Spring is traditionally the time to clean house, and it's a good time to clear the space within, as well as without. Committing to a daily yoga practice and going on retreat are two of the best ways I know to clear that inner space. I'll be offering a weekend retreat and training at Yoga on High in Columbus, Ohio at the end of the month.

My schedule takes me from time zone to time zone, which can be hard on a vata system. To continue in my work, I go on retreat regularly. I'm happy to be spending ten days in a silent retreat led by yogi/psychologist Richard Miller in San Rafael, CA, May 1 - 11. For more information on Richard's work, his retreats, books, and CD's, please visit his web site at www.nondual. com
 

Feeling fully restored, I'll be presenting at a yoga therapy conference in Tiburon, CA, on May 12-14th. For more information on the conference, please visit www.yogatherapyconference.org.

After that, I'll be moving from zone to zone again to lead the following trainings and retreats at The Crossings in Austin, Texas, my first workshop at Mount Madonna Center in Watsonville, CA (see below) and a professional training for psychotherapists and yoga teachers only at Kripalu Center in Lenox, MA.

Later in the summer, I'll be teaching at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY.

Austin, TX

LifeForce Yoga® Healing Retreat & Training
May 22 - 26
The Crossings
Austin, TX


 

This trainging interweaves the power of yoga with current findings in neurobiology. In an environment of love and acceptance, you'll learn breathing practices to meet your mood and constitution, and an attainable sequence of postures. You'll return home feeling refreshed, renewed, and excited about your practice, with new resources. You'll learn strategies for both depression and anxiety that can safely release chronically held tension and repressed emotion in the physicall and emotional body.
You'll learn to:

• create a balanced practice for yourself or a class that provides emotional and physical containers of safety
• learn breathing practices and meditations for both dysthymia and anxiety-based depression that can be used at home or in a clinical setting
• add somatic strategies in your clinical and yoga teaching practice that increase your clients' self- awareness, self-acceptance, and ability to cope, giving them more power over their own recovery, and increasing their self-esteem.

Register at 877.944.3003 or thecrossingsaustin.com
Course 04205-158; Tuition $395 - Accomodation fees additional.

 

Watsonville, California

LifeForce Yoga® to Beat the Blues
June 2 – 4, 2 – 6
Mount Madonna Center

Watsonville, CA

 

How can you live more fully? How can you release the tensions that block the free flow of your thoughts and feelings? In this inspiring, experiential workshop, the author of the best-selling book on yoga and depression will help you design a practice to address your mood, be it anxious or depressed. We'll learn and practice breathing exercises, postures, guided meditations and other experiential yogic tools for stripping away the obstacles that keep us from remembering our wholeness. You'll learn:

 

• practices for energizing and elevating depressed mood;
• practices for relaxing and calming anxiety;
• techniques to work with the chakra system;
• deep relaxation techniques that bring balance to your emotional body.

Lenox, MA

LifeForce Yoga® Training for Depression & Anxiety
July 2 - 7
Kripalu
Lenox, MA

For yoga teachers and mental-health professionals.
Learn to help students and clients focus, relax, and have greater access to feeling states. For thousands of years, yogis have understood what current research and clinical studies are now demonstrating— that emotion, particularly traumatizing emotion, is stored in the physical body. This program interweaves the power of yoga with current findings in neurobiology. Yoga teachers and mental-health professionals will learn strategies that can safely release chronically held physical tension and repressed emotion.

Through yoga practice, discussion, and practice teaching sessions you will:

• Design one-on-one yoga sessions for dysthymia (chronic depression), anxiety-based depression, PTSD, and bipolar disorder
• Learn breathing and meditation practices for addressing dysthymia and anxiety-based depression
• Add somatic strategies to your clinical practice and yoga classes that increase your clients’ self- awareness, self-acceptance, esteem, and ability to cope
• Experience techniques you can teach your clients and students to do at home.

Register at 800.741.7353 or kripalu.org