Calendar of Programs
show details of programs in progressFriday, June 1, 2012
The Mantras of Spiritual Warriors
Get in touch with the spiritual warrior within as you practice chanting mantras from the Kundalini Yoga tradition that open, balance, and rejuvenate the third and fourth chakras. more …
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Mantra Medicine Wheel
The Mantra Medicine Wheel is a sacred constellation of eight mantras that balance and strengthen all seven chakras and the aura. In the technology of Kundalini Yoga, there are specific mantras, meditations, and yoga postures that focus on each chakra. more …
Yoga, Mudra, and Meditation for Women: A Manifestation Retreat
For all women; no previous yoga experience necessary. Is it possible to create what you truly desire in life? We believe so! This extraordinary workshop is about learning how to manifest your dreams—whether you’re looking for your ideal job, seeking a life partner, or dealing with challenges. more …
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 …
Friday, June 8, 2012
Introduction to Yoga and Meditation
Do you want to try yoga and meditation but don’t know where to begin? Are you looking for a safe and welcoming environment in which to explore the basics? more …
Friday, June 15, 2012
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 17, 2012
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 …
Friday, June 22, 2012
Embodied Meditation with Live Music for Women: Awakening Feminine Rhythm
For women; no prior yoga experience needed. Embodied meditation with live music offers a way to come home to the wisdom of your body and express the wisdom of life flowing from within. more …
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 …
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Energy Intensive: Meditation, Yoga, and Breathwork
Come experience Kripalu Yoga’s unique approach to personal transformation in a program that’s practical, integrative, and fun. Two of Kripalu’s outstanding teachers lead this exploration of the profound relationship between energy and consciousness, which is the essence of yoga and the foundation of all mind-body approaches. more …
Friday, June 29, 2012
Dharma Yoga Maha Sadhana:The Eight-Limbed Universal Power Behind All Action
Dharma Mittra, inspirational classical yoga master and leader in the West, invites you into “the life of a yogi.” Founder of the Dharma Yoga Centers in New York City, Dharma has a gift for helping students achieve confidence in poses and a clear understanding of the tenants of yoga. more …
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Still Small Voice Within: Meditation, Focusing, and Intuition Training
Einstein said, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” In order to climb out of any rut, resolve any problem, or sense your path from a new perspective, you have to shift your awareness. more …
Yoga and Deep Relaxation Retreat: The Gift of Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra
Experience deeper levels of inner freedom than you ever imagined possible. Give yourself permission to rest, balance, restore, and tap into new sources of energy. more …
Friday, July 6, 2012
Introduction to Meditation
Have you heard about the benefits of meditation and wondered what the practice is really like? Or perhaps you’ve had some meditation instruction but not yet found a technique that fits your temperament and lifestyle, one that allows you to sustain a regular practice. 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 8, 2012
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 …
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 …
Friday, July 13, 2012
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 …
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 …
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 27, 2012
How to Grow a Yoga Practice
Explore how to grow your yoga practice in a weekend retreat that is ideal for beginners and seasoned practitioners alike. Randal Williams draws from 20 years of professional teaching experience to help you cultivate a practice that revitalizes your body, deepens your breath, quiets your mind, heals your heart, and benefits all your relationships. more …
Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT)
Experience a new approach to eating, one that cultivates inner wisdom through a variety of mindful eating practices and guided meditations. National Institute of Health-funded research has shown Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness to be a powerful approach to addressing mindless eating that leads to struggling with weight, obesity, and disordered eating patterns. more …
Sunday, July 29, 2012
The Sun in Your Heart is Rising: Activating Your Embodied Awakening, Wholeness, and Unique Purpose
Are you hungry to awaken spiritually or intensify your skills in embodying an awakened life? Light your heart-fire and fan the flames of your whole-being transformation in this immersion in the Waking Down in Mutuality work with renowned teachers Saniel Bonder and Linda Groves-Bonder. more …
Friday, August 3, 2012
Karma, Relationship, and Transformation: Exploring the Ways of Karma and How it Helps Us Evolve
The Eastern traditions say that karma is the most powerful force in life. Your character, the way your mind works, and even your ability to practice yoga are said to be the result of karma. more …
Yoga and Meditation Retreat
Join Stephen Cope for a weekend of delightful contemplative practice-a time of “coming home” to yourself. Author of Yoga and the Quest for the True Self and The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker’s Guide to Extraordinary Living, Stephen has created a retreat that weaves together Periods of deep, flowing, classic Kripalu Yoga Sitting and walking meditation Loving-kindness meditation Chanting Short dharma talks based on the wisdom of both the Buddhist and yoga traditions. more …
Insight Yoga Teacher Training Intensive: Yin/Yang/Mindfulness
Deepen your understanding of the experiential, philosophical, and practical application of yoga and Buddhist meditation. This intensive draws from Sarah’s book Insight Yoga and trains you in both a receptive yin style and an active slow flow or yang style of yoga. 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 …
Sunday, August 12, 2012
The Four Desires: The Yoga of Fulfillment
Yoga is the ultimate science of fulfillment. Drawing on the teachings of yoga and tantra, this program is a deep, practical approach to living your best life possible. more …
Friday, August 17, 2012
Mangalam Yantra Yoga: Tibetan Yoga and Meditation
Yantra Yoga is designed to help you awaken fully to your Buddha nature through the use of physical postures (asana), breath-control exercises (pranayama), and meditative practices. more …
The Joy of Living Meditation Retreat, Level 1
Created by the brilliant Tibetan meditation master Mingyur Rinpoche, the Joy of Living Meditation Retreat shows you how meditation can help create a peaceful mind and a joyful heart. more …
Sunday, August 19, 2012
A Buddhist Healing Ritual: Dakini's Heart-Essence Chöd
Healing Chöd is an ancient Buddhist ritual known for its power to heal physical, emotional, and mental illness and suffering. There are no instructions to follow or techniques to learn. 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 …
Initiation Into Power: How to be a Wild, Wise, and Witty Woman
For women. Tired of being the “Grand Mistress of the Entire Universe”—doing, doing, doing, and being everything to everyone? Where are the joy, fulfillment, happiness, and fun? more …
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Healing Through the Akashic Records
Are you interested in healing wounds that interfere with inner peace and limit your participation in the world? In this workshop, Linda Howe, leading expert in akashic studies, teaches how to transform your connection to wounding life experiences so you can heal your relationship with yourself, others, and the world. more …
Friday, August 31, 2012
The Heart of Awakening
In the depths of your heart lies a reservoir of limitless peace, profound connection to the whole of life, and love that is capable of bringing true fulfillment. more …
The Promise: Advanced Yoga for EveryOne
Yoga is not a linear process; it is direct intimacy with life, and it is available to everyone. This weekend, Mark Whitwell offers yoga’s advanced practices in a way that you can integrate and make your own, whether you are just beginning to practice or have years of experience. more …
The Universe Inside the Body of the Yogi: A Journey Into the Chakras, Granthis, and Nadis
For intermediate students. Ancient texts state that inside the body of a yogi are mountains, valleys, oceans, and rivers; the moon and stars move in that inner space. more …
Friday, September 14, 2012
Introduction to Yoga and Meditation
Do you want to try yoga and meditation but don’t know where to begin? Are you looking for a safe and welcoming environment in which to explore the basics? more …
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Aging as a Spiritual Practice: Exploring the Joys and Challenges of Growing Older
Explore the joys and challenges of aging from a spiritual perspective by learning to see that stage of life as an opportunity for inner transformation, deep meaning, and the cultivation of elder wisdom. more …
Nature's Way: Catching Your Breath with Mindful Walks and Deep Relaxation
This nature adventure offers the healing benefits of a formal mindfulness retreat. In the morning, find inspiration as you journey along a groomed forest trail that reveals the beauty of an ancient mountain and the fortifying nourishment of the five natural elements. more …
Yoga Nidra Level II Training: The Art and Science of Integrative Restoration (iRest®)
For graduates of iRest Level I. This iRest Level II training provides a deeper understanding of the core principles underlying the theory, practice, research, teaching issues, and delivery of iRest yoga nidra to individuals and specific populations in a variety of settings. more …
Thursday, September 20, 2012
One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps
The Buddha said that craving is the cause of suffering. Twelve-Step programs work with the deepest forms of craving—our addictions. How can these two traditions work together? more …
Friday, September 21, 2012
Accommodating Life's Changes: A Journey into Yoga and Meditation Retreat for Women
For women; all levels welcome. This workshop for women begins with the premise that life inevitably requires us to navigate mental as well as physical changes. more …
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Yoga and Deep Relaxation Retreat: Journey to Inner Peace
Experience deeper levels of inner freedom than you ever imagined possible, giving yourself permission to rest, balance, restore, and tap into new sources of energy. more …
Friday, September 28, 2012
Aware, Awake, Alive: The Yoga of Human Flourishing
Do you long to unlock the great treasures of human experience? Throughout time, sages and healers have journeyed to the center of their beings and brought forth the full flowering of human potential. more …
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Beyond the Flower of Life: A Deep MerKaBa Immersion
Explore how sacred geometry and an ancient breathing technique can help you access your own greatest potential and understand life's mysteries. The five-minute MerKaBa Meditation is the easiest and fastest way to anchor your own Guru-yourself. more …
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 …
Friday, October 5, 2012
The Vibration of Infinite Possibility
When you consider what’s possible in your life, think big, because limitless abundance already surrounds you. So much more than just the flow of money, this abundance encompasses living in unconditional love, vibrant health and vitality, and boundless peace and harmony. more …
Friday, October 12, 2012
Beyond the Prison of Mind: Discover Your Inherent Essence as Freedom
When our experience is shaped by thought, our predominant perspective is divided into shoulds and shouldn’ts, rights and wrongs, desires and aversions. 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 …
Mindfulness Yoga: The Awakened Union of Breath, Body, and Mind
The great yoga sage Patanjali defined asana as “a posture that is stable and easeful.” Zen master Dogen taught that sitting meditation is “the dharma gate of ease and joy. 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 …
Women's Power to Heal and Love
Learn to live in inner harmony, happiness, and wellness in a workshop that addresses your whole self. Designed for everyone (women, men, mothers, and teenage daughters) who longs to awaken their inner power to nourish, nurture, and heal through connection to divine Shakti energy, this weekend includes Potent Wise Earth Ayurveda practices Celebrating the Shakti power of heart and womb Ancient lunar practices for reproductive health that help you reclaim your natural cycle in accord with lunar rhythms Vedic mantras and music to accelerate your Shakti power A Living Ahimsa satsang in which everyone receives a personal blessing from Maya Tiwari. more …
Friday, November 2, 2012
Happy Body, Peaceful Mind
What do you need help with? Svaroopa® Yoga provides the foundation you need to care for your body as well as calm and sweeten your mind. Yogeshwari Fountain begins by asking the group what each person wants help with. more …
Introduction to Meditation
Have you heard about the benefits of meditation and wondered what the practice is really like? Or perhaps you’ve had some meditation instruction but not yet found a technique that fits your temperament and lifestyle, one that allows you to sustain a regular practice. 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 …
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 …
Friday, November 9, 2012
Radical Acceptance: Buddhist Practices That Heal Difficult Emotions
One of the deepest forms of suffering in our culture is the pain of believing that “something is wrong with me.” Feeling that we are continually falling short is like a toxic gas we breathe, making it difficult to be truly intimate with others or at home in our body, heart, and mind. more …
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Making Peace with Stress: A Yoga and Wellness Retreat
Are you overbooked, stressed out, and wanting to experience a life of greater ease and health? Yoga and Ayurveda provide time-tested methods for preventing and reversing the harmful effects of chronic stress and overextended, exhausting lifestyles. more …
Friday, November 16, 2012
Breathe, Sweat, Sit, Rest: OM Yoga for Body and Mind
For practitioners with min. 1 year yoga experience. Yoga offers many paths toward becoming more healthy, aware, loving, and relaxed. This weekend, Cyndi Lee presents an integrated experience of the yogic and Buddhist methods for developing strength, stability, and clarity of body and mind. more …
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Feast for the Soul: Meditation, Yoga, and the Pleasures of Prana
In the season of feasts, family, and the frontier of winter, this meditative retreat offers a wise and enjoyable opportunity to be grounded and more expansively at home in your body and breath, and in the beauty of the moment. more …
Friday, November 23, 2012
Calm Your Crazy: Yoga to Reclaim Your Life
For advanced beginners and intermediate students; min. 1 year yoga practice suggested. Do you want the different parts of your life to be united by the same agenda and standing in support of each other? more …
Healing Through Medicine Buddha
Medicine Buddha, the guru of physicians, was first introduced to Tibet by the Indian Nalanda master Shantarakshita in the eighth century. Since then, Medicine Buddha has become a powerful spiritual healing practice in Tibetan Buddhism. more …
Introduction to Yoga and Meditation
Do you want to try yoga and meditation but don’t know where to begin? Are you looking for a safe and welcoming environment in which to explore the basics? more …
Sunday, November 25, 2012
A Buddhist Healing Ritual: Dakini's Heart-Essence Chöd
Healing Chöd is an ancient Buddhist ritual known for its power to heal physical, emotional, and mental illness and suffering. There are no instructions to follow or techniques to learn. more …
Friday, November 30, 2012
All the Time in the World: Awakening to Buddha Standard Time
Lama Surya Das invites you to directly experience the spacious dimension he calls “Buddha Standard Time.” Translating Buddhist principles to their most practical form, Surya Das shows you how to transform your relationship with time, allowing you to become more effective, productive, and happy as you become less preoccupied with schedules and deadlines. more …
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