Calendar of Programs
show details of programs in progressFriday, June 1, 2012
Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility
Ellen J. Langer’s book, Counterclockwise, is being made into a movie starring Jennifer Aniston. Ellen’s groundbreaking studies, including the Counterclockwise study, have led to a remarkable set of findings on the practical applications of mindfulness for health: When people are taught to be mindful in a fashion very different from meditation, they become more creative, healthier, and happier. more …
Devotion: Crafting Your Journey Inward Through Memoir
How do we begin to know our own stories, and tell them in a way that feels universal? How can we structure our inward journeys so that they resonate with others? more …
Sunday, June 3, 2012
In the Eye of the Storm: Buddhist Practices for Taking Adversity as a Path
When we encounter difficult outer circumstances, our tendency is to want to avoid or fix them. When we meet challenging emotions, we want to suppress them or find a way to escape from what we are feeling. more …
Quarter-Life Calling: Creating an Extraordinary Life in Your 20's
For adults ages 21–29. Your 20s can be a time of possibility, inspiration, and the discovery of your deepest values and truths. It can also be a time of challenge as you begin creating the kind of life your soul is calling for. more …
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
The Yoga of Shakespeare: To Thine Own Self Be True
Shakespeare brings to light common patterns of human nature and spiritual inquiry that match teachings in revered yogic, Buddhist, and Zen texts. He wrote, “To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. more …
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Detox for Health and Healing
Your jump start for healthier living. Detoxification is a natural body process that is compromised when our system becomes overloaded from poor diet, allergies, stress, infections, and toxins such as heavy metals. more …
Embodying the Dream: The Practice of Archetypal Dreamwork
Are you ready to step into your dreams, allowing them to awaken and enliven you? Mysterious yet practical, dreams beckon you into the alchemy of real change, which is felt in the body itself. more …
Friday, June 15, 2012
Couples Bodywork: Thai for Two
For couples of all orientations; no experience necessary. Enjoy a deeper sense of intimacy and appreciation for each other. Rooted in yoga, Thai massage, shiatsu, and meditation, Couples Bodywork is a great reminder to make spiritual time a priority in your relationship and a gift that the two of you can share throughout your lives. more …
Healing Your Soul's Past to Realize Your Soul's Potential
In this inspirational, experiential workshop, psychic Ainslie MacLeod, author of The Transformation: Healing Your Past Lives to Realize Your Soul’s Potential, takes you on a journey of profound spiritual healing and growth to uncover the blocks that prevent you from living your life to the fullest. more …
Friday, June 22, 2012
Spiritual Life Tune-Up
Regular tune-ups keep your car humming along at the peak of its capabilities. Similarly, when you take the time to tune up your spiritual life, there’s an ongoing brightness in your daily experience. more …
Friday, June 29, 2012
Divine Journey: A Chant and JourneyDance™ Weekend
Let go into a profound transformational journey of devotion, traveling on movement, music, and chant to create a skyrocketing celebration of Self. All you have to do is dance and sing your heart out, connect to Spirit, practice yoga, share, and celebrate your true self. more …
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, July 1, 2012
Zumba® and Dance: 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 …
Friday, July 6, 2012
Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness
Can you learn to be happier? Absolutely! Author of Being Happy, Tal Ben-Shahar taught the most popular course at Harvard University—Positive Psychology, the study of optimal human functioning. 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 …
Sunday, July 15, 2012
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 …
Friday, July 20, 2012
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 …
Sunday, July 22, 2012
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 …
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Camp Kula: Five Days, Four Teachers, Total Immersion
For students with a min. 2 years regular yoga practice, and yoga teachers from all traditions. Most of us are so consumed by our busy lives that we find it hard to fit in a 90-minute yoga class. more …
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 gurus Beth Lapides and Greg Miller, who combine spiritual insights with comedy writing and performance pointers. 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 …
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
YogaSlackers Adventure Summer Camp
Remember the excitement of summer camp, of being outdoors, learning and exploring with great guides, and interacting with new friends? Good news! Your fun isn’t over—the YogaSlackers are experts at teaching adults to rediscover the exhilaration of play and experimentation. more …
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Ashtanga Mela: The Power of Community
Calling all Ashtanga yogis and yoginis to this summer’s Ashtanga gathering—a coming together of old and new friends. Take advantage of this opportunity to practice with kindred spirits, share experiences and insights with teachers and practitioners steeped in the Ashtanga tradition, and explore what it means to be a twenty-first-century yogi. more …
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, August 24, 2012
Awakening Kindness: Finding Joy Through Compassion for Others
One of the marvels of being human is that we can choose to nurture and cultivate kindness, compassion, and love. The Dalai Lama wrote in his foreword to Nawang Khechog’s book, Awakening Kindness, “I commend Nawang for his efforts to awaken others to the understanding that, as a source of lasting happiness and joy, kindness and compassion are among the principal things that make our lives meaningful. more …
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Free Your Inner Rebel, Find Your Secret Superpowers
So many of us suppress our wild sides to be “good“ employees, spouses, parents, and friends. We mute ourselves to fit in and not rock the boat. more …
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Detox for Health and Healing
Your jump start for healthier living. Detoxification is a natural body process that is compromised when our system becomes overloaded from poor diet, allergies, stress, infections, and toxins such as heavy metals. more …
Friday, September 21, 2012
The Sexual Body and the Yoga of Light: A Weekend Workshop
For singles and couples of any sexual orientation. Internationally renowned as one of the most insightful and provocative spiritual teachers of our time, best-selling author David Deida continues to revolutionize the way men and women grow, sexually and spiritually. more …
Sunday, September 23, 2012
A Dancemeditation™ Training: Spiritual Bellydance
Explore the ancient art of belly dance, restoring your fragmented self, reveling in your sensual body, and refreshing your soul. Spiritual Bellydance combines breath awareness with naturally resonant movement forms from mystical Sufi dance to connect your body’s inner and outer space and ignite your intuition. more …
Friday, September 28, 2012
The Adventure of Self-Discovery: A Holotropic Breathwork™ Experience
This is a rare invitation to experience Holotropic Breathwork with Stanislav Grof. This practice, originated by Stanislav and Christina Grof, allows direct access to your own inner healing wisdom. more …
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Paint and Dance from the Source: A Magical Journey to the Beloved
Painting and dancing—each a powerful ritual for healing—are combined here with tribal community. Dance hastens connection to painting’s source and painting thrives on embodiment in the source of dance. more …
Monday, October 8, 2012
Unleash Your Calling: An Intensive to Create the Work and Life You Love
Do you crave meaningful work? Do you yearn to express yourself creatively, help the world, and get paid for it? Your wildest dreams are not frivolous. They are your source for inspired abilities and explosive direction. more …
Friday, October 19, 2012
The Practice of Loving-Kindness: A Meditation and Yoga Weekend
The Buddhist and yoga traditions both hold that it is possible to systematically cultivate feelings of loving-kindness, or what yoga philosophy refers to as “friendliness toward all beings. more …
Friday, October 26, 2012
Radical Happiness
Treat yourself to three days of radical transformation with Harshada Wagner. The Sanskrit word “harshada” means “full of ecstasy, joy, and delight”—qualities he brings to his teaching as he guides participants onto the path of radical happiness. more …
Sunday, October 28, 2012
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 2, 2012
Being Together: Intimacy as a Spiritual Path
For couples of all orientations. Love is the ultimate renewable resource, but to be sustainable, the quality of love in an intimate partnership must deepen and become more resilient, trusting, wise, playful, conscious, compassionate-and spiritual. more …
Sunday, November 4, 2012
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 …
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Slow Down Enough to Catch Up with Yourself: A Yoga Retreat
Are you ready to finally slow down, to pause, breathe, and catch up with yourself? Treat your body, mind, and soul to this retreat with longtime yoga teacher and licensed massage therapist Lena Madsen. more …
Sunday, November 11, 2012
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, November 16, 2012
Changing Story, Changing Self: The Power of Personal Narrative for Self-Healing
Is it our basic nature to be disconnected and discontent, or are we fundamentally whole and healthy? What are the stories that are influencing how we live our lives? more …
Zumba® and Dance: Ditch the Workout, Join the Party™!
Tanya Beardsley is a lead instructor with Zumba Fitness®, which has revolutionized the way millions of people think about exercise. Featured on the recently released Zumba Fitness DVD set, Tanya will offer two Zumba classes this weekend, with Ann Saldi, lead Zumba teacher and personal trainer, leading the other sessions. more …
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