Kripalu Archives - Amy Weintraub

LIFEFORCE YOGA & IFS: New Tools to Bring Balance

Online Registration LIFEFORCE YOGA & INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS New Tools To Bring Balance To Your Life   September 8-13. 2024 A Fall Retreat at Kripalu. We all have a Precious Center. A place within that is unsullied by life’s traumatic events. LifeForce Yoga skills remove restrictions and help us access the compassion we need to explore our wounds with clarity and wisdom. IFS teaches us how to relate to ourselves and others from a place of inclusion, empathy, and curiosity, and the two modalities dovetail beautifully. You will experience the blend of a gentle, evidence-based yoga protocol to help you self-soothe and clear your mind as you work with your IFS parts. The manager parts, reactive parts, [...]

LIFEFORCE YOGA & IFS: New Tools to Bring BalanceAmy2024-03-25T06:13:14-07:00

Yoga Skills to Shift Depression and Anxiety at Kripalu

Online Registration Yoga Skills to Shift Depression and Anxiety May 24 - May 27. 2024 A Spring Reset at Kripalu. Join me for a community of belonging. I offer an unapologetically, irrepressible, infinitely inclusive welcome to this 3-day workshop at Kripalu over Memorial Day Weekend. Want a break from anxiety, stress and overwhelm? Join us in the Berkshires this Spring for a luscious four day program, as the lake begins to warm and the blooms begin to pulse with color. We will move, breathe, meditate, and connect together indoors and outdoors, weather permitting. Discover accessible practices that address anxiety and help to beat the blues without pretzel poses or extra flexibility. Strip away the obstacles that keep you from [...]

Yoga Skills to Shift Depression and Anxiety at KripaluLiz2024-03-13T09:36:47-07:00

Trauma-Informed Practices To Restore Your Nervous System: a YOGA FOR YOUR MOOD Program

Online Registration Trauma-Informed Practices To Restore Your Nervous System: a YOGA FOR YOUR MOOD Workshop at Kripalu. Is there a part of you that sabotages your best intentions for remaining calm, experiencing joy, or being kind? Do you to feel comfortable in your body? Restoring balance to your emotional and physical bodies will increase your resilience to all that life brings. Join acclaimed yoga therapist and founder of the LifeForce Yoga® Healing Institute, Amy Weintraub, and certified yoga therapist, spiritual director, and author, Joanne Spence, for a program that helps you shift your mood and soothe the fearful parts of you that can hijack your nervous system. Through experiential sessions, you will discover Pranayama and kriya, breathing techniques, [...]

Trauma-Informed Practices To Restore Your Nervous System: a YOGA FOR YOUR MOOD ProgramLiz2023-03-10T08:23:26-07:00

Practices to Shift Depression and Anxiety at Kripalu

Online Registration Practices to Shift Depression and Anxiety A Spring Reset at Kripalu. Want a break from anxiety, stress and overwhelm? Join us in the Berkshires this Spring for a luscious four day program, as the lake begins to warm and the blooms begin to pulse with color. We will move, breathe, meditate, and connect together indoors and outdoors, weather permitting. Discover accessible practices that address anxiety and help to beat the blues without pretzel poses or extra flexibility. Strip away the obstacles that keep you from knowing the joy beneath your mood and story. Develop a practice that includes breathing exercises, easy postures, and guided meditations. This program covers evidence-based yogic tools, designed to Energize and elevate [...]

Practices to Shift Depression and Anxiety at KripaluLiz2023-03-10T06:29:03-07:00

Loss in a time of Thanksgiving

Loss in a time of Thanksgiving

Loss in a time of Thanksgiving. 💔 When life upends our plans, and the love and companionship we’ve cherished explodes into a toxic cloud, or we face some other inconsolable loss, there are two options: We can numb out and put one foot in front of the other. Or we can stay present and put one foot in front of the other. Either way, we keep going. Choice number one constricts the heart, literally putting us at risk for heart attack and immune system dysregulation. The second choice risks us burdening our friends with TMI, blubbering at inconvenient moments, and spending too much time in bed. Having spent way too many years unconsciously tamping down my feelings (a childhood habit [...]

Loss in a time of ThanksgivingLiz2022-11-22T07:31:14-07:00

A Contemplation for Comfort

A Contemplation for Comfort

A Contemplation for Comfort. Each morning, the Daily Meditation from Richard Rohr, Founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation arrives in my inbox. Recently, this paragraph moved me: Ultimately, we do not earn or find God. We just get ourselves out of the way. We let go of illusions and the preoccupations of our smaller selves. As the cheap scaffolding falls away, the soul stands revealed. The soul, or True Self, cannot be created or achieved by our work. It just is, and it is already. The soul is God’s “I AM” continued in me. “The Soul is God’s I AM continued in me.” Dear Ones, Whether you’re an agnostic, atheist, or a believer, the physicists tell us that we are all [...]

A Contemplation for ComfortLiz2022-08-31T08:36:14-07:00

Facing What Is.

Facing What Is.

Facing what is. We can back away from the world, both our own personal dilemmas and the times we live in. But when we face them with presence, we can use these very same troubles as a pathway into a deeper connection to Self, to the place within us where we are deeply connected to each other and to the energy of the universe. I really do mean “the universe,” because if the physicists are right about the Big Bang, we are all the stardust of those first atoms. This chaotic world--with myriad crises and uncertainties, seems nonstop. This fog of collective unease, underlying our constant pressures and priorities is exhausting. Yet, when I was asked to write about releasing dread, I [...]

Facing What Is.Liz2022-07-26T10:38:24-07:00

YOGA FOR YOUR MOOD Immersion at Kripalu

Online Registration YOGA FOR YOUR MOOD Immersion with Amy Weintraub, and therapist Deb Lubetkin, PsyD, at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. Want a break from anxiety, stress and overwhelm? Join us in the Berkshires for five immersive days, as the leaves begin to pulse with color and the mornings turn crisp. We will be moving and breathing and meditating indoors and outdoors, weather permitting. Join Amy and Dr. Deb Lubetkin, licensed psychologist and Kripalu Yoga teacher, for a program designed to not only shift your mood but possibly change your life. After experiencing firsthand the relief that yoga provides, Amy and Deb dedicated their careers to helping others who suffer from mood disorders like depression and anxiety. For [...]

YOGA FOR YOUR MOOD Immersion at KripaluLiz2022-08-12T09:57:45-07:00

My Journey Back to Fiction via Kripalu

My Journey Back to Fiction via Kripalu

This unfamiliar pause in our ordinary lives has been a time of loss and also a time of birth--my daughter gave birth to a son, Shalom Raphael, three weeks ago, and I am about to deliver my first novel, Temple Dancer. I'll be live on Facebook for a reading and brief talk. I hope you'll join me here tomorrow, May 21 at 4pm PT, 7ET. Temple Dancer is now available for pre-order and will be officially released on September 8. Here is s bit about my journey... Before my first visit to Kripalu in 1989, I was a fiction writer suffering from depression. I wrote from a dark place of angst and from my deep curiosity about the “why” questions—the [...]

My Journey Back to Fiction via KripaluLiz2020-11-10T19:47:53-07:00

LifeForce Yoga to Manage Your Mood

Online Registration For all levels, including yoga and health professionals. Nearly twenty years of research, thirty years of practice, and Amy’s recovery from a debilitating depression inform this protocol of evidence-based yoga practices. Learn yoga tools not taught in regular classes to support your own healing journey. Strip away the obstacles that keep you from knowing the joy beneath your mood and story. Develop a practice that includes breathing exercises, easy postures, and guided meditations. This program covers evidence-based yogic tools, designed to Energize and elevate depressed moods Relax and calm anxiety Work with the chakra system Bring balance to your emotional body. LifeForce Yoga interweaves ancient disciplines with current scientific findings to help you release what [...]

LifeForce Yoga to Manage Your MoodLiz2019-08-29T19:45:39-07:00