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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 …
Entangled in Darkness: Seeking the Light
You can revitalize your energy and rejuvenate your life. It’s not magic, but the results may seem magical! In this workshop, noted teacher, master healer, and New York Times best-selling author Deborah King leads you out of personal darkness into the radiant light of healing. more …
Fit Soul, Fit Body: 9 Keys to a Healthier, Happier You
Brant Secunda and Mark Allen invite you to an extraordinary weekend of health and healing based on their groundbreaking best-seller, Fit Soul, Fit Body: 9 Keys to a Healthier, Happier You. more …
Sunday, June 2, 2013
The 21 Stages of Meditation: Meditations to Explore the Self and Open the Heart
How do you develop the capacity to meditate? In Kundalini Yoga, in the tradition of Yogi Bhajan, you use sound, silence, and the challenge of different postures to train the mind and stabilize the Self. more …
Friday, June 7, 2013
Awaken the Mindful Self: Five Steps to Living More Consciously
In today’s fast-paced and stress-filled world, many of us find ourselves living lives of quiet desperation. Through a simple, five-step practice, each of us can learn to live more consciously and compassionately in the present moment. more …
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
Cutting Through Obstacles: Healing Chöd—A Buddhist Healing Retreat
Healing Chöd is a rare and ancient Buddhist ritual known for its power to heal mental and physical sickness, remove karmic obstacles to spiritual growth, and address human suffering. more …
Sunday, June 16, 2013
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 …
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Yoga and Deep Relaxation Retreat: The Gift of Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra
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 …
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Freestyle Meditation: Finding Your Own Way
Steven Leonard invites you to experience meditation in a style of openness, feeling, and freedom. Forget all previous ideas of what you should or shouldn’t do in meditation, and recall a more expansive and joyful way of being. more …
Releasing the Inner Magician: A Body-Centered Experience to Unlock Inner Resources
Are you using your inherent powers to work magic? This delightful retreat with Deborah Sandella, originator of the groundbreaking RIM Method, guides you to unleash hidden, inner resources for insight, healing, and decision-making. more …
Friday, July 5, 2013
The Joy of Living Meditation Retreat, Level II: Opening the Heart
Learn how meditating on loving-kindness and compassion can open your heart to the world around you and relax the self-centered tendencies that lead to anxiety, dissatisfaction, and suffering. 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 7, 2013
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 …
Friday, July 12, 2013
Yogic Mystery School: A Weekend Retreat into the Deeper Dimensions of the Yoga Experience
Enjoy expert guidance in meditation, relaxation, and exquisite chanting as you explore the deeper dimensions of the yoga experience. Author and spiritual teacher Russill Paul (Anirud Jaidev) draws from the classic yogic scriptures, including the Yoga Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Upanishads, along with the teachings of tantra and mantra. 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 …
Friday, July 19, 2013
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, July 21, 2013
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 …
Friday, July 26, 2013
Yoga for Your Spiritual Muscles
Just like physical muscles, your spiritual muscles need to be strengthened and toned. Each time you practice yoga, you create a new opportunity to be infused with spirit and develop the intangible qualities that create a meaningful life. more …
Friday, August 2, 2013
Bhakti Bomb: Bringing Bhakti into Your Yoga Practice
Join two of New York City’s most dynamic and devotional yoga teachers for a blissed-out bhakti weekend. Practicing bhakti purifies your consciousness and revives your relationship with the Divine. more …
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Mindfulness A–Z: Liberating Regret, Stuckness, and Perfectionism
Do you have trouble getting out of your own way? Do you have a fear of missing out? Do you want more freedom from self-imposed rules, expectations, and limitations? more …
Friday, August 9, 2013
Dancing with the Divine Feminine: A Tantric Psychology Experience
The tantric goddess traditions offer us a powerfully transformative vision of the Divine Feminine as she appears in both women and men. When we connect with the Divine Feminine, we attune to self-actualization, divine love, and liberating wisdom. more …
Intimacy as a Spiritual Path: A Retreat for Couples
For all couples. Love is the original, ultimate, renewable resource. But to be sustainable, the quality of love in an intimate partnership must continually deepen, becoming more peaceful, mindful, compassionate, and wise—eventually becoming a spiritual path. more …
Reboot: Mindful Summer Hiking and Deep Yoga Relaxation
Refresh the vital realms of body, mind, and breath on this magical getaway complete with masterful guidance. Connect with summer in the beautiful Berkshires. more …
Tending the Heart Fire: Practices for Living Love
Set your heart on fire and seek those who fan your flames.—Rumi The heart fire is a vision recognized by all of the world’s spiritual traditions as well as Western science, yet there are cultural blocks to integrating this powerful heart-knowing into daily life. more …
Sunday, August 11, 2013
At Play with The Radiance Sutras: A Meditation Retreat and Teacher Training
* Meditation is one of life’s great pleasures, a vacation in the vibrant present. There are hundreds of techniques, and, when you find the style that fits your inner nature, meditation feels like the most natural thing in the world. more …
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 …
Friday, August 16, 2013
OM Yoga: Finding Clarity, Strength, and Stability
When you set out on a journey, it’s good to know where you’re going, what to take with you, and how to get to your destination. This weekend, Cyndi Lee offers a path for developing clarity, strength, and stability in your yoga practice and your life. more …
Sunday, August 18, 2013
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 23, 2013
A Women's Spiritual Retreat: Learning How to Love Ourselves
For women. The root of human suffering is self-judgment and the belief that something is wrong with us. This fundamental lack of security translates into anxiety, depression, addiction, and burnout. more …
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
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 30, 2013
Introduction to Self-Inquiry
Have you been doing spiritual work for years without becoming free? In this popular workshop, James Swartz reveals the fundamentals of one of the most successful enlightenment teachings of all time: Vedanta. more …
Mangalam Yantra Yoga: Tibetan Yoga and Meditation
For those with min. 1 year yoga experience. Yantra Yoga is designed to help you awaken fully to your Buddha nature through the use of physical postures (asana), breath-awareness exercises (pranayama), and meditative practices. more …
Friday, September 20, 2013
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 22, 2013
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 …
Friday, September 27, 2013
Advanced Yoga Practices (AYP): Deep Meditation and Kirtan Retreat
Are you looking for a complete yoga system based on traditional teachings? Would you like to start or expand a daily practice of inner silence, with good follow-up support? more …
Honoring Our Ancestors, Healing the Past: A Weekend Retreat
This transformational weekend of healing, meditation, mantra, and joyful ceremony is under the nurturing guidance of Maya Tiwari, an extraordinary teacher considered an embodiment of the Spiritual Mother. more …
Stilling the Mind: A Profound Course in Meditation
Discover the secrets that yogis have used across millennia to still the mind. Sitting with meditation master Mark Griffin makes your meditation process straightforward and easily attainable. more …
Friday, October 4, 2013
Finding Freedom
Freedom is the ability to be at ease in the midst of whatever is happening in our lives. It’s the experience of being unburdened by unnecessary stress and suffering. more …
Nosara Yoga® Retreat
Immerse yourself in a masterfully guided Nosara Yoga experience that brings you home to a fresh and enlivening relationship with your whole self. Don and Amba Stapleton, creators of Nosara Yoga, are internationally recognized for their innovative approach to yogic inquiry as a way to facilitate profound contact with your own source of internal guidance. more …
Friday, October 11, 2013
The Final Stage of Meditation: The Journey into the Transcendent Self
Our transcendent self is simply who we are when our finite sense of self is immersed in the infinite. This weekend offers you the experience to understand that transcendent self, the tools to deepen your meditation, and a process to embody your highest potential. more …
Accommodating Life's Changes: A Journey Into Yoga and Meditation Retreat for Women
For women at all levels of practice. Calling wise women of every age and stage of life! This annual retreat begins with the premise that life inevitably requires us to navigate mental as well as physical changes. more …
Monday, October 14, 2013
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, October 18, 2013
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, October 20, 2013
Yin/Insight Yoga Retreat
For students with min. 1 year yoga experience and a strong interest in meditation and psychodynamic work. Using Yin/Yang Yoga, pranayama, mindfulness, compassion meditation, and psychospiritual inquiry, this retreat with Sarah and Ty Powers focuses on a psychological approach to yoga and wholeness. more …
Yoga and Deep Relaxation Retreat: The Gift of Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra
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 …
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