Welcome to Amy’s Media Kit. If you’re hosting a podcast, workshop, conference, or interview series—you’re in the right place. This page is home to all the information you need.
AMY’s BIO:
Amy Weintraub, C-IAYT, MFA, E-RYT 500, YACEP, is the founder of the LifeForce Yoga® Healing Institute, an acclaimed yoga therapist, and a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health. In 1999 Amy wrote “The Natural Prozac”, Yoga Journal’s first article addressing yoga and depression. She is the author of Yoga for Depression, Yoga Skills for Therapists, the new card deck, Yoga for Your Mood: 52 Ways to Shift Depression and Anxiety, and numerous articles and book chapters. She guides thousands of practitioners and yoga and mental health professionals around the world. Her Silver Nautilus Award winning novel Temple Dancer was released in 2020. She thrives in Tucson, Arizona, where she mountain bikes, dances, writes, and creates.
Find more about Amy and her workshops, books, and practices at amyweintraub.com.
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION:
Yoga for Your Mood:
A Window Through Depression ● Boost Your Energy ● Practices to Shift Depression & Anxiety
IFS Goes to the Mat with Yoga ● LifeForce Yoga to Manage Your Mood
Yoga for Brain Health:
The Happy Brain ● Whispering to the Limbic Brain ● Clearing the Cobwebs ● Yoga to Ignite Your Creativity
Yoga for Emotional Health:
Tools for Self-Regulation ● Planting Seeds of Joy in a Field of Pain ● The Expanding Heart ● Moving from Reaction to Response
Yoga to Ignite Your Creativity ● Yoga for Release: Letting go without a Story Attached ● Yoga for Self-Acceptance: I Am Enough – Awakening The Heart Chakra
I Am Bliss and So Are You ● I Belong Here – Activating the Root Chakra
Yoga Self-Soothing: Comforting the Root Chakra ● Yoga for Easing Anxiety ● Yoga for Courage & Confidence: Activating the Solar Plexus (Manipura Chakra)
RECENT PODCASTS & INTERVIEWS:
RELEASING TRAUMA AND BODY MEMORIES WITH YOGA with Gregg Westwood
WHEN YOGA CAME on KEEN ON YOGA
SHIFTS, PERMISSION & MUDRAS with Erika Belanger
MENTAL HEALTH AWARE with Lauren Tober
EMBODIED MOVEMENTS OF COMPASSION with Deirdre Faye
WHAT RESEARCH HAS TO SAY: CE WORKSHOP with Sat Bir Khalsa
YOGA and MENTAL HEALTH with Shayla Quinn
MOVE FOR YOUR MOOD with Emily Webb
KXCIs BROAD PERSPECTIVES
LOVE & SEXUALITY PODCAST with JBROWN
THE FLOW ARTISTS (AU) PODCAST
SOUL OF YOGA LIVE SATSANG SERIES
PHOTO CREDIT: SUMMER 2023
PHOTO CREDIT: C BRANNOCK 2021
PHOTO CREDIT: S VAN DYKE 2016
SOCIAL LINKS:
amazon: AW Author Page
goodreads: AW Author Page