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SUMMARY:Yoga for Depression & Anxiety
DESCRIPTION:Online Registration\n\nNov 5-6\, 2025\, 9:30am-5:15pm each day.\nHosted in person\, livestream and via recording at the beautiful Soul of Yoga in Encinitas\, CA.\nYoga for mood works. We live in challenging times and incidence of anxiety and depression\, stress and anger are on the rise. We know a steady yoga practice can help us navigate these difficulties and gain emotional resilience. This workshop goes a step further to illuminate specific therapeutic techniques that can shift one’s mood in the moment. \nAmy’s compassionate model of therapeutic tools will impact your growth as a teacher and expand your understanding of yoga for emotional health. \nAmy will share her evidenced-based protocols in this experiential immersion. Teaching through the lenses of current scientific research\, personal experience\, and ancient Yogic philosophy\, she will illuminate how our nervous system can become stuck\, and how we can amplify balance and health. \nLifeForce Yoga weaves ancient disciplines with current scientific findings to help you release what no longer serves you and become the agent of your own healing. \nAmy’s workshop is part of Soul of Yoga’s 6-day Wellness Training module. Find out more here: https://soulofyoga.com/event/wellness-training/\nCEUs available with Yoga Alliance\, and Approved Professional Development (APDs) credits with IAYT. \n \n\n  \n\n  \n  \n\n\nAmy Weintraub\, MFA\, E-RYT 500\, YACEP\, C-IAYT\nAmy 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. \nAmy’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.\namyweintraub.
URL:https://amyweintraub.com/event/yoga-for-depression-anxiety/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Immersion,LFYP Training,retreat,talk/appearance,Workshops
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SUMMARY:LIFEFORCE YOGA & IFS: New Tools to Bring Balance to Your Life
DESCRIPTION:  \nOnline Registration\n\n\n\n\nLIFEFORCE YOGA & INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS\nNew Tools To Bring Balance To Your Life  \nSeptember 14-19. 2024\nA Fall Retreat at Kripalu.\nWe 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\, and those tender young parts from a place of compassionate self-awareness that is your highest Self.  \nIs there a worried or depressed part of you that keeps you from seeing clearly? Is there a fearful part of you that prevents you from fully engaging in life and relationships? \n \nThrough pranayama\, meditations\, mantras\, and yoga\, you will: \n\nAccess your Self energy.\nLearn skills to manage your mood.\nStrengthen the Self to part relationships.\nUnblend the parts that take over your internal system.\nSafely tend to the protected parts of you that are not yet healed.\n\nReturn home feeling refreshed and with new tools to bring balance to the emotional and physical bodies. \nNOTE This program is suitable for all levels including beginners. Psychotherapists\, health professionals\, and yoga teachers will learn techniques not regularly taught in yoga classes to help clients focus\, relax\, and gain greater access to their feelings. CE credits are available for yoga professionals. More information will be provided during the program. \nCEUs available. For all levels including beginners. For all bodies\, including students\, yoga therapists\, and mental health professionals. \nFind more HERE. \n \n\n 
URL:https://amyweintraub.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-ifs-new-tools-to-bring-balance-to-your-life/
LOCATION:Kripalu Center\, Interlaken Road\, Stockbridge\, MA\, 01266\, United States
CATEGORIES:Immersion,LFYP Training,retreat,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Practices to Shift Depression and Anxiety
DESCRIPTION:Online Registration\n\nPractices to Shift Depression and Anxiety\nA Spring Reset at Kripalu.\nhttps://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/yoga-skills-shift-depression-and-anxiety \nStuck 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. \nStrip 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. \nThrough her accessible LifeForce Yoga practices\, breathwork\, and experiential sessions\, you will discover: \n\nPranayama and kriya\, breathing techniques\, that regulate the emotions\nMeditations that lift the mood\nSankalpa\, affirmations\nBhavana\, guided visualizations\nMantras\, tones\, that manage the emotions\nMudras\, hand gestures\, that affect different areas of the chakra system and the body.\n\nEnjoy Amy’s program and all that Kripalu has to offer. \nNOTE 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. \nLifeForce 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. \nRecommended 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. \nCEUs available. For all levels including beginners. For all bodies\, including students\, yoga therapists\, and mental health professionals. \n \n\n  \n\n\nAmy Weintraub\, MFA\, E-RYT 500\, YACEP\, C-IAYT\nAmy 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. \nAmy’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.\namyweintraub.com
URL:https://amyweintraub.com/event/yoga-for-your-mood-at-kripalu-2/
LOCATION:Kripalu Center\, Interlaken Road\, Stockbridge\, MA\, 01266\, United States
CATEGORIES:Immersion,retreat,Workshops
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SUMMARY:LIFEFORCE YOGA & IFS: New Tools to Bring Balance
DESCRIPTION:Online Registration\n\nLIFEFORCE YOGA & INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS\nNew Tools To Bring Balance To Your Life  \nSeptember 8-13. 2024\nA Fall Retreat at Kripalu.\nWe 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\, and those tender young parts from a place of compassionate self-awareness that is your highest Self.  \nIs there a worried or depressed part of you that keeps you from seeing clearly? Is there a fearful part of you that prevents you from fully engaging in life and relationships? \nThrough pranayama\, meditations\, mantras\, and yoga\, you will: \n\nAccess your Self energy.\nLearn skills to manage your mood.\nStrengthen the Self to part relationships.\nUnblend the parts that take over your internal system.\nSafely tend to the protected parts of you that are not yet healed.\n\nReturn home feeling refreshed and with new tools to bring balance to the emotional and physical bodies. \nNOTE This program is suitable for all levels including beginners. Psychotherapists\, health professionals\, and yoga teachers will learn techniques not regularly taught in yoga classes to help clients focus\, relax\, and gain greater access to their feelings. CE credits are available for yoga professionals. More information will be provided during the program. \nCEUs available. For all levels including beginners. For all bodies\, including students\, yoga therapists\, and mental health professionals. \nFind more HERE. \n \n\n  \n  \n\n\n\nAmy Weintraub\, MFA\, E-RYT 500\, YACEP\, C-IAYT\nAmy 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. \nAmy’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.\namyweintraub.com \n\nLaura Schmidt\, LMFT\nLaura is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in private practice in Spokane\, WA. A family systems therapist for over 25 years\, she’s deeply committed to supporting healing professionals to become more self-aware\, proficient\, inclusive and ethical. As an Approved Internal Family Systems (IFS) Clinical Consultant and AAMFT Approved Supervisor\, she also leads international online clinical consultation groups\, and in-person workshops and retreats. She’s worked with over 250 consultees\, spanning 26 countries and 19 time zones in online groups since 2019\, and served as sole Faculty Assistant to IFS Founder Dick Schwartz at the Cape Cod Institute in 2021 and 2022. \nIFS and Mindful Self Compassion practices also carried Laura through a bewildering decade recovering from an invisible traumatic brain injury and navigating the chronic challenges of another hidden health issue\, rheumatoid arthritis. A familiarity with long-term social isolation and remote learning became the catalyst to expand my professional focus to serve a wider\, global online community of healing professionals.  pausewithlaura.com
URL:https://amyweintraub.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-and-internal-family-systems-is-there-a-fearful-part-of-you-that-prevents-you-from-fully-engaging-in-life-and-relationships/
LOCATION:Kripalu Center\, Interlaken Road\, Stockbridge\, MA\, 01266\, United States
CATEGORIES:Immersion,LFYP Training,retreat,talk/appearance,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Bahamas Beach Retreat: Building Resilience
DESCRIPTION:Online Registration\n\n\nBahamas Beach Retreat\nFebruary 22 — 24\, 2024\nBuilding Resilience: Yoga for Your Mood\n\nLife is short- 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. \nThis 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…. Community kirtan\, chanting\, and mantras regulate my autonomic nervous system in ways I can’t describe. The tropical fragrance! All of these elements coalesce to remind me of who I truly am beneath whatever story I am telling myself. \nI will be speaking and teaching about Yoga for Your Mood. No experience necessary! We’ll practice yoga tools to reset and manage our moods that not only help release what no longer serves our wellbeing\, but also provides ways for managing your mood at home. Of course\, we’ll practice and play amidst verdant flora\, turquoise waters\, and sparkling sands! Idyllic Paradise Island is a gorgeous place for nature\, yoga\, silence\, and vibrance. I love it all\, and I think you will too. \nAt my Satsang I will offer offer the scientific evidence that supports yoga as an adjunct treatment for mental health and offer the safe application of the practices for mental health. \nYou will come away feeling refreshed\, renewed\, and excited about incorporating new tools into your home\, teaching\, or clinical practice to bring balance to the emotional and physical body. \nThis 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. \nLodging options range from tent huts to beachfront deluxe rooms. Spa services not included but wonderful! I hope you will join me. REGISTER NOW! \n\n  \n\n  \n\n\nAmy Weintraub\, MFA\, E-RYT 500\, YACEP\, C-IAYT\nAmy 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. \nAmy’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.\namyweintraub.com
URL:https://amyweintraub.com/event/bahamas-building-resilience/
LOCATION:Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat\, Paradise Island\, Nassau\, Bahamas
CATEGORIES:retreat,talk/appearance,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Bahamas Beach Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Bahamas Beach Retreat\nFebruary 19 — 21\, 2023\nYoga for Your Mood: Practices to Shift Depression and Anxiety \n\nLife 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. \nThis 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…. Community kirtan\, chanting\, and mantras regulate my autonomic nervous system in ways I can’t describe. The tropical fragrance! All of these elements coalesce to remind me of who I truly am beneath whatever story I am telling myself. \nI will be speaking and teaching about Yoga for Your Mood. No experience necessary! We’ll practice yoga tools to reset and manage our moods that not only help release what no longer serves our wellbeing\, but also provides ways for managing your mood at home. Of course\, we’ll practice and play amidst verdant flora\, turquoise waters\, and sparkling sands! Idyllic Paradise Island is a gorgeous place for nature\, yoga\, silence\, and vibrance. I love it all\, and I think you will too. \nAt my Satsang I will offer offer the scientific evidence that supports yoga as an adjunct treatment for mental health and offer the safe application of the practices for mental health. \nYou will come away feeling refreshed\, renewed\, and excited about incorporating new tools into your home\, teaching\, or clinical practice to bring balance to the emotional and physical body. \nThis 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. \nLodging options range from tent huts to beachfront deluxe rooms. Spa services not included but wonderful! I hope you will join me. REGISTER NOW!
URL:https://amyweintraub.com/event/bahamas-beach-retreat/
LOCATION:Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat\, Paradise Island\, Nassau\, Bahamas
CATEGORIES:retreat,talk/appearance,Workshops
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