YOGA | AYURVEDA | MINDFULNESS | HEALTH | NATURE | NUTRITION Summer 2020 JUNE—AUGUST
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programs and trainings to inspire, educate, and empower 100+ ways to earn CE and CME credits
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Find Your WELCOME TO KRIPALU Consistently rated “Best Yoga and Wellness Retreat Center,� Kripalu is located in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. For 48 years, Kripalu has been a leader in yoga- and mindfulness-based education. More than just poses on a mat, we believe yoga is an accessible practice that inspires connection, compassion, and joy.
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Make Kripalu your go-to destination for summer inspiration. Join us for fun-filled and profound experiences to enliven your body, mind, and soul. At Kripalu, nature sings while music from Tanglewood fills the air. Along with Tanglewood, there’s the Norman Rockwell Museum, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and other attractions that contribute to the Berkshires' renowned blend of natural beauty and cultural activities. Open your heart to all the wonderful possibilities in store for you here. Love is all around.
WHAT'S NEW
Signature
From compelling immersions with Laura Lynne Jackson, Jack Kornfield, and Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo; to upgrades to our guest rooms (comfy new mattresses and blackout shades); to fresh offerings in Healing Arts, Kripalu continues to grow and flourish. In addition, take note of our Kripalu Signature programs—offered exclusively at our center—throughout the catalog.
Our Mission As a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization, our mission is to empower people and communities to realize their full potential through the transformative wisdom and practice of yoga. “Kripalu” is a registered trademark of Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health.
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June Programs July Programs August Programs Fall Previews RISE Further Your Education Plan Your Visit Make an Impact
EDITORIAL FEATURES 10 Offline at Kripalu Tech-free and loving it 29 On the Cover Meet our cover couple 44 Find Your Path Highlights of the Kripalu Grounds 59 Five Ways to Mindfully Connect with Nature This Summer Tips from Micah Mortali 65 How to Eat in Summer An Ayurvedic guide
perience Don’t miss! Incredible opportunities, only at Kripalu. 37 Yoga Summer Camp 39 Initiating Womanhood 50 Kripalu Family Retreat 51 Past Lives, Present Purpose 57 The Numinous Mystery School 67 The Miracle of Healing 71 Yoga Retreat for Women of Color 74 Using RISE for Resilience at Work See more at kripalu.org/onlyatkripalu 800.741.7353 or kripalu.org | 3
“Yoga has the way I Nalrudee K., Kripalu guest Which program I took: R&R Retreat
My biggest takeaway: Silent breakfast is the best. You can really center yourself for the day when you start with silence.
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Programs we recommend... 6 Kripalu R&R Retreat 11 Introduction to Kripalu Yoga
I’ve been practicing yoga for about
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eight years now, and it has changed
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my life significantly. Yoga has shown me
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that slowing down and being present in the moment can completely change your perspective. That’s what Kripalu is all
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about. The energy here is so invigorating. I knew I was in the right place the moment I stepped foot in the lobby.
Read more stories: kripalu.org/guest-stories
Try a soothing Kripalu Meditative Massage. Find out more at kripalu.org/healingarts
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R&R Retreat Your stay, your way. A Kripalu retreat provides everything you need to reconnect with yourself. This summer, put self-care center stage by planning a rejuvenating Berkshires getaway, free from the typical distractions—and devices—of everyday life.
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This June, visit Kripalu to • Settle into stillness in a meditation or Yin Yoga class • Experience the soothing gifts of nature on a mindful hike • Savor the simple pleasures of time that’s unplanned and unplugged.
Kripalu R&R is available year round. View workshop schedules and book now at kripalu.org/rr
Kripalu R&R includes • Three delicious, nutritious meals per day • Expert-led workshops and guided outdoor activities • Daily all-levels yoga and Kripalu YogaDance® • Evening events and program samplers • Use of our amenities: sauna, whirlpool, labyrinth, fitness room, walking and hiking trails, and more. JUNE MIDWEEK RATES $85 per day plus housing; p. 86 JUNE WEEKEND AND HOLIDAY RATES $95 per day plus housing; p. 86
JUNE CREATIVE EXPRESSION
JUNE 5–7 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
The Spiritual Art of Memoir DISCOVER THE INVISIBLE THREAD OF GRACE
Joan Borysenko FOR everyone. CE credits. Immerse yourself in the art of story in this weekend with Joan Borysenko. Every story can be viewed as having both an inside and outside. The outside is linear, rooted in what the Greeks called Chronos, clock-time. Inside you can find a hidden thread of grace, the archetypal story of awakening that lives in the world of Kairos, the timeless dimension. Through meditation, reading, and contemplative writing, you • Learn ways to expand your imagination and tap into your creativity • Gain perspective on your life and uncover the roots of your spiritual journey • Reflect on your relationships and their meanings • Find your voice and use it to identify the narrative arcs of your life • Create an outline for a memoir • Learn the connection between story, health, and well-being. Join a supportive community that has gathered to share the legacy of their lives. Leave inspired and ready to write. TUITION $295 plus housing; p. 86
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.
SELF-DISCOVERY
JUNE 5–7 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
CHEMISTRY of CONNECTION Tara Bennett-Goleman, Daniel Goleman, Aaron Wolf, and RJ Sadowski, Jr., with his horses Star and Red Cloud
TARA BENNETT-GOLEMAN, MA, is a
Connection begins within, then radiates out to create a greater sense of interconnection at every level. This unique program mixes lecture, meditation, group work, and horse whispering to explore the inner, interpersonal, and interspecies dimensions that can help us turn toward a greater awareness and compassion in relationships of all kinds.
DANIEL GOLEMAN, PHD, brought the concept of emotional intelligence to a global audience and for many years reported on behavior and the brain in the New York Times.
Tara Bennett-Goleman integrates Eastern and Western psychologies and practices to transform modes that separate us into patterns that connect us, while Daniel Goleman offers scientific findings from social neuroscience on empathy and relationships. Aaron Wolf shares methods for conflict transformation and effective communication skills, and RJ Sadowski, Jr., demonstrates the principles of horse whispering, offering a powerful model for building trust and security in relationships. NOTE Participants will observe demos with Star and Red Cloud; no riding required. The horses are featured in one of the four program sessions. TUITION $395 plus housing; p. 86
teacher, psychotherapist, and author of Mind Whispering and New York Times best-seller Emotional Alchemy.
AARON WOLF is a water resource scientist at Oregon State University and a trained mediator who directs the Program in Water Conflict Management and Transformation. RJ SADOWSKI, JR., is a professional horseman who draws on his method of HorseMindShip™ to demonstrate the principles of horse whispering. See Kripalu website for additional presenter bios.
EVENING EVENT
Chemistry of Connection Through Dance SATURDAY, JUNE 6 7:30–9:00 PM Join Indian kathak dancer Seema Mehta and tap dancer Jason Samuel Smith for an evening of dance, collaboration, and demonstration of the power of connection through the universal language of rhythm. For more event information, visit the program at kripalu.org.
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CREATIVE EXPRESSION
JUNE 5–7 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
A Zentangle Weekend EXPLORING BEYOND THE BASICS WITH SHADES OF GRAY
Molly Hollibaugh and Martha Huggins with special guests Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas FOR everyone. Explore the Zentangle Method—a relaxing, easy-to-learn method of creating nonrepresentational, unplanned images by drawing structured patterns called tangles— from experts Molly Hollibaugh and Martha Huggins, daughters of Zentangle founders Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas. In this program, you • Focus on adding shades of gray to your Zentangle art to make it come alive in a new way • Work with white, tan, and gray tiles to add depth and illusion, while making your twodimensional drawings pop • Learn tangles that have unique shading opportunities and see how they transform and elevate your art
SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MEDITATION
JUNE 5–7 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
INTUITION IGNITED AWAKEN YOUR INTUITION to POSITIVE CHANGE Laura Lynne Jackson Imagine implicitly trusting your intuition, never doubting yourself, and being in a place where you listen to your gut. Join Laura Lynne Jackson in a healing program designed to infuse your life with newfound confidence. Come foster connection with your “Team of Light” on the Other Side and activate your psychic abilities to build a life of connection, clarity, and awakening. Tap into your innate powers with practices that help you • Learn about the four Cs: clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, and claircognizance • Establish a connection with your spirit guides • Receive messages from the Other Side • Take inspired action in manifesting your dreams. Come prepared to forge a light-filled path while awakening to your highest potential. TUITION $355 plus housing; p. 86
LAURA LYNNE JACKSON, international speaker, teacher, and psychic medium, is author of The Light Between Us and Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe.
• Explore the advanced tangling techniques of working in layers, to further instill your trust with the process. Return home with new inspiration to continue your own meditative tangling practice. NOTE Tuition includes all supplies. TUITION $395 plus housing; p. 86
MOLLY HOLLIBAUGH has worked in both furniture and jewelry design and has pursued an intense practice of the Zentangle Method.
MARTHA HUGGINS taps into her yoga experience to guide students through their own natural process of finding their creativity. RICK ROBERTS AND MARIA THOMAS are the cofounders of Zentangle and codevelopers of the Zentangle Method.
JUNE PROGRAMS with RAPHAEL CUSHNIR
SELF-DISCOVERY
JUNE 5–7 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
SELF-DISCOVERY
Past-Life Regression for Healing and Transformation
JUNE 7–12 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Total Immersion for Total Transformation
Mira Kelley FOR everyone. Transform your health and relationships and gain clarity on your life’s 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 past-life 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. RECOMMENDED READING Mira Kelley, Beyond Past Lives. NOTE Bring a journal. TUITION $260 plus housing; p. 86
MIRA KELLEY is a worldrenowned expert on past-life regression and the best-selling author of Beyond Past Lives.
SELF-DISCOVERY
JUNE 5–7 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Setting Your Heart on Fire A PASSIONATE PRACTICE TO LIBERATE YOUR LIFE “To live in accord with love is to set your heart on fire. In the crucible of such an inferno all convention burns away. What’s left is an entirely new kind of existence, one full of passion, presence, and infinite possibility.” —Setting Your Heart on Fire What if you could fall absolutely in love with every moment? What if you could use love’s radiance to heal your deepest wounds and break through any personal block, including those about career, relationships, family, weight, self-esteem, and addiction? All of this is possible and happens naturally when you stop trying to change and instead relax into life. This program is designed to meet you where you are and then call forth your very best. Learn the simple, practical steps necessary to • Experience all emotions with willingness and compassion
Metaphysical Services Explore offerings such as tarot and astrology readings, psychic medium consultations, and other healing arts while at Kripalu. kripalu.org/healingarts
• Uncover and transform your limiting beliefs
Get ready for five intense days of ecstatic rebirth. Raphael Cushnir creates a safe and gentle environment in which to take a thrilling leap forward in consciousness. With Raphael’s expert guidance, you find “the light inside the dark” and draw upon emotional-release work, journaling, small-group exercises, meditation, movement, yoga, chant, collage, subtle-energy practices, and mindheart attunements. This program is for you if you are 100 percent willing to • Determine the precise aspects of your life that are calling for healing and change • Begin that healing and change on the very first day of the workshop • Commit to an action plan for its completion • Receive the incomparable support of a small, like-minded community. With your group, co-design a unique transformational experience all your own and end the program with a practical road map for real-life integration when you return home. The benefits begin immediately and continue for the rest of your life. TUITION $365 plus housing; p. 86
RAPHAEL CUSHNIR is an author who lectures and coaches worldwide. His books include The One Thing Holding You Back and Surfing Your Inner Sea.
• Create a life of greater ease, joy, and exquisite connection. TUITION $265 plus housing; p. 86
COMBINE THESE PROGRAMS for a 10 percent tuition discount for each program.
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Offline at Kripalu This summer, let go of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and embrace being offline—at home, on vacation, or here at Kripalu. When we disconnect from technology, we’re actually creating greater connection. We cultivate presence, enhance mindfulness, and strengthen our ability to savor our in-themoment experience—what we’re doing right here, right now, not what we could or “should” be doing. Research shows that doing less and unplugging more ignites a sense of freedom, expansiveness, and well-being. Going offline supports our physical health as well: Reducing electronic stimuli calms the sympathetic (fight-or-flight) nervous system and activates the parasympathetic system, which controls the rest-and-digest functions that regulate heart rate, digestion, and immune function. And according to Ayurveda, unplugging also helps bring us into harmony with nature and its daily and seasonal rhythms—balancing what’s known as vata dosha, the quality associated with action, vision, and receiving information. Breaking the tech habit isn’t easy, but the rewards can be life changing. Learn more about how Ayurveda views technology, read about the evidence-based benefits of unplugging, and get tips for going offline kripalu.org/offline
SELF-DISCOVERY
JUNE 5–7 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Abandonment to Healing OVERCOME YOUR PATTERNS OF SELF-SABOTAGE
Susan Anderson FOR everyone. CE credits. Abandonment is a primal fear that 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 self-defeating 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 • Bounce back from depression and low energy. Susan excels at creating safe, open, lifechanging processes within groups. Professionals will learn abandonment recovery techniques to take back to their clients. TUITION $265 plus housing; p. 86
SUSAN ANDERSON has devoted 30 years of clinical experience and groundbreaking research to helping people resolve abandonment wounds and overcome self-sabotage.
Kripalu Schools Training JUNE 5–14 9-DAY PROGRAM
650-Hour Ayurvedic Health Counselor Certification, Module 4 Sunil Joshi, Margrit Mikulis, and Rosy Mann PREREQUISITE 200-Hour Foundations of Ayurveda
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JUNE 7–10 SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY
Introduction to
Kripalu Yoga Steven Leonard
FOR those new to yoga or interested in learning about Kripalu Yoga. CE credits. Yoga gains popularity each year, and for many people wishing to explore its benefits, it’s hard to know where to start. This program focuses on the fundamentals of yoga while demystifying the postures and language of this ancient methodology, so you can feel confident and comfortable as you start your practice.
The Kripalu Ayurvedic Health Counselor Certification is for those who want to practice Ayurveda professionally. Through in-depth study, this training prepares you to provide Ayurvedic lifestyle consultations and holistic therapies.
In a safe, supportive environment, you learn
In this module, you build your skills by exploring theories from the classical texts of Ayurveda and developing Ayurvedic tools for managing vata, the king of the doshas. You also present clinical case studies and receive oneon-one clinical mentoring.
Feel self-assured next time you step on the mat and gain the knowledge you need to get the most from your yoga, whether you’re practicing on your own or in a group class.
This module concludes with a formal graduation ceremony to celebrate with classmates, friends, and family.
• Accessible yoga postures, breathing techniques, and meditation practices • How to stay safe and stable in your postures, and how to modify for your own body • Practical applications of yogic philosophy to enrich your life • Simple sequences you can do at home.
TUITION $309 plus housing; p. 86
STEVEN LEONARD, a Lead Faculty member at Kripalu, is a functional movement specialist, meditation educator, teacher trainer for the Kripalu School of Yoga, and Mindful Outdoor Guide.
TUITION $1,074 plus housing; p. 86
SUNIL JOSHI, BAMS, MD (AYU), is a world-renowned Ayurvedic physician from Nagpur, India. He serves on the advisory board of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing.
MARGRIT MIKULIS, ND, is a naturopathic doctor, clinician, and faculty member for the Kripalu School of Ayurveda.
ROSY MANN has more than 15 years of experience as an Ayurvedic doctor. She offers personal Ayurvedic consultations, as well as educational courses, lectures, and workshops.
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YOGA
JUNE 7–12 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Advanced Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training Abby Bordner and Niisa Morton FOR yoga teachers interested in learning about the experience of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum through the lenses of the chakras, psychology, philosophy, physical changes, empowerment, and education in order to work with pregnant people and their families. CE credits.
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
JUNE 7–10 SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY
RISE for HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS Sam Chase and Lisa B. Nelson CE/CME credits.
RISETM for Healthcare Professionals is an opportunity to experience firsthand the evidence-based RISE program for mindful stress resilience. Proven to reduce stress and increase mindfulness, RISE gives you the tools necessary to manage burnout, improve personal health, and enhance patient care. In this program, you • Unpack workplace and industry stressors and their impact on your personal well-being • Examine mindful stress resilience through scientific research and real-world application • Explore personal and system-wide barriers to mindful clinical practice and map an approach to reinvigorate your work as it relates to mission and service • Learn several mindfulness-based tools to manage stress and enhance service. TUITION $775 plus housing; p. 86
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.
LISA B. NELSON, MD, is a family practice physician, Director of Medical Education for Kripalu programs, and a Kripalu faculty member who has trained thousands of individuals in mind-body practices for health and vitality.
Deepen your understanding of how to work with pregnant and postpartum people as you enhance your teaching skills. In this advanced training with Abby Bordner and Niisa Morton, you learn how to lead Yoga Born, a yogabased childbirth education program. Other topics covered include • Trimester changes, nutrition, and self-care • Choices in medical care • The physical and emotional stages of labor • Comfort during labor and pain-coping strategies • Hospital procedures and medications • The energetic body, or chakras, related to pregnancy and childbirth • Breastfeeding and bonding with baby • Pelvic floor anatomy and rehabilitation • The koshas and gunas. NOTE This program provides 32 CE hours for Yoga Alliance. See the Kripalu website for more information. TUITION $435 plus housing; p. 86
ABBY BORDNER, CLD, CLE, ICCE, is a consultant and trainer for pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and early childhood.
NIISA MORTON, E-RYT 500, RPYT, C-IAYT, YACEP, is a Kripalu/Pranakriya Yoga instructor, birth educator, and certified yoga therapist who serves as adjunct faculty for Kripalu’s 300-hour yoga teacher training.
JUNE YOGA
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MEDITATION
JUNE 7–12 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
JUNE 9–12 TUESDAY–FRIDAY
JUNE 12–14 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
The Magic and Miracles of Energy Medicine Yoga
Anatomy Trains in Structure and Function
Meditation Fusion
Lauren Walker
Meredith Stephens
FOR people with min. 6 months of yoga
FOR manual practitioners such as massage
Steven Leonard, Amanbir Singh, Nina Crist, Carlos A. Perez, and Coby Kozlowski
experience. CE credits.
therapists, physical therapists, and chiropractors, as well as movement professionals with an interest in hands-on therapies. CE credits.
Experience new levels of joy and coherence by exploring Energy Medicine Yoga. This exciting approach combines cuttingedge science with time-honored yogic tools to amplify the power of your existing practice. The integration of yoga and energy medicine works to balance all nine of your energy systems, boost your body’s healing power, and alleviate physical and emotional issues. By incorporating Lauren Walker’s simple techniques into your existing discipline, you can achieve harmony in a brand-new way. In this program, you learn • A daily manifestation routine • Ways to clear your field to help you reach your full potential
Transform your view of myofascial anatomy and expand your ability to assess postural and movement patterns, develop strategies, and apply manual therapy techniques in this program with Meredith Stephens. Anatomy Trains, developed by Tom Myers, offers a revolutionary map with practical results that helps you see and understand bodies in terms of postural patterns, showing you how to trace the lines of strain and use your hands to develop lasting fascial change. In this program, which combines Anatomy Trains theory with structural and functional anatomy and analysis, you learn
FIVE TEACHERS, FIVE STYLES
FOR all levels. CE credits. Meditation is a vast tradition that includes various intentions, techniques, and perspectives. With so many options available, it can be hard to make sense of it all and find a style that works for you. The key to a satisfying meditation practice is to discover the approach that truly fits your life. In this program, you can experience five different meditation methods with five diverse experts and discover what is unique about each and what they have in common. Come explore • Freestyle Meditation with Steven Leonard • Kundalini Meditation with Amanbir Singh • Tai Chi Moving Meditation with Nina Crist
• About the myofascial tissue and its many roles in the body
• Crystal Bowl Sound Meditation with Carlos A. Perez
• The latest information on fascia, muscle, and movement
• Instinctive Meditation with Coby Kozlowski.
• The 12 myofascial meridians and their link to human growth, development, perception, and consciousness
Learn how your meditation practice can be as unique and dynamic as your life.
NOTE Please bring a journal, pen, and an object to place on the altar.
• Strategies specific to your clients’ structural and functional patterns.
TUITION $260 plus housing; p. 86
TUITION $385 plus housing; p. 86
Return home with new techniques for transforming structure and assessing your clients in a fresh way.
• How to design a personalized Energy Medicine Yoga practice. Harnessing the ability to heal, manifest, calm, center, thrive, and deeply love yourself is the fruit of this practice.
LAUREN WALKER is the creator of Energy Medicine Yoga and author of Energy Medicine Yoga: Amplify the Healing Power of Your Yoga Practice and The Energy Medicine Yoga Prescription.
NOTE This course is the prerequisite for the ATSI Professional Certification Training. TUITION $450 plus housing; p. 86
MEREDITH STEPHENS, PHD, PT, LMT, BCSI, has more than 20 years of experience as a fitness, Pilates, and yoga instructor; personal trainer; and physical therapist.
STEVEN LEONARD, a Lead Faculty member at Kripalu, is a functional movement specialist, meditation educator, teacher trainer for the Kripalu School of Yoga, and Mindful Outdoor Guide.
AMANBIR SINGH, LAC, is a Kundalini Yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and licensed acupuncturist based in New York City.
See Kripalu website for additional presenter bios.
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SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MEDITATION
CREATIVE EXPRESSION
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
JUNE 12–14 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
JUNE 12–14 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
JUNE 12–14 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Energy Medicine and Quantum Self-Healing
The Healing Power of Creativity
Sue Morter
Kim Krans
Breath-Body-Mind for Transformation and Well-Being
Quantum science shows us that everything in our world—including our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs—is energy held in different patterns. Explore the truth of who you are as an energy being under the expert guidance of Sue Morter, cocreator of the Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique and founder of the Morter Institute for Bioenergetics. Spend time with Sue and learn how her personal journey enabled her to awaken to a greater version of her Soulful Self.
FOR everyone.
Richard P. Brown and Patricia L. Gerbarg
In this program, Sue invites you to experience your own personal awakening. Through quantum science, neuroscience, and energy medicine, you • Become a powerful creator of your life experience • Learn how to work with subtle energy • Master the flow of energy through your heart, mind, and body • Shift from living in your head to living in your wholeness. TUITION $295 plus housing; p. 86
SUE MORTER, DC, an interna-
There is a mythic, mysterious, and immensely powerful creative force within each of us that can heal and transform both our inner and outer world. Through yoga, meditation, writing, and collage, Kim Krans shows you how to access the creative forces within and find your own path toward a more creative life. As a group, you also contemplate and discuss select pieces of artwork, imagery, and writing from a vast lineage of artists. This program is open to anyone interested in expanding their relationship to creativity, regardless of prior experience in the arts. The only prerequisite is curiosity and courage. TUITION $285 plus housing; p. 86
KIM KRANS, an artist, author, and creator of the New York Times best-seller The Wild Unknown Tarot, leads events that activate transformation through creative practices, meditation, and movement.
tional speaker, master of bioenergetic medicine, and author, has worked for more than 30 years as a doctor and facilitator interested in natural healing for a better life.
CE credits.
Learn breathing techniques proven to relieve stress and improve mood, mental focus, and performance. The benefits have been enjoyed by thousands of adults and children worldwide, including healthcare practitioners, yoga teachers, military veterans, and individuals with PTSD, anxiety, depression, ADHD, cancer, and other medical conditions. Many people who have practiced these techniques say they have been transformed, and that they never would have imagined something so simple could be so powerful and helpful. Through movement, breathing, and relaxation techniques, you learn to • Increase your stress resilience and renew your energy • Increase lung capacity, oxygenation, and cardiorespiratory health • Connect to yourself and others • Improve relationships and empathic abilities. Learn more about this groundbreaking work at breath-body-mind.com. NOTE This program fulfills the prerequisite for Breath-Body-Mind Level 1 teacher training. Tuition includes a manual and the Breath-Body-Mind Level 1 practice CD. TUITION $295 plus housing; p. 86
Each time I come to Kripalu, I discover parts of myself that I needed to find.” —Kripalu guest
RICHARD P. BROWN, MD, an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, is a certified teacher of aikido, qigong, yoga, and meditation.
PATRICIA L. GERBARG, MD, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College, researches the efficacy of mind-body practices for posttraumatic stress disorders and depression.
JUNE
There is always something magical that happens to me at Kripalu. My life always shifts for the better after one of my visits.” —Claude R., Kripalu guest HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
SELF-DISCOVERY
YOGA
JUNE 12–14 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
JUNE 12–14 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
JUNE 12–14 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Go with Your Gut
Activate Your Abundance
Go with the Flow
EATING AND LIVING WITH INTUITION AND SELF-TRUST
UNLOCK YOUR ENERGY THROUGH KUNDALINI YOGA TO ACCELERATE YOUR SUCCESS
A VINYASA IMMERSION
Brianna Rose
FOR all levels. CE credits.
FOR women. CE credits.
We live in a busy world, where managing the pace of life can feel overwhelming. This program is an invitation to slow down and move with the rhythm of life. Using the principles of vinyasa, explore a deeper relationship to your limitless self, both on and off the yoga mat. Learn practices designed to awaken a creative, intuitive union between mind and body, so you feel balanced, not burned out.
Robyn Youkilis FOR everyone. What’s your gut saying? Seventy-five percent of adults suffer from digestive issues such as bloating, constipation, or indigestion. But, often, it’s not just what we eat that needs to shift in order to alleviate these issues. These symptoms can be signs that a larger change needs to take place.
If you’re ready to make an impact and share your gifts with the world, join Brianna Rose and a community of like-minded women for a retreat designed to transform the way you view your life and conduct your business.
In this program designed to explore the connection between your natural intuition and a healthy belly, Robyn Youkilis helps you tap into this philosophy in order to live a more joy-filled life.
Through Kundalini Yoga and a soul-aligning strategy, you explore your potential, unlock your Kundalini energy, and take action in creating your dream life. In this program, you
Come learn
• Use embodiment techniques to tap into your highest potential
• How paying attention to your gut can be the gateway to your intuition • Practical tools for bringing this connection into your everyday life • A simple, three-step method for eating mindfully • How to decode your cravings to best fuel your life
• Practice Kundalini kriyas as a way of accelerating your success • Work toward healing on a deep cellular level • Discover ways to awaken the Light Leader within.
• Which supplements could help clear the lines for communication
Return home feeling empowered, clear on your purpose, and ready to raise your vibration through your leadership and work.
• The secret behind fermented foods, how to make your own, and how to buy them
TUITION $275 plus housing; p. 86
• Tips for optimal nutrition and supporting your digestive fire.
BRIANNA ROSE is a Kundalini business coach for women entrepreneurs, CEO of the Light Leader Collective, INC, and creator of the Light Leader
TUITION $275 plus housing; p. 86
ROBYN YOUKILIS, a certified health coach, speaker, and leading expert in holistic digestive health, is author of the bestsellers Go with Your Gut and Thin from Within.
movement.
Sara Clark and Jess Frey
Immerse yourself in • Fluid vinyasa sequences that ignite your heart and honor the unique way your body moves • Embodied mindfulness and meditations that quiet the inner critic and strengthen your gut instinct • The beauty of nature in practices that calm your nervous system and reconnect you to the power presence • Creativity to unlock your vision of a life that excites and inspires you. Return home feeling renewed, grounded, and ready to say yes to an abundant life. TUITION $260 plus housing; p. 86
SARA CLARK, EYT 500, known for her compassionate and creative teaching style, is a certified vinyasa and mindfulness teacher residing in New York City.
JESS FREY, E-RYT 1000, is a Kripalu Yoga educator, life coach, and artist known for her authenticity, motivation, and depth.
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SELF-DISCOVERY
JUNE 14–19 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Tools for Transformation YOGA THERAPEUTICS, AYURVEDA, AND NUTRITION PRACTICES FOR HEALTHY LIVING
Baxter Bell and Melina Meza FOR everyone. It is never too late, or too early, to adapt your life for a healthier tomorrow. Join Baxter Bell and Melina Meza for a fun week of therapeutic yoga, nutrition, and Ayurveda that encourages you to develop sustainable, well-rounded practices for healthy, holistic living.
SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MEDITATION
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
JUNE 14–16 SUNDAY–TUESDAY
JUNE 14–17 SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY
This Next Breath
Advanced Training in Motivational Interviewing
Morning sessions include a yoga class followed by an experiential talk on practical yoga therapeutics, nutrition, and Ayurveda. Late-afternoon sessions weave gentle therapeutic practices with relevant health topics. Come explore daily techniques that promote quality of life, longevity, and physical health, as well as
BEYOND THE BASICS
• Increased bone and muscle strength
Dana Sturtevant
• Improved digestion
MODERN PRACTICE, ANCIENT TRADITION
Tom Gillette FOR all levels. CE credits. Breath touches every part of your life, every moment of awareness animating body, mind, and beyond. Spiritual traditions and ideas may vary, but every living being participates in this next breath. For centuries, yogis have venerated the breath as Spirit itself, moving and manifesting in this world. Return home feeling refreshed, joyous, and ready to bring This Next Breath into your daily life. RECOMMENDED READING B. K. S. Iyengar, Light on Pranayama; Andre van Lysbeth, Pranayama; Swami Kripalu, Science of Meditation; and Leslie Kaminoff, Yoga Anatomy. NOTE Tuition includes a manual. Wear comfortable, relaxed yoga clothing. TUITION $250 plus housing; p. 86
TOM GILLETTE, known for his wealth of experience and lighthearted depth, is creator of the online course This Next Breath and author of Sayings of the Breath.
FOR helping professionals and healthcare
• Decreased inflammation
providers. CE credits.
• Better sleep
Becoming skilled in Motivational Interviewing (MI)—a practical, evidence-based approach for supporting people in making and sustaining behavior change—is like learning to play an instrument: it takes time and practice. This dynamic training is ideal for individuals who have learned the basics of MI and are using it in professional settings, including social workers, coaches, counselors, clergy, dietitians, care managers, yoga therapists, physicians, and many others.
Return home ready to implement what you’ve learned, making informed choices to help you move through life with more ease.
Using demonstrations, filmed examples, “real-plays,” case studies, and small-group exercises, Dana Sturtevant guides you through a sequence of learning activities to move from basic competence with MI to more advanced clinical skillfulness in your particular area of work. RECOMMENDED READING William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick, Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change. TUITION $310 plus housing; p. 86
DANA STURTEVANT, MS, RD, is a dietitian, motivational interviewing trainer, speaker, and writer who helps people heal body shame and reclaim Body Trust®.
• Heart health.
TUITION $380 plus housing; p. 86
BAXTER BELL, MD, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, is a physician, medical acupuncturist, certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and coauthor of Yoga for Healthy Aging.
MELINA MEZA, E-RYT 500, Ayurvedic Health Educator, holds a BS in nutrition and has been sharing her knowledge of yoga, Ayurveda, and whole-foods nutrition for more than 20 years.
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS CREATIVE EXPRESSION
JUNE 14–19 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Kirtan Bliss Immersion CHANT AND BE HAPPY
David Newman and Amah Devi FOR everyone; no prior musical experience required. CE credits.
Join David Newman, Amah Devi, and a community of openhearted seekers in this playful, interactive immersion filled with self-expression, connection, and deep healing through the transformative power of mantra. If you have been looking to open your heart, explore your voice, and delve into chanting, come bask in the ecstasy of kirtan on a blissful journey into sound and spirit. In addition to group chanting, storytelling, bhakti yoga, and mantra translation and pronunciation, you also • Learn to play the harmonium with simple chants • Gain confidence in the unique beauty of your voice • Engage your innate musicality as a foundation for cultivating a regular chanting practice • Discover joyful tools that carry the love home, so you can keep the chanting going and the sweetness flowing. NOTE You can bring your own harmonium or share one that we provide. TUITION $345 plus housing; p. 86
JUNE 14–19 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Signature
The Kripalu Approach to Healthy Weight Lisa B. Nelson, Aruni Nan Futuronsky, and Annie B. Kay CE credits.
This immersion weaves together evidence-based nutritional and medical information with the contemplative practice of mindfulness, helping you shift the concept of dieting into a journey toward healthy weight and lifelong wellness. Nourish yourself in our caring and supportive environment, and invite changes that will continue to unfold long after you return home. Led by an exceptional faculty of seasoned nutritionists, life coaches, doctors, and yoga teachers, this program includes • Tips to find your optimal, healthy weight, and ways to maintain it • Workshops to develop empowering life skills and a more positive body image • Tools and strategies for weight management • Invigorating, accessible yoga and movement practices • Time to relax, rejuvenate, and connect with others.
DAVID NEWMAN (DURGA DAS) is a renowned sacred chant master, recording artist, singer-songwriter, author, and inspirational teacher.
AMAH DEVI, a bhakti yoga teacher, leads kirtan from a place of devoted service to the greatest possible good.
Discover how to shift into a balanced relationship with your body and sustain the lifestyle changes that will ensure maximum energy and vitality for years to come. TUITION $485 plus housing; p. 86
LISA B. NELSON, MD, is a family practice physician, Director of Medical Education for Kripalu programs, and a Kripalu faculty member who has trained thousands of individuals in mind-body practices for health and vitality.
ARUNI NAN FUTURONSKY is a Kripalu Yoga teacher, life coach, and Legacy Faculty member for Kripalu R&R and Kripalu programs.
ANNIE B. KAY, MS, RDN, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT, is an author, nutritionist, Kripalu faculty member, and important voice in whole-foods nutrition and yoga.
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Kripalu is such a wonderful place. I always leave feeling happier and more enlightened.”
1000
JUNE 14–19 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
—Angela H., Kripalu guest
Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Teacher Training Lakshmi Voelker 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.
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 benefits of yoga to those unable to take part in even a gentle class. In this training, you learn to • Teach an accessible hour-long chair yoga class • Choose appropriate postures and breathing techniques according to individual needs • Discern levels of flexibility and identify precautions and contraindications • Use light weights in chair poses to build bone and muscle mass • Understand anatomy and alignment for chair asanas • Incorporate meditation, relaxation, and breathing techniques to improve health and well-being. Upon completion, you earn a certificate in Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga™. NOTE Tuition includes a manual and access to online training materials, including the Single Chair Yoga, Vol.1 DVD and The Sitting Mountain Series CD. PREREQUISITE 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. TUITION $420 plus housing; p. 86
LAKSHMI VOELKER, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT, YACEP, AYC Ambassador and creator of Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga™, has certified more than 2,000 teachers nationally and internationally.
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
YOGA
JUNE 14–21 7-DAY PROGRAM
JUNE 19–21 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Radiant Lotus Women’s Qigong Level 1 Training and Retreat
Journey into Yoga and Meditation Retreat
Daisy Lee
Brahmani Liebman and Jashoda Edmunds
FOR women; see note regarding certification
FOR all levels. CE credits.
prerequisites below.
Daisy Lee supports women in their quest for health by teaching a self-care practice she calls Radiant Lotus Women’s Qigong (RLWQ), a rejuvenating system passed down to Daisy by her teachers in China, Tibet, and the West. The practice includes graceful, meditative movements synchronized with deep, gentle breathing, as well as shaking, cupping, self-massage, and Tibetan sound healing. You learn simple qigong techniques, with modifications for those who are pregnant or managing a challenging health condition. Practitioners of RLWQ have reported • A reduction or elimination of cysts and benign tumors, fibrocystic breast disease, PMS symptoms, and other hormonal imbalances • More radiant skin • Increased strength, flexibility, energy, and vitality • Improved sleep, empathy, and ability to cope with stress • A sense of empowerment, hopefulness, and general well-being. NOTE You may attend this program as a personal retreat with no experience required. If you wish to teach RLWQ, see the Kripalu website for important certification information. TUITION $995 plus housing; p. 86
DAISY LEE is the founder of Radiant Lotus Women’s Qigong, an empowering system of selfcare taught by women for women.
WALKING THE PATH OF HEART
Calling yogis and yoginis at every age and stage of life! It is possible to live with grace and ease, recognizing your innate peace and wisdom, regardless of your circumstances in life. Longtime Kripalu School of Yoga faculty Brahmani Liebman and Jashoda Edmunds invite you to empower your spiritual journey through the practices of Yin Yoga, Kripalu Yoga, meditation, pranayama, dharma teachings, and psychospiritual inquiry. In a contemplative weekend of compassionate exploration, you • Discover how these practices awaken the flow of energy, positively impacting your mental and emotional states • Increase your range of motion through mindful movement • Learn how the insights and wisdom revealed through heart-centered practice can be used as allies in every aspect of daily life. Life inevitably requires us to navigate through the countless joys and sorrows. These practices and teachings provide a path back home. TUITION $250 plus housing; p. 86
BRAHMANI LIEBMAN, MSED, E-RYT 500, and JASHODA EDMUNDS, E-RYT 500, are cocreators of Journey into Yoga School of Yoga & Meditation teacher trainings, workshops, and retreats, and serve on the Kripalu School of Yoga faculty.
SELF-DISCOVERY
JUNE 19–21 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Signature
The Art of Happiness
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
A BETTER LIFE, A BETTER WORLD
JUNE 19–21 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Howard C. Cutler FOR everyone. CE credits. 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. Recent research has found that increasing your level of happiness leads to a multitude of personal rewards, including better physical health, longer life, improved relationships, stronger marriages, enhanced mental functioning, increased creativity, and greater career success.
Jeremy Rock Smith competed on the Food Network’s popular Chopped cooking show last year!
30-Minute Meals from the Kripalu Kitchen Jeremy Rock Smith FOR everyone. Scrambling every night to get food on the table can be a challenge. Making sure you’re always offering healthy options? Forget it. In today’s busy world, gone are the days of endless time to prepare nutritious meals for your family. Come learn to cook meals from the Kripalu Kitchen that can easily be prepared in 30 minutes or less, with variations to please all palates and dietary needs. Join Kripalu’s Executive Chef, Jeremy Rock Smith, for a program in which you
With lectures, lively discussions, and practical hands-on exercises, this program explores
• Create complete meals in record-breaking time
• Key points of the Art of Happiness
• Explore meal planning, food shopping, and other practical strategies.
• Powerful techniques and exercises drawn from the latest research in neuroscience and positive psychology • The inextricable link between happiness, kindness, and compassion.
• Learn cooking tips to make healthy dishes that taste sinfully good
TUITION $305 plus housing; p. 86
JEREMY ROCK SMITH, Kripalu’s Executive Chef and a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, began his career in classical French cuisine. He is author of The Kripalu Kitchen: Nourishing Food for Body and Soul.
Take home much-loved Kripalu recipes and timehonored cooking practices that guarantee success in every kitchen.
RECOMMENDED READING Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living; The Art of Happiness at Work; and The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World. TUITION $270 plus housing; p. 86
HOWARD C. CUTLER, MD, is a psychiatrist, coauthor with the Dalai Lama of the bestselling The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living, and a leading expert on the science of human happiness.
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SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MEDITATION
JUNE 19–21 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Endless Summer MINDFULNESS MEDITATIONS FOR LONGEVITY AND JOY
Larissa Hall Carlson FOR all levels. Summer sweetness tends to come and go too fast! You might wonder: How can we cultivate lasting feelings of celebration, togetherness, and joy? Larissa Hall Carlson offers refreshing meditations and outdoor mindfulness experiences to access lifelong happiness, vigor, and vitality—from one summer to the next! Tap into your best self and discover the infinite possibilities of tranquility in this program, which includes • Indoor seated meditations as gateways to wisdom and joy • Stargazing, mindful outdoor walks, and meditation on the sounds of nature • Friendly conversation by a flickering campfire • Creation of a group sand mandala to remind ourselves of the deep interconnectedness of all beings and events
SELF-DISCOVERY
• Mindful moments of silence
JUNE 19–21 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
• Techniques to unlock an inner world filled with limitless compassion, contentment, and insight.
GRIEF RELIEF
Being mindful doesn’t have to mean sitting still. A mindful life really can feel like a delightful, connected, endless summer. NOTE Be prepared for gentle walks through fields and nature trails. Appropriate footwear (and rain gear) required. TUITION $265 plus housing; p. 86
LARISSA HALL CARLSON, E-RYT 500, MA, former Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, guides retreats, directs trainings, and provides Ayurvedic consultations across the country.
TRANSFORMING YOUR LIFE AFTER LOSS Maureen Hancock with special guest Rosie Dalton FOR everyone. It’s time for you to live life to the fullest again. Discover ways to connect more deeply with a loved one who has passed, as you reconnect with joy. Join internationally renowned spirit medium and author Maureen Hancock and her special guest, grief coach Rosie Dalton, for a weekend of mediumship, grief work, and finding joy after the loss of a loved one. Through experiential exercises, mediumship demonstrations, and grief coaching, return home with the tools you need to connect more deeply to your spirit loved ones and live a joy-filled life once again. TUITION $295 plus housing; p. 86
MAUREEN HANCOCK is an internationally renowned spirit medium, teacher, holistic healer, and author of the best-selling book The Medium Next Door.
ROSIE DALTON is a life coach, inspirational speaker, grief support group facilitator, intuitive, and energy practitioner.
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS YOGA
JUNE 19–21 FRIDAY–MONDAY
JUNE 19–21 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Breathe Your Way to a Pain-Free Life with YogAlign Michaelle Edwards FOR all levels. CE credits. Discover the power of your breath to tone your core and align your posture from the inside out. Breathing can help you restore balance in the respiratory, cardiovascular, nervous, endocrine, lymph, immune, and digestive systems. Join Michaelle Edwards to learn how to use the breath to tone your trunk muscles, which can then better support spine and joint stability, helping restore balance and agility in your movement while elevating your mood. Focused breathing can also help to change the brain’s innate software for movement, creating better neuromuscular patterns and body perception. Michaelle employs an experiential teaching style that is educational, and fun. This program uses safe, comfortable, functional exercises and body positions that are suitable for all ages and fitness levels. Yoga teachers, massage therapists, coaches, and workshop leaders may find these techniques to be particularly valuable for their students and clients.
Signature
A Mindful Outdoor Retreat Mark Roule and Micah Mortali FOR everyone. The Berkshires—an area long-heralded for its enchanting beauty and ability to refresh the mind, body, and spirit—is an ideal place to practice mindfulness as a doorway to deeper connection with nature and yourself. Join in community with others who share an appreciation for nature and mindfulness in this retreat guided by Kripalu School of Mindful Outdoor Leadership faculty. Enhance your relationship with the natural world as you • Learn to meditate with the elements • Explore waterfalls and pools, and forest bathe in Kripalu’s grove of ancient hemlock • Experience the nine steps of a Kripalu Mindful Outdoor Experience • Practice outdoor skills such as animal tracking, fire-making, and foraging. The concrete tools you learn in this program can help you feel more comfortable outdoors.
TUITION $260 plus housing; p. 86
MARK ROULE, RYT 500, is a Kripalu Yoga teacher and outdoor guide who holds qigong teacher certifications with the Elixir Light and IIQTC schools, and is certified by the Association of Nature and Forest Therapists.
MICAH MORTALI, Director of Outdoor Education and Programming at Kripalu, is the Dean and Founder of the Kripalu School of Mindful Outdoor Leadership and author of Rewilding.
TUITION $285 plus housing; p. 86
MICHAELLE EDWARDS, E-RYT 500, LMT, creator of YogAlign, is a massage therapist, musician, author, and director of the Kauai Yoga School.
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CREATIVE EXPRESSION
JUNE 19–21 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Deep Play for Kids AN EXPLORATION INTO THE SUPERPOWER OF PLAY
Missy Brown FOR kids ages 6–12. Calling all kids! This weekend is overflowing with activities designed to build confidence, cultivate resilience, foster connection, encourage exploration—all while having a blast! Dive deep into the joy of play by taking part in fun discoveries that combine playfulness with mindfulness as you • Express yourself exactly as you are with community-building games • Nourish your body and mind with snacks we make and eat together in Snackasana • Discover “time-in” by building Meditation Islands, where you can take a few breaths, write or draw in a journal, and relax • Practice simple yoga movements, breathing and relaxation techniques, and guided visualization
Signature SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MEDITATION
JUNE 21–24 SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY
The Kripalu Approach to
Meditation
Michelle Dalbec
FOR everyone; no experience needed. CE credits. Immerse yourself in Kripalu’s approach to meditation through empowering introspective practices, grounding breathing techniques, and mindful yoga flows designed to cultivate compassionate self-awareness and sensitivity to prana, the life-force energy. With Michelle Dalbec as your expert guide, you explore • Essential Kripalu methodology to use both on and off the mat
• Meet new friends and share transformational play.
• Accessible tools to help structure a meditation practice and bring more thoughtfulness and reflection into your life
Deep Play for Kids is inclusive and welcomes all.
• Soothing self-care techniques for deep relaxation.
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. NOTE Children in this program must be accompanied at Kripalu by a parent or adult who is registered for a program or an R&R Retreat. Kids meet for morning and afternoon sessions while parents are in their programs. Families are together at mealtimes, in the evenings, and overnight. TUITION $205 plus 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.
Kripalu was rated one of “The Best Meditation Retreats” by Yoga Journal.
Enjoy nourishing foods and Kripalu’s beautiful environment while diving into the heart of your meditation practice.
TUITION $309 plus housing; p. 86
MICHELLE DALBEC, E-RYT 1000, YACEP, is a Lead Faculty member for Kripalu, lead teacher trainer for the Kripalu School of Yoga, a Kripalu R&R Retreat presenter, and a Kripalu RISE Facilitator.
JUNE SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MEDITATION
JUNE 21–26 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Jaguar Yoga and Shamanism PRACTICES TO HONOR THE FEMININE
Donna Bernadina, Nina Crist, Ray Crist, and Don Sebastián Pauccar Flores FOR everyone. Come explore the ancient traditions of the Q’ero people of Peru in a powerful program that celebrates feminine energy as the source of all creation. In the Q’ero culture, the women of the tribe are the creators and healers who deliver nourishment and change.
YOGA
YOGA
JUNE 21–23 SUNDAY–TUESDAY
JUNE 21–26 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
More to Love Yoga AWAKEN YOUR BODY TO LOVE
Yoga and Deep Relaxation Retreat
Rachel Estapa
THE GIFT OF DIVINE SLEEP YOGA NIDRA
FOR larger-bodied people with any experience
Jennifer Reis
in yoga, including beginners.
Flip the script and cultivate self-love, no matter your size. Join Kripalu Yoga teacher Rachel Estapa for a celebration of bodies often left out of mainstream yoga. Tailored to plus-size people, Rachel’s More to Love Yoga® method focuses on how to make yoga comfortable and blissful for bigger bodies, offering transformative experiences to enhance your wellness. Savor the nonintimidating nature of this empowering practice as you gather with others who share similar body types, stories, and desires for lasting body-love. Shaped by More to Love Yoga’s Four Keys of Wellness—body, mentality, heart, and essence—this program guides you through a multitiered approach to well-being. Each session highlights one of these keys, weaving in yoga, movement, personal reflection, and group discussion. This approach provides variety, as well as concrete takeaways, making space for personal insight and ownership of your life. TUITION $399 plus housing; p. 86
RACHEL ESTAPA, RYT 200, founder and CEO of More to Love Yoga®, is a Kripalu Yoga teacher and ICF-accredited wellness coach specializing in plus-sized yoga, health, and wellness.
FOR all levels, including beginners. CE credits. 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 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. In this inspired guided meditation that transforms your whole being, you • Experience deep peace • Feel whole again • Reclaim your inner radiance • Eliminate not only muscular tension but also mental and emotional stress
Learn from the guided shamanic practices of Q’ero elders Donna Bernadina and Don Sebastián Pauccar Flores, alongside Kripalu and Jaguar Yoga instructors Nina Crist and Ray Crist, how to use the feminine nature of fire and water. In this workshop, honor the divine feminine while you • Practice shakti flow yoga • Learn the ancient tool of cord cutting • Discover the balance between power and grace • Receive the Munai ki rite of the womb and the Pampo Mesaoik rites of the healer • Experience both a fire ceremony and water ceremony. TUITION $410 plus housing; p. 86
DONNA BERNADINA, an elder of the Q’ero nation, is a healer and leader. She was trained beginning at the age of seven by the elder women of her village in the Andes. NINA CRIST is a Kripalu Yoga teacher and martial arts instructor who blends a love of nature and movement to inspire and motivate students of all ages.
• Awaken through uplifting yoga practices to balance your elements • Take home easy techniques to foster wellness in daily life. You deserve to feel this good!
RAY CRIST, a Kripalu Yoga
NOTE 24-CE credits Yoga Alliance (YACEP) from provider Jennifer Reis.
teacher and shaman’s apprentice, teaches how to use yoga and shamanism to live a balanced, empowered life.
TUITION $345 plus housing; p. 86
JENNIFER REIS, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, LMT, creator of Five Element Yoga and Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra, is a faculty member for the Kripalu Schools of Yoga and Integrative Yoga Therapy. ®
®
DON SEBASTIÁN PAUCCAR FLORES was initiated by his father as a pacho (Andean shaman), and holds an Incan lineage going back hundreds of years.
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Kripalu Schools Training 1000
JUNE 21–26 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Yin Yoga Teacher Training Jashoda Edmunds and Brahmani Liebman
I loved every yoga class I attended at Kripalu. The teachers are warm and down to earth.” —Mallory D., Kripalu guest YOGA
YOGA
JUNE 21–26 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
JUNE 21–26 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Camp Kula
Radiant Child Yoga Training, Levels 1–3
FIVE DAYS, THREE TEACHERS, TOTAL IMMERSION
Nikki Vilella, Giulia Pline, and Lindsay Ashmun FOR students who have practiced regularly
CE credits.
Yin Yoga is a deep, rewarding practice that synthesizes the contemplative power of meditation with the energy-enhancing properties of yoga and pranayama. It is a perfect complement to active lives and yoga practices, and suitable for practitioners of all levels. Enhance your teaching and discover new ways to explore the body-mind connection using the tools of Yin Yoga in a training that combines hands-on didactic teaching and powerful psychospiritual inquiry.
for at least two years and yoga teachers of all styles. CE credits.
It’s summer camp for adults! The wedgies and mean girls of yesteryear are replaced with an eclectic mix of yogic studies, hikes on wooded Berkshire trails, and long sits in the sauna. Camp Kula began because we recognized that many yoga practitioners are so consumed by their busy lives that it’s hard to fit in a yoga class. Kula is a vigorous, highly creative form of vinyasa that focuses mostly on asana, but also includes the esoteric teachings of yoga, which have so much to offer.
Shakta Khalsa and Lisa Danahy 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 two 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 • Engaging, creative yoga songs, stories, and games to encourage positivity
You learn
Examine the workings of your physical and subtle self as you explore
• Special yoga techniques for children with ADHD, autism, anxiety, and trauma
• The principles of Yin Yoga
• Bandhas, kriyas, and chakra studies
• Pranayamas that support the energy body in Yin postures
• Pranayama, yoga nidra, and meditation
• Cooperative communication and listening skills for effective teaching
• An understanding of the meridian and organ systems and how they relate to Yin Yoga
There’s even time for a hike down to the lake for a swim and a bonfire. Expect to laugh, learn, and float home, with your body, mind, and spirit thoroughly worked over and soaring.
• How to heighten your observation skills. Return home ready to safely and competently lead others in the practice of Yin Yoga. TUITION $582 plus housing; p. 86
JASHODA EDMUNDS, E-RYT 500, and BRAHMANI LIEBMAN, MSED, E-RYT 500, are cocreators of Journey into Yoga School of Yoga & Meditation teacher trainings, workshops, and retreats, and serve on the Kripalu School of Yoga faculty.
• Two sweaty Kula Flow classes daily.
TUITION $395 plus housing; p. 86
NIKKI VILELLA is a senior teacher at Kula Yoga Project in New York City, co-owner of Kula Williamsburg and Kula Soho, and director of Kula’s 200-hour teacher training program. GIULIA PLINE, E-RYT 200,
• 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 There is a $120 fee for manuals, books, CDs, mp3 files, and DVDs payable to the presenter at the first program session. TUITION $645 plus housing; p. 86
SHAKTA KHALSA, E-RYT 500, is an author, Kundalini Yoga teacher, Montessori educator, and founder of Radiant Child® Yoga.
is a former dancer turned yoga practitioner and teacher.
LISA DANAHY, E-RYT 200,
LINDSAY ASHMUN is a for-
founder of Create Calm Yoga Education for Schools, is a Kripalu Yoga teacher and lead trainer for Radiant Child Yoga.
mer dancer turned yoga and Pilates teacher who facilitates classes, workshops, and retreats worldwide.
JUNE YOGA
1000
JUNE 21–26 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Yoga for Injury Prevention and Management HOW TO STAY SAFE AND HAVE A PRACTICE OF LONGEVITY FOR YOU AND YOUR STUDENTS
Kari Harendorf and Glen de los Reyes FOR all levels, including yoga teachers who want to help students with injuries. CE credits.
Wrist issues; neck and shoulder dysfunction; low back, hip, and knee pain—as a culture, we are disconnected from our bodies. The underuse, overuse, and abuse of our joints often leads to inflammation, pain, or injury. Preventing an injury before it begins is the best way to avoid it in the future. Yoga can help us increase inner awareness of sensations, so we can listen to the feedback our body is giving us and become aware of our movement patterns and postural tendencies, restoring balance to our body and increasing well-being. Come explore • Where you are overexerting your body • Which joints you don’t have full range of motion in • Areas you have relied on and exhausted, making them ripe for injury • Functional movement patterns for preexisting injuries. By creating more space in the joints, we move out of compression and may increase the general health of the joint by being centered and balanced. Learn how to use your whole body so that each part functions better and you are more integrated both on and off the mat. NOTE Bring a notebook and comfortable clothes to move in. Any lecture material will be shared with participants. TUITION $395 plus housing; p. 86
KARI HARENDORF, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, yoga therapist, educator, holistic health facilitator, and Reiki Master, has studied exclusively with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee since 2005.
GLEN DE LOS REYES is a strength and conditioning specialist, posturologist, muscle activation technique specialist, motor control restoration specialist, and nutritional therapist who bridges the gap between rehabilitation and fitness.
SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MEDITATION
JUNE 26–28 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
AWAKENING to LOVE, COURAGE, TENDERNESS, and JOY Jack Kornfield CE credits.
The human heart has remarkable capacities for love, compassion, connection, and joy. In this retreat, Jack Kornfield, best-selling author and one of the most beloved teachers of Buddhism in the West, invites you to find renewal, refresh your spirit, and discover a courageous new way to live. Through powerful exercises, favorite meditations, storytelling, and dialogue, you cultivate practices that awaken loving care for yourself and for those around you, allowing you to face this magnificent and troubled world with a wise, loving heart. This is a rare opportunity to experience a retreat with Jack. Extended teaching hours to deepen your practice will be offered. TUITION $395 plus housing; p. 86
JACK KORNFIELD, PHD, one of the leading Buddhist teachers in the West, is author of 16 books and a founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock Center.
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Kripalu Schools Training JUNE 26–JULY 5 9-DAY PROGRAM
Uniting Yoga and Ayurveda: Balancing the Doshas 300-HOUR AYURVEDIC YOGA TEACHER TRAINING 1000
JUNE 26–28 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Natural Spiritual Progress Through Dharma Yoga Sri Dharma Mittra FOR all levels. CE credit.
Larissa Hall Carlson and Kate O’Donnell This course deepens your knowledge of the relationship between yoga and Ayurveda, with classes focused on cultivating prana (life force), agni (inner fire), and ojas (vigor). While here, you participate in daily sadhanas, carve silent time for self-study, and integrate your skills in insightful supervised practicums. You also
Dharma Yoga is one of the most efficient paths toward self-realization available in today’s fast-paced world.
• Explore the relationship between panchamayakosha and the eight limbs of yoga as they relate to Ayurveda
Spend the weekend with a yoga master who has devoted more than a half-century of his life to understanding, practicing, teaching, training new teachers, and redefining traditional yoga. Sri Dharma Mittra offers detailed instruction in
• Learn key postures, breathing practices, and meditation techniques for balancing the doshas (psychophysical constitutions)
• Yoga postures and sequences
• Cultivate useful Ayurvedic tools to adjust yoga class sequencing and personalize private sessions based on the season, time of day, season of life, and basic doshic imbalances.
• Pranayama • Yoga nidra meditation • Seated meditation • Spiritual discourses. This intensive is of special benefit to those with some yoga experience, and yoga teachers who want to share this special knowledge with others. NOTE Sri Dharma’s practice is rigorous and challenging, but open to experienced yogis of all levels. TUITION $310 plus housing; p. 86
SRI 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.
JUNE 28–JULY 3 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Retrain Back Pain EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR A HEALTHY SPINE
Dinneen Vigiano FOR everyone.
1000
YOGA
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
• Experience the different movements of prana, including udana, samana, apana, and vyana
TUITION $1,074 plus housing; p. 86
LARISSA HALL CARLSON, E-RYT 500, MA, former Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, guides retreats, directs trainings, and provides Ayurvedic consultations across the country.
KATE O’DONNELL, an international lecturer and senior yoga teacher, is author of The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook and Everyday Ayurveda Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind: 100 Sattvic Recipes.
Retrain Back Pain® is a movementbased system designed to help you integrate holistic, multidisciplinary back-care techniques into your daily life or your professional practice. Learn how to reduce back pain and inflammation through • Retrain Back Pain exercises • Brain-body connections practices • Yoga, Pilates, and pelvic-core strengthening postures • Breathing techniques • Therapy ball modules • Cognitive reframing of food triggers and tools. Morning workshops are dedicated to hands-on practice, while afternoon sessions focus on ways to implement simple lifestyle improvements for an empowering rehabilitation journey. NOTE Tuition includes a printed workbook and a set of therapy balls. TUITION $420 plus housing; p. 86
DINNEEN VIGIANO, E-RYT 500, YACEP, NKT, is an experienced back-pain specialist and master trainer for Tune Up Fitness® who offers programs to optimize nutrition, improve mobility, and Retrain Back Pain®.
SELF-DISCOVERY
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
JUNE 28–JULY 1 SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY
JUNE 28–JULY 3 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
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? 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, rediscover the wisdom you already carry within you and return home with a road map for the rest of your life.
Signature
Digestive Health Program
AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH Lisa B. Nelson, Erin Casperson, and Annie B. Kay Are you among the one in five Americans who are challenged by gastrointestinal (GI) concerns? Are you interested in improving and caring for your digestive well-being? This program blends the wisdom of Ayurveda and the latest Western science to address your GI challenges and restore your health naturally. Come learn • The effects of chronic stress on GI functioning
TUITION $290 plus housing; p. 86
• Ayurvedic methodology and your body’s natural rhythms to restore balance
MARIA SIROIS, PSYD, is a positive psychologist and seminar leader who teaches with wisdom, authenticity, and humor at the intersection of resilience and flourishing.
• Dietary approaches to decrease inflammation and improve immune function
KARLEE FAIN is a celebrity health and life coach, author, and speaker who helps her clients reclaim time and abundance to realize their best health, lifestyle, and career.
• The role of the microbiome, and how to optimize pre- and probiotics • Strategies for managing gluten and other food sensitivities • Ayurvedic digestive-aid recipes to balance digestive health • Mind-body techniques such as meditation, yoga, and guided imagery. This program is ideal for people who struggle with chronic gastrointestinal symptoms or those diagnosed with IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), constipation, GER (gastroesophageal reflux), celiac disease, or other GI issues. TUITION $485 plus housing; p. 86
LISA B. NELSON, MD, is a family practice physician, Director of Medical Education for Kripalu programs, and a Kripalu faculty member who has trained thousands of individuals in mind-body practices for health and vitality.
ERIN CASPERSON, Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, is an Ayurvedic Health Counselor and a 500-hour Kripalu Yoga teacher.
ANNIE B. KAY, MS, RDN, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT, is an author, nutritionist, Kripalu faculty member, and important voice in whole-foods nutrition and yoga.
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CREATIVE EXPRESSION
YOGA
SELF-DISCOVERY
JUNE 28–JULY 3 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
JUNE 28–JULY 3 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
JUNE 28–JULY 3 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Introduction to Creative Writing
CircusYoga Retreat
Qoya
THE HUMAN ART OF PLAY
BUILDING A PRACTICE
Erin Maile O’Keefe and Kevin O’Keefe
EMBODYING YOUR WISE, WILD, AND FREE FEMININE ESSENCE
Heather Sellers
FOR everyone ages 7–107.
FOR everyone. A regular writing practice strengthens concentration and nourishes creativity. But so often, life gets in the way. Distraction, self-doubt, procrastination, fear, and anxiety trip us up. This program is designed to spark your writing practice, whether you are dusting off a long-held writing dream, have been struggling with writer’s block, or simply want to try something new.
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 • Flying Partner Yoga and partner acrobatics
Guided by award-winning master teacher Heather Sellers, you explore
• Basic circus skills: juggling, diabolo, devil sticks, spinning plates, and more
• A sequence of low-risk, no-fail techniques for developing a creativity practice that fits into your daily life
• Clowning and physical comedy
• Scaffolding skills and generative prompts to jump-start deep, meaningful writing • Common challenges we face as writers— sustaining the practice, finishing things, and tackling difficult material • How to find and nurture a healthy writing community. Return home with a foundation of new skills to help you get back in touch with the core spirit of your creativity, sustaining engagement with yourself and the world. TUITION $395 plus housing; p. 86
• Balancing in asanas and on a tightwire • Thai Yoga massage • 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! NOTE Children in this program must be accompanied by an adult parent or guardian who is also registered for this program. TUITION Adults $325 plus housing; see p. 86. Kids $185 plus children’s housing; call for rates.
HEATHER SELLERS, PHD, is the author of numerous books, including three volumes on the craft of writing. An awardwinning teacher, she is a faculty member at the University of South Florida.
ERIN MAILE O’KEEFE and KEVIN O’KEEFE developed CircusYoga® and Flying Partner Yoga out of their love for yoga, the circus, connection, and play.
Rochelle Schieck FOR women. With so much transformation in ourselves and the world, many of us seek ways to honor our most authentic selves and reconnect to body, mind, heart, and soul. Qoya is based on the idea that, through movement, you remember that your essence is wise, wild, and free. Through ritual, community, and pilgrimage, Qoya empowers you to trust your inner wisdom and feel an embodied resonance of truth. There is no right or wrong way to do Qoya. If it feels right in your body, you’re doing it right. Join Rochelle Schieck to explore • Daily Qoya classes that combine yoga, dance, and other forms of movement • Ways to balance masculine and feminine energy • Self-care and conscious communitybuilding to nurture your soul. Come notice, honor, and express how you feel, and give yourself the gift of time to deeply nourish your highest self. NOTE Bring clothing you feel comfortable moving in and shoes for walking outdoors. TUITION $380 plus housing; p. 86
ROCHELLE SCHIECK, creator of Qoya, a movement system that explores the essence of the feminine, is author of Qoya: A Compass for Navigating an Embodied Life that Is Wise, Wild and Free.
JUNE
Jennifer Hanawald and Phoebe Atkinson
Kripalu Schools Training
FOR everyone, including aspiring, new,
JUNE 28–JULY 24
and experienced coaches, and those interested in pursuing their own goals for positive change. CE credit.
200-Hour Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
JUNE 28–JULY 3 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Positive Psychology Coaching SKILL-BUILDING INTENSIVE
The Positive Psychology Coaching Skill-Building Intensive offers you the opportunity to learn and practice steps, skills, and techniques to help you and others successfully pursue goals for effective change in life, work, health, and relationships. Each day includes presentations, demonstrations, and practice coaching sessions as we work through each step of the CHANGE model for creating long-lasting transformation. This blended-learning course has both online and on-site components. Starting online through Wholebeing Institute, you’re introduced to the research and concepts that form the basis of Positive Psychology Coaching. Then, you spend five days on-site at Kripalu, learning and practicing skills while making real progress toward a meaningful goal of your own. NOTE You are invited to take this course as a stand-alone program or as part of the Positive Psychology Coaching Certification program offered by Wholebeing Institute. No prior experience is required to enroll. TUITION $695 plus housing; p. 86
JENNIFER HANAWALD is a board-certified health and wellness coach and a certified integrative health coach through Duke Integrative Medicine.
PHOEBE ATKINSON, LCSW-R, a psychotherapist and coach in private practice, uses experiential training methods to help groups and individuals gain personal insight and effectiveness.
ON THE COVER
MONTHLONG INTENSIVE
Yoganand Michael Carroll, Erica Arce, and Cristie Newhart Experience the fundamentals of Kripalu Yoga. Our Yoga Alliance–approved 200hour certification program trains you to teach safe, fun, and empowering classes, and shows you how to incorporate the wisdom of yoga into your life. You learn • The principles and practices of Kripalu Yoga’s 21 foundational asanas • Introductory anatomy and physiology applied to asana • Fundamentals of yoga’s rich philosophical traditions • Approaches for assisting students • Ways to guide students in developing nonjudgmental self-awareness and self-compassion • Skills for designing well-rounded classes, including warm-ups, asanas, pranayama, relaxation, and meditation techniques. TUITION $2,700 plus housing; p. 86
YOGANAND MICHAEL CARROLL, E-RYT 500, senior faculty member of the Kripalu School of Yoga, has a profound ability to distill and interpret esoteric yoga texts and techniques.
ERICA ARCE leads workshops, retreats, and teacher trainings throughout the world. She is a 500-hour Kripalu Yoga teacher whose passion is rooted in direct understanding of yoga’s healing powers.
CRISTIE NEWHART, Dean of the Kripalu School of Yoga, is a dynamic yoga teacher who imbues her classes with meditative inquiry, detailed alignment principles, and playful humor.
Our cover models, Nathan and Brett, practice yoga separately and together, and find it contributes to better communication and makes them more playful and daring as a couple. Their interest in yoga has opened up new shared experiences, and given them tools for self-care that they use in their work at a residential community for adults recovering from mentalhealth challenges. “I find myself practicing Nathan more physically grounding exercises and bringing my attention back to my breath and the present moment, and sharing these skills with the people I work with,” says Nathan. Between them, they’ve Brett been to Kripalu half a dozen times over the last couple of years, and love the opportunity to unplug from everyday routines and cultivate their interest in yoga and mind-body practices. “I’ve developed a greater openness to new and unknown parts of myself,” says Brett. “Each time I visit Kripalu, I walk away with an excitement to continue shifting the way I see myself in the world.” Cover photographer: Tricia McCormack 800.741.7353 or kripalu.org | 29
“I want to help pe home to them Trishan H., yoga therapist-in-training Which program I’m taking: 800-Hour Professional Yoga Therapist Program
Why I chose Kripalu: It’s a great environment for learning because it’s a full-immersion experience.
My biggest takeaway: The faculty don’t just teach yoga or practice it—they live it every day.
Don’t miss when you visit: The OMG Chocolate Chip Cherry cookies in the Kripalu Cafe.
eople come mselves.”
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In the Kripalu School of Integrative Yoga Therapy, I’m developing the
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superpowers I need to work in the areas
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that really speak to me, like mental health, cancer recovery, and youth development. What I love most about yoga therapy is that I get to be part of someone’s healing journey. It’s a front-row seat to the human experience—the resilience, the vulnerability, the light and shadow. This work is divine.
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R&R Retreat Your stay, your way.
A Kripalu retreat provides everything you need to reconnect with yourself. Magic, music—courtesy of our neighbors at Tanglewood—and fireworks abound in July. Come spark your spirit, soak up some sun, and nourish yourself from the inside out. An R&R Retreat gives you the freedom to • Enjoy the day at our private lakefront area • Get out on the water with a kayaking or stand up paddleboarding excursion • Awaken your senses with morning Sun Salutations in our outdoor tent.
Kripalu R&R includes
ULY
• Three delicious, nutritious meals per day • Expert-led workshops and guided outdoor activities • Daily all-levels yoga and Kripalu YogaDance® • Evening events and program samplers • Use of our amenities: sauna, whirlpool, labyrinth, fitness room, walking and hiking trails, and more. JULY MIDWEEK AND WEEKEND RATES $95 per day plus housing; p. 86
Kripalu R&R is available year round. View workshop schedules and book now at kripalu.org/rr
JULY
I appreciate the thoughtfulness at Kripalu, from silent breakfast to the limited use of technology.”
CREATIVE EXPRESSION
—Lisa S., Kripalu guest
Calling all kids ages 5–12 who love to collect things from nature, do art projects, and make new friends. Come learn yoga, get your face painted, play, walk in the woods, and make fresh discoveries everywhere you go.
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
CREATIVE EXPRESSION
JULY 1–3 WEDNESDAY–FRIDAY
JULY 2–5 THURSDAY–SUNDAY
Surviving and Thriving in a Technological World
SpiritFest
Marc Grossman and Laura Sewall
Dan Leven, Girish, and Aimee Gelinas
FOR everyone.
FOR everyone.
Technology impacts and shapes our lives in countless ways. While a relationship with technology certainly brings benefits and joy, it can also be fraught with imbalance. One way in which modern technology causes harm is in its impact on vision: the hours spent gazing at two-dimensional screens, and the mindset that develops when technology is at the center of our every action.
The essence of our spirit is found in the beat of our hearts, the beat of a drum, and the beat of our feet against the earth. SpiritFest is a perfect blend of uplifting experiences where you can dance, chant, and drum with others.
This program reinspires the act of sight, so we can move beyond the myopic focus conditioned by personal technologies. In this program, Marc Grossman, an optometrist dedicated to natural vision improvement, and Laura Sewall, a visual scientist committed to the power of attention, offer expert guidance to help you • Hone skills of attention
CHANT, DANCE, DRUM
opmental behavioral optometrist, a licensed acupuncturist, and coauthor of Greater Vision.
LAURA SEWALL, PHD, earned her doctorate in visual science from Brown University and is the author of Sight and Sensibility: The Ecopsychology of Perception.
Craig Hanauer
YogArts is an integration of yoga, creative arts, and fun. Parents, don’t be surprised if your kids refuse to leave! NOTE Our policy prohibits children from swimming in the lake while programs are in session. Kids may swim when accompanied by a parent or guardian outside of program time. Thank you for your understanding.
• The bliss of your heart through song • Joy and inner rhythm through drumming.
TUITION $205 plus housing; p. 86
In this program, you explore • The power and sensuality of your body and soul through dance
Dan Leven, Girish, and Aimee Gelinas are masters of their respective art forms. Join them to discover your true essence in this entrancing, entertaining, and profoundly enjoyable festival of spirit. TUITION $330 plus housing; p. 86
CRAIG HANAUER, an NYScertified creative arts therapist, art teacher, and Kripalu Yoga teacher, is committed to the health and empowerment of children.
DAN LEVEN, RSMT, MPC, a Kripalu Legacy Faculty member, trains Registered Somatic Movement Therapists through his Shake Your Soul® and SomaSoul®
• Expand your sense of sight with specific practices.
MARC GROSSMAN is a devel-
YogArts for Kids
Children in this program must be accompanied at Kripalu by a parent or guardian who is registered for a program or a Kripalu R&R Retreat. Kids meet for morning and afternoon sessions while parents are in their programs. Families are together at mealtimes, in the evenings, and overnight.
• Learn methods of natural vision care with respect to technology
TUITION $260 plus housing; p. 86
JULY 3–5 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
programs.
GIRISH is a world music artist, teacher, and author. A former jazz drummer, Hindu monk, and session tabla player, he teaches chanting throughout the world. AIMEE GELINAS, MED, performance artist, naturalist, and musician, presents drum, song, and nature programs. She coproduced the Mother Drum CD by Gaia Roots.
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Signature
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
SELF-DISCOVERY
JULY 3–5 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Secrets of Great Relationships Linda Bloom and Charlie Bloom FOR individuals and couples. CE credits. A true partnership not only provides security, pleasure, intimacy, and fun, but is also a means through which our deepest longings are awakened and ultimately realized. The biggest mistake couples can make is not expecting too much from their relationships, but desiring too little. In this program with internationally recognized relationship experts Linda and Charlie Bloom, you • Examine the unique qualities of exceptional relationships, and learn ways to develop those qualities • Gain tools to promote enduring love and trust, and for managing the inevitable differences that arise in all committed partnerships
JULY 3–5 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Kripalu Outdoors YOGA AND KAYAKING Christopher Holmes and Katie Hagel FOR everyone. CE credits. Get outside and go with the flow! Make this holiday weekend extra special in the fun and serene Berkshires, immersing yourself in yoga and kayaking. Join our knowledgeable guides for rejuvenating activities designed to reconnect you with yourself and with nature. Come enjoy • Delightful kayaking on Lake Mahkeenac, right on Kripalu’s property • Soothing floating meditations • Balancing Kripalu Yoga classes • Time for personal exploration, relaxation, and Healing Arts services. Whether you are a seasoned kayaker and yogi or an eager beginner, this program is a joyful, sun-drenched immersion that promotes inner and outer peace. TUITION $249 plus housing; p. 86
• Learn practices that catalyze cocreativity, unconditional acceptance, and spiritual awakening. TUITION $265 plus housing; p. 86
LINDA BLOOM, LCSW, and CHARLIE BLOOM, MSW, are seminar leaders, authors, psychotherapists, and consultants. Married since 1972, they codirect Bloomwork in Santa Cruz, California, and are the authors of Secrets of Great Marriages.
Kripalu Massage and Bodywork Integrate your experience at Kripalu. kripalu.org/healingarts
CHRISTOPHER HOLMES, a Kripalu Yoga teacher and licensed massage therapist, has expertise in anatomy and physiology for yoga and bodywork, and the healing of chronic pain patterns.
KATIE HAGEL, RYT 1000, is a compassionate and engaging Kripalu Yoga teacher and Ayurvedic Health Counselor.
JULY PROGRAMS with LEE ALBERT
CREATIVE EXPRESSION
JULY 3–5 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
The Natural Singer FIND YOUR TRUE VOICE
Claude Stein FOR everyone.
YOGA
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
JULY 3–5 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
JULY 5–10 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Structural Yoga Remedies Positional Therapy Lee Albert
CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
FOR all levels. CE credits.
Lee Albert
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 disease • 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: Eliminate Chronic Pain without Drugs or Surgery and Yoga for Pain Relief: A New Approach to an Ancient Practice NOTE Tuition includes a manual. TUITION $275 plus housing; p. 86
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 • 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
Whether you chant, sing, or always wished you could have a better sound, this program can change your life—no matter how you feel about your voice. Claude Stein has a remarkable ability to channel the beautiful music and messages that lie within each of us. He can help you break through blocks and express yourself from a deeply empowered place. The results are stunning, even if you have trouble carrying a tune! This program has been a Kripalu favorite for 20 years, and consistently gets wonderful reviews. Therapists, coaches, and workshop leaders also find these techniques valuable. Claude introduces you to exercises that cover diaphragmatic breathing, tone, range, and projection, and show you how to hit the notes and eliminate fear. This program includes group songs, harmonies, and in-depth individual attention. Whether you’re an absolute beginner or taking public performance to the next level, come be inspired and return home sounding better—and excited to sing out anywhere, anytime! TUITION $365 plus housing; p. 86
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.
• Home wellness plans for each condition • Ways to successfully integrate yoga, non-weight-resistant strength training, and other holistic wellness practices. TUITION $395 plus housing; p. 86
LEE ALBERT, NMT, creator of Integrated Positional Therapy, is an author and a neuromuscular therapist and yoga instructor trained in orthopedic massage, positional therapy, and yoga therapy. COMBINE THESE PROGRAMS for a 10 percent discount for each program.
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YOGA
JULY 3–10 7-DAY PROGRAM
Yoga for Mood Management LIFEFORCE YOGA PRACTITIONER TRAINING
Rose Kress and Kathleen Williams with guest teacher Amy Weintraub FOR yoga teachers, medical and mental-health professionals, and massage therapists. CE credits.
LifeForce Yoga® covers appropriate use of yoga for all mood issues, including discussion of scope of practice, working in a team, and when to refer out. This training offers strategies for home practice and clinical settings. Come learn • Accessible yoga-based interventions • Anxiety-, depression-, and traumasensitive yoga to empower emotional balance for clients and students • One-on-one yoga sessions • Breathing and meditation practices that address dysthymia and anxiety • Asana (postures), pranayama (breathing), kriyas (cleansing), mantra (chanting), bhavana (visualization), sankalpa (intention and affirmation), mudra (hand gestures), meditation, yoga nidra (yogic sleep), therapeutic holding of postures, and nondual strategies for working with negative self-talk • Somatic strategies for clinical practice and yoga classes. NOTE Tuition includes a manual. This program has extended hours. TUITION $965 plus housing; p. 86
ROSE KRESS, E-RYT 500, YACEP, C-IAYT, is owner and director of LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute and author of Awak-
ening Your Inner Radiance with LifeForce Yoga.
KATHLEEN WILLIAMS, PHD LFYP-2, LFY MENTOR , a private practitioner specializing in trauma and addictions, and EMDR therapy, holds a 200-hour yoga teaching certification from Kripalu.
AMY WEINTRAUB, MFA, E-RYT 500, YACEP, C-IAYT, author of Yoga Skills for Therapists and Yoga for Depression, is the founder of the LifeForce Yoga® Healing Institute.
SELF-DISCOVERY
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
JULY 5–9 SUNDAY–THURSDAY
JULY 5–10 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Refilling Your Well JOIN THE SELF-CARE REVOLUTION
The Therapist’s Use of Self in EMDR Therapy
Priti Robyn Ross
THE DANCE OF ATTACHMENT
FOR everyone. CE credits.
Deany Laliotis
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 open your heart to yourself and the world around you. Explore the extraordinary power of self-care in a program that includes • Nourishing practices, massage, mindful nature walks, and yoga nidra for deep relaxation • 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 impact on the mind and body • Simple, effective self-renewal practices to integrate into your daily routine. Life can sometimes be overwhelming and exhausting, so let’s hit the pause button and regroup. Come learn potent strategies to revitalize your whole being and create sustainable lifelong balance. NOTE Bring a picture of a loved one, someone you admire, or yourself as a child for our group altar. TUITION $345 plus housing; p. 86
PRITI ROBYN ROSS, E-RYT 500, a Kripalu Yoga teacher and an international workshop leader for more than 20 years, is passionate about supporting others to awaken to their full potential.
FOR licensed mental-health clinicians who have completed EMDR basic training. CE credits.
As therapists, we recognize the therapeutic relationship as central to our work with clients. As practitioners of EMDR therapy, we appreciate the moment-to-moment unfolding of experience in a session that makes transformation possible. How we are with our clients in these moments is an integral part of the healing that takes place. This program is for EMDR therapists who want to deepen their understanding of interpersonal neurobiology of attachment, exploring how their own attachment history informs their work with clients, particularly in challenging clinical situations. Here, we actively work with the somatic component of experience, the different parts of self in the therapist, as well as the relational dimension, taking what we already know to a deeper level, effecting change in ourselves as well as our clients. Supervised practice in dyads focuses on the therapist’s own personal attachment experiences. NOTE Tuition includes a manual. TUITION $715 plus housing; p. 86
DEANY LALIOTIS, LICSW, an international trainer, clinical consultant, and practitioner of EMDR therapy, specializes in treating traumatic stress disorders and attachment issues.
CREATIVE EXPRESSION
1000
JULY 5-10 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training for Special Populations Megha Nancy Buttenheim CE credits.
Thousands of people yearn to move their bodies, dance, and do yoga—the elderly; people with Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, or Alzheimer’s; breast cancer survivors; and others with special needs who might feel marginalized and unable to move as freely as they would like. Let Your Yoga Dance® is a fabulous workout and a delightful experience that’s adaptable for each student’s needs, providing therapeutic benefits—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. In this training, learn how to • Work with special populations • Create yoga, breath, and dance experiences in and around chairs • Provide a rich, complete, and powerful Let Your Yoga Dance class for those who need to remain seated
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Rated one of “The Best Adult Summer Camps” by O, The Oprah Magazine
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
JULY 5–10 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Yoga Summer Camp Michelle Dalbec and Nina Crist
Disconnect from your busy world and manifest your inner child in Kripalu’s summer camp for adults. Too often, we forget the many benefits of carefree fun or the learning opportunities that can be found in simple, enjoyable activities. Reconnect with the pleasures of good company, stress-free days, and the great outdoors this summer! Come experience • Hikes and walks along stunning forest and mountain trails • Guided kayaking and stand up paddleboarding on Lake Mahkeenac • Arts and creative expression workshops • Nature observation and identification classes with instructors from Mass Audubon’s Berkshire Sanctuaries • Accessible yoga, dance, and movement classes. Put down your phone, set your responsibilities aside, and come have some fun! TUITION $399 plus housing; p. 86
• Empower your students with spontaneity, creativity, and fun • Focus on the individual needs of each participant • Practice teaching in a safe, caring, and joyful environment. NOTE Tuition includes a manual. In order to receive a diploma, students must take Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training, Module 1, either before or after Special Populations training. See the Kripalu website for more information. TUITION $650 plus housing; p. 86
MEGHA NANCY BUTTENHEIM, MA, E-RYT 1000, Kripalu Legacy Faculty member and founding director and CJO (Chief Joy Officer) of Let Your Yoga Dance® LLC, specializes in bringing a gentler, kinder moving yoga practice to the world.
MICHELLE DALBEC, E-RYT 1000, YACEP, is a Lead Faculty member for Kripalu, lead teacher trainer for the Kripalu School of Yoga, a Kripalu R&R Retreat presenter, and a Kripalu RISE facilitator.
NINA CRIST, codirector of the Jaguar Path School of Yoga and Shamanism, is a Kripalu Yoga teacher and black-belt martial arts instructor with 20 years of experience.
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SELF-DISCOVERY
YOGA
JULY 5-10 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
JULY 5–10 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Discovering Mediumship Thomas John
Slow, Soothing, and Deep Yoga
FOR everyone.
Rudy Peirce
Expand your connection to Spirit with guidance from master medium Thomas John. As you explore the world of mediumship, Thomas helps you unlock your own psychic abilities, whether you are a novice or an expert. In this rich immersion filled with exercises and opportunities to receive messages from "the other side" through Thomas, you learn to • Sharpen your mediumship abilities • Understand your soul purpose • Meet your own Spirit Team and discover how to connect with them on a regular basis • Overcome fear and roadblocks that prevent you from deepening your mediumship. Thomas also offers coaching about your path as a healer, psychic, intuitive, and medium. TUITION $395 plus housing; p. 86
THOMAS JOHN is a global psychic sensation who has wowed audiences with his impressively accurate messages from “the other side.”
FOR everyone. CE credits. Slow movement helps make important changes in the nervous system, sending accurate messages to the brain that inform the sense of who we are and what we need. Recent research affirms that slow, meditative yoga is especially effective in decreasing stress hormones, strengthening neural signals, reducing reactivity, and soothing unskillful thoughts while enhancing insight and inspiration. Join master Kripalu Yoga teacher Rudy Peirce in this nourishing program, which includes deep practices such as restorative yoga, pranayama (breathwork), and meditation. TUITION $340 plus housing; p. 86
RUDY PEIRCE, MA, E-RYT 1000, LVCYT, a Kripalu Legacy Faculty member, guides gentle, accessible yoga, and is the creator of a four-CD set, The Gentle Series.
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JULY 10–12 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Everything You Should Know About Postpartum Fitness Jessica Valant FOR everyone, including Pilates and yoga teachers, fitness instructors, massage therapists, and anyone who works directly with women after they give birth.
Debunk the antiquated myth that after just six weeks of rest, postpartum patients can do anything physical they want without consequences. Through her years as a practicing physical therapist and Pilates instructor, Jessica Valant has learned that this instruction can lead to confusion, frustration, and long-term problems such as separated abs, pain, and incontinence. Through a combination of lecture, movement, and small-group activities, you • Explore common exercises that should be avoided postpartum • Learn safe and appropriate fitness programs for postpartum • Leave with the tools to support and empower women after giving birth. NOTE You will be reviewing anatomy and physiology concepts, so it may be helpful to have some background in this area, although it is not necessary. TUITION $285 plus housing; p. 86
JESSICA VALANT, MSPT, NCPT, is a licensed physical therapist, nationally certified Pilates teacher, continuing education provider, and movement lover with 20 years of experience.
A bird's-eye view of the Kripalu Labyrinth.
JULY SELF-DISCOVERY
JULY 10–12 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Initiating Womanhood A CIRCLE FOR ARRIVING CONSCIOUSLY IN YOUR BODY AND SOUL
Sil Reynolds and Kimberly Ann Johnson FOR women; adults only. During the transition from adolescence to adulthood, many women lacked guidance from mothers, grandmothers, and other female elders. Now, as adults, the desire to be fully seen, heard, and loved by women becomes more apparent, and a longing for clarity, closure, and celebration from a safe sisterhood grows stronger. Join Sil Reynolds and Kimberly Ann Johnson for an intergenerational experience that collectively welcomes you to a new phase of womanhood. This program is a deeply nourishing experience that includes SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MEDITATION
• Somatic movement
JULY 10–12 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
• Group processing
ANCIENT ADVICE for MODERN TIMES
• Breathwork
A GUIDE TO DAILY LIVING, LOVING, AND PRACTICE
RECOMMENDED READING Marion Woodman and Jill Mellick, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nourishing a Woman’s Body and Soul
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo FOR everyone. Buddhist teachings are as applicable today as they were when first recorded more than 1,000 years ago. Experience this unique opportunity to study directly with the renowned Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo and gain insight into how to work with our daily circumstances, relationships, and life’s inevitable challenges. The source text for Jetsunma’s teaching, The Bodhisattva’s Garland of Jewels, is attributed to the Indian Buddhist master Atisha and outlines a central pillar of Buddhist mind training. This short yet penetrating text offers a comprehensive guide to the spiritual path and, with Jetsunma’s expert guidance, is a transformative way to connect with both your innermost self and those you are in relationship with. Jetsunma, the subject of the book Cave in the Snow: A Western Woman’s Quest for Enlightenment, is uniquely placed to offer this teaching, with her clear, engaging, and witty style. For more information on Jetsunma and her work as the founder of Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery and champion for the rights of women to attain spiritual enlightenment, visit tenzinpalmo.com.
• Journaling. Heal your motherline by giving yourself the gift of a conscious initiation into your womanhood and experience unconditional acceptance in a celebration of sisterhood.
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SIL REYNOLDS is a nurse practitioner, psychotherapist, and coach who has worked with women and girls for 40 years. She is a mother, a mothering expert, and coauthor of Mothering and Daughtering: Keeping Your Bond Strong Through the Teen Years with her daughter, Eliza.
KIMBERLY ANN JOHNSON is a Somatic Experiencing trauma resolution practitioner, Sexological Bodyworker, yoga teacher, and single mom.
TUITION $240 plus housing; p. 86
JETSUNMA TENZIN PALMO, one of the most respected Tibetan Buddhist nuns in the world, was born in England and has spent 50 years in the Himalayas.
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JULY 10–12 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Embody Your Sensual and Spiritual Essence Alexandra Roxo FOR women. Bringing balance to the planet starts with you. Learn to celebrate your feelings and your ability to gather, listen, and feel while exploring modern tantric practices, selfhealing, and self-expression. Join award-winning artist, filmmaker, and writer Alexandra Roxo in a weekend designed to reclaim your voice, rage, and sensuality through
PROGRAMS with DEBORAH DAVIS HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
• Breathwork
JULY 10–12 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
JULY 12–17 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
• Storytelling
Healing Qigong for Stress and Relaxation
Morning Medical Qigong
• Feminine myths and archetypes
OCEAN QIGONG
FOR everyone; including all genders, ages,
FOR all genders and fitness levels.
and abilities.
Harmonize body, mind, and spirit with qigong, an ancient system used in China for more than 2,000 years to maintain health and achieve longevity. Simple yet profound, qigong prevents and heals disease with gentle exercises that combine breath, slow movement, self-massage, and meditation.
Join Deborah Davis for a deep exploration of Morning Medical Qigong. This flowing sequence of 11 qigong forms nourishes the organs and the five elements within the body, and ignites vitality, offering a complete map for health and harmony at the most foundational level.
When you practice Ocean Qigong, your whole being slows down into profound relaxation. This sequence also opens the chest and upper back to benefit the heart and lungs and relieve pain.
Each movement of this practice engages specific psychospiritual aspects and invokes powerful archetypes that brings you into greater alignment with your highest potential. Morning Medical Qigong can be done daily, all year long, and allows practitioners to experience a deeper sense of self-connection.
Ocean Qigong is a slow, gentle sequence that • Soothes the nervous system • Calms the mind • Reduces stress
TUITION $420 plus housing; p. 86
• Alleviates insomnia. TUITION $275 plus housing; p. 86
DEBORAH DAVIS, LAC, is an acupuncturist, medical intuitive, and specialist in women’s qigong who has practiced alternative medicine for more than 30 years.
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• Embodied spiritual practices • Partner work • Dance and movement • Teaching and Q&A sessions. Return home with the ability to face your fears and a deeper understanding of the feminine path of spiritual transformation. TUITION $275 plus housing; p. 86
ALEXANDRA ROXO
is an author and transformational coach who uses the power of storytelling and embodiment to lead women toward
self-healing.
JULY HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
JULY 10–12 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training Jean Kristeller and Andrea Lieberstein 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
Kripalu Schools Training 1000
1000
JULY 10–19 9-DAY PROGRAM
JULY 20–29 9-DAY PROGRAM
Mindful Outdoor Guide Certification, Level 1
Mindful Outdoor Guide Certification, Level 2
FOREST COMMUNITY
ALIGNING WITH NATURE
Micah Mortali, Mark Roule, Lisa B. Nelson, Erin Casperson, Becky Cushing, Dale Abrams, and Zachary Adams
Micah Mortali, Mark Roule, Dale Abrams, Shawn Stevens, and Erin Casperson
Gain the foundational skills to lead individuals and small groups in connecting with nature. This training is perfect for yoga teachers, outdoor guides and educators, Ayurvedic practitioners, yoga therapists, and anyone who is passionate about sharing with others the benefits of being in nature. Learn the basics of nature connection and community building, including
Certification, Level 1: Forest Community
• Forest bathing fundamentals • Nature meditation and observation
• Ways to eat that are more attuned to your body’s needs
• Group facilitation and council practice
• To experience the full pleasure and taste of food without overeating
• Animal and Plant Connection, Level 1
• Ways to release the guilt and struggle often associated with dieting • Tools for making balanced and healthy choices, so you will be truly nourished. TUITION $275 plus housing; p. 86
JEAN KRISTELLER, PHD, author of The Joy of 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.
ANDREA LIEBERSTEIN, MPH, RDN, RYT, is a mindfulness-based dietitian nutritionist, meditation teacher, mindful eating expert, speaker, retreat leader, teacher trainer, and author of Well Nourished.
• The efficacy of nature therapy • Birthing Fire, Level 1 • Wilderness first aid and CPR certification. This training also includes a home project to investigate opportunities to help connect people with nature in your community. This project focuses on research you will conduct on some aspect of your home environment and how you plan to incorporate those elements into your work as a Mindful Outdoor Guide.
PREREQUISITE Mindful Outdoor Guide
Broaden your leadership skills as a Level 2 Kripalu Mindful Outdoor Guide. This immersion provides a powerful opportunity to deepen your relationship with the living earth through element-themed meditations and practices. In this training, you • Experience friction-fire birthing, shelter building, and Bush-craft tool-making • Explore subalpine ecology and orienteering with Mass Audubon on a two-night camping trip atop Mount Greylock • Learn about the history of the first people on Kripalu's land from Shawn Stevens, Language Manager for the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans • Present your home project and guide a Mindful Outdoor Experience before graduation. TUITION $1,074 plus housing; p. 86
TUITION $1,074 plus housing; p. 86
MICAH MORTALI, Director of Outdoor Education and Programming and longtime Kripalu Yoga teacher, is the Dean and Founder of the Kripalu School of Mindful Outdoor Leadership and author of Rewilding. MARK ROULE, RYT 500, is a Kripalu Yoga teacher and outdoor guide who holds qigong teacher certifications with the Elixir Light and IIQTC schools, and is certified by the Association of Nature and Forest Therapists.
DALE ABRAMS, MS, is the education coordinator for Mass Audubon’s Berkshire Sanctuaries and a lifelong naturalist whose specialties include birding, wildlife tracking, and ecosystem studies. ERIN CASPERSON, Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, is an Ayurvedic Health Counselor and a 500hour Kripalu Yoga teacher. See Kripalu website for additional faculty bios.
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JULY 10–12 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Yoga Fusion THE ULTIMATE SUMMER YOGA RETREAT
Sarajean Rudman, Jennifer Reis, Ahmed Jabali-Nash, Yuval Samburski, and John Smrtic FOR all levels. CE credits. Ready to change up your yoga practice? Want to discover a variety of yoga styles? Looking to revitalize and retreat at the same time? Yoga Fusion brings together leading instructors from different traditions for a powerful weekend of collaboration and community. This exploration of yoga can help you tune up your practice and raise your energy. Participate in diverse yoga experiences offered in the following styles:
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
• Kripalu Yoga with Sarajean Rudman
JULY 12–17 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
• Five Element Yoga® and Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra® with Jennifer Reis • Rocket Yoga (a style similar to Ashtanga) with Ahmed Jabali-Nash • Pranayama (breathwork) and restorative sound healing with Yuval Samburski • Jivamukti Yoga with John Smrtic. Come push your limits and relax your mind in Kripalu’s nurturing environment. TUITION $290 plus housing; p. 86
SARAJEAN RUDMAN, E-RYT 500, received a bachelor’s in health and wellness and sports management, and a master’s in integrative clinical nutrition. She has more than a decade of experience in personal training and group fitness.
JENNIFER REIS, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, LMT, creator of Five Element Yoga® and Divine Sleep® Yoga Nidra, is a faculty member for the Kripalu Schools of Yoga and Integrative Yoga Therapy.
AHMED JABALI-NASH, RYT, enjoys teaching multilevel classes that encourage his students to progress to the next level. He is certified through CorePower Yoga and Rocket Yoga. See Kripalu website for additional presenter bios.
TRAUMA, BODY, and THE BRAIN RESTORING THE CAPACITY FOR RHYTHM AND PLAY Bessel van der Kolk and Licia Sky FOR mental-health professionals and all those working on helping others or themselves to heal from traumatic stress. CE credits.
Awareness of physical sensations forms the very foundation of our human consciousness. Overwhelming experiences are lived out in heartbreak and gut-wrenching sensations, which leave survivors feeling frazzled, on edge, overwhelmed, and shut down. The trauma that started outside is lived out in the theater of the body, and survivors no longer feel safe inside their own skin. Recovery from trauma involves learning how to restore a sense of visceral safety and reclaiming a loving relationship with oneself. Rooted in the themes addressed in Bessel van der Kolk’s best-selling book, The Body Keeps the Score, this experiential and didactic course explores how mind and brain are shaped by experience. Learn how your relationship to yourself is intertwined with your synchronicity with those around you while exploring • What neuroscience teaches about self-awareness and trauma • The nature and essence of human attachment • New treatments that help integrate traumatic memories • Body-centered approaches for dealing with trauma. TUITION $495 plus housing; p. 86
BESSEL VAN DER KOLK, MD, is president of the Trauma Research Foundation in Boston and author of the New York Times best-seller The Body Keeps the Score.
LICIA SKY, LMT, is a singer-songwriter, artist, musician, and intuitive bodywork therapist who fosters safe, transformative experiences through music, movement, and touch.
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
JULY 12–17 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Self-Massage for Movement Professionals THE ROLL MODEL METHOD IMMERSION
Lillee Chandra FOR yoga and Pilates teachers, personal trainers, coaches, manual therapists, clinicians, and mental-health professionals. CE credits.
Self-massage is a fundamental practice for fostering internal anatomical listening skills and enhancing embodiment. This immersion introduces the science of how and why self-massage using the Roll Model Method works, and offers the latest on fascial research, pain science, therapy ball applications for multiple populations, and creative strategies to craft your own effective therapy ball sequences for yourself and others. This program includes two competency courses: the Roll Model Method–Science of Rolling and the Roll Model Method– Ball Sequencing and Innovation. Explore your body from head to toe and insideout as you learn sequences that build awareness, reduce pain, and improve performance in the spine, shoulders, hips, knees, hands, feet, face, breathing mechanics, and much more. Discover ways to weave self-myofascial release into your current offerings and distinguish your teaching of myofascial self-care for every client and context.
Signature
JULY 12–17 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Mindful
Hiking Retreat Katie Hagel and Mark Gerow
FOR everyone; no experience necessary. Spending time in nature is a powerful antidote to the stress of modern life. Join two Kripalu Mindful Outdoor Guides for an engaging week of exploration, community-building, and mindfulness in the lush, forested trails of the Berkshires. Move your body, find your breath, and plug into nature as you discover the hills, valleys, streams, and meadows surrounding the Kripalu grounds. Experience practices that foster both movement and stillness, and enliven your senses by connecting with the elements. This program includes • Daily group hikes on the beautiful conservation areas of the Berkshire Natural Resources Council, which abut Kripalu’s property • An introduction to the Kripalu Mindful Outdoor Experience • Nature meditations, fire meditation, and tea ceremony • Naturalist skills such as tracking and tree and bird identification. NOTE Participants should be prepared to hike each day over hilly terrain. Appropriate footwear required, and trekking poles are provided based on trail conditions. TUITION $399 plus housing; p. 86
NOTE Please bring a copy of Jill Miller’s book The Roll Model: A Step-By-Step Guide to Erase Pain, Improve Mobility, and Live Better in Your Body. Tuition includes Roll Model Method Ball Kit. TUITION $555 plus housing; p. 86
LILLEE CHANDRA, LMT, E-RYT, is a certified Yoga Tune Up® and Roll Model Method® senior trainer, orthopedic massage therapist, and cofounder of Body Creative Immersions.
KATIE HAGEL, RYT 1000, is a compassionate and engaging Kripalu Yoga teacher and Ayurvedic Health Counselor.
MARK GEROW leads wellness classes, workshops, and retreats worldwide.
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Find Your Path
Being in nature grounds us in the present moment. It can soothe the senses, calm the mind, and increase circulation, nurturing your emotional and physical well-being. Surrounded by more than 100 beautiful acres, Kripalu sits on a hilltop, with exquisite views of surrounding woodlands, hills, and valleys. Take a tour of the Kripalu grounds and get ready to explore our campus this summer.
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Apple Orchard
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Sacred Heart Garden
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Kripalu Roads Town Roads Kripalu Buildings Special Feature Hiking Trails
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This way to Tanglewood, the village of Lenox, Shakespeare & Co., and more Berkshire County cultural attractions
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The Arbor, between Shadowbrook and the environmentally friendly Annex, made with salvaged wood from Hurricane Katrina.
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Swami Kripalu’s Meditation Garden Honoring the yoga master for whom the retreat center is named.
Kripalu Labyrinth, created in 2001 using the classical seven-path design.
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Front Lawn, overlooking the beautiful Berkshire hills and Lake Mahkeenac.
Camperdown Elm, known lovingly on campus as the Grandmother Tree, is a favorite contemplative spot.
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Six miles of easy hiking trails are located on and adjacent to the 125-acre Kripalu campus.
Lakefront on Lake Mahkeenac, given its name by the StockbridgeMunsee Band of Mohicans, who once lived here.
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SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MEDITATION
JULY 12–17 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Insight Meditation and the Art of Relaxing the Mind Matthew Daniel FOR everyone; including those new to meditation or with a preexisting practice. CE credits.
In this five-day intensive, learn how to bring the Buddha’s mindfulness practices and attitudes into your daily life by delving into insight meditation, the practice of rotating postures while sitting, walking, standing, and lying down. By working with specific strategies to open and receive experiences—rather than forcing attention on them—you learn to touch and trust the mind and build alertness. Through instructive practice, relaxation, and self-inquiry, you can create more balance, cultivate relaxed awareness, and awaken the power of living in the present moment. TUITION $350 plus housing; p. 86
MATTHEW DANIELL has been practicing Buddhist meditation for more than 30 years, and has studied Zen, Tibetan Buddhism, and insight meditation.
Kripalu Schools Training 1000
Foundations of Yoga Therapy, Part 1 Mary Northey, Ellen Schaeffer, Cathy Prescott, Marlysa Sullivan, and Kaelash Neels FOR yoga teachers who have completed a 200hour Yoga Alliance–registered program and have at least 1 year of teaching experience. This module provides an overview of the yoga therapy field and the methodology specific to Kripalu Integrative Yoga Therapy. You gain a strong biomedical and mentalhealth foundation, including an introduction to current scientific research. You also learn the philosophical underpinnings of yoga therapy in India and in the West, as well as a survey of how to incorporate various yoga tools in clinical practice, including asana, pranayama, mudra, yoga nidra, guided relaxation, and imagery. You are guided through the Five Kosha Model to describe all dimensions of a particular health condition and learn to develop a curriculum for a 10-week group series. In-depth training in facilitating a group experience and in conscious communication is covered, as well as the ethics and best business practices of delivering professional yoga therapy. Lastly, learn ways to manage your experience of personal transformation throughout the 800-hour certification program.
MARY NORTHEY, RYT-500,
While you’re here, integrate your experience in a session designed to promote deep relaxation. kripalu.org/healingarts
JULY 14–17 TUESDAY–FRIDAY
Applied Anatomy of Movement THE MODERN EVOLUTION OF YOGA
Lara Heimann
JULY 13–26
TUITION $1,990 plus housing; p. 86
Energy Balancing
YOGA
is a graduate of the Professional Integrative Yoga Therapist Training with Joseph Le Page and a certified teacher of Yoga of the Heart Cardiac and Cancer Program.
ELLEN SCHAEFFER, C-IAYT, director of Integrative Yoga Therapy’s 200-hour affiliate program, is founder and owner of One Yoga Center in Foster, Rhode Island. See Kripalu website for additional presenter bios.
FOR everyone with at least 6 months of yoga experience. CE credits. Functional yoga pioneer Lara Heimann shows you how to teach and practice yoga in a more sustainable way. In this anatomybased training, gain a deeper understanding of how to apply Lara’s Yoga Training (LYT™) Method to your teaching style and practice. Through discussion, Q&A, partner work, and LYT techniques, you learn how to • Apply anatomy and functional movement to your teaching and practice • Create anatomy-informed yoga flows • Use yoga to remedy your clients’ physical imbalances • Incorporate the basics of Lara’s method into how you move, on and off the mat • Cultivate a strong, sustainable longterm yoga practice. NOTE Tuition includes the LYT training manual with relevant course content. TUITION $320 plus housing; p. 86
LARA HEIMANN, ERYT 500, a physical therapist, functional yoga pioneer, and empowerment speaker, is redefining yoga through better education and innovation with LYT Yoga.
JULY SELF-DISCOVERY
JULY 15–17 WEDNESDAY–FRIDAY
Every time I come to Kripalu, my experience is transformative. The gratitude I have for this place is boundless!”
Release, Mend, and Thrive from the Inside Out
—Jeanna K., Kripalu guest
Rabbi Sigal Brier FOR everyone. Come mend body, heart, and soul; feel your strength; connect to your essence; and immerse yourself in Kripalu’s natural beauty in this wonderfully restorative retreat. Join Rabbi Sigal Brier to access the wellspring within, so you can skillfully navigate life with more ease. Listen deeply to the beckoning of your heart’s desire, release any limiting knots, be more of who you are, and welcome enhanced joy and contentment into your life. Open to new possibilities through transformative self-inquiry, guided meditation, revitalizing yoga nidra, life-changing insights, and mendful conversation. Rabbi Sigal gently and expertly guides you to • Slow down and reconnect to your deepest purpose • Experience your soul’s vitality • Feel at home in your body. You’ll emerge from this retreat expansive, empowered, and ready to thrive from the inside out. TUITION $260 plus housing; p. 86
RABBI SIGAL BRIER is a scholar, mystic, spiritual mentor, artist, and musician with 30 years of experience inspiring people to live their heart’s purpose.
SELF-DISCOVERY
YOGA
JULY 17–19 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
JULY 19–24 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Navigating Uncertainty Grief Yoga Teacher and Rediscovering Joy Training, Level 1 After a Breakup, Betrayal, Paul Denniston with guest teacher David Kessler or Divorce David Kessler, Nancy Levin, and Paul Denniston
FOR any 200-hour certified yoga teacher.
FOR everyone.
Grief Yoga® blends postures, movement, breathwork, and vocalization in ways that help students to process the grief that follows any loss. This Level 1 training gives you the tools to teach Grief Yoga while also helping you work with your own grief. In addition to discovering the Grief Yoga approach to transforming suffering and reconnecting to love, you learn how to
It is possible to truly heal after a breakup, divorce, or devastating betrayal. In this life-changing program, you learn to tune in, trust yourself, discover what you truly want, and take charge of what’s next. David Kessler helps you find your power again and identify negative or disruptive love patterns that are holding you back. Nancy Levin guides you in uncovering the limiting beliefs and excuses that sabotage you, developing a relationship blueprint to support you in finding fulfillment from within, as well as in future relationships. Paul Denniston uses yoga to release blocks in the body and shows you how to heal those wounds in order to move into empowerment in your relationships. Return home ready to move toward the hope of your future. TUITION $295 plus housing; p. 86
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,
CE credits.
• Choose appropriate postures, movements, music, and meditations for different Grief Yoga student populations • Hold space and guide students through Grief Yoga exercises • Design unique classes for relationship losses, divorce, breakups, and death • Address the specific needs of grieving clients. Explore different models of grief and aspects of healing after loss so that you can help others reconnect to the gift of life. NOTE Grief Yoga teacher certification is only complete after you finish Level 2 training. TUITION $395 plus housing; p. 86
PAUL DENNISTON created Grief Yoga in the midst of a devastating breakup and teaches to groups dealing with all kinds of loss.
or Death.
NANCY LEVIN is a Master Integrative Coach and best-selling author of Worthy: Boost Your SelfWorth to Grow Your Net Worth and Writing for My Life.
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,
PAUL DENNISTON created Grief Yoga in the midst of a devastating breakup and teaches to groups dealing with all kinds of loss.
or Death.
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SELF-DISCOVERY
JULY 17–19 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
The Women’s Healing Immersion Bee Bosnak FOR women. CE credits. Are you ready for a meaningful weekend of self-discovery? Join yoga teacher and healer Bee Bosnak for a transformational intensive for women who are ready to jump into the depths of their physical and emotional truth. Through yoga, meditation, shadow- and breathwork, storytelling, embodiment work, sound healing, and more, you • Cultivate a stronger relationship with yourself and the world • Find a safe space to share, connect, and express your deepest heart • Explore where your resistance to change comes from • Identify your triggers and fears to embrace vulnerability. Experience a confident understanding of where your body holds your story and what your soul craves. Come engage in deep inner work to redefine your story, and return home ready to bring more love into your life. TUITION $295 plus housing; p. 86
BEE BOSNAK is a New York City–based teacher, healer, and mentor, and the creator of Heal Yourself, a method that merges shadow work, somatic studies, sound, yoga, and meditation to connect with spirit and heal past trauma.
PROGRAMS with JILLIAN PRANSKY YOGA
YOGA
JULY 17–19 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
JULY 19–24 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Learning to Pause
Yoga, Meditation, and Nature Retreat
A YOGA, MEDITATION, RELAXATION, AND NATURE RETREAT CE credits.
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. 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. Return home more connected to yourself and recharged, having experienced the boundless vitality that is found in the here and now. TUITION $275 plus housing; p. 86
DEEP LISTENING TO RELAX AND RECONNECT 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. TUITION $345 plus housing; p. 86
JILLIAN PRANSKY, E-RYT 500, author of Deep Listening, is an international presenter, meditation and yoga teacher, and certified yoga therapist.
COMBINE THESE PROGRAMS for a 10 percent tuition discount for each program.
JULY CREATIVE EXPRESSION
The comfortable simplicity of Kripalu was everything I was hoping for. I was truly able to unplug, relax, and connect.” —Sarah J., Kripalu guest
1000
JULY 17–24 7-DAY PROGRAM
Shake Your Soul Teacher Training THE YOGA OF DANCE
Dan Leven, Heather Bilotta, and Sage Brody FOR everyone.
YOGA
SELF-DISCOVERY
JULY 17–19 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
JULY 17–20 FRIDAY–MONDAY
A Forrest Yoga Weekend
Cultivating Meaning and Happiness Through Mindfulness and Yoga
EXPLORING PRACTICE, CEREMONY, AND SELF-CARE
Erica Mather and Stacey Gibbons FOR all levels. CE credits. Join Forrest Yoga teachers Erica Mather and Stacey Gibbons for a weekend dedicated to exploring your true Self. Forrest Yoga is a healing, all-levels practice that rests on the pillars of Breath, Strength, Integrity, and Spirit. Founded by Ana Forrest, Forrest Yoga was created out of Ana’s yearning to develop a yoga practice that addresses both physical injuries and ongoing suffering. Each morning of this program features Forrest Yoga practice. Afternoons are dedicated to workshops on ritual, Ayurveda, ceremony, and self-care. Evenings include pranayama, meditation, and gatherings on the beautiful Kripalu campus. Return home with a higher understanding of Self and tools to take care of all aspects of your being in your everyday life
Ira Israel FOR everyone. CE credits. Studies prove that our happiness correlates strongly with the quality of our intimate relationships. In order to engender loving, supportive, positive, secure connections, we need to learn how to live authentically. Our authenticity inspires our partners, friends, and family members to nourish and nurture us with the love, respect, and appreciation that we crave and deserve. Join psychotherapist and author Ira Israel to gain practical tools to enhance truth and authenticity in your life. Through the exploration of attachment, atonement, attunement, presence, and congruence, you • Explore specific practices to enhance interactions with self and others • Outline long-term goals and plan how to realize them
Everyone, regardless of previous experience with Forrest Yoga, is invited to join.
• Practice all-levels vinyasa and restorative yoga
TUITION $295 plus housing; p. 86
• Dive deep into meditations that cultivate nonreactivity and increase peace of mind.
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.
STACEY GIBBONS, whose 15-year struggle with anxiety and depression inspired her to explore alternative healing therapies, appreciates Forrest Yoga as a powerful tool for embodied transformation.
Discover a completely natural way of moving that connects you to your inherent fluid nature through the Shake Your Soul® Teacher Training. Experience how music moves your soul and how your soul moves your body! Transform body and spirit as you dance with ease, power, sensuality, passion, and grace. This training with master teacher Dan Leven develops the skills you need to guide Shake Your Soul classes. Come learn • How to lead dynamic dance classes that shift people’s relationship to their bodies and souls • A comprehensive repertoire that awakens the natural dancer in everyone • A dynamic class design that combines structured movement with creative movement exercises • Improvisational techniques that encourage a love of movement and the joy of dancing with others. Bring home this profoundly liberating experience and lead your students toward a sense of inner communion as they discover a vibrant community of dance. NOTE Tuition includes a manual and training videos. For more information, visit leveninstitute.com. TUITION $1,000 plus housing; p. 86
DAN LEVEN, RSMT, MPC, a Kripalu Legacy Faculty member, trains Registered Somatic Movement Therapists through his Shake Your Soul® and SomaSoul®
TUITION $315 plus housing; p. 86
IRA ISRAEL is a psychotherapist, counselor, authentic relationship coach, and best-selling author.
programs.
HEATHER BILOTTA, RSMT, is a Kripalu YogaDance® teacher, Shake Your Soul® instructor, SomaSoul® practitioner, and Registered Somatic Movement Therapist. See Kripalu website for additional presenter bios.
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HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS SELF-DISCOVERY
JULY 19–24 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
JULY 19–24 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
The Path of Self-Love Training TEACHING OTHERS TO LOVE THEMSELVES
Stacey Hoffer and Lea Guthrie FOR everyone interested in personal growth, including therapists, educators, wellness and healthcare practitioners, coaches, yoga teachers, and parents. CE credits.
Lack of self-love is often at the root of our struggles in career, school, relationships, body image, health, money, and happiness. Do I love myself? is not a simple yes-or-no question. There are, in fact, 10 branches of self-love that create a strong inner foundation. Discover how to teach others to build up their inner foundation and end selfsabotaging patterns in this powerful program with Stacey Hoffer and Lea Guthrie. Learn to • Teach the 10 branches of self-love and articulate them in grounded ways
Kripalu Family Retreat
MOVEMENT, MINDFULNESS, and OUTDOOR ADVENTURES Nina Crist and Sarah Anfora FOR families with children ages 6–12. This summer, let the whole family experience the magic of Kripalu. This unique retreat offers adventures for the kids, themed workshops for parents, and activities for you to share together.
• Offer techniques that transform selfsabotaging habits.
There is no better place to explore nature, movement, and mindfulness than at Kripalu. Your days are filled with outdoor explorations, swimming, cooking, movement, and crafts— an entire week infused with fun! Develop imagination, confidence, teamwork, mindfulness, and gratitude as you
When you empower others with tools that touch the heart, they can source love, confidence, and clarity from within.
• Explore our beautiful grounds on nature walks and forest expeditions, at the labyrinth and lakefront, and during outdoor games
• Assess where others are weak and strong in self-love • Make connections between lack of selflove and current life struggles
NOTE Tuition includes a handbook with teaching templates and exercises, a journal, and a copy of Madly in Love with Me. TUITION $495 plus housing; p. 86
STACEY HOFFER is a transformational self-love teacher and coach, founding director at The Path of Self-Love School, feminine wisdom mentor, and strong advocate for raising children to love themselves.
LEA GUTHRIE is a personal development coach, self-love guide, and feminine wisdom mentor.
Signature
• Practice yoga, tai chi, kung fu, and dance • Develop techniques for relaxation and presence • Expand imagination through crafts and outdoor creations • Learn how to be a mindful and healthy parent in workshops designed just for you • Strengthen your bond through family sessions, including a campfire night, family dance and yoga, and a closing celebration.
NOTE Children in this program must be accompanied by an adult, parent, or guardian who is also registered for the program. Regular housing rates apply to adults; children’s housing pricing is available for ages 12 and under. TUITION Adults $325 plus housing; p. 86; kids $150 + children’s housing; call to register. Commuter option available for local Berkshire residents.
NINA CRIST, codirector of the Jaguar Path School of Yoga and Shamanism, is a Kripalu Yoga teacher and black-belt martial arts instructor with 20 years of experience.
SARAH ANFORA, MFA, is a Kripalu Yoga teacher, elementary school teacher, kirtan leader, movement instructor, and performing artist.
JULY SELF-DISCOVERY
JULY 24–26 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Past Lives, Present Purpose EXPLORE WHO YOU WERE TO DISCOVER WHY YOU’RE HERE
Ainslie MacLeod FOR everyone. Who are you, and why are you here? The key to answering those questions is to first discover who you were in previous lifetimes. Everything you are—your personality, talents, abilities, beliefs, fears, and phobias—is the result of your past lives. In this program, Ainslie MacLeod and his spirit guides help you discover what you’re here to do in this incarnation, so you can start living a happier and more fulfilling life right now. Join him to learn • How everyone has a unique life plan— and how to uncover yours • Why you can never fully understand who you are, without knowing who you were • How to overcome emotional blocks that keep you from fulfilling your purpose. Your destiny is not a secret. To manifest a truly magnificent life, you just need to know where to look. TUITION $260 plus housing; p. 86
AINSLIE MACLEOD is an internationally acclaimed pastlife psychic, spiritual teacher, and award-winning author who specializes in exploring past lives to reveal your life’s purpose.
YOGA
JULY 24–26 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
VINYASA SUMMER WEEKEND CLARITY and CONNECTION Rolf Gates FOR everyone. CE credits. The pose is what we are doing; the yoga is how we are being in the pose. Join Rolf Gates for a deep yogic dive that allows us to stay connected to the truth of who we are and find practices to create a life that works. In this fun, dynamic weekend of vinyasa, meditation, pranayama, and discussion, you explore the freedom of powerful yoga flow combined with the structural integrity of therapeutic alignment principles. This intensive is intentionally challenging, but open to anyone interested in experiencing yoga as an evolutionary journey. The only requirement is that you show up, do your best, and let your best be good enough. RECOMMENDED READING Rolf Gates, Meditations on Intention and Beings: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga, Mindfulness, and Compassion TUITION $270 plus housing; p. 86
ROLF GATES, author of Daily Reflections on Addiction, Yoga and Getting Well; Meditations from the Mat; and Meditations on Intention and Being, is a leading voice in contemporary yoga.
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PROGRAMS with TONI BERGINS
SELF-DISCOVERY
JULY 24–26 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Self-Care for Turbulent Times SELF-DISCOVERY
1000
JULY 24–31 7-DAY PROGRAM
The Embodiment Experience JOURNEYDANCE LEADERSHIP TRAINING, MODULE 1
Toni Bergins FOR everyone, including dance
SELF-DISCOVERY
JULY 24–26 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Move into a New Story Toni Bergins FOR everyone. For full transformation, change must happen in your body, not just your mind. In this dynamic program with Toni Bergins, learn how the act of tending to your own body is like taking care of a plant that needs water, light, and warmth in order to fully flourish. By focusing on what deeply matters to you, you can apply that awareness to all aspects of your life. Through JourneyDance™, a transcendent experience that combines freestyle and structured movement, you can open yourself to love’s abundance and connect to your heart’s calling. Come breathe, sweat, play, and awaken to a palpable sense of yourself as a being of powerful energy and pure expression. Activate your imagination and move into a new story while enjoying improvisational dance, yoga, theater, and shamanic ritual, all set to a soundtrack of inspiring world music, in a mirror-free, judgment-free environment that’s welcome to all. TUITION $285 plus housing; p. 86
TONI BERGINS, MED, artistic alchemist and founder of JourneyDance™, has helped thousands of people find emotional wellbeing through transformational dance.
enthusiasts, yoga practitioners, and spiritual seekers. CE credits.
JourneyDance™—a union of dance, visualization, and ritual—calls on your inner resources to help you heal, experience more love, and gain emotional freedom. The JourneyDance Leadership Training is a powerful way to access your joy, express your emotions, and listen to your heart. In Module 1, you experience
MUSIC, LAUGHTER, CONNECTION, AND LOVE
Karen Drucker FOR women. Join singer-songwriter, author, and facilitator Karen Drucker for a unique women’s retreat that combines experiential learning with enlivening music. With songs, stories, small-group work, and lots of laughter, learn how to love yourself while rejuvenating the body, mind, and spirit. Over the course of this weekend, you • Experience music that inspires and heals • Gain empowering tools to develop a practice for centering and relaxation • Explore how the inner critic works and how you can tame that voice • Master writing skills to compose your own chant to affirm your goals
• Personal embodiment practices
• Build strong boundaries and learn to say no to what no longer serves
• The JourneyDance Flow as a tool for transformation
• Cultivate clarity on the next steps in your life.
• The JourneyDance Qualities, a synergistic system of chakras, elements, imagery, and music • Voice work for freedom of expression and empowerment • An introduction to the processes, rituals, and structure of JourneyDance • MindBusting™ techniques to help you eliminate negative thinking and limiting self-talk • A personal dance practice to support your spiritual journey. By deeply embodying the work yourself, you move forward in your personal evolution to become the best leader you can be. Now is the time to share your unique voice to guide others to find their own power. NOTE This program includes your tuition and participation in Move into a New Story, July 24–26. Tuition also includes a manual, workbook, playlists, and the JourneyDance Starter Kit. TUITION $750 plus housing; p. 86
RECOMMENDED READING Karen Drucker, Let Go of the Shore: Stories and Songs That Set the Spirit Free. NOTE Though this retreat has a musical focus, there’s no need to be a “good” singer—just come with an open heart! TUITION $275 plus housing; p. 86
KAREN DRUCKER, a master of communicating presence and spirituality through music, has recorded 20 CDs of inspirational music and is author of Let Go of the Shore.
JULY SELF-DISCOVERY
1000
JULY 24–26 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Creating Transformational Workshops AN INTRODUCTION TO MIND-BODY LEARNING
Ken Nelson, Lesli Lang, David Ronka, and Jim White FOR everyone. CE credits. Harness your dreams and explore your path as a leader. This program helps you uncover your strengths, sharpen your vision, unfold your ideas, and develop an action plan for taking your work into the world. Foster your confidence and skills in using interactive techniques to energize, connect, and empower people, and return home with • A written guide to leading mind-body group creativity experiences
YOGA
JULY 24–27 FRIDAY–MONDAY
• Keys to generating collective wisdom, original thinking, and group synergy
SACRED TRIANGLE
• Marketing copy for your workshop and accountability partners to support your next steps.
CHAKRA PRANA FLOW FOR CREATIVE EMPOWERMENT
Discover how you can bring what you are passionate about into a group setting in a way that makes your heart sing and lights up your participants.
Shiva Rea with special guest Demetri Velisarius
NOTE Tuition includes a manual. This program is part of a comprehensive, three-part training. It can stand alone or be taken as a series. See powerfulworkshops.com for more information. TUITION $275 plus housing; p. 86
FOR everyone. CE credits. Bring your heart, rhythm, awareness, and creative power to this embodied exploration of your energetic system. Join Shiva Rea and Demetri Velisarius for a deep dive into the sacred triangle through practices that enliven energy. Come experience solar and lunar Chakra Prana Flows to balance and liberate your system, tending to the alchemical fire of your multidimensional Self. Awaken your body and liberate your system in this program, which includes • An introduction to the Buddhist and Shakta traditions of Chakra Prana Flow and the tantric chakra system • The lunar arts
KEN NELSON, PHD, a leader in mind-body practices and a Kripalu Legacy Faculty member, is dedicated to transforming the ways we serve and lead through yoga-inspired learning.
LESLI LANG has a background in theater and performing arts, and two decades of experience assisting Fortune 500 executives to communicate their message more effectively. See Kripalu website for additional presenter bios.
• Shakti Mudra Vinyasa, Prana Flow Pranam, and the three Chakra Mandala Namaskars • Mula bandha, vajroli, and sahajoli mudras to awaken inner energy and sensual health • Different types of meditation, including tantric chakra, mantra, mudra-based, and movement meditation • Prana Danda Yoga with a five-foot staff for cultivating root energy, and ecstatic Yoga Trance Dance. Emerge nourished and inspired, equipped with tools to deepen your practice, enhance your teaching, and celebrate living yoga. NOTE Teacher training credit is available through the Samudra Global School for Living Yoga and online home practice through Yoga Alchemy, to continue a deeper rhythm and flow in your life after the program ends. TUITION $340 plus housing; p. 86
SHIVA REA, MA, a global Prana Vinyasa teacher, activist, and innovator in the evolution of vinyasa yoga, is founder of Prana Vinyasa and the Samudra Global School for Living Yoga. See Kripalu website for additional presenter bios.
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PROGRAMS with RICHARD P. BROWN, PATRICIA L. GERBARG, and ANN FLEUCHAUS HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
JULY 26–31 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
JULY 26–31 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
JULY 26–31 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Breath-Body-Mind Teacher Training, Level 1
Breath-Body-Mind Breath-Body-Mind Teacher Training, Level 2 Teacher Training, Level 3
FOR healthcare professionals, therapists,
FOR students who have completed Breath-
FOR students who have completed Breath-
yoga teachers, schoolteachers, educators, military, and disaster relief workers. CE credits.
Body-Mind Teacher Training, Level 1. CE credits.
Body-Mind Teaching Training Levels 1 and 2. CE credits.
Breath-Body-Mind (BBM) integrates ancient and modern trauma-sensitive techniques to rapidly balance stressresponse systems for self-care and healing others. Developed by medical doctors Richard P. Brown and Patricia L. Gerbarg, BBM 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. BBM programs help children recover from stress and trauma, learn emotion selfregulation, and improve mental focus and learning in both the United States and in Bangladesh (Rohingya refugees).
In this second part of a three-level teacher training, you build on skills gained in Level 1 and learn to teach additional techniques for stress, anxiety disorders, PTSD, military trauma, post-disaster, depression, ADHD, physical limitations, and stress-related medical conditions. Specific skills developed in this training include the teaching of • Resistance breathing (Ocean Breath) • “Ha” Breath in three forms • Advanced breath moving • Body scan • Qigong movements • The Four Golden Wheels • The great harmonizer of the breath • 4-4-6-2 breathing
This training offers
• Guided meditation
• Movement, breathing, meditation, practice-teaching, neurophysiology, research, and clinical issues
• Techniques for working with children.
• Unique techniques to calm central fearprocessing networks and reduce pain, 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. PREREQUISITE Completion of a one- or two-day Breath-Body-Mind workshop and regular practice of Coherent Breathing (20 minutes per day, five to seven days per week). To fulfill this prerequisite, find BBM Workshops at breath-body-mind.com. TUITION $750 plus housing; p. 86
Increase your understanding of the neurophysiological effects of voluntarily regulated breathing practices on emotion regulation, bonding, and cognitive function. Practice individual and group teaching while faculty observe and offer suggestions for improvement. Attention is given to tone of voice, pacing, accuracy of instruction, and trauma sensitivity. Participants report on their teaching experiences since Level 1 training.
As a Level 3 candidate, you • Assist in training the Level 1 students • Receive feedback on your teaching techniques • Create and maintain a set of resource materials • Receive instruction in more advanced practices. Richard P. Brown and Patricia L. Gerbarg help you develop the skills you need to help train others, practice more advanced healing techniques, use breathwork in psychotherapy, and develop programs in your area of interest. Upon completion, Level 3 teachers have the skills to explain basic scientific principles for the effects of breathing practices on stress response, sympathovagal balance, emotion regulation, and social engagement. PREREQUISITES Completion of BreathBody-Mind Teacher Training, Levels 1 and 2. Regular practice of Coherent Breathing and other techniques (at least 20 minutes a day five-to-seven days per week). Experience teaching Coherent Breathing and other Breath-Body-Mind techniques. TUITION $705 plus housing; p. 86
PREREQUISITE Completion of Breath-BodyMind Teacher Training, Level 1. Regular practice of Coherent Breathing (20 minutes per day, five to seven days per week). TUITION $700 plus housing; p. 86
RICHARD P. BROWN, MD, is an
PATRICIA L. GERBARG, MD, assistant
associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and a certified teacher of aikido, qigong, yoga, and meditation.
clinical professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College, researches the efficacy of mind-body practices for post-traumatic stress disorders and depression.
ANN FLEUCHAUS, BFA, CMT, is a healing practitioner and teacher living and working in New York City whose classes include BreathBody-Mind practices, yoga, and meditation.
SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MEDITATION
JULY 26–31 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
The Still, Small Voice Within MEDITATION, FOCUSING, AND INTUITION TRAINING
Jonathan Foust (Sudhir) FOR all levels. CE credits. 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. Vipassana (insight meditation) teaches you to pause and recognize what is present, allowing you to see with increasing clarity into the nature of things. Body-centered inquiry 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.
Signature
Rated one of “The Best Adult Summer Camps” by O, The Oprah Magazine.
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
JULY 26–31 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Yoga Summer Camp Susannah Beattie and Steven Leonard Disconnect from your busy world and manifest your inner child in Kripalu’s summer camp for adults. Too often, we forget the many benefits of carefree fun or the learning opportunities that can be found in simple, enjoyable activities. Reconnect with the pleasures of good company, stress-free days, and the great outdoors this summer! Come experience • Hikes and walks along stunning forest and mountain trails • Guided kayaking and stand up paddleboard sessions on Lake Mahkeenac • Arts and creative expression workshops • Nature observation and identification classes with instructors from Mass Audubon’s Berkshire Sanctuaries • Accessible yoga, dance, and movement classes. So put down your phone, set your responsibilities aside, and come have some fun! TUITION $399 plus housing; p. 86
SUSANNAH BEATTIE, RYT, is a Kripalu Yoga teacher and Kripalu R&R faculty member who leads mindful outdoor experiences and strives to uplift and empower students of all ages.
STEVEN LEONARD, a Lead Faculty member at Kripalu, is a functional movement specialist, meditation educator, teacher trainer for the Kripalu School of Yoga, and Mindful Outdoor Guide.
NOTE This retreat is intensive and may preclude other activities. Much of the retreat is held in social silence. TUITION $395 plus housing; p. 86
JONATHAN FOUST (SUDHIR), MA, cofounder of the Meditation Teacher Training Institute and former President of Kripalu, has been leading retreats and training teachers for more than 25 years.
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Kripalu Schools Training JULY 26–AUGUST 21
1000
200-Hour Kripalu Yoga JULY 27–AUGUST 9 Foundations of Yoga Teacher Training Therapy, Part 2 MONTHLONG INTENSIVE Michelle Dalbec and Rudy Peirce
SELF-DISCOVERY
Experience the fundamentals of Kripalu Yoga. Our Yoga Alliance–approved 200-hour certification program trains you to teach safe, fun, and empowering yoga classes, and shows you how to incorporate the wisdom of yoga into your life.
JULY 31–AUGUST 2 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
You learn
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 Harville Hendrix’s Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples. This best-selling 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 and 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 receive Healing Arts services.
• The principles and practices of Kripalu Yoga’s 21 foundational asanas • Introductory anatomy and physiology applied to asana • Fundamentals of yoga’s rich philosophical traditions • Approaches for assisting students • Ways to guide students in developing nonjudgmental self-awareness and self-compassion • Skills for designing well-rounded classes, including warm-ups, asanas, pranayama, relaxation, and meditation techniques. TUITION $2,700 plus housing; p. 86
MICHELLE DALBEC, E-RYT 1000, YACEP, is a Lead Faculty member for Kripalu, lead teacher trainer for the Kripalu School of Yoga, a Kripalu R&R Retreat presenter, and a Kripalu RISE facilitator.
Mary Northey, Ellen Schaeffer, Marlysa Sullivan, and Kaelash Neels FOR students who have completed Foundations of Yoga Therapy, Part 1
This module continues the overview of the yoga therapy field begun in Part 1. Dive deeper into the unique Kripalu Integrative Yoga Therapy protocol as you explore lifestyle-related diseases, mentalhealth disorders, and the kosha-based therapeutic approach to healing. This module includes further familiarization and integration of biomechanics and somatic movement, as well as a more profound review of the principles of Ayurveda. Focus on the development of individual sessions and learn to translate the principles and skills of the therapeutic relationship for practice in a one-on-one setting with clients. In this training, you • Apply the Kripalu Integrative Yoga Therapy protocol to individual client sessions • Design yoga therapy protocols for various conditions • Employ Ayurvedic principles for use in yoga therapy applications •D emonstrate understanding of the somatics and biomechanics of movement • Develop evaluations and assessments for individual sessions. TUITION $1,920 plus housing; p. 86
RUDY PEIRCE, MA, E-RYT 500, LVCYT, a Kripalu Legacy Faculty member, guides accessible, gentle yoga and gentle chair yoga, and is creator of a four-CD set, The Gentle Series.
MARY NORTHEY, RYT-500, is a graduate of the Professional Integrative Yoga Therapist Training with Joseph Le Page and a certified teacher of Yoga of the Heart Cardiac and Cancer Program.
ELLEN SCHAEFFER, C-IAYT,
TUITION $365 plus housing; p. 86
HARVILLE HENDRIX, PHD, and HELEN LAKELLY HUNT, PHD, are partners in life and work. Cocreators of Imago Relationship Theory and Therapy, they are committed to the transformation of relationships and to the evolution of a relational culture.
director of Integrative Yoga Therapy’s 200-hour affiliate program, is founder and owner of One Yoga Center in Foster, Rhode Island. See Kripalu website for additional presenter bios.
JULY HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
JULY 31–AUGUST 2 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Living the Transformation and Healing Life’s Inevitable Traumas James S. Gordon FOR everyone; including healthcare professionals. CE credits.
Psychological trauma—suffering the losses we most dread or being wounded where we are most vulnerable—can cause chaos in previously ordered lives, freeze progress in active ones, or both. In this program, James S. Gordon, a Harvard-educated psychiatrist and author of The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma, offers safe, practical ways to explore, grow through, and move beyond trauma. Join him to learn how to • Understand the psychobiology of trauma • Identify post-traumatic stress symptoms • Practice meditation to quiet agitation and gain perspective
SELF-DISCOVERY
JULY 26–31 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
THE NUMINOUS MYSTERY SCHOOL PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION WITH ASTROLOGY AND THE TAROT
Ruby Warrington, Bess Matassa, Adama Sesay, and Brandon Alter Join Numinous founder Ruby Warrington, with cohosts Bess Matassa, Adama Sesay, and Brandon Alter, for a unique program designed to lay the foundations of your personal astrology and tarot practice. Through a series of carefully curated workshops, Ruby and the Numinous team introduce the fundamentals of these ancient technologies, showing you how they can be applied to our lives today. As tools for accessing our intuition and understanding our soul selves, astrology and tarot can uncover deep insights into the gifts you came here to express, the challenges you may be facing in order to evolve, and the skills you have been cosmically handed to move through life as your most empowered self.
• Use self-expression and group support to relieve stress and trauma • Resolve psychological numbing and physical freezing. • Discover new meaning, purpose, and love. RECOMMENDED READING James S. Gordon, The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma TUITION $265 plus housing; p. 86
JAMES S. GORDON, MD, founder and executive director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, has been featured on 60 Minutes.
TUITION $400 plus housing; p. 86
RUBY WARRINGTON is an editor, author, and mentor who founded The Numinous, a cosmic lifestyle platform that bridges the gap between the mystical and the mainstream. She also cofounded the “sober curious” event series Club SÖDA NYC. BESS MATASSA, PHD, is an astrologer, tarot reader, and author. She is coauthor of the Numinous Astro Deck, author of two Zodiac Signs books, and contributor to The Numinous.
ADAMA SESAY is a creative digital strategist, content creator, intuitive astrologer, and creator of Lilith Astrology, a website designed to empower people of all genders. BRANDON ALTER is a shamanic healer, tarot reader, astrologer, teacher, and writer who is passionate about sharing spiritual tools that help people reconnect to the wisdom of their heart.
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SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MEDITATION
Kripalu has been an instrumental part of my healing.
JULY 31–AUGUST 2 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Music, Meditation, and Mindfulness
—Jodi C., Kripalu guest
A UNIQUE KRIPALU-TANGLEWOOD EXPERIENCE
Larissa Hall Carlson and Marc Mandel FOR everyone; no technical expertise or prior training in music is required. CE credits.
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 music and mindfulness, and discover 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. Program sessions incorporate mindful movement, breathwork, meditation, discussion, and guided listening to selections from the classical music featured in this weekend’s Saturday-night and Sunday-afternoon BSO concerts at Tanglewood—just across the road from Kripalu. This program includes attendance at both BSO concerts, which will include repertoire favorites for soloist and orchestra by the great 19th-century composers Brahms and Dvořák, along with a brilliant new orchestral showpiece by the gifted American composer Eric Nathan. Discussion throughout the weekend will focus on how music is perceived, and how you respond both individually and collectively to the experience of concertgoing. NOTE Complimentary lawn tickets to Tanglewood will be provided for both BSO concerts. See the Kripalu website for more information. TUITION $275 plus housing; p. 86
LARISSA HALL CARLSON, E-RYT 500, MA, former Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, guides retreats, directs trainings, and provides Ayurvedic consultations across the country.
MARC MANDEL is in charge of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s program book and pre-concert talks. He has been on the BSO staff since 1978, and teaching at Kripalu since 2006.
SELF-DISCOVERY
YOGA
JULY 31–AUGUST 2 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
JULY 31–AUGUST 2 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
From Trauma to Resilience Vinyasa and Yin Yoga Retreat A HEALING JOURNEY Janis Abrahms Spring
STRENGTH, WISDOM, AND COURAGE
FOR everyone, including therapists. CE credits.
Tymi Howard
Imagine making peace with yourself and the people who hurt you in the past. Whether your injuries are from an unfaithful partner, an addicted parent or sibling, an ungrateful child, or a former friend, in this program you learn to • Release the shame, depression, and anger that often comes from being wronged • Let go of your preoccupation with the relationship injury and reengage with life • Craft a level of relationship with the person who hurt you, ranging from completely cut-off to full engagement, depending on what makes sense to you • Create opportunities for the offender to earn forgiveness, if they are willing • Restore a sense of personal dignity. Come alone, with the person who hurt you, or with a friend. You are invited to participate at whatever level feels comfortable.
CE credits.
Discover truth, purpose, passion, and empowerment through the art of yoga. This retreat guides you back into alignment through the holistic combination of vinyasa and Yin Yoga. When you are physically, mentally, energetically, and spiritually balanced, you remember who you are, what you are made of, and why you are here. 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 This program qualifies for Yoga Alliance credits. TUITION $260 plus housing; p. 86
TYMI HOWARD, E-RYT 500, TUITION $260 plus housing; p. 86
JANIS ABRAHMS SPRING, PHD, is a nationally acclaimed expert on issues of trust, intimacy, and forgiveness, and author of How Can I Forgive You?
is an international yoga teacher, holistic health coach, founder of Guruv Yoga Studios, and creator of Manifest Yoga International.
COMBINE THIS PROGRAM with Unravel and Unwind, August 2–7, for a 10 percent tuition discount for each program; see p. 64 for more information.
YOGA
JULY 31–AUGUST 7 7-DAY PROGRAM
Psychology of the Chakras 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 • Learn yoga postures, breathing techniques, and partner poses for each chakra • Explore your psychological history in the context of the chakras • Engage in ceremonies to reclaim power and acknowledge divinity • Celebrate with song, dance, laughter, art, and sacred community. There are opportunities to explore deep emotional territory. This program is a pilgrimage that participants over the past 30 years have described as life changing. No experience is necessary, but the willingness to open and change is a must. TUITION $810 plus housing; p. 86
ANODEA JUDITH, PHD, an internationally recognized spiritual teacher, yoga instructor, body-oriented psychotherapist, and author, is founder and director of the Sacred Centers teaching organization.
SELENE KUMIN VEGA, PHD, LMFT, is a psychotherapist, workshop leader, dancer, and faculty member at Saybrook University’s College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences.
Kripalu Schools Training 1000
JULY 31–AUGUST 9 9-DAY PROGRAM
Teaching Pranayama and Advanced Asana: Essential Practices for Yoga Teachers 300-HOUR KRIPALU YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
Yoganand Michael Carroll and Janna Delgado The practice of breathwork awakens the life force and opens the door to profound meditation. Deepen your knowledge of pranayama, gain mastery in teaching asana, and explore the philosophy that gave birth to these techniques in a training designed to revitalize your physical and energetic bodies.
JULY
5 Ways to Mindfully Connect with Nature This Summer by Micah Mortali
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Unplug and tune in to your senses.
Leave your phone behind and notice the scent and quality of the air around you. Slow down your breathing and invite a sense of gratitude for the gifts you are receiving from the earth.
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Acknowledge the First People. Wherever you go,
indigenous people have a history there. I have made it a practice to educate myself about the original inhabitants of the lands I explore.
This module includes • Ayurvedic, yogic, and contemporary perspectives on prana and the physiology of subtle energy • Guided experiences that reveal how pranayama can be used to soothe and steady the mind • Practical anatomy and alignment principles for advanced asana • Contraindications and teaching tools to work safely with students • Opportunities to develop your skills and build confidence through one-on-one sessions and evaluated practice-teaches • A unique Kripalu teaching methodology that integrates modifications, variations, and assists. TUITION $1,074 plus housing; p. 86
YOGANAND MICHAEL CARROLL, E-RYT 500, senior faculty member for the Kripalu School of Yoga, has a profound ability to distill and interpret esoteric yoga texts and techniques.
JANNA DELGADO, E-RYT 500, Kripalu Lead Faculty member and curriculum developer for the Teaching Kripalu Yoga to Adolescents program, is a facilitator and trainer for RISE, an evidencebased program in conscious leadership.
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Ramble on. My hiking pace is more of a saunter. Walking more slowly and taking in the sights, sounds, and smells of the land is fascinating and relaxing.
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Be a witness. Find a
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Hike with your hands.
comfortable spot, settle in, and observe what unfolds before you—the wind moving the grass, the rustling of birds, the changing quality of the light.
Reach out to feel the texture of bark or the coolness of a stone. Allow your awareness to be filled with the messages of the living earth. Micah Mortali is Director of Outdoor Education and Programming at Kripalu, and Dean and Founder of the Kripalu School of Mindful Outdoor Leadership. 800.741.7353 or kripalu.org | 59
“I really enjoyed exploring the g Joe G., Kripalu guest Which program I took: The Universe Has Your Back, with Gabrielle Bernstein
Why I came to Kripalu: I had always wanted to visit Kripalu, and I had always wanted to do a program with Gabby, so when I saw she was teaching at Kripalu, it all came together.
My biggest takeaway: To slow down, be present, and trust my instincts.
Don’t miss when you visit: A qigong workshop.
Programs we recommend... 8 Intuition Ignited
grounds.” I took away so many things from my visit— meeting new people in my dorm, exploring the
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hiking trails, meditating outside, and the yoga
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classes. I started practicing yoga in 2014 to help
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with physical injuries, but the mental clarity and calmness it brings me has been an unforeseen blessing. The top three things I brought home with me from my experience at Kripalu were ways of being in
Try a Kripalu Life Coaching consultation while you're here. Learn more at kripalu.org/healingarts
the world and my life that I try to practice every day: spend more time in nature, practice kindness to myself and others, and always shift my thinking toward gratitude.
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R&R Retreat Your stay, your way.
UGUST
A Kripalu retreat provides everything you need to reconnect with yourself. The height of summer is the perfect time to let go, let loose, and explore playful ways to elevate your passionate, creative side. This August, come to Kripalu and • Roam through our wildflower meadows while touring the grounds • Express yourself in an engaging coloring or writing workshop • Chill out in our air-conditioned Dining Hall, sipping on organic iced tea.
Kripalu R&R includes
• Three delicious, nutritious meals per day • Expert-led workshops and guided outdoor activities • Daily all-levels yoga and Kripalu YogaDance® • Evening events and program samplers • Use of our amenities: sauna, whirlpool, labyrinth, fitness room, walking and hiking trails, and more. AUGUST MIDWEEK AND WEEKEND RATES $95 per day plus housing; p. 86
Kripalu R&R is available year round. View workshop schedules and book now at kripalu.org/rr
AUGUST AYURVEDA
AUGUST 2–6 SUNDAY–THURSDAY
Ayurvedic Face, Head, and Foot Massage Training Hilary Garivaltis FOR bodyworkers and aestheticians. CE credits.
Ayurvedic massage restores a sense of calm and balance to the body, nourishing the skin and connective tissue. In this training, you learn about specific energy points in each region of the body, as well as • How to use oils and masks for individualized face, head, and foot treatments • Facial, head, and foot massage
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
• Ayurvedic fundamentals, including the five elements and three doshas
AUGUST 2–7 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
• 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, please direct inquiries to Hilary Garivaltis at hgarivaltis@gmail.com. TUITION $356 plus housing; p. 86
HILARY GARIVALTIS, executive director of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association, is Founder and former Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, and the principal founder of Ayurvedic Health Education Services, LLC.
INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS THERAPY EMBODYING THE HEALING WISDOM Richard C. Schwartz and Sarah Stewart FOR everyone, including mental-health professionals, 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. 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. TUITION $540 plus housing; p. 86
RICHARD C. SCHWARTZ, PHD, LMFT, is a marriage and family therapist, author, and creator of the Internal Family Systems model. SARAH B. STEWART, PSYD, is a nationally recognized expert in trauma and addiction with a unique interest in nature and the interconnectedness of all sentient beings.
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HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
YOGA
AUGUST 2–7 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Unravel and Unwind MYOFASCIAL RELEASE, VINYASA FLOW, YIN YOGA, AND YOGA NIDRA RETREAT
Tymi Howard CE credits.
Unravel and unwind your entire being through the seamless fusion of myofascial release, vinyasa flow, Yin Yoga, and yoga nidra. Join Tymi Howard for a deep and guided exploration into a complete system that leaves the body and mind feeling supple and balanced. Beginning with your physical connection to the earth and working your way up the body, you systematically target the major joints and muscle groups, opening any stuck areas to achieve freedom. In this program, you • Deepen your experience of newfound spaciousness in your body and joints • Learn simple techniques to deepen your myofascial release • Build heat and address specific muscles • Develop tools to wind your body down and target the neurological systems. TUITION $345 plus housing; p. 86
AUGUST 2–7 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Kripalu
teacher, certified holistic health coach, founder of Guruv Yoga Studios, and creator of Manifest Yoga International.
STAND UP PADDLEBOARDING and YOGA RETREAT
Outdoors Susannah Beattie and Mark Gerow
FOR everyone; no experience necessary. CE credits. Take your practice onto the water during this fun and relaxing retreat. Experience floating Savasana after a nourishing and playful yoga practice on a stand up paddleboard (SUP). One of the fastest-growing water sports, SUP yoga combines the benefits of outdoor recreation with the fundamentals of asana practice in a way that is accessible to all ages and experience levels. Held exclusively on the beautiful Kripalu grounds, this retreat includes • Daily paddling tours around Lake Mahkeenac • Informative paddle clinics that focus on technique and form • Guided SUP yoga classes
TYMI HOWARD, E-RYT 500, is an international yoga
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• Relaxing nature meditations. No prior paddle experience is required. All you need is a sense of adventure and a willingness to challenge yourself through new experiences.
COMBINE THIS PROGRAM with Vinyasa and Yin Yoga Retreat, July 31–August 2, for a 10 percent tuition discount for each program; see p. 58 for more information.
Something wonderful always happens to me when I come to Kripalu.” —Kripalu guest
TUITION $399 plus housing; p. 86
SUSANNAH BEATTIE, RYT, is a Kripalu Yoga teacher and Kripalu R&R faculty member who leads mindful outdoor experiences and strives to uplift and empower students of all ages.
MARK GEROW leads wellness classes, workshops, and retreats worldwide.
AUGUST
How to Eat in Summer, According to
Ayurveda YOGA
AUGUST 7–9 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
VISION and VOICE A WEEKEND OF YOGA, MEDITATION, AND DEEP LISTENING Elena Brower and Jess Magic FOR everyone. CE credits. Join world-renowned yoga and meditation teacher Elena Brower and musician Jess Magic for a weekend of movement and stillness that refines your ways of hearing and seeing the world. Expect to delve deep into your inner self while you practice and experience • Hatha yoga • Meditation • Contemplation • Serenade and song. Explore what it means to walk to that inward place of abiding peace that holds harmony, aliveness, and integrity. TUITION $295 plus housing; p. 86
ELENA BROWER, mother, author, yoga teacher, and speaker, is recognized internationally for her expertise in offering practices to approach the world with realistic reverence.
JESS MAGIC is a musical storyteller and singer who invites her audiences and other performing artists to be a part of the creative process.
Ayurveda teaches that summer is the pitta time of year, when the fiery pitta dosha, or quality, rules. In hot temps, pitta can get out of balance, leaving us with irritation and indigestion. What we eat can either exacerbate or ease heat—that’s why the Kripalu Kitchen changes up our menu seasonally. In summer, you’ll find lots of pitta-pacifying options, like organic, local greens; fresh fruit; chilled soups; and herbal iced teas. Try these Ayurvedic tips to stay cool this summer: • Drink coconut water with a squeeze of lime. • Choose leafy greens with a bitter, astringent flavor, like watercress, arugula, spinach, and kale. • Avoid overly salty, oily, fried, and spicy foods, including onions, garlic, and processed and canned foods. • Use cooling herbs like mint, cilantro, and basil, which also have powerful anti-inflammatory properties.
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SELF-DISCOVERY
I would recommend Kripalu to anyone looking for some peaceful relaxation. I will definitely be back!” —TripAdvisor member DianneKellyNJ
AUGUST 7–9 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Introduction to the Yoga of Intimacy A WORKSHOP FOR SINGLES AND COUPLES
Londin Angel Winters and Justin Patrick Pierce CREATIVE EXPRESSION
SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MEDITATION
AUGUST 7–9 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
AUGUST 7–9 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Wild and Wise Women’s Celebration
The Power of Meditation
LET YOUR YOGA DANCE
Susan Piver
Megha Nancy Buttenheim and Diane Kovanda
FOR all levels. CE credits.
FOR all women. CE credits. 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 your yoga and exult in your power and grace as women. Transform and elevate the Divine Feminine while discovering together what it means to be ageless. Who are we as wild and wise women? We are power mamas, energy-infused world changers, and peacemaking 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 Saturday evening water-healing ceremony.
YOUR LIFE IS THE PATH
Meditation is more than a stress-reduction technique. It is a path of radical selfacceptance 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. 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 selfconfidence • The relationship of meditation to deep listening • Ways to harvest the power of so-called negative emotions • Steps to keep your practice sacred • The joy of openhearted community. TUITION $295 plus housing; p. 86
TUITION $260 plus housing; p. 86
MEGHA NANCY BUTTENHEIM, MA, E-RYT 1000, a Kripalu Legacy Faculty member and founding director of Let Your Yoga Dance® LLC, specializes in bringing a gentler, kinder yoga practice to the world.
DIANE KOVANDA, MED, E-RYT 500, holds a master’s degree in education with a specialty in stress management.
SUSAN PIVER is the New York Times best-selling author of nine books, including the awardwinning How Not to Be Afraid of Your Own Life and The Wisdom of a Broken Heart.
FOR everyone. Join Londin Angel Winters and Justin Patrick Pierce for an immersive weekend designed for both singles and couples, men and women. Explore the depths of authentic intimate connection and spiritual growth through safe, nonsexual partner practices, including non-postural yoga, breathwork, movement, and sound. In this program, you • Examine feminine and masculine behaviors and how they are carried in the body • Explore how to show up in your relationships to create more connection and attraction • Discover how committing to your life’s purpose can enhance your sexuality • Learn how to stop recreating the same limiting patterns from old relationship wounds, so you can attract the love you deserve. If you are already in a relationship, come deepen your intimate connection, bring attraction back into the relationship, and grow spiritually alongside your partner. If you are single, this workshop teaches you how to attract the right partner for you and break free from what’s been holding you back from having the love you want. NOTE The experiences in this program require an equal number of men and women; please know that space may be limited. TUITION $365 plus housing; p. 86
LONDIN ANGEL WINTERS is a thought leader in the conversation of spiritual intimacy and divine feminine awakening. She is coauthor of the best-selling book The Awakened Women’s Guide to Everlasting Love.
JUSTIN PATRICK PIERCE has studied and practiced spiritual intimacy for a decade. He is coauthor of the best-seller The Awakened Woman’s Guide to Everlasting Love and founder of the spiritual collective Sacred.
AUGUST HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
AUGUST 9–14 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training for Professionals Jean Kristeller and Andrea Lieberstein FOR mental-health and healthcare professionals. CE credits.
Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT), developed by Jean Kristeller and supported by National Institutes of Health–funded research, addresses mindless and stress-related eating, disordered eating patterns, and obesity through the application of mindfulness practices. This program provides intensive training in the application of the MB-EAT intervention in clinical settings. Informed by Jon Kabat-Zinn’s MindfulnessBased Stress Reduction work and the principles of food-intake regulation, the MB-EAT program employs mindfulness meditation, mindful eating exercises, didactic instruction, and self-reflection to cultivate awareness and a more balanced and positive relationship to eating and weight. SELF-DISCOVERY
AUGUST 7–9 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
THE MIRACLE of HEALING Matt Kahn FOR everyone. Join empathic healer and spiritual teacher Matt Kahn for an interactive retreat focused on mastering the art of emotional freedom. Through a heart-centered approach, you transform all aspects of your life, while delving into different healing processes, energetic activations, and integration practices. If you are ready to feel your best, live a life of divine inspiration, and enter your most love-filled, passion-driven reality, then this program is for you. Come experience groundbreaking shifts on a physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual level, all while feeling awakened and transformed. Accelerate your healing journey, align fully with your soul’s highest calling; clear away all barriers; and banish fears, doubts, and distractions, so you may step forward into the joyful fulfillment of your most miraculous existence. TUITION $385 plus housing; p. 86
Those with a mindfulness 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. TUITION $697 plus housing; p. 86
JEAN KRISTELLER, PHD, author of The Joy of Half a Cookie, received her doctorate in psychology from Yale University and has used mindfulness-based interventions for eating disorders and obesity for more than 25 years.
ANDREA LIEBERSTEIN, MPH, RDN, RYT, is a mindfulnessbased dietitian nutritionist, meditation teacher, mindful eating expert, speaker, retreat leader, teacher trainer, and author of Well Nourished.
MATT KAHN, spiritual teacher, empathic healer, and YouTube sensation, is author of the best-selling books Whatever Arises, Love That; Everything Is Here to Help You; and The Universe Always Has a Plan.
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HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
AUGUST 9–14 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Nutrition and
Signature
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 Kripalu Lead 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, plant-based diet as you learn • Time-saving tips and skills for easy 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 and start cooking.
TUITION $399 plus housing; p. 86
JEREMY ROCK SMITH, Kripalu’s Executive Chef and a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, began his career in classical French cuisine. He is author of The Kripalu Kitchen: Nourishing Food for Body and Soul.
ANNIE B. KAY, MS, RDN, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT, is an author, nutritionist, Kripalu faculty member, and important voice in whole-foods nutrition and yoga.
SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MEDITATION
AUGUST 9–14 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
The Art and Science of Yogic Meditation NONDUAL WISDOM TEACHINGS FOR ENLIGHTENED LIVING
Stephanie Lopez FOR all levels. CE credits. Within everyday life, a deep longing calls us home to our true nature, to nourish the essence that is grounded, indestructible, and unchanging. Meditation invites you to awaken to your wholeness, to what is undeniable yet often ignored because of its simplicity. Using guided iRest® ; deeply relaxing yoga nidra meditation; silent sitting; interactive dialogue; and gentle movement and breathing, Stephanie Lopez presents nondual wisdom practices that reveal your essential nature. The teachings of iRest meditation incorporate principles of Sakhya, Patanjali, Advaita, and Kashmir nondualism. Learn transformational practices that promote health, healing, resilience, well-being, and awakening at all levels of your humanity. This program also features • A comprehensive map for every stage of meditation • Practices that support healing of the limiting core beliefs and life issues you bring to meditation • The neuroscience of meditation • How to integrate meditation into daily life. TUITION $535 plus housing; p. 86
STEPHANIE LOPEZ, LISW-S, C-IAYT, is a senior iRest® trainer and director for the iRest Institute.
AUGUST HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
Signature
AUGUST 9–14 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
A Mindful Outdoor Retreat Mark Roule
FOR everyone. The Berkshires—an area long-heralded for its enchanting beauty and ability to refresh the mind, body, and spirit—is an ideal place to practice mindfulness as a doorway to deeper connection with nature. Join in community with others who share an appreciation for nature and mindfulness in this retreat guided by Kripalu School of Mindful Outdoor Leadership faculty. Enhance your relationship with the natural world as you • Learn to meditate with the elements • Explore waterfalls and pools, and forest bathe in Kripalu’s grove of ancient hemlock • Experience the nine steps of a Kripalu Mindful Outdoor Experience • Practice outdoor skills such as animal tracking, fire-making, and foraging. The concrete tools you learn in this program can help you feel more comfortable outdoors. TUITION $399 plus housing; p. 86
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
AUGUST 14–16 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Introduction to Positive Psychology Maria Sirois FOR everyone, including mental- and behavioral-health professionals. CE credits.
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 wisdom available through meditation and yoga. Create a life of greater health, happiness, meaning, and overall well-being by gathering the tools, practices, and that make a profound difference, including the • Positivity spiral • Math of happiness: daily increases to boost success • Science of appreciation, gratitude, and optimism • Art of mindfulness practice, and how it amplifies happiness • Barriers that make change difficult • Technology of sustaining positive transformation over time. RECOMMENDED READING Tal Ben-Shahar, Happier; Martin Seligman, Authentic Happiness; Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection. TUITION $250 plus housing; p. 86
MARIA SIROIS, PSYD, is a positive psychologist and seminar leader who teaches with wisdom, authenticity, and humor at the intersection of resilience and flourishing.
MARK ROULE, RYT 500, is a Kripalu Yoga teacher and outdoor guide who holds qigong teacher certifications with the Elixir Light and IIQTC schools, and is certified by the Association of Nature and Forest Therapists.
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PROGRAMS with ELISE BROWNING MILLER YOGA
1000
AUGUST 9–11 SUNDAY–TUESDAY
Yoga for Scoliosis, Part I FOR people with scoliosis and yoga teachers. CE credits.
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. SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MEDITATION
AUGUST 9–14 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
SURFING REALITY MEDITATION, SHAKTI, AND THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF THE SACRED FEMININE Sally Kempton
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. TUITION $285 plus housing; p. 86
CE credits.
The secret of transformative meditation is your relationship with your own energy body. In this five-day workshop, you activate the enlightened energy within, allowing it to expand through joyful, dynamic practices. Harnessing the wisdom of the tantric shakti traditions, Sally Kempton guides you through meditations that invite Goddess energy into your life. Based on the Stanzas on Vibration (Spanda Karikas), a revolutionary approach to embodied meditation practice, this program offers powerful insights on sacred energy. Engage the body through yoga, the heart through mantra and visualization, and the spirit through radical inquiry and meditation. This method can profoundly deepen your practice, revitalizing your relationship with your body, heart, and spirit.
ELISE BROWNING MILLER, MA, a senior Iyengar Yoga teacher and therapeutic recreation therapist, is a founding director of the California Yoga Center.
TUITION $695 plus housing; p. 86
SALLY KEMPTON, nationally recognized as a master meditation and tantric philosophy teacher, is author of the best-selling Meditation for the Love of It.
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AUGUST YOGA YOGA
1000
AUGUST 11–14 TUESDAY–FRIDAY
YOGA
1000
AUGUST 14–16 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Yoga for Scoliosis, Part II Iyengar Yoga for Back Care FOR students and teachers who have
FOR all levels, from beginners (min. 3
completed Part I, and others as described below. CE credits.
months) to yoga teachers. CE credits.
Continue learning to work skillfully with scoliosis by combining yoga postures with breath awareness to develop structural alignment and create better 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. Teachers learn in more detail how to adjust and use props 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. RECOMMENDED READING Elise Browning Miller, Yoga for Scoliosis: A Path for Students and Teachers. NOTE See the Kripalu website for information about becoming a certified Yoga for Scoliosis Trainer. TUITION $310 plus housing; p. 86
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. RECOMMENDED READING Elise Browning Miller, Yoga for Scoliosis: A Path for Students and Teachers. NOTE See the Kripalu website for information about becoming a certified Yoga for Scoliosis Trainer.
AUGUST 14–16 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Yoga Retreat for Women of Color GO WITHIN; FIND YOUR HAPPINESS
Maya Breuer, Kiesha Battles, and special guests Candace Jennings, Laura Gorriaran-Goodwin, Leslie Kelson, and Monique Schubert FOR women of color. CE credits. honey, sunflowers, oranges yellow, gold, coral, amber smiles, laughter, sharing our genuine voices —Oshun, “The essence of love, sweetness and good cheer, beauty and flowing joy” Join Maya Breuer, Kiesha Battles, and others on a journey to happiness by going within and exploring the sacred aspects of the goddess Oshun. Oshun, the goddess of pleasure, fertility, beauty, and love, acts as the guiding deity on this retreat. Come spend a nourishing weekend bathing in self-love, conscious thought, creativity, health awareness, and the sacred feminine while practicing yoga, breathing techniques, dance, and meditation. While Oshun may at times hide within, with the proper methods she can emerge and lead us toward joy unbound. Find your happiness and embrace the goddess Oshun! TUITION $295 plus housing; p. 86
TUITION $285 plus housing; p. 86
MAYA BREUER, E-RYT 500, Vice President of Cross-Cultural Advancement for Yoga Alliance, cofounder of the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance, and an Emerita Trustee of Kripalu, is creator of the Yoga Retreat for Women of Color™.
KIESHA BATTLES, E-RYT 500, R-PYT, an active member of the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance and codirector of the Yoga Retreat for Women of Color™, is a full-time yoga teacher who studied with Maya Breuer.
CANDACE A. JENNINGS, RYT-500, is a Level 2 Certified Thai Yoga practitioner for In Touch Thai Yoga, LLC, with more than 40 years of experience in theater, dance, and the vocal and visual arts. See Kripalu website for additional presenter bios.
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PROGRAMS with ROGER JAHNKE SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MEDITATION
AUGUST 14–16 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. Meditation works, which is why it’s gone viral among celebrities, sports stars, doctors, psychologists, and business leaders. 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
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
AUGUST 14–16 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
AUGUST 16–21 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Healer Within Practice Leader Certification Training
Qigong and Tai Chi Easy
MAKING MEDICAL QIGONG ACCESSIBLE FOR everyone. Exciting research and widespread media coverage of qigong and tai chi have created a powerful wellness revolution. With this increase in popularity, there is now a need for more teachers. Become a Healer Within™ Practice Leader and share mind-body tools in your community. Healer Within Qigong (BuZheng) is accessible and can be woven into any existing yoga, tai chi, or mindfulness practices to maximize healing, stress management, disease prevention, and longevity. In this training, you learn to teach the qigong methods in Roger Jahnke’s best-selling book The Healer Within, including • The Four Dimensions of Qigong
• Divine descent meditation: an energybased technique to awaken your spiritual potential.
• Body practices
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 your meditation practice.
• Meditation/mindfulness.
TUITION $250 plus housing; p. 86
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, author of seven poetry books and the memoir Into the Heart of Yoga: One Woman’s Journey, is a longterm Kripalu Yoga practitioner.
• Breathing practices • Self-massage The Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (IIQTC) has trained more than 1,500 teachers and practice leaders internationally. Attend this program for certification or simply to learn these wellness tools for yourself, your family and your community. NOTE Tuition includes a copy of The Healer Within. You will receive a certificate from the IIQTC following the training. TUITION $297 plus housing; p. 86
MASTER STRESS, ENLIGHTEN THE MIND, TAP UNIVERSAL ENERGY FOR all levels. Feel the Qi! You can easily thrive at the pinnacle of your physical, emotional, and spiritual potential by tapping into qi—also known as universal/divine energy, life force, and prana. Ancient yogis and qigong/tai chi masters discovered that gentle movements, paired with focused breathing and mind centering, are a magic formula to neutralize stress, heal disease, boost energy, and access inner peace, empowerment, and healing. The most profound medicine is produced within. Qigong is a practice to support you in purposefully refining the integration of your physiological, neurological, energetic, and transcendent self. This transformational program explores accessible Tai Chi Easy™ and the Nine Phases of Qi Mastery, a profound yet practical qigong method for experiencing your ultimate nature. Explore the common miracles that occur through qi cultivation and then experience the amazing Tenth Phase of Qi Mastery— transmitting qi—to empower and heal others. NOTE In this program, you learn methods that you can use for the rest of your life. It is an important time, not only personally, but also politically and socially, for us all to get engaged to activate our health, self-reliance, and personal energy management. RECOMMENDED READING Roger Jahnke, The Healing Promise of Qi TUITION $450 plus housing; p. 86
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 and a trainer of qigong and tai chi teachers and practice leaders.
COMBINE THESE PROGRAMS for a 10 percent tuition discount for each program.
AUGUST PROGRAMS with SILVIA NAKKACH and SHIVANANDA THOMAS AMELIO SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MEDITATION
AUGUST 16–21 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
LoveYourBrain Yoga Teacher Training
AN IMMERSIVE VOICE, SOUND, AND MUSIC CERTIFICATION TRAINING FOR everyone. CE credits.
AUGUST 14–16 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Hear, Listen, and Heal A JOURNEY THROUGH SACRED SOUND AND THE COSMOS CE credits.
From time immemorial, yogis and shamans have heard the hidden music of the universe and sung it back through “medicine melodies” that reflect a sacred unity with nature. Today, many seekers are visited by such melodies— as if by spontaneous transmission that “sings” into the person. Through the practice of chanting, you, too, can receive spiritual information from the great cosmos, using your voice as a healing vehicle to experience transformational states of bliss. In this program, you • Gather a repertoire of cross-cultural shamanic chants and mantras, embodying the emotional magic of Peruvian icaros and Indian ragas • Learn how to harness the power of vocal sound, mindful breathing, and silence
Whether you are a trained musician or not, this dynamic certification program is designed for anyone seeking personal enrichment via devotional sound practices. Experience this rare opportunity to be guided by two renowned scholars while embracing the scientific, yogic, creative, and shamanic dimensions of sound. Through experiential skill-building practices, you explore • Cross-cultural chants • Devotional meditations, including shabda, nada, and svara yogas; kirtan; and medicine melodies • Sound and light practices • The 108 vocal-art strategies of the Yoga of the Voice training • Tantric energy mantras • The art of mystic melodies • Musical shamanism. RECOMMENDED READING Silvia Nakkach, Free Your Voice: Awaken to Life Through Singing NOTE This training accrues 30 hours toward the International Vox Mundi School Yoga of the Voice certificate. For more information, email voxmundi@yahoo.com. TUITION $525 plus housing; p. 86
• Explore methods of deep listening and mantra-healing to expand consciousness
SILVIA NAKKACH, MA, MMT, a Grammy-nominated
• Realize the subtle connections between sound and the chakras through the recitation of ancient syllables.
composer, vocal artist, and author, is a pioneer in the field of sound and consciousness
Return home having experienced joyful sound practices to inspire your path of inquiry. RECOMMENDED READING Silvia Nakkach, Free Your Voice: Awaken to Life Through Singing. TUITION $295 plus housing; p. 86
1000
AUGUST 14–17 FRIDAY-MONDAY
Deep Chant, Trance, and Transformation
SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MEDITATION
YOGA
transformation.
SHIVANANDA THOMAS AMELIO, a founding member of Kripalu, practiced and studied yoga, mantra, and philosophy under Swami Rajarshi Muni in India.
YOGA AND MEDITATION FOR BRAIN INJURY AND CONCUSSION
Kyla Pearce, Kim Baker, Ramsay Pierce, and Jackie Farrell FOR 200-hour yoga teachers and others with approval by LoveYourBrain Foundation. CE credits.
The LoveYourBrain Foundation offers an international yoga program for the traumatic brain injury (TBI) community, including those with concussion. This training is designed for yoga teachers interested in becoming certified to teach the LoveYourBrain program, as well as yoga teachers and practitioners, clinicians, or people with TBI who want to gain knowledge and skills in how to adapt these practices for the TBI community. In this training, you learn • Modifications, sequencing, and teaching tips for those with TBI • Meditation practices and pranayama techniques to promote nervous system regulation, positive mood, and attention control • The impact of TBI on the individual and family, and how neuroplasticity influences healing • The LoveYourBrain six-week program • Conversation facilitation skills for group discussion to foster resilience and compassion. You are encouraged to develop connections to the broader LoveYourBrain movement to shift the culture around TBI recovery and brain health. NOTE Tuition includes a manual. You must complete a program application upon registration. See the Kripalu website for more information. TUITION $365 plus housing; p. 86
KYLA PEARCE, MPH, PHD, RYT200, is the senior director of the LoveYourBrain yoga program for TBI, integrating meditation, gentle yoga, and facilitated discussion.
KIM BAKER, MPA, RYT-200, is director of implementation for the LoveYourBrain yoga program and helped develop the organization’s TBI-centered model. See Kripalu website for additional presenter bios.
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AUGUST 16–21 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
The Rhythm of Regulation A POLYVAGAL THEORY GUIDED APPROACH TO THERAPY
Deb Dana CE credits.
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
AUGUST 16–19 SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY
USING RISE for RESILIENCE at WORK Monique Schubert and Dana Campbell FOR everyone. CE credits. Work, like life, has many challenges and stresses that can be exhausting. RISE™ distills 40 years of Kripalu wisdom and a decade of research into a practical program that gives you the essential tools for stress resilience— personally and professionally. Anchored in the science and practice of mindfulness, yoga, and positive psychology, RISE has been used by professionals across disciplines—education, healthcare, human resources, and first responders. RISE provides evidencebased approaches to shift stress into an opportunity for mindfulness and meaning at work. The RISE mindfulness tools are proven to • Change the brain, making it easier to pay attention and stay calm • Build positivity, productivity, and mental clarity • Improve stress resilience in the moment and over time. RISE provides data-driven solutions to create mindful, resilient, high-performing individuals and organizations. So when challenges arise, you ride the wave in a skillful way. TUITION $750 plus housing; p. 86
MONIQUE SCHUBERT, MFA, is a Kripalu Yoga teacher who uses her 20 years of experience as an artist and educator to develop yoga and mindfulness programs for schools, workplaces, and cultural institutions.
DANA CAMPBELL is a career strategist, burnout coach, stress resilience expert, and yoga instructor who believes mindfulness can drive organizational transformation.
Explore Polyvagal Theory as you map your own autonomic pathways and discover how to become a regulated and regulating resource for your clients. Bring Polyvagal Theory directly into your clinical work with practices designed to reliably help clients reshape their systems and rewrite the stories carried in their autonomic pathways. In this program, Deb Dana helps you understand the science of connection and the art of resetting the system. Looking through the lens of the autonomic nervous system, you learn • The organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory • Strategies to identify and interrupt patterns of protection and shape the system toward connection • Ways to safely work with states of alarm and withdrawal • Skills to engage the regulating pathways of the social engagement system. Return to your practice ready to help clients tune in to their autonomic stories, reset their nervous systems, and restore a sense of safety. TUITION $525 plus housing; p. 86
DEB DANA, LCSW, is a clinician and consultant specializing in working with complex trauma, and coordinator of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium of the Kinsey Institute.
AUGUST HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
AUGUST 16–21 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Kripalu Family Retreat
Signature
A MEDITATION RETREAT AND TEACHER TRAINING
Lorin Roche, Coby Kozlowski, and Camille Maurine FOR all levels; optional meditation teacher training for yoga teachers. CE credits.
Nina Crist and Mary Hannah Parkman
This summer, let the whole family experience the magic of Kripalu. This unique retreat offers adventures for the kids, themed workshops for parents, and activities for you to share together. There is no better place to explore nature, movement, and mindfulness than at Kripalu. Your days are filled with outdoor explorations, swimming, cooking, movement, and crafts— an entire week infused with fun! Develop imagination, confidence, teamwork, mindfulness, and gratitude as you • Explore our beautiful grounds on nature walks and forest expeditions, at the labyrinth and lakefront, and during outdoor games • Practice yoga, tai chi, kung fu, and dance • Develop techniques for relaxation and presence • Expand imagination through crafts and outdoor creations • Learn how to be a mindful and healthy parent in workshops designed just for you • Strengthen your bond through family sessions, including a campfire night, family dance and yoga, and a closing celebration.
1000
AUGUST 16–21 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
At Play with the Radiance Sutras
MOVEMENT, MINDFULNESS, and OUTDOOR ADVENTURES FOR families with children ages 6–12.
SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MEDITATION
NOTE Children in this program must be accompanied by an adult, parent, or guardian who is also registered for the program. Regular housing rates apply to adults; children’s housing pricing is available for ages 12 and under. TUITION Adults $325 plus housing; p. 86; kids $150 plus children’s housing; call to register. Commuter option available for local Berkshire residents.
NINA CRIST, codirector of the Jaguar Path School of Yoga and Shamanism, is a Kripalu Yoga teacher and black-belt martial arts instructor with 20 years of experience.
MARY HANNAH PARKMAN, RYT 200, teaches nature-inspired workshops for Kripalu R&R Retreat, incorporating art and mindfulness.
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 information on the meditation teacher training option available to yoga teachers. TUITION $345 plus housing; p. 86
LORIN ROCHE, PHD, has practiced meditation since 1968. He is the author or coauthor of eight books, including The Radiance Sutras and Meditation Made Easy. COBY KOZLOWSKI, MA, E-RYT, is a faculty member for the Kripalu School of Yoga, founder of Karma Yoga Leadership Intensive™, and author of One Degree Revolution.
CAMILLE MAURINE is a renowned meditation and movement mentor with a passion for female spiritual empowerment. She is the author of Meditation Secrets for Women.
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1000
AUGUST 16–21 SUNDAY–FRIDAY
Introduction to
Signature
Ayurveda
A NOURISHING SELF-CARE RETREAT
Erin Casperson and Lauren Gernady
SELF-DISCOVERY
AUGUST 17–20 MONDAY–THURSDAY
Hands of Light Healing THE FUNDAMENTALS OF BRENNAN HEALING SCIENCE
Melanie Roche CE credits.
This transformational Brennan Healing Science® program teaches a system of energy work that combines hands-on techniques with spiritual and psychological processes.
FOR all levels. CE credits.
Under the guidance of expert healer and teacher Melanie Roche, you learn
Are you interested in Ayurveda but not sure where to start? Presented by the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, this enlightening and fun retreat draws on the principle that good health is a balanced connection between mind, body, and spirit.
• The anatomy and physiology of the human energy-consciousness system
In addition to exploring daily practices that support health and well-being, you learn • About the doshas and your unique constitution • The Ayurvedic approach to nutrition and diet
• How to read the aura • To sense people’s energy issues through their personal objects
• How to cook nourishing and delicious Ayurvedic dishes
• Energy exercises to keep your own energy field healthy and balanced
• Practical tools to create more balance and harmony in your life
• Self-healing techniques
• The benefits of following nature’s rhythms
• Brennan Healing Science chelation, a hands-on technique that clears, charges, and balances the energy field
• How to design a personalized Ayurvedic health plan • The role of yoga and pranayama (breathing practices) in fostering health and well-being. Discover an Ayurvedic approach to living well that can reinvigorate your self-care routine. TUITION $389 plus housing; p. 86
ERIN CASPERSON, Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, is passionate about sharing how the ancient practices of Ayurveda can be applied to modern-day living.
LAUREN GERNADY, an Ayurvedic Health Counselor and 500-hour Kripalu Yoga teacher, spreads her love of Ayurveda through writing and teaching.
• Ways of integrating these tools 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 You must complete a participation form prior to registering. Please contact Melanie with any questions at melanie@melanieroche.com. TUITION $285 plus housing; p. 86
MELANIE ROCHE is an energy healer who integrates mind-body healing, meditation, therapy, and movement to lead programs for entrepreneurs, patients, and healthcare professionals.
AUGUST SELF-DISCOVERY
AUGUST 21–23 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Evryman Open Source Retreat BECOME THE MAN YOU WANT TO BE
Dan Doty and Owen Marcus FOR all men. In this retreat, join a community of men to come together with the simple agreement to set aside cultural norms and be transparent and honest. Under the leadership of cofounders Dan Doty and Owen Marcus, learn how the Evryman philosophy has helped hundreds of men connect to each other to lead more successful, fulfilling lives.
PROGRAMS with LAMA MIGMAR TSETEN SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MEDITATION
SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND MEDITATION
AUGUST 19–21 WEDNESDAY–FRIDAY
AUGUST 21–23 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Mother Tara Empowerment
A Buddhist Healing Ritual
FOR everyone.
DAKINI’S HEART-ESSENCE CHÖD AND EMPOWERMENTS FOR everyone.
Experience bliss, abundance, and strength as you overcome the layers of destructive emotions—including stress, fear, anxiety, and/or addiction—built up over past years and lives. The Mother Tara Empowerment ceremony, given by Lama Migmar Tseten according to the Tibetan tantric tradition, helps you awaken the enlightened wisdom mother already present within you.
Healing Chöd is an ancient Buddhist ritual known for its power to alleviate physical, emotional, and mental 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 conditions.
During this program, Lama Migmar bestows the healing empowerments of the white, gold, red, and green Taras and guides you in Sanskrit mantra and sacred Tibetan recitations with English translations. He also gives instructions in meditation and mudra to experience the true nature of body, speech, and mind.
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 destructive emotions and repel negative energies and obstacles. Empowerments are given to further increase healing blessings.
TUITION $280 plus housing; p. 86
LAMA MIGMAR TSETEN has served as Buddhist chaplain at Harvard University since 1997 and is founder of the Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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.
Spend focused and intentional time to get out of your head and into your body. Learn practical tools that allow you to share emotions, speak truth, gain support, and celebrate greatness. Evryman’s process is intense yet straightforward, exploring the power of vulnerability through group exercises, guided conversation, and mindful time in nature. In creating a space free of sarcasm and judgment, you can discover your authentic self. NOTE This program has extended hours that might make it difficult to participate in other Kripalu activities or receive Healing Arts services. See kripalu.org for more information. TUITION $600 plus housing; p. 86
DAN DOTY, cofounder and voice of Evryman, has been featured on the Today Show, as a three-time guest on the Joe Rogan Experience, and on dozens of other podcasts, including hosting the Evryman podcast. OWEN MARCUS, cofounder and director of education at Evryman, is a TEDx presenter and author of Grow Up: A Man’s Guide to Masculine Emotional Intelligence.
TUITION $280 plus housing; p. 86
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YOGA
YOGA
SELF-DISCOVERY
AUGUST 21–23 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
AUGUST 21–23 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
AUGUST 21–23 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Power Vinyasa Yoga
Nervous System Reboot and Reset
Transforming Toxic Emotions
Amy Ippoliti
HEAL ENERGETIC IMPRINTS TO LIVE YOUR PURPOSE AND PASSION
PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, AND SPIRITUAL TRAINING FOR A LIFETIME
Coeli Marsh
FOR everyone. CE credits.
FOR everyone; including Power Vinyasa Yoga practitioners and those with some yoga experience who 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
Are you overdue for some relaxation and rejuvenation? Has it been a while since you’ve unplugged from your phone and eased into rest-and-digest mode? If so, this immersion is for you. This program with Amy Ippoliti features a powerful blend of mind-body practices that can elevate your mood and mitigate the negative effects of stress and anxiety. Mornings focus on enlivening asana and pranayama practices, while afternoons consist of soothing restorative yoga poses. Join Amy at Kripalu for a weekend dedicated to deep relaxation—a rare opportunity to deeply rest during your waking hours. TUITION $290 plus housing; p. 86
• The healing power of playfulness during a challenging practice
AMY IPPOLITI is a yoga teacher, author, and activist known for bringing yoga to modern-day life. She champions eco-consciousness and
• Restorative sequences to rejuvenate the body • Strategies to rekindle the joy of spending time in nature through guided hikes and forest meditation. Create a strong container for transformation as you sweat, laugh, and generate a blueprint for a lifetime of practice. TUITION $240 plus housing; p. 86
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.
conservation.
Leah Guy FOR everyone. Discover a radical approach to healing trauma and heartache, vanquishing fear, and bolstering mental and physical health in this liberating weekend with Leah Guy. By working with the second and third chakras—places in the body where energy is held—you focus on shifting your beliefs around shame, self-sabotage, and guilt; releasing negative emotions; and letting go of harmful relationship patterns. Through led meditations; reengagement of the second chakra, located in the lower abdomen, and the third chakra, located in solar plexus; and more, you learn to • Decipher the stories you tell about yourself and how to rewrite the script • Reparent your inner child • Balance your energy system to help manifest what you truly want • Transform fear and anxiety into love and peace • Find strength and serenity during personal storms. Return home empowered, centered, and with the ability to respond positively throughout challenges in your life. NOTE Please wear comfortable clothing for gentle movement and meditation. Tuition $265 plus housing; p. 86
LEAH GUY, CMT, is a mindfulness entrepreneur, professional development expert, and author of The Fearless Path: A Radical Awakening to Emotional Healing and Inner Peace.
AUGUST YOGA
HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS
SELF-DISCOVERY
AUGUST 21–23 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
1000
AUGUST 21–23 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
AUGUST 21–23 FRIDAY–SUNDAY
Yoga Remedies for Radiant Health
Intimacy as a Spiritual Path
Todd Norian
Understanding and Healing Autoimmune and Mystery Illnesses
CE credits.
Muneeza Ahmed
Richard Borofsky and Antra Kalnins Borofsky
FOR everyone.
FOR all couples.
Join medical intuitive Muneeza Ahmed in understanding the root causes of autoimmune illnesses and how they impact your lymphatic, neurological, and adrenal systems. Pinpoint what is ailing you and find new ways to combat your symptoms. This empowering weekend offers tools to help you rebuild your immune and digestive systems, sustain hydration, and reignite weight loss through personalized nutrition.
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 five ways to grow your intimate partnership into a spiritual practice:
Muneeza, who has years of experience guiding individuals through previously undiagnosed illnesses, leads you through a step-by-step emotional and physical detoxification process to bolster your adrenal and circulatory systems, providing a deeper understanding of the adrenal glands and their connection to the liver, blood sugar, and the central nervous system.
• Open to receive and give abundant, unconditional, omnipresent love
Pain-free living is your birthright and joy your “factory setting.” If unconscious movement patterns and self-limiting beliefs are holding you back, come discover • Your body’s optimal design for radiant health • How to remedy and prevent common aches and pains using the precise 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 wholeness on all levels—body, mind, and heart. Return home with the tools and skills to keep yourself pain free. RECOMMENDED READING Todd Norian, Ashaya Yoga: Align Your Body, Awaken Your Heart Manual and Introduction to Ashaya Yoga Therapy, both available at ashayayoga.com. NOTE This is a professional-level course geared for practitioners at all levels. TUITION $260 plus housing; p. 86
TODD NORIAN, E-RYT 500, is an internationally acclaimed yoga teacher who masterfully offers alignment-based, heartcentered practices with warmth and humor. He excels at making deep philosophical teachings accessible and relatable.
Gain the knowledge necessary to ease suffering from conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, Lyme and Hashimoto’s disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and more. Return home equipped with a detailed wellness plan that can be instrumental in navigating your way out of chronic illness.
A RETREAT FOR COUPLES
• Learn to abide timelessly together in the present
• Expand compassion to include all that is vulnerable or unloved in yourself and your partner • 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 weekend that includes mindfulness practices, dialogue, humor, music, and group sharing. TUITION $250 plus housing; p. 86
TUITION $275 plus housing; p. 86
MUNEEZA AHMED, the Intuitive Medicine Woman™, is a medical intuitive and holistic health, nutrition, and emotional wellness coach who has helped thousands of clients achieve lasting healing from chronic conditions.
RICHARD BOROFSKY, EDD, and ANTRA KALNINS BOROFSKY, EDM, have been a couple for more than 45 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.
I can’t believe how relaxed I felt at work on Monday the day after I came back from Kripalu!” — Liz E., Kripalu guest 800.741.7353 or kripalu.org 800.741.7353 or kripalu.org | | 7979
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SEANE CORN SEPTEMBER 4–7
Revolution of the Soul Immersion
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MILLANA SNOW
NINA RAO and LESLIE DESAULNIERS
SEPTEMBER 11–13
OCTOBER 2–4
Energy Healing Meditation and Breathwork
Embodied Devotion for Life with Yoga, Chant, and Meditation
LAURA MCKOWEN SEPTEMBER 18–20
The Bigger Yes Finding Your Soul’s Deepest Callings
DAVID WHYTE OCTOBER 2–4
A Seeming Stillness Becoming a Separate Self while Learning to be Selfless
JULIA CAMERON SEPTEMBER 18–20
Creative Myths and Monsters A Workshop on the Artist’s Way
PETER A. LEVINE
KOYA WEBB
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SEPTEMBER 18–20
Chakra Balancing to Raise Your Vibration
Introduction to Kripalu Yoga SEPTEMBER 20–23
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Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing
MAYA TIWARI OCTOBER 16–18
Womb Shakti Medicine Every Woman’s Power to Heal
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Led by Kripalu Faculty OCTOBER 13–16
LOCH KELLY OCTOBER 23–25
Effortless Mindfulness Embodied
KRIPALU’S ANNUAL YOGA TEACHERS CONFERENCE A reunion, professional development opportunity, and mini vacation all in one!
LESLIE SALMON JONES
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OCTOBER 30–NOVEMBER 1
Afro Flow Yoga
ELIZABETH GILBERT and RACHEL CARGLE NOVEMBER 6–8
Abundant Magic NOVEMBER 23–27
KATE JOHNSON NOVEMBER 8–13
Sacred Solidarity
THANKSGIVING at KRIPALU Celebrate with us! Give yourself several days to unwind, or arrive just in time for a memorable midday Thanksgiving feast. kripalu.org/thanksgiving
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“I’m not someone yo to see at a yoga cen Aaron L., police officer Which program I took: RISE for first responders
Why I took it: To gain skills for dealing with job-related stress
My biggest takeaway: Mindfulness techniques for easing the transition from work to home
Don’t miss when you visit: The yoga classes. I’ve spent a lot of time in the gym, but after yoga, I felt more in tune with my body than ever before.
Take Kripalu to work.
ou’d expect enter.” I used to make fun of guys I know who do yoga. So I was pretty nervous on the way to Kripalu. Being a cop and a 6-foot-4, 280-pound man, I was afraid I was going
With RISE stress-resilience training, your organization gets Kripalu’s four decades of thought leadership and 10 years of research in one universally accessible program, delivered at your workplace or on-site for a fully immersive retreat. Anchored in the science and practice of mindfulness, yoga, and positive psychology, RISE transforms the way people work—in schools, hospitals, and corporate offices.
Through RISE, long-term, sustainable change occurs at three levels:
Personally.
to be judged.
RISE teaches you how to navigate stress with skill to avoid burnout.
Nothing could have been further from
Professionally.
the truth. Everyone was so welcoming and accepting. When you’re in my line of work, it’s hard to open up, but the RISE instructors made it easy. I took my firstever yoga class and meditated for the first time. What I learned at Kripalu is already making my life better, and I'm truly grateful.
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RISE lays a foundation for effective leadership—built on authenticity and conscious awareness.
Organizationally. RISE fosters a positive culture focused on meaning, purpose, and connection.
Find out how to RISE at work today. 413.448.3300 kripalu.org/rise 800.741.7353 or kripalu.org | 83
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Integrate your life, career, and practice with Kripalu Schools trainings or CE- and CME-credited
Continuing Education Credited Programs 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) Psychology continuing education credits are provided through R. Cassidy Seminars,Santa Rosa, California.
• 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) • Certified Yoga Therapists (IAYT)
Look for CE and CME credits with program descriptions.
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; find out more on our website.
Please note CE eligibility is subject to change. Check your program on the Kripalu website for the most accurate CE information. Licensing boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about a course meeting your specific board’s approval, please contact your board directly to obtain a ruling. Please note that credit fees are nonrefundable after the last day of your stay.
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programs—designed to bolster your skills and give you relevant tools applicable to daily life.
Kripalu Schools For more than 40 years, the Kripalu Schools have offered an inclusive approach to experiential learning that empowers our students to deepen their practice and develop their teaching skills.
School of Yoga Enrich your practice and deepen your skills to become the yoga teacher you were meant to be.
School of Ayurveda Cultivate nourishing practices that foster
vitality by tapping into the wisdom of nature.
School of Integrative Yoga Therapy Develop in-depth skills
to guide your clients toward balance, health, and happiness.
School of Mindful Outdoor Leadership Learn to share nature’s gifts by integrating your love of the outdoors with mindfulness.
Learn more about the Kripalu Schools kripalu.org/schools
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CHOOSE AN EXPERIENCE Kripalu Programs R&R Retreat
A flexible schedule of daily workshops, classes, and outdoor activities, taught by Kripalu faculty, is your ticket to exceptional selfcare. You choose what and how much you do each day.
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Gain fresh insights with worldrenowned thought leaders. Our presenters are respected teachers, best-selling authors, and trusted experts in fields such as yoga, mindfulness, and holistic health.
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CHOOSE YOUR ROOM TYPE DORMITORY 5–22 people per room; bunk beds. Shared hall bath. Please choose another housing type if you cannot sleep in an upper bunk.
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Kripalu Schools Explore our inspiring trainings and certifications in yoga, Ayurveda, yoga therapy, and mindful outdoor leadership.
Learn more at kripalu.org/schools
Call Registrations for exact rates. Register early to ensure your preferred accommodations. SHARED 2 people per room; two twins or one queen bed. Shared with an assigned roommate (of the same gender) or with a family member or friend.
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CE Credits
Bring Kripalu’s core teachings to your workplace with our evidence-based, social-impact stressresilience program.
Many of our programs—led by accomplished teachers in yoga, self-discovery, and holistic health—qualify for continuing education credits.
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Details on PAGE 84.
NEW UPDATES! PRIVATE Single occupancy; two twins or one queen bed.
With blackout shades, comfy new mattresses in all our guest rooms, and more improvements, you're sure to have a restful stay.
What's included Your cost per night includes 1. T hree daily all-natural meals from the Kripalu Kitchen 2. Evening workshops, concerts, and events 3. Access to hiking trails, walking paths, and a private lakefront area 4. U se of our fitness room, whirlpool, and sauna 5. D aily movement classes (such as yoga, dance, and tai chi) 6. Y our choice of accommodations
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