Calendar of Programs
Sunday, June 10, 2012
The Recovery Room: Somatic Therapeutics for Addiction and Mental Health Professionals
Freud was right! When you do a little R&R (relaxing and reclining), you are more likely to say what’s on your mind, identify obstacles, and challenge yourself with new behaviors for mind-body health. more
Transforming Your Clinical Practice with EMDR: The Basic Course for Mental Health Professionals
For mental-health therapists. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a comprehensive, integrative psychotherapy approach for the treatment of a broad spectrum of issues, including disturbing life events, relationship problems, self-esteem issues, and complex trauma. more
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Yoga Nursing®: The Art of Caring
For nurses, nurse practitioners, and other health-care professionals; no previous yoga experience needed. Revitalize yourself and your caregiving with Yoga Nursing, an exciting new field in health care and yoga. more
Mindful Self-Compassion Training
How do you typically react to life’s difficulties, such as work stress, feeling rejected, physical problems, or financial hardship? Human beings instinctively fight negative experiences and find fault in themselves when things go wrong. more
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Integrative Weight Loss
Lose weight and maintain a healthy body naturally. If you know that going on another diet isn’t the solution, come nourish yourself and invite changes that will continue to unfold long after you return home. more
Friday, July 20, 2012
The Dynamics of Perception: A Body-Mind Centering® Approach
Perception is the psychophysical process of interpreting sensory information that comes to us through multiple channels. This workshop explores how we filter, modify, distort, accept, reject, and use sensory information to bond, defend, and learn. more
This Very Moment: Mindfulness in Psychotherapy
For psychotherapists, human-service professionals, and other psychologically minded people interested in personal development. Mindfulness has been successfully practiced for more than 2,500 years and is a deceptively simple way of relating to experience to alleviate human suffering. more
Yoga for Emotional Balance: Healing Anxiety and Depression
Do you have a mental grasp of your problems, yet find it difficult to change? Anxiety, depression, and anxious depression are neuro-emotional patterns that hijack your mind, brain, and body, and prevent you from accessing your fullest potential. more
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Integrative Weight Loss
Lose weight and maintain a healthy body naturally. If you know that going on another diet isn’t the solution, come nourish yourself and invite changes that will continue to unfold long after you return home. more
Trauma, Body, and Brain: Restoring the Capacity for Rhythm and Play
For licensed therapists, yoga instructors, and others interested in the nature of trauma. Traumatic experiences alter people’s relationship to their bodies in ways that leave them feeling uptight, helpless, disconnected, hurt, on edge, frantic, and at odds with themselves. more
Friday, August 3, 2012
Psychology of the Chakras: A 7-Day Intensive
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? more
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Women and Food: A Journey to Nourishment
A personalized, small-group approach to creating positive change. Do you want a healthy, happy relationship with food? Eating is one of our most essential human needs. more
Friday, August 10, 2012
Use Your Brain to Change Your Age
Do you want to feel more fit, energized, and mentally sharp? You can! The fountain of youth is literally between your ears. A healthy brain is the key to staying vibrant and alive for a long time. more
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Facilitating Transformational Workshops: An Introduction to Group Dynamics
For anyone interested in gathering and leading groups. Powerful groups have four pillars: a holistic view, mind-body practices, a group process, and a leader. more
Friday, August 17, 2012
Emotional and Mental Clarity: A Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy® Approach
Mind your body and mend your mind isn’t just an aphorism. Learn skills and processes based on Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy from its founder, Michael Lee. more
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Integrative Weight Loss
Lose weight and maintain a healthy body naturally. If you know that going on another diet isn’t the solution, come nourish yourself and invite changes that will continue to unfold long after you return home. more
Tai Chi Easy Practice Leader Training: A Healing Revolution Certification
The Tai Chi Easy Practice Leader Training is a 25-hour training that empowers individuals to share compelling and fun self-care practices. Tai Chi Easy blends a simple medical qigong technique with carefully chosen tai chi exercises. more
Friday, August 24, 2012
Embodyoga® Through the Fluid Body
Experience and celebrate your spectacular fluid body, which pulses with clarity and awareness. Your fluid body offers deep reservoirs of vitality, wisdom, and presence. more
Healer Within Practice Leader Training: Mind-Body Energetics Certification in Medical Qigong
Learn to share Mind-Body Energetics in your community. Mind-body and energy-medicine methods—such as yoga, tai chi, qigong, and somatics—are growing rapidly in popularity, and not just in yoga centers and spas. more
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Internal Family Systems Therapy: Embodying the Healing Wisdom
All the world’s religions teach that there is an untarnished essence within each of us, a Self from which wisdom, healing, and spiritual energy flow. more
Friday, September 14, 2012
Yoga Cures from Head to Toe
For health professionals, yoga teachers, and people with relevant medical conditions; no experience required. From top to bottom, we all have physical limitations. more
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Integrative Weight Loss
Lose weight and maintain a healthy body naturally. If you know that going on another diet isn’t the solution, come nourish yourself and invite changes that will continue to unfold long after you return home. more
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness (MB-EAT) Training for Professionals
For mental-health and health-care professionals. Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT), developed by Jean Kristeller, is an intervention program addressing mindless and stress-related eating, disordered eating patterns, and obesity through the application of mindfulness meditation. more
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Women and Food: A Journey to Nourishment
A personalized, small-group approach to creating positive change. Do you want a healthy, happy relationship with food? Eating is one of our most essential human needs. more
Friday, October 12, 2012
Women, Food, and God: A Transformational Path
The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. No matter how sophisticated, wise, or enlightened you believe you are, how you eat tells all. more
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Awakening Somatic IntelligenceSM: The Art and Practice of Embodied Mindfulness
Only what grows out of your direct experience has the power to transform you. Since the “body” and the “world” live in your experience—not the reverse, as is generally conceived—how you receive that experience determines everything, from sensation, feeling, thinking, memory, and anticipation. more
Friday, October 19, 2012
Healing the Cause of Anxiety and Depression with Ayurveda
Your innate nature is to be joyful and loving for no reason. Learn how to make this your reality on an Ayurvedic journey that explores ways of healing anxiety and depression. more
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Integrative Weight Loss
Lose weight and maintain a healthy body naturally. If you know that going on another diet isn’t the solution, come nourish yourself and invite changes that will continue to unfold long after you return home. more
Friday, October 26, 2012
Frontiers of Trauma Treatment: A Weekend Retreat
For health professionals, yoga instructors, and others interested in the nature of trauma. Overcoming trauma means learning to fully engage in the present without being hijacked by survival-related emotions and sensations. more
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Instruction: A Teacher's Certificate Training
For certified yoga teachers. Research done at the Justice Resource Institute’s Trauma Center is establishing empirically that yoga may be helpful for people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). more
Women's Qigong: Chinese Secrets of Longevity and Health
For women of all levels. Qigong is a system of self-healing that has been used in China for more than 2,000 years to maintain health, achieve longevity, and treat disease. more
Sunday, November 4, 2012
SuperHealth®: Yogic Therapeutic Technology to Break Habits and Addictive Behavior
For yoga teachers and students, health-care professionals and anyone in the process of making meaningful lifestyle changes. SuperHealth is a cutting-edge behavioral health and addiction-therapy system created by Yogi Bhajan. more
Friday, November 16, 2012
Creating Transformational Workshops: Leading Mind-Body Experiences
When you’re clear about your calling and you’ve got the right tools, you’re in a powerful position to help others. Are you ready to bring what you’re passionate about into group settings in ways that create group synergy, original thinking and breakthrough solutions? more
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Integrative Weight Loss
Lose weight and maintain a healthy body naturally. If you know that going on another diet isn’t the solution, come nourish yourself and invite changes that will continue to unfold long after you return home. more




