Kripalu Schools of Yoga and Ayurveda Course Catalog

2016 COURSE CATALOG

Share your passion with the world.

Dear friends, I’m thrilled to announce that our schools are propelling the evolution of yoga and Ayurveda education.

In 2016, the Kripalu School of Yoga begins offering specialized training beyond the 500-hour level, focused on specific topics and populations. Those interested in advancing their teaching now have even more options to choose from.

We believe that knowledge only becomes wisdom when it is applied through regular practice, commitment, inquiry, and trust. Our schools foster an environment for deep learning and inspiration.

As interest in yoga and Ayurveda grows, we are dedicated to creating an ever-expanding curriculum filled with tools and practices that continously inspire our students to become outstanding leaders, teachers, and healers.

We are honored to offer these timeless practices, and are grateful for the countless ways that our graduates share this wisdom with the world.

In gratitude,

Micah Mortali, Director

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Why Kripalu?

About Kripalu

What is Kripalu Yoga? What is Ayurveda?

Established in 1974, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health is the premier destination for individuals and organizations seeking a joyful, inclusive, and compassionate environment for wellness, learning, and retreat. We offer more than 700 programs a year that deliver life-changing, immersive experiences to nearly 40,000 guests. Our renowned Kripalu Schools of Yoga and Ayurveda offer certification programs where students develop tools to cultivate health, create community, and transform—body, mind, heart, and spirit.

Kripalu Yoga is an integrated system of self-transformation that empowers you to realize your full potential and discover how to nurture the roots of health, catalyze personal growth, live with greater skillfulness and joy, and transform your sense of what it means to be alive.

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Ayurveda originated in India more than 5,000 years ago and is the oldest continuously practiced health-care system in the world. Ayurveda is built around the five elements of ether, air, fire, water, and earth. The goal of Ayurveda is to teach people how to attain optimal health through a deeper understanding of themselves and their own particular nature in relationship to the world around them.

Immersion Learning When you’re immersed in the fields of yoga or Ayurveda, from skill-building to self-development, with a community of like-minded peers, you have the opportunity to deeply embody what you’re learning. This enables you to move into the world as an inspired teacher and healer.

Exceptional Faculty Our faculty are extraordinary guides. With in-depth experience, a deep commitment to teaching, and a profound connection to the wisdom and practices that yoga offers, they foster immersive learning environments in which individuals can flourish.

Thriving Lineage Our students benefit from four decades of integrating the fundamentals of the Kripalu lineage with understanding gained from modern science. The result: Ours is a living tradition and a continually evolving practice.

The Kripalu Lineage The Kripalu tradition is founded on the teachings of Swami Kripalu (1913– 1981), an Indian yoga master, scholar, poet, musician, and spiritual teacher.

Over the past 40 years, Swami Kripalu’s teachings have been integrated with psychology, science, and Western models of healing and self-development, creating groundbreaking programs and paths to well-being.

Kripalu’s curriculum, professional trainings, and yoga research continue to be informed by the lineage of Kripalu Yoga. Today, nearly 10,000 Kripalu Yoga teachers and School of Ayurveda graduates around the world practice, teach, and contribute to the development of this unique approach to yoga and life.

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Training Options

Our schools offer a variety of in-depth trainings to help you delve deeper into your passions.

Kripalu School of Yoga 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training........................................... page 6 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training .......................................... page 7 Yoga Teacher Specialist Trainings ........................................ page 8

Kripalu School of Ayurveda 200-Hour Foundations of Ayurveda ....................................page 10 300-Hour Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher Training ......................... page 11 650-Hour Ayurvedic Health Counselor Certification........... page 12

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Yoga

200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence you need to become an exceptional yoga teacher. Our residential immersion is offered as both a monthlong program or as two 12-day sessions.

At Kripalu, you are guided by our expert faculty and guest teachers as you study our 21 foundational asanas and four core pranayama techniques, explore yoga philosophy, learn anatomy, practice teaching, and so much more on the path to empowering your students and your own personal growth.

You learn • The principles and practices of yoga asanas • Basic anatomy and physiology • Safe hands-on assists • Skills for designing well-rounded classes, including warm-ups, asana, pranayama, relaxation, centering meditations, themes, and creative sequencing.

Emerge from our training confident and ready to lead grounded, safe, and inspired yoga classes.

Total cost $2,675 tuition, plus accommodations; see page 14 or the Kripalu website for details.

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Our Yoga Alliance–approved certification programs inspire and train you to teach safe and transformative yoga classes, as well as incorporate the wisdom and practice of yoga into your life.

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300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training This training consists of four 9-day modules, taken in any order, that delve deeper into the subtleties and advanced stages of teaching yoga. Each module includes 75 classroom hours.

Prerequisites • Any 200-hour Yoga Alliance–approved teacher training certification Required modules • Teaching Pranayama and Advanced Asana: Essential Practices for Yoga Teachers • Guiding Meditation for Transformational Yoga Teaching: Exploring the World Within Elective modules (choose two) • Leading Vinyasa: Breathe, Feel, Flow • Integrating Ayurveda into Yoga Teaching: Balancing the Doshas • Instructing Yoga for Special Populations: Yoga for Every Body Total cost $1,049 tuition per module, plus accommodations; see page 14 or the Kripalu website for details.

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How to Apply Admission to these trainings is determined on a rolling basis. We recommend that you submit your application as far in advance as possible. To find out more about admissions criteria and to complete an application, visit kripalu.org/applynow

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Yoga Teacher Specialist Trainings Take your practice and teaching to a higher level with specialized 9-day trainings focused on specific topics and populations. Open to graduates of 200-, 300-, and 500-hour Yoga Alliance–registered trainings.

Chakras, Granthis, and Nadis: The Inner Structures of Hatha Yoga Yoganand Michael Carroll Explore how understanding and accessing the energetic pathways established by ancient yogis can enrich your practice and teaching. You learn kriya, asana, pranayama, bandha, and mudra practices along with teachings from the Kripalu tradition to make your classes more powerful and meaningful. Additional prerequisites apply; please see the Kripalu website for more information.

Kripalu Yoga in the Schools Teacher Training Janna Delgado and Iona M. Smith Bolster your skills and gain tools that can enhance the lives of adolescents in this program for educators and yoga teachers. This training provides a scientifically validated yoga curriculum with developmentally appropriate lesson plans and opportunities to practice teaching in a simulated classroom environment.

Restorative Yoga Teacher Training Sudha Carolyn Lundeen Restorative yoga is a powerful antidote to the daily toll that stress and anxiety can take on the body, mind, and heart. This comprehensive training offers the skills, knowledge, and experience you need to lead your students through the healing journey of restorative yoga, including pranayama, meditation, and affirmations to deepen states of relaxed awareness, as well as sequencing, use of props, scripts, and safe physical adjustments.

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Total cost $1,049 tuition per course, plus accommodations; see page 14 or the Kripalu website for details.

Kripalu School of Yoga Student Path

300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training 75-hour modules

200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training

Specialist

75-hour courses Open to any 200and 500-hour certified teachers.

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Yoga

Kripalu Yoga in the Schools Teacher Training Restorative Yoga Teacher Training

Teaching Pranayama and Advanced Asana Guiding Meditation for Transformational Yoga Teaching

Our 300-hour trainings build on any Yoga Alliance– approved 200-hour yoga teacher training for 500hour certification.

Instructing Yoga for Special Populations Electives • Leading Vinyasa • Integrating Ayurveda into Yoga Teaching

Offered as a monthlong program or as two 12-day sessions, you emerge from this training inspired and ready to teach.

How to Apply Admission to these trainings is determined on a rolling basis. We recommend that you submit your application as far in advance as possible. To find out more about admissions criteria and to complete an application, visit kripalu.org/applynow

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Ayurveda

200-Hour Foundations of Ayurveda

A great beginning for anyone interested in pursuing Ayurveda professionally or personally.

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

You learn • The core concepts of Ayurveda, including its philosophical approach and its practical applications • The fundamentals of Ayurvedic anatomy and physiology: the doshas, vayus, dhatus, and gunas • The basic Ayurvedic approach to digestion, nutrition, and seasonal eating

• Dinacharya, daily self-care routines for radiance and vitality • Introductory Sanskrit • Mantras for improving health and longevity • How yoga practice complements and supports Ayurveda • Ayurvedic psychology—the power of the mind in creating balance.

Total cost $2,675 tuition, plus accommodations; see page 14 or the Kripalu website for details.

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Kripalu offers comprehensive study and professional certification in one of the world’s oldest medical systems. Empowering, effective, and natural—inspired by the wisdom of nature.

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300-Hour Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher Training

Ayurveda

This training consists of any 200-hour Yoga Alliance–approved teacher training followed by 300 additional hours, including Kripalu’s Foundations of Ayurveda program.

You learn

Required Modules

• How to design yoga classes customized for the doshas and the seasons • The application of Ayurvedic principles to oneon-one yoga sessions • Yoga, pranayama, and meditation techniques to address imbalances.

• Kripalu’s Foundations of Ayurveda • Integrating Ayurveda into Yoga Teaching

Prerequisites

Elective Modules (choose at least one) • Guiding Meditation for Transformational Yoga Teaching • Teaching Pranayama and Advanced AsanaT

• Any 200-hour Yoga Alliance–registered teacher training certification.

Total cost $1,049 tuition per module, plus Kripalu’s Foundations of Ayurveda, and accommodations; see page 14 or the Kripalu website for details.

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How to Apply Admission to these trainings is determined on a rolling basis. We recommend that you submit your application as far in advance as possible. To find out more about admissions criteria and to complete an application, visit kripalu.org/applynow

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Ayurveda

650-Hour Ayurvedic Health Counselor Certification After completing Kripalu’s Foundations of Ayurveda, these four modules qualify you to provide Ayurvedic diet and lifestyle recommendations that support overall health and wellness.

You learn • Diet and lifestyle practices for longevity, vitality, and health • Strategies for performing effective and safe consultations • Valuable techniques for health promotion and disease prevention • Use of spices, teas, and common herbs for digestion and nutrition • Stress-management techniques • Principles of pathology and disease • Pulse-assessment techniques • A diverse range of Ayurvedic therapies • How to best interface with modern health-care models and other health-care professionals • Approaches to creating health-related community classes • Tools for building a thriving holistic-health practice • Strategies to educate and motivate clients • A minimum of 50 client encounters.

Required Modules • Anatomy, Physiology, and Herbology • Etiology, Pathology, Clinical Assessment, and Pulse Analysis • Clinical Assessment, Vata Management, and Women’s Health • Clinical Training, Ethics, and Working with Clients Prerequisites Kripalu’s Foundations of Ayurveda is required, and may not be substituted with any other introductory Ayurveda program. Because our curriculum builds strategically over the course of the academic year, the Ayurvedic Health Counselor certification program cannot accept matriculating students.

Corequisite 6 credits of college-level anatomy and physiology.

Total cost $1,049 tuition per module, plus accommodations; see page 14 or the Kripalu website for details.

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Kripalu School of Ayurveda Student Path 300-Hour Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher Training 75-hour modules

Electives • Guiding Meditation for Transformational Yoga Teaching • Teaching Pranayama and Advanced Asana

Integrating Ayurveda into Yoga Teaching 200-hour yoga teacher training

Ayurveda 650-Hour Ayurvedic Health Counselor Certification

150 hours of homework (reading, essays, papers, and clinicals)

Anatomy, Physiology, and Herbology Etiology, Pathology, Clinical Assessment, and Pulse Analysis Clinical Assessment, Vata Management, and Women's Health Clinical Training, Ethics, and Working with Clients

200-Hour Kripalu’s Foundations of Ayurveda

This in-depth program consists of two 9-day modules, and is the foundation and prerequisite for the other Kripalu School of Ayurveda trainings.

How to Apply Admission to these trainings is determined on a rolling basis. We recommend that you submit your application as far in advance as possible. To find out more about admissions criteria and to complete an application, visit kripalu.org/applynow

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Immersion Experience When you train with the Kripalu Schools of Yoga and Ayurveda, you benefit from a unique immersion experience in our beautiful retreat center. While you’re here, you develop tools to cultivate health, create community, and encourage a quest for knowledge. We offer a variety of accommodation options to support your budget needs, from dormitories to private rooms.

All housing options include • Nutritious, all-natural meals • Daily Kripalu Yoga, meditation, and movement classes, in addition to the training curriculum • Optional evening workshops and events • Sauna • Fitness room • Meditation room

• Cafe (with wireless) and shop (with applicable student discounts on selected books, CDs, and DVDs) • Hiking trails, walking paths, and lakefront beach area • The best views in the Berkshires • Healing Arts treatments (additional cost).

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Career Options Graduate with confidence and the skills to share the work you love with the world.

Kripalu Yoga teachers lead classes in yoga studios, schools, hospitals, and workplaces.

Ayurvedic professionals choose to establish their own practice or join other health-care professionals at a wellness center.

Health-care providers and yoga instructors with Ayurvedic training enhance their vocations by offering Ayurvedic services to their clients.

Make a meaningful investment in your personal and professional life with a Kripalu training.

Student Voices Kripalu offers the tools, support, and foundation for exceptional teaching, but more importantly, it provides the space and knowledge to allow your best inner teacher to shine through.”

At Kripalu, you study with master teachers who have direct experience in yoga practice. The faculty at Kripalu are cohesive in their mission to impart traditional yoga knowledge alongside current science that supports many of the yogic practices.”

Kripalu is a place to study not only yoga, Kripalu has the highest quality of but also yourself. The training allows you training anywhere—and I have taken lots of to transform into the self you were always trainings! The depth of knowledge and skill destined to be.” of delivery are exceptional. The opportunity to live the lifestyle while here is particularly The education I received at Kripalu was helpful in integrating the information.” enriching and deep. I really felt supported and confident in the direction I was headed and in the instruction I was receiving.”

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2015–2016 Program Dates and Tuitions 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training

$2,675 per training

Yoga Teacher Specialist Training

$1,049 per course

October 18–November 13, 2015

Monthlong Intensive

Part 1 December 6–18, 2015 Part 2 January 24–February 5, 2016

Two 12-Day Sessions

February 21–March 18, 2016

Monthlong Intensive

Part 1 April 17–29, 2016 Part 2 June 5–17, 2016

Two 12-Day Sessions

May 29–June 24, 2016

Monthlong Intensive

June 26–July 22, 2016

Monthlong Intensive

300-Hour Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher Training

July 24–August 19, 2016

Monthlong Intensive

June 3–12, 2016

October 16–November 11, 2016

Monthlong Intensive

Part 1 November 27–December 9, 2016 Part 2 January 29–February 10, 2017

Two 12-Day Sessions

Electives (choose one) November 13–22, 2015 Teaching Pranayama and Advanced Asana February 19–28, 2016 Guiding Meditation for Transformational Yoga Teaching July 22–31, 2016 Teaching Pranayama and Advanced Asana November 11–20, 2016 Guiding Meditation for Transformational Yoga Teaching

300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training November 13–22, 2015 February 19–28, 2016

January 8–17, 2016

Restorative Yoga Teacher Training

July 1–10, 2016

$1,049 per module Teaching Pranayama and Advanced Asana

Guiding Meditation for Transformational Yoga Teaching

Kripalu Yoga in the Schools Teacher Training

October 14–23, 2016

Chakras, Nadis, and Granthis

200-Hour Foundations of Ayurveda

$2,675 for both parts

September 23–October 2, 2016 December 2–11, 2016

Foundations of Ayurveda Part 1 Foundations of Ayurveda Part 2

Integrating Ayurveda into Yoga Teaching

650-Hour Ayurvedic Health Counselor Certification January 15–24, 2016

$1,049 per module

$1,049 per module

Mod. 1: Anatomy, Physiology, and Herbology

Instructing Yoga for Special Populations

February 12–21, 2016 Mod. 2: Etiology, Pathology, Clinical Assessment, and Pulse Analysis

June 3–12, 2016

Integrating Ayurveda into Yoga Teaching

April 1–10, 2016 Mod. 3: Clinical Assessment, Vata Management, and Women’s Health

July 22–31, 2016

Teaching Pranayama and Advanced Asana

March 4–13, 2016

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Leading Vinyasa Guiding Meditation for Transformational Yoga Teaching

May 13–22, 2016

Mod. 4: Clinical Training, Ethics, and Working with Clients

Kripalu’s 25th Annual Yoga Teachers Conference October 11–14, 2016

Save the date; more information coming soon!

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Kripalu will inform you of its admissions decision via e-mail within four weeks of the receipt of your application. If you do not have an e-mail address, we will send it by regular mail and also call to inform you of your status.

If you are accepted, you will need to register in order to reserve your place in the training.

Payment A 50 percent deposit of your total program cost is due at registration and can be made with Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, personal checks, or money orders (US dollars, drawn on US banks). The full balance will be due five days prior to the start of the training.

Questions?

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The Kripalu Schools of Yoga and Ayurveda are registered with the Yoga Alliance.

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Scholarships Scholarships are a vital part of Kripalu’s mission to empower people and communities to realize their full potential through the transformative wisdom and practice of yoga. Each year, Kripalu awards more than $500,000 in scholarships. The awards are based on financial need, as well as plans to serve.

How do I apply?

Scholarships are awarded on a rolling basis. Limited funds are available for each program date, and programs fill quickly, so we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.

Scholarship applications will be reviewed after the applicant has been accepted into the program.

Training and scholarship applications can be submitted together and are available at kripalu.org/applynow

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Inspiration. Community. Connection.

Kripalu Yoga and Ayurveda Association A community of more than 2,200 professionals, the Kripalu Yoga and Ayurveda Association (KYAA) supports yoga teachers and Ayurvedic health counselors in sharing the profound benefits of yoga and Ayurveda. KYAA offers renewed inspiration and a sense of community and connection with other teachers and counselors and with Kripalu. As a member, you also enjoy the fulfillment of knowing that you are personally supporting Kripalu’s global humanitarian and education projects.

Membership Benefit Highlights Opportunities to come to Kripalu for less • Discounts on housing • Referral raffle • Group discount program

Marketing and professional support • Listing on the Kripalu website • Customizable marketing templates • Access to our mailing list

Continuing education resources • Quarterly educational audios and videos • Quarterly Practice newsletter

Discounts on premium yoga- and Ayurveda-related products and services

Graduates of the 200-Hour Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training or the 650-Hour Ayurvedic Health Counselor Certification receive their first year of KYAA membership free!

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Meet the Deans

Yoganand Michael Carroll Dean of the Kripalu School of Yoga

Yoganand Michael Carroll, E-RYT 500, IAYT, has more than 25 years of experience studying and teaching yoga. He was a resident of the Kripalu ashram for 15 years and has studied with masters in the Kripalu tradition in both the United States and India. He is a dedicated scholar of esoteric yoga texts and techniques, and leads workshops and teacher training programs across North America.

Why do you teach yoga?

Yoga has been the most powerful force throughout my life. Over the years, yoga has become a way for me to live in integrity and truth—inner first, then outer.

That is what I try to teach, and yoga is my vehicle.

Larissa Hall Carlson Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda Larissa Hall Carlson, E-RYT 500, directs trainings, guides retreats, and provides Ayurvedic consultations across the country. Each summer, she teaches yoga to reduce performance anxiety for the elite musicians of Tanglewood Music Center, and has taught courses for students at the Boston Conservatory, Juilliard School, Harvard, and Princeton. She is the creator of three CDs, Meditative Yoga Flow, Ayurvedic Pranayama, and Pitta-Pacifying Yoga.

Why do you teach Ayurveda?

Ayurveda has dramatically strengthened my health, invigorated my yoga practice, and enhanced my spiritual studies. I feel called to share these ancient healing tools, and I hope to spend my life empowering and encouraging people to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature.

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Faculty Kripalu School of Ayurveda

Kripalu School of Yoga

Michelle Dalbec

Janna Delgado

Jashoda Edmunds

Jonathan Foust (Sudhir)

Jurian Hughes

Jyothi Bhatt

Scott Blossom

Gerard Buffo

Balarama Chandra Das

Coby Kozlowski

Steven Leonard

Brahmani Liebman

Sudha Carolyn Lundeen

Toshiro Miura

Satya Narayana Das

John Douillard

Sunil Joshi

Vasant Lad

Cristie Newhart

Rudy Peirce

Jennifer Reis

Iona M. Smith

Randal Williams

Margrit Mikulus

William Siff

Claudia Welch

Rosy Mann

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