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Friday, May 24, 2013
Adventures in Sound Play
Paul Winter’s premise is that music-making is the natural birthright of every person, and that everyone has the ability to express themselves through sound. more …
Friday, May 31, 2013
Awakening the Kundalini with Sacred Chants and Yoga
Snatam Kaur is a world-renowned teacher of chant and yoga whose dedication to peace, love, and well-being has inspired people throughout the world. This weekend, she shares profoundly healing and spiritually potent postures, movements, breathing, and mantra-chanting techniques designed to help you awaken your kundalini (life energy), and have it flow harmoniously throughout your body. more …
Friday, June 7, 2013
Inner Fire Yoga and Kirtan Immersion Weekend
Inner Fire Yoga is a dynamic practice that evolves moment-to-moment as a call to grace. A merging of hatha and bhakti yoga, it is an approach of embodied devotion that fosters the awakening of spirit through surrender and love. more …
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Wild Hips, Gypsy Heart: Belly Dance as Self-Empowerment
For women; beginners are welcome. Unleash your primal energies and learn to move your hips in a million ways as Melina shares her family’s ancient belly-dance secrets. more …
Friday, June 14, 2013
Zumba® and Dance Weekend: Ditch the Workout, Join the Party!
Lose yourself in hypnotic rhythms from around the world with Shahidah Ansari and Samuel Salazar, Zumba choreography specialists. Experience the Zumba Fitness® Program, an exhilarating total-body workout that has revolutionized the way millions of people think about exercise. more …
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Word Walks
Soak in fresh air and new writing ideas in the scenic Berkshire hills. Just as Henry David Thoreau did his best thinking while sauntering through the Massachusetts woods, this workshop offers you the opportunity to be guided by the beauty of Kripalu’s grounds, classic poems and essays on nature, and creative writing exercises designed to cultivate awareness. more …
Bhakti Infusion: Revitalize Your Yoga Practice and Your Life Through Bhakti Yoga
For those with some experience of yoga; no prior experience with music or chanting is required. Kabir says, “Lift the veil that obscures the heart and there you will find what you are looking for. more …
Let Your Yoga Dance® Teacher Training: Chakra Fusion
Give yourself the gift of a lifetime: healing through joy, grace in motion, and the dance of your own creativity. Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training is the first and only chakra yoga-based dance training of its kind. more …
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Sharing Your Life Story: From the Page to the Stage
Everything in your life, from the mundane to the extraordinary, is a story waiting to be told. This workshop is an invitation for you to discover your own unique and powerful story. more …
Unmasking Your Soul: The Yoga of Making Art
What stops you from creating with all your heart and soul? Fear of rejection? Fear of being laughed at? Fear of your own judging mind? This workshop is for everyone who wants to experience creating without fear of self-criticism. more …
Friday, July 5, 2013
SpiritFest: Chant, Dance, Drum
Through the ages, across all spiritual traditions, the vehicles of chanting, dancing, and drumming have carried people’s bodies and minds toward their essence, toward their spirit and soul. more …
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Creative Writing Sampler: A Week of Practice and Play
Expand your writing practice and deepen your powers of focus by tapping into new, creative, healthy habits. This program is for brand-new beginners, rusty old-timers, and anyone who wants to enjoy writing more. more …
Sunday, July 14, 2013
HarmonicaYoga™: How to Reduce Stress, Increase Mindfulness, and Blow Your Blues Away Instantly!
Could you benefit from a unique and joyful way to deepen your mindfulness and/or yoga practice, or to start one? If so, what’s that got to do with … harmonica? more …
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Let Your Yoga Dance®: Teacher Training for Special Populations
For teachers and practitioners of many backgrounds: yoga, dance, physical therapists, and bodyworkers. Thousands of people yearn to move their bodies, dance, and do yoga-the elderly, people with Parkinson’s, MS, arthritis, Alzheimer’s, breast cancer survivors overcoming surgery, and others with special needs who may feel marginalized and unable to move as freely as they would like. more …
The Nature of Yoga Photography: An Immersion into Creativity, Yoga, Meditation, and Nature
Deepen your personal connections to nature, creativity, yoga, and meditation. Each day of this workshop is rich, as you practice yoga and meditation in nature, learn about the art of yoga photography, and discover how creativity and nature are powerful conduits to enhance your well-being. more …
Friday, July 26, 2013
Alchemy, Ariadne, and the Labyrinth
The earliest Minoan and Greek myths have much to teach us about the journey of the soul. Through art and story, we encounter Ariadne, Princess of the Labyrinth, and discover how her journey from daughter in a dysfunctional family to bride of a god is a mirror for our own transformation. more …
Rhythmic Rejuvenation: Yoga and Hand Drumming with Members of KDZ
Revitalize your body and spirit in a dynamic, fun-filled weekend of Kripalu Yoga and African-influenced hand drumming led by Shaun Laframboise and Allison Gemmel Laframboise, members of KDZ: The Drummers at Kripalu. more …
Sunday, July 28, 2013
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 …
JourneyDance™ Teacher Training: 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 …
Sunday, August 11, 2013
The Comedian's Way: A Creative Path for Writers, Performers, and Other Humans
Develop your writing and performance skills for page, stage, or life with comedy guru Beth Lapides, who combines spiritual insights with comedy writing and performance pointers. more …
Friday, August 23, 2013
Shake Your Soul® Teacher Training: The Yoga of Dance
A favorite experience of many guests who visit Kripalu is taking noon dance with Daniel Leven. People in his classes often say, “I’ve never had so much fun,” “What a joyful way to exercise! more …
Friday, August 30, 2013
Salsa and Yoga: Relax, Renew, and Cut Loose
Return to a state of ease and inner peace through yoga, and then roll up your mat, hit the dance floor, and free your spirit to the intoxicating rhythms of salsa! more …
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Let Your Yoga Dance® Teacher Training: Chakra Fusion, Part 1
Give yourself the gift of a lifetime: healing through joy, grace in motion, and the dance of your own creativity. Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training is the first and only chakra yoga-based dance training of its kind. more …
Friday, October 4, 2013
Writing Down the Light
The stories we habitually tell ourselves change our brain circuitry, our relationships, and our path through the world. They can elevate life to heaven on earth, or drop us unceremoniously into the fire. more …
Sunday, October 6, 2013
The Expressive Body and the Contemplative Mind: A SomaSoul® Workshop
SomaSoul®: Somatic Expressive Therapy is a therapeutic process that brings healing and vitality to our bodies, minds, and emotions. Through an integration of mindfulness, the expressive arts and therapeutic dialogue with the body, we gain access to the unconscious blocks that live within our body-mind and move limitation towards freedom, trauma toward healing, difficult emotions toward acceptance and transformation. more …
Monday, October 14, 2013
Painting and Yoga in the Berkshires
Do you have an artist living inside you, yearning to express? This workshop offers you the chance to let go and paint. Come explore your creative side in a supportive, non-competitive environment where you can experiment with watercolors, pastels, and collage. more …
Sunday, October 20, 2013
JourneyDance™ Module 2 Training: Structures and Rituals
Enhance your professional JourneyDance capacities by embodying the rituals, structures, and musical/movement scores, and new techniques that support your facilitation of this transformational practice. more …
Friday, October 25, 2013
Harmonium Intensive: Beginning Harmonium for Kirtan
For yoga teachers, aspiring chanters, and everyone who enjoys music and loves to sing. Let this in-depth, hands-on workshop launch your musical practice and provide a solid foundation for your harmonium playing and kirtan singing. more …
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Art and Yoga Teacher Training
For yoga teachers, artists, healers, therapists, and everyone interested in the healing power of yoga and art. If you are a yoga teacher, come learn creative arts exercises to deepen your students’ experience. more …
Friday, November 1, 2013
Still Writing: The Pleasures and Perils of a Creative Life
Resistance, courage, persistence, patience, coping with the inner censor (that whispering voice telling you that you can’t write)—these are all part of the writer’s life. more …
Sunday, November 3, 2013
The Yoga of Voice
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. —June Jordan, poet and activist One of our innate desires and developmental tasks as human beings is to discover our authentic voice and to share it generously with the world. more …
Friday, November 8, 2013
5Rhythms®: Sweat Your Prayers
This is movement as spiritual practice, a dancing, kinetic prayer of connection to the unpredictable mystery of it all.—Gabrielle Roth Explore the instinctive, wild, intuitive realms held within your own skin and bone. more …
Sunday, November 10, 2013
How to Hear Yourself: A Proprioceptive Writing® Immersion
For the last 35 years, Linda Trichter Metcalf has been a pioneer of writing as a way to access inner thoughts, explore them with impassioned curiosity, and set them free. more …
Friday, November 15, 2013
Tribal Jam! Moving with the Rhythm
Move and drum with the rhythm; explore the funk in the sacred and the sacred in the funk. Raise your vibration, increase your joy, and settle into a deep state of peace. more …
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Let Your Yoga Dance® Teacher Training: Chakra Fusion, Part 2
For students who have completed Module 1. Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training Chakra Fusion Module 2 pulls everything together. After six weeks of at-home practice following completion of Module 1, you return to offer full hour-long Let Your Yoga Dance classes to your peers in a safe and sacred setting. more …
Friday, November 29, 2013
JourneyDance™: Loving Yourself Beyond Belief
Ignite your creativity, passion, and joy as you evoke your highest healing in a sumptuous JourneyDance weekend with artistic alchemist Toni Bergins. Toni’s JourneyDance flow allows you to move the emotional body, love and cherish yourself, and embrace how beautiful and magnificent you already are. more …
The Natural Singer: Find Your True Voice
Come celebrate the magnificent healing power of your voice. Whether you already sing, or have always wished you could, this workshop provides a remarkably safe environment to finally find your true voice and sing your heart open. more …
