LifeForce Yoga® Meets the Hungry Ghost: Mood Management and Addiction

For all levels.

How can you commit to happiness in the face of a challenging and sometimes violent world? This weekend helps you cultivate the compassionate inner space to embrace life’s challenges with a clear and peaceful mind and a courageous heart.

In this inspiring workshop, you learn and practice breathing exercises, easy postures, guided meditations, and other experiential yogic tools for managing your mood. Come release what is no longer serving you and make peace with the ever-craving “hungry ghost” and “the committee” in your head—whose aim is to hijack your best intentions. You learn to strip away the obstacles that keep you from knowing the joy that is your birthright by

• Energizing and elevating depressed moods
• Calming anxiety
• Recognizing and transforming addictive cravings
• Releasing what no longer serves you
• Working with the chakra system and creative self-inquiry.

Designed to be useful for both professionals and lay people, this program leaves you feeling refreshed, renewed, and enthusiastically committed to radiant well-being.

Note This program is qualified for CEUs in the state of Florida for Addiction and Mental Health Professionals and Nurses. Please contact kathy@drshafer.org with any questions.

Recommended resources Amy Weintraub, Yoga Skills for Therapists (Norton), Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books), the LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues DVD series, and Breathe to Beat the Blues CD.

• 11 credits for Yoga Alliance (YA), $20 additional charge
• 11 credits for Social Workers (SW), $20 additional charge
• 11 credits for Registered Dietitians (RD), $20 additional charge
• 6.5 credits for Psychologists (PSY), $20 additional charge
• 6.5 credits for Certified Counselors (NBCC), $20 additional charge
• 11 credits for Athletic Trainers (BOC), $20 additional charge