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 with Kim Candika Alford, E-RYT
Learn to move through a playful sequence of partner-assisted asanas (poses) with senior yoga instructor Kim Candika Alford. Partner Yoga focuses on cultivating trust and sensitivity for your partner and yourself. It is a practice to directly experience the root principle of Yoga – union. The support provided by your partner can help you to tackle more complex and challenging asanas. read more>
Sunday, February 12, from 1:30 - 4 p.m. - $50/$25 per person
($20 per person with paid registration by February 10)
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 with Agni Ma & Skanda
Kali Natha Yoga Tantric 500 hr practice is for students enrolled in the Kali Natha Yoga Teachers Training Course at the 500 hour level. We will begin each session focusing on a different tantric Kali Natha Yoga asana series developed by Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati. This series is designed to wring out any suffering and bring in the essence of purity that comes from the practices of tapas or disciplines.
Sunday, February 19 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. $15 ($10 by February 12))
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LifeForce Yoga® To Manage Your Mood
A WEEKEND with Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500
Author of Yoga for Depression and Yoga Skills for Therapists
Friday 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Saturday 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. with a 30 min. snack break
Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 pm
Optional afternoon session for Yoga and health professionals only, from 2:30 to 5:30pm
CEU’s: Yoga Alliance
This course is a pre-requisite for the LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner Training.
LifeForce Yoga® interweaves the power of an ancient discipline with current scientific findings to help you release what’s no longer serving you—without a story attached! In this inspiring workshop, you will learn and practice breathing exercises, easy postures, guided meditations, and other experiential yogic tools for managing your mood.
We’ll practice:
- Pranayama and kriya breathing techniques that regulate the emotions
- Meditations that lift the mood
- Creating Affirmation (sankalpa)
- LifeForce Yoga® Bhavana (Imagery)
- LifeForce Yoga® Chakra Clearing Meditation
- LifeForce Yoga® Nidra
- Tones that regulate the emotions (mantras)
- Yoga asanas suitable for multilevel practitioners
- Self-Inquiry through writing and Dyad Sharing
You will leave feeling refreshed, renewed, and excited about your at-home or teaching practice with new tools to bring balance to the emotional and physical body. Accessible for all levels, including beginners. Psychotherapists, health professionals, and yoga teachers will learn techniques not regularly taught in yoga classes to help their clients focus, relax, and have greater access to their feelings.
Amy Weintraub’s Yoga for Depression offers us a powerful and comprehensive guidebook that provides the reader with a precise path for healing from depression. This book belongs in the hands of every person who experiences depression and in the library of every therapist who works with people suffering from depression.
—Richard C. Miller, PhD, author of Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga and
founding editor of The International Journal of Yoga Therapy
Class Descriptions:
Friday Evening
Breathe your way through these challenging times. Learn 3 Yogic strategies to strengthen your emotional resilience. Based on ancient practices and current scientific findings, Amy will incorporate breath, sound, movement and visualization to help you meet and manage your mood.
This session creates the sacred & safe space for the rest of the weekend. It is highly recommended as a pre-requisite for the rest of the workshop.
Saturday
Learn an embodied practice to meet the lethargic or depressed mood. We’ll practice a Nondual self-inquiry technique to access who you are beneath whatever mood is present. No matter what challenges you are facing now, Amy promises that you’ll leave with a lighter heart and a clearer mind or your money back! We’ll practice the LifeForce Yoga® Chakra Clearing Meditation, a technique that incorporates mantra, mudra and breath to clear the central energy channel of the body. Then we’ll build to a stronger, more dynamic practice, energizing the body mind and spirit. We’ll end with a restorative practice of LifeForce Yoga® Nidra.
Sunday
Learn a practice that promotes a calm mind and an open heart. Evolution has favored an anxiety gene, and for many of us, it’s our default. Meet your monkey mind with an embodied practice and a meditation technique that gives the busy mind a bone.
On both days, experience the power of LifeForce Yoga® Nidra, a form of meditative self-inquiry that, while relaxing the body, opens the mind to greater self-awareness and the heart to love and acceptance of what is.
Please do not eat for two hours before the workshop begins.
(Optional) Professional Session on Sunday Afternoon:
We will survey the current research and illuminate the ways Yoga is being integrated into mental health care, in individual psychotherapy, in yoga therapy and in group classes for special populations, including those suffering from mood disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder. We will talk about the Yogic principles that support Yoga for mental health treatment and Yoga strategies of assessing and meeting the mood.
Throughout the session, we will weave in practices, including pranayama, kriya, mudra, mantra, bhavana, sankalpa, and simple movement and discuss the appropriate applications and contraindications.
Recommended Reading/Practice: Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books), LifeForce Yoga® to Beat the Blues – level 1 & level 2 (DVD) LifeForce Yoga® CD Series. www.yogafordepression.com
"YOGA FOR DEPRESSION is a godsend: beautifully written, medically accurate, and very practical. I highly recommend it!" -- Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause
Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500, author of Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books) and Yoga Skills for Therapists (W.W. Norton) is founder and director of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute and a leader in the field of yoga and mental health. She offers professional trainings and workshops and speaks at medical and psychological conferences internationally. Amy is involved in on-going research on yoga as a treatment for depression and her evidence-based yoga protocol is featured on the award-winning DVD series LifeForce Yoga® to Beat the Blues and the LifeForce Yoga® CD series. www.yogafordepression.com.
Here's what people are saying:
"Amy Weintraub's work is some of the most important in our world today for helping humanity understand more deeply the significance of the mind-body connection. Her insights are inspirational for yoga teachers and all readers. Her in-depth understanding of her subject is an important basis for personal, as well as societal transformation."
—Rama Jyoti Vernon, Founder, American Yoga College
"Weintraub has written…a sensitive, intelligent, painstaking exploration of the deeper psychospiritual issues that make up the complex experience of depression." -- Phil Catalfo, Yoga Journal
"LIFEFORCE YOGA TO BEAT THE BLUES, LEVEL I, is a rare gem. I love it! Clear and bright, Amy's obvious love of Yoga shines through in every moment. This is a DVD that I will enjoy, and continue to learn from, for years to come." -– Richard Miller, PhD author, Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga
One Price for Weekend that includes Fri, Sat, Sun morning. – $225 (11 hours)
One Price for Teachers that includes Fri, Sat, all-day Sunday – $270 (14 hours)
Fri night only – $45
All day Saturday - $120
Sunday morning only - $70
Sunday afternoon only - $75 (teachers, therapists, health professionals only)
All day Sunday - $130
It is highly recommended that you take Friday evening’s program as an intro to a session on Saturday or Sunday.
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