Practices to Shift Depression and Anxiety
June 6, 2025 - June 8, 2025
Practices to Shift Depression and Anxiety
A Spring Reset at Kripalu.
https://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/yoga-skills-shift-depression-and-anxiety
Stuck in a bad mood, or replaying thoughts that limit you? Learn yoga practices that help you—and those you serve—achieve and sustain emotional well-being.
Strip away the obstacles that keep you from knowing the joy beneath your mood and story. Return home feeling refreshed, renewed, and excited about incorporating these new tools into your home, teaching, or clinical practice.
Through her accessible LifeForce Yoga practices, breathwork, and experiential sessions, you will discover:
- Pranayama and kriya, breathing techniques, that regulate the emotions
- Meditations that lift the mood
- Sankalpa, affirmations
- Bhavana, guided visualizations
- Mantras, tones, that manage the emotions
- Mudras, hand gestures, that affect different areas of the chakra system and the body.
Enjoy Amy’s program and all that Kripalu has to offer.
NOTE This program is accessible for all levels, including beginners. 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. CEs are available for yoga teachers and yoga therapists.
LifeForce Yoga interweaves ancient disciplines with current scientific findings to help you release what no longer serves you and become the agent of your own healing. Amy’s techniques work to not only shift your mood but they may change your life. After experiencing firsthand the relief that yoga provides, Amy dedicated her career to helping others who suffer from mood disorders like depression and anxiety. Nearly twenty five years of research, thirty years of practice, and Amy’s recovery from a debilitating depression inform this protocol of evidence-based yoga practices.
Recommended reading/listening/viewing: Amy Weintraub’s YOGA FOR YOUR MOOD card deck, Yoga for Depression and Yoga Skills for Therapists, LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues—Levels 1 & 2 (DVDs), and LifeForce Yoga® CD Series; Tami Simon, (Ed.), Darkness Before Dawn: Redefining the Journey Through Depression.
CEUs available. For all levels including beginners. For all bodies, including students, yoga therapists, and mental health professionals.
Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500, YACEP, C-IAYT
Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500, YACEP, C-IAYT, is the founder of LifeForce Yoga® and a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health. She is the author of Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books) and Yoga Skills for Therapists (W.W. Norton) and numerous magazine articles and book chapters. She often collaborates with therapists to offer yoga-integrated programs to assist mental health professionals. She has been a consultant for research on the impact of Yoga on mood, and the evidence-based Yoga protocols for depression and anxiety she developed are used in therapeutic settings internationally and are featured on award-winning audio-visual products for mood management.
Amy’s latest offering, Yoga for Your Mood Deck: 52 Ways to Shift Depression and Anxiety, by Sounds True/Macmillan is available now! Her award-winning novel Temple Dancer, set in India in the 1940’s and in current day USA, is available everywhere, including Audible.
amyweintraub.com