Calendar of Programs
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Understanding, Practicing, and Teaching Advanced Pranayama
For teachers and experienced students. The ancient writings on which modern yoga is based attribute great power to pranayama, emphasizing it above asana for physical and spiritual transformation. more …
Friday, August 31, 2012
Kundalini Yoga Techniques to Practice Forgiveness
Even good people doing good things in the world can get stuck in pain, sorrow, guilt, and feelings of regret that disrupt the flow of prana and thwart healing. more …
Radiant Health: A Weekend Retreat for Women
Looking for the perfect getaway? Need to de-stress, rebalance, and reclaim your vitality? Designed by certified holistic-health nurse and senior Kripalu Yoga teacher Sudha Carolyn Lundeen, this wellness retreat nurtures your body, mind, and soul in a relaxing, fun, and informative environment. 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 …
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 …
Yoga for Athletes: Strength, Flexibility, and Focus
Athletes are often turned off by yoga because it seems too hard, too easy, or out of sync with their training. Triathlete, coach, and yoga teacher Sage Rountree demystifies yoga and explains exactly how it fits with training and competition. more …
Friday, September 14, 2012
Core Strength Transformation
Reinvest in your own inner and outer nourishment and strength-building. Sadie Nardini, one of the country’s most dynamic yoga teachers and fierce-living leaders, has created a weekend in which self-empowerment meets vinyasa flow. 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 …
Power of Mantra: Inner Healing in a Troubled World
The elixir of yoga has the power to heal both illness and ignorance. Reaching deep inside with mantra meditation, we can access that dormant healing power. more …
Yoga Cures from Head to Toe
For health professionals, yoga teachers, and people with relevant medical conditions; no experience required. From top to bottom, we all have physical limitations. more …
Integrative Mudra, Pranayama, and Bandha Teacher Training
For serious practitioners, yoga teachers, and yoga therapists. This comprehensive training focuses on the yogic arts of mudra, pranayama, and bandha, three facets of an integrated approach to hatha yoga. more …
Sunday, September 16, 2012
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 …
Yoga for the Rest of Us
Also for those who want to lead adaptive yoga. Experience the many benefits of yoga in a safe, enjoyable, and friendly environment, no matter what shape you’re in. 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 …
Friday, September 21, 2012
A Guide to Rajashree Choudhury’s Pregnancy Yoga: Prenatal/Postpartum Yoga Intensive
For women at any stage in their motherhood journey, yoga instructors, and caregivers who want to work with the prenatal community. Yoga offers a way of developing self-reliance and calmness of mind before, during and after pregnancy. more …
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 …
Empower Flow Yoga: An Invigorating and Soulful Vinyasa Workshop
One of today’s leading yoga teachers, Seane Corn offers a potent, no-nonsense (but humorous) approach to yoga on and off the mat. Her Empower Flow practice takes yoga to an exciting level that goes beyond the physical and penetrates deep into the psychological, intuitive, and emotional bodies. more …
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Building a Bridge Between Individual and Partner Yoga
For yoga teachers and serious students of yoga. Principle-Based Partner Yoga™ is a newly emerging healing art that expands the traditionally individual science of yoga into the realm of relationship. more …
Five Days of Yantra Yoga: Finding the Perfect Rhythm of Life
Yantra Yoga is one of the oldest recorded systems of yoga in the world. Coming to us by way of Tibet, Yantra Yoga is a unique series of positions and movements, combined with conscious breathing, that helps to coordinate and harmonize the body’s energy so the mind can find its authentic balance. more …
The Art of Physical Adjustments: Continuing Education for Yoga Teachers
For certified yoga teachers. Yoga practitioners derive tremendous benefit from effective adjustments. Hands-on adjustments evolve and enrich the sacred student/teacher relationship and give students the opportunity to develop their practice beyond what they thought possible. more …
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
Journey In: A Yoga Immersion Weekend
For intermediate students, min. 2 years yoga experience. Yoga is an art that can be cultivated with practice, inspiration, and dedication. In this weekend intensive, we move deeper into the heart of yoga while systematically covering the major groups of yoga poses—Sun Salutations, standing poses, forward bends, twists, backbends, and inversions. more …
Sunday, September 30, 2012
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 5, 2012
Reboot: Mindful Autumn Hiking and Deep Yoga Relaxation
Reboot your outlook and rejuvenate body, mind, and breath in this masterfully guided, magical getaway in the beautiful Berkshires. Celebrate your vital force with mindful hikes under the open sky in the cool air and natural colors of autumn. more …
Restore Inner Balance Through Self-Awakening Yoga
Slow down, listen, and feel what your whole being is calling for through the language of your body. Don (Brahmanand) and Amba Stapleton, the creators of Self-Awakening Yoga, delight in inspiring you to get reacquainted with your own body. more …
Monday, October 8, 2012
Teaching Chair Yoga: The Sitting Mountain Series Teacher Training
For yoga teachers, yoga teachers-to-be, and health-care professionals. Do you have students, clients, or patients who cannot get down on the floor because of age, weight, disability, or inflexibility? more …
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
21st Annual Yoga Teachers Conference: Celebrating 40 Years of Kripalu Yoga in the West
This year’s conference is all about the richness of our Kripalu teachers and our lineage. We’ve invited exceptional faculty and planned unique sangha sessions designed to give you a broad range of experience and knowledge, sure to nourish and enrich your lives. more …
Friday, October 12, 2012
Access Your Healing Potential Through Pranassage™
Kindhearted physical contact is a primal human need that we never outgrow. Pranassage gives you a playful way to learn yoga with partners while satisfying the need to give and receive love through physical contact. more …
Flow and Let Go: Awakening Vitality with Vinyasa and Restorative Yoga
Rejuvenate the flow of "prana shakti," the energy of your innate life force, as you enjoy flowing with your breath in warming, vinyasa sequences that prepare the body and mind for experiencing deep relaxation in supported, passive postures. 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, 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 …
Opening the Inner Temple: Chakra Yoga Teacher Training
For advanced practitioners, yoga teachers, and yoga teachers in training. Chakras are the gateways between the inner and outer worlds. The chakra system provides the architecture of the soul that brings spirit and body into union, the true meaning of yoga. more …
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour Certification: Monthlong Intensive
Immerse yourself in Kripalu Yoga and learn to share the gift of yoga with others. Awaken the teacher within and discover how the tools of yoga can be used to cultivate health, facilitate psychological growth, and open the doors to spiritual transformation—for yourself and for your students. more …
Friday, October 19, 2012
Radiant Health and Fall Detox Yoga Weekend
Discover the good news about detox: it’s not at all about lemon water and colonics! Join yoga instructor and well-being advocate Amy Ippoliti for a weekend feast and flow of twists, backbends, femur rooting, therapeutic alignment, and pranayama. more …
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 …
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Fall Detox Immersion
Prepare yourself for the holiday season and the winter months to come in this 5-day immersion in detox techniques ranging from physical practices to emotional observation. more …
Yoga for Grief Relief
The fact that grief is a normal reaction to loss doesn’t make it any easier to go through. Yoga can be instrumental in addressing the symptoms of grief because it focuses on mind, body, and spirit, the three areas where grief manifests-and often goes unacknowledged. more …
Friday, October 26, 2012
Deep Stretching for Tight Bodies and Active Minds
This workshop is perfect for people with tight bodies and active minds. Learn how to let go of stress, release the issues in your tissues, and open your energy centers. more …
Frontiers of Trauma Treatment: A Weekend Retreat
For health professionals, yoga instructors, and others interested in the nature of trauma. Overcoming trauma means learning to fully engage in the present without being hijacked by survival-related emotions and sensations. more …
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 …
Yoga for Grief Relief: One-Year Reunion
Despite the inner and outer voices saying “You should be better by now,” the second year of grief presents challenges and issues that can be as intense as those experienced in the first year. more …
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Awakening Rhythms: Yoga and the Healing Arts
Is the hectic pace of life causing you to feel out of touch with your natural rhythms? When you are aligned with the cadence of nature and your own internal rhythms, it’s easier to be healthy, happy, and thriving in your life. more …
Energetic Alignment and Hands-On Assists: Essential Tools for Teaching Flow
6 months yoga experience. Each asana has its own energetic alignment based upon the movement of prana, energy lines, and the relationship of opposites in the body. more …
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Instruction: A Teacher's Certificate Training
For certified yoga teachers. Research done at the Justice Resource Institute’s Trauma Center is establishing empirically that yoga may be helpful for people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). 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 …
The Dharma Discovery: Realizing Your Soul's Purpose
Is something missing from your life? Do you feel stuck, bored, unmotivated, or lacking direction? The Bhagavad Gita says that only when you figure out what you are uniquely suited to do, and use your talents in the best way possible, can you truly feel fulfilled. more …
The Sheer Joy of InSpirit Yoga
6 months yoga experience preferred. Thanks to its empowering and therapeutic alignment principles, life-affirming tantric philosophy, and heart-oriented teaching, InSpirit Yoga is both playful and profound, and allows each student to awaken to the innate joy waiting to be revealed inside them. more …
Yoga for the Nervous System: Healing Anxiety, Insomnia, and Chronic Stress
Anxiety, insomnia, PTSD, and chronic stress exist not only in the mind, but also in the brain and body. The nervous system is the gateway to changing these emotional patterns: when it’s in a constant state of overdrive, change is difficult at best. more …
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Embody the Five Elements Yoga Teacher Training
For yoga teachers and experienced students. Are you ready to realign yourself with the rhythms of nature? Join Jennifer Reis in this potent practice of postures, breathing, mudras, creative expression, and yoga nidra. more …
Yoga for Life
An integrative approach to yoga on and off the mat. Whether you are new to yoga or looking to revitalize your practice, this immersion provides you with tools and inspiration to make yoga a regular part of your life. 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 …
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Transformative Journey: Meditation, Yoga, and Breathwork
Come embark on a transformative journey. Enjoy the guidance of two outstanding Kripalu teachers in a workshop focused on supporting you in walking a path of healing, growth, and awakening. more …
Friday, November 9, 2012
Healing from Depression: Unstuck with LifeForce Yoga
Feeling out of balance? Out of touch? Welcome your mood as a wake-up call and jump-start your journey to happiness with evidence-based practices that can transform your life. more …
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 500-Hour Certification: Module One
Learn the deeper facets of teaching yoga, from asana and pranayama to the internal practice of stilling the mind and attuning to the multidimensional body, mind, and spirit. more …
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Bone Camp: Advanced Movement Concepts for Skeletal Health
For experienced yoga teachers and health professionals. This workshop is for yoga teachers and other exercise and health professionals who want to introduce themselves, their students, and their clients to greater depth and consciousness of movement. more …
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 …
Restorative Yoga Therapeutic Teacher Training
For yoga teachers, physical therapists, body workers, energy workers, Pilates and fitness instructors, stress-management professions, and health counselors, as well as students with a regular yoga practice who are interested in a deeper understanding of restorative yoga, the nervous system, and the energy body. 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 …
Yoga for Aligning Body, Mind, and Spirit
This nourishing weekend is an opportunity to deepen your practice and reconnect to the essential core of your being. Experience an overall sense of empowerment, vitality, and joy. 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 …
Deepen Your Practice: A Weekend Yoga Retreat
Do you love yoga? Would you thrive in a nurturing and creative environment in which to explore and deepen your yoga practice? Are you seeking tools and techniques to relieve stress? 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 …
Reboot: Mindful Autumn Hiking and Deep Yoga Relaxation
Reboot your outlook and rejuvenate body, mind, and breath in this masterfully guided, magical getaway in the beautiful Berkshires. Celebrate your vital force with mindful hikes under the open sky in the cool air and natural colors of autumn. more …
Urban Priestess: Empowering the Feminine
For women; min. 1 year yoga experience; knowledge of Sun Salutations required. In our efforts to have it all we often feel we are never enough. The Priestess archetype teaches us to wield power in the feminine way-trusting our intuition with an authentic voice, wisdom, beauty, and grace. more …
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Let Your Yoga Dance® Teacher Training: Chakra Fusion, Part 2
For students who have completed Part 1. Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training Chakra Fusion Part 2 pulls everything together. After six weeks of at-home practice following completion of Part 1, you return to offer full hour-long Let Your Yoga Dance classes to your peers in a safe and sacred setting. more …
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour Certification: Part 1
Immerse yourself in Kripalu Yoga and learn to share the gift of yoga with others. Awaken the teacher within and discover how the tools of yoga can be used to cultivate health, facilitate psychological growth, and open the doors to spiritual transformation—for yourself and for your students. more …
Friday, November 30, 2012
Kundalini Yoga: Breathing the Inner Body of Light
Breath is life and life is breath. When breath flows, so does life.—Yogi Bhajan Awaken your inner body of light, the pranamayakosha, and expand your life force with Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan. more …
Power Yoga and Beyond: From Sweat to Samadhi
Are you looking for something more from your yoga practice? Go beyond asana with Beryl Bender Birch as your guide through the eight-limbed path of classical (also called astanga) yoga-from the yamas and niyamas to samadhi, the experience of yoga itself. more …
Friday, January 11, 2013
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 500-Hour Certification: Module Four
Learn the deeper facets of teaching yoga, from asana and pranayama to the internal practice of stilling the mind and attuning to the multidimensional body, mind, and spirit. more …
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour Certification: Part 2
Immerse yourself in Kripalu Yoga and learn to share the gift of yoga with others. Awaken the teacher within and discover how the tools of yoga can be used to cultivate health, facilitate psychological growth, and open the doors to spiritual transformation—for yourself and for your students. more …
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour Connecticut: Graduation Session
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour will be offered in Fairfield, Connecticut. This non-residential training will be offered eight weekends from October to March. more …
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour Rhode Island: Graduation Session
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 200-Hour will be offered in Rhode Island at All That Matters in Wakefield. This non-residential training will be offered eight weekends from September 2012 to March 2013. more …
Friday, March 15, 2013
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 500-Hour Certification: Module Two
Exploring the Energy Body: Teaching Pranayama and Meditation By Deepening your knowledge and practice of pranayama, meditation, and yoga philosophy your work as a yoga teacher, guide, and healer will be enhanced. more …
Friday, May 10, 2013
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 500-Hour Certification: Module Three
Learn the deeper facets of teaching yoga, from asana and pranayama to the internal practice of stilling the mind and attuning to the multidimensional body, mind, and spirit. more …
