarity and resilience and improves situational awareness—leading to greater happiness, trust, and sustainability for individuals and organizations. This approach creates a shift in the paradigm of performance to one of full engagement that improves individual well-being and benefits organizational culture.

We’re taking the core teachings of Kripalu Yoga off the mat and into the workplace.

This groundbreaking program focuses on four areas: RESILIENCE Stress is an epidemic, and the costs of chronic stress to individuals and organizations are steep. RISE teaches essential practices to manage stress and enhance resilience—the key to employee performance, leadership effectiveness, and well-being.

INTEGRATION RISE uses scalable, results-based practices to transform an organizational culture of busy to one that works smarter, not harder.

SELF-AWARENESS RISE teaches embodied mindfulness practices to support better decision making, better work/life integration, and essential self-care.

ENGAGEMENT Research shows that individuals perform better when they see meaning, value, and social impact in their work. RISE offers essential best practices for enhancing an individual’s engagement with the organization’s mission and their function within that mission.

Find out more about introducing the RISE program to your organization kripalu.org/rise

The Impact of RISE “[Before the program], I lacked the appreciation for how relevant mindfulness is, but having experienced it for the last five days, I couldn’t dream of living without it in my personal and professional life.”

—G. P., Berkshire Country Day School

“The tools I learned in this program will be a foundation I can put into immediate action in my workplace, and build on to bring a more calm and centered environment.”

— M. J. D., Pittsfield Community Connection

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Presenters and Programs Study with the best.

Kripalu presenters are international thought leaders—beloved yoga and meditation teachers, respected scientists, best-selling authors, and renowned healers. In powerful, insightful programs and trainings, they offer heart-opening experiences that support Kripalu’s vision of an awakened, compassionate, and connected world.

From left

Rolf Gates, Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Bessel van der Kolk, Ana Forrest, Mike Dooley, and Martha Beck

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PRES ENT ERS A ND P R OG R AM S

“The voice of spirit has been beckoning you for years. Now it’s time to listen.”

—Gabrielle Bernstein

Our programs are categorized by theme, so you can easily find programs that interest you.

22 May Highlights 24 Ayurveda 26 Bodywork/Energy Healing 28 Creative Expression 34 Fitness and the Outdoors 38 Health and Wellness 48 Meditation 56 Neuroscience and Psychology 62 Relationships Gabrielle Bernstein

66 Self-Discovery 78 Yoga Prefer to choose your programs by date? See the calendar of programs on page 104.

Find programs by your favorite presenter on page 112.

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May Highlights

Register today for these remarkable programs and presenters—this May at Kripalu.

MAY 12–14 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Big Magic and Bold Music ELIZABETH GILBERTand Rayya Elias Celebrate big magic, communal music, and the alchemy of joy in this first-ever weekend retreat taught by author Elizabeth (Liz) Gilbert. Big magic is what Liz calls the mystery of inspiration, and this highly experiential program pays tribute to Mother’s Day by honoring all the unique ways we birth ourselves creatively.

MAY 5–7 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Creative Myths and Monsters A WORKSHOP ON THE ARTIST’S WAY

JULIA CAMERON Discover and recover your creative self with Julia Cameron, author of the groundbreaking book The Artist’s Way. Now is the time to release your dreams and launch a more creative life, simply by doing something you love.

MAY 19–21 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

A Zentangle Weekend IT’S A STRING THING

RICK ROBERTS and MARIA THOMAS In the Zentangle method of pattern drawing, everything begins with a foundational string, which inspires creativity and invisibly holds the pattern together. Come explore string metaphors and become aware of strings in your life and your world. Have fun creating beautiful art as you watch your pen draw tangles on your strings.

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M AY H I G H L I G H TS

MAY 19–21 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Mindful Self-Compassion CORE SKILLS TRAINING

CHRISTOPHER GERMER Burgeoning research shows that selfcompassion greatly enhances emotional well-being, reduces anxiety and depression, and promotes healthy lifestyle habits. Explore the theory and core practices of Christopher Germer’s empirically supported, eight-week Mindful Self-Compassion training, a program designed to help participants become more self-compassionate using meditation, exercises, and group discussion.

MAY 21–26 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

The Science of Yoga Lisa B. Nelson and Sat Bir S. Khalsa MAY 28–JUNE 2 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Yoga, Meditation, and Recovery Conference Rolf Gates, Nikki Myers, Tommy Rosen, and Melody Moore with Tim Walsh and Aruni Nan Futuronsky

If you’re curious about the science behind yoga postures, meditation, and breathing techniques, come learn how these practices can enhance your physical and mental health, as well as that of your clients and patients. You also discover how changes in lifestyle can change your brain and body, right down to gene expression.

Tap into the ancient practices of yoga and meditation to deepen your exploration of recovery from addiction. Led by teachers who represent a variety of backgrounds and modalities, this retreat connects your inner and outer worlds, awakens joy and peace within, and brings recovery alive in your practice.

MAY 26–29 FRIDAY–MONDAY

Being Intimate A RETREAT FOR COUPLES

Kate and Joel Feldman Intimate partnerships can make you stronger, happier, and healthier. Imagine being able to talk about what you really feel and need. Imagine feeling free to be yourself and experience the satisfaction of knowing that your partner is really there with you. This retreat is all about relational intimacy: what it is, how it works, and how you can have more of it.

MAY 30–JUNE 2 TUESDAY–FRIDAY

Birding and Mindfulness Becky Cushing and Steven Leonard This program led by Mass Audubon and Kripalu faculty introduces you to the meditative joys of bird-watching. Come hike the lovely trails and explore the serene waterways of Kripalu’s campus during the spring migration. You might encounter great blue herons, woodpeckers, and bald eagles along the way!

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PROGRAMS with HILARY GARIVALTIS JUNE 18–23 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Ayurveda

Ayurvedic Bodywork Training SHIRODHARA AND MARMABALANCING TREATMENT FOR bodyworkers (see note below).

CE credits.

Learn Ayurvedic theory as applied to bodywork, including the five elements and three doshas, or constitutions.

Under the guidance of Hilary Garivaltis, founder and former Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, this training includes • Shirodhara, a treatment using warm oil poured rhythmically on the forehead • Marma balancing, a full-body treatment that focuses on vital energy points and pathways to create balance and rejuvenation • Ceremony and mantra, or sacred sound, to establish a calm and healing environment.

NOTE See the Kripalu website for additional information. This course is designed for bodyworkers; others should direct inquiries to Hilary at hgarivaltis@hotmail.com.

TUITION $365 + room & meals; p. 108

AUGUST 28–SEPTEMBER 1 MONDAY–FRIDAY

Ayurvedic Face, Head, and Foot Massage Training FOR bodyworkers and aestheticians.

CE credits.

Ayurvedic massage restores a sense of calm and balance to the body, nourishing the skin and connective tissue. Learn about specific energy points in each region of the body and how to use oils and masks for individualized treatments.

This training covers • Facial, head, and foot massage • Ayurvedic fundamentals, including the five elements and three doshas • Ceremony and the use of mantra or sacred sound to create a calming and healing work environment.

Come be nurtured and guided by skilled practitioners and enjoy ample hands-on practice time.

NOTE Oils are used throughout the training, so casual clothing is recommended. This course is designed for bodyworkers and aestheticians; others should direct inquiries to Hilary at hgarivaltis@hotmail.com.

TUITION $343 + room & meals; p. 108

HILARY GARIVALTIS, executive director of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association, is the founder and former Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, and the principal founder of Ayurvedic Health Education Services, LLC. ayurvedichealtheducation.com

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AUGUST 25–27 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

INTRODUCTION to YOGA and AYURVEDA RADIANT HEALTH ON AND OFF THE MAT

Micah Mortali and Larissa Hall Carlson FOR all levels.

Enhance your health and well-being with the sister sciences of yoga and Ayurveda. Micah Mortali, Director of the Kripalu Schools, and Larissa Hall Carlson, former Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, invite you to make yoga and Ayurveda part of your routine for thriving and wellness in a program that includes

MICAH MORTALI, Director of the Kripalu Schools and longtime Kripalu Yoga teacher, has been leading groups in wilderness and corporate settings for more than 15 years.

LARISSA HALL CARLSON, E-RYT 500, former Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, guides retreats, directs trainings, and provides Ayurvedic consultations across the country. larissacarlson.com

• Fun yoga warm-ups, fundamental postures, purifying breathing practices, and tranquil meditations • The eight limbs of yoga philosophy: the basic yogic framework for exploring body, breath, mind, and heart • Foundational concepts of Ayurveda, including the three doshas • Ayurvedic tools for self-care, including seasonal diet recommendations, lifestyle techniques, and self-massage.

Gather simple, enjoyable, and effective tools for enriching your life and health on the yoga mat and beyond.

RECOMMENDED READING AND LISTENING See the Kripalu website.

TUITION $237 + room & meals; p. 108

KRIPALU SCHOOL OF AYURVEDA Take your interest in Ayurveda to the next level. kripalu.org/ksa

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Bodywork/ Energy Healing

JUNE 16–18 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

EVIDENCE-BASED QIGONG A GENTLE PATH TO PHYSICAL, MENTAL, AND SPIRITUAL STRENGTH

Yang Yang FOR everyone. CE credits.

Cultivate lasting tranquility, balance, happiness, and vitality through evidencebased qigong. These static and dynamic meditative exercises are appropriate for people of all ages, physical abilities, and skill levels. The nurturing, relaxing, and core-strengthening benefits of qigong hold up even under the realities and stresses of daily life.

Yang Yang is a traditionally trained grandmaster from China and a Westerntrained researcher with more than 30 years of teaching experience. His workshops are fun, accessible, and specifically designed to give you the tools you need to heal yourself.

For those interested in teaching qigong, this program provides 8.5 of the requisite 32 hours toward Level I instructor certification.

NOTE See the Kripalu website for recommended reading and listening and information about certification.

TUITION $255 + room & meals; p. 108

YANG YANG, PHD, is the founder of the Center for Taiji & Qigong Studies and a researcher and taiji/qigong instructor at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Center in New York City. centerfortaiji.com

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AUGUST 25–27 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

A Symphony of Movement and Music

The MELT Method A SELF-CARE IMMERSION

Kerrie Bodendorf and Meegan Descheneaux FOR everyone.

Become your own Hands-Off Bodyworker® with the MELT Method®, a revolutionary self-treatment that can help you feel better—even if you’ve had chronic pain for years.

Using a MELT Soft Roller and small MELT Hand and Foot Treatment Balls, discover how to rehydrate connective tissue and allow the body to release long-held tension.

Through practice, lectures, and Q&A, learn how to • Identify stuck stress in your body, a major cause of chronic aches and pains • Effortlessly find greater balance • Experience more mobility and ease of motion • Relieve chronic pain, reduce inflammation, and eliminate common issues such as headaches, insomnia, and bloating • Improve alignment, enhance athletic performance, and keep your whole body feeling great at any age.

Take home a self-treatment plan that empowers you to live the pain-free life you deserve.

NOTE Tuition includes the MELT Soft Roller (5”), Hand and Foot Treatment Kit, and the MELT book.

TUITION $400 + room & meals; p. 108

KERRIE BODENDORF trained extensively with MELT Method creator Sue Hitzmann and has been a guide and mentor to many MELT instructors. Kerrie is also trained in hatha yoga, Zumba, and TRX. meltmethod.com

MEEGAN DESCHENEAUX is a MELT master trainer, certified personal trainer, and group fitness instructor dedicated to helping people get out and stay out of chronic pain.

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JUNE 4–9 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Positional Therapy CLINICAL APPLICATIONS

Lee Albert FOR those who have taken Positional Therapy 1 or 2. CE credits.

Take the skills you gained in Positional Therapy 1 or 2 and learn how to apply them to common neuromuscular conditions. Lee Albert simulates clinical conditions, taking you step by step through the process of evaluation, treatment protocols, and wellness plans to improve or eliminate neuromuscular pain patterns.

Gain a greater understanding of how to use positional therapy effectively to get the results you want, through learning • How to assess common neuromuscular conditions

Join us at Tanglewood on Saturdays this July and August, as we once again offer yoga classes on the Tanglewood lawn.

Enjoy a morning of yoga to the soothing sounds of classical music: a true feast for the senses.

More details coming soon to our Facebook page! /kripalucenter

• How to treat causes, not just symptoms • Specific protocols that Lee uses for thoracic outlet, sciatica, neck pain, headaches, plantar fasciitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, fibromyalgia, and more • Specific home wellness plans for each condition • Ways to successfully integrate yoga, nonweight-resistant strength training, and other holistic wellness practices.

RECOMMENDED READING See the Kripalu website.

NOTE Tuition includes a training manual.

TUITION $385 + room & meals; p. 108

LEE ALBERT, NMT, is a neuromuscular therapist and yoga instructor trained in orthopedic massage, positional therapy, and yoga therapy. leealbert.com

⊕⊕COMBINE THIS PROGRAM with Structural Yoga Remedies, June 2–4, for a 10 percent tuition discount for each program; see page 78.

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JUNE 9–11 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

The Natural Singer

Creative Expression

FIND YOUR TRUE VOICE

Claude Stein FOR everyone.

Come celebrate the magnificent healing power of your voice. Claude Stein has a remarkable ability to channel the beautiful music and messages that lie within each of us. Receive personally tailored exercises and learn to sing out fearlessly in a program that provides a 100 percent positive environment to practice and sing your heart open.

TUITION $320 + room & meals; p. 108

CLAUDE STEIN is a doubleplatinum-award-winning voice coach with 30 years of experience blending psychology and vocal training. He has coached at the Juilliard School and NYU. naturalsinger.com

Learn to relax your throat, deepen breathing, hit notes, project confidently, and share stunning breakthroughs in authentic selfexpression using favorite songs. The results are simply amazing as you triumph over limiting judgments, fears, and beliefs to build your sound. Whether you are a total beginner or want to take public performing to the next level, you’ll sing like you’ve always wanted to and share your heart more easily. Therapists, coaches, and workshop leaders also find these techniques valuable.

JUNE 18–23 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

A Qoya Summer Solstice Celebration Rochelle Schieck FOR women.

Join a circle of sisterhood to explore the practice of Qoya, blending the wisdom of yoga and the creative expression of dance with sensual, embodied movement. Qoya is based on the philosophy that, through movement, we are reminded that our essence is wise, wild, and free.

Each morning of this program begins with movement practice, while afternoon sessions explore rituals that connect us to inner truth, to each other, and to nature in this solstice season. If you’re ready to take time for yourself and do something that nourishes you to your core, this celebration of self, community, and embodiment is for you.

NOTE See the Kripalu website for more information and a list of what to bring.

TUITION $340 + room & meals; p. 108

ROCHELLE SCHIECK, founder of Qoya, has trained hundreds of Qoya teachers, taught thousands of Qoya movement classes, and led dozens of retreats throughout the world. qoya.love

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PROGRAMS with MEGHA NANCY BUTTENHEIM JUNE 30–JULY 2 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Wild and Wise Women’s Festival LET YOUR YOGA DANCE

with Diane Kovanda FOR all women. CE credits.

AUGUST 13–18 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

JUNE 25–30 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training

Learn to Teach Kids and Teens

CHAKRA FUSION, MODULE 2

LET YOUR YOGA DANCE TEACHER TRAINING

FOR students who have completed Module 1. CE credits.

Module 2 brings together everything you’ve learned so far. After a period of at-home practice following Module 1, return with confidence to lead Let Your Yoga Dance® classes for your peers.

Offered in an atmosphere of compassion, kindness, and no competition, this training includes • In-depth mentoring, skill-building, practice, and study of meditationin-motion • Daily yoga dancing tips for teachers • Ways to deal with your inner critic • Applied yamas and niyamas • Music appreciation • Techniques for promotion and marketing to build your business.

To graduate, you must take both modules 1 and 2. After successful completion of your final practice-teaching session, you will be a fully certified Let Your Yoga Dance instructor.

REQUIRED READING AND LISTENING See the Kripalu website.

RECOMMENDED READING Anodea Judith, Sevenfold Journey.

NOTE Bring your manual and music playlist from Module 1 for practice teaching.

with Missy Brown CE credits.

Dance your way to the program that people have been requesting for years.

This training gives you all the tools you need to bring Let Your Yoga Dance® to kids and teens. Learn how to introduce the next generation of dance lovers to a movement form that is fun, rich, deep, and respectful of all bodies, genders, and ages.

Fill your Let Your Yoga Dance toolkit with playful and creative resources, including • Ways to access the power of your signature strengths • Movement approaches that are aligned with the chakras and with nature • A library of age-appropriate music for kids and teens • Embodied Positive Psychology tools • Tips for fine-tuning your teaching skills.

PREREQUISITE Module 1 of Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training or special permission from the director. If you do not have a foundation in this practice, it will be challenging for you to understand this material.

TUITION $650 + room & meals; p. 108

Join a soul-filled group of unique and diverse women in this multigenerational goddess gathering. Bring your mother, daughter, cousin, aunt, friends, partner, boss, client, employees, and colleagues to dance our yoga and exult in our power and grace as women. Transform and elevate the Divine Feminine as you discover together what it means to be ageless.

Who are we as wild and wise women? We are power mamas, energy-infused world changers, and peace-making earth keepers. Come celebrate with • Daily Let Your Yoga Dance® sessions to expand joy, bliss, strength, and flexibility • Body kindness and appreciation • Time in nature, connecting with inner and outer beauty • Self-care through creativity, song, music, and mudra • A water-healing ceremony.

TUITION $245 + room & meals; p. 108

MEGHA NANCY BUTTENHEIM, MA, E-RYT 1000, is CEO and founding director of Let Your Yoga Dance® LLC. A long-time teachertrainer at Kripalu, she is the author of Expanding Joy: Let Your Yoga Dance, Embodying Positive Psychology.

MISSY BROWN, E-RYT, RCYT, is an experienced yoga teacher and wellness educator who combines her love of children and yoga in age-appropriate programs for kids. deepplayforkids.com

DIANE KOVANDA, MED, E-RYT 500, holds a master’s degree in education with a specialty in stress management. She is a Kripalu Yoga teacher and trained mediator. kindyoga.com

TUITION $575 + room & meals; p. 108

⊕⊕COMBINE Learn to Teach Kids and Teens and Wild and Wise Women’s Festival for a 10 percent tuition discount for each program.

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JUNE 25–30 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

JULY 16–23 SUNDAY–SUNDAY

Taking Your Life Story from the Page to the Stage

Shake Your Soul Teacher Training

Ann Randolph

THE YOGA OF DANCE

FOR everyone.

Dan Leven with Heather Bilotta and Sage Peeler

Discover your own uniquely powerful story and the profound transformation that occurs when you speak it out loud. By becoming the author of your own life and telling your story, you learn to trust your creative impulses, embrace all of who you are, craft your experience into a compelling narrative, and unleash a sense of purpose in your life.

TUITION $355 + room & meals; p. 108

ANN RANDOLPH is a gifted and innovative writer-performer who has been hailed by critics as “revolutionary, Whitmanesque, and a tour de force.” annrandolph.com

For everyone interested in personal essay, memoir, solo performance, and self-discovery, this program teaches you how to • Use writing exercises to stimulate memory • Structure your narrative in a way that works • Create spontaneously • Overcome performance anxiety • Release yourself from the inner critic • Transform ideas and stories into performance.

Using writing, group discussion, and improvisation, learn to create and speak your story and support others as they do the same.

FOR everyone.

Rediscover your instinct to move and dance with soul and passion.

Shake Your Soul® is a dynamic dance experience that transforms and heals participants and teachers alike. Both a health practice and a spiritual practice, it awakens your sense of joy, freedom, grace, strength, and vitality.

This teacher training develops the skills you need to guide this soulful dance experience in your community. Come learn • A comprehensive dance repertoire, inspired by the body’s inherent fluid nature, that awakens the natural dancer in everyone • Dynamic, organic class sequences that empower the body and free the spirit • Improvisational movement exercises that encourage love of movement and the joy of dancing with others.

Join master teacher trainer Dan Leven and bring this powerful movement experience home.

JULY 2–5 SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY

Mantra in Motion A CELEBRATION OF MOVEMENT AND MUSIC

NOTE Tuition includes a manual and training DVD. This is Level 1 of Dan Leven’s two-part Shake Your Soul teacher training. Level 2 must be completed within 18 months to retain your certification. For more information, visit leveninstitute.com.

Jurian Hughes and DJ Mantra FOR everyone.

Join movement master Jurian Hughes and DJ Mantra for an upbeat, unforgettable celebration of dance, yoga, chanting, and meditation.

Whether you’re completely at home on the dance floor or simply want to be, come find your groove in a joyous collaboration of soulful and sacred movement and music as you • Connect to your own way of moving with Yoga Jams • Embrace inner rhythms through music meditation • Expand your energy stream with Let Your Yoga Dance® flows • Experience the healing power of your voice through chanting.

DJ Mantra’s unique blend of remixed mantras, chants, and world-spirit music brings blissful beats to the yoga mat and dance floor. Jurian’s intuitive explorations of the body in motion offer fun and delicious inner journeys in a safe and playful setting.

TUITION $275 + room & meals; p. 108

TUITION $1,000 + room & meals; p. 108

DAN LEVEN, RSMT, MPC, JURIAN HUGHES, MFA, E-RYT 500, a faculty member of the Kripalu School of Yoga for 10 years, is also a yoga teacher trainer, Let Your Yoga Dance® trainer, and voice coach. jurianhughes.com

DJ MANTRA, a spiritual sound seeker on the path of beats and bhakti, raises vibrations at yoga classes, festivals, and conscious gatherings. djmantraji.com

a Kripalu faculty member for more than 35 years, trains Registered Somatic Movement Therapists through his Shake Your Soul® and SomaSoul® programs. leveninstitute.com See additional presenter bios on the Kripalu website.

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PROGRAMS with TONI BERGINS

JULY 30–AUGUST 4 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

AUGUST 25–27 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

JourneyDance Module 1

Transformational Movement, Dance, and Ritual

THE EMBODIMENT EXPERIENCE FOR everyone.

Learn to use your unique voice and empowered leadership to guide others in finding their voice and power through the creative process of JourneyDance™. Current research shows the positive impact of movement, dance, music, and ritual on the body-mindspirit connection and the nervous system.

EMBODIED LEADERSHIP TRAINING IN JOURNEYDANCE Ready to shift old patterns that no longer serve you, embrace empowerment, and share your sacred advocacy with the world?

Become the teacher, healer, and leader you desire in this three-module JourneyDance™ Leadership Training. Layered with expressive dance, rich musical landscapes, somatic awareness, energetic touch, and sacred drama, the training explores physical and energetic practices that increase your capacity for love, joy, connection, freedom, and leadership.

Don’t miss these other JourneyDance Leadership Training programs with Toni Bergins

NOVEMBER 5–11 MODULE 2: PROCESSES AND RITUALS APRIL 29–MAY 4, 2018 MODULE 3: TRANSFORMATIONAL FACILITATION

Module 1 offers a deep immersion in embodiment practices and includes • The JourneyDance flow • Classic structure, movement imagery, process, and rituals • Vocal techniques for expression, empowerment, and leadership • Music as a tool for transformation.

Upon completion of Module 1, you have the foundational training and provisional qualification as a JourneyDance Apprentice. Module 2 qualifies you as a JourneyDance Guide, and after Module 3, you are fully certified as a JourneyDance Transformational Movement Facilitator.

NOTE Tuition includes a manual, playlists, certificate of completion, and the JourneyDance starter kit: soft knee pads, CD, scarf, and marketing materials.

A WOMEN’S FESTIVAL FOR EMBODIMENT AND EMPOWERMENT

with Rochelle Schieck and Parashakti FOR women.

Increase your ability to stay present in your body and find your true essence with Toni Bergins of JourneyDance, Rochelle Sheik of Qoya, and Parashakti of Dance of Liberation. This powerful collaboration of evolutionary soul transformation calls you to gather on the dance floor and remember the truth that lives deep in the wisdom of your body.

The path of the dancer is written in the bones; there are scriptures waiting to be read that reside inside your own skin. As you get out of your mind and into your body, you awaken intuition, power, and passion. Dare to live your life with fierce authenticity and put your unique gifts into action through the movement of your body to powerful music in a wholehearted and conscious community of women.

TUITION $750+ room & meals; p. 108

TUITION $325+ room & meals; p. 108

⊕⊕SPECIAL PRICING Receive a 10 percent

TONI BERGINS, MED, artistic alchemist

tuition discount when you sign up for two or three modules prior to the first training.

and founder of JourneyDance™, has helped thousands of people find emotional wellbeing through transformational dance. journeydance.com

ROCHELLE SCHIECK created Qoya, a practice that teaches people how to embody soul with movement, honor soul with ritual, and express soul in community. qoya.love

PARASHAKTI is both the subject and coproducer of the documentary Dance of Liberation and has been featured in LA Yoga Magazine, Newsweek, Time Out NY, and the Jerusalem Post.

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AUGUST 13–18 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Labor Day Weekend

Storytelling Boot Camp

SEPTEMBER 1–4 FRIDAY–MONDAY

LEARN, PRACTICE, AND PERFORM

Yoga, Salsa, and Drumming

Matthew Dicks FOR everyone.

RELAX, RENEW, AND CUT LOOSE

Learn the craft of personal storytelling in a safe, positive, and supportive environment.

This is your opportunity to develop several stories, practice telling them in a variety of settings, and perform one evening in front of a live audience. Whether your goal is to take the stage and shine, hone your presentation skills, make new friends, or improve your chances at a second date, this program is for you.

Join Matthew Dicks for five days of storytelling instruction, practice, revision, and performance. This is soup-to-nuts storytelling, taught by someone who has performed on stages throughout the world and taught storytelling to seasoned performers, corporate managers, college professors, and religious leaders. Don’t miss this chance for education, entertainment, and the opportunity to make lifelong friendships, all in one week.

TUITION $440 + room & meals; p. 108

MATTHEW DICKS is an elementary school teacher, best-selling author, and cofounder of Speak Up, a Hartford-based storytelling organization that produces shows throughout New England.

Lizzie Salsich and Ronnie Roc with special guest Catherine Calderon CE credits.

Return to a state of ease and inner peace through restorative yoga, and then hit the drums and the dance floor and free your spirit with the intoxicating rhythms of salsa!

With playful, easy-to-follow instructions, even “can’t drag me onto the dance floor” types will be struttin’ their stuff in no time.

The combination of the ecstatic celebration of Latin music and dance and the reflective, relaxing aspects of restorative yoga offers a powerful opportunity for freedom.

• Unwind, release stored tension, and deeply renew through gentle and restorative yoga, breathing, and guided relaxation.

• Experience the exuberant joy and captivating rhythms of salsa.

• Explore how the spiritual and cultural evolution of salsa complements the path of yoga.

JULY 30–AUGUST 4 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

• Learn chanting from the yogic and AfroCuban traditions to open the door to Spirit.

Drawing Closer to Nature Peter London Spend time in the beauty of the Berkshires savoring the wonder of summer flowers, meadows, woodlands, and streams, and creating art from your experiences.

When you draw closer to nature through art, you also draw closer to your Self. You uncover a deeper unity that brings about a rich, authentic, and grace-filled artistic expression while cultivating harmony in the rest of your life.

Engaging mind, body, and spirit, you employ simple materials and methods, including drawing, painting, and collage, to reflect upon and interpret the ways of nature that have particular meaning for you.

Peter London has taught this holistic approach to thousands of people, including artists, art teachers, and “art phobics.” He creates a supportive community to help you deepen your experience with nature and express that more fully in your art and life.

Ronnie, Lizzie, and Catherine are known for their enthusiasm, passion, and fun-loving approach. Come dance with the spirits!

TUITION $255 + room & meals; p. 108

RECOMMENDED READING Peter London, No More Secondhand Art and Drawing Closer to Nature, and T. C. McLuhan, The Way of the Earth: Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought.

NOTE Tuition includes art supplies.

LIZZIE SALSICH teaches restorative yoga and other body-based healing practices in St. Louis, Missouri. She apprenticed with Catherine Calderon from a young age.

RONNIE ROC is a multipercussionist, keyboardist, and producer, steeped in the rhythms and history of African, Brazilian, Haitian, and Afro-Cuban music.

TUITION $340 + room & meals; p. 108

CATHERINE CALDERON, filmPETER LONDON is an artist, master teacher, and author of Drawing Closer to Nature and No More Secondhand Art. peterlondon.us

maker, yoga teacher, professional salsa dancer, and initiate in the Afro-Cuban Yoruba tradition, has been practicing yoga and dance for more than 30 years. celebratingthecall.com

K RIPA LU R ECIP E

SUMMER VEGETABLE SALAD Serves 4–6 2–3 ears of corn ¼ cup olive oil ½ teaspoon salt Black pepper to taste ½ teaspoon smoked paprika 1 ½ cups cooked or canned beans of your choice ¼ cup small diced red onion 1 cup diced cucumber 1 ½ cups diced tomatoes 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro 2 tablespoons lime juice Remove corn from the cob and toss with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil, a pinch of the salt, black pepper to taste, and half of the paprika. Place in a baking pan and bake at 450 degrees for 10–12 minutes or until the corn is tender and a little browned. Remove from oven and let cool.

Toss corn with the beans, red onion, cucumber, tomatoes, and cilantro. Combine the remaining olive oil, lime juice, salt, and paprika and toss with vegetables. Adjust seasoning to your taste.

Make a big batch of this protein-packed salad—it’s perfect for on-the-go summer meals.

The leftovers will last for up to five days in the refrigerator.

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Fitness and the Outdoors

Explore Kripalu Outdoors AUGUST 27–31 SUNDAY–THURSDAY

YOGA on the WATER A KAYAKING AND STAND UP PADDLEBOARDING RETREAT

Mark Roule and Tracy Remelius FOR everyone; some experience with water sports and activities suggested. CE credits.

Enjoy the last days of your summer season on the warm, calm waters of Lake Mahkeenac. This fun and fulfilling retreat combines two of Kripalu’s most popular outdoor activities with the practices of yoga, mindfulness, and meditation.

In this program, you experience • Kayaking and stand up paddleboarding classes and touring sessions • Floating yoga and meditation practices • Strength, balance, and confidence building to enhance your practice anywhere • Mindful connection and exploration of the outdoors and the rhythms of nature, both on and off the water.

Participants should have experience entering, exiting, and paddling a solo kayak, and be comfortable hiking on wooded trails over hilly and sometimes difficult terrain.

JUNE 23–25 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Mark Roule and Susannah Gale AUGUST 18–20 FRIDAY–SUNDAY Mark Roule and Sarajean Rudman

HIKING and YOGA FOR anyone able to hike uphill for an extended period of time. CE credits.

Experience a mindful approach to hiking and a true connection to the outdoors in one of the most beautiful and inspiring locations in Berkshire County. Explore miles of trails directly adjacent to the Kripalu campus, and enjoy group yoga classes with experienced outdoor guides and yoga faculty.

In this program, you • Hike the winding trails of the Yokun Ridge, a conserved area maintained by the nonprofit Berkshire Natural Resources Council, and designated as Forest Legacy land by the US Forest Service • Enjoy a unique approach to mindful movement in diverse forest settings • Learn about the Japanese practice of Shinrinyoku, a healing, meditative therapy that brings the mind and body back to nature • Explore the benefits of yoga, qigong, and tai chi.

NOTE All equipment, including kayaks, paddleboards, paddles, and safety gear, is provided .

NOTE See the Kripalu website for information about experience levels and required equipment.

TUITION $399 + room & meals; p. 108

TUITION $249 + room & meals; p. 108

MARK ROULE, E-RYT 500, is a yoga teacher and outdoor guide.

He holds wilderness EMT/ lifeguard, instructor-level kayak, stand up paddleboard, and snowboard certifications.

SARAJEAN RUDMAN has degrees in sports management and health and wellness. She has more than a decade of experience in personal training and group fitness.

TRACY REMELIUS, RYT 300, teaches hatha yoga and yoga nidra and is certified in ACA stand up paddleboarding, yoga, and wilderness first aid.

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Labor Day Weekend SEPTEMBER 1–4 FRIDAY–MONDAY

YOGA, HIKING, and KAYAKING Michelle Dalbec and Mark Roule

JUNE 25–30 SUNDAY–FRIDAY Susannah Gale and Sarajean Rudman JULY 16–21 SUNDAY–FRIDAY Steven Leonard and Jess Frey AUGUST 13–18 SUNDAY–FRIDAY Susannah Gale and Jess Frey

CE credits.

Get outside and go with the flow—on the water, on the earth, and on the mat! Satisfy your longing for a connection to nature as you explore hiking, kayaking, and yoga in the beauty of the Berkshires. Tap into nature’s profound ability to inspire us and help us gain clarity in our lives, as you

YOGA SUMMER CAMP AN OUTDOOR ADVENTURE FOR ADULTS CE credits.

Longing to relive the carefree days of summers past? Reconnect with the simple pleasures of good company, nourishing food, and the great outdoors in Kripalu’s summer camp for adults. Turn off your phone, step away from the hectic pace of life, and embark each day on fun adventures that revive your sense of play!

Activities include • Hiking on Yokun Ridge

• Follow the winding trails of Yokun Ridge, with different levels of hiking to suit your needs • Paddle on Lake Mahkeenac • Relax into tranquil walking and floating meditations • Practice Kripalu Yoga to balance body and mind.

• Kayaking and stand up paddleboarding on Lake Mahkeenac • Arts and creative expression Connect to the wildness that lives inside and outside of you. Satisfy your soul this summer—without having to pitch a tent!

Participants should be comfortable hiking on wooded trails over hilly and sometimes difficult terrain, and have experience entering, exiting, and paddling a solo kayak.

TUITION $399 + room & meals; p. 108

TUITION $299 + room & meals; p. 108

• Outdoor Kripalu Yoga classes and great Kripalu meals.

SUSANNAH GALE, RYT, is a Kripalu Yoga teacher and R&R workshop presenter who leads mindful outdoor experiences in the Berkshires.

STEVEN LEONARD, a faculty member at Kripalu, leads meditation classes and outdoor activities in a way that affirms people’s natural instincts and intelligence.

JESS FREY, E-RYT 500, is a Kripalu Yoga teacher and a former Intern for the Kripalu School of Yoga and the Kripalu Institute for Extraordinary Living.

MICHELLE DALBEC, E-RYT 500, is a Kripalu Yoga and Yoga Tune Up® teacher who offers workshops and directs Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training programs.

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JULY 9–12 SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY

Mindfulness and Nature Dale Abrams and Becky Cushing Kripalu is proud to partner with Mass Audubon for a one-of-a-kind outdoor program that combines leading mindfulness practices with the observation, appreciation, and identification of Berkshire flora and fauna. Join faculty and directors of Mass Audubon and our own yoga and outdoor educators to experience nature and wildlife through the lens of consciousness and awakened perspective.

In this program, you enjoy • Nature classes focused on identification of local plants, trees, and birds • Walking and seated meditations on lush forest trails and quiet outdoor spaces • Journaling exercises to spark creativity and establish a personal record of your experience • Ways to take appreciation and conservation of the natural world to your home and communities.

JUNE 25–30 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

ChiRunning A MINDFUL APPROACH TO AN ANCIENT SPORT

Danny Dreyer FOR all levels. CE credits.

TUITION $269 + room & meals; p. 108

DALE ABRAMS, MS, is the education coordinator for Mass Audubon’s Berkshire Sanctuaries and a life-long naturalist whose specialties include birding, wildlife tracking, and ecosystem studies.

Experience the sport of running as a mindful practice. In this immersion, you learn to listen to your body, breathe well, and make a moving meditation out of every stride. Chi Running® integrates the inner focus of tai chi, putting the emphasis on body alignment and relaxation rather than strength and power.

JUNE 11–16 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Swingolf DYNAMIC YOGA MOTION ON THE GOLF COURSE

Les Bolland

Runners of all levels, from beginners to marathoners, are welcome. With the support of Danny Dreyer’s humorous and gentle teaching style, you discover how to

FOR golfers of all ages and experience.

Welcome to a holistic golf approach that incorporates yoga, muscle-opening shiatsu massage, breathing, and an emphasis on mental and physical harmony. Coached by Swingolf creator and tournament-playing professional Les Bolland, you discover your own natural, dynamic, and flowing swing.

From the very first moment, you’re having fun and learning how to play a better game with less effort.

• Run with less effort than you ever imagined • Take the struggle out of learning to run with grace and ease • Prevent injuries • Build a sustainable running and walking practice that will be with you for the rest of your life.

RECOMMENDED READING Danny Dreyer and Katherine Dreyer, ChiRunning.

NOTE Greens fees (approx. $25) are payable at the golf course each day. See the Kripalu website for other important information.

TUITION $495+ room & meals; p. 108

TUITION $430 + room & meals; p. 108

DANNY DREYER, the creator of ChiRunning® and ChiWalking®, has 33 years of experience running, racing ultramarathons, and coaching thousands of people in intelligent movement. chirunning.com

BECKY CUSHING, MS, director of Mass Audubon’s Berkshire Sanctuaries, has led natural history and birding programs throughout New England and has been published in the Journal of Raptor Research.

Swingolf is healthy for body and mind, and can lower blood pressure, increase stamina, and improve flexibility. With Swingolf training, you’ll also experience • Less practice with better results

LES BOLLAND, a member of the

• Increased consistency

British PGA and veteran of the European tournament circuit, has studied yoga and shiatsu for more than 20 years. swingolf.net

• Mental, physical, and spiritual harmony.

This program covers putting, chipping, pitching, bunker shots, iron and wood play, and golf-course strategy.

Good Times in the Great Outdoors Step outside and experience our campus this summer.

Kripalu R&R offers all-levels hiking, kayaking, stand up paddleboarding, and much MORE.

REGISTER TODAY

kripalu.org/rr

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Health and Wellness

JUNE 16–18 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

THE CHINA STUDY in PRACTICE NUTRITION TO PROTECT AND MAXIMIZE YOUR HEALTH

Thomas M. Campbell, T. Colin Campbell, and Erin Campbell FOR everyone. CE credits.

The China Study inspired millions of readers to adopt a more plant-based approach to eating. The coauthors of the groundbreaking book, T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell, along with Erin Campbell, offer a program focused on using nutrition to prevent and reverse disease and maximize health.

Learn lessons gleaned from Tom and Erin’s work with hundreds of patients in their groundbreaking University of Rochester Nutrition in Medicine program. Using lectures, discussion, and Q&A time, this program covers • The science behind nutrition’s link to heart disease, cancer, and other diseases • What foods to eat and what foods to avoid • How to read food labels • Understanding willpower and how to boost it • How to maximize weight loss for long-term health.

RECOMMENDED READING See this program on the Kripalu website.

TUITION $280 + room & meals; p. 108

THOMAS M. CAMPBELL, MD, is a best-selling author, educator, board-certified family physician, and cofounder of the groundbreaking Nutrition in Medicine program. urnutritioninmedicine.com

T. COLIN CAMPBELL, PHD, is a best-selling author, world-renowned nutrition researcher, and educator who has published more than 300 scientific papers. nutritionstudies.org

ERIN CAMPBELL, MD, MPH, a board-certified preventive medicine physician, is cofounder of the University of Rochester Program for Nutrition in Medicine. urnutritioninmedicine.com

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JUNE 2–4 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

JUNE 2–4 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH to LYME DISEASE

Kripalu Summer Family-Style Meals

CURRENT CONCEPTS AND MISCONCEPTIONS

Gerard C. Buffo, Deborah Hoadley, Margrit Mikulis, and Eileen C. Comia FOR health professionals, yoga therapists, researchers, and everyone who has suffered with or knows someone with Lyme disease. CE and CME credits pending.

Explore a variety of practical and philosophical viewpoints on Lyme disease, a topic that remains controversial in medicine today. This program looks at the disease’s history, transmission, misconceptions, diagnosis, and therapy through the lenses of Western medicine, naturopathy, and Ayurveda.

With expert presenters, including medical professionals who treat Lyme disease, clinicians in training, and those who suffer from the disease, this program also looks at • Current concepts in diagnosis and treatment • The patient’s perspective • Preventive measures and public health issues • Promising adjunctive therapies and the integration of allopathic and adjunctive treatments for chronic Lyme • Psychosocial effects.

Participants can ask the experts their questions at a panel discussion Sunday morning.

TUITION $395 + room & meals; p. 108

GERARD C. BUFFO, MD, FACR,

MARGRIT MIKULIS, ND, is a

Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, blends his experience in Western medicine with Eastern practice, researching ways to improve the delivery of care.

naturopathic doctor, clinician, and faculty member for the Kripalu School of Ayurveda.

DEBORAH HOADLEY, MD, MPH, a board-certified infectious

EILEEN C. COMIA, MD,

disease physician practicing in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, collaborates with academic Lyme disease centers in Boston and New York.

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Jeremy Rock Smith FOR everyone.

Welcome the warm weather as you learn to prepare a bounty of the Kripalu Kitchen’s signature summer cuisine. From soups to salads, grains to veggies, and tofu to fish, no essential seasonal recipe is left unprepared in this program that includes • A fresh spin on fundamental cooking techniques such as marinating, grilling, roasting, and sautéing • New ways to prepare seasonal vegetables that are both nourishing and pleasing to every palate • Selection, preparation, and storage tips to best utilize your summer produce picks.

Return home with the confidence to prepare the best of Kripalu’s summer menu.

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JEREMY ROCK SMITH, Kripalu’s Executive Chef, graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and began his career in classical French cuisine.

founder and medical director of Advance Biomedical Treatment Center in Bloomfield, Connecticut, treats people with special needs and chronic illness.

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JUNE 23–25 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Summer Deep Clean

JUNE 18–23 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

John Bagnulo

The Kripalu Approach to Diet

CE credits.

AN INTEGRATIVE WEIGHT-LOSS PROGRAM

Here’s the wake-up call your body has been waiting for. Nutritionist, food expert, and popular Kripalu presenter John Bagnulo welcomes you to a deep cleanse designed to clear away your energy-zapping metabolic clutter. This retreat includes • Lectures on the best foods to assist with detoxification and increased energy • Shared meals centered around ancestral foods (you’ll find out more about ancestral foods and why they are so helpful when you get here) • Hiking and wild edible plant identification (wild foods include some of the best plants for health) • Ample time outside of program sessions for yoga practice, saunas, and enjoying the summer beauty of the Berkshires.

Aruni Nan Futuronsky, Annie B. Kay, and Lisa B. Nelson CE credits.

Kripalu’s groundbreaking weight-loss program.

Live what you’re learning in a holistic environment that’s ideal for self-exploration. Connect with people just like you, committed to change. Along with your in-depth program sessions, enjoy daily yoga, meditation, and movement classes; whole-foods meals; and the natural beauty of the Berkshires.

Discover how to shift into a balanced relationship with your body in this proven immersion program. In our caring and supportive environment, nourish yourself and invite changes that will continue to unfold long after you return home. Guided by our exceptional faculty of doctors, nutritionists, life coaches, and yoga teachers who have years of experience helping people find personal empowerment and transformation, you • Learn how to naturally lose weight and keep it off • Develop empowering life skills and a more positive body image

Your body will thank you!

• Enhance your nutrition and metabolism for weight management

NOTE Participants should be able and willing to eat a diet of mostly fruits and vegetables and be capable of hiking on moderate to steep hills for 3–4 hours.

• Plan strategies for your goals and lifestyle.

ARUNI NAN FUTURONSKY is a longtime member of the Kripalu faculty, a certified Kripalu Yoga teacher, and experienced life coach. coacharuni.com

ANNIE B. KAY, MS, RDN, LDN, RYT, is an author, nutritionist, Kripalu faculty member, and an important voice in whole-foods nutrition and yoga. anniebkay.com

Leave feeling rejuvenated, motivated, and full of hope.

TUITION $483 + room & meals; p. 108

LISA B. NELSON, MD, is Kripalu’s Director of Medical Education. She also serves as medical director of the Nutrition Center.

TUITION $240 + room & meals; p. 108

JOHN BAGNULO, MPH, PHD, is a naturalist, nutritionist, farmer, and assistant professor who teaches courses at universities and wellness centers. johnbagnulo.com

JUNE 28–30 WEDNESDAY–FRIDAY

The Gokhale Method THE POSTURE-DANCE CONNECTION

Esther Gokhale FOR people of all ages and abilities; no dance experience required.

Get moving and get healthy with the unique Gokhale Method® approach. Dance is an unusually rich avenue for improving strength, flexibility, circulation, posture, mood, and connection. In this transformative and empowering program, you learn the Gokhale Method posture principles as you practice Brazilian, Latin, and African dance moves.

The Gokhale Method is based on historical, anthropological, and medical research on populations who have virtually no musculoskeletal pain. Interweaving visual, kinesthetic, intellectual, and aesthetic cues, the Gokhale Method offers a remarkably efficient and effective way to reach a new level of wellness.

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ESTHER GOKHALE, creator of the Gokhale Method, sees her mission as providing posture and movement re-education to help people eradicate unnecessary pain. gokhalemethod.com

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JUNE 25–29 SUNDAY–THURSDAY

JUNE 30–JULY 2 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Refilling Your Well JOIN THE SELF-CARE REVOLUTION

The Yoga of Sleep Retreat

Priti Robyn Ross

Rubin Naiman

FOR everyone. CE credits.

FOR everyone; no yoga experience

Treat yourself to a sacred time-out. Refill your well with nurturing activities that ease stress, increase joy, and replenish your soul. Come reconnect to your source, discover transformational tools, and give yourself the gift of lasting inner peace.

Explore the extraordinary power of self-care in a program that includes • Healing yoga, deep relaxation, breathwork, yoga nidra, and mindful walks in nature • Creative journaling, guided imagery, and joyful movement to awaken your inner peacemaker • Exercises to explore maitri, the practice of loving-kindness • Teachings on the physiology of stress and its effects on the mind and body • Simple, potent self-renewal practices to integrate into daily life.

Hit the pause button, regroup, and find out how to step into authentic fulfillment, lifelong balance, and vibrant well-being.

NOTE Bring a meaningful picture or photo for the group altar.

TUITION $315 + room & meals; p. 108

PRITI ROBYN ROSS, E-RYT 500, Kripalu Yoga teacher and international workshop leader for more than 25 years, is passionate about supporting others to awaken to their full potential. lifeasyoga.com

JUNE 30–JULY 2 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

From Stressed to Safe TOOLS FOR TURNING ON THE RELAXATION RESPONSE

Arturo Peal

Gain a practical understanding of the effects of stress and learn tools that help turn off the fight-or-flight response and uplift your health and well-being. Arturo Peal presents a multidimensional view of the human body and shows you how to undo the stress response through • Therapeutic yoga, breathing, and grounding practices • Ways to improve sleep and nourish the body’s rest and recovery cycles • Meditations on feeling safe

Better nights make for much better days— because deep sleep and vivid dreams support positive mood, creativity, stamina, memory, healthy weight, heart health, and spiritual practice.

Sleep expert Rubin Naiman offers an effective program that addresses insomnia, as well as snoring and apnea, from an integrative perspective.

Through engaging discussion and exercises, he blends the best of conventional sleep science with a holistic approach.

Rubin’s “yoga of sleep” is based on a new understanding of human consciousness that weaves sleeping, dreaming, and waking into an integrated whole. It offers a breakthrough model for understanding and healing sleep problems through a comfortable approach that soothes the spirit. Gain a deeper understanding of night consciousness and leave with a practical and personal sleep program based on a comprehensive sleep evaluation.

NOTE Bring a dream journal and dusk glasses (available at lowbluelights.com or in the Kripalu Shop).

FOR everyone.

Your nervous system doesn’t know the difference between a real threat and an imagined one. While it’s natural for the brain to constantly monitor its surroundings to see if you are safe, today’s fast-paced environment can cause the body to stay in a heightened state of vigilance even when no danger is present.

required. CE credits.

RECOMMENDED READING AND LISTENING Rubin R. Naiman, Healing Night, Hush, and The Yoga of Sleep CDs. RECOMMENDED READING Clyde W. Ford, Where Healing Waters Meet: Touching the Mind and Emotions Through the Body.

TUITION $225 + room & meals; p. 108

ARTURO PEAL is a certified yoga therapist who holds a master’s degree in Chinese medicine and has practiced craniosacral therapy for more than 20 years. bodystudies.com

TUITION $235 + room & meals; p. 108

RUBIN NAIMAN, PHD, a leader in the development of integrative approaches to sleep and dreams, is the author of Hush: A Book of Bedtime Contemplations. drnaiman.com

• The art of taking breaks.

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PROGRAMS with JEAN KRISTELLER and ANDREA LIEBERSTEIN JUNE 30–JULY 2 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training FOR everyone; no previous meditation experience required. CE credits.

Experience a new approach to eating, one that cultivates inner wisdom through mindful-eating practices and guided meditations. Research funded by the National Institutes of Health has shown that Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT) is a powerful approach to addressing struggles with weight and eating issues.

Deepen your understanding of mindfulness as it applies to eating and joyful living, through sitting meditation, eating meditations, group discussion, and gentle yoga exercises. You also explore current nutrition and exercise guidelines, as you learn • Ways to eat that are more attuned to your body’s needs • To experience the full pleasure and taste of food without overeating • Ways to release the guilt and struggle often associated with dieting • Tools for making balanced and healthy choices so that you will be truly nourished.

TUITION $240 + room & meals; p. 108

Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training for Professionals FOR mental-health and healthcare professionals. CE credits.

Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT), developed by Jean Kristeller and supported by National Institute of Health–funded research, addresses mindless and stress-related eating, disordered eating patterns, and obesity through the application of mindfulness meditation. This program provides intensive training in the application of the MB-EAT intervention in clinical settings.

Informed by Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction work and the principles of food-intake regulation, the MB-EAT program employs mindfulness meditation, eating exercises, didactic instruction, and self-reflection to cultivate awareness and a more balanced and positive relationship to eating and weight.

Those with a substantive meditation practice and related professional/clinical experience with eating issues are eligible to receive the full manual and are qualified to teach the MB-EAT program. Others receive an introduction to the practices of MB-EAT and gain valuable tools and information to integrate into their work.

NOTE Tuition includes the Eating for Awareness CD set. Attendance at this program does not automatically qualify you to teach the MB-EAT program. See the Kripalu website for more information.

TUITION $675 + room & meals; p. 108

Half a Cookie, received her doctorate from Yale University and has used mindfulness-based interventions for eating disorders and obesity for more than 25 years. mb-eat.com

Radiant Lotus Women’s Qigong Daisy Lee FOR women at all levels.

JULY 30–AUGUST 4 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

JEAN KRISTELLER, PHD, author of The Joy of

JULY 9–11 SUNDAY–TUESDAY

ANDREA LIEBERSTEIN, MPH, RDN, RYT, is a mindfulnessbased registered dietitian nutritionist, mindfulness meditation teacher, mindful eating expert, longtime retreat leader, teacher trainer and author of the forthcoming book Well Nourished. mindfuleatingtraining.com

Radiant Lotus Women’s Qigong is a rare treasure among qigong systems that draws upon the wisdom of China, Tibet, and the West to support women in their physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. This practice includes shaking, cupping, self-massage, Tibetan sound healing, and graceful, meditative movements that support the body’s gentle return to balance.

Practitioners have reported a reduction or elimination of breast and uterine cysts, benign tumors, menopause symptoms, problem menstruation, and other women’s health concerns.

Join founder and international teacher Daisy Lee to learn this effective and elegant system that helps to discharge physical and emotional stagnation from the tissues, organs, and joints, increasing strength and vitality, and bringing peace to your inner being.

TUITION $325 + room & meals; p. 108

DAISY LEE, qigong student and teacher for 20 years, founded Radiant Lotus Women’s Qigong, an empowering system of self-care taught by women for women. radiantlotusqigong.com

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JULY 9–12 SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY

JULY 12–14 WEDNESDAY–FRIDAY

Simply Well for Women

Building Resilient Bones

Kathleen N. Mueller and Gigi Dunn

AN INTEGRATED APPROACH KATHLEEN N. MUELLER, MD,

FOR all women.

This innovative program offers modules on epigenetics, nutrition and supplements, environmental influences, movement, intuition, and sleep, paired with experiential exercises that leave you with ideas to cultivate greater health and vitality. Designed to empower women to learn and share evidencebased tools for well-being, this program invites you to discover how simple, sustainable actions can have a big impact on your day.

Kathleen Mueller and Gigi Dunn, two physicians trained by Andrew Weil, used all they learned in two decades of clinical and life experience to create Simply Well for Women to reflect both cutting-edge science and ancient wisdom.

Join us today for a healthier tomorrow. Return home ready to live every part of your day in a healthier, more meaningful way.

is medical director for the Center of Integrative Medicine at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford. simplywellproductions.com

GIGI DUNN, MD, is an Integrative Medicine specialist, boardcertified anesthesiologist and physician educator passionate about the links between consciousness and health. simplywellproductions.com

Lisa B. Nelson and Erin Casperson FOR all levels. CE credits pending.

Building resilient bones requires more than just calcium, and the process begins far earlier than you might imagine. In this integrative program, explore current scientific research, along with the wisdom of Ayurveda, to help you build a diet and lifestyle that optimizes bone health.

Combining Western physiology, Ayurvedic theory, and the practices of yoga and selfcare, this program provides • The current medical model for bone health • Traditional Ayurvedic wisdom for building healthy bones • A diet plan to support strength in the entire body • A yoga class to balance the nervous system

NOTE Find the full outline for this program at simplywellproductions.com.

• Self-care practices, including self-massage with oil

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• Simple meditation and breathing techniques.

JULY 11–14 TUESDAY–FRIDAY

MindBody Medicine for Health Professionals ENDING PAIN, FATIGUE, AND AUTOIMMUNE ILLNESS

Kim D’Eramo

Return home with the knowledge and tools you need to create and maintain healthy bone tissue.

TUITION $230 + room & meals; p. 108

LISA B. NELSON, MD, is Kripalu’s Director of Medical Education. She also serves as medical director of the Nutrition Center.

FOR health and wellness professionals and the general public. CE credits.

RECOMMENDED READING Kim D’Eramo, The Mind/ Body Toolkit.

NOTE This program is appropriate for clinicians as well as the general public, and will incorporate guidelines for use in clinical practice.

TUITION $270 + room & meals; p. 108

KIM D’ERAMO, DO, is a physician, author of The Mind/Body Toolkit, and founder of the American Institution of MindBody Medicine. drkimd.com

Medical science shows that thoughts and emotions affect every level of the physical body, including DNA expression. Addressing illness at this level allows the body to easily reduce pain, fatigue, weight gain, digestive disease, autoimmune illnesses, and even cancer.

ERIN CASPERSON is the Academic Coordinator for the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, an Ayurvedic Health Counselor, and a 500-hour Kripalu Yoga teacher.

Osteopathic physician Kim D’Eramo shares how health professionals can assist people to open to the wisdom of the body and access healing from within. Explore MindBody Medicine techniques including EFT meridian tapping, HeartMath, and other modalities designed to release the mental and emotional patterns that keep illness in place.

Learn how to • Activate self-healing for yourself and your clients • Get out of fight-or-flight so that you easily assist others • Identify and remove the root causes of illness and pain • Instantly increase energy using MindBody Medicine • Avoid burnout and grow your practice.

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JULY 14–16 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Getting Unstuck MOVING BEYOND DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, UNCERTAINTY, AND CHRONIC ILLNESS

James S. Gordon FOR everyone. CE credits.

You can get unstuck and heal yourself—emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Increase your sense of control and overall health and wholeness, solve problems you’ve struggled with, and mobilize your capacity for self-healing. In this program, you • Learn and practice a range of evidence-based mind-body techniques designed to wake you up to your problem-perpetuating patterns and move you forward in your life

JULY 14–16 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

The Art of Stopping Time Pedram Shojai FOR everyone.

How can you stay healthy, find peace, maximize time, and enjoy your life? Find out in this immersion designed to help you develop a healthy relationship with time. Pedram Shojai, best-selling author of The Urban Monk and a former Taoist monk, blends practical daily advice with powerful qigong and meditation practices to help you master time and use it to recharge and thrive in the modern world.

Compression of time in our consciousness is an epidemic in contemporary society. Learn how to take charge of time instead of the other way around, and take home concrete tools for minimizing stress and curating life events successfully.

RECOMMENDED READING Pedram Shojai, The Urban Monk and Rise and Shine.

TUITION $275 + room & meals; p. 108

PEDRAM SHOJAI, doctor of oriental medicine, qigong master, and founder of well.org, is passionate about helping people wake up and live their lives fully. pedramshojai.com

• Explore self-care techniques such as meditation, guided imagery, movement, dance, nutrition, drawing, and dialogue • Use these approaches to deal with confusion, anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as chronic medical conditions, including pain, hypertension, and diabetes.

Once you practice these techniques, you can introduce them to friends, family, clients, and patients.

RECOMMENDED READING James S. Gordon, Unstuck: Your Guide to the SevenStage Journey Out of Depression.

TUITION $240 + room & meals; p. 108

JAMES S. GORDON, MD, is founder and director of the Center for MindBody Medicine.

His work with psychological trauma has been featured on 60 Minutes. cmbm.org

JULY 16–21 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Everyday Herbalism BACKYARD AND KITCHEN REMEDIES FOR NATURAL HEALTH

Jacquelyn Dobrinska FOR everyone.

Discover the power of herbal medicine. Learn which spice in your spice rack can heal a cut, what backyard plant relieves stings, a common ingredient to address infections, and more. Jacquelyn Dobrinska makes ancient herbal wisdom simple and accessible, so you feel comfortable using herbal remedies in your daily life.

This fun, hands-on program offers • A broad spectrum of plants and healing traditions • Herbal allies that can support digestion, vitality, sleep, immunity, and first aid • Time in the field identifying plants and making herbal medicines, including tinctures, teas, medicinal foods, oils, vinegars, and infusions.

Return home with clear directions on how to effectively use herbs and herbal practices for health.

TUITION $400 + room & meals; p. 108

JACQUELYN DOBRINSKA is an herbalist, yogini, and author whose gift is empowering people in their quest for health with potent, practical, and accessible tools. asimplevibrantlife.com

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PROGRAMS with ROGER JAHNKE AUGUST 4–6 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

An Introduction to the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education for Dynamic Health Kaelash Neels FOR all levels.

Relearn the art of listening to your body. By engaging awareness, imagination, and perception, Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement can relieve pain, aid in recovery from physical and emotional stress, improve daily functioning, and help you breathe better while feeling calmer and lighter.

Of value to people with neurological, musculoskeletal, postural, movement, breathing, or stress-related difficulties, the Feldenkrais Method is also helpful to singers, athletes, and anyone seeking to improve performance.

Moshe Feldenkrais believed there was no separation between mind and body, so learning to move better improves overall well-being at every level. Exploring slow, easy, and pleasurable movements that re-educate the nervous system, Kaelash Neels guides you through skillfully designed lessons structured to increase ease of movement and restore natural flexibility.

RECOMMENDED READING Moshe Feldenkrais, Awareness Through Movement and Stephen Shafarman, Awareness Heals.

TUITION $230 + room & meals; p. 108

KAELASH NEELS holds a degree in somatic psychology, is a certified yoga therapist, and completed the four-year Feldenkrais training program in 2003. kaelash.com

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AUGUST 18–20 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

AUGUST 20–25 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Healer Within Practice Leader Training

Qigong and Tai Chi Easy

MEDICAL QIGONG CERTIFICATION FOR everyone. CE credits.

Learn to practice and share mind-body energetics in your community as a Healer Within™ Practice Leader.

Qigong, tai chi, and yoga are gaining popularity in spas, yoga centers, hospitals, schools, social-service agencies, corporations, the military, prisons, and faith-based ministries.

Healer Within Qigong is accessible, easy to practice, and can be woven into any existing mind-body practice to maximize powerful healing, stress mastery, disease prevention, and life extension.

In this training, you learn the qigong methods in the best-selling book on energy medicine practice, The Healer Within, including • Body and breathing practices • Self-massage • Meditation-mindfulness.

The Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi has trained more than 1,000 teachers and practice leaders internationally.

Attend this program for certification or simply to learn these outstanding wellness tools for yourself, your family, and your friends.

NOTE Tuition includes Roger Jahnke’s book, The Healer Within. You will receive a certificate following the training.

TUITION $265 + room & meals; p. 108

MASTER STRESS, ENLIGHTEN THE MIND, AND TAP UNIVERSAL ENERGY FOR all levels.

Feel the qi! You can thrive at the pinnacle of your physical, emotional, and spiritual potential by tapping into qi—universal/ divine energy, life force, or prana.

Ancient yogis and qigong masters discovered that gentle body movements, paired with focused breathing and mind centering, are a magic formula to neutralize stress, heal disease, create supreme personal energy, and access inner peace. Qigong is a practice to help you purposefully refine the connection between your energetic and neurologic self.

This transformational program explores ultra-accessible Tai Chi Easy™ and the Nine Phases of Qi Mastery, a profound qigong method for experiencing your ultimate nature, or personal alchemy.

Explore the miracles that occur through qi cultivation and then experience the Tenth Phase—transmitting qi—to empower and heal others.

RECOMMENDED READING Roger Jahnke, The Healing Power of Qi. TUITION $435 + room & meals; p. 108

ROGER JAHNKE, OMD, is a doctor of Chinese medicine with 30 years of clinical practice and 45 years as a teacher of qigong and tai chi. feeltheqi.com

⊕⊕COMBINE THESE PROGRAMS for a 10 percent tuition discount for each program.

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AUGUST 20–25 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Well Nourished MINDFUL PRACTICES FOR HEART, BODY, AND MIND

Andrea Lieberstein FOR everyone.

Nourish your whole self and bring both your eating and life back into balance by cultivating clear seeing, heartfulness, joy, and ease. Using mindfulness, mindful eating, and heart-based practices, this retreat gently challenges you to explore what true nourishment is for you and helps discern what you are really hungry for.

Annie B. Kay and Jeremy Rock Smith AUGUST 6–11 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

NUTRITION and COOKING IMMERSION Jeremy Rock Smith and Annie B. Kay FOR everyone. CE credits.

Do you want to eat healthier and cook more of your own meals, but don’t have the time or motivation? Would you like to feel more organized and comfortable in the kitchen? Kripalu Executive Chef Jeremy Rock Smith and nutritionist Annie B. Kay combine the latest nutritional research with tips from the Kripalu Kitchen to help you plan and prepare healthy meals that sustain you, bite by delicious bite.

Practice mindful eating and enjoy an evidence-based, whole-foods, and plant-based diet as you learn • Time-saving tips and skills for easy whole-foods cooking • Which foods and culinary practices promote health and well-being • How to personalize your plate for pleasure and health.

Return home with delicious new recipes and the confidence you need to get in the kitchen to start cooking.

TUITION $399 + room & meals; p. 108

JEREMY ROCK SMITH, Kripalu’s Executive Chef, graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and began his career in classical French cuisine.

ANNIE B. KAY, MS, RDN, LDN, RYT, is a nutritionist at Kripalu, author of Every Bite Is Divine, and an important voice in whole-foods nutrition and yoga. anniebkay.com

Learn to experience food as both pleasurable and nourishing while finding your right relationship to amount and quality in each moment. Immerse yourself in mindfulness meditation, mindful walking, gentle yoga, loving-kindness, self-compassion, nature awareness, and healthy living as foundational practices to heal your relationship with food and bring balance to your body, mind, and heart.

Return home with a plan and the practices you need to nourish your entire being in everyday life.

RECOMMENDED READING Andrea Lieberstein, Well Nourished: Mindful Practices to Heal Your Relationship to Food, Feed Your Whole Self, and End Overeating.

NOTE Bring a journal.

TUITION $395 + room & meals; p. 108

ANDREA LIEBERSTEIN, MPH, RDN, RYT, is a mindfulness-based registered dietitian nutritionist, mindfulness meditation teacher, mindfuleating expert, and author of Well Nourished. mindfuleatingtraining.com

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PROGRAMS with RICHARD P. BROWN and PATRICIA L. GERBARG

Hands of Light Healing THE FUNDAMENTALS OF BRENNAN HEALING SCIENCE

AUGUST 27–SEPTEMBER 1 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Melanie Roche

Breath-Body-Mind Teacher Training, Level 1

CE credits.

This transformational Brennan Healing Science® program teaches a system of energy work that combines hands-on healing techniques with spiritual and psychological processes.

with Dehanna Rice-Inkles FOR healthcare professionals, therapists, yoga teachers, school teachers, military, and disaster relief workers. CE credits.

• Energy exercises to keep your own energy field healthy and balanced

Breath-Body-Mind integrates ancient and modern trauma-sensitive techniques to rapidly balance stress-response systems for self-care and healing others. Developed by medical doctors Richard P. Brown and Patricia L. Gerbarg, Breath-Body-Mind has proven benefits for healthcare professionals, patients, military veterans, and survivors of mass disasters, including the Asia tsunami, 9/11, the Gulf oil spill, the Rwanda genocide, and slavery in Sudan.

• Self-healing techniques

Training and results include

• Brennan Healing Science chelation, a hands-on healing technique that clears, charges, and balances the energy field

• Movement, breathing, meditation, practice-teaching, neurophysiology, research, and clinical issues

Under the guidance of expert healer and teacher Melanie Roche, you learn • To give a hands-on-healing • The anatomy and physiology of the human energy-consciousness system • How to read the aura • To sense people’s energy issues through their personal objects

• Ways of integrating these techniques into daily life.

Through lecture, meditation, group work, and individual exercise, open your latent ability to perceive the human energy field, and return home able to sense how energy and consciousness are one and the same.

RECOMMENDED READING Barbara Brennan, Hands of Light or Light Emerging.

NOTE This program requires a mandatory participation form. See the Kripalu website for more information.

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MELANIE ROCHE, MA, is an energy healer and creator of the IDEA Method™, a technique using inner-directed energy awareness to develop presence and connection. melanieroche.com

• Unique techniques to calm central fearprocessing networks and reduce physical/ psychological symptoms of anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder • Modules on working in military settings and on working with children • Improved mental focus, energy, productivity, sleep, empathy, connectedness, and joy.

Breath-Body-Mind complements other mind-body programs, enhancing wellbeing, meditation, and transformation.

NOTE Tuition includes a manual and CD. See the Kripalu website for required and recommended reading and listening and information about prerequisites.

TUITION $741+ room & meals; p. 108

AUGUST 27–SEPTEMBER 1 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Breath-Body-Mind Teacher Training, Level 3 with Dehanna Rice-Inkles FOR healthcare professionals, therapists, yoga teachers, schoolteachers, military, and disaster relief workers who have completed BreathBody-Mind Teaching Training Levels 1 and 2.

CE credits.

As a Level 3 candidate, you attend the Level 1 Teacher Training and learn how to train others to teach Coherent Breathing and other practices and • Assist in training the Level 1 students • Lead parts of the training and receive feedback on your teaching techniques • Create and maintain a set of resource materials, including manuals, research articles, lecture notes, and slides.

Richard P. Brown and Patricia L. Gerbarg help you develop the skills needed to become leaders in training others, and offer more advanced healing techniques, as well as guidance on the use of breathwork in psychotherapy and developing programs in your areas of interest.

Upon completion, Level 3 teachers have the skills to explain basic scientific principles for the effects of breathing practices on stress response, sympatho-vagal balance, heart rate variability, anxiety, and more.

NOTE See the Kripalu website for more information, including required and recommended reading and prerequisites.

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RICHARD P. BROWN, MD, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University is a certified teacher of aikido, qigong, yoga, and meditation. breath-body-mind.com PATRICIA L. GERBARG, MD, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College, researches mind-body practices for post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.

DEHANNA RICE-INKLES, RPP, CH, is a Level 3 Breath-Body-Mind teacher, Registered Polarity Practitioner, and hypnotherapist. She is certified in Cerebral Spinal Fluid and Vitaflex Techniques, Open Focus Meditation, and sound healing with tuning forks.

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JUNE 23–25 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

MEDITATION FUSION FIVE TEACHERS, FIVE STYLES

Steven Leonard, Ajeet Kaur, Mark Roule, Brian Sano, and Leslie Hubbard FOR all levels. CE credits.

Meditation is a vast tradition with many definitions, intentions, and techniques.

Find the meditation style that works for you by exploring techniques with teachers from five different traditions. The key to establishing a regular practice is to discover the approach that truly aligns with your personality, experiences, and interests.

Experiment with meditation guided by five diverse experts who each specialize in a specific style: • Freestyle Meditation with Steven Leonard • Zen Meditation with Leslie Hubbard • Qigong with Mark Roule

STEVEN LEONARD, a faculty member at Kripalu, leads meditation classes and outdoor activities in a way that affirms people’s natural instincts and intelligence.

AJEET KAUR, recording artist, yogi, healer, and wellness coach, has released four albums of sacred music, reaching many hearts with her healing songs. ajeetkaurmusic.com

MARK ROULE, RYT 500, is a yoga teacher and outdoor guide who leads R&R and programs at Kripalu. He holds wilderness EMT/ lifeguard, instructor-level kayak, stand up paddleboard, and snowboard certifications.

BRIAN SANO is a certified teacher with the Miksang Institute for Contemplative Photography. A former yoga teacher, Brian works as a lawyer in Washington DC.

• Kundalini Meditation with Ajeet Kaur • Miksang, or contemplative seeing, with Brian Sano.

Experience how your meditation practice can be as unique and dynamic as your life.

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LESLIE HUBBARD is program director of the University of Virginia’s Contemplative Sciences Center, where she teaches the theory and practice of yoga and Buddhist meditation.

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JUNE 9–11 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Finding Joy and Peace in Challenging Times A WEEKEND OF MINDFULNESS AND LOVING-KINDNESS

Hugh Byrne FOR all levels. CE credits.

Mindfulness invites you to find the peace that is always available when you say yes to the present moment. Loving-kindness is a quality of open-heartedness that you can cultivate to help you dissolve fear and live with joy.

With warmth, humor, stories, poetry, and guided meditations, Hugh Byrne brings the wisdom and compassion of Buddhist teachings to help you live fully in the midst of life’s joys and sorrows. In this program, you • Learn or deepen practices of mindfulness and loving-kindness • Cultivate attitudes of kindness, acceptance, and curiosity toward yourself, others, and life • Deepen your intention and capacity to live consciously in alignment with your aspirations.

In these challenging times, mindfulness and loving-kindness serve as antidotes to worry, distraction, and unhealthy responses to stress.

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HUGH BYRNE, PHD, a guiding teacher with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington and author of The Here-and-Now Habit, has taught mindfulness meditation since 2000. hughbyrne.com

JUNE 4–9 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

HEAL YOURSELF, HEAL YOUR WORLD Ajeet Kaur

FOR everyone.

When you open your intuition and experience your capacity to heal and balance yourself, you naturally become a healing and compassionate presence in the world. Ajeet Kaur, a lifelong student of Sat Nam Rasayan, introduces Kundalini Yoga and meditation as practices to reset your nervous and glandular systems so that you can feel relaxed and make decisions from the heart and soul. You experience • Self-reflection and inner work to clear the past and connect to a space of stillness where healing naturally unfolds • Meditations and practices to stay strong, clear, effective, and protected as a healer

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Concert with Ajeet WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7 7:30 PM Free for in-house guests; no general public tickets available.

• Live music from Ajeet and other world-class musicians.

Join Ajeet for this rare opportunity to deepen and expand your healing presence.

NOTE This program includes early-morning practice.

TUITION $295 + room & meals; p. 108

AJEET KAUR, recording artist, yogi, healer, and wellness coach, has released four albums of sacred music, reaching many hearts with her healing songs. ajeetkaurmusic.com

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JUNE 9–11 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Mantra Meditation and Everyday Samadhi A JAPA IMMERSION

Philip Goldberg and Dana Sawyer FOR all levels. CE credits.

JUNE 23–25 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

IMMERSION in the OCEAN of CHANT, MANTRA, and SONG Nina Rao, Amanda Harding, and friends FOR everyone; no chanting experience required. CE credits.

Immerse yourself in the sacred practice of chant from the spiritual traditions of India to quiet your mind and open your heart. Whether you are an experienced chanter or a beginner, come explore practices that transform you from the inside out, including

Deepen your practice and understanding of japa, or mantra repetition, as you explore the historical roots of mantra practice and how it impacts meditation. This program focuses on the last three limbs of Patanjali’s eight limbs of yoga: concentration (dharana), meditation (dhyana), and the practical value of regularly experiencing thought-free awareness (samadhi), which is often erroneously dismissed as a distant or unattainable goal.

Learn about and experience vacika, the vocal mantra repetition used in kirtan chanting; manasika, or mental repetition, commonly used in silent meditation; and shabda, Sanskrit mantras used as sound therapy. Philip Goldberg and Dana Sawyer also cover the use of asana and pranayama within this meditation-focused practice, and encourage participants to take Kripalu Yoga classes to supplement the meditation in this course.

• Group japa (mantra repetition) • Asana practice led by Amanda Harding that connects body and mind with breath and movement, accompanied by live chanting and music with Nina Rao and friends • Group chanting of prayers and kirtan (call-and-response chanting) • Simple mantra repetition • Recitation of specific prayers such as the Hanuman Chalisa, Lalita Saharasranam, and Mahishasura Mardini Stotram • Puja (devotional offerings).

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PHILIP GOLDBERG, author of

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American Veda, is an authority on the history of how Indian spirituality has changed the American mind.

SATURDAY, JUNE 24 7:30 PM

DANA SAWYER is professor of

Free for in-house guests; no general public tickets available.

religion at the Maine College of Art and author of biographies of Aldous Huxley and Huston Smith.

Concert with Nina Rao and Friends

Take time out to retreat into the heart space and create a sustainable personal practice that fits into your daily routine at home. Word sheets will be provided, as well as reading and audio lists for support after the retreat. By spending time with like-minded seekers and practicing together, you strengthen your own practice and find that inner place of refuge to which you can always return.

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NINA RAO learned traditional chants (bhajans) from her grandfather in south India. She serves as business manager for Krishna Das and regularly tours with him.

AMANDA HARDING is the owner of Prema Yoga Brooklyn, where she teaches weekly vinyasa flow classes as well as private and corporate clients.

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JULY 2–7 SUNDAY–FRIDAY JULY 7–9 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

The Still, Small Voice Within

The Power of Meditation

MEDITATION, FOCUSING, AND INTUITION TRAINING

YOUR LIFE IS THE PATH

Susan Piver

Jonathan Foust (Sudhir)

FOR all levels. CE credits.

FOR all levels. CE credits.

Meditation is more than a stress-reduction technique.

It is a path of radical self-acceptance that reveals your innate wisdom, compassion, and power. Meditation supports you to be confident in your intuition and instincts, express yourself fully, and give and receive more love.

Albert Einstein said, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” To climb out of any rut, resolve problems, or sense your path from a new perspective, you must shift your awareness. This retreat is designed to immerse you in practices that generate such a shift.

Join Susan Piver to learn shamatha meditation (the practice of tranquility) and the three keys to establishing a consistent home practice. Come explore the power and pitfalls of bringing increased awareness to your personal and professional relationships, along with • Five steps that unlock deep self-confidence • The relationship of meditation to deep listening • Ways to harvest the power of so-called negative emotions • Steps to keep your practice sacred (as opposed to self-help) • The joy of openhearted community.

TUITION $295 + room & meals; p. 108

SUSAN PIVER is a Buddhist teacher and the New York Times best-selling author of nine books, including How Not to Be Afraid of Your Own Life. susanpiver.com

JUNE 16–18 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

The Art of Happiness Howard C. Cutler FOR everyone. CE credits pending.

Learn the fundamental principles of the Art of Happiness method, based on the international best-seller The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living, by the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler. This powerful, science-based approach to happiness combines traditional Buddhist wisdom with contemporary Western science and psychology.

Vipassana (insight meditation) teaches you to pause and recognize what is present, allowing you to see with increasing clarity into the nature of things. Focusing trains the mind to investigate what arises from the field of direct sensation, offering access to wisdom and compassion. Combined, these two techniques generate a unique in-depth experience of an awakened heart and mind.

Through practice, talks, presentations, exercises, and discussion, you dive into self-inquiry and develop skills for the rest of your life.

RECOMMENDED LISTENING Jonathan Foust, Body-Centered Inquiry: Meditation Training to Awaken Your Inner Guidance, Vitality and Loving Heart CD set.

NOTE This retreat is intensive and may preclude other activities. Much of the retreat is held in social silence.

TUITION $390 + room & meals; p. 108

JONATHAN FOUST (SUDHIR), MA,

• Powerful techniques and exercises drawn from the latest research in neuroscience and Positive Psychology

cofounder of the Meditation Teacher Training Institute and former President of Kripalu, has been leading retreats and training teachers for more than 25 years.

• The inextricable link between happiness, kindness, and compassion.

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Recent research has found that increasing your level of happiness leads to a multitude of personal rewards, including better physical and emotional health, longer life, improved relationships, stronger marriages, enhanced mental functioning, increased creativity, greater career success, and higher income.

With lectures, lively discussions, and practical hands-on exercises, this program explores • Key points of the Art of Happiness

RECOMMENDED READING See the Kripalu website.

TUITION $230 + room & meals; p. 108

HOWARD C. CUTLER, MD, is a psychiatrist, New York Times best-selling author, and leading expert on the science of human happiness. theartofhappiness.com

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PROGRAMS with SALLY KEMPTON JULY 12–14 WEDNESDAY–FRIDAY

Introduction to Meditation Bhavani Lorraine Nelson FOR everyone. CE credits.

Heard about the benefits of meditation and wondered what the practice is really like? Or maybe you’ve had some meditation instruction but haven’t yet found a technique that fits your temperament and lifestyle, one that allows you to sustain a regular practice.

AUGUST 6–11 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

AUGUST 11–13 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Freedom, Ecstasy, and Awakening

Awakening Shakti

THE ART AND PRACTICE OF TANTRIC MEDITATION FOR all levels. CE credits.

Tantric practice is the art of finding sacred energy in the midst of ordinary life. It offers a path to direct inner experience that is both mystical and practical, transforming your outlook so that you can surf reality even in difficult circumstances.

This paradigm-shifting intensive with Sally Kempton is based on a beloved meditation text called the Vijnana Bhairava (Experience of the Infinite).

Profound, playful, and consciousnessexpanding, the practices in this text include secret tantric breath meditations, contemplations on desire and fear, meditations on sensory experience, and ways to instantly contact your divine source. Each practice can be a portal into enlightened awareness—even if you are new to meditation.

Offering transmission from a profound tradition of nondual wisdom, this program can shift your approach to meditation and radically expand your awareness.

MEDITATION, KUNDALINI, AND THE OPENING OF THE HEART FOR everyone. CE credits.

Discover an approach to meditation that harnesses the alchemical energy called kundalini shakti. Using closely guided meditation, mantra, visualization, and inner journeying, this powerful, experiential program opens the body’s core channels and invokes the Sacred Feminine within the body and mind.

As you learn to connect with your own energy, you experience what it means to engage and open the awakened heart, joining your individual heart with the Universal Heart.

Based on Sally Kempton’s deep and practical understanding of inner energy, this program is an open invitation to explore an energetic approach to meditation practice so that every session becomes a transformative experience.

TUITION $270 + room & meals; p. 108

SALLY KEMPTON, nationally recognized as a master teacher of meditation and tantric philosophy, is author of the best-selling Meditation for the Love of It. sallykempton.com

TUITION $695 + room & meals; p. 108

⊕⊕COMBINE THESE PROGRAMS for a 10 percent tuition discount for each program.

Bhavani Lorraine Nelson, known for her clear instruction and user-friendly approach, introduces you to meditation techniques from the yogic and Buddhist traditions, including • Meditation on the breath • Loving-kindness meditation • Walking meditation • Pranayama (breathing exercises) • Mantra meditation • Sanskrit chanting as meditation.

Gain the inspiration and clarity you need to continue meditating at home, ultimately bringing greater peace, equanimity, and contentment into your life.

TUITION $225 + room & meals; p. 108

BHAVANI LORRAINE NELSON is a Kripalu Yoga teacher who leads workshops in meditation and mindfulness, stress reduction, and the power of the voice. bhavanilorrainenelson.com

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AUGUST 18–20 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Start Meditating Now EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO BEGIN AND SUSTAIN A MEDITATION PRACTICE

Richard Faulds (Shobhan) and Danna Faulds FOR everyone. CE credits.

A regular meditation practice can change just about everything in your life for the better. Research is proving that meditation counters the negative effects of stress, improves concentration, increases creativity, and leaves you feeling connected to something bigger than yourself.

In this program, you learn a variety of techniques, including • A simple breathing protocol that reliably brings meditation within reach • Centering meditation to soothe and move beyond the thought-bound mind • Witness meditation to cultivate selfawareness and personal growth • Loving-kindness meditation to open the heart and wish yourself and others well • Divine descent meditation: an energybased technique to awaken your spiritual potential.

With easy-to-follow instructions and frequent stretch breaks to keep your body happy, this retreat provides everything you need to begin, sustain, and deepen a meditation practice of your own.

AUGUST 20–25 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

AT PLAY with the RADIANCE SUTRAS A MEDITATION RETREAT AND TEACHER TRAINING

Lorin Roche and Coby Kozlowski FOR all levels; optional meditation teacher training for yoga teachers. CE credits.

1000

Meditation is one of life’s great pleasures, a vacation in the vibrant present. There are hundreds of meditation techniques, and, when you find the style that fits your inner nature, meditation feels like the most natural thing in the world. This retreat explores the luminous teachings of the Radiance Sutras, Lorin Roche’s new translation of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, an ancient yoga text that describes 112 meditation practices for touching the sacred in daily life. The teachings are playful, instinctive, down-to-earth, and transcendent.

Meet yourself where you are in a retreat that emphasizes naturalness, spontaneity, and being at home in the universe. You learn • A variety of meditation practices • How meditation can be more restful than sleep • Skills for handling emotions and sensations that arise in meditation • Techniques to blend meditation and movement.

NOTE See the Kripalu website for additional information on the meditation teacher training option available to yoga teachers.

May be taken as part of Kripalu’s 1000-Hour Yoga Teacher Training or as a standalone program; see page 13.

TUITION $315 + room & meals; p. 108

LORIN ROCHE, PHD, has been teaching meditation since 1968. He is the author of Meditation Made Easy and Whole Body Meditations. lorinroche.com COBY KOZLOWSKI, MA, E-RYT, is a faculty member for the Kripalu School of Yoga and founder of Karma Yoga Leadership Intensive™. cobyk.com

TUITION $230 + room & meals; p. 108

RICHARD FAULDS (SHOBHAN), MA, JD, author of Kripalu Yoga: A Guide to Practice On and Off the Mat, is a former Kripalu President, CEO, and Board Chair.

DANNA FAULDS, a oncereluctant meditator who now won’t miss a day, is a long-term practitioner of Kripalu Yoga and the author of six books of poetry.

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AUGUST 20–25 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

A Buddhist Healing Ritual DAKINI’S HEART-ESSENCE CHÖD AND EMPOWERMENTS

Lama Migmar Tseten FOR everyone.

Healing Chöd is an ancient Buddhist ritual known for its power to alleviate physical, emotional, and mental illness and suffering. There are no instructions to follow or techniques to learn. One simply lies down, rests, and receives healing. Healing Chöd is suitable for everyone, including those with chronic or mild illnesses.

AUGUST 20–25 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

THE ART and SCIENCE of YOGIC MEDITATION NONDUAL WISDOM TEACHINGS FOR ENLIGHTENED LIVING

RICHARD MILLER FOR all levels. CE credits pending.

Meditation invites you to awaken to your wholeness, to what is undeniable yet often ignored because of its simplicity. Using guided meditation, interactive dialogue, and gentle movement and breathing practices that impart deep relaxation while revealing your essential nature, Richard Miller presents the practice of Integrative Restoration, or iRest® Meditation.

This comprehensive, research-based, secular program of mindfulness meditation has been endorsed by the US Army Surgeon General and incorporates principles of Sankhya, Patanjali, Advaita, and Kashmir nondualism. Learn a practice that promotes health, healing, resiliency, well-being, and awakening at all levels of your humanity in a program that includes • A map for every stage of meditation • Practices that support healing the life issues you bring to meditation • The neuroscience of meditation • How to integrate meditation into daily life.

RECOMMENDED LISTENING An experiential talk by Richard on nondual being, available at irest.us/node/1922.

TUITION $495 + room & meals; p. 108

RICHARD MILLER, PHD, author of iRest Meditation and Yoga Nidra, is an internationally recognized teacher of nondual yogic meditation and its integration into daily living. irest.us

Healing Chöd rituals consist of music, prayers, and mantras in the sacred sounds of Sanskrit and Tibetan, transformative mudras and offerings, and meditation to cut through the destructive emotions and repel negative energies and obstacles.

Empowerments are given to further increase healing blessings.

Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd is based on the female Buddha, Vajrayogini. It originated with the 10th-century Indian yogi Mahasiddha Naropa, and was passed down to Lama Migmar’s guru, Chogye Trichen Rinpoche, also the guru of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

TUITION $295 + room & meals; p. 108

LAMA MIGMAR TSETEN has served as Buddhist chaplain at Harvard University since 1997 and is the founder of Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts. lamamigmar.net

Mindful Walking, One Step at a Time with Steven Leonard

The process of meditation is sometimes described as moving from thinking to feeling, says Steven Leonard, a Zen enthusiast, yoga teacher, and Kripalu faculty.

The sights, sounds, and textures of the outdoors—whether it’s the showy beauty of a blooming peony or the subtle softness of grass beneath your feet—offer bountiful opportunities for shifting the focus away from “monkey mind” and toward the senses.

Here’s how Steven breaks down the practice of mindful walking into four simple steps.

1

Before you head outdoors, look around your inside space. Take a few centering breaths and notice what it feels like to be inside—how it affects your body, range of vision, and thoughts.

2 Outside, before setting off, find a comfortable standing position. Let your shoulders and face relax, and feel your feet balanced on the earth. Allow your eyes to scan the landscape. Now close your eyes and notice the sensations—the breeze or sun on your skin, the temperature, any sounds that are present.

3 As you begin to walk, keep tuning in to your sensations and returning to the body and the breath. Your experience may be of an oscillation between what’s happening in the body and senses, and what you’re observing around you. Shutting off your mind is not the point—simply notice how much there is to be aware of, inside and out. You might want to try focusing on more specific sensations: the balance of each foot as it touches the ground, the feel of the air on your skin.

4

As you go on to the next part of your day, bring awareness to the transition.

Notice what it’s like to shift from being outdoors to being inside a building, and experiment with bringing the same mindful attention to your “walk” through the day.

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Neuroscience and Psychology

JULY 23–28 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

TRAUMA, BODY, and the BRAIN RESTORING THE CAPACITY FOR RHYTHM AND PLAY

BESSEL VAN DER KOLK, Steven Gross, and Licia Sky FOR those working on helping others or themselves heal from traumatic stress. CE credits.

Trauma is not a story of what has happened in the past. Overwhelming experiences continue to be lived out in heartbreak and gut-wrenching sensations.

This leaves survivors feeling unsafe, on edge, ashamed, and shut down. Healing can only occur if survivors can learn to restore a sense of safety and reclaim a loving relationship with themselves.

BESSEL VAN DER KOLK, MD, is medical director of the

Discover how the brain is shaped by experience in this program that explores

founder and chief playmaker of the Life is Good® Playmakers, a nonprofit organization that helps children overcome poverty, violence, and illness through the power of play and optimism.

• What neuroscience teaches about selfawareness and trauma • The nature of human attachment •N ew psychotherapeutic treatments that help integrate traumatic memories • Body-centered approaches for dealing with trauma.

These techniques help people come into the present moment and shift out of fear, numbing, and hyperarousal. This allows them to resolve traumatic memories and promote mastery over the post-traumatic legacy of constriction, disconnection, and loss.

TUITION $455 + room & meals; p. 108

Trauma Center in Boston and author of the New York Times best-seller The Body Keeps the Score. besselvanderkolk.net

STEVEN GROSS, MSW, is the

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LICIA SKY, LMT, BFA, is an artist, musician, singersongwriter, and intuitive bodywork therapist who fosters safe, transformative experiences through music, movement, and touch. liciasky.com

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MARTA A. ELDERS, PHD, licensed psychologist, is a past chairperson of the Marion Woodman Foundation, and graduate of the BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program.

STEPHEN COPE, MSW, Scholarin-Residence and Kripalu Ambassador, is the best-selling author of Soul Friends: The Transforming Power of Deep Human Connection.

NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY

JUNE 2–4 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

THE EMBODIED SOUL HONORING THE WORK OF MARION WOODMAN Marta A. Elders, Stephen Cope, Maja Reinau, Rea Nolan, Carolyn Whitt, Vicki M. Lanier, Martha de la Garza, Patricia Llosa, Susan E. Adams, Catharine Clarke, Jean Esther, Polly Howells, Janice Stieber Rous, and Vernessa Foelix FOR mental-health professionals and everyone interested in Marion Woodman’s work.

MAJA REINAU, MD, a Zurichtrained Jungian analyst and specialist in psychotherapy for children, adolescents, and adults, has completed the BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training. majareinau.dk REA NOLAN holds an MA in voice studies and completed BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training in 2007. She helps people explore voice as an approach to soul expression. reanolan.com

VERNESSA FOELIX focuses on painting, claywork, and teaching creative workshops. She holds an MA in art education and completed the BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training.

JEAN ESTHER, MSW, LICSW, is a Buddhist meditation teacher and trauma-informed psychotherapist.

She trained with Marion Woodman for 20 years.

JANICE STIEBER ROUS is the creator of Body Dialogue, an integrative therapeutic system that reorganizes the body and eliminates dysfunctional movement patterns.

CE credits pending.

Marion Woodman has been a pioneer in developing a conscious relationship between psyche and body in the quest for wholeness. As a Jungian analyst, Marion developed BodySoul Rhythms® along with voice specialist Ann Skinner and movement teacher Mary Hamilton from their mutual respect for the body’s wisdom and their refinement of exercises that deepen the relationship between psyche and soma. Their shared belief is that body and psyche must be worked with simultaneously in order for individuals to heal.

Learn about the BodySoul approach to wholeness and the work of graduates from the Marion Woodman Foundation’s Leadership Training Program. Through lectures, discussions of dreams, movement, voice, creative expression, and ritual, you can honor Marion’s work as you attune to body wisdom, heal old wounds, and reintegrate all aspects of your being.

PRECONFERENCES JUNE 2 9:00 AM–4:00 PM

The Courage to Be

Seeds of Growth

RECLAIMING OUR INNER COMPASS IN THE WORLD OF CHANGE

EXPLORING THE EMBODIED SYMBOL

Jean Esther, Polly Howells, and Janice Steiber Rous How can you align with your inner compass when the outer world is battering you with chronic chaos? Join three longtime coleaders of BodySoul work to engage with silent meditation, personal and collective dreams, movement, voice, and the natural world while renewing the connection between your inner and outer life.

Maja Reinau, Rea Nolan, and Vernessa Foelix Explore the process of image embodiment through a core BodySoul Rhythms® exercise called Symbol in the Body. This work brings you into relationship with your soul, blending depth psychology, experiential embodiment through movement and voicing, and exploration of the imagination using dreams, imagery, and creative expression.

POLLY HOWELLS, LCSW, a psychotherapist in Brooklyn, New York, is now semiretired and active in spiritually-based environmental work.

NOTE See the Kripalu website for the workshop schedule and additional presenter bios.

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Making an Impact The Friends of Kripalu believe that yoga can change the world.

The Friends of Kripalu are investing in the power of yoga to inspire compassion, facilitate whole-person well-being, and help heal our global community. As the center’s most significant philanthropic partners, the Friends contribute $5,000 or more during the calendar year to support Kripalu’s social impact, and can renew their commitment and membership annually. Membership includes invitations to special events, as well as opportunities to hear from Kripalu presenters and leadership throughout the year.

To learn more about joining the Friends of Kripalu, please call 413.448.3284.

I am so grateful to Kripalu for the transformations that have taken place in my life that I want to show my appreciation and also help others to receive the gifts of this place—the wisdom and nurturing guidance of the program leaders, and the serene and spiritual environment. Kripalu’s teaching of self-management through multiple practices is accessible and vital. With so much unease in our world today, supporting a catalyst of peaceful personal growth makes sense to me.”

— Jane Pollak

The more I know about what Kripalu is doing in the world— the RISE program for frontline providers, the Hanser Award for yoga research, the Kripalu Yoga in the Schools project—the more I want to be involved. Kripalu has been instrumental in my ability to be more present and compassionate in my life and my relationships, to show up for my teenage son and my aging parents. When something works so well for me and is beneficial to the extent that yoga, meditation, and healthy lifestyle have been for me, I want to share it. I want everyone to benefit from it.”

—Laura Rodgers

We are moved and inspired that Kripalu is making it possible for social services organizations to send their frontline staff to the retreat center to learn the tools of self-care, healthy eating, and yoga and meditation— and then bring what they learn to the underserved populations they work with. It’s incredible to hear how a young boy can avoid incarceration because he can train himself to calm his own anxiety and fear through yoga and mindfulness practices. This is work that is making a significant impact. When a person feels good, that goodness carries over to the rest of the world. Right now, helping to create goodness and compassion feels more important than ever.”

— Liana Sterling and Michael Winnike

We’re investing in positive change.

You can help.

Your donations make it possible for us to empower people and communities through the transformative wisdom and practice of yoga. Your gift at any level makes a difference.

HOW TO GIVE ONLINE give.kripalu.org

BY PHONE 413.448.3284 ON CAMPUS Our Front Desk staff can connect you with the Development Team.

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JUNE 11–16 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Treating Complex Trauma with EMDR Therapy THE ART AND THE SCIENCE

Deany Laliotis FOR EMDR-trained clinicians.

When using EMDR therapy with complex trauma, do you get confused about what to focus on when so much is going on—or not much is happening at all? Learn how to make what happens in your sessions explicit and understandable, broadening the possibilities for healing and transformation.

JULY 30–AUGUST 4 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Positive Psychology Coaching

Through lecture and discussion, small-group personal practice, videos of client sessions, and live demonstrations, this program helps you deepen your skills by • Conceptualizing the case through an attachment lens • Using adaptive action systems to identify what is missing and therefore what is needed

SKILL-BUILDING INTENSIVE

• Applying clinical interweaves to facilitate movement in processing

Megan McDonough and Lynda Wallace

• Learning to identify and work with defensive patterns of response

FOR everyone, including aspiring, new, and experienced coaches. CE credits pending.

Develop fluency and confidence in the steps, skills, and techniques used to help people successfully pursue their goals for positive change in life, work, health, or relationships. This blended-learning course has both online and on-site components. Starting online through the Wholebeing Institute, you’re introduced to the research and concepts that form the basis of Positive Psychology Coaching, including the SPIRE model of well-being. Then you spend five days on-site at Kripalu, putting those concepts to work through expert demonstrations and extensive one-on-one peer coaching.

• Using somatic interventions for resourcing as well as memory processing.

TUITION $680 + room & meals; p. 108

DEANY LALIOTIS, LICSW, is an internationally recognized trainer, clinical consultant, and EMDR practitioner who specializes in the treatment of traumatic stress disorders and attachment issues. deanylaliotis.com

JULY 28–30 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Mindfulness, Wisdom, and Compassion in Psychotherapy

When you return home with your own development goal, you remain engaged online, connected to the Wholebeing Institute’s coaching community. Through continued engagement and practice, the new skills become habit, making positive conversations the norm in professional and/or personal settings, and helping clients reach their goals in enlivening and uplifting ways.

GETTING BEYOND I, ME, AND MINE

NOTE The online component of this program is facilitated by Wholebeing Institute. See the Kripalu website for more information.

Join Ronald D. Siegel as he teaches

Ronald D. Siegel FOR psychotherapists, human-service professionals, and others interested in personal development.

When we’re in pain, what we look for in a psychotherapist, teacher, or healer isn’t just academic knowledge or training. Rather, we seek out people who are wise, compassionate, and able to supportively enter into our suffering with us. So how might we develop these qualities in ourselves? And what would psychotherapy in particular look like if wisdom, compassion, and reduced self-preoccupation were actually goals of treatment?

• What wisdom and compassion are and how they can be cultivated to support well-being

TUITION $695 + room & meals; p. 108

• How to use mindfulness and compassion practices to foster psychological insight, spiritual awakening, cognitive flexibility, empathy, and caring action—in ourselves and others

MEGAN MCDONOUGH is CEO of Wholebeing

• Ways to move beyond concerns about personal comfort and self-esteem to find greater freedom and ease, both inside and outside the clinical hour.

Institute, an educational organization committed to helping people live life to its fullest. wholebeinginstitute.com

LYNDA WALLACE, MBA, is one of the country’s most highly sought-after coaches and teachers, and author of the best-seller A Short Course in Happiness.

TUITION $230 + room & meals; p. 108

RONALD D. SIEGEL, PSYD, assistant professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School, is a longtime student of mindfulness meditation and author of The Mindfulness Solution.

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AUGUST 18–20 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Introduction to Positive Psychology Maria Sirois FOR everyone. CE credits.

RECOMMENDED READING Tal Ben-Shahar, Happier; Martin Seligman, Authentic Happiness; Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection.

TUITION $230 + room & meals; p. 108

A happier, healthier life is available to you. By exploring the science of optimal functioning—including research from the fields of Positive Psychology, neuroscience, and mind-body medicine—you can create a life that centers on what works. This program addresses the realms crucial to well-being (spiritual, physical, intellectual, relational, and emotional) and grounds your learning in the ancient wisdom available through meditation and yoga.

Create a life of greater health, happiness, meaning, and overall well-being by gathering the tools, practices, and attitudes that make a profound difference, including the • Positivity spiral • Math of happiness: daily increases to boost success • Science of appreciation, gratitude, and optimism

MARIA SIROIS, PSYD, a psychologist and seminar leader, is an international expert in the fields of resilience and flourishing, and is known for her wisdom, authenticity, and humor. mariasirois.com

• Art of mindfulness practice, and how it amplifies happiness • Barriers that make change difficult • Technology of sustaining positive transformation over time.

AUGUST 13–18 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Internal Family Systems Therapy EMBODYING THE HEALING WISDOM

Richard C. Schwartz and Sarah Stewart FOR everyone, including therapists, non-therapists, and seasoned IFS practitioners. CE credits.

The world’s religions teach that there is an untarnished essence within us, a Self from which wisdom, healing, and spiritual energy flow. We rarely experience this Self because it is obscured by self-protective psychological mechanisms, or lost in the fear, pain, and shame of past trauma.

Cultivating Mindful, Authentic Leadership Our revolutionary program in conscious leadership represents nearly a decade of research by leaders in mindfulness-based tools, brain science, and human performance. This approach creates a shift in the paradigm of performance—one that improves both individual well-being and organizational culture.

Find out more

kripalu.org/rise

RICHARD C. SCHWARTZ, PHD, LMFT, is a marriage and family therapist, author, and creator of the Internal Family Systems model. selfleadership.org

SARAH STEWART, PSYD, is a nationally recognized expert in trauma and addiction with a unique interest in nature and the interconnectedness of all sentient beings.

The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model helps you access the Self and bring its natural compassion and confidence into daily life. People who have used IFS report profound shifts in previously constraining feelings and beliefs. IFS introduces you to a detailed map of your psyche, including all subpersonalities and their inner conflicts. The Self then forms healing relationships with each of them.

Whether you want to deepen your skills or do personal work, this program offers the opportunity for transformative inner exploration and learning.

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Relationships

Mother-Daughter Yoga Weekend Sarahjoy Marsh FOR women and their daughters (ages 13 and up) at all yoga levels, including beginners.

Join Sarahjoy Marsh for a nourishing getaway that celebrates your relationship! Spend quality time together exploring the innate potential in your mother-daughter connection while doing something special for yourselves.

Through yoga, meditation, and group experiences, you • Renew your capacity for playfulness and camaraderie • Experience insight, laughter, and nurturing • Realize simple ways to bring greater vibrancy into your lives • Rediscover your innate capacity for self-renewing love and wisdom.

TUITION $215 + room & meals; p. 108

SARAHJOY MARSH, MA, RYT 500, is a yoga teacher and author who integrates Eastern and Western modalities, including the psychology of yoga, interpersonal neurobiology, transpersonal counseling, and art therapy. sarahjoyyoga.com

JULY 2–7 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

CircusYoga Retreat THE HUMAN ART OF PLAY

Erin Maile O’Keefe and Kevin O’Keefe FOR everyone ages 7–107.

CircusYoga, a blend of interactive yoga, circus arts, and transformational play, has been coming to Kripalu for almost 20 years.

This alchemy of connection and joyful fun results in a state of deep rejuvenation.

Bring your friends and family to experience this multigenerational retreat, which includes • Mandala Yoga and collaborative group play NOTE Children in this program must be accompanied by a parent or guardian who is also registered for this program.

TUITION Adults $325 + room & meals; p. 108; Kids $185 + children’s housing; call for rates.

• Flying Partner Yoga and partner acrobatics • Basic circus skills: juggling, diabolo, devil sticks, spinning plates, and more • Clowning and physical comedy • Balancing in asanas and on a tightwire • Thai Yoga Massage

ERIN MAILE O’KEEFE and KEVIN O’KEEFE

You might also be interested in…

Partner Yoga for Couples p. 102

developed CircusYoga and Flying Partner Yoga out of their love for yoga, the circus, connection, and play. circusyoga.org

• Creative movement and dance.

The CircusYoga community welcomes people of all ages and abilities who embrace the principles of inclusion, connection, coauthorship, and empathy. Learn how to live from a more playful, resilient, expressive place, and surprise yourself by what you can do!

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YogArts for Kids Craig Hanauer FOR kids ages 5–12.

If you’re a kid who loves to collect things from nature, do art projects, and make new friends, join us to learn yoga, get your face painted, play, walk in the woods, and make fresh discoveries everywhere you go.

YogArts is an integration of yoga, creative arts, and fun. Parents, don’t be surprised if your kids refuse to leave!

TUITION $205 + children’s housing; call for rates.

CRAIG HANAUER, a NYScertified creative arts therapist, art teacher, and Kripalu Yoga teacher, is committed to the health and empowerment of children. everykidsyoga.com

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PROGRAMS with MISSY BROWN JUNE 16–18 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

AUGUST 11–13 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Deep Play for Kids

Labor Day Weekend

BUILDING AND BONDING

SEPTEMBER 1–4 FRIDAY–MONDAY

FOR kids ages 6–12.

Deep Play for Kids

Calling all kids! Take part in fun activities that combine playfulness with mindfulness. Discover who you are, practice thoughtful connection, and have a blast as you • Find your inner voice by playing games that build community and cultivate healthy relationships with new friends • Create an obstacle course that symbolizes real-life challenges, then brainstorm ways to overcome those challenges

MANDALAS AND MEMORIES FOR kids ages 6–12.

Dive right into the joy of play in a program overflowing with experiences that build confidence and community, and encourage exploration into your limitless potential. In this program, you • Learn about the power of positive thinking and setting intentions

• Express yourself exactly as you are

• Discover “time-in” through the creation and use of “meditation jars” each child can bring home

• Draw or write in a journal to document your experience

• Explore the outdoors as you gather beautiful objects to build a giant mandala

• Explore the outdoors as you gather beautiful objects to build a labyrinth

• Use yoga props to create “Meditation Island,” a place to go when you need to take a few breaths, write, draw, or chill

• Practice simple yoga movements, breathing, relaxation techniques, and guided visualization.

Parents, being at Kripalu with your child creates a foundation for exploring health and wellness together. This program supports children in learning the best ways to navigate through life.

TUITION $200, + children’s housing; call for rates.

• Practice simple yoga movements, breathing, relaxation techniques, and guided visualization.

Parents, this program supports kids in learning the best ways to navigate through life. Being at Kripalu with your child creates a foundation to explore health and wellness together.

TUITION $200 (August) or $240 (September) + children’s housing; call for rates.

MISSY BROWN, E-RYT, is an experienced yoga teacher and wellness educator who combines her love of children and yoga in age-appropriate programs for kids. deepplayforkids.com

Unless otherwise noted, children in these programs must be accompanied at Kripalu by a parent or guardian who is registered for a program or Kripalu R&R. Kids meet for morning and afternoon sessions, while parents are in their programs. Families are together at mealtimes, in the evenings, and overnight.

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AUGUST 11–13 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Intimacy as a Spiritual Path A RETREAT FOR COUPLES

Richard Borofsky and Antra Kalnins Borofsky FOR all couples.

JULY 28–30 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

GETTING the LOVE YOU WANT A WORKSHOP FOR COUPLES

HARVILLE HENDRIX and HELEN LAKELLY HUNT FOR all couples.

Take your relationship to the next level in a program based on the bestselling book Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples. This book has helped hundreds of thousands of people experience the profound connection that heals childhood and relational wounds, activates undeveloped potential, and spurs spiritual growth.

Harville Hendrix and his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, guide you and your partner toward deeper connection and wholeness using Imago Relationship Therapy, a transformational approach that allows you to experience new levels of safety and appreciation. Restoring passion and hope to your relationship, Imago brings you healing, wholeness, and spiritual growth.

NOTE Tuition includes a manual. This program has an intensive schedule with extended hours. It might be difficult to participate in other Kripalu events or Healing Arts services.

TUITION $355 + room & meals; p. 108

HARVILLE HENDRIX, PHD, and HELEN LAKELLY HUNT, PHD, founded Imago Relationships International and are the coauthors of 10 books, including three New York Times best-sellers. harvilleandhelen.com

Love is the ultimate renewable resource.

To be sustainable, the quality of love in an intimate partnership must continually evolve, becoming more precise, mindful, compassionate, and wise—eventually blossoming into a spiritual path. Explore six ways to grow your intimate partnership into a spiritual practice: • Learn to abide timelessly together in the present • Open to receive and give abundant, unconditional, omnipresent love • Expand compassion to include all that is vulnerable or unloved in yourself and your partner • Rejoice in the grace of sexuality • Meet each other in humility, truth, and mutuality to foster a bond that transcends differences • See and speak to each other as the Beloved Grow your love into a deeper, more spiritual connection in a program that includes couple mindfulness practices, dialogue, humor, music, and group sharing.

TUITION $230 + room & meals; p. 108

RICHARD BOROFSKY, EDD, and ANTRA KALNINS BOROFSKY, EDM, have been a couple for 46 years. Founders and directors of the Center for the Study of Relationship in Cambridge, Massachusetts, they provide couples therapy and workshops on the practice of relationship. beingtogether.com

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AUGUST 20–25 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Family Constellations and the Hidden Dynamics of Intergenerational Pain PERMISSION TO THRIVE

Suzi Tucker FOR everyone.

Discover how the deepest dilemmas in your family can be transformed into your greatest assets.

Family Constellation work is a threedimensional process that allows you to witness and experience two life-changing perspectives. First, the work enables you to identify the deeply embedded patterns in your family of origin and ancestral community that inform your current life. Second, and most profound, the Family Constellation process shows you ways to break old contracts and gather life-affirming new resources to move forward.

Open into a more joyful life as you explore how the central choices you make now may be linked to historical events in your family.

Take this opportunity to release what isn’t yours, retrieve the gifts you’ve left behind, and expand the field of your greatest potential.

TUITION $350 + room & meals; p. 108

SUZI TUCKER, author of Gather Enough Fireflies and a leading figure in Family Constellations, has created a unique approach to claiming a “right to write.” suzitucker.com

Healing the Scars of War with the Power of Yoga My time in the US Armed Forces left me with physical and emotional scars, causing deep psychological pain over the years. After I was diagnosed with PTSD, I found myself on the yoga mat as part of my longterm treatment. Over time, yoga helped me to address my fears, anxieties, and anger, as well as feelings of insecurity and passiveaggressive behaviors. I began to feel the joys in life once more.

I will never forget my first Kripalu Yoga class. The instructor spoke of exploring feelings and sensations, and moving the body in mindful ways. It was those classes that brought me to Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training. As I dove deeply into the teaching methods, I experienced immediate benefits.

I became more aware of the mind-body connection—and I knew right away that this could help others who have the same feeling of disconnection that I had. Today, I am a Kripalu Yoga teacher, and my students include military veterans recovering from experiences like mine.

I’m excited and grateful to share this powerful healing practice with others.

— Michael R., Bloomfield, Connecticut

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JUNE 2–4 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Self-Discovery

A Woman’s Sacred Journey DISCOVERING YOUR SOUL’S WISDOM, PURPOSE, AND PATH

Michele C. Tamaren and Bette J. Freedson FOR women. CE credits.

Who am I? Why was I born? What am I meant to do? How will I do it? Your soul knows the answers to these questions and you can open to its whispers and wisdom. Come explore your soul’s essence, your heart call, and the next steps along your sacred journey to Self.

The research-based science of Positive Psychology, in concert with intuitive awareness and spiritual guidance, offers tools to help you discover your unique destiny.

In this program, science and spirit dance through teachings, reflection, movement, music, laughter, and more. Michele C. Tamaren and Bette J. Freedson are your guides as you uncover your true nature and stride onto your authentic path to see, shine, and share your soul’s light.

TUITION $220 + room & meals; p. 108

MICHELE C. TAMAREN, MA, an inspirational speaker, life coach, and spiritual director specializing in Positive Psychology, is author of ExtraOrdinary: An End of Life Story Without End. micheletamaren.com

BETTE J. FREEDSON, LCSW, is a psychotherapist focusing on the development of intuition and the author of Soul Mothers’ Wisdom: Seven Insights for the Single Mother. bettefreedson.com

JUNE 2–4 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Beyond Past Lives HEALING AND TRANSFORMATION THROUGH PAST-LIFE REGRESSION

Mira Kelley FOR everyone.

RECOMMENDED READING Mira Kelley, Beyond Past Lives.

NOTE Bring a journal.

TUITION $230 + room & meals; p. 108

MIRA KELLEY

You might also be interested in…

Yoga and Body Confidence p. 100 Family Constellations and the Hidden Dynamics of Intergenerational Pain p. 65 Positive Psychology Coaching p. 60

is a worldrenowned expert on pastlife regression, a storyteller, and the best-selling author of Beyond Past Lives. mirakelley.com

Transform your health and relationships and gain clarity on your life purpose through the powerful process of past-life regression. This in-depth exploration of your past, parallel, and future life experiences empowers you to understand and embrace your soul lessons, shift your consciousness, and create change. Learn to • Connect with your higher self • Receive guidance • Open up to emotional and physical healing.

This engaging program features meditations, immersive regression sessions, discussions, personal sharing from Mira Kelley, and stories from her clients about their life-altering discoveries. Whether you have prior experience with pastlife regression or are a newly curious adventurer, you can learn who you have been, receive healing and answers for present challenges, and create your greatest future potential. Return home transformed, empowered, inspired, and connected with the highest aspects of your soul.

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PROGRAMS with RAPHAEL CUSHNIR JUNE 9–11 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

The One Thing Holding You Back UNLEASHING THE POWER OF EMOTIONAL CONNECTION Are you stuck? Are you ready to tap into your full potential? A reservoir of unfelt emotion might be what’s in the way. Resisting this emotion can sabotage prayer, affirmations, and other personal growth techniques. Finding and feeling this emotion infuses your mission with Spirit and makes you truly unstoppable.

Raphael Cushnir has pioneered a method of emotional connection that everyone can master in just one weekend. Grounded in contemporary neuroscience and the ancient wisdom traditions, Raphael’s method brings immediate and lasting results. Use it to overcome lifelong struggles with everything from career, self-esteem, and relationships to weight and addiction.

Designed to help you fall in love with every moment of your life, this program leads to the personal accomplishment you’ve longed for, and liberates you to serve the world.

TUITION $245 + room & meals; p. 108

JUNE 4–9 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Quarter-Life Calling CREATING AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE IN YOUR 20s

JUNE 11–16 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Coby Kozlowski

Total Immersion for Total Transformation

FOR adults ages 20–29.

Get ready for five intense days of ecstatic rebirth. Raphael Cushnir creates a safe and gentle environment in which to explore emotional-release work, journaling, small-group exercises, meditation, movement, yoga, chant, collage, subtle-energy practices, and mind-heart attunements.

This program is for you if you are 100 percent willing to • Determine the aspects of your life that are calling for healing and change • Begin that healing and change on the very first day of the program

Your 20s can be a time of possibility, inspiration, and the discovery of your deepest values and truths. This intensive is designed for young adults interested in cultivating an authentic life of meaning and purpose. Surrounded by a community of peers who share your quest for meaning, and guided by an expert facilitator, you embark on a journey to create the life your soul is calling for.

• Tap into the leader you can be in your own life.

• Explore yoga and meditation as tools for personal empowerment.

• Commit to an action plan for its completion

• Tune into your inner knowing for decision making.

• Take a giant leap forward in consciousness

• Find strength amid doubt and insecurity.

• Help create and support a small, like-minded community committed to the same leap.

• Immerse yourself in nature and ceremony.

Design a unique transformational experience all your own and take home a practical road map for real-life integration, plus benefits you’ll experience immediately and for the rest of your life.

TUITION $355 + room & meals; p. 108

RAPHAEL CUSHNIR is an author who lectures and coaches worldwide.

His books include The One Thing Holding You Back and Surfing Your Inner Sea. cushnir.com

• Learn to build a life based on your inherent wisdom.

This revolutionary program sets the stage for an extraordinary life.

NOTE This program has extended hours that might make it difficult to participate in other Kripalu activities or receive Healing Arts services.

Bring clothes for yoga and walking outdoors, if weather allows. Kripalu scholarships are available for this program; visit kripalu.org/scholarships.

TUITION $255 + room & meals; p. 108

⊕⊕COMBINE THESE PROGRAMS for a 10 percent tuition discount for each program.

COBY KOZLOWSKI, MA, E-RYT, is a faculty member for the Kripalu School of Yoga and founder of Karma Yoga Leadership Intensive™. cobyk.com

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JUNE 4–7 SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY

Navigating a Graceful Transition YOUR NEW BEST LIFE

Maria Sirois and Karlee Fain FOR everyone. CE credits.

You’ve felt the itch to make a transition in your career, relationships, or health. But where do you start? As you enter a new phase in your life, how do you navigate the uncharted territory of your calling without slipping back into old patterns or turning the good things in your life upside down?

JUNE 16–18 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

OUR FATHERS, OURSELVES AN INTERSPIRITUAL FATHERS’ DAY WORKSHOP

Rabbi David Ingber FOR everyone.

Celebrate Father’s Day and fatherhood with Rabbi David Ingber, using text, story, meditation, and song to access the wisdom of the Jewish tradition and illuminate this vital area of family life.

EVENING EVENT

TUITION $290 + room & meals; p. 108

MARIA SIROIS, PSYD, a psy-

Concert with Rabbi David Ingber and Friends

chologist and seminar leader, is an international expert in the fields of resilience and flourishing, and is known for her wisdom, authenticity, and humor.

SATURDAY, JUNE 17 7:30 PM

mariasirois.com

Free for in-house guests, no general Patriarchy, or the Sacred Father, public tickets available. is a core element in all spiritual and religious systems. In Jewish mysticism, Chochmah, or sacred wisdom, is associated with Abba, or father. Drawing from Judaism, Taoism, Hinduism, Sufism, and the yogic tradition, Rabbi David explores how masculine energies and the power of healthy patriarchy are essential components of an integrated, evolved human life.

Join in this interspiritual journey to the heart of what fatherhood, family, healing, and holy living are all about.

NOTE Please plan to arrive on Friday in time for a shared Shabbat dinner in our program room at 6:30 pm.

TUITION $230 + room & meals; p. 108

RABBI DAVID INGBER is the founder and spiritual director of Romemu in New York City. He is direct disciple and lineage holder in Reb Zalman’s lineage. romemu.org

JUNE 16–18 FRIDAY–SUNDAY DEEP PLAY FOR KIDS: BUILDING AND BONDING Missy Brown p. 63

Bring the family!

Get ready for a program that offers clarity, focus, and the tools to unlock your deepest passion and most authentic self. Maria Sirois and Karlee Fain blend soul with science, integrating techniques and practices based on research from Positive Psychology and life coaching.

Using mindfulness and yoga practice, rediscover the wisdom you already carry within you and return home with a road map for the rest of your life.

KARLEE FAIN is a celebrity health and life coach, author, and speaker who helps her clients break through their health, lifestyle, and career challenges. everybodythrive.com

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JUNE 18–23 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Archetypal Dreamwork as a Path for Transformation

Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone and Other Acts of Courage

Marc Bregman and Christa Lancaster FOR everyone.

Dreams don’t lie—they hold the truth about ourselves. They are clever, funny, wise, and brilliant in showing all the ways that we defend against the truth. What if we could decipher the messages in our dreams? What if we could recognize the figures in our sleeping state as spiritual teachers and healers?

Archetypal Dreamwork helps you understand how dreams work to unlock the buried treasure of your feelings and beliefs. This approach offers support to dismantle your familiar ego defenses, gain insights into old patterns, and touch a deeper, more knowing part of you. Learn the language of your soul so that you can follow your dreams into a rich storehouse of love and grace, humor and joy, peace and hope.

TUITION $330 + room & meals; p. 108

MARC BREGMAN founded

CHRISTA LANCASTER has a

Archetypal Dreamwork 45 years ago. His books include Flesh Off the Bone: Dream Descent through Past-Life Trauma, coauthored with Christa Lancaster.

worldwide Archetypal Dreamwork practice, coteaching online classes and groups along with her husband, Marc Bregman. northofeden.com

northofeden.com

Lisa Loustaunau FOR everyone.

Empower yourself to make the changes that your heart and soul are crying out for. Open to the abundance and aliveness beyond your comfort zone by facing the fears and misconceptions that keep you from following your heart’s desire.

This intimate experiential program creates a supportive container in which to take emotional risks. Core Energetics body-centered techniques are used to release the life force trapped behind emotional and physical blocks and enhance your experience of authentic presence, creativity, and empowerment.

Come find your truth, open your heart, and say yes to your deepest longing.

TUITION $431 + room & meals; p. 108

JUNE 16–18 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Emotional Mindfulness, Connection, and Healing BEFRIENDING THE WISDOM AND POWER OF YOUR EMOTIONS

Ronald J. Frederick and Timothy J. Beyer

LISA LOUSTAUNAU, MFA, CCEP, is director of education at the Institute of Core Energetics and a process facilitator and teacher of body psychotherapy worldwide. lisaloustaunau.com

FOR everyone. CE credits.

Emotions help you feel alive, meet life’s challenges, enrich your relationships, and heal from emotional wounds. Learn how to tap into and get the most out of your emotions and be fully present with yourself and others in this experiential program grounded in contemporary neuroscience and drawn from a variety of psychotherapeutic approaches.

Ronald J. Frederick and Timothy J. Beyer teach a proven, four-step approach to cultivating emotional mindfulness that helps you • Recognize the ways you unknowingly avoid or cut yourself off from your emotional power • Tame anxiety and fear and feel more in control • Connect with your true emotions and make use of their inherent resources • Authentically express yourself and feel more connected and receptive to others.

Return home with tools that enable you to break free from old patterns, open your heart, and transform your life.

TUITION $232 + room & meals; p. 108

RONALD J. FREDERICK, PHD, is

TIMOTHY J. BEYER, PHD, is

a psychologist, author of Living Like You Mean It, and cofounder of the Center for Courageous Living.

cofounder of the Center for Courageous Living in Beverly Hills, California. His passion lies in helping others achieve their goals and realize their best life. cfcliving.com

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JUNE 18–23 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Using the Zodiac as a Guide to Wellness YOUR BODY AND THE STARS

Stephanie Marango and Rebecca Gordon

NOTE See the Kripalu website for required reading and other important information.

TUITION $350+ room & meals; p. 108

FOR everyone.

Discover your personal connection to the cosmos and how to use your natal chart to express your most authentic, vibrant self.

From head (Aries) to feet (Pisces), the entire zodiac lives within you, forming a blueprint of innate strengths and susceptibilities, as well as a guide to lifestyle practices that can nourish and enliven you.

STEPHANIE MARANGO, MD, RYT, a graduate of Stanford University and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is a physician and educator specializing in bio-energy medicine based in New York. imbodyment.com

Along with an in-depth exploration of astrological wisdom and history, this program includes

JUNE 23–25 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

A New Way of Being WOMEN’S SELF-RENEWAL RETREAT

Renée Peterson Trudeau

• Custom-tailored tools to access the energies of the zodiac and support well-being

REBECCA GORDON, a renowned New York City astrologer, author, and columnist at Harper’s Bazaar, helps people align with their life path and purpose. mypathastrology.com

• Lectures, breakout sessions, movement, meditation, and outdoor experiences • Activities aligned with zodiac signs, including sacred dance (Scorpio), a nature walk (Taurus), and relaxing by the lake (Pisces).

Join physician Stephanie Marango and astrologer Rebecca Gordon for an intimate dialogue about your body, the stars, and yourself.

FOR women of all ages and life stages.

Do you long to reconnect with who you are? Are you in the midst of a transition?

Do you crave quiet reflection, rest, and renewal? Renée Peterson Trudeau has designed a deeply restorative retreat for women. Tap into the transformative power of self-care to nourish body and soul. Integrate self-renewal strategies into daily life as you learn to

JUNE 23–25 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Abandonment to Healing OVERCOME YOUR PATTERNS OF SELF-SABOTAGE

Susan Anderson FOR everyone. CE credits.

• Explore your heart’s desire and life purpose • Experience self-care as spiritual practice • Tap into self-compassion and selfacceptance • Relax and reconnect with your needs, desires, and your body’s natural rhythms • Meditation for peace and harmony • Balance yin/yang energy and access your feminine power.

Enjoy authentic connection with likeminded women as you embrace a new way of being and experience greater freedom and joy.

TUITION $310 + room & meals; p. 108

RECOMMENDED READING See the Kripalu website.

TUITION $220 + room & meals; p. 108

SUSAN ANDERSON has devoted 30 years of clinical experience and groundbreaking research to helping people resolve abandonment wounds and overcome self-sabotage. abandonment.net

Abandonment is a primal fear and can be the underlying cause of emotional distress and self-sabotage. In this program, psychotherapist and author Susan Anderson shares powerful mind-body exercises that act like physical therapy for the brain to help you • Heal primal abandonment • Overcome patterns of abandoholism (being attracted to the unavailable) • Reverse self-abandonment, the primary source of selfdefeating patterns • Accept being loved and stop letting insecurity and neediness disrupt your relationships • Overcome procrastination, avoidance, inertia, and other Outer Child patterns • Build your career, self-esteem, confidence, and social life • Trim excess emotional weight, clutter, debt, and anxiety

RENÉE PETERSON TRUDEAU is an

• Bounce back from depression and low energy.

internationally recognized life-balance coach, president of Career Strategists, and author of The Mother’s Guide to Self-Renewal.

Susan excels at creating safe, open, life-changing processes within groups. Professionals will learn abandonment recovery techniques to take back to their clients.

reneetrudeau.com

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NARRATIVE MEDICINE A CUTTING-EDGE APPROACH TO HEALTHCARE special appearance by New York Poet Laureate Marie Howe FOR caregivers, doctors, nurses, yoga teachers, writers, and anyone interested in personal narrative as a healing path to recovery. CE and CME credits pending.

Unlock the power of personal storytelling and compassionate listening to amplify the healing process. This trailblazing program is a full-body and full-spirit immersion with literary lions, innovative medical practitioners, spiritual leaders, and yoga teachers.

Narrative Medicine is an important and expanding new field that recognizes the value of storytelling in the healing path. The goal of this program is to create an inspired, rich, and multidisciplinary experience for everyone on a healing or caregiving trajectory. Immerse yourself in morning talks, afternoon writing groups, and many opportunities to practice yoga, work in groups, and contemplate in nature.

This one-of-a-kind program includes both hands-on techniques for incorporating narrative practices into a clinical setting and transformative experiences for individuals on their own healing journey, along with • Strong reflective and creative writing practices • Hands-on narrative and listening tools for clinical practice • Meditation, breathing, and yoga practices to integrate into self-care and clinical care • Cutting-edge research and empirical data on narrative medicine • Understanding the spiritual role of storyteller and listener • Meaningful networking opportunities and the chance for ongoing community building • Access to leading experts and prominent publishing professionals.

Learn the tools and techniques of this emerging field from a variety of experts, curated and moderated by Lisa Weinert.

TUITION $550 + room & meals; p. 108 MODERATOR

LISA WEINERT, E-RYT 200, founder of Lisa Weinert Consulting, curates workshops on yoga and writing and is certified in both restorative and therapeutic yoga.

PRESENTATIONS FROM ACCLAIMED AUTHORS, DOCTORS, AND YOGIS MARIE HOWE,

Illustration by Alison Fox.

author of four volumes of poetry, served as Poet Laureate of New York State from 2012–2014.

NANCY SLONIM ARONIE, author of Writing from the Heart, has been a commentator for National Public Radio.

RITA CHARON, MD, PHD, is executive director of the Narrative Medicine program at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons.

JUDITH HANNAN is the author of a memoir on discovery and transformation during her daughter’s cancer treatment and transition into survival.

REV. JACQUELINE J. LEWIS, PHD, is an author, activist, and senior minister of Middle Collegiate Church in Manhattan.

LISA B. NELSON, MD, is Kripalu’s Director of Medical Education. She also serves as medical director of the Nutrition Center.

STEPHEN COPE, MSW, is a psychotherapist, national bestselling author, and former Director of the Kripalu Institute for Extraordinary Living.

NELLIE HERMANN, MFA, is an author and creative director of the Narrative Medicine program at Columbia University.

JILLIAN PRANSKY, E-RYT 500, is director of Restorative Therapeutic Yoga teacher training for YogaWorks.

PAUL W. MORRIS is a writer and serves as vice president of programs and outreach at the Authors Guild.

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JUNE 23–25 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Developing Your Highest Self MAKING THE SPIRITUAL LIFE REAL AND PERSONAL

JULY 16–20 SUNDAY–THURSDAY

Beyond Diversity 101

Thomas Moore

Niyonu Spann, Lisa Graustein, Kevin D. Greene, and Liana Johannaber

FOR everyone.

FOR everyone.

Thomas Moore has been breaking through boundaries for years in his writing and teaching. Now he takes spiritual life a step forward in its evolution, showing you how to cultivate concrete ways to transcend limits and attain your highest self.

If you aspire to be vibrant, honest, bold, and transformative, and to activate greater wholeness in your life and the world, Beyond Diversity 101™ is the place to start. This program provides tools and heart-centered connections to sustain and empower you in making the changes our world so desperately needs. Going beyond guilt, anger, or blame, these four talented presenters offer sessions that help you

In this program, explore how you can use the arts, nature, service, a contemplative lifestyle, intuition, divination, creativity, dreams, and synchronicities to reach as high as possible in your life. The world may tempt you to be materialistic or limited in your aspirations, but here you discover that you are part angel, and that the divine spark burns inside you.

TUITION $255 + room & meals; p. 108

THOMAS MOORE, PHD, author of Care of the Soul and 25 other books on spirituality and depth psychology, is also an international lecturer and psychotherapist. careofthesoul.net

• Understand the dynamics of power differences • Develop skills in diagnosing and addressing patterns of discrimination • Create real change, within and without • Become a courageous and heartcentered transformer

JULY 7–9 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

• Increase your ability to discern and articulate a vision and path toward justice.

Activate Your Intuitive Super Powers

Take a step toward true healing by strengthening your inner capacity to maintain progress throughout a transformative process.

FEMININE WISDOM FOR STAYING TRUE TO YOURSELF

TUITION $385 + room & meals; p. 108

Christine Arylo FOR women.

Imagine having access to a deep inner well of wisdom that gave you the “super power” to step into uncertainty, move beyond your comfort zone, and follow the wisdom of your heart.

When facing choices and changes regarding life, family, health, and career, if you want to stay true to yourself and expand into new possibilities, you need a strong connection to your intuition.

In a program dedicated to deepening your relationship to your innate feminine wisdom, you learn to • Access intuition • Discern between self-sabotaging choices made from fear and self-empowering actions taken from faith • Transform self-doubt and fear into confidence and clarity • Create a stronger connection and trust in your Divine Guidance System—and apply it to the choices you are making right now in your life.

TUITION $255 + room & meals; p. 108

CHRISTINE ARYLO, spiritual catalyst and best-selling author, is on a mission to create a new reality for women based on feminine power, freedom, and self-love. christinearylo.com

NIYONU SPANN brings more than 25 years as an organization development practitioner focused on root-level transformation for individuals, organizations, and communities.

LISA GRAUSTEIN first attended Beyond Diversity 101™ in 2003, and it transformed her work as a public school teacher and gay rights activist.

KEVIN D. GREENE is a qigong practitioner and teacher, a priest in the Yoruba tradition, and a certified massage therapist.

LIANA JOHANNABER holds a master’s degree in dance/movement therapy and clinical mentalhealth counseling and guides personal transformation through movement.

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JULY 28–30 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Remembering Loved Ones, Healing Your Heart Allison Gilbert FOR everyone.

Taking intentional steps to remember your loved ones is a key to healing grief.

Honoring family and friends who have died and proactively keeping them present in your life can help you fare better emotionally after a loss. It also opens doors to a more creative, connected, and integrated life.

Through dialogue, writing exercises, interactive activities, and creative process, this empowering program explores new and uplifting ways to celebrate the family and friends you never want to forget.

Embark on a life-affirming journey of wholeness and healing that includes opportunities to build relationships with other participants while recognizing and honoring each other’s losses.

TUITION $235 + room & meals; p. 108

ALLISON GILBERT, one of the most influential writers on grief and resilience, is author of Passed and Present: Keeping Memories of Loved Ones Alive. allisongilbert.com

JULY 21–23 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

THE UNIVERSE HAS YOUR BACK TRANSFORMING FEAR TO FAITH

GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN FOR everyone.

Transform fear into faith, and live a divinely guided life. Gabrielle Bernstein leads you in releasing the blocks to what you long for most: happiness, security, and clear direction. The lessons in this program help you relinquish the need to control, so you can relax into a sense of certainty and freedom. When you follow this path, you begin to feel a surge of energy and love move through you. Gabrielle says that faith and joy “must be our mission. The happiness, safety, and security we long for lies in our commitment to love.”

Learn how to find strength when you are down, synchronicity and support when you feel lost, safety in the face of uncertainty, and joy when you are in pain. Practice the secrets Gabrielle reveals to unleash your power, stop chasing life, and truly live—knowing that the universe always has your back.

TUITION $355 + room & meals; p. 108

GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN, named “a new thought leader” by Oprah Winfrey, is an international speaker, Kundalini Yoga teacher, and best-selling author of May Cause Miracles and Miracles Now. gabbybernstein.com

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AUGUST 6–11 SUNDAY–FRIDAY JULY 28–30 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Clear Home, Clear Heart

Attuning to the Body Current

ENERGY CLEARING FOR PEOPLE AND PLACES

Jean Haner

SACRED SOUND, ECSTATIC CHANT, AND EMBODIED MOVEMENT

FOR everyone.

Learn the art of clearing energy for yourself, other people, and all the spaces you inhabit.

Intuitive empath Jean Haner teaches gentle yet powerful ways to release old, limiting patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior that can keep you stuck in life. Discover how to clear stagnant or negative energy in your home and office to create a healthy, vibrant, and nourishing environment.

Develop and deepen your intuitive skills, create new possibilities in life, and connect to your sacred sense of purpose. Take home meaningful energy-clearing tools that you can put to immediate use personally and professionally.

This one-of-a-kind program offers clearing at a powerful level that gives you liftoff in life.

Scott and Shanti Medina FOR everyone.

TUITION $695 + room & meals; p. 108

JEAN HANER has worked in the field of subtle energy for 30 years and is the author of the book Clear Home, Clear Heart. jeanhaner.com

Journey into self-discovery by attuning to your Body Current® intelligence, the present-moment pathway of innate wisdom and sensory communication between the mind, body, and spirit.

Through awareness, intention, and repetition, new pathways form in the brain/body neural map to mitigate stress, anxiety, and even chronic pain.

Enjoy live-music sessions that explore somatic principles as you • Learn simple, effective body-centered practices and yoga therapy techniques designed to imprint new neural pathways • Experience shifting and uplifting your neurobiology through self-realization, breathwork, sacred soundscapes, sound formulas, and live SoMAntra chanting

AUGUST 25–27 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

A Women’s Spiritual Retreat LEARNING HOW TO LOVE OURSELVES

Joan Borysenko and Karen Drucker FOR women. CE credits pending.

Learning to love ourselves is both a psychological and a spiritual journey. Self-judgment and the belief that something is wrong with us can translate into anxiety, depression, addiction, and burnout.

TUITION $250 + room & meals; p. 108

JOAN BORYSENKO, PHD, is a Harvard Medical School–trained biologist, a licensed psychologist, a New York Times best-selling author, and a pioneer in mind-body medicine. joanborysenko.com KAREN DRUCKER, a master of communicating presence and spirituality through music, has recorded 19 CDs of inspirational music and is author of Let Go of the Shore. karendrucker.com

Whether this is your first time with Joan Borysenko and Karen Drucker, or you’ve been to this program before, this retreat is as unique each time as the people who participate. Step into the radiance of who you really are and • Work with common mental habits at a spiritual level • Engage with music that inspires, heals, and reprograms your emotional DNA • Gain insight into patterns that keep you from experiencing your full potential • Transform negative emotions and limiting beliefs into spiritual energy • Practice body-based inquiry, presentcentered awareness, and delightfully decadent self-care • Enjoy nature, nourishing food, and soul friends • Sing, laugh, and return home with a “faith-lift”!

• Ignite and illuminate your true nature, shedding that which is ready to be released and transformed through powerful neurosculpting brain-training meditations.

RECOMMENDED LISTENING Scott and Shanti Medina, SoMAntra: Where Soma and Mantra Are One (double CD).

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SCOTT and SHANTI MEDINA, CNSF, CYT, are a dynamic husband-and-wife duo from Boulder, Colorado, on a mission to uplift humanity by empowering self-realization. energizeshanti.com

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Developing Your Intuitive Mind Thomas John FOR everyone.

Learn the tips, tricks, and tools needed to become more intuitive in all areas of your life. If you’ve ever thought of someone just before they called or known something was going to happen before it did, you experienced a moment of intuition.

Thomas John teaches you to cultivate and use that intuition and discover how to • Ground and protect yourself in daily life so that you aren’t exposed to unwanted energies • See your aura and the auras of others • Connect with departed loved ones and understand the dynamics of receiving messages from them • Recognize signs and symbols from the Other Side • Communicate with your higher self.

Thomas will also demonstrate his ability to connect with spirits and give readings to some participants.

TUITION $280 + room & meals; p. 108

THOMAS JOHN is a global psychic sensation who has wowed audiences across the world with his impressively accurate messages from the Other Side. mediumthomas.com

AUGUST 25–27 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Navigating Change CONSCIOUS ENDINGS, VISIONARY BEGINNINGS

Christine Warren Often called life-changing, this program offers a transformational step-by-step journey through Christine Warren’s Four Phases of Change. As outgrown identities, jobs, or relationships fall away, you discover a new spiritual depth and personal empowerment—sourcing your new life with inner vision, soulful inspiration, and true calling. Each session blends dynamic teachings and potent personal practices with rich experiential work.

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AUGUST 11–13 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Playing the Matrix and Getting What You (Really) Want MIKE DOOLEY FOR everyone.

Discover how conscious creation and deliberate living can spark major life changes.

Some people have described attending this event as the best decision of their lives.

Countless others have said it changed everything—from perspectives, to game plans, to vastly improved happiness. At the end of the program, you take home your own private, customized road map, complete with simple, essential action steps to perform in the days, weeks, and months ahead.

Even if you’re not sure yet what you really want in life, come learn exactly what to do to find your niche, and get excited about life again. You deserve everything your heart desires! Let Mike Dooley show you how powerful you are and how to make the life you dream of a reality.

NOTE See the Kripalu website for more information.

TUITION $375 + room & meals; p. 108

MIKE DOOLEY is the author of inspirational books published in 25 languages, and was a featured teacher in the international phenomenon The Secret. tut.com

Learn to • Complete your past with power and wholeness through Conscious Endings • Traverse the in-between time of The Mystery, where old forms have died and new ones have not yet been born • Discover your inspired Being Vision, the natural expression of your deepest heart and soul • Manifest a new outer expression for your life through spiritual alignment and metaphysics.

This program also includes an inspiring outdoor vision quest with ceremony, solo time, and sacred circle.

TUITION $240 + room & meals; p. 108

CHRISTINE WARREN, a spiritual life coach and speaker, was a founding member of Kripalu and has taught transformational workshops nationally for 40 years. She is the author of Navigating Change: Conscious Endings, Visionary Beginnings. christinewarrenworkshops.com

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Labor Day Weekend SEPTEMBER 1–4 FRIDAY–MONDAY

Fearless Living LIVE THE LIFE YOUR SOUL INTENDED

Rhonda Britten FOR everyone.

Imagine waking up each day grateful for being who you are, feeling loved, appreciated, and passionate. Imagine having the courage to be fully self-expressed. Imagine…

What’s the only thing standing in your way? Fear of failure? Fear of not being good enough? Fear thwarts your ability to express your purpose, give and receive love, and realize your dreams.

A world-renowned expert on fear and fearlessness, Rhonda Britten supports you in waking up to who you were meant to be and gives you tools to make choices from freedom instead of unconscious, fearbased thoughts, feelings, and actions.

AUGUST 18–20 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

NAVIGATING THE STORM FINDING PEACE AND PURPOSE IN UNCERTAIN TIMES

MARTHA BECK FOR everyone.

Explore new ways to live authentically, release negative behavior patterns, and go deeper into yourself to experience a never-ending source of comfort and compassion. Find peace and purpose in a program that teaches you how to • Bring the energy of stillness into your “real world” life • Release the “tameness” of socialization that holds you back from living freely • Find your wild self, the one who has always been guiding you toward your optimal life path • Tap into limitless resources of power, creativity, and joy • Use your wild mind to invent unprecedented solutions to the practical problems in your current life situation.

Return home ready to navigate uncharted territory by bringing the skills and tools you learn here into every aspect of your life.

TUITION $395 + room & meals; p. 108

MARTHA BECK, PHD, is an internationally renowned life coach and author. Her latest book is Diana, Herself: An Allegory of Awakening. marthabeck.com

The result? Personal power, increased wealth, closer intimate relationships, deeper self-acceptance—the list goes on.

Join Rhonda as she brings the neuroscience of fear down to earth, bringing you home to a more meaningful, fearless life.

RECOMMENDED READING Rhonda Britten, Fearless Living.

TUITION $300 + room & meals; p. 108

RHONDA BRITTEN, Emmy Award winner, repeat Oprah guest, TEDx speaker, and Huffington Post blogger, is a globally recognized expert on fear and fearlessness. fearlessliving.com

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Labor Day Weekend SEPTEMBER 1–3 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

The Opening the Heart Workshop Linda Aranda-Belliveau, Al DeGroot, Judy Kushner-DeGroot, and Don Rhoades The Opening the Heart (OTH) philosophy recognizes that true health is based on a holistic model that includes mind, body, and spirit. Drawing on a unique blend of contemporary Positive Psychology and ancient wisdom traditions, you engage the body’s natural energies in exercises designed to help you • Heal past trauma • Work through blocked emotions • Disentangle from the past and reconnect with core truths • Learn to live more fully from the heart.

Exploring deep areas of the self requires the security of a safe environment, in which participants receive respectful, loving, individual attention.

The leaders of the OTH workshop have many years of experience in providing these essentials.

TUITION $245 + room & meals; p. 108

LINDA ARANDABELLIVEAU, a counselor and wellness coach, has led Opening the Heart workshops since 1981 and specializes in holistic and integrative mental health. openingtheheartworkshop.com

AL DEGROOT coordinated Opening the Heart for years at Spring Hill Institute, and with wife Judy was a lead facilitator of the OTH for Couples.

JUDY KUSHNERDEGROOT is a senior leader of Opening the Heart and specializes in working with individuals, couples, and LGBTQ groups.

DON RHOADES, LMHC, has years of experience leading the Opening the Heart Workshop, and working with clients’ substance abuse issues in a heart-centered way.

AUGUST 25–27 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Healing a Broken Heart After a Breakup, Betrayal, or Divorce DAVID KESSLER,

DAVID KESSLER, well-known expert on healing and loss, is coauthor with Louise Hay of You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Breakup, Divorce, or Death. grief.com

Nancy Levin, and Paul Denniston FOR everyone.

Heal old relationship wounds and patterns to create new, healthy connections in a life-changing weekend with David Kessler, Nancy Levin, and Paul Denniston.

In this mind-body-spirit program, David helps you to heal from the grief of broken relationships and betrayal while identifying disruptive love patterns. Nancy aids in uncovering limiting beliefs, commitments, habits, and excuses that sabotage you so that you can consciously swap them out with what actually serves you. Nancy also teaches ways to honor self-love and self-worth as you embrace change in relationships.

Paul Denniston, creator of grief yoga, shows you how your body remembers pain and how you can use yoga to heal those wounds, move into empowerment, and release the pain you hold within your body as a result of breakups, betrayal, or divorce.

TUITION $295 + room & meals; p. 108

NANCY LEVIN is a master Integrative Coach and best-selling author of Worthy: Boost Your Self-Worth to Grow Your Net Worth and Writing For My Life. nancylevin.com

PAUL DENNISTON created Grief Yoga in the midst of a devastating breakup and teaches to groups dealing with all kinds of loss. griefyoga.com

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JUNE 2–4 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

The Katonah Yoga Method

Yoga

ASANA AS METAPHOR

Abbie Galvin and Nevine Michaan FOR all levels. CE credits.

ABBIE GALVIN is a yoga instructor who supports each student in making a rigorous effort to be grounded, grow upwards, and create their best self. yogawithabbie.com

Develop a potent and sustainable practice that transcends yoga brands and trends. In Katonah Yoga, asana is seen as metaphor. How you move through a forward bend reflects how you move forward in daily life. The goal of this practice is a healthy body and greater consciousness, using poses to explore and free up your body, mind, and life.

Katonah Yoga founder Nevine Michaan and Katonah Yoga instructor Abbie Galvin offer classical hatha yoga and breathing techniques to help you • Explore the power of practice • Develop your depths for stability

NEVINE MICHAAN

• Increase your capacity to participate in the world

has been practicing yoga for more than 35 years, using asana and pranayama for personal and communal growth and well-being.

• Create safety, sanity, resiliency, and self-actualization.

Enhance your self-understanding and learn to participate in your own well-being in this Katonah Yoga program.

TUITION $295 + room & meals; p. 108

JUNE 2–4 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Structural Yoga Remedies Lee Albert FOR all levels. CE credits.

Discover how easy it is to live pain-free, by practicing the proper yoga postures for your specific condition. When the body is in balance, many conditions, such as low-back and neck pain, sciatica, knee issues, and other ailments, simply melt away.

In this program, you learn to • Recognize the muscle imbalances that are causing dis-ease • Practice specific postures that correct imbalances • Identify postures that can aggravate pain • Eliminate issues at the root cause—don’t just treat the symptom • Take your yoga practice to a new level or begin a practice on a sound foundation • Return your body to a state of balance and grace.

Start your journey and experience what it’s like to live a pain-free life.

RECOMMENDED READING Lee Albert, Live Pain-Free without Drugs or Surgery and Yoga for Pain Relief: A New Approach to an Ancient Practice.

NOTE Tuition includes a manual.

TUITION $245 + room & meals; p. 108

LEE ALBERT, NMT, is a neuromuscular therapist and yoga instructor trained in orthopedic massage, positional therapy, and yoga therapy. leealbert.com

⊕⊕COMBINE THIS PROGRAM with Positional Therapy: Clinical Applications, June 4–9, for a 10 percent tuition discount for each program; see page 27.

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JUNE 4–9 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Shadow Yoga Basics Matt Pesendian

Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Teacher Training

FOR all levels. CE credits.

Lakshmi Voelker and Brenda Yarnold

Experience the art of harmonizing the five layers of our being: the physical, energetic, emotional, wisdom, and spirit bodies. Shadow Yoga, founded by Shandor Remete, is a unique hatha yoga system that utilizes three Standing Prelude Forms, rhythmic breathing, bandhas (energetic locks), and the system of marma (trigger points).

This weekend intensive introduces the practices, principles, and philosophy of Shadow Yoga, including • Energetic anatomy • Dasa Chalana ( joint warm-ups)

FOR anyone interested in teaching chair yoga, including healthcare professionals, yoga teachers, and yoga teachers in training. Must have at least 15 hours of yoga class experience. CE credits pending.

RECOMMENDED READING Shandor Remete, Shadow Yoga, Chaya Yoga: The Principles of Hatha Yoga.

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• Jiva Chalana (churning of the inner self)

MATT PESENDIAN is a licensed acupuncturist who has been practicing the art of hatha yoga for 25 years and qigong for 15 years.

• Basic Shadow Yoga standing postures • Uddiyana bandha (navel lock) to bring awareness to the core, train breath control, promote blood/lymph circulation, build inner heat, and tone the organs and brain.

Shadow Yoga is designed to stoke your inner fire for meditation, healing, and living your path.

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Do you have students, clients, or patients who can’t get down on the floor due to age, weight, disability, or inflexibility? Would you like to teach at hospitals, senior centers, or nursing homes? By adapting traditional yoga poses to a chair, you can bring the accessible benefits of yoga to those unable to take part in even a gentle class.

In this training, you learn to • Teach a one-hour accessible chair yoga class • Choose appropriate postures and breathing techniques according to individual needs • Discern levels of flexibility and identify precautions and contraindications

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• Use light weights in chair poses to build bone and muscle mass

Yoga Nursing

• Understand anatomy and alignment for chair asanas

A NEW MOVEMENT IN HEALTHCARE

• Incorporate meditation, relaxation, and breathing techniques to improve health and well-being.

Annette Tersigni and Kerry Churchill FOR nurse practitioners, RNs, and LPNs; no yoga experience required. CE credits.

Yoga Nursing is a revolutionary model of care that unites the wisdom of yoga with the science of nursing. A nursing adjunct therapy, different than traditional yoga, this program is practiced seated or standing, where getting on the floor is uncomfortable or is not practical.

Explore a simple prescription to transform stress, anxiety, pain, and suffering into peace, health, and wisdom for nurse and patient.

In this program, you learn how to • Present the “Sacred Remedy Rx,” including breath, movement, and rest • Apply Yoga Nursing privately or in groups in all nursing specialties, including cardiorespiratory, oncology, orthopedic, women’s health, mental health, and geriatric nursing • Assess and identify clients’ goals to create measurable results • Plan and implement remedies and evaluate outcomes

NOTE Tuition includes teaching materials.

TUITION $380 + room & meals; p. 108

LAKSHMI VOELKER, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT, YACEP, AYC Ambas-

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TUITION $255 + room & meals; p. 108

a medical yoga expert and the founder of YogaNurse®. Her mission to expand consciousness in healthcare has helped thousands relieve stress and improved patient care.

NOTE Tuition includes a manual and DVD. You do not need to be a certified yoga teacher to teach Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga, but students with little or no yoga experience must complete 15 hours of yoga classes with a certified yoga teacher prior to the training.

sador and creator of Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga™, has certified more than 1,500 teachers nationally and internationally.

• Market Yoga Nursing to expand your income.

ANNETTE TERSIGNI, RN, ERYT, is

Upon completion, you earn a certificate in Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga™.

KERRY CHURCHILL, RN, CYT, a certified YogaNurse® with more than 20 years of experience in health education, is a leader in the YogaNurse model of care. kerrychurchill.com

BRENDA YARNOLD, MA, E-RYT 200, is certified in Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga™, and has her E-LVCYTT and codirector designations.

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JUNE 11–16 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

JUNE 16–18 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Kokoro Yoga for Living with Purpose and Passion

The Pilgrimage Within

Journey into Yoga Retreat

JOURNEY TO YOUR SACRED PLACE

WOMEN, WISDOM, AND NATURE

CULTIVATE THE WARRIOR WITHIN

Peggy Cappy

Jashoda Edmunds and Brahmani Liebman

Mark and Catherine Divine

FOR all levels. CE credits.

FOR women at all levels of practice. CE credits.

Take a break from your everyday surroundings, see yourself with new eyes, and step into your best life with a powerful inner pilgrimage. Peggy Cappy walked the Camino de Santiago with her sister and returned to create a remarkable journey for everyone desiring transformation or seeking truth, love, and a deeper connection to your inner self.

Calling all maidens, mothers, and crones for a weekend of compassionate exploration!

Throughout the ages, women have used ritual and sacred ceremony to connect with nature and the source of their own being, where wisdom lies. This retreat draws upon the ancient practices of yoga, meditation, prayer, pranayama, chanting, and immersion in nature to access inner guidance.

A master at adapting yoga postures for all body types, Peggy invites you to learn individualized daily practices, including

Brahmani Liebman and Jashoda Edmunds love teaching together, interweaving Buddhist and yogic perspectives with joy and lightness. Join them to explore the Divine Feminine in a sacred circle of women. From this direct and intimate connection, gain insights that help you integrate wisdom and truth into daily life. You’ll return home with practices that can serve as allies in your ongoing journey.

FOR all levels. CE credits.

Cultivate your inner warrior with Kokoro Yoga and transform the way you view your mind, body, spirit, and yoga itself. Strongly grounded in the ancient science of yoga and other warrior traditions, the practice of Kokoro Yoga spans traditional yoga, martial arts, functional training, and valuable lessons from Mark Divine’s Unbeatable Mind lifestyle and leadership approach.

With Mark and his stepdaughter, Catherine, as your guides, you learn to embody your warrior spirit and explore yoga poses and sequencing to enrich your home practice.

This program includes breathing techniques for health, energy, and balance, as well as the fundamentals of visualization and meditation. Come practice the art of staying on track with your life vision and purpose.

TUITION $395 + room & meals; p. 108

MARK DIVINE, RYT 500, sought-after speaker, coach, author, and former Navy SEAL, makes frequent media appearances to discuss the SEAL way of life.

CATHERINE DIVINE, E-RYT 500, coauthor of Kokoro Yoga, is the head facilitator of Kokoro Yoga teacher training programs and retreats in Encinitas, California.

• Exercises designed to initiate and expand the journey within • Guided meditation and visualization • Yoga asana (no matter what your level, from absolute beginner to adept) • Focused breathing.

Encourage a family member or friend to join you on this pilgrimage. Return home not only renewed and restored, but with greater clarity about your life purpose.

NOTE This program includes an evening presentation of photos, music, and stories.

TUITION $335 + room & meals; p. 108

PEGGY CAPPY, author of Yoga for All of Us, is creator of the Yoga for the Rest of Us programs for PBS. peggycappy.com

TUITION $235 + room & meals; p. 108

JASHODA EDMUNDS, E-RYT 500, and BRAHMANI LIEBMAN, MSED, E-RYT500, are cocreators of Journey into Yoga School of Yoga & Meditation teacher trainings, workshops, and retreats, and serve on the Kripalu School of Yoga faculty. journeyintoyoga.com

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JUNE 18–23 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Yoga Warriors Teacher Training

Functional Yoga

Dharma Richards

JJ Gormley

FOR yoga students with min. 6 months

FOR all levels.

experience.

JUNE 16–18 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Therapeutic Chair Yoga Terry Roth Schaff FOR people with mobility issues.

Experience Therapeutic Chair Yoga (TCY), an alternative yoga practice for everyone who wants an active yoga practice but has difficulty getting up and down from the floor. Using chairs as props for seated and standing yoga postures, TCY can release pinched nerves, relieve back pain, and build bone density.

TCY is a fun, challenging, and safe practice built on a tradition of alignment-based yoga. It adapts classic poses to meet the needs of people living with osteoarthritis, joint replacements, spinal stenosis, herniated disks, degenerative disk disease, SI joint derangement, piriformis syndrome, and sciatica. Popular with people of all ages, TCY is an effective way to address arthritis; improve posture, coordination, and balance; reduce anxiety and tension; and make you stronger and more flexible.

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TERRY ROTH SCHAFF, E-RYT, IAYT-certified yoga therapist, works with muscular/skeletal and neurological conditions. Her work has been featured in Yoga Therapy Today. schaffyogatherapy.com

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Yoga Warriors is a practice specifically designed to assist military and civilian communities in coping with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as well as the unique daily stresses to which military members are exposed. The classes are also open to those from other high-stress environments, such as first responders, caregivers, and family members of those affected.

Because yoga directly addresses the fightor-flight response at the heart of PTSD, regular practice helps veterans retrain that response to increase resilience and reduce symptoms. Other benefits include • The release and integration of stored emotional issues • Unfreezing bad memories and creating new bodily memories • Relaxation, self-acceptance, and life balance • Feelings of joy and personal empowerment.

Learn to teach evidence-based yoga and mindfulness practices that alleviate symptoms of combat stress and PTSD. RECOMMENDED READING Extensive recommended reading and other resources are included in the Yoga Warriors Manual.

NOTE Tuition includes manual; see the Kripalu website for certification information.

A HEALTH-ORIENTED APPROACH

Gain a new perspective on chronic health issues—your own, or those of your students and clients—in a program that highlights the yoga therapist’s approach to healing.

Under the umbrella of yoga therapy, JJ Gormley shares multidimensional, holistic, and functional tools learned over her 30-year career to help with • Joint pain (such as back, shoulder, knee, and hip issues) • Insomnia and sleep disorders • Autoimmune problems • Breathing issues (including asthma and COPD) • Mental and emotional health.

Whether you are an individual seeking alternative healing philosophies for yourself or a professional looking for fresh insights and holistic treatments for your patients and clients, this program provides hands-on experience and techniques from a skilled yoga therapist and teacher.

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JJ GORMLEY, E-RYT 500, yoga educator and yoga therapist, has studied Ashtanga, Iyengar, Kundalini, Anusara, and Viniyoga, drawing on what she loves from each tradition. yoginijj.com

TUITION $355 + room & meals; p. 108

DHARMA RICHARDS, E-RYT, is founder, owner, and senior teacher of Yoga Garden in North Carolina, and director of Yoga Warriors International. dharmarichards.com

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JUNE 21–23 WEDNESDAY–FRIDAY

Summer Solstice Yoga Retreat Micah Mortali FOR all levels. CE credits.

The summer solstice marks the longest day of the year, a time when the earth wears a gown of green. After a long, cold winter we shed layers, swim in cooling waters, walk through lush forests, and enjoy the fresh food that nature provides. It is a time of lightness, opening, and movement.

Yoga and Ayurveda provide simple tools to help us align with the changes that summer brings and live in greater harmony with the earth. In this retreat, you • Learn yoga flows to stretch, strengthen, and balance the mind, breath, and body

JUNE 18–23 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

YOGA and SHAMANISM THE JAGUAR PATH

• Experience the healing benefits of forest bathing • Explore cooling and soothing yogic breathing practices

Ray Crist and Don Sebastián Pauccar Flores

• Ground yourself through the practice of mindful barefoot walking

FOR all levels. CE credits.

• Create earth mandalas to invite your highest intentions for summer.

Explore the ancient technologies of yoga and shamanism and discover how to apply them in your life. Learn how yoga and shamanism assist in the somatic release of old traumas, and engage specific tools to balance the energy body.

In addition to practicing an all-levels yoga flow with a focus on the luminous field, you • Receive energy healing during yoga practice • Learn the shamanic tools of chakra clearing and cord cutting • Take part in an Incan Despachio ceremony led by Q’ero elder Don Sebastián Pauccar Flores, giving thanks to Mother Earth • Receive the Pampo Mesaoik rites from Don Sebastián.

At the end of this program, you receive one of the most important Munai Ki rites, the Pampameasayok Karay, initiating you as an Earth Keeper connected to the Incan lineage.

TUITION $430 + room & meals; p. 108

RAY CRIST, a Kripalu Yoga teacher and shaman’s apprentice, teaches how to use shamanic tools and yoga to live a balanced and empowered life.

DON SEBASTIÁN PAUCCAR FLORES was initiated by his father as a Pacho (shaman of the Andes), and holds an Incan lineage going back hundreds of years.

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MICAH MORTALI, Director of the Kripalu Schools and longtime Kripalu Yoga teacher, has been leading groups in wilderness and corporate settings for more than 15 years.

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JUNE 23–25 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Yoga’s Healing Power LOOKING INWARD FOR CHANGE, GROWTH, AND PEACE

Ally Hamilton FOR everyone who has been practicing yoga consistently for min. 6 months.

CE credits.

Learn how to take your practice off the mat and into relationships, work, and daily life. In this weekend of looking inward, you explore the deeper aspects of yoga, practice asana at every session, and delve into the eight limbs of yoga and other philosophical concepts essential to healing and wellness. Ally Hamilton focuses on applying ancient principles to busy, tech-filled lives.

Take home a practical understanding of • Samskaras, and how to stop repeating patterns that bring you pain • The kleshas, or obstacles that prevent you from living wholeheartedly • A seated meditation practice, a daily gratitude practice, and ways to sustain them.

Learn to bring mindfulness into every aspect of your life, becoming more present from moment to moment as you move through your days.

NOTE This program encompasses deep emotional work. See the Kripalu website for recommended reading and other important information.

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ALLY HAMILTON, cofounder of Yogis Anonymous, best-selling author, and yoga teacher, is a life coach whose passion is to empower everyone to live their best life. yogisanonymous.com

JUNE 23–25 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

YOGA RETREAT for WOMEN of COLOR GONNA TAKE YOU HIGHER!

Maya Breuer with Jana Long, Kiesha Battles, Cleora Francis O’Connor, Satta Jallah, and Keshia Nicole Abraham FOR women of all colors. CE credits.

Inspired by our ancestors and their sacred journey to discover and nurture soul and spirit, the 2017 Yoga Retreat for Women of Color™ promises to take you higher as you talk, laugh, and sashay your way toward caring for the soul and exploring the natural link between yoga and meditation and life.

In this program, you • Use dance to explore faith • Experience how to refresh your very essence with ancient Ayurevedic practices • Engage in hatha yoga, meditation, play, and soul awareness • Share your genuine voice to unlock Isis, the goddess of magic and healing; she will be our guide to tapping into unbounded joy, peace, and happiness.

Join together with other women of color as we walk the path to take us higher!

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MAYA BREUER, E-RYT 500, yoga instructor, author, community activist, and consultant, is president and cofounder of the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance. mayabreuer.com

JANA LONG, E-RYT 500, is a certified yoga therapist, Kripalu Yoga teacher, and a practitioner of Ayurveda in the Wise Earth tradition of self-care. powerofonecenter.com

KESHIA NICOLE ABRAHAM, PHD, an Ayurevedic Yoga Teacher and owner of Soul Wisdom International, is passionate about international education and African Diaspora literature.

KIESHA BATTLES, RYT, teaches yoga classes and serves as a self-care ambassador to build healthy communities in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is pursuing her 300-hour yoga teacher certification.

CLEORA FRANCISO’CONNOR, RYT, teaches hatha yoga and focuses on the benefits of forgiveness and maintaining peace and joy in our everyday lives.

SATTA JALLAH is a certified yoga instructor and doula who empowers women to reclaim their health through yoga, dance, energy therapy, and natural beauty education. myholisticroots.com

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JUNE 25–30 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Radiant Child Yoga Training, Levels 1–3 Shakta Khalsa FOR yoga teachers, schoolteachers, therapists, and parents at all levels of yoga experience. CE credits.

Prepare to move your body and be young at heart in this joyful, insightful, and practical training. Join one of the pioneers of children’s yoga to learn • How to create and deliver fun, effective lesson plans for children from tots to teens • A wide variety of yoga poses to use on the mat and at a desk • Mindfulness tools for quieting and focusing the mind

JUNE 30–JULY 2 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

NATURAL SPIRITUAL PROGRESS A DHARMA YOGA INTENSIVE

DHARMA MITTRA FOR all levels. CE credits.

1000

Yoga is one of the most efficient paths toward self-realization available to humankind today. For most people, realization on any level is the result of regular, determined effort. Rather than an immediate or instant opening, Dharma Mittra’s teachings support natural spiritual progress that happens over time.

Spend a long weekend with a yoga master who has devoted 50 years of his life to understanding, practicing, teaching, and refining the traditional yoga received from his teacher.

Dharma offers detailed instruction regarding • Yoga postures • Pranayama • Yoga nidra • Meditation • Spiritual knowledge.

This intensive program is appropriate for all levels, and is of special benefit to those with some yoga experience and yoga teachers who share this special knowledge with others.

May be taken as part of Kripalu’s 1000-Hour Yoga Teacher Training or as a standalone program; see page 13.

TUITION $300 + room & meals; p. 108

DHARMA MITTRA, a legendary yoga teacher who founded the first independent school of yoga in New York City in 1975, created the Master Yoga Chart of 908 Postures. dharmayogacenter.com

• Engaging, creative yoga songs, stories, and games to encourage positivity • Special yoga techniques for children with ADHD, autism, anxiety, and trauma • Cooperative communication and listening skills for effective teaching • Yoga for your own well-being while working with children.

You also gain conscious communication skills, deep listening, and ways to stay centered. Take the next step in sharing the gift of yoga.

NOTE Course materials must be purchased directly from the presenter for an additional fee; see the Kripalu website for recommended reading, details on materials, and certification opportunities.

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SHAKTA KHALSA, E-RYT 500, is an author, Kundalini Yoga teacher, Montessori educator, and founder of Radiant Child® Yoga, established in 1999. childrensyoga.com

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Yoga and Dharma

JUNE 30–JULY 2 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

THE ART OF AWAKENING

Katchie Ananda

Cancer Survivors Yoga Retreat

FOR all levels. CE credits.

Tari Prinster

Heal your relationship to your body and the earth, connect with your soul, and align with your authentic purpose. Katchie Ananda uses yoga and dharma, two complementary schools, to guide the body back to ease, calm and train the mind, and open the heart. She offers Anusara Yoga, a scientific system that is fun and healing for the body, along with mindfulness practices based on Buddhist psychology as taught by Jack Kornfield.

FOR cancer patients, survivors, and

Come explore being mindful through movement, meditation, and breathing exercises, and by accessing your own wisdom and compassion to learn the art of awakening. This program includes slow vinyasa flow, standing poses with pranayama, forward bends, hip openers, backbends, inversions, and restorative and therapeutic yoga, in addition to loving-kindness, insight meditation, and compassion practice.

caregivers.

TUITION $290 + room & meals; p. 108

KATCHIE ANANDA, E-RYT 500, an international yoga and dharma teacher certified in Integral, Jivamukti, Anusara, and Ashtanga Yoga, has practiced with Jack Kornfield since 2001. katchieananda.com

JULY 2–7 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Groundation Celebration IGNITE YOUR REVOLUTION WITH YOGA, WRITING, AND RITUAL

Sienna Creasy and Nadine McNeil

SIENNA CREASY (ZEN REBEL), is a Prana Vinyasa Yoga instructor dedicated to the Inner Revolution. She lives and works in Jamaica as group spa director at Island Outpost Hotels. siennayoga.com

NADINE MCNEIL, MA,

FOR all levels. CE credits.

Celebrate “groundation”—a potent Jamaican way of life that involves being balanced, grounded, and centered within your dharma.

Experience a practice that supports selfrealization and weaves a foundation of depth and ritual throughout the fabric of this week and beyond.

worked for the United Nations for 20 years at locations throughout the world. She is designing a yoga program supporting those who serve others in their daily work. universalempress.com

This yoga retreat is your prescription to reclaim life and create a wellness plan for long-term health. Whether your cancer diagnosis is recent or years past, whether you are new to yoga, or returning to your practice post-treatment, explore the factbased yoga4cancer (y4c) methodology developed by Tari Prinster.

Yoga is the perfect companion to smooth the way and guide cancer patients and survivors through their new reality. Research has shown that yoga helps strengthen the immune system and soften the worst effects of illness and treatments. It helps regulate body functions like digestion, posture, movement, sleep, and breathing, and some people claim it enhances memory and tranquility.

Replenish and rebound as you practice meditation, pranayama, and asana appropriate for all levels of yoga experience.

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TARI PRINSTER, a cancer survivor, yoga teacher, and regular presenter at Yoga Journal conferences, was featured in the documentary Yogawoman. y4c.com

This program works as a catalyst for transformation through • A nurturing, restorative yoga practice and an intentional writing exercise • Daily Prana Vinyasa Yoga blended with the alchemy of the elements • Integrative and therapeutic movement that combines trance dance, kriyas, drumming, and self-expression • A container of empowerment in which to consciously see and be seen • Native American and Jamaican Rastafarian cultural rituals and a closing ceremony.

Surrender into community, cultivate courage, and ignite an intention to carry with you back into your everyday life.

NOTE See the Kripalu website for recommended reading and a list of what to bring.

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CAROLINE SHOLA AREWA, psychologist, yoga teacher, wellness coach, and author, has inspired people worldwide for 30 years with her pioneering and award-winning work. shola.co.uk

MAYA BREUER, E-RYT 500, yoga instructor, author, community activist, and consultant, is president and cofounder of the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance. mayabreuer.com ABIGAIL IFATOLA

JEFFERSON, RYT, MED, is a storyteller and educator from Harlem who performs and conducts workshops nationally, using story, song, rhythm, and yoga dance. abigailjefferson.com JANA LONG, E-RYT 500, is a certified yoga therapist, Kripalu Yoga teacher, and practitioner of Ayurveda in the Wise Earth tradition of self-care. powerofonecenter.com

IRENE “STRONG OAK” LEFEBVRE, executive director and founder of the Visioning B.E.A.R. Circle Intertribal Coalition Inc., is an American Indian of Maliseet and Mi’kmaq descent.

JULY 6–9 THURSDAY–SUNDAY

BLACK YOGA TEACHERS ALLIANCE CONFERENCE WE ARE ONE Caroline Shola Arewa, Maya Breuer, Abigail Ifatola Jefferson, Jana Long, Irene “Strong Oak” Lefebvre, Gail Parker, Arturo Peal, Red Eagle (Shawn Stevens), Maria Broom, Octavia Raheem, Marshawn Devon Feltus, Andrew Tanner, and Issa Coulibaly FOR yoga teachers and practitioners of all levels. CE credits.

Although we experience life through different cultural lenses and embrace our unique expressions of body, mind, and spirit, we are all part of one consciousness. The second annual Black Yoga Teachers Alliance Conference takes you on a deeply spiritual journey with the sounding of the sacred drums of Native American, African, and African-American tribes.

This glorious celebration also enables you to seek and look within yourself as you explore the depth and breadth of teaching yoga to all cultures and communities. Learn from master teachers in a long weekend of yoga, dancing, drumming, and chanting. The overarching objective is to lift and renew our spirits during these tumultuous times; all are welcome.

GAIL PARKER, PHD, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, psychologist and faculty member at the Beaumont School of Yoga Therapy, blends psychology, yoga, and meditation to create effective self-care strategies. drgailparker.com

ARTURO PEAL has spent more than 20 years inspiring and educating yoga teachers, body workers, and movement specialists through trainings in anatomy and kinesiology. bodystudies.com RED EAGLE (SHAWN STEVENS), a member of the Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohicans, is a Native American culturalist, artist, musician, and ceremonial helper.

MARIA BROOM, nationally recognized as an actress for her recurring roles in HBO’s The Wire and The Corner, is also a storyteller, dancer, and author.

Join us and remember: We are ONE! See additional presenter bios on the Kripalu website.

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Philosophy and Yoga

Yoga for Mood Management

MERGING OF THE MIND AND BODY

Nicki Doane

LIFEFORCE YOGA PRACTITIONER TRAINING

FOR all levels. CE credits.

with Rose Kress

Embark on a journey into Self. Nicki Doane’s Maya Yoga Vinyasa Fusion integrates asana with philosophy for a truly holistic practice. Nicki weaves philosophy from the Yoga Sutras into actual asana practice, and you study and discuss the Yoga Sutras as they relate to your personal practice and everyday life.

This program offers yoga that prepares you for the real work, which happens on a day-to-day, hour-tohour basis, off the mat and in your life.

When you take on a spiritual practice, you become a spiritual activist and begin to do, not just think about doing. So come experience what it means to treat yoga as a whole, merging mind and body on the mat and off.

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NICKI DOANE, a yoga teacher since 1992, codirects Maya Yoga Studio in Maui, Hawaii, and is featured in a series of Maya Yoga DVDs. mayayogastudio.com

FOR yoga teachers and mental-health professionals. CE credits.

JULY 7–9 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

LifeForce Yoga for Mood I AM BLISS AND SO ARE YOU FOR everyone, including yoga and health professionals. CE credits.

Come home to the joy that is your birthright. Beneath your aches, pains, and shifting moods, you are bliss. Let Amy Weintraub, author of Yoga for Depression, guide you through self-inquiry with practices that release whatever blocks you from remembering who you truly are.

Amy offers accessible poses, pranayama, and yoga nidra, along with practices drawn from nondual and tantric traditions, including • LifeForce Yoga® Bliss Meditation • Mudras to awaken joy

LifeForce Yoga® is an accessible, empowering, evidence-based yoga protocol to help students and clients focus, relax, and have greater access to feeling states. Experience all aspects of LifeForce Yoga in a training that offers strategies for home practice and clinical settings that safely release chronically held physical tension and repressed emotions.

This program also includes • Accessible yoga-based interventions for emotional and energetic balance • One-on-one yoga sessions for dysthymia (chronic depression), anxiety, PTSD, and bipolar disorder • Breathing and meditation practices that address dysthymia and anxiety • Asana, pranayama (breathing), kriyas (cleansing), mantra (chanting), bhavana (visual imagery), sankalpa (intention and affirmation), mudra (hand gestures), meditation, yoga nidra, therapeutic holding of postures, and nondual strategies for working with negative self-talk • Somatic strategies for clinical practice and yoga classes to increase clients’ selfawareness, self-acceptance, and self-esteem.

• Mantras for courage and strength • Meditation and pranayama to clear the chakras and cultivate love and compassion • Sacred dance • Self-inquiry in dyads.

Many of these practices are suitable for use in a clinical setting. Healing professionals are invited to learn tools for their own selfcare, as well as for those they serve.

NOTE This program includes extended hours. See the Kripalu website for required and recommended reading and additional information.

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AMY WEINTRAUB, MFA, E-RYT 500, author of Yoga Skills for Therapists and Yoga for Depression, is the founder of the LifeForce Yoga® Healing Institute. yogafordepression.com

RECOMMENDED READING See the Kripalu website.

ROSE KRESS, E-RYT 500, LFYP-2, YACEP, director of Life-

TUITION $265 + room & meals; p. 108

Force Yoga Healing Institute and a teacher in the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Trainings, has been teaching since 2004.

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JULY 14–16 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Come Home to Yourself CORE TEACHINGS FOR A HARMONIOUS LIFE

ELENA BROWER FOR all levels. CE credits.

Take yoga’s benefits off the mat as you learn new ways to access harmony in your mind, body, and heart.

This weekend of core teachings with Elena Brower is inspired by Katonah Yoga, ParaYoga, and Kundalini Yoga, with a strong emphasis on asana.

To complement your posture practice, Elena offers meditations with movement, mudra, and mantra, techniques that can be powerful additions to your daily practice, especially in times of need. Each session also includes meditation, contemplation, and kriyas (complete actions). Experience how your practice can become a source of harmony in your home and relationships.

TUITION $250 + room & meals; p. 108

ELENA BROWER has been teaching yoga and meditation since 1999. Author of Art of Attention and the forthcoming Practice You, she creates potent online coursework and produced the film On Meditation. elenabrower.com

JULY 7–16 9-DAY PROGRAM

Kripalu Yoga in the Schools Teacher Training Janna Delgado and Iona M. Smith FOR yoga teachers interested in bolstering their skills and enriching the lives of high school students through yoga.

1000

Unmanaged stress is linked to a variety of adolescent challenges, including poor academic performance, substance abuse, risky sexual behaviors, obesity, depression, and anxiety. Research performed by the Kripalu Institute for Extraordinary Living’s Yoga in the Schools initiative reveals that yoga can be a profound vehicle for cultivating adolescents’ stress resilience, self-acceptance, and ability to self-regulate.

This training provides

May be taken as part of Kripalu’s 1000-Hour Yoga Teacher Training or as a standalone program; see page 13.

TUITION $1,049 + room & meals; p. 108

• A scientifically validated yoga curriculum appropriate for high school physical education and health classes, or extracurricular settings • Practical guidance on how to effectively partner with high schools, nonprofits, and after-school programs serving teens • Tips and resources to create professional development workshops for educators • Developmentally appropriate lesson plans outlining the introduction of postures; centering, breathing, and relaxation techniques; and key yoga concepts • An exploration of the teen experience through roleplaying, discussion, and lectures on adolescent development • Verbal cues appropriate for adolescent practitioners • Opportunities to practice teaching in a simulated classroom environment.

JANNA DELGADO, E-RYT 500, a Kripalu faculty member and a teacher and curriculum developer for the Kripalu Yoga in the Schools program, is creator of the CD Moderate Kripalu Yoga.

IONA M. SMITH, MED, CYT 500, is Program Leader for Kripalu Yoga in the Schools with the Institute for Extraordinary Living. She is also Kripalu R&R faculty.

JULY 9–14 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Dynamic Gentle Yoga for Everyone Rudy Peirce FOR all levels. CE credits.

Experience a yoga practice that meets you where you are. Rudy Peirce takes a slow and gradual approach that gently explores your pain-free range of motion to catalyze the many benefits of yoga for body, mind, and spirit. Come learn what’s possible in an accessible practice that reduces pain, releases stress, builds physical and emotional resilience, and optimizes your body’s natural healing powers.

A perfect way to start or re-ignite a regular practice at home, this immersion includes • A gentle approach to asana, pranayama, meditation, and deep relaxation • Yoga philosophy • Inspiring ways to bring the principles of yoga into your daily life, relationships, and diet.

Return home rejuvenated, calm, and ready to reap the rewards of yoga.

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RUDY PEIRCE, MA, E-RYT 500, a Kripalu Yoga teacher since 1983, guides accessible, gentle yoga, and is creator of a four-CD set, The Gentle Series. gentleyogi.com

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JULY 14–16 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

ReVision Youth CONFIDENCE, CREATIVITY, INNOVATION

Samantha Kinkaid FOR parents, teachers, and health professionals who work with children and teens.

CE credits.

Learn how to boost confidence, creativity, and overall happiness in children and teens, using a set of holistic tools designed for home, learning, and therapeutic environments. Through both independent and collaborative learning experiences, ReVision Youth supports children and teens in developing

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JILLIAN PRANSKY

• Mindfulness and relaxation skills • A healthy, positive relationship with their bodies, minds, and emotions, as well as with peers, teachers, and parents • The ability to listen, focus, concentrate, cultivate happiness, express themselves, share their experiences, and be flexible, curious, and creative • Freedom to try, experiment, discover, and play • Public speaking and mentorship skills.

JULY 14–16 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

JULY 16–21 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Learning to Pause

Yoga, Meditation, and Nature Retreat

A YOGA, MEDITATION, RELAXATION, AND NATURE RETREAT CE credits.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.—Viktor Frankl

For parents, ReVision Youth offers ways to deepen the bonds with your children, cultivate trust and happiness in the relationship, and allow greater independence. Samantha Kinkaid creates an engaging, fun, and dynamic learning environment.

Explore the space between stimulus and response, where you can leave behind your habitual solutions and cultivate a living relationship with the present moment. As you learn to relax into this space—the pause— and see life and yourself more clearly, you can flow forward with more clarity, wisdom, presence, and wholeheartedness.

NOTE This training includes a manual, workbook, and required post-training phone call.

In this retreat, Jillian Pransky artfully weaves together mindfulness with slow-flow vinyasa, restorative yoga, deep relaxation, and time in nature. Her emphasis is on internal observation, rhythmic breathing, and fully supported rest. From this place of centered awareness, your actions become a direct reflection of your deepest insight, compassion, and skillfulness.

TUITION $325 + room & meals; p. 108

SAMANTHA KINKAID, founder of ReVision Youth, is a graduate researcher, writer, and program developer focused on youth engagement and human trafficking.

TUITION $230 + room & meals; p. 108

CULTIVATING A CALM BODY, CLEAR MIND, AND OPEN HEART CE credits.

When you pause, relax, and come into the present moment, you immediately have more resources at your disposal and a greater capacity to handle any situation.

You grow lighter and more spacious. Your overall stress level decreases, which has a positive effect on your physical, emotional, and mental health.

Becoming balanced is not about wanting things to be different or exhausting yourself trying to make everything right. It is not a fixed state at which you finally “arrive,” but rather a practice that you come back to, moment by moment.

This retreat combines slow yoga, relaxation, meditation, contemplation, and mindful walks in nature to help you balance your ability to be strong and open in life’s everchanging now. You take home a compassionate practice that draws you back to the present, over and over again.

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JILLIAN PRANSKY, E-RYT 500, international presenter and director of Restorative Therapeutic Yoga teacher training for YogaWorks, infuses her classes with mindfulness, compassion, and ease. jillianpransky.com

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PROGRAMS with JENNIFER REIS

AUGUST 13–18 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Yoga and Deep Relaxation Retreat THE GIFT OF DIVINE SLEEP YOGA NIDRA FOR all levels, including beginners.

JULY 16–21 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Five Element Yoga Teacher Training FOR yoga teachers and experienced yoga students.

1000

Five Element Yoga® invites you to celebrate with yoga postures, balance your energy with breathing and mudras, detoxify with self-massage, and find deep rest and inner peace with Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra®. Drawing from the traditions of Kripalu Yoga, yoga therapy, Ayurveda, and traditional Chinese medicine, Five Element Yoga is designed to help each person find their natural rhythms.

Explore Five Element Yoga practice while gaining the skills necessary to create powerful classes and workshops. You learn how to

Experience deeper levels of relaxation than you ever imagined possible as you give yourself permission to rest, balance, restore, and tap into new sources of energy. This nourishing retreat offers the perfect combination of revitalizing yoga postures, breathing, hand mudras, and the profound healing rest of Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra®.

Jennifer Reis’ Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra is the antidote for modern life. Nothing is required but to lie down and listen. This inspired guided meditation transforms your whole being, allowing you to • Experience deep peace • Feel whole again • Reclaim your inner radiance • Alleviate not only muscular tension but also mental and emotional stress • Stimulate your body’s natural healing response

• Nourish your whole being with joyous movement and deep relaxation

• Awaken through uplifting yoga practices

• Develop the elemental qualities of grounding, fluidity, transformation, compassion, freedom, and unity

• Take home easy techniques to foster wellness in daily life.

• Guide students deep within the matrix of their being • Bring new and potent tools onto your mat and into your life that cultivate inner harmony, health, happiness, peace, and potential.

RECOMMENDED READING See the Kripalu website.

NOTE Tuition includes a manual. This program is approved for 40 CE credits by Yoga Alliance. Participants receive a certificate upon completion of the training.

May be taken as part of Kripalu’s 1000Hour Yoga Teacher Training or as a standalone program; see page 13.

TUITION $400 + room & meals; p. 108

You deserve to feel this good!

TUITION $330 + room & meals; p. 108

JENNIFER REIS, E-RYT 500, LMT, creator of Five Element Yoga® and Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra®, is a faculty member for the Kripalu School of Yoga and School of Integrative Yoga Therapy. jenniferreisyoga.com

JULY 16–21 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Therapeutic Yoga ESSENTIALS OF YOGA ANATOMY FOR SAFE AND EFFECTIVE PRACTICE

Marlysa Sullivan with Ann Swanson FOR yoga practitioners, yoga teachers, and healthcare practitioners.

Learn how to approach yoga in a safe and therapeutic way. When asana is correctly performed, it can help with underlying muscular and movement imbalances that contribute to various joint and muscle conditions, pain, and dysfunction. Join Marlysa Sullivan and Ann Swanson to explore how • Joints and muscles work in each part of the body and their application to yoga • You can optimally engage each posture for healing, as well as for a stronger, more effective practice • Postures and optimal sequencing can correct musculoskeletal and movement issues • The nervous system, breath, mind, and meditation relate to the health of the body and the practice of asana.

TUITION $378 + room & meals; p. 108

MARLYSA SULLIVAN is a physical therapist and yoga therapist with a passion for integrating yoga philosophy, yoga practices, and current scientific research. integrativeyogastudies.com

ANN SWANSON, MS, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, LMT, studied yoga in the Himalayas and joined the first MS degree program in yoga therapy. wellnessforarthritis.com

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JULY 23–28 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

An Introduction to Awakened Living FLUID MIND AND SPIRIT

Kevan Gale FOR all levels. CE credits.

Bring clarity to your mind, openness to your heart, and contentment to your soul with Fluid™ practice. Kevan Gale’s approach combines yoga, Tibetan mind training, and meditation into one grounded, soulful experience.

Programs with

ROLF GATES

Starting with an overview of the foundational Tibetan Buddhist teachings on the mind, this program explores • Four preliminary techniques designed to elicit deep reflection • The science of meditation • Specific meditation practices, including shamatha, maitri (loving-kindness), and tonglen • Ways to establish a regular meditation practice at home • Yoga nidra (the yoga of relaxation) • Tools for applying yoga philosophy to everyday life.

Come take a down-to-earth, contemporary look at classic topics like the Six Paramitas, the Buddha’s discoveries under the Bodhi tree, the Four Noble Truths, and other building blocks of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy.

TUITION $330 + room & meals; p. 108

KEVAN GALE, E-RYT 500, is co-owner of Stil Studio in Boston and creator of Fluid Yoga and EnLiving. kevangale.com

JULY 16–21 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

JULY 21–23 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Teaching and Living the Yoga Sutras

Being Still with Skill

AN INTENSIVE PRACTICE RETREAT FOR 200-hour-certified yoga teachers from all traditions. CE credits.

1000

Yoga teachers are like mountain guides who are able to lead others up paths that they have already traveled. Fine-tune your ability to serve as a guide in a training that examines the primary paths to well-being outlined in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras.

Lecture, discussion, and writing complement experiential practice of asana, pranayama, meditation, and silent contemplation. Enhance your felt sense of yoga’s essence, a connection that can guide you as you guide others, while you learn to • Bring yoga theory off the page and into your personal practice • Grow your ability to apply the skills you develop in yoga to the challenges of everyday life • Create classes and workshops based on themes that emerge from your practice and your lived experience of yoga.

May be taken as part of Kripalu’s 1000Hour Yoga Teacher Training or as a standalone program; see page 13.

TUITION $595 + room & meals; p. 108

A YOGA AND MEDITATION IMMERSION FOR people with at least 6 months of yoga experience; no meditation experience required. CE credits.

Take this opportunity to get still and listen intently. Yoga offers a set of skills that, when practiced regularly, awakens your innate ability to become quiet, to tune into the nature of life moving through you, and to live with freedom and joy. This is what Rolf Gates means by being “still with skill.”

Begin with body and breath, and progressively expand your awareness until you find yourself able to hold life the way the sky holds the weather. Learn the difference between hearing the wind move through the trees, and listening so closely that you begin to understand the nature of wind. Rolf uses the traditional methods of asana, pranayama, and meditation, followed by silent integration, to guide you in growing still, inside and out.

TUITION $255 + room & meals; p. 108

ROLF GATES, author of the acclaimed book Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga, is a leading voice of contemporary yoga. rolfgates.com

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JULY 23–28 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Yoga for Seniors Teacher Training Kimberly Carson and Carol Krucoff FOR yoga teachers who have completed a 200-hour teacher training. CE credits.

1000

Learn strategies for adapting yoga practice to older minds, bodies, and spirits in a training that combines the traditional wisdom of yoga with the best contemporary scientific knowledge about the physiology of aging. Seniors represent the fastest-growing sector of the population, creating an increasing demand for well-trained yoga teachers.

Each day of this training involves • A balance of lecture, movement, smallgroup work, practice-teaching sessions, and discussion • Yoga sessions geared for older bodies

NIKKI VILELLA is a senior teacher at Kula Yoga Project in New York City, co-owner of Kula Williamsburg, and director of Kula’s 200-hour teacher training program. kulayoga.com

ALEX AUDER, a teacher at Kula Yoga Project, is known for her precise alignment cues, intelligent sequencing, practical philosophy, and hands-on assists.

ERIN DUDLEY, a senior teacher at Kula Yoga Project, draws inspiration from the passion of Ashtanga vinyasa, the rigorous intelligence of Iyengar Yoga, and her love of movement.

JULY 23–28 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

CAMP KULA FIVE DAYS, THREE TEACHERS, TOTAL IMMERSION Nikki Vilella, Alex Auder, and Erin Dudley

• Learning about common ailments and complex medical challenges affecting older adults • Conceptual models for skillfully adapting postures and practices.

In a safe and effective teaching environment, students earn Yoga Alliance CEUs and have the opportunity to integrate with a larger community committed to learning what it means to age well.

FOR students who have practiced regularly for min.

2 years, and teachers of all styles of yoga. CE credits.

Does the idea of going back to camp fill you with glee, or freak you out? At Camp Kula, we’ve nixed the wedgies and mean girls, and replaced them with an eclectic mix of yogic studies, rounded out with feasting in the Kripalu Dining Hall, hiking the wooded Berkshire trails, and relaxing in the sauna.

At Kula, our practice is a vigorous, highly creative vinyasa form that focuses primarily on asana, but we know that yoga’s esoteric teachings have just as much to offer. During this intensive, we examine the workings of your physical and subtle self, exploring diverse topics such as bandhas, Vedantic philosophy, yoga nidra, meditation, and chakra studies—and bring it all home with two sweaty Kula Flow classes daily. Expect to float home—body, mind, and spirit thoroughly worked over and soaring.

TUITION $355 + room & meals; p. 108

NOTE See the Kripalu website for required reading and recommended viewing.

May be taken as part of Kripalu’s 1000Hour Yoga Teacher Training or as a standalone program; see page 13.

TUITION $505 + room & meals; p. 108

KIMBERLY CARSON, MPH, E-RYT, is a yoga teacher at Oregon Health & Science University, and codirects trainings at Duke Integrative Medicine. mindfulyogaworks.com

CAROL KRUCOFF, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, is a yoga therapist at Duke Integrative Medicine and codirects the Yoga for Seniors teacher trainings. healingmoves.com

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JULY 30–AUGUST 1 SUNDAY–TUESDAY

The Art of Yin Yoga STILLNESS, ENERGY, AND FLOW

Paulie Zink FOR all levels. CE credits.

Paulie Zink’s approach to yoga is about finding and following your unique individual path, opening to your intuitive heart, and discovering the artist inside you.

Explore the deeper dimensions of Yin Yoga, practicing postures inspired by the movements of animals and poses that activate the elemental forces within your energetic field. Yin Yoga promotes flexibility and healing, develops the flow of energy in your body, and enlivens your innate ability to move with fluidity, power, and grace. Through this practice, you • Fully engage your connection with the natural world

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• Awaken to your spontaneous and playful spirit

Psychology of the Chakras

• Find the motion that arises from stillness • Transcend the boundaries of assumed limitations • Learn how to “be” yoga, living it in your day-to-day activities and interactions.

TUITION $230 + room & meals; p. 108

PAULIE ZINK is founder of Yin Yoga and a three-time international martial arts grand champion. His relaxed and playful demeanor encourages everyone to feel accepted and comfortable. pauliezink.com

A 7-DAY INTENSIVE

Anodea Judith and Selene Kumin Vega FOR all levels. CE credits.

Are you ready for an initiatory journey into the sacred centers of yourself? Are you prepared to cross the archetypal rainbow bridge that connects everything into one indivisible whole?

In this transformational intensive, you immerse yourself for one whole day in each chakra as you • Encounter your chakras through guided trance journeys

JULY 28–30 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

• Learn yoga postures, breathing techniques, and partner poses for each chakra

Power Vinyasa Yoga

• Explore your psychological history in the context of the chakras

PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, AND SPIRITUAL TRAINING FOR A LIFETIME

Coeli Marsh

• Engage in ceremonies to reclaim power and acknowledge divinity

FOR Power Vinyasa Yoga practitioners and people with some yoga experience who

• Celebrate with song, dance, laughter, art, and sacred community.

want to start a Power Vinyasa practice. CE credits.

Celebrate Power Vinyasa Yoga and learn how to develop a healthy, lifelong practice. Power Vinyasa Yoga is magnetic, drawing countless yogis to discover strength, joy, freedom, and transformation. Coeli Marsh taps into her expertise in alignment, psychology, and education to help you learn • The primary benefits and therapeutic qualities of Power Vinyasa Yoga • “Hot spots” for emotional growth and how to make use of them • How to maximize safety, develop “adaptive technology,” and make each posture truly yours • The healing power of playfulness during a challenging practice • Restorative sequences to rejuvenate the body.

Create a strong container for transformation as you sweat, laugh, and generate a blueprint for a lifetime of practice.

TUITION $220 + room & meals; p. 108

COELI MARSH, EDM, E-RYT 500, integrates her training in psychology with her background in yoga as a healing art, specializing in training teachers and classroom assistants. tspyoga.com

This program is a pilgrimage that participants over the past 30 years have described as life changing. No experience is necessary, but a willingness to open and change is a must.

NOTE Tuition includes a manual. See the Kripalu website for additional program information.

TUITION $800 + room & meals; p. 108

ANODEA JUDITH, PHD, is a leading authority on the chakra system and best-selling author of Wheels of Life and Anodea Judith’s Chakra Yoga. sacredcenters.com

SELENE KUMIN VEGA, PHD, LMFT, is a psychotherapist, workshop leader, dancer, and adjunct faculty at Saybrook University’s College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences. spiritmoving.com

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Ana Forrest AUGUST 2–11 WEDNESDAY–FRIDAY

FORREST YOGA ADVANCED TEACHER TRAINING ANA FORREST with Jose Calarco and team FOR 200-hour certified yoga teachers from any school or lineage pending approval by the Forrest Yoga Teacher Training Review Board. CE credits.

1000

Join the Forrest Yoga education program to learn the art of sequencing, how to teach intermediate and advanced asana for different levels, and ways to prioritize students with special needs and injuries. Taught by Ana Forrest with ceremony director Jose Calarco and a highly experienced teaching faculty, this training includes chanting, pranayama, intensive yoga practice, and hands-on assisting.

ANA FORREST is recognized worldwide as a pioneer in yoga and emotional healing and creator of Forrest Yoga®. She is a contributing expert to Yoga Journal and other national wellness publications. forrestyoga.com

Each day begins with ceremony, song, and intention setting, followed by Forrest Yoga Intensives—advanced asana instructional training to give you experience with spotting, leveling, and modifying arm balances, backbends, hip openers, abdominals, inversions, advanced twists, and bound poses under the supervision of Ana and her assistants.

Afternoons are dedicated to improving teaching skills and working with the different injuries, abilities, and challenges that students bring with them to your classes.

NOTE See the Kripalu website for important information about eligibility, the application process, advance preparation, and more.

May be taken as part of Kripalu’s 1000-Hour Yoga Teacher Training or as a standalone program; see page 13.

TUITION $2,450 + room & meals; p. 108

JOSE CALARCO, musician, performer, artistic director, and ceremonial leader, has had a 25-year association with the arts of Australia, including dance, film, theater, and music.

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PROGRAMS with ELISE BROWNING MILLER AUGUST 4–6 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

AUGUST 6–8 SUNDAY–TUESDAY

AUGUST 8–11 TUESDAY–FRIDAY

Iyengar Yoga for Back Care

Yoga for Scoliosis Part I

Yoga for Scoliosis Part II

FOR all levels, from beginners (min. 3 months) to yoga teachers.

1000

Find relief from chronic back pain using yoga. Elise Browning Miller teaches how yoga postures, when practiced with the correct emphasis, can be extremely successful in alleviating conditions ranging from minor neck and lower-back tension to severe scoliosis.

This program addresses • How to use yoga to increase strength and flexibility in the back, focusing on the relationship between the spinal column, pelvis, and shoulder blades • Beneficial classical and modified asanas for back conditions, including lowerback pain, disc disease, sciatica, upperback and neck tightness, and scoliosis • Anatomy, as it relates to the poses taught.

Elise’s precise, down-to-earth teaching encourages students to draw on inner knowing and move safely beyond perceived limitations.

REQUIRED READING Elise Browning Miller, Yoga for Back Care, available at ebmyoga.com.

May be taken as part of Kripalu’s 1000Hour Yoga Teacher Training or as a standalone program; see page 13.

TUITION $235 + room & meals; p. 108

FOR people with scoliosis and yoga teachers.

1000

Discover all the ways in which Iyengar Yoga can be used to meet the challenges of scoliosis. This internationally acclaimed program with senior Iyengar instructor Elise Browning Miller includes • Basic information and anatomical background on scoliosis • Optimal yoga postures for scoliosis and ways of adapting postures for individual needs • The psychological consequences of scoliosis • Adjustments and props • An emphasis on lengthening the spine and aligning the body with breath awareness.

Through a variety of yoga practices and poses, people with scoliosis can develop greater structural alignment, become more symmetrical, and find the balance point that allows the scoliosis curve to coexist with gravity. Students learn practices to improve posture and increase flexibility and strength. Yoga teachers leave with the necessary skills and confidence to offer a beginning yoga practice to those with scoliosis.

REQUIRED READING Elise Browning Miller, Yoga for Scoliosis, available at ebmyoga.com.

NOTE See the Kripalu website for information about becoming a certified Yoga for Scoliosis Trainer.

May be taken as part of Kripalu’s 1000Hour Yoga Teacher Training or as a standalone program; see page 13.

TUITION $265 + room & meals; p. 108

FOR students and teachers who have completed Part I, and others as described below. 1000

Continue learning to work skillfully with scoliosis by combining yoga postures with breath awareness to develop structural alignment and create more normal symmetry.

Elise Browning Miller offers a quick review of the basics from Part I, and emphasizes beginning and more advanced standing poses, back strengtheners and backbends, inversions, and twists. Adjustments and props are used to assist participants in working with their scoliosis.

This program is appropriate for everyone who has completed Part I, those who have at least six months of training with Elise’s Yoga for Scoliosis DVD, continuing students of Iyengar Yoga, and those who have been instructed by one of Elise’s Yoga for Scoliosis trainers. Teachers of all levels and systems are welcome and invited to bring students with scoliosis.

REQUIRED READING Elise Browning Miller, Yoga for Scoliosis, available at ebmyoga.com.

NOTE This program completes the 20-hour course requirement to become a Yoga for Scoliosis Trainer.

May be taken as part of Kripalu’s 1000Hour Yoga Teacher Training or as a standalone program; see page 13.

TUITION $290 + room & meals; p. 108

ELISE BROWNING MILLER, MA, a senior Iyengar Yoga teacher and therapeutic recreation therapist, is a founding director of the California Yoga Center. ebmyoga.com

⊕⊕COMBINE two back-to-back or all three of Elise’s August programs for a 10 percent tuition discount for each program. Please call to register.

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AUGUST 4–6 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

The Roll Model Method THE SCIENCE OF ROLLING

Laurel Beversdorf FOR all levels.

AUGUST 4–6 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

The Great Work of Your Life THE YOGA OF THE BHAGAVAD GITA

Stephen Cope FOR all levels, including beginners.

CE credits.

Most of us will never be monks or nuns.

While longing for a rich spiritual life, we will live out our lives in the context of work, family, financial concerns, and the challenges of aging. Is there a way to use the conflicts and struggles of daily life to cultivate an inner life of spirit? The Bhagavad Gita, the Hindu devotional work that translates as “Song of God,” answers a resounding “yes.”

In this program, we explore karma yoga, the yoga of action. Each day includes asana practice, lecture, discussion, and exercises aimed at allowing us to experience life as a profound spiritual practice.

Join the founder of the Kripalu Institute for Extraordinary Living to explore the living tradition of yoga.

TUITION $300 + room & meals; p. 108

Live better in your body—pain free. Laurel Beversdorf empowers you to adopt a simple, effective self-care regimen that puts the healing power of massage into your own hands. Roll Model Therapy Balls offer immediate relief and can be used as an adjunct to yoga, Pilates, athletics, injury prevention and recovery, stress management, or day-to-day maintenance. Approved by physical therapists, pain specialists, and mentalhealth professionals, whole-body ball choreography can create profound, positive change in the rotator cuff, spine, neck, jaw, hips, IT band, calves, feet, and emotional well-being.

Become anatomically fluent so you can identify bony landmarks, muscular attachments, fascia geography, and pain physiology in your body. Movement educators and manual therapists can use Roll Model ball sequences to expand their teaching and introduce embodied anatomy concepts to students in a fun way.

TUITION $285 + room & meals; p. 108

LAUREL BEVERSDORF, E-RYT 500, international yoga educator, is an integrated Yoga Tune Up® trainer and a senior teacher trainer at YogaWorks in New York City. laurelyoga.com

AUGUST 6–11 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Breath and Bliss Immersion Dinneen Viggiano FOR students at all levels and yoga teachers of all styles.

CE credits.

Enhance every system of your body and psyche by breathing well for an inner medicine chest of health benefits. This program explores optimal breath mechanics and research on vagus nerve activation that supports practices to prime your physiology for a robust way of thriving. Take a deep dive into embodied practices that create profound relaxation, increased body awareness, and mind-body connectivity.

In this program, you learn • Meditation, physiological “listening,” a breath and body reset, and emotional attunement • The anatomy and physiology of stress relief • How to craft successful relaxations for yourself and your students

NOTE Tuition includes Yoga Tune Up® balls, a Coregeous® ball, and a handbook.

TUITION $545 + room & meals; p. 108

DINNEEN VIGGIANO, E-RYT 500, empowers self-care through movement therapy, selfmassage, and nutrition as a Yoga Tune Up® senior teacher trainer, holistic nutrition counselor, and NeuroKinetic Therapist. yogatuneup.com

• Diaphragm discoveries to explore your breath mechanics • Fail-safe meditation techniques • ROLLaxation: Roll Model Therapy Ball techniques to hasten relaxation and pain relief.

⊕⊕COMBINE THESE STEPHEN COPE, MSW, Scholar-inResidence and Kripalu Ambassador, is the best-selling author of Soul Friends: The Transforming Power of Deep Human Connection.

PROGRAMS for a 10 percent tuition discount for each program.

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AUGUST 6–10 SUNDAY–THURSDAY

Yoga and the Pursuit of Happiness Sam Chase FOR everyone with min. 6 months of yoga experience. CE credits.

Philosophers, poets, and passionate seekers throughout the world have been fascinated by the pursuit of happiness for millennia. Today, millions of people turn to yoga and meditation hoping to feel happier.

But what is happiness? Where does it come from, and why do we so often miss it? Can we cultivate a concept of happiness as rich and challenging as real life?

JULY 23–28 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

AUGUST 11–13 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Embody Love Yoga

Vinyasa and Yin Yoga Retreat

TRANSFORM YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO YOUR BODY FROM THE INSIDE OUT

Melody Moore

STRENGTH, WISDOM, AND COURAGE

FOR women. CE credits.

Tymi Howard

Learn to use the tools of yoga, meditation, and psychotherapy to develop a compassionate and accepting relationship with your body. Uncover and maintain a positive body image in a program that teaches you to • Create a supportive internal dialogue about your body and the way you treat it • Sit with and through discomfort and put words to negative emotions • Connect your hunger and satiety signals to your eating behavior, so you can remain in integrity with your relationship to food • Recognize the origins of negative body image and lack of self-acceptance • Experience yourself as already enough, without the need to change.

Using yoga practice, yogic philosophy, processing, journaling, and meditation, Melody Moore provides a new lens through which to connect with and accept your body.

FOR all levels. CE credits.

Discover truth, purpose, passion, and empowerment through the art of yoga.

This retreat guides you back into alignment with your body, mind, and spirit through the holistic combination of vinyasa and Yin Yoga. When you are in alignment physically, mentally, energetically, and spiritually, you remember who you are, what you are made of, and why you are here.

Delve into these essential questions in a retreat that unites ancient wisdom and cutting-edge scientific research with daily exercises in yoga, meditation, and mindfulness. Discover how your practice can change what happiness means to you, and how your approach to happiness can change your practice.

TUITION $325 + room & meals; p. 108

SAM CHASE, MFA, E-RYT, author of Yoga and the Pursuit of Happiness, holds certificates in yoga and Positive Psychology from Kripalu and a master’s degree from Harvard. samchaseyoga.com

Enjoy vinyasa flow, Yin Yoga, pranayama, meditation, journaling, self-study, lectures, dharma talks, music, kirtan, and mantra. Learn to use the practices of yoga to tap into and cultivate creativity; build strength, courage, and trust; and face and overcome your fears.

NOTE Tuition includes a Yin Yoga manual.

TUITION $220 + room & meals; p. 108

TUITION $330 + room & meals; p. 108

TYMI HOWARD, E-RYT 500, MELODY MOORE, PHD, RYT, founder of Embody Love Movement and a social entrepreneur, is a licensed clinical psychologist, yoga teacher, and author committed to empowering women.

is an international yoga teacher, certified holistic health coach, and owner of Guruv Yoga Studios. tymihoward.com

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AUGUST 11–13 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Yoga, Music, and Mindfulness A UNIQUE KRIPALU-TANGLEWOOD EXPERIENCE

Larissa Hall Carlson and Marc Mandel FOR everyone; no technical expertise or prior training in music

JUNE 25–30 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

Divine Play Vinyasa Immersion Sara Clark and Jess Frey

LARISSA HALL CARLSON, E-RYT 500, former Dean of

is required, simply a love for classical music and yoga. CE credits.

FOR all levels. CE credits.

the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, guides retreats, directs trainings, and provides Ayurvedic consultations across the country.

Double the pleasure of a summer weekend in the Berkshires with this rewarding Kripalu-Tanglewood experience. Join Kripalu’s Larissa Hall Carlson and the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s (BSO) Marc Mandel to explore the striking parallels between yoga and music, discovering not only what draws us to music, but also how music draws us into an ever-deepening awareness of ourselves and our relationship with others.

Divine Play vinyasa connects you to universal and internal wisdom, opening the door to a world of infinite possibilities. Explore a deeper relationship to your limitless self on and off the yoga mat, with practices designed to awaken a joyous and intuitive union between mind, body, and heart.

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Program sessions incorporate mindful asana, breathwork, meditation, and guided listening to classical music featured in the weekend’s Saturday-night and Sunday-afternoon BSO concerts at Tanglewood ( just across the road from Kripalu). Attendance at both BSO concerts, featuring ever-popular works of Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart, and Schubert, fill out the weekend.

MARC MANDEL is in charge of the BSO’s program book and pre-concert talks. He has been on the BSO staff since 1978, and teaching at Kripalu since 2006.

NOTE Complimentary lawn tickets to Tanglewood will be provided for both BSO concerts. See this program on the Kripalu website for more information.

TUITION $260 + room & meals; p. 108

Immerse yourself in • Mindfulness and meditation techniques that tap into your inner knowing • An attitude of gratitude and compassion to ignite passion, creativity, and playfulness • Fluid vinyasa sequences that honor the unique ways your body moves and offer insight into your body’s intelligence • Slow flow, restorative yoga, and qigong to reset and recharge.

Return home fearless, inspired, and eager to flow with all that life has to offer.

AUGUST 18–20 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

TUITION $330 + room & meals; p. 108

Yoga Therapeutics for Radiant Health

SARA CLARK is known for her compassionate teaching style, calming presence, and empowering vinyasa sequencing. saraclarkyoga.com

Todd Norian FOR all levels, including yoga teachers.

Pain-free living is your birthright and joy, your “factory setting.” If unconscious movement patterns and self-limiting beliefs are keeping you from enjoying the natural states of fulfilment, ease, and joy, come discover • Your body’s optimal design for radiant health • How to heal and prevent common aches and pains using the precise therapeutic alignment techniques of Ashaya Yoga® • How to address specific dysfunctions of the body, including sore back, bulging discs, tight hips, sciatica, kyphosis of the upper back, shoulder pain, rotator cuff tears, sore knees, stiff neck, and more • Empowering tantric teachings that support healing on all levels—body, mind, and heart.

Return home from this weekend of therapeutic yoga with tools and skills to keep yourself pain-free.

RECOMMENDED READING Todd Norian, Ashaya Yoga: Align Your Body Awaken Your Heart Manual and Healing Power of Yoga, Level 1, Ashaya Yoga Basic Therapy Training Intensive Manual; both available at ashayayoga.com.

TUITION $230 + room & meals; p. 108

TODD NORIAN, E-RYT 500, founder of Ashaya Yoga®, teaches with the heartfelt intention to awaken others to their inherent potential for unlimited joy, vitality, and fulfillment. ashayayoga.com

JESS FREY, E-RYT 500, is a Kripalu Yoga teacher and a former Intern for the Kripalu School of Yoga and the Kripalu Institute for Extraordinary Living. jessfrey.com

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PROGRAMS with GARY KRAFTSOW AUGUST 23–25 WEDNESDAY–FRIDAY

Foundations of Tantric Yoga FOR all levels. CE credits.

Come learn the philosophical foundations of Tantric Yoga, along with the methods and purposes of various practices that have emerged from this tradition. Explore the integrated use of breath-centric asana, mudra, kriya, pranayama, and bandha to bring your awareness into the central channel and make the journey along the path to liberation.

AUGUST 18–20 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Yoga Therapy for Chronic Pain FOR all levels.

The Viniyoga methodology for working with people who deal with chronic pain utilizes a variety of strategies that address the whole person. Movement and breathing are the most well-known yoga strategies for chronic pain, yet it is often the inner dimensions of yoga that are fundamental to optimal life functioning.

This special program is designed for health professionals, yoga teachers, and everyone who would like to understand Viniyoga’s therapeutic interventions for chronic pain and learn Viniyoga strategies for assessment and intervening in beneficial ways.

In this program, you learn to activate mantra in the chakras through centralchannel breathing and use the power of meditation and chanting to affect deep inner transformation. Whether you are just taking your first steps on the yoga path or are an experienced yoga teacher, join Gary Kraftsow for an immersion in the traditions of yoga that have been benefiting humanity for thousands of years.

RECOMMENDED READING Gary Kraftsow, Yoga for Wellness and Yoga for Transformation.

TUITION $310 + room & meals; p. 108

GARY KRAFTSOW, MA, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT, author and pioneering teacher of yoga for health, healing, and transformation, directs the American Viniyoga Institute. viniyoga.com

TUITION $310 + room & meals; p. 108

AUGUST 20–23 SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY

Yoga for Life FOR all levels. CE credits.

The insights of the ancients from Vedic India have profound and practical relevance for contemporary life. Come explore specific yogic teachings and practices that help you achieve your highest potential in a program that includes both lecture and practice.

Move toward optimal health by adapting the various methods and techniques of yoga to your unique condition, needs, and interests. Yoga teachers and practitioners alike can individualize and actualize the process of self-discovery and personal transformation required to achieve their full potential.

TUITION $460 + room & meals; p. 108

⊕⊕COMBINE two back-to-back or all three of Gary’s August programs for a 10 percent tuition discount for each program; call to register.

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AUGUST 24–27 THURSDAY–SUNDAY

AUGUST 27–30 SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY

YOGA and BODY CONFIDENCE

Optimal Alignment and Beyond

ACCEPTANCE, POSITIVITY, AND EMPOWERMENT

Erica Mather, Michael Hayes, Kirsten Collins, Karen Samuels, and Matthew Sanford FOR yoga practitioners of all levels and yoga teachers from all backgrounds. CE credits.

Join this groundbreaking meeting of diverse voices in the field of yoga and body confidence. Each presenter addresses the topic from their unique area of expertise. Enjoy a keynote from Matthew Sanford, a panel discussion with all presenters, and interactive exercises, yoga, meditation, and Q&A sessions. Each day of this program includes two-hour morning asana workshops focused on bodypositive themes for practitioners, and afternoon workshops on specialized topics, including working with injuries, yoga and eating disorders, and much more.

Learn how to modify yoga practice for bodies of different sizes, capabilities, and ages, and return home with tools and insights for doing yoga in a way that promotes body positivity.

Teachers receive tips on leading classes where all students feel welcomed and empowered.

TUITION $345 + room & meals; p. 108

ERICA MATHER, MA, E-RYT, is a Forrest Yoga Guardian, lifelong teacher, and creator of the Adore Your Body System for ending body-image challenges. ericamather.com

MICHAEL HAYES, founder of Buddha Body Yoga™, teaches classes that benefit everyone, regardless of their individual anatomy, flexibility, age, or yoga background.

KIRSTEN ADELIA COLLINS, LMSW, RYT, is a clinical therapist at the Beacon Program, a private practice in Manhattan dedicated to the treatment of eating disorders.

KAREN SAMUELS, PHD, licensed clinical psychologist and yoga teacher, is founder/ director of COPE: Community Outreach to Prevent Eating Disorders. cope-ecf.org

MATTHEW SANFORD, an expert in transformation through the healing power of yoga, is the author of Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence. matthewsanford.com

BRINGING SAFETY AND DEPTH TO YOGA PRACTICE

Sara Meeks (Dipa) and Bhavani Lorraine Nelson FOR medical and exercise professionals and yoga teachers. CE credits.

Learn to integrate precise body alignment, specificity of movement, pranayama, and meditative focus in yoga classes for people with different physical capabilities. Sara Meeks brings decades of experience as a Kripalu Yoga teacher and physical therapist, while master Kripalu teacher Bhavani Lorraine Nelson adds both sound play and meditation to the mix.

Take your teaching and practice to the next level in a program that includes • Optimal alignment and joint protection in all postures • Concentration on breath throughout the practice • Letting go into what is, even when it’s not what you want • Honing awareness of the entire body while concentrating on one part.

Experience yoga’s true meaning—union of body, mind, and spirit—as an inner journey toward your true self that manifests outwardly in your life, practice, and teaching.

TUITION $290 + room & meals; p. 108

SARA MEEKS (DIPA), PT, MS, GCS, KYT, a physical therapist and Kripalu Yoga teacher, has spent 32 years focusing on safe and therapeutic movement for bone health. sarameekspt.com

BHAVANI LORRAINE NELSON is a Kripalu Yoga teacher who leads workshops in meditation and mindfulness, stress reduction, and the power of the voice. bhavanilorrainenelson.com

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Labor Day Weekend SEPTEMBER 1–4 FRIDAY–MONDAY

The Yoga of Awakening SEANE CORN FOR all levels.

Explore the deeper dimensions of yoga, beyond the body, and discover your vast capacity for consciousness, empowerment, and connection. Based on Seane Corn’s best-selling DVD, The Yoga of Awakening, this program is designed to help you release the internal blockages that can keep you from love and also challenge you to see beyond your personal stories so that you can heal, forgive, and activate change from the inside out.

AUGUST 25–28 FRIDAY–MONDAY

LoveYourBrain Yoga Teacher Training YOGA AND MEDITATION FOR TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY

Kyla Pearce, Adam Pearce, and Kim Baker FOR 200-hour yoga teachers and others with approval by the LoveYourBrain Foundation.

Find out how you can engage with life— mindfully, and with compassion—to help create a world that is free, fair, equal, abundant, and peace-filled for all. Using asana, breathwork, trauma-informed yoga, chakra balancing, narrative reframing, prayer, and spiritual reconciliation, Seane aims to wake you up to your essential nature and the power and presence of God within.

CE credits pending.

TUITION $325 + room & meals; p. 108

The LoveYourBrain Foundation believes in the holistic and dynamic nature of yoga to meet the unique needs of each person with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and offers a national yoga program for the TBI community. This training is designed for yoga teachers interested in being certified to teach in the LoveYourBrain yoga program, as well as yogis, clinicians, and TBI survivors.

SEANE CORN, an international yoga teacher and co-founder of Off the Mat, Into the World®, uses her platform to engage in spiritual and conscious activism. seanecorn.com

Receive hands-on experience with gentle yoga modifications, effective sequencing, and fundamental teaching tips to meet the specific challenges of the TBI community. This training includes • Meditation practices and pranayama techniques to focus the mind and calm the nervous system • Neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, the impact of TBI, and how neuroplasticity influences healing • The six-week FUNdamentals series to foster resilience and compassion and facilitate discussion, a unique feature of this program • Connections to the broader LoveYourBrain movement.

NOTE Tuition includes a manual; see the Kripalu website for more information about the LoveYourBrain Foundation.

TUITION $350 + room & meals; p. 108

KYLA PEARCE, MPH, PHD CANDIDATE, RYT-200 is the senior director of the LoveYourBrain yoga program for TBI, integrating meditation, gentle yoga, and facilitated discussion.

ADAM PEARCE, cofounder and executive director of the LoveYourBrain Foundation, provides practical guidance for yoga teachers to effectively work with the TBI community.

KIM BAKER, MPA, RYT200, is the director of implementation for the LoveYourBrain yoga program and has helped develop the organization’s TBI-centered model.

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PROGRAMS with ELYSABETH WILLIAMSON Labor Day Weekend AUGUST 27–SEPTEMBER 1 SUNDAY–FRIDAY

ELYSABETH WILLIAMSON, E-RYT 500, considered the

Partner Yoga Training, Level 1

foremost authority on partner yoga worldwide, is author of The Pleasures and Principles of Partner Yoga. partneryoga.net

with Valerie Immore

Expand your yoga practice into the realm of relationship and authentic connection. Principle-Based Partner Yoga™ is a visionary healing art that combines ancient yogic wisdom with contemporary mind-body understanding. Partner Yoga works directly with the root principle of yoga:―union.

This Level 1 training is designed for everyone interested in an in-depth exploration of Partner Yoga topics, including • Understanding and implementing Partner Yoga principles • Cultivating clear, compassionate, and confident touch, boundaries, and safety guidelines • Skillful assisting and adjusting, partner vinyasa, mirrored postures, creative composition of postures, and inversions • Partner alignment skills for strength, balance, and flexibility • The dynamics of gravity and traction in partner practice.

Partner yoga activates your individual practice in profound and surprising ways. It takes unity out of the conceptual realm and offers a direct sensory experience of this underlying principle of yoga.

NOTE Tuition includes a comprehensive training manual.

TUITION $395 + plus room & meals; p. 108

VALERIE IMMORE, E-RYT 500, owner of Sundance Yoga Studios, is a certified yoga therapist and longtime devotee of Partner Yoga. Her teaching is both intuitive and therapeutic.

Yoga Philosophy and Practices to Thrive in Your Recovery Tommy Rosen

FOR everyone with min. 1 year of yoga practice. CE credits.

SEPTEMBER 1–4 FRIDAY–MONDAY

Labor Day Weekend SEPTEMBER 1–3 FRIDAY–SUNDAY

Partner Yoga for Couples with Alex Giovannini FOR all couples and all levels of yoga experience. CE credits.

Bring your partner to this fun-filled, spiritually uplifting, and invigorating weekend. As you learn how to breathe and flow together on the mat, you learn how to find ease and balance in your relationship off the mat.

In this program, you • Deepen your compassion, trust, sensitivity, and love for each other • Enjoy a healthy, playful, and lifeaffirming practice • Learn how to adapt the postures to accommodate various body types, flexibility levels, and yoga experience • Develop closeness and connection through co-meditations and partner breathwork • Experience assisted postures, mirrored postures, creative collaborations, and Thai Yoga Massage techniques • Revitalize your relationship as you celebrate and honor the soul attributes of your partner.

NOTE See the Kripalu website for more information about partner yoga.

TUITION $235 + room & meals; p. 108

ALEX GIOVANNINI completed Level I and II Principle-Based Partner Yoga™ training and is currently in apprenticeship with its founder, Elysabeth Williamson.

⊕⊕COMBINE THESE PROGRAMS for a 10 percent tuition discount for each program.

FOR all levels.

The transformative possibilities of yoga and meditation are a perfect and necessary complement to anyone on a path of recovery from addiction. There are simply no other practices that give a person in recovery so many of the elements required along the way. Where addiction is characterized by outward grasping driven by a perceived sense of lack, yoga is an inner quest leading to wholeness and fulfillment.

This powerful program is designed to give you the philosophy, tools, and a direct path to experiencing greater awareness, intuition, health, and freedom. Come practice vinyasa flow, Kundalini kriyas, pranayama, meditation, and chanting to help you recognize your samskaras (habits/addictions) and move beyond them. Join Tommy Rosen and live musicians for three days of recovery, practice, transcendence, and bliss.

TUITION $260 + room & meals; p. 108

TOMMY ROSEN, a vinyasa flow and Kundalini Yoga teacher, is a leading authority on addiction and recovery, and founder of the Recovery 2.0 online conference. tommyrosen.com

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11 reasons to visit Kripalu this fall…

FA L L PREVI EWS

SAVE THE DATE OCTOBER 3–6

Kripalu’s 26th Annual Yoga Teachers Conference Stephen Cope, Jill Miller, Todd Norian, Marlysa Sullivan, and more

SEPTEMBER 17–22

The Science of Yoga Lisa B. Nelson, MD, and Sat Bir S. Khalsa, PhD

GENEEN ROTH OCTOBER 13–15 SEPTEMBER 24–29

The Kripalu Approach to Diet An Integrative Weight-Loss Program Aruni Nan Futuronsky, Annie B. Kay, and Lisa B. Nelson, MD

Make Peace with Food Now Three Keys to Vitality, Radiance, and Weight Loss

JOE DISPENZA OCTOBER 20–22

DAVID WHYTE OCTOBER 6–8

Thresholds Navigating the Difficult Transitions of Life

Progressive Workshop Ascending Your Energy, Tune into Your New Destiny

TARA BRACH NOVEMBER 3–5

SHIVA REA OCTOBER 8–13

Inner Flow The Art of Sequencing Vinyasa as Movement Meditation

Loving Presence Inhabiting and Expressing Your True Nature

JUDITH HANSON LASATER NOVEMBER 5–10 OCTOBER 8–13

Healing Chronic Pain Shifting the Paradigm Through Science, Mindfulness, Movement, and Compassion Lorimer Moseley, Fadel Zeidan, and more

Relax and Renew Learning to Teach Restorative Yoga

ANGELA FARMER NOVEMBER 12–17

Becoming Who I Am NOVEMBER 17–19

Every Bit Alive

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Find Your Program by Date Here, our programs are listed by month, so you can find the program that’s right for you, at the time that’s right for you. Whether you’re looking for something vibrant or peaceful, energizing or simplifying, you’ll find it this summer at Kripalu.

JUNE 2 FR I

Kripalu Summer Family-Style Meals Jeremy Rock Smith p. 39 An Integrative Approach to Lyme Disease: Current Concepts and Misconceptions Gerard C. Buffo, Deborah Hoadley, Margrit Mikulis, and Eileen C. Comia p. 39

The Embodied Soul: Honoring the Work of Marion Woodman Marta A. Elders, Stephen Cope, Maja Reinau, Rea Nolan, Carolyn Whitt, Vicki M. Lanier, Martha de la Garza, Patricia Llosa, Susan E. Adams, Catharine Clarke, Jean Esther, Polly Howells, Janice Stieber Rous, and Vernessa Foelix p. 57 Beyond Past Lives: Healing and Transformation Through Past-Life Regression Mira Kelley p. 66 A Woman’s Sacred Journey: Discovering Your Soul’s Wisdom, Purpose, and Path Michele C. Tamaren and Bette J. Freedson p.66 Shadow Yoga Basics Matt Pesendian p. 79 Structural Yoga Remedies Lee Albert p. 78 The Katonah Yoga Method: Asana as Metaphor Abbie Galvin and Nevine Michaan p. 78

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Positional Therapy: Clinical Applications Lee Albert p. 27 Heal Yourself, Heal Your World Ajeet Kaur p. 49

Navigating a Graceful Transition: Your New Best Life Maria Sirois and Karlee Fain p. 68 Quarter-Life Calling: Creating an Extraordinary Life in Your 20s Coby Kozlowski p. 67 Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Teacher Training Lakshmi Voelker and Brenda Yarnold p. 79

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The Natural Singer: Find Your True Voice Claude Stein p. 28 Mantra Meditation and Everyday Samadhi: A Japa Immersion Philip Goldberg and Dana Sawyer p. 50

The One Thing Holding You Back: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Connection Raphael Cushnir p.67 Finding Joy and Peace in Challenging Times: A Weekend of Mindfulness and Loving-Kindness Hugh Byrne p. 49 Yoga Nursing: A New Movement in Healthcare Annette Tersigni and Kerry Churchill p. 79

Kokoro Yoga for Living with Purpose and Passion: Cultivate the Warrior Within Mark and Catherine Divine p. 80

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Swingolf: Dynamic Yoga Motion on the Golf Course Les Bolland p. 36 Treating Complex Trauma with EMDR Therapy: The Art and the Science Deany Laliotis p. 60

Yoga Warriors Teacher Training Dharma Richards p. 81

Yoga and Shamanism: The Jaguar Path Ray Crist and Don Sebastián Pauccar Flores p. 82 Solstice Yoga Retreat 21 Summer Micah Mortali p. 82

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Archetypal Dreamwork as a Path for Transformation Marc Bregman and Christa Lancaster p. 69

and Yoga Mark Roule and 23 Hiking Susannah Gale p. 34

Qigong: A Gentle 16 Evidence-Based Path to Physical, Mental, and Spiritual FR I

Strength Yang Yang p. 26

The China Study in Practice: Nutrition to Protect and Maximize Your Health Thomas M. Campbell, T. Colin Campbell, and Erin Campbell p. 38 The Art of Happiness Howard C. Cutler p. 51 Deep Play for Kids: Building and Bonding Missy Brown p. 63 Our Fathers, Ourselves: An Interspiritual Fathers’ Day Workshop Rabbi David Ingber p. 68 Emotional Mindfulness, Connection, and Healing: Befriending the Wisdom and Power of Your Emotions Ronald J. Frederick and Timothy J. Beyer p. 69 Journey into Yoga Retreat: Women, Wisdom, and Nature Jashoda Edmunds and Brahmani Liebman p. 80 Therapeutic Chair Yoga Terry Roth Schaff p. 81

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Summer Deep Clean John Bagnulo p. 40

Immersion in the Ocean of Chant, Mantra, and Song Nina Rao, Amanda Harding, and friends p. 50 Meditation Fusion: Five Teachers, Five Styles Steven Leonard, Ajeet Kaur, Mark Roule, Brian Sano, and Leslie Hubbard p. 48 Abandonment to Healing: Overcome Your Patterns of Self-Sabotage Susan Anderson p. 70

Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training Jean Kristeller and Andrea Lieberstein p. 42 YogArts for Kids Craig Hanauer p. 63 Yoga and Dharma: The Art of Awakening Katchie Ananda p. 85 Natural Spiritual Progress: A Dharma Yoga Intensive Dharma Mittra p. 84 Cancer Survivors Yoga Retreat Tari Prinster p. 85

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Mantra in Motion: A Celebration of Movement and Music Jurian Hughes and DJ Mantra p. 30

Yoga Retreat for Women of Color: Gonna Take You Higher! Maya Breuer with Jana Long, Kiesha Battles, Cleora Francis O’Connor, Satta Jallah, and Keshia Nicole Abraham p. 83

CircusYoga Retreat: The Human Art of Play Erin Maile O’Keefe and Kevin O’Keefe p. 62

to Teach Kids and Teens: Let Your 25 Learn Yoga Dance Teacher Training

Groundation Celebration: Ignite Your Revolution with Yoga, Writing, and Ritual Sienna Creasy and Nadine McNeil p. 85

Megha Nancy Buttenheim and Missy Brown p. 29

ChiRunning: A Mindful Approach to an Ancient Sport Danny Dreyer p. 36

The Yoga of Sleep Retreat Rubin Naiman p. 41

The Still, Small Voice Within: Meditation, Focusing, and Intuition Training Jonathan Foust (Sudhir) p. 51

Qoya Summer Solstice Celebration A Rochelle Schieck p. 28

Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone and Other Acts of Courage Lisa Loustaunau p. 69

Buttenheim and Diane Kovanda p. 29

From Stressed to Safe: Tools for Turning on the Relaxation Response Arturo Peal p. 41

Yoga’s Healing Power: Looking Inward for Change, Growth, and Peace Ally Hamilton p. 83

Taking Your Life Story from the Page to the Stage Ann Randolph p. 30

Using the Zodiac as a Guide to Wellness: Your Body and the Stars Stephanie Marango and Rebecca Gordon p. 70

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A New Way of Being: Women’s Self-Renewal Retreat Renée Peterson Trudeau p. 70

Ayurvedic Bodywork: Shirodhara and Marma-Balancing Treatment Hilary Garivaltis p. 24

The Kripalu Approach to Diet: An Integrative Weight-Loss Program Aruni Nan Futuronsky, Annie B. Kay, and Lisa B. Nelson p. 40

and Wise Women’s Festival: 30 Wild Let Your Yoga Dance Megha Nancy

Developing Your Highest Self: Making the Spiritual Life Real and Personal Thomas Moore p. 72

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Functional Yoga: A Health-Oriented Approach JJ Gormley p. 81

Total Immersion for Total Transformation Raphael Cushnir p. 67

The Pilgrimage Within: Journey to Your Sacred Place Peggy Cappy p. 80

Gokhale Method: The Posture28 The Dance Connection Esther Gokhale p. 40

Black Yoga Teachers Alliance Conference Caroline Shola Arewa, Maya Breuer, TH U R Abigail Ifatola Jefferson, Jana Long, Irene “Strong Oak” Lefebvre, Gail Parker, Arturo Peal, Red Eagle (Shawn Stevens), Maria Broom, Octavia Raheem, Marshawn Devon Feltus, and Andrew Tanner p. 86

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Yoga Summer Camp: An Outdoor Adventure for Adults Susannah Gale and Sarajean Rudman p. 35

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Refilling Your Well: Join the Self-Care Revolution Priti Robyn Ross p. 41 200-Hour Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training: Monthlong Intensive Coby Kozlowski and Michelle Dalbec p. 12 Divine Play Vinyasa Immersion Sara Clark and Jess Frey p. 98

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The Power of Meditation: Your Life Is the Path Susan Piver p. 51 Activate Your Intuitive Super Powers: Feminine Wisdom for Staying True to Yourself Christine Arylo p. 72 Kripalu Yoga in the Schools Teacher Training Janna Delgado and Iona M. Smith p. 88

Radiant Child Yoga Training, Levels 1–3 Shakta Khalsa p. 84

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Philosophy and Yoga: Merging of the Mind and Body Nicki Doane p. 87 LifeForce Yoga for Mood: I Am Bliss and So Are You Amy Weintraub p. 87 Mindfulness and Nature Dale Abrams and Becky Cushing p. 36

Simply Well for Women Kathleen N. Mueller and Gigi Dunn p. 43

Radiant Lotus Women’s Qigong Daisy Lee p. 42

Narrative Medicine: A Cutting-Edge Approach to Healthcare Lisa Weinert, Marie Howe, Rita Charon, Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis, Stephen Cope, Jillian Pransky, Nancy Slonim Aronie, Judith Hannan, Lisa B. Nelson, Nellie Hermann, Paul W. Morris p. 71

Beyond Diversity 101 Niyoun Spann, Lisa Graustein, Kevin D. Greene, and Liana Johannaber p. 72

Yoga, Meditation, and Nature Retreat: Cultivating a Calm Body, Clear Mind, and Open Heart Jillian Pransky p. 89

Therapeutic Yoga: Essentials of Yoga Anatomy for Safe and Effective Practice Marlysa Sullivan p. 90

Five Element Yoga Teacher Training Jennifer Reis p. 90

Teaching and Living the Yoga Sutras: An Intensive Practice Retreat Rolf Gates p. 91 300-Hour Kripalu Yoga Teacher 21 Training: Guiding Meditation for FR I

Transformational Yoga Jonathan Foust (Sudhir) and Michelle Dalbec p. 12

Dynamic Gentle Yoga for Everyone Rudy Peirce p. 88

YogArts for Kids Craig Hanauer p. 63

Yoga for Mood Management: LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training Amy Weintraub and Rose Kress p. 87

The Universe Has Your Back: Transforming Fear to Faith Gabrielle Bernstein p. 73

MindBody Medicine for Health Professionals: Ending Pain, Fatigue, and TU ES Autoimmune Illness Kim D’Eramo p. 43

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Building Resilient Bones: An Integrated 12 Approach Lisa B. Nelson and WED Erin Casperson p. 43

Introduction to Meditation Bhavani Lorraine Nelson p. 52

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The Art of Stopping Time Pedram Shojai p. 44

Getting Unstuck: Moving Beyond Depression, Anxiety, Uncertainty, and Chronic Illness James S. Gordon p. 44

Being Still with Skill: A Yoga and Meditation Immersion Rolf Gates p. 91

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Yoganand Michael Carroll and Larissa Hall Carlson p. 12

Trauma, Body, and the Brain: Restoring the Capacity for Rhythm and Play Bessel van der Kolk, Steven Gross, and Licia Sky p. 56

n Introduction to Awakened Living: A Fluid Mind and Spirit Kevan Gale p. 91

Embody Love Yoga: Transform Your Relationship to Your Body from the Inside Out Melody Moore p. 97

Yoga for Seniors Teacher Training Kimberly Carson and Carol Krucoff p. 92

Learning to Pause: A Yoga, Meditation, Relaxation, and Nature Retreat Jillian Pransky p. 89

Camp Kula: Five Days, Three Teachers, Total Immersion Nikki Vilella, Alex Auder, and Erin Dudley p. 92

Come Home to Yourself: Core Teachings for a Harmonious Life Elena Brower p. 88

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Shake Your Soul Teacher Training: The Yoga of Dance Dan Leven with Heather Bilotta and Sage Peeler p. 30

Yoga Summer Camp: An Outdoor Adventure for Adults Steven Leonard and Jess Frey p. 35

Everyday Herbalism: Backyard and Kitchen Remedies for Natural Health Jacquelyn Dobrinska p. 44

Remembering Loved Ones, Healing Your Heart Allison Gilbert p. 73

Power Vinyasa Yoga: Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Training for a Lifetime Coeli Marsh p. 93 Drawing Closer to Nature Peter London 30 p. 32 SU N

JourneyDance Module 1: The Embodiment Experience Toni Bergins p. 31

Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training for Professionals Jean Kristeller and Andrea Lieberstein p. 42

Positive Psychology Coaching: SkillBuilding Intensive Megan McDonough and Lynda Wallace p. 60

The Art of Yin Yoga: Stillness, Energy, and Flow Paulie Zink p. 93

Psychology of the Chakras: A 7-Day Intensive Anodea Judith and Selene Kumin Vega p. 93

200-Hour Kripalu Yoga Teacher 23 Training: Monthlong Intensive

YogArts for Kids Craig Hanauer p. 63

ReVision Youth: Confidence, Creativity, Innovation Samantha Kinkaid p. 89

Attuning to the Body Current: Sacred Sound, Ecstatic Chant, and Embodied Movement Scott and Shanti Medina p. 74

AUGUST

Forrest Yoga Advanced Teacher Training Ana Forrest with Jose Calarco WED and team p. 94

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Developing Your Intuitive Mind Thomas John p. 75

Iyengar Yoga for Back Care Elise Browning Miller p. 95 The Great Work of Your Life: The Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita Stephen Cope p. 96

The Roll Model Method: The Science of Rolling Laurel Beversdorf p. 96

Integrative Yoga Therapy Professional 24 Yoga Therapist Program: Module 1 MON

Joseph Le Page, Maria Mendola, Debra Jensen, Beth Gibbs, Jennifer Reis, and Mary Northey p. 16

Mindfulness, Wisdom, and Compassion 28 in Psychotherapy: Getting Beyond I, Me, FR I

and Mine Ronald D. Siegel p. 60

Getting the Love You Want: A Workshop for Couples Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt p. 64

Mother-Daughter Yoga Weekend Sarahjoy Marsh p. 62

An Introduction to the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education for Dynamic Health Kaelesh Neels p. 45

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Freedom, Ecstasy, and Awakening: The Art and Practice of Tantric Meditation Sally Kempton p. 52

Clear Home, Clear Heart: Energy Clearing for People and Places Jean Haner p. 74

Yoga and the Pursuit of Happiness Sam Chase p. 97

Yoga for Scoliosis Part I Elise Browning Miller p. 95

Nutrition and Cooking Immersion Jeremy Rock Smith and Annie B. Kay p. 46

Integrative Yoga Therapy Professional 7 Yoga Therapist Program: Module 2 MON Joseph Le Page, Lilian Le Page, Maria Mendola, Kaelash Neels, Ellen Schaeffer, and Mary Northey p. 16

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Yoga for Scoliosis Part II Elise Browning Miller p. 95

300-Hour Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training: Leading Vinyasa Coby Kozlowski p. 12

Awakening Shakti: Meditation, Kundalini, and the Opening of the Heart Sally Kempton p. 52

Deep Play for Kids: Mandalas and Memories Missy Brown p. 63

Intimacy as a Spiritual Path: A Retreat for Couples Richard Borofsky and Antra Kalnins Borofsky p. 64

Playing the Matrix and Getting What You (Really) Want Mike Dooley p. 75

Yoga, Music, and Mindfulness: A Unique Kripalu-Tanglewood Experience Larissa Hall Carlson and Marc Mandel p. 98

Introduction to Positive Psychology Maria Sirois p. 61

Navigating the Storm: Finding Peace and Purpose in Uncertain Times Martha Beck p. 76

Yoga Therapeutics for Radiant Health Todd Norian p. 98

Yoga Therapy for Chronic Pain Gary Kraftsow p. 99

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Yoga and Deep Relaxation Retreat: The Gift of Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra Jennifer Reis p. 90 Hiking and Yoga Mark Roule and 18 Sarajean Rudman p. 34 FR I

Healer Within Practice Leader Training: Medical Qigong Certification Roger Jahnke p. 45

Start Meditating Now: Everything You Need to Begin and Sustain a Meditation Practice Richard Faulds (Shobhan) and Danna Faulds p. 53

LoveYourBrain Yoga Teacher Training: Yoga and Meditation for Traumatic Brain Injury Kyla Pearce, Adam Pearce, and Kim Baker p. 101 Teacher 27 Breath-Body-Mind Training, Level 1 and 3

Energy Roger Jahnke p. 45

Integrative Yoga Therpy Professional Yoga Therapist Program: Module 7 Joseph Le Page, Lilian Le Page, Maria Mendola, Jennifer Reis, and Mary Northey p. 16

A Buddhist Healing Ritual: Dakini’s Heart-Essence Chöd and Empowerments Lama Migmar Tseten p. 54

The Art and Science of Yogic Meditation: Nondual Wisdom Teachings for Enlightened Living Richard Miller p. 54

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Yoga and Body Confidence: Acceptance, 24 Positivity, and Empowerment

THUR

Erica Mather, Michael Hayes, Kirsten Collins, Karen Samuels, and Matthew Sanford p. 100

to Yoga and Ayurveda: 25 Introduction Radiant Health On and Off the Mat FR I

Micah Mortali and Larissa Hall Carlson p. 25

The MELT Method: A Self-Care Immersion Kerrie Bodendorf and Meegan Descheneau p. 27

Transformational Movement, Dance, and Ritual: A Women’s Festival for Embodiment and Empowerment Toni Bergins, Rochelle Schiek, and Parashakti p. 31

A Women’s Spiritual Retreat: Learning How to Love Ourselves Joan Borysenko and Karen Drucker p. 74

Richard P. Brown and Patricia L. Gerbarg with Dehanna Rice-Inkles p. 47

Optimal Alignment and Beyond: Bringing Safety and Depth to Yoga Practice Sara Meeks (Dipa) and Bhavani Lorraine Nelson p. 100

Partner Yoga Training, Level 1 Elysabeth Williamson and Valerie Immore p. 102

At Play with the Radiance Sutras: A Meditation Retreat and Teacher Training Lorin Roche and Coby Kozlowski p. 53

WED

Internal Family Systems Therapy: Embodying the Healing Wisdom Richard C. Schwartz and Sarah Stewart p. 61

Healing a Broken Heart After a Breakup, Betrayal, or Divorce David Kessler, Nancy Levin, and Paul Denniston p. 77

Qigong and Tai Chi Easy: Master Stress, 20 Enlighten the Mind, and Tap Universal

Family Constellations and the Hidden Dynamics of Intergenerational Pain:

Vinyasa and Yin Yoga Retreat: Strength, Permission to Thrive Suzi Tucker p. 65 Wisdom, and Courage Tymi Howard

Yoga for Life Gary Kraftsow p. 99 p. 97

Well Nourished: Mindful Practices for Heart, Body, and Mind Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training: Andrea Lieberstein p. 46 13 Chakra Fusion, Module 2 SU N Megha Nancy Buttenheim p. 29 Foundations of Tantric Yoga

Storytelling Boot Camp: Learn, Practice, 23 Gary Kraftsow p. 99 and Perform Matthew Dicks p. 32

Yoga Summer Camp: An Outdoor Adventure for Adults Susannah Gale and Jess Frey p. 35

Navigating Change: Conscious Endings, Visionary Beginnings Christine Warren p. 75

oga on the Water: A Kayaking and Y Stand Up Paddleboarding Retreat Mark Roule and Tracy Remelius p. 34 Face, Head, and Foot 28 Ayurvedic Massage Training Hilary Garivaltis p. 24 MON

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LABOR DAY WEEKEND

Breath and Bliss Immersion Dinneen Viggiano p. 96

Yoga, Salsa, and Drumming: Relax, Renew, and Cut Loose Lizzie Salsich and Ronnie Roc with special guest Catherine Calderone p. 32

Yoga, Hiking, and Kayaking Michelle Dalbec and Mark Roule p. 35

Hands of Light Healing: The Fundamentals of Brennan Healing Science Melanie Roche p. 47

Deep Play for Kids: Mandalas and Memories Missy Brown p. 63

F earless Living: Live the Life Your Soul Intended Rhonda Britten p. 76

The Opening the Heart Workshop Linda Aranda-Belliveau, Al DeGroot, Judy Kushner-DeGroot, and Don Rhoades p. 77

artner Yoga for Couples P Elysabeth Williamson and Alex Giovannini p. 102

he Yoga of Awakening T Seane Corn p. 101

Yoga Philosophy and Practices to Thrive in Your Recovery Tommy Rosen p. 102

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workshops and events • T he best views in the Berkshires. ripalu R&R includes a full schedule of K workshops and outdoor activities taught

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EVENING EVENTS Kripalu’s evening programs are free to all registered guests, except in the case of special ticketed events. Limited general public tickets might be available for evening programs and events; please call Registrations for more information.

Register early to ensure your preferred accommodations. kripalu.org/accommodations

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BY PHONE 800.741.7353 PAYMENT Full payment is due at time of registration and can be made with Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, or by check.

CANCELLATION POLICY Payments will be refunded in full (less a $50 processing fee) if you cancel 14 or more days prior to your arrival date. If you cancel between 13 days and 1 day in advance, a nonrefundable credit (less a $50 processing fee) will be held for one year from the date of issue. No credit or refund is available if you cancel on your arrival day or the day your program starts, if you do not show up, or if you leave a program or event early.

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE Programs generally begin at 7:30 pm on the first date listed with your program description and end by 11:30 am on the last day. We encourage you to arrive by 6:30 pm if you plan to join us for dinner.

CHECK–IN Check-in begins at 2:15 pm; however, rooms are not guaranteed to be available until 4:00 pm. The first activity included in your stay is yoga at 4:15 pm. Arrival dinner is included in overnight stays. There are Welcome Sessions on Friday and Sunday.

CHECKOUT We kindly request that all departing guests be out of their rooms by noon so that we may prepare for our incoming guests. Lunch on departure day is included in your stay. If you choose to spend the afternoon, you may leave your bags in the Luggage Room.

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

MEDICAL CARE

We strive to make our programs available to everyone, within the limits of our resources.

For information and scholarship applications, visit our website or call Registrations.

Kripalu does not offer on-site medical care, supplies, emergency services, psychiatric care, or transport. Our campus is located approximately 10 miles from the nearest medical facility.

SENIOR DISCOUNT We offer a 10 percent discount on tuition and room & meals pricing to seniors (age 65+). This discount does not apply to Healing Arts or Kripalu Shop purchases and may not be combined with other discounts. Some restrictions apply.

KIDS AT KRIPALU

Getting here

ELECTRONICS POLICY

kripalu.org/directions

INTEGRATE YOUR EXPERIENCE Kripalu’s Healing Arts are a powerful addition to any program.

Choose from bodywork, Ayurvedic services, health and wellness consultations, and more. kripalu.org/healingarts

Schedule your appointment today.

888.738.1822

In general, Kripalu programs and activities are open to participants ages 18 and older.

Children 17 and under must be supervised at all times and accompanied by an adult who is on-site at Kripalu. Call for more information, or visit kripalu.org/kidsatkripalu.

We encourage guests to consider leaving all electronics behind in order to fully support the retreat experience. If you need to stay connected during your visit, the use of electronics is limited to private guest rooms, the Wireless Lounge, or phone booths. Silent use of electronics is permitted on the First Floor.

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Kripalu Affiliate Studios Whether you’re looking for ways to integrate what you’ve learned during a visit to Kripalu, or want to learn more about the philosophies and benefits of Kripalu Yoga, taking classes at a Kripalu Affiliate Studio in your area can help you get and stay connected.

CONNECTICUT

MASSACHUSETTS

Fairfield Yoga for Everybody

Bedford Serenity Yoga Center

Madison Turning Point Yoga

Shelburne Falls Shelburne Falls Yoga

yoga4everybody.net Studio owner: Evelyne Serais

turningpointyoga.com Studio owner: Lisa Uihlein

FLORIDA

serenityyoga.com Studio owner: Eric Read

shelburnefallsyoga.com Studio owner: Kate Pousont Scarborough

NEW YORK

St. Augustine Discovery Yoga

discoveryyoga.com Studio owner: Deva Parnell

Tampa The Lotus Pond Center for Yoga and Health lotuspondyoga.com Studio owner: Val Spies

Guilford Black Horse Yoga Studio

blackhorseyogastudio.com Studio owner: Suzette Hayes

NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte Yoga for Life

VIRGINIA McLean Dream Yoga Studio & Wellness Center

dreamyogastudio.com Studio owner: Luann Fulbright

GERMANY Werl Kripalu Yoga Zentrum doctao.de Studio owner: Iven Tao

JAPAN Tokyo Yoga of Life

kripalu.jp Studio owner: Toshiro Miura

yogaforlifecharlotte.com Studio owner: Karen Williams

MAINE Brunswick Jai Yoga

PENNSYLVANIA

jaiyogahome.com Studio owner: Jennifer Nadeau

Portland WholeHeart Yoga Center wholeheartyoga.com Studio owner: Pam Jackson

Harleysville Anahata Yoga and Wellness Center

anahatayogawellness.com Studio owner: Kathleen Tooley

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Recycle it when you’re done.

All studios are independently owned and operated.

Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health KRIPALU BOARD OF TRUSTEES Carol O’Neil, Chair John Chu David Ellner Christine Fuchs

Sarah Hancock Nita Prasad Michael Pulitzer, Jr. Temple Schauble

Janine Shelffo Erin Tunnicliffe Barbara Vacarr, CEO

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CONTACT US Add to/change/remove from Mailing List request@kripalu.org Continuing Education 413.448.3127 cec@kripalu.org Development 413.448.3284 development@kripalu.org Guest Services and General Questions guestservices@kripalu.org Healing Arts 888.738.1822 Media Relations 413.448.3237 pr@kripalu.org Program Proposals proposals@kripalu.org Registrations 800.741.7353 registration@kripalu.org Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health PO Box 309 Stockbridge, MA 01262 413.448.3400

CATALOG CONTRIBUTORS Photography Cover photographer: Charlie Pappas.

Michelle Barclay, Douglas Baz, Emily Beaulieu, Greg Cherin, Paul Conrath, Maureen Cotton, Andreas Engel, Tony Felgueiras, Marc Gordon, Lyle Hawthorne, Douglas Mason, Carrie Owens, Charlie Pappas, Rick Sands, Kristin Tieg, Bill Tipper, Bill Wright,Yashoda, and Stephanie Zollshan.

Special thanks to makeup and styling artist Ramona Kelly.

Corrections Policy We make every effort to ensure the accuracy of all our information. Changes after press time and errors do occasionally occur, however, and we reserve the right to make necessary changes and corrections.

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Abraham, Keshia Nicole 83 Abrams, Dale 36 Adams, Susan E. 57 Albert, Lee 27, 78 Ananda, Katchie 85 Anderson, Susan 70 Aranda-Belliveau, Linda 77 Arewa, Caroline Shola 86 Aronie, Nancy Slonim 71 Arylo, Christine 72 Auder, Alex 92

Cushnir, Raphael 67 Cutler, Howard C. 51

Hamilton, Ally 83 Hanauer, Craig 63 Haner, Jean 74 Hannan, Judith 71 Harding, Amanda 50 Hayes, Michael 100 Hendrix, Harville 64 Hermann, Nellie 71 Hoadley, Deborah 39 Howard, Tymi 97 Howe, Marie 71 Howells, Polly 57 Hubbard, Leslie 48 Hughes, Jurian 30 Hunt, Helen LaKelly 64

Roc, Ronnie 32 Rosen, Tommy 102 Ross, Priti Robyn 41 Roule, Mark 34, 35, 48 Rous, Janice Stieber 57 Rudman, Sarajean 34, 35

Immore, Valerie 102 Ingber, Rabbi David 68

Mandel, Marc 98 Marango, Stephanie 70 Marsh, Coeli 93 Marsh, Sarahjoy 62 Mather, Erica 100 McDonough, Megan 60 McNeil, Nadine 85 Medina, Scott and Shanti 74 Meeks, Sara (Dipa) 100 Michaan, Nevine 78 Mikulis, Margrit 39 Miller, Elise Browning 95 Miller, Richard 54 Mittra, Dharma 84 Moore, Melody 97 Moore, Thomas 72 Morris, Paul W. 71 Mortali, Micah 25, 82 Mueller, Kathleen N. 43

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Jahnke, Roger 45 Jallah, Satta 83 Jefferson, Abigail Ifatola 86 Johannaber, Liana 72 John, Thomas 75 Judith, Anodea 93

Naiman, Rubin 41 Neels, Kaelash 45 Nelson, Bhavani Lorraine 52, 100 Nelson, Lisa B. 40, 43, 71 Nolan, Rea 57 Norian, Todd 98

Salsich, Lizzie 32 Samuels, Karen 100 Sanford, Matthew 100 Sano, Brian 48 Sawyer, Dana 50 Schaff, Terry Roth 81 Schieck, Rochelle 28, 31 Schwartz, Richard C. 61 Shojai, Pedram 44 Siegel, Ronald D. 60 Sirois, Maria 61, 68 Sky, Licia 56 Smith, Iona M. 88 Smith, Jeremy Rock 39, 46 Spann, Niyonu 72 Stein, Claude 28 Stewart, Sarah 61 Sullivan, Marlysa 90 Swanson, Ann 90 Sylla, Sekou 86

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Fain, Karlee 68 Faulds, Danna and Richard (Shobhan) 53 Feltus, Marshawn Devon 86 Flores, Don Sebastián Pauccar 82 Foelix, Vernessa 57 Forrest, Ana 94 Foust, Jonathan (Sudhir) 51 Frederick, Ronald J. 69 Freedson, Bette J. 66 Frey, Jess 35, 98 Futuronsky, Aruni Nan 40

Kaur, Ajeet 48, 49 Kay, Annie B. 40, 46 Kelley, Mira 66 Kempton, Sally 52 Kessler, David 77 Khalsa, Shakta 84 Kinkaid, Samantha 89 Kovanda, Diane 29 Kozlowski, Coby 53, 67 Kraftsow, Gary 99 Kress, Rose 87 Kristeller, Jean 42 Krucoff, Carol 92 Kushner-DeGroot, Judy 77

O’Connor, Cleora Francis 83 O’Keefe, Erin Maile 62 O’Keefe, Kevin 62

Tamaren, Michele C. 66 Tanner, Andrew 86 Tersigni, Annette 79 Trudeau, Renée Peterson 70 Tseten, Lama Migmar 54 Tucker, Suzi 65

B Bagnulo, John 40 Baker, Kim 101 Battles, Kiesha 83 Beck, Martha 76 Bergins, Toni 31 Bernstein, Gabrielle 73 Beversdorf, Laurel 96 Beyer, Timothy J. 69 Bilotta, Heather 30 Bodendorf, Kerrie 27 Bolland, Les 36 Borofsky, Antra Kalnins 64 Borofsky, Richard 64 Borysenko, Joan 74 Bregman, Marc 69 Breuer, Maya 83, 86 Britten, Rhonda 76 Broom, Maria 86 Brower, Elena 88 Brown, Missy 29, 63 Brown, Richard P. 47 Buffo, Gerard C. 39 Buttenheim, Megha Nancy 29 Byrne, Hugh 49 C Calarco, Jose 94 Calderon, Catherine 32 Campbell, Erin 38 Campbell, T. Colin 38 Campbell, Thomas M. 38 Cappy, Peggy 80 Carlson, Larissa Hall 25, 98 Carson, Kimberly 92 Casperson, Erin 43 Charon, Rita 71 Chase, Sam 97 Churchill, Kerry 79 Clarke, Catharine 57 Clark, Sara 98 Collins, Kirsten 100 Comia, Eileen C. 39 Cope, Stephen 57, 71, 96 Corn, Seane 101 Coulibaly, Issa 86 Creasy, Sienna 85 Crist, Ray 82 Cushing, Becky 36

D Dalbec, Michelle 35 DeGroot, Al 77 de la Garza, Martha 57 Delgado, Janna 88 Denniston, Paul 77 D’Eramo, Kim 43 Descheneaux, Meegan 27 Dicks, Matthew 32 Divine, Mark and Catherine 80 DJ Mantra 30 Doane, Nicki 87 Dobrinska, Jacquelyn 44 Dooley, Mike 75 Dreyer, Danny 36 Drucker, Karen 74 Dudley, Erin 92 Dunn, Gigi 43 E

G Gale, Kevan 91 Gale, Susannah 34, 35 Galvin, Abbie 78 Garivaltis, Hilary 24 Gates, Rolf 91 Gerbarg, Patricia L. 47 Gilbert, Allison 73 Giovannini, Alex 102 Gokhale, Esther 40 Goldberg, Philip 50 Gordon, James S. 44 Gordon, Rebecca 70 Gormley, JJ 81 Graustein, Lisa 72 Greene, Kevin D. 72 Gross, Steven 56

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P Parashakti 31 Parker, Gail 86 Peal, Arturo 41, 86 Pearce, Adam 101 Pearce, Kyla 101 Peeler, Sage 30 Peirce, Rudy 88 Pesendian, Matt 79 Piver, Susan 51 Pransky, Jillian 71, 89 Prinster, Tari 85 R Raheem, Octavia 86 Randolph, Ann 30 Rao, Nina 50 Red Eagle (Shawn Stevens) 86 Reinau, Maja 57 Reis, Jennifer 90 Remelius, Tracy 34 Rhoades, Don 77 Rice-Inkles, Dehanna 47 Richards, Dharma 81 Roche, Lorin 53 Roche, Melanie 47

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Continuing Education and Continuing Medical Education Credits

More than 100 programs to choose from.

Continuing Education (CE) credits are available for • Ayurvedic Professionals (NAMA) • Coaches (ICF) • Massage Therapists (NCBTMB)

Kripalu is not recognized by the state of New York to offer continuing education credits to massage therapists through NCBTMB.

• Nurses (NURS)

Nursing continuing education credits are provided through Berkshire AHEC.

• Psychologists (PSY) • Registered Dietitians (RD) • Social Workers (SW)

Kripalu is not recognized by the state of New York to offer continuing education credits to social workers through the Collaborative of NASW-MA Chapter and the Boston College and Simmons College Schools of Social Work.

• Yoga Teachers (YA)

Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits are available for • Physicians (MD/DO)

Berkshire Health Systems is accredited by the Massachusetts Medical Society to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.

Please note CE eligibility is subject to change. Check your program on the Kripalu website for the most accurate CE information.

Look for CE and CME credits with program descriptions.

Please note that credit fees are nonrefundable after the last day of your stay.

Integrate your life, your career, and your practice with our many programs that offer CE and CME credits.

For more information, visit kripalu.org/cecredits

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Natural Spiritual Progress p. 84

The Universe Has Your Back p. 73

Yoga, Meditation, and Nature Retreat p. 89

Freedom, Ecstasy, and Awakening p. 52

Forrest Yoga Advanced Teacher Training p. 94

Navigating the Storm p. 76

Come Home to Yourself p. 88

A Women's Spiritual Retreat p. 74

Teaching and Living the Yoga Sutras p. 91

The Art and Science of Yogic Meditation p. 54

Yoga for Life p. 99

Our Fathers, Ourselves p. 68

E X T R AO R D I N A RY E V E N T S JULY 6–9

JULY 9–14

Learn from master teachers in this weekend of yoga, dancing, drumming, and chanting. p. 86

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