2025 NJIMHC Keynote
2025-05-27 - 2025-05-28 | Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel, 1401 Ocean Avenue, Asbury Park, New Jersey, 07712, United States
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SAVE THE DATE! The 3rd Annual New Jersey Integrated Mental Health Conference is coming.

Integrating the Inter‑being: The Family as a Refuge of Belongingness
https://njimhc.com/
The NJIMHC is an engaging and insightful mental health conference at the beautiful Oceanfront in Asbury Park, NJ, May 27-28, 2025.
This year’s conference focuses on a return to the family as a refuge of belongingness. Connect with industry leaders, refresh your skills, and enjoy an extended holiday weekend on the Jersey shore. This is your opportunity to share, learn, and grow in a supportive and collaborative environment.
Don’t miss out on this unique gathering of professionals, researchers, and advocates who are shaping the future of mental health. Together, we make a difference in the lives of those affected by mental health conditions. Register now and be part of the conversation.
Amy will be a Keynote speaker, and you’ll learn how her personal recovery from depression sparked her passion to fuel clinicians with accessible, wholistic mental health practices.
Yoga Skills to Enhance Alliance and Compliance
Whether online or in-person, the most healing element is your presence and connection with your clients. When you guide a yoga skill in a session, you will find your client has greater focus, access to feelings, and is ready to dive deeper into the work of therapy. Connect from your heart’s mind to your client’s with clinically appropriate, evidence-based practices that work on your online platform and in your office.
Discover yoga skills that offer you an energy boost and a calm, focused mind, even as you teach them to your clients.

Discover how to assess your client’s mood and breathing pattern, even online.
Learn Yoga breathing techniques to help clients suffering from depression and/or anxiety.
Discover simple yoga practices that give your clients agency, confidence and control.
Learn imagery and affirmation to increase client self-compassion.
Explore the research that substantiates the clinical efficacy of these practices.

Practices to Shift Depression and Anxiety
2025-06-06 - 2025-06-08 | Kripalu Center, Interlaken Road, Stockbridge, MA, 01266, United States
Online Registration

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

LIFEFORCE YOGA & IFS: New Tools to Bring Balance to Your Life
2025-09-14 - 2025-09-19 | Kripalu Center, Interlaken Road, Stockbridge, MA, 01266, United States
Online Registration

LIFEFORCE YOGA & INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS
New Tools To Bring Balance To Your Life
September 14-19. 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, and those tender young parts from a place of compassionate self-awareness that is your highest Self.
Is 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?

Through pranayama, meditations, mantras, and yoga, you will:

Access your Self energy.
Learn skills to manage your mood.
Strengthen the Self to part relationships.
Unblend the parts that take over your internal system.
Safely tend to the protected parts of you that are not yet healed.

Return home feeling refreshed and with new tools to bring balance to the emotional and physical bodies.
NOTE 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.
CEUs available. For all levels including beginners. For all bodies, including students, yoga therapists, and mental health professionals.
Find more HERE.

SAGE Wisdom: An Evening of Healing, Expert Insights, and Community A Benefit
2025-09-30 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Phoenix) | ZOOM EVENT
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SAGE Wisdom: An Evening of Healing, Expert Insights, and Community
You’re invited to a virtual gathering on September 30th to enjoy gentle yoga, hear from a panel of grief and trauma experts, and discover LIGHT’s upcoming events, including a grief retreat, YTT, and professional trainings in Colorado, Springs. This learning benefit raises money for SAGE event scholarships.

Your expert panel are leaders in grief & trauma healing. Don’t miss this time with
Arielle Schwartz, Amy Weintraub, Amy Pickett-Williams, Katie Mattei , PsyD, Joann Lutz, LICSW, E-RYT, C-IAYT, Matthew McKay, PhD, and Wendy Black Stern, C-IAYT.

5:30 – 6pm: Gentle practice to open hearts and bodies.
6-7 pm: Expert panel for wisdom-sharing and inspiration.
7-7:30 pm: Closing panel with LIGHT facilitators to preview SAGE’s diverse offerings.

Tiered pricing options that provide SAGE scholarships to those who need them.
Gentle Chair Yoga to ground and open the evening
Expert Panel with leaders in grief & trauma healing
SAGE Facilitators Panel previewing diverse offerings this December, including a grief retreat, YTT, and professional training
Join us virutally to connect, learn, and experience the power of community.

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.

Yoga for Depression & Anxiety
2025-11-05 - 2025-11-06 | MA
Online Registration

Nov 5-6, 2025, 9:30am-5:15pm each day.
Hosted in person, livestream and via recording at the beautiful Soul of Yoga in Encinitas, CA.
Yoga 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.
Amy’s compassionate model of therapeutic tools will impact your growth as a teacher and expand your understanding of yoga for emotional health.
Amy 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.
LifeForce 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.
Amy’s workshop is part of Soul of Yoga’s 6-day Wellness Training module. Find out more here: https://soulofyoga.com/event/wellness-training/
CEUs available with Yoga Alliance, and Approved Professional Development (APDs) credits with IAYT.

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.

Somatic Solutions For Chronic Pain & Discomfort (free) online
2026-01-14 - 2026-01-17 | MA
Somatic Solutions For Chronic Pain & Discomfort (free) Online Masterclass
Living with chronic pain and discomfort is exhausting—not just physically, but emotionally.
When you’re in the thick of it, it’s easy to feel isolated, anxious, or even hopeless. You might feel like your world has started to shrink as you say “no” to the things you love, simply because your body feels like it’s stuck in a permanent state of “high alert.”
The truth is, chronic pain often creates a protective feedback loop in the nervous system. While the body can become very skilled at “bracing” for pain, the good news is that your nervous system is incredibly plastic. This means that with the right somatic tools, you can “retrain” your body to move out of survival mode and back into a state of ease.
You don’t have to stay stuck in the cycle of bracing and discomfort.
I have an amazing opportunity to share with you that offers a clear roadmap toward that relief. I highly recommend you join me for this FREE online series from AVAIYA University:
Somatic Solutions For Chronic Pain & Discomfort
This online series is brought to you by iKE ALLEN & Ande Anderson, Co-Owners of AVAIYA University (creators & teachers of transformational courses, books, films and online events such as, Overcoming Anxiety & Fear, Breaking Free From Trauma, Healing Your Nervous System, and many more).
Here’s just some of what you’ll learn from 20 somatic experts, doctors, scientists & more:
Heal the “Protection” Response: Understand why “Your Pain Makes Sense” as a nervous system signal and how to transition from a state of bracing to a state of ease.

Release Resistance with Mindfulness: Learn to stop the “second arrow” of suffering by softening your lens and using mindfulness to dissolve the mental struggle against physical discomfort.

Micro-Movements for Macro Relief: Use simple facial movements and daily mindful habits to relieve deep-seated physiological and mental discomfort.

Master the Nervous System “Reset”: Discover how Neurogenic Tremoring and somatic pathways allow your body to naturally shake off stored survival energy and tension.

Stop Fighting Your Symptoms: Shift from fear and frustration to calm curiosity using somatic inquiry to change your literal relationship with physical pain.

The Power of the Breath: Learn specific breath and movement strategies designed to create immediate space and “fluid movement as medicine” for your core.

The Food-Pain Connection: Discover how to reverse chronic disease and inflammation using simple “supermarket foods” and dietary shifts that act as internal medicine.

Quantum Healing & Energy Medicine: Explore Embodied Quantum Osteopathy and Quantum-Touch to transform pain at the energetic and cellular levels.

Targeted Relief for Pelvic Health: Gain specialized somatic tools to address the unique complexities of chronic pelvic pain and tension.

Tapping Into Relief: Master the power of EFT (Tapping) to process the emotional charge often trapped within chronic physical symptoms.

Herbal & Mind-Body Integration: Understand the profound link between the mind and body, and how specific herbs can support the physical recovery process.

Creating Your Pathway to Freedom: Learn to “Wild your Core” and use yoga-based somatic pathways to reclaim your bodily autonomy and move with confidence again.

Join us now for this FREE series & discover the solutions you and your loved ones need to heal.
Will you join us and take the first step toward a more vibrant, comfortable life?
Save your spot right here and start your journey toward relief.
After you register, keep an eye out for AVAIYA’s email for specific details on accessing the expert classes. (Replays will be available for 24 hours after each class airs).

LIFEFORCE YOGA & IFS: New Tools to Bring Balance to Your Life
2026-08-09 - 2026-08-14 | Kripalu Center, Interlaken Road, Stockbridge, MA, 01266, United States
Online Registration

LIFEFORCE YOGA & INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS
New Tools To Bring Balance To Your Life
August 9-14, 2026
A Summer 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, and those tender young parts from a place of compassionate self-awareness that is your highest Self.
Is 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?
Through pranayama, meditations, mantras, and yoga, you will:

Access your Self energy.
Learn skills to manage your mood.
Strengthen the Self to part relationships.
Unblend the parts that take over your internal system.
Safely tend to the protected parts of you that are not yet healed.

Return home feeling refreshed and with new tools to bring balance to the emotional and physical bodies.
NOTE 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.
CEUs available. For all levels including beginners. For all bodies, including students, yoga therapists, and mental health professionals.
Find more HERE.

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

Laura Schmidt, LMFT
Laura 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.
IFS 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
