Calendar of Programs
Friday, July 6, 2012
Simple Summer Cooking with Moosewood Restaurant
Are you passionate about eating good, healthy foods and want some inspiration for your culinary explorations? Summer is a time when the menu is lighter and the accent is on quickly prepared, refreshing foods, including stir-fries, salads, and chilled soups. more …
Yin and Yang Yoga: An Exploration of Stillness, Alchemy, Power, and Flow
Paulie Zink’s approach to yoga is about finding and following your own individual path. Presenting his art in a personal, authentic, and accessible manner, Paulie gently guides you in opening to your intuitive heart and discovering the unique artist inherent within you. more …
YogArts for Kids
For kids ages 5–11. Calling all kids who love to collect things outdoors, do art projects, and make new friends. Come learn yoga, get your face painted, swim, and play. more …
LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner Training for Depression and Anxiety: Level 1
For yoga teachers and health professionals. This training interweaves ancient yogic wisdom with current findings in neurobiology. Learn an evidence-based yoga protocol to help your students and clients focus, relax, and have greater access to feeling states. more …
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Designing Your Destiny: Letting Your Soul Have Its Say
Are you living the life you want? Is your mission clear? This workshop reminds you that you are a work in progress. When you acknowledge your soul’s chosen direction, it’s easy to see that you don’t make one choice for all time, but rather constantly change and evolve. more …
Absolute Freedom: A Yoga and Meditation Retreat
Enjoy the luminosity of a clear mind, balanced body, and open heart with James Higgins, one of San Francisco’s most respected yoga teachers. Through soul-enriching asana practices and deeply nourishing periods of meditation and rest, you discover increased vitality and happiness in body, mind, and spirit. more …
Creative Kids Yoga®: Level 1 Certification
Join movement pioneer Rosemary Todd Clough to learn how to seamlessly integrate yoga and creative dance into the work and play of childhood. Drawing on the Kripalu approach, you explore state-of-the-art research on brain development and bodywork for children. more …
Fitness and Yoga Retreat
Outdoor exercise, yoga, and nutrition—the ultimate vacation getaway for active people. For everyone in good physical condition and able to hike three miles a day. more …
Radiance: Create an Amazing Life After Cancer
Life after cancer can be bold and beautiful, no matter when you were diagnosed or what treatment options you chose. This transformational retreat is for men and women who are ready to dive in and create an amazing life full of healing and joy. more …
Rhythm and Flow: Evolutionary Vinyasa Retreat
Global yoga teacher and flow expert Shiva Rea joins master musicians and drummers Donna De Lory, Mayapuris, KDZ: The Kripalu Drummers, and John de Kadt; and special guests Chris Tompkins and Demetri Velisarius to create this “Living Flow Yoga Camp” for yoga practitioners and teachers. more …
Riding the Wheels of Life: The Art and Flow of Cycling Yoga
For beginning through advanced cyclists and yogis. What is it about the power of both biking and yoga that transforms you instantly when you begin a ride or step onto your mat? more …
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Yoga of the Heart®: Cardiac and Cancer Certification Training
For yoga teachers and health-care professionals with a yoga background (see prerequisite). Would you like to share yoga with those at risk for, or living with, heart disease, cancer, and other life-altering illnesses? more …
Friday, July 13, 2012
Getting the Love You Want: A Workshop for Couples
For couples of all orientations, length of commitment, and stages of life. Take your relationship to the next level in a workshop based on the best-selling book Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples. more …
Iyengar Yoga for Back Care
This program teaches yoga as an approach to relief from chronic back pain, for conditions ranging from minor neck and lower back tension to severe scoliosis. more …
Poetry As Deep Play
Experience writing as deep play—a way to stimulate your creativity, engage your intellect, increase your powers of focus and concentration, and have fun. more …
Radiant Heart: Yoga and the Wisdom of our “Heart-Brain”: A Transformational Retreat
Explore the universal and ancient understanding of your heart center with physiological, energetic, and spiritual intimacy. Using the practices and philosophy of tantra, hatha, and bhakti yoga, discover how your heart’s innate intelligence can release your capacity for healing wisdom and love. more …
Rooted, Relaxed, and Radiant: A Yoga, Meditation, and Nature Retreat
Yogis believe the seat of wisdom is in the heart center, not the head. Through the practices of yoga and meditation, and by synchronizing your body and mind with nature, you grow more grounded and relaxed. more …
Tai Chi for Kids©: Peace, Focus, and Fun
For kids, ages 5–11. Children of all ages love the wonderful feeling that comes from the flowing movements of tai chi. Kids who are stressed find inner peace; hyperactive kids discover tools for self-control. more …
The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters
Have you ever wondered, “What is it that I’m really here to do?” Sarah Susanka, best-selling author of The Not So Big Life, has some suggestions to help you find your true passion and identify what’s in the way of living it today. more …
Yoga and Kayaking
Take the plunge! Explore a whole new side of yourself and find out what makes kayaking in the Berkshires so magical. Join the dynamic team of Greg DiLisio (certified yoga, tai chi, and qigong teacher, and popular Kripalu program leader), and Johnny Snyder (world-class kayaker and professional guide) for flat-water adventures combined with basic yoga and qigong techniques. more …
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Blooming Open: A Yoga, Meditation, and Nature Retreat
Discover the state yogis call “true happiness.” Contentment is not a mysterious occurrence-it’s a behavior, a conscious decision, a choice you make each moment of your day. more …
Nutrition and Cooking Immersion
Create health right in your kitchen. Do you want to eat healthier and cook more? Are you a stranger in your kitchen because of time constraints or feeling intimidated or overwhelmed? more …
Positional Therapy: Clinical Applications
For those who have taken Positional Therapy 1 or 2. Take the skills you gained in Positional Therapy 1 or 2 and learn how to apply them to common neuromuscular conditions. more …
Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease
Heal your heart and circulatory system. Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the United States, and one in three Americans have some kind of cardiovascular disease. more …
Revitalizing Cleanse: Nourishing Body, Mind, and Spirit
Do you feel sluggish, bloated, and out of sync? Tune up with this nurturing cleanse. Have no fear of going hungry as you are guided through this sensible approach to detox, diet, and healthy lifestyle. more …
Teaching Yoga for Scoliosis (Students)
For yoga teachers and students of all levels. Take part in the first teacher training program designed specifically to train yoga teachers how to work with students who have scoliosis. more …
Teaching Yoga for Scoliosis (Teachers)
For yoga teachers and students of all levels. Take part in the first teacher training program designed specifically to train yoga teachers how to work with students who have scoliosis. more …
Zen and the Art of HarmonicaYoga™
What better way to focus on the breath than with the inhalations and exhalations of a catchy blues-rock rhythm on the harmonica? David Harp, author of Three Minutes to Blues, Rock, and Folk Harmonica and The Three Minute Meditator, will not only have total beginners playing blues, rock, folk, and classical music within minutes, he will use the humble “Mississippi saxophone” as a route to mindfulness and self-awareness. more …
Friday, July 20, 2012
Celebrating the Family: Thriving in Nature (Kids)
For families with children ages 6–13. Immerse yourself in an unforgettable adventure in earth-living skills and family fun. Bring your whole family to learn, laugh, grow, and discover as a community thriving in nature. more …
Celebrating the Family:Thriving in Nature (Adults)
For families with children ages 6–13. Immerse yourself in an unforgettable adventure in earth-living skills and family fun. Bring your whole family to learn, laugh, grow, and discover as a community thriving in nature. more …
Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
For couples and individuals of all sexual orientations. Why does great sex so often fade for couples who claim to love each other as much as ever? Is it possible to want what we already have? more …
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 Ed.™ K-8 Tools for Classroom Teachers
For classroom teachers; no yoga experience needed. You can easily improve your students’ health, learning, and behavior by integrating breath, postures, games, and visualizations into your classroom. 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 …
Yoga to the Rescue
For students of all levels and yoga traditions. If you are interested in practicing yoga and you have chronic back, neck, shoulder, wrist, hip, or knee pain when you attempt the poses, this is the class for you! more …
Sunday, July 22, 2012
CircusYoga® Kids Camp
For children ages 7–17. Kids, run away to Kripalu and join the circus! Step into a magical week of CircusYoga and live your dreams of being an acrobat, clown, sideshow performer, ringmaster, or tightrope walker. more …
Drawing Closer to Nature
Spend a week in the beauty of the Berkshires, discovering and savoring the wonder of summer flowers and fields, lush forests, and sparkling streams, and creating art from what you see. more …
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 …
JourneyDance™ Teacher Training Intensive:
Module 1
For dance enthusiasts, including yoga teachers, dance instructors, and movement therapists. Take a powerful and transformative journey: Dance your fiery rhythmic beats. more …
Physician Well-Being: Inspiring Change in Medical Practice
For medical professionals including doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, as well as yoga teachers. Are you burned out in your medical practice? more …
Raising Your Vibration: An Intermediate Yoga Intensive
For intermediate yoga students (see prerequisites below). Do you wish you had more time for your yoga practice? Give yourself the gift of five days of yoga with other like minded people under the guidance of a teacher who continues to practice at this level after 25 years. more …
Thai Yoga Bodywork: Foundation Course
Practiced for centuries in the temples of Thailand, Thai Yoga Bodywork incorporates the Buddhist practices of mindfulness and compassion with assisted yoga postures from the Ayurvedic tradition. more …
The Way of the Happy Woman: Women's Yoga Teacher Training
For women yoga teachers and practitioners with at least 1 year of yoga experience practice. Empower women, change lives, and harness your feminine power in the world’s only women’s yoga teacher training. 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 …
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Swingolf: The Golf/Yoga/Massage Motion
For golfers of all levels and ages, from the beginner to the seasoned player. Tournament-playing professional Les Bolland offers a holistic approach to golf that incorporates yoga, muscle-opening shiatsu massage, breathing, and an emphasis on mental and physical harmony. more …
Friday, July 27, 2012
Ease Into Yoga for Chronic Pain
Have you been struggling with a complex chronic pain condition such as fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, migraines, or neuropathic pain? Emerging scientific evidence suggests that yoga offers profound healing for people with chronic pain. more …
Expect Miracles: Create Subtle Shifts for Radical Change
Join best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein for a workshop designed to help you overcome fearful patterns and create positive change to last a lifetime. more …
