Meditation Archives - Amy Weintraub

Summer is Now – Say Yes!

Summer is Now – Say Yes!

Summer is Now! Dear Ones, As I write, I am running last minute errands and readying to depart the Southwest. Summer is NOW and... ROADTRIP! Though I'll miss my Arizona friends, soon I will cross our beautiful country again, camping and teaching and visiting new states... I am delighted with the possibility of new experiences, and nervous about crossing the midwest during peak tornado season. Yes, I take my practices with me; my favorite chants clear the way to meditation and prayer, and they prepare my days for wherever I find myself. Here's one for you to enjoy - short and simple: "the essence of summer". This bhavana meditation, incorporates sound and easy movement with garuda mudra. See if [...]

Summer is Now – Say Yes!Liz2023-05-16T17:14:57-07:00

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

Yoga for Your Mood Workshop LIVE ONLINE

Online Registration Yoga for Your Mood Live Virtual Workshop Wednesday, May 3, 2023 3-5 Pacific Time 6-8 Eastern Join Amy LIVE ONLINE for an introduction to the work that saved her life. Accessible tools and interventions that can help anyone, anywhere. No yoga experience necessary, no pretzel poses! For thousands of years, yogis have understood what current research in neurobiology and clinical observations are demonstrating — that, working with a body and breath-based practice, we can manage our moods. This training 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 three-day training, you will discover the power of breathing [...]

Yoga for Your Mood Workshop LIVE ONLINELiz2023-04-19T08:54:36-07:00

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

Practices to Shift Depression and Anxiety LIVE Afternoon Online

Online Registration Practices to Shift Depression and Anxiety LIVE Afternoon Online April 8, 2023 1.30-4.30pm ET / 10.30am-1.30pm MT Yoga Teachers Association of the Hudson Valley Since the pandemic, rates of depression and anxiety have skyrocketed (previous statistics for depression had been 1 in 10 people; it’s now affecting 1 in 4 people). What practices can we offer our students and ourselves to establish emotional balance, self-regulation, and resiliency, no matter what we see in the news? Amy will give you the why, the how, and the practices to make a difference. Not only will these practices shift your mood, but they may change your life as they did for Amy and the thousands of students she [...]

Practices to Shift Depression and Anxiety LIVE Afternoon OnlineLiz2023-03-15T13:13:34-07:00

IFS Meets LifeForce Yoga – A Week of Healing and Learning

Online Registration IFS Meets LifeForce Yoga: A Week Intensive with LifeForce Yoga founder Amy Weintraub, and Internal Family Systems-trained therapist Angela Huebner, PhD, LMFT, at the beautiful Cape Cod Institute. The combination of IFS and LFY provide just the tools we need to slow down and tune in! In the process of learning LFY practices to help clients self-regulate, increase self-efficacy and self-compassion, you will connect to the wholeness and healing capacity within yourself. Return home empowered with your own practice, a better understanding of the IFS model, and ready to share these tools with your clients. All bodies and abilities welcome! Mental and physical health care providers can practice their specialties more effectively when they offer [...]

IFS Meets LifeForce Yoga – A Week of Healing and LearningLiz2023-01-31T12:05:15-07:00

Bahamas Beach Retreat

Bahamas Beach Retreat February 19 — 21, 2023 Yoga for Your Mood: Practices to Shift Depression and Anxiety Life is short- Let's start the New Year with a yoga vacation! Come relax. Be inspired. Activate your heart. Deepen your awareness, and be present to the beauty of nature that surrounds you. It's especially uplifting to gather in community after so many years of isolation. This retreat offers the sweetness of in-person connection in an amazing location to ground and let go. I know you won’t regret a spacious break to restore your connection to Self at the beautiful Sivananda Yoga Ashram in The Bahamas. The beach there opens my heart. Yoga and meditation outside, clean vegetarian meals, the sunsets, the air.... [...]

Bahamas Beach RetreatLiz2023-01-06T09:37:16-07:00

Questing Truth: A Soul-Centered Interview Series

Questing Truth podcast LIVE 12/22/22 12noon PT/3pm ET Watch LIVE on >> boldbravetv.com I'm delighted to be a guest with Clinical Psychologist Michiyo Ambrosius, on the Questing Truth podcast tomorrow! ✨ We'll explore yoga as a therapeutic tool for getting in touch with the inner self, then enjoy a few healing practices that incorporate breath, visualization and sound. We'll also touch on ✨Shifting Limiting Beliefs ✨Elevating Enjoyment ✨Making Contributions to Community and Humanity. Join us! Watch LIVE on >> boldbravetv.com or later here on YouTube!

Questing Truth: A Soul-Centered Interview SeriesLiz2022-12-21T14:57:52-07:00

Stepping Back for Ease. A Gift.

Stepping Back for Ease. A Gift.

Stepping Back for Ease. A Gift. The holidays can be amazing and complicated; jubilant and crazy-making; overstimulating and lonely all at once. Even when we're joyful, there’s the added stress of finding and paying for gifts, and often many preparations. For some of us it might mean attending holiday events with difficult family members. For others of us, whose family circumstances have changed, it might mean spending more time than we wish alone. This year, I can check the box on all three of these categories! A nearly 50-year spiritual practice of yoga and meditation has not immunized me from stress, grief, disappointment or betrayal. But I have learned a few strategies over the years. I know that if I can [...]

Stepping Back for Ease. A Gift.Liz2022-12-12T11:49:14-07:00

Navayogimarga Festival! The Modern Yogi’s Path

Online Registration Navayogimarga Festival! The Modern Yogi's Path Online July 24-30, 2023 Join us for a very special seven-day event of intensive yoga classes and workshops with over 60 master teachers throughout the world! The Navayogimarga Festival is the brainchild of Kofi Busia and his wife Carol. Kofi is one of the world’s foremost teachers in the Iyengar tradition. He has been teaching for nearly 50 years, and has held his Advanced Certificate for 35 years. He has taught, and is recognized, around the globe. They offer it in gratitude for yoga and for the yoga community that has nurtured and supported not just the two of them, through the past couple of years but in fact all [...]

Navayogimarga Festival! The Modern Yogi’s PathLiz2023-03-28T07:41:17-07:00