15th annual teachers conference Inspired Living, Inspired Teaching october 19–22

Pre-conference Intensives October 18 and 19

Yoga Teacher Development Through Training, Inspiration, and Community

Open to yoga teachers from all traditions With more than 30 years’ experience in and more than 5,000 teachers trained, and the Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association (KYTA) continue to excel in supporting the needs of yoga teachers throughout the world. For more information about KYTA and the benefits we offer our members, visit www.kyta.org.

Dear yoga teachers,

You’re invited to our 15th annual yoga teachers conference, and we’re planning a birthday bash! We’ve enlisted your favorite workshop and keynote presenters as well as entertainers, drummers, and chanters extraordinaire to help us celebrate. This brochure is your invitation to the party. Take a look through these pages to get a taste of all the festivities we’re preparing for you.

Immerse yourself in new learning experiences. Hone your professional skills and expand your repertoire. Learn more about the history and future of Kripalu Yoga. Meet old friends and new. Take time out for a massage or other healing arts session or a walk through the fall foliage. Come early or stay late for pre-conference intensives (pages 6–7) or programs to enhance your teaching and practice (pages 18–21). Lose—and find—yourself in the bliss of movement, music, and chanting (Satyaa and Pari will be with us again this year!).

No need to bring your evening dresses or tuxedos to this party (though you’re welcome to wear them for our Saturday evening dance party with Shakti Fusion). Come as you are. We can’t wait to see you!

Vandita Kate Marchesiello, KYTA Director

conference sponsors conference at a glanceconference thursday, october 19 reservations and 2:15 pm Registration information 4:15 pm Yoga classes Online at www.kripalu.org 5:30 pm Dinner/Orientation for guests new to Kripalu Call 800-741-7353 in the United States and 7:30–9:00 pm opening session Canada. International Welcome Vandita Kate Marchesiello, conference director and 413 area code, call Sharing Our Inspiration for the Kripalu Journey 413-448-3152. Brahmanand Don Stapleton, keynote speaker Reservations hours: 9:00 am to 7:30 pm Eastern friday, october 20 time Monday through 6:30 am Yoga classes Friday (closed Tuesday 7:30 am Breakfast saturday, october 21 2:00–3:30 pm) and 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Saturday morning workshops choose one 6:30 am Yoga classes and Sunday. 7:30 am Breakfast 8:30–11:30 am l Courage and Charisma: Let Your Soul Do the Teaching Vidya Carolyn Dell’uomo (CCYS62) 8:45–11:45 am community session l Back-Bending into Bliss Todd Norian (BIB061) The Core of Kripalu Yoga: Moving Kripalu Yoga l Accessing the Power of Mantra Education into the Future Devarshi Steven Hartman, Sudhakar Ken McRae and Kathleen Knipp (APM061) Brahmanand Don Stapleton, and the Kripalu Yoga teacher training team 8:45–11:45 am l Doshas and Koshas: Incorporating Ayurveda into Your Yoga Classes Sudha Carolyn Lundeen (DKIA61) noon community session l Seeds of Light: Essential Teachings of the Kripalu Tradition Yogagaia: The Yoga of Earth and Kosmic Consciousness Shobhan Richard Faulds (SLET61) Hasita Agathe Nadai

9:00 am–noon l Refining the Art of Assisting: Tools to Expand Your Skills and 1:00 pm Lunch Awareness Priti Robyn Ross (RAA061) afternoon workshops choose one nurture yourself. l and Structural Integrity Randal Williams (ASI061) 2:00–5:00 pm l Fine-Tune Your Tapas Yoganand Michael Carroll (FTYT61) integrate your noon community session conference l Let Your Yoga Dance Megha Nancy Buttenheim Megayoga: Yoga for Plus-Size Practitioners Megan Garcia experience. (LYYD61) 1:00 pm Lunch l Freedom from Yoga Injuries: Biomechanics for Safety book a kripalu Jonas Westring (FFYI61) healing arts afternoon workshops choose one session. l Sit Still in Yoga Class?! Taking the Intimidation out of 2:00–5:00 pm l Beautiful Mind Vinyasa Sequences Tom Gillette (BMVS62) Sudhir Jonathan Foust (SSYC61) l Dharana and Dhyana: Keys to Spirit in Practice Rudy Peirce (DDKS61) Descriptions and fees l Itsy Bitsy Yoga® FUNdamentals for Babies, Tots, and listed in the Kripalu l Yoga on the Move: Strategies for Teaching in Your Community Tykes Helen Garabedian (IBYF61) catalog and on Karen O’Donnell Clarke (YMST61) l Bringing Comfort: Yoga for the Seriously Ill and Dying Kripalu’s website. l The Joy of Hand-Balancing Postures Ann Greene (JHBP61) Molly Kenny (BCYS61) KYTA members l Introduction to Yoga Ed.TM Leah Kalish (IYE061) l Right Effort in Asana Brad Waites (REA061) receive a $5 discount l Mantra, Tantra, Mudra, Bandha Shivananda Thomas Amelio (MTMB61) on any Healing Arts 5:30 pm Dinner l Aging Gracefully Ranjit Dan Howard (AGG061) session. 5:30 pm Dinner 8:00–10:00 pm evening session An evening of ecstasy and laughter Schedule an appointment. 7:30–9:00 pm evening session Dance party Shakti Fusion 888-738-1822 Tanglewood Tales: Yogis with Violins , keynote speaker Darshan Swami Pajamananda come early. Cover Art: The Durga sunday, october 22 mandala on the cover of yoga teacher expo stay longer. this brochure is by Pieter A formal networking space will be available for conference participants to 6:30 am Yoga classes Make the most of your Weltevrede. See more 7:30 am Breakfast visit to Kripalu... of Pieter’s art at www. display their materials and promote their businesses. To take advantage of sanatansociety.com. this complimentary service, bring your books and CDs for display as well as Take a professional-level cards, brochures, and flyers (8-1/2”x11” or smaller). There will be no direct 9:30–11:00 am closing session program before or after sales at the Expo, but if you wish to submit a product to be considered for Chanting and mantra singing Satyaa and Pari the conference. See page 18 for sale at the Kripalu Shop, please call 413-448-3196. Keep Unflinching Faith—The Foundation Is Love program options. Vidya Carolyn Dell’uomo, keynote speaker

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October 18–19 Julie T. Lusk, MEd, began Reaching In, Reaching Out: Designing teaching yoga in 1977 and has 25 the Yoga Work of Your Dreams years’ experience in health care, Megan McDonough higher education, and community How do you want your life and livelihood as a yoga organizing. The author ofYoga teacher to look? Connect with your deepest desires : Timeless Mind-Body and vision, using what you discover as an impetus Practices for Relaxation, Imagery, and Inner Healing, for consciously cocreating the reality you want. she leads wellness seminars in stress management When you focus attention and energy on your and mind-body techniques for groups and goals, you invite in the resources that built this businesses. www.wholesomeresources.com universe to help you build your dream—whether that’s more students for classes or workshops, a October 18–19 thriving yoga studio, or more simplicity in your life. Along with clarifying your inner direction, Life After Loss: Yoga as a Path for you’ll receive practical, hands-on tools for Healing from Grief bringing that vision to life. Practice integrating the Molly Kenny art of reaching in to access Source with the action How does our culture address death and dying? of reaching out to spread the wonderful work of What are your own feelings about death and loss? yoga. Just as the universe is limitless, so too is your How can yoga help those in bereavement? Through opportunity to build the yoga work and life of your lecture, small group discussion, and experiential dreams. segments, we’ll explore answers to these questions and discover ways in which we can use yoga to Megan McDonough is a business support the journey of recovery from grief. We’ll look Another outstanding yogini whose life’s work is to at cultural perspectives on grief and loss, discuss how Thrive in your professional life create abundance. The award- yoga philosophy and practice can help in navigating experience. I always Each pre-conference intensive consists of an evening session the first winning author of Infinity in a the challenges of bereavement, and examine ways day from 7:30 to 9:00 pm and two sessions the following day, from go away with renewed Box: Using Yoga to Live with Ease, in which we as yoga teachers can assist those who 8:30–11:30 am and 1:45–3:45 pm. Tuition for each intensive is $105; she teaches yoga philosophy in are healing from grief. The intensive will include energy and new ideas Kripalu Affiliated Studio owners may attend two intensives for $105. the business world and business skills in the yoga techniques for addressing grief at the level of the For accommodations fees, see page 22. world, helping people achieve greater inner and five koshas and methods for choosing appropriate to use in my classes outer wealth. www. mindfulmarketing.net, postures and language that support wholeness. You’ll October 17–18 www.yogawithmegan.net come away with a deeper understanding of the grief and in my own practice. process and with practical tools for establishing a —2005 conference Yoga Entrepreneurs Cafe October 18–19 grief recovery practice for students. Joan Dwyer and Vandita Kate Marchesiello participant Delving Deeply into Relaxation and This fun and friendly approach to professional development has been Molly Kenny, MS, is a licensed Guided Imagery speech-language pathologist, a designed to facilitate peer learning among yoga studio owners and Julie T. Lusk managers. We’ll mine each other’s successes and challenges for wisdom certified yoga teacher, and the and inspiration. Facilitators Joan Dwyer and Vandita Kate Marchesiello , guided imagery, and relaxation are founder and director of the Samarya have extensive experience in addressing the changing needs of the yoga powerful tools for supporting healing, integration, Center, based in Seattle, Washington. community. They will introduce key characteristics and innovative and bliss. This intensive focuses on expanding She has worked extensively with practices gleaned from owners of successful yoga studios, both large and your skills and repertoire through the experience people in hospice and grief recovery and pioneered small, that have been in operation for varying lengths of time. For our and discussion of a variety of creative themes and a program of bedside yoga at a residential AIDS “learning cafe,” we’ll break up into small discussion tables, each focusing techniques. We will treatment center. www.samaryacenter.org on a issue pertinent to your yoga studio business. As at most cafes, • Review the meaning and purpose of deep relaxation yummy treats will be served. and guided imagery • Examine the relevance of deep relaxation and Joan Dwyer operates the Kripalu Affiliated Studio All guided imagery to yoga, and the differences That Matters in Wakefield, Rhode Island, which has between meditation, guided imagery, and guided grown from a small studio to include a retail shop, relaxation extensive workshop offerings, and a health-service team. • Experience a sampling of themes and techniques, www.allthatmatters.com process them, and learn how to lead others using these methods Vandita Kate Marchesiello, KYTA Director, was the • Learn how to write your own effective scripts executive director of the Albany, New York, Kripalu for guided experiences and recognize common Yoga Center from 1989–1999. During her tenure there, mistakes and pitfalls. she increased the number of classes offered weekly from 8 to 70 and the number of teachers from 8 to 40, and established six satellite locations in the region.

 n 800.741.7353 kripalu.org n  friday morning 8:30–11:30 am Accessing the Power of Mantra (APM061) october 20 Sudhakar Ken McRae and Kathleen choose one workshop Knipp with Satyaa and Pari (Morning sessions have staggered start times.) As your students progress to deeper practices of yoga and into greater awareness of the flow of , 8:30–11:30 am introduce them to the power of mantra. In this Courage and Charisma: Let Your workshop, you’ll broaden your understanding of Soul Do the Teaching (CCYS62) the techniques of mantra practice through a survey Vidya Carolyn Dell’uomo of theory that references both ancient texts and modern science. You’ll also have ample opportunity What would happen to you—and your students—if to internalize the depth and potential of mantra your soul was free to do its work, and your shakti did through experiential segments, including chanting the teaching? As teachers, we’re called to step into led by Satyaa and Pari. Join us as we unravel the new expressions of ourselves—to give workshops, subtleties of mantra practice and learn ways to guide sharing circles, introduce life curriculum, and incorporate these potent phrases into your yoga allow our teaching to be bold and charismatic. In classes. doing this work, we may often meet our edge, our fear, and ask, “Who, me?” Using movement, yoga, Sudhakar Ken McRae and Gestalt, and guidance from great teachers, we’ll Kathleen Knipp are certified welcome compassionately meet that edge, explore its origins, professional-level Kripalu Yoga and transform it into new energy. We’ll learn on- teachers, Kripalu bodyworkers, main conference the-spot tools for transfiguring fear, empowering and cocreators of the Sadhana ourselves, and fearlessly following where our soul’s Yoga & Meditation CD series. thursday evening work guides us. They lead yoga programs and This conference spiritual adventures in the United october 19 Vidya Carolyn Dell’uomo is a States and internationally. was a ray of Kripalu founder and pioneer of its www.globalyogajourneys.com community session yoga teacher training, mentoring, sunshine. A and self-discovery programs. A 7:30–9:00 pm welcome wind teacher for 36 years, she directed Welcome Kripalu’s outreach and international See biographical information for Satyaa and Pari on of change. An Vandita Kate Marchesiello, KYTA Director networks and now teaches and consults worldwide. page 17. The party begins! We’ll come together for a festive opening celebration as we Her CDs include Meditations on Self-Love, inspiring, heart- recognize the distances—small and great, inner and outer—that we’ve traveled Meditations on Spiritual Loving, and The Soul of a Teacher. www.opentolife.net filling, beautiful toward this destination. 8:45–11:45 am Vandita Kate Marchesiello, RYT, a professional-level Kripalu Yoga Doshas and Koshas: Incorporating community event. teacher, has served Kripalu for more than 25 years as a member of the 8:30–11:30 am Ayurveda into Your Yoga Classes Board of Trustees, as the director of the Albany Kripalu Yoga Center I feel lighter, Back-Bending into Bliss (BIB061) (DKIA61) in New York, and currently as director of KYTA and a senior Kripalu Todd Norian Sudha Carolyn Lundeen profoundly grateful teacher. She manages Kripalu’s Teaching for Diversity program and the development of Kripalu Affiliated Studios across the country. Explore the power of back bends to connect you with Through a combination of lecture and experiential to Kripalu, and the bliss that is your truest, deepest nature. Learn the learning, this workshop will provide an overview keynote precise biomechanics and step-by-step sequencing of key Ayurvedic principles and ways to integrate ready to carry out Sharing Our Inspiration for the Kripalu Journey that make the experience of back-bending a smooth, them into your personal life and your yoga classes. Brahmanand Don Stapleton, PhD safe, and joyful celebration of the heart. Using You’ll receive a sample class sequence that includes the message. the Universal Principles of Anusara Yoga, we’ll techniques for balancing each of the doshas using The sustaining source for traveling the path of Kripalu Yoga is self-love. Drawing practice a dynamic flow of postures culminating in asana, meditation, and . We’ll also discuss —2005 conference deeply from the well of self-love nurtures the roots of our practice and teaching. urdhva (Upward Bow Pose), eka pada daily lifestyle practices culled from Ayurvedic participant Self-love radiates from the inside out as inspiration, kindness, lightheartedness, faith, rajakapotasana (One-Legged King Pigeon Pose), and teachings that create overall health and well-being. sensitivity, truthfulness, and humility. These qualities have the transformational more. Therapeutics for the lower back, basic anatomy, power to kindle an enthusiasm in others to make their own journey to that source Sudha Carolyn Lundeen, RN, is use of props, and modifications will be discussed. within. We’ll begin our weekend together by acknowledging the kaleidoscope of a certified holistic-health nurse, You’ll take home an outline that includes sequencing traditions and methodologies that have evolved through generations of Kripalu Yoga Phoenix Rising yoga therapist, and techniques for leading a back-bending class. practitioners and teachers. As we collectively embody the qualities of self-love and senior Kripalu Yoga teacher, and honor each of the ways we have come into this shared moment of our journey, we’ll Todd Norian, a student of yoga graduate of Kripalu’s 18-month enter that moment filled with the knowledge of infinite possibility. since 1980, is a certified Anusara Ayurvedic consultant training. With Yoga teacher. A director of Kripalu more than 26 years in the healing arts, including Brahmanand Don Stapleton, PhD, has taught yoga worldwide Yoga teacher training for 14 tenure at a Boston teaching hospital, she leads since 1976. A resident teacher and program director at Kripalu years, he now directs 200-hour workshops in Ayurveda and yoga at Kripalu and Center for 19 years, he is currently Dean of Kripalu Yoga Anusara teacher trainings and throughout New England. www.roots2wings.com Education Emeritus. Brahmanand is founder and codirector leads workshops internationally. An accomplished of Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica and author of Self- musician, Todd recorded the CD Bija and is the Awakening Yoga: The Expansion of Consciousness Through the founder of Shakti Fusion, a jazz/rock chanting band Body’s Own Wisdom. www.nosarayoga.com that will perform Saturday evening at the conference. www.deeppeaceyoga.com.  n 800.741.7353 kripalu.org n  8:45–11:45 am 9:00 am–noon Seeds of Light: Essential Teachings of Asana and Structural Integrity (ASI061) This was my first KYTA conference, and it was an incredible experience. I’ll be back. the Kripalu Tradition (SLET61) Randal Williams —2005 conference participant Shobhan Richard Faulds The great architect, engineer, and mystic Richard Kripalu Yoga is the contemporary expression of an Buckminster Fuller once said that “integrity is the ancient and venerable tradition. Many aspects of this essence of everything successful.” In other words, a friday afternoon tradition—consciously or unconsciously—inform the structure derives its strength and wholeness from the way in which we present Kripalu Yoga as teachers. way in which its individual parts have been brought october 20 Through a combination of small group discussions, together. A yoga posture can be viewed as a structure, choose one workshop 2:00–5:00 pm experiential learning, lecture, and dialogue, we will a complex entity with many parts. In this workshop, Dharana and Dhyana: Keys to Spirit in • Discover how consciously choosing the we’ll explore the notion of structural integrity and 2:00–5:00 pm Practice (DDKS61) apply it to the construction of an asana. Referencing context from which you teach can increase the Beautiful Mind Vinyasa Sequences Rudy Peirce transformative power of your practice and classes Patanjali’s sutra that states “The posture must be • Inquire into the seed teachings of the Kripalu yogis steady and comfortable,” we’ll begin to unravel the (BMVS62) In our society, stillness is one of the hardest states who originated and evolved the tradition, and many parts of a posture. We’ll experience and discuss Tom Gillette to achieve. Dharana, concentration, and dhyana, determine if they are a good fit for each of us the role that each part plays and how it contributes Teaching vinyasa yoga requires skills, language, and nonreactive witnessing, are the practices that begin • Explore ways to embody and transmit not only the to the “blueprint” of a successful yoga experience for techniques not found in other styles of yoga. Vinyasa to create quiet in the mind. From that place of techniques of yoga, but also the core elements of you and your students. has a unique logic and rhythm that can be incredibly stillness comes the possibility of spiritual connection. its worldview, which have the potential to make powerful and absorbing when led with skill. In In this workshop we’ll explore languaging, pacing, Randal Williams, MA, is a certified and other teaching methodologies that practice potent and life-changing. professional-level Kripalu Yoga this workshop, you’ll learn a practical approach to discovering vinyasa combinations that contain a • Direct the mind’s attention Shobhan Richard Faulds, MA, JD, teacher and Kripalu bodyworker “beautiful mind.” Beautiful mind sequences do more • Build concentration has practiced yoga and meditation with a graduate degree in Jungian than flow; they willfully build along anatomical • Strengthen witnessing for more than 20 years and is the and yogic psychology. He is principles toward a specific physical goal. We’ll • Encourage freedom within. author of Kripalu Yoga: A Guide currently working on a gentle yoga discuss sequencing and look at a beautiful mind to Practice On and Off the Mat. A CD. www.livemountain.com Rudy Peirce, MA, a certified yoga sequence that works opposing muscle groups, senior faculty member and former teacher since 1982, directs Kripalu ultimately developing a more complex posture. The president of Kripalu (1998–2001), Shobhan currently Yoga retreat programs and advanced physical goals of vinyasa are always in the higher chairs the Board of Trustees. yoga trainings. He is the creator of a friday afternoon service of awakening the prana body, opening the popular set of yoga CDs called The october 20 practitioner to a spiritual experience of exquisite Gentle Series. www.gentleyogi.com 9:00 am–noon beauty. community session Refining the Art of Assisting: Tom Gillette is founder and 2:00–5:00 pm Tools to Expand Your Skills Noon director of the Eyes of the World Vinyasa Yoga Center in Providence, Yoga on the Move: Strategies for and Awareness (RAA061) Megayoga: Yoga for Plus-Size Priti Robyn Ross Rhode Island. He has directed yoga Teaching in Your Community (YMST61) Practitioners teacher training certifications for 14 Karen O’Donnell Clarke Assisting a student is not about correction or Megan Garcia years and is working on a soon-to- perfection. Rather it is a loving act that brings If you find them, they will come. Tapping into the Plus-size model and Kripalu Yoga teacher be-published manual on teaching vinyasa. many different groups of potential students in your students deeper into their postures and practice by Megan Garcia will share her experience as a yoga www.innerhappiness.com supporting healthy alignment while cultivating a community—and offering them the yoga experiences practitioner and innovative teacher dedicated profound connection. Take your assisting skills to that are right for them—can be the key to your to making yoga comfortable and accessible for curvy the next level in this fun and informative workshop. financial success as a yoga teacher. This workshop bodies. Then she’ll open up the floor for a lively We will will provide tools and strategies for building your question-and-answer session on topics including • Work with partners to explore a variety of assists student base, increasing your income, and changing • How yoga teachers can serve as body-positive role and modifications the world one person at a time through the gift models • Discuss and experience the significance of touch, of yoga. We’ll discuss options for maximizing • Helping your plus-size students feel at home in using your hands as powerful energetic tools enrollment and attendance, taking yoga to special class • Develop the awareness of entering the sacred space needs and underserved populations, offering • The challenges and rewards of teaching students of the student’s multilevel classes for students with a wide range of with varied body types and abilities. • Affirm the importance of physical boundaries, abilities, and keeping your current students coming The first 10 participants to arrive for this session will asking permission, and checking in with your own back week after week to experience all that yoga has receive a free copy of Megan’s DVD, Just My Size Yoga. intentions to offer. • Observe the body in the postures as sculpture, Megan Garcia is a plus-size yoga Karen O’Donnell Clarke has 10 and discover ways to mold the form to release the teacher and professional model. years’ experience teaching weekly healing flow of prana. She is the creator of the Just My yoga classes for park and recreation Size Yoga DVD and author of the Priti Robyn Ross, RYT, has been programs, at senior centers, in newly released Megayoga, a guide to teaching for 14 years and holds corporate and hospital settings, and yoga for plus-size women. professional-level certifications in for special-needs youth and adults. www.megayoga.com Kripalu Yoga and Integrative Yoga Featured on the June KYTA CD, Interview with a therapy. Codirector of certified Nomad, Karen derives her primary source of income teacher trainings for Kripalu and from teaching yoga to more than 200 students Prana Yoga, she has created yoga programs for weekly. www.yogahealsus.com New York City hospitals, corporations, and health conferences. www.lifeasyoga.com

10 n 800.741.7353 kripalu.org n 11 To feel the energy of the yoga community was so uplifting. I felt so very alive. —2005 conference participant friday afternoon october 20 continued 2:00–5:00 pm 2:00–5:00 pm The Joy of Hand-Balancing Postures Mantra, Tantra, Mudra, Bandha (JHBP61) (MTMB61) Ann Greene Shivananda Thomas Amelio Playfully explore the practice of hand-balancing In this workshop, we’ll intertwine mudra and postures and experience the strength, vitality, and bandha with tantric and Vedic mantras to awaken delight they create. Blending the qualities of lightness the shaktis of wisdom, compassion, strength, and and groundedness, along with the alignment beauty. Mudras and bandhas direct the flow of prana principles of Anusara Yoga, we’ll examine the to specific areas of the body. When combined with dynamics necessary for balancing on your hands. mantra, they work together to purify the heart and We’ll explore correct hand placement and helpful mind of fear and limitations, revealing our true actions for the arms, shoulders, back, and legs. After radiant selves. We’ll experience these techniques and friday evening saturday morning warming up with standing postures, we’ll practice discuss how to successfully integrate them into your october 20 october 21 a progressive sequence of arm balances, including yoga classes. , Side Plank, and Crane. No prior Shivananda Thomas Amelio keynote community session experience with these poses is necessary, but this practiced and studied deep yogic workshop is not recommended for those with wrist disciplines while living in India. 8:45–11:45 am or shoulder injuries. 7:30–9:00 pm A founding member and senior Tanglewood Tales: Yogis with Violins The Core of Kripalu Yoga: Moving Ann Greene, a former director of teacher at Kripalu Center for 20 Stephen Cope Kripalu Yoga Education into the Kripalu Yoga teacher training, is a years, he is lead singer of the band Future What is an optimal life? How can we live fully— certified Anusara Yoga teacher who Shakti Fusion, appearing Saturday evening at the Devarshi Steven Hartman, mentally, physically, and spiritually? Yogis have teaches workshops at local yoga conference. Currently managing director of the New Brahmanand Don Stapleton, and the York Open Center, Shivananda teaches and leads been asking these questions for three millennia, and centers and national conferences. Kripalu Yoga teacher training team She and her husband, Todd Norian, meditation and chanting in New York City. they continue to preoccupy us today. In teaching are featured in the Kripalu Partner Yoga video. www.thomasamelio.com yoga and meditation to some of the world’s top Kripalu Yoga continues to evolve through generations of www.deeppeaceyoga.com young musicians at Tanglewood Music Center dedicated practitioners and educators like you. Through in Lenox, , Kripalu Scholar-in- time and practice, the core principles, the yoga teacher 2:00–5:00 pm Residence Stephen Cope observed the effects of training curriculum, and the depth and potency at the applying ancient contemplative practices to the 2:00–5:00 pm Aging Gracefully (AGG061) heart of Kripalu Yoga education have become ever more contemporary challenges of optimal living and clarified and refined. In this community session, you’ll ™ (IYE061) Ranjit Dan Howard Introduction to Yoga Ed. optimal performance. Stephen will share with us the learn about current changes and reaffirm the ways in Leah Kalish Seniors are the fastest growing segment of the results of his inspiring research with the Tanglewood which your contribution is vital in taking Kripalu Yoga Join the program director of Yoga Ed. for an overview population, and yoga has vast benefits to offer Music Fellows and discuss the ways in which we into the future. To ensure that you will be able to attend of the programs, philosophy, and methodology of them. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to create can all benefit from their experience of living fully, this exciting and informative session, which is open to this nationally recognized organization. Yoga Ed. experiences for older practitioners that encourage authentically, and passionately. teachers of all traditions, we have not scheduled other strength, balance, and grace. We’ll discuss ways provides yoga programs to schools as both physical Stephen Cope, MSW, LICSW, workshops at this time. education curriculums and classroom tools for to modify warm-ups and , and experience psychotherapist and senior Kripalu Devarshi Steven Hartman, RYT, teachers. In this participatory workshop, you’ll learn techniques that are helpful for those with hip and Yoga teacher, is author of The Kripalu’s Director of Professional how to knee replacements; restricted movement in the hips, Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker’s Guide to Trainings, has been a yoga student • Present yoga to students as a playful, engaging, and back, and shoulders; high blood pressure; diabetes; Extraordinary Living and Yoga and and teacher for 25 years. Creator scientific exploration of body, mind, and self arthritis; and other conditions. You’ll take home the Quest for the True Self. Senior of the best-selling audio series The • Use yoga themes to develop life skills and support outlines and curriculum for two classes to get you started. Scholar-in-Residence at Kripalu, he is also Director Essence of the Bhagavad Gita, he academic curriculum of the Kripalu Institute for Extraordinary Living and maintained a private practice in Chicago for 17 years, • Empower classroom teachers to integrate fun, Ranjit Dan Howard has been is featured in the video Kripalu Yoga Dynamic. as a bodyworker, healing-arts practitioner, and teacher simple, and -based techniques into teaching yoga classes for seniors of A Course in Miracles. www.stevenhartman.com their daily routines to improve focus, learning, self- for 12 years. He was the spiritual discipline, and class management. awareness coordinator at Canyon Brahmanand Don Stapleton, PhD, has taught yoga worldwide Leah Kalish, MA, Yoga Ed.’s Ranch in Lenox, Massachusetts, since 1976. A resident teacher and program director, is an educator, for nine years and is currently the program director at Kripalu Center yoga teacher, and national speaker senior instructor at Yoga & More in Amsterdam, for 19 years, he is currently Dean of on health and empowerment New York. Kripalu Yoga Education Emeritus. through yoga and creative play. Brahmanand is founder and codirector of Nosara Yoga She is coauthor of the Yoga Pretzel Institute in Costa Rica and author of Self-Awakening Deck from Barefoot Books and creator of Living Arts/ Yoga: The Expansion of Consciousness Through the Gaiam’s Yoga Fitness for Kids videos. www.yogaed.com Body’s Own Wisdom. www.nosarayoga.com

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2:00–5:00 pm 2:00–5:00 pm Let Your Yoga Dance (LYYD61) Sit Still in Yoga Class?! Taking the Megha Nancy Buttenheim Intimidation out of Meditation (SSYC61) Based in Stage Three Kripalu Yoga, or meditation- Sudhir Jonathan Foust in-motion, this workshop is an express route to bliss. The mainstream media splashes the benefits of We’ll warm up using the techniques of pratapana meditation across front pages and glossy magazine (“building the sacred fire”) and then move into the spreads. Top scientists expound on its transformative ebullient dance of Shiva and Shakti, the foundation powers. Study after study demonstrates that it can of yoga-based movement. Finally we’ll go deep transform our health and culture. It’s pretty darn into pratyahara, closing the doors and windows to clear—meditation is really, really good for us. But the outside world, and deeper still into meditation why do so many of us feel fear and trepidation itself. Come prepared to move, sweat, have fun, and when it comes to sitting still? Why is there so be revitalized while infusing your yoga practice much resistance to practicing meditation? In this and teaching with exuberance! You’ll take home an workshop, you’ll learn tips and techniques for understanding of how to bring more yoga-based introducing meditation to your students and helping movement into your practice and classes, and how them reap the benefits of sitting. Come explore how to guide Stage Three Kripalu Yoga experiences for to serve up what classical yoga refers to as “the fruit students at all levels. of practice.” Megha Nancy Buttenheim, Sudhir Jonathan Foust, MA, is MA, RMT, is director of Kripalu cofounder and president of the DansKinetics® teacher training. Mindfulness Training Institute of A former director of Kripalu Washington, D.C., and conducts Yoga and Holistic Health teacher retreats and seminars on cultivating trainings, she is the creator of the embodied awareness. A former audiotape Grace in Motion®: Moving Yoga. president of Kripalu Center, he has been leading www.meghadance.com meditation retreats and training teachers for 20 years and is the creator of two guided meditation compilations, Energy Awareness and High Energy Living. saturday afternoon saturday afternoon 2:00–5:00 pm www.jonathanfoust.com, www.mindfulnesstraining.org Freedom from Yoga Injuries: october 21 october 21 Biomechanics for Safety (FFYI61) Jonas Westring 2:00–5:00 pm community session choose one workshop Itsy Bitsy Yoga® FUNdamentals for As the number of people practicing yoga continues Babies, Tots, and Tykes (IBYF61) 2:00–5:00 pm to grow, so too does the frequency of yoga- Noon Helen Garabedian Yogagaia: The Yoga of Earth and Fine-Tune Your Tapas (FTYT61) related injuries. A widespread tendency to push Kosmic Consciousness Yoganand Michael Carroll beyond our given limits often results in injury. By Yoga can be a blissful and beneficial experience for Hasita Agathe Nadai looking at the properties of fascia, joint capsules, even the littlest among us. In this workshop, you will Many ancient texts indicate that transformation on ligaments, tendons, and muscles, we’ll broaden our • Learn more than 30 developmentally centered Itsy TheKosmos , as defined by the Buddhist philosopher the yogic path comes through grace and also through understanding of the different tissues in the body. Bitsy Yoga poses for newborns through age 4 Ken Wilber, is the sum total of reality, including tapas—disciplined practice that raises energy. The We’ll explore biomechanical alignment principles, • Gain an understanding of the optimal sequencing, matter, body, mind, and spirit. Inspired by Wilber’s Bhagavad Gita describes three kinds of tapas, two injury prevention, and common yoga injuries. You’ll positioning, timing, benefits, and contraindications concept of Kosmic Consciousness, Yogagaia is a of which do not support transformation. In this take home a better understanding of how to help of each pose ritual and practice that consists of meditations, workshop, we’ll look closely at the essential yogic injured yoga students, and more importantly, how to • Be introduced to early childhood anatomy and imagery, yoga sequences, and play that concept of tapas and explore how it can enhance our prevent an injury in the first place. physiology as well as class facilitation skills used • Invoke memories of our earliest beginnings personal practice and teaching. by hundreds of certified Itsy Bitsy Yoga facilitators Jonas Westring trained as a • Awaken our wonder at the universe worldwide Yoganand Michael Carroll, a physiotherapist in his native • Heal our connection to the planet • Embody each pose as an infant would experience it certified professional-level Kripalu Sweden and holds a physical • Celebrate all of life with the deep knowing that and participate in an actual Itsy Bitsy Yoga class. Yoga teacher, has been teaching at therapy license in the United States. it is a miracle that we are here. Kripalu for more than 15 years and A multi-certified yoga instructor Helen Garabedian is a certified Hasita Agathe Nadai is a has studied extensively with Kripalu who specializes in the Thai yoga teacher, infant developmental professional-level Kripalu Yoga Yoga masters in India and America. healing tradition, he conducts workshops on yoga, movement educator, and infant teacher, Reiki master, and energy- He is the founder of Radiant Well-being Yoga Center bodywork, and biomechanics worldwide. massage instructor. The founder of medicine healer. An ecologist in North Augusta, South Carolina. www.shantaya.org Itsy Bitsy Yoga (IBY), she conducts and biologist, she has roamed the www.radiantwellbeing.com IBY facilitator trainings nationwide natural world as a mountaineer, and is the author of Itsy Bitsy Yoga: Poses to Help canoer, skier, and geologist. www.yogagaia.com Your Baby Sleep Longer, Digest Better and Grow Stronger. www.itsybitsyyoga.com

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—2005 conference participant saturday evening october 21 keynote community session Keep Unflinching Faith— The Foundation Is Love 8:00–10:00 pm Vidya Carolyn Dell’uomo An evening of ecstasy and laughter The title of this keynote is a quotation from Swami Darshan with Swami Pajamananda Kripalu, the grandfather of the Kripalu approach. Vidya is a direct recipient of Swami Kripalu’s Swami Pajamananda is a genuine spiritual messenger teachings and was there in 1977 when he met with in the ancient tradition of the Holy Fool, dancing and pioneering teachers about to bring Kripalu Yoga into blessing along a path of divine love and laughter. From the world. Bapuji, as he was known to his students, Himalayan temples to Catskill resorts, he creates a listened with compassion and understanding as bridge between the mystical and whimsical paths of the they spoke of their love for teaching, as well as their East and West, showing us how to (en)lighten up the fears and concerns. Nearly 30 years later, we’ll close spiritual quest. We’ll gather together with Swami PJ to our conference with his ageless wisdom—the clear renounce renunciation itself and to invite and invoke guidance he gave on serving successfully in the world One Truth, One Light, and one heck of a good time! and nourishing happiness and spirituality at home. Swami Pajamananda is an “altar” We’ll examine the qualities that Bapuji considered ego of Keni Fine, a lifelong spiritual the bedrock of successful teaching, his guidance journeyman and purveyor of divine for meeting difficulties, and his secrets for thriving lightheartedness. A seasoned personally, spiritually, and in society. meditation teacher, ashram and Vidya Carolyn Dell’uomo is a comedy club survivor, attorney, Kripalu founder and pioneer of its singer/songwriter, artist, dad, and friend of laughing yoga teacher training, mentoring, Buddhas and Kripalu Yoga practitioners everywhere, and self-discovery programs. A Keni literally embodies the teachings of Swami PJ in teacher for 36 years, she directed a performance/heart space of unbridled compassion Kripalu’s outreach and international and irreverent reverence. networks and now teaches and consults worldwide. saturday afternoon Dancing with Shakti Fusion Her CDs include Meditations on Self-Love, Meditations on Spiritual Loving, and The Soul of a october 21 continued Shakti Fusion, a high-energy chanting band, blends ancient Sanskrit mantras with contemporary jazz, Teacher. www.opentolife.net 2:00–5:00 pm 2:00–5:00 pm rock, and Afro-Cuban music. Founded in 1993 by Bringing Comfort: Yoga for the Right Effort in Asana (REA061) Todd Norian, the group’s joyful sound communicates Seriously Ill and Dying (BCYS61) Brad Waites the essence of shakti, the benevolent evolutionary Molly Kenny force that is the source of all. Come move to the Finding right effort in our asana practice is a universal rhythms of the Divine Mother. Discover what you can bring as a yoga teacher to prerequisite to being present on the mat. Too little those who are very ill or in the last stages of life. In effort, and the mind moves to memory and fantasy; this workshop, we will too much effort, and the mind seeks escape. Right sunday morning • Look at current trends in care for the ill and effort also fosters transformation by generating dying and how yoga teachers might fit into the enough intensity to move us out of our habitual october 22 continuum of care comfort zone, without shutting down our ability to • Examine our definitions of yoga and yoga therapy receive and integrate the experience. This workshop community session and our own feelings about death and illness will explore tangible concepts and techniques • Learn specific hands-on and hands-off techniques for defining and finding right effort, drawing on 9:30–11:00 am for bringing comfort through words, touch, and Patanjali’s classical yoga philosophy and Kripalu Chanting and mantra singing presence. teachings for guidance. We’ll experience right effort Satyaa and Pari You'll take home practical tools for providing this in our own bodies, discuss how to take this concept Back by popular demand, Satyaa and Pari were much-needed service to this population. to our students, and look at ways to structure a class booked for this year’s conference immediately to incorporate the theme of right effort. Molly Kenny, MS, is a licensed following last year’s engagement. Hundreds of speech-language pathologist, Brad Waites, a certified Kripalu conference participants asked that we bring these two a certified yoga teacher, and Yoga instructor, is a former trial lovely souls back to the Berkshires from their home the founder and director of the attorney with 12 years of courtroom in Greece. Their dynamic energy and voices have Samarya Center, based in Seattle, experience. His passion is using echoed in our minds and hearts throughout the year. Washington. She has worked breath and awareness to generate Satyaa and Pari perform their own extensively with people in hospice and grief recovery inner intensity and focus within the mantras and devotional songs as and pioneered a program of bedside yoga at a physical challenge of a vigorous yoga flow. Brad leads well as traditional bhajans. Their residential AIDS treatment center. workshops at studios throughout the country. most recent CD, Prayer, sold out www.samaryacenter.org during the 2005 KYTA conference. www.satyaa-pari.com 16 n 800.741.7353 kripalu.org n 17 professional-level programs

Extend your conference experience Complement your conference experience by registering for a program before or after the conference. our movements enlivens the body from the inside out. There is a mysterious flow that makes a teacher’s Come prepared to focus your mind, tone your words and presence extraordinary. These “shaktipat muscles, and align and move your body into balance. teachers” are courageous couriers of truth who Let your body teach you how to move! Using Recommended reading Thomas Hanna, emanate compassion and charisma as they transmit Before the conference... imagery, you can create ease of movement and Somatics (Da Capo Press) and Ellie Herman, Pilates the soul force of their life learnings, convictions, and improved flexibility and strength. Imagine you are for Dummies (For Dummies). intimacy with the divine. October 13–15 in a dark room. Suddenly, a light comes on and you Note Before the program begins, please attend Unleash the force of soul-infused teaching and Yoga with Weights: can move freely and avoid collision. Working with a minimum of five Pilates classes or follow a Pilates soul-based business development in this unique Baptiste Power of Yoga™ anatomical imagery turns the light on in your body, video workout five times. training with Vidya Carolyn Dell’uomo, a teacher Sherri Baptiste providing the brain with the feedback it needs to intimate with life, business principles, and the create natural, relaxed movement. development of world-class teachers. Launch your Tuition: $225. Add 2 weekend nights room & October 15–18 This weekend we will employ a rich variety teaching to new heights as you learn to meals; see Kripalu catalog or website for rates. of practices to shift old patterns and free up the Yoga Ed.™ Tools for Teachers • Leverage the power of your personal style and gifts For those who have completed yoga teacher body, with a particular focus on hips, low back, and Leah Kalish • Move beyond your teaching edge to understand training or equivalent. YTT500 elective. shoulders. You will explore principles of biomechanics Tuition: $240. Add 3 midweek nights room & fear and doubt as essential emotions to be explored to expand your understanding of the body’s design. meals; see Kripalu catalog or website for rates. • Open to “soul intelligence” and the mysteries of Explore Sherri Baptiste’s breakthrough mind-body You will learn how bone rhythms—the actual turning intuition, surrender, grace, and attunement to God. exercise that honors the core ideals of yoga integrated A $70 materials fee is payable to presenter at the and maneuvering of the bones—lead the muscles in Guided by the words of Swami Kripalu on with the and science of bodybuilding. opening session. movement. The experience of the body functioning as unflinching faith and the nobility of teaching, and Based on her new book, Yoga with Weights for For those who have completed yoga teacher it is designed to function will provide a deep sense of supported by peer mentoring, you will leave this Dummies, this weekend will teach you how to work training or equivalent. YTT500 elective. tension release and relaxation in your being. training with BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals), safely and effectively with weights in your yoga Christa Rypins’ innovative approach enhances Expand your opportunities to serve as a yoga teacher strategically built on both spiritual and business practice. Sherri will be joined by Yoga with Weights for body function and improves balance, coordination, through this 3-day certification program that equips principles of success. Dummies contributing author Megan Scott. and strength, but the real magic comes from feeling you with everything you need to offer professional Note Please bring photos of loved ones and The benefits of this practice will include the tension disappear from your body. development in-service workshops to schools and yourself. • Increased strength, flexibility, and stamina contribute to the health and well-being of teachers • Maximized workout potential Christa Rypins is a former See biographical information for Vidya on page 9. and students. • Support for healthy bone density professional athlete who teaches The Tools for Teachers program enables any • Enhanced metabolism the tools and techniques she used classroom teacher to reduce stress and enhance • Greater peace of mind and expanded awareness. to free herself of chronic pain. She October 15−19 focus, self-discipline, creativity, and achievement During this weekend, you will practice the Baptiste is featured in the videos Yoga for by incorporating yoga-based activities, such as Teaching : The Sitting Method, established on the West Coast by Sherri’s Meditators, Yoga for a Better Back, breathing, simple poses, games, visualization, and Mountain Series parents, yoga pioneers Magaña and Walt Baptiste. and Yummy Yoga, and Gentle Stress Relief for the relaxation into their daily schedule. Yoga Tools are Lakshmi Voelker-Binder The method includes not only , Hips, Back & Neck. www.yogaopenings.com specially designed for the classroom and require no breath work, and meditation, but also a variety of Tuition: $335. Add 4 midweek nights room & experience, extra space, or equipment. When these techniques and tools for accessing and sustaining meals; see Kripalu catalog or website for rates. October 15−19 tools are used regularly at transition times, in just 5 mental, emotional, and physical well-being. to 20 minutes teachers and students report feeling YTT500 elective. CE credits. Note Bring both ankle and hand weights. Ankle Strengthen the Core, Move with Ease: better and being more successful. weights should be one-pound and Velcro-strapped. Pilates and Somatics for Yoga Teachers Are there opportunities to teach and serve that you Learn to speak and share yoga in a universal, Hand weights are limited to 3 pounds per hand. Use Christa Rypins are missing in hospitals, senior centers, or nursing educator-friendly way and empower teachers to homes? Now you can bring the healing benefits of of weights is optional; you can participate using body Tuition: $290. Add 4 midweek nights room & use Yoga Tools for improved health, harmony, yoga to those who have been unable to take part in resistance only. meals; see Kripalu catalog or website for rates. and learning as well as effective behavior and class even a gentle yoga class. Sherri Baptiste is an inspirational YTT500 elective. management. In addition to receiving a diploma, you In this four-day training, you will learn how to teacher at the forefront of yoga become a member of the Yoga Ed. community and Tap into your full potential and power. Learn to enliven adapt classical yoga asanas to a chair, and also learn training in America. Author of Yoga website for continuing support and materials. and embody your innate wisdom and move toward techniques for breathing and relaxation, meditation, with Weights for Dummies, she is Note A list of recommended reading is available better health, fitness, and balance. Using Pilates and foot reflexology, and the use of light weights for the founder of Baptiste Power of on Kripalu’s website and will be sent when you register. Thomas Hanna’s Somatic Movement with imagery, you upper body strength. You will practice and practice- Yoga™ and offers a variety of teacher will strengthen every part of your body as you develop See biographical information for Leah on page 12. teach the following chair postures: training programs recognized by . • an understanding of how to initiate movement from the Sun Salutation www.powerofyoga.com, www.yogawithweights.com • core and release habitually tight, painful areas. October 15–18 Moon Salutation • The potent combination of yoga, Pilates, and Warrior series Courage and Charisma: Let Your Soul • October 13–15 somatics creates awareness of muscles that are often Balancing postures • Relax Your Shoulders to Release difficult to feel. It increases flexibility and promotes Do the Teaching Double-chair yoga (one student, two chairs) • Your Hamstrings: The Franklin overall health and vitality. We will practice somatic Vidya Carolyn Dell’uomo Pair-chair yoga (two students working together). movement to enhance function and awareness, and to Tuition: $279. Add 3 midweek nights room & You will leave with a certificate for 25 hours Method of Anatomical Imagery of teacher training in Chair Yoga and the skill Christa Rypins have a satisfying experience of both Pilates and yoga. meals; see Kripalu catalog or website for rates. This combination helps us feel empowered from our and confidence to offer one-hour classes to varied Tuition: $200. Add 2 weekend nights room & For yoga teachers and other instructors. audiences. core, moving the way the body is designed to move. YTT500 elective. meals; see Kripalu catalog or website for rates. Throughout the program, we will use imagery to Note Please bring a pair of regular 1- or 2- For all levels. YTT500 elective. understand anatomy. Taking this understanding into When you do things from your soul, you feel a river pound weights (dumbbells). Tuition includes a CD, move through you, a joy. —Rumi 43-page tutorial booklet, and teacher’s manual. Once 18 n 800.741.7353 kripalu.org n 19 you have registered, please contact Bruce Binder at and Kripalu Scholar-in-Residence, he is writing a October 22−27 guided in how and when to use pranayama in a hatha 760-774-1752 or [email protected] with your book on mind-body learning and collective wisdom. yoga course. mailing address to receive the CD. If you register late, www.powerfulworkshops.com Self-Awakening Yoga: Advanced Yoga teachers from all traditions are welcome. CDs will be available in class. Teacher Training Lesli Lang has a performing arts Brahmanand Don Stapleton, PhD See biographical information for Yoganand on page 14. Lakshmi Voelker-Binder, KYT, background and two decades of Tuition: $390. Add 5 midweek nights room & YA, IAYT, created Lakshmi Voelker experience assisting Fortune 500 meals; see Kripalu catalog or website for rates. October 22−27 Chair Yoga in 1982 and is the author executives to communicate their and coproducer of Chair Yoga: message. Drawing on a lifetime of YTT500 elective. Insight Meditation and Yoga The Sitting Mountain Series© CD yoga and meditation, she enjoys Larry Rosenberg, Matthew Daniell, Trusting in your students’ capacity to learn from and tutorial book. She is currently supporting people in their quest for authenticity, and Doug Phillips their own experience encourages them to listen to helping to certify physical and occupational therapists freedom, and full self-expression. Tuition: $375. Add 5 midweek nights room & the voice of inner wisdom as the source of authority and rehabilitation aides for the American Retirement meals; see Kripalu catalog or website for rates. from the very beginning of their practice. Simply Corporation and the New York City Department of stated, nonauthoritarian, experiential learning allows Insight meditation (vipassana) is the system taught by Education. actual experience to be the teacher. It is easy to get the Buddha to attain awakening. The particular form After the conference... hijacked into external systems and details of yoga of insight meditation emphasized during this retreat October 15–19 and forget the fact that individual experience is the is anapana sati, in which conscious breathing is used October 22−27 Facilitating Powerful Experiential ultimate guide. Drawn from Don Stapleton’s 30 years to develop both serenity and liberating insight into Workshops: Navigating Group Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training of teaching yoga educators, this workshop offers the mind-body process. Mindfulness Yoga is designed Dynamics Janice Clarfield training in to be especially helpful for meditators, emphasizing • Simple, time-tested, reliable, and “user-friendly” Ken Nelson and Lesli Lang Tuition: $425. Add 5 midweek nights room & the attunement of breath with physical movement. methods for generating relaxed learning meals; see Kripalu catalog or website for rates. Based on the tradition of Krishnamacharya and T.K.V. Tuition: $295. Add 4 midweek nights room & • Ways to value the journey of each individual Desikachar, it strengthens the spine and prepares meals; see Kripalu catalog or website for rates. For yoga teachers and teachers-in-training and through unconditional positive regard, accurate the body for sitting meditation. Close and sustained For teachers, workshop leaders, counselors, professionals who work with pregnant women empathy, and authenticity coordination of these two practices calms and social workers, and health-care professionals. who have an established yoga practice (childbirth • Communicating with clarity, truthfulness, and stabilizes the mind so it can see into itself and let go CE credits. YTT500 elective. educators, doctors, doulas, massage therapists, compassion into freedom. midwives, nurses). YTT500 elective. • Practices that cultivate witness consciousness and Each day will include yoga, meditation Empowering a group calls for skill in action. Holistic nonjudgmental self-awareness instruction, and alternating periods of sitting and educators can paddle easily in calm water, but Expect to complete this comprehensive training • Releasing yourself and your students from walking meditation conducted mainly in silence. may need help in learning to navigate the rapids with the knowledge, understanding, and techniques unrealistic expectations Guidance will be offered on how to apply this of handling challenging behaviors, getting full to support pregnant women to birth as consciously, • Teaching from the depths of your own evolving practice in daily life, and there will be ample time for participation, and holding a caring container when naturally, actively, and normally as possible. You will yoga practice questions and daily discussion of issues arising from people are triggered emotionally. gain the confidence to assess specific therapeutic • The power of functional imagery and experiential our work together. Guiding a process at your growing edge is needs and address them safely with yoga. If you language. This is a unique opportunity to spend time with thrilling and rewarding. It challenges you to honor are already working with pregnant women, this Discover methods that build trust in your three leading teachers in a retreat-like atmosphere both the soul’s journey and the inevitable waves. In training will provide a deeper appreciation and students’ ability to unfold the experiences of yoga that supports the inward journey. this training you will understanding for working holistically while from the inside out and learn to design classes that Note This program meets the prerequisite for • Discover why people disagree integrating physical, emotional, energetic and strengthen inner focus and magnify yoga’s benefits. the Teaching Meditation Techniques requirement in • Empathize with symptoms while solving root spiritual well-being. This course includes • Training in working responsibly, professionally, Required reading Don Stapleton, Self-Awakening the 500-hour Kripalu Yoga teacher training. causes Yoga: The Expansion of Consciousness Through the • and safely with pregnant women Larry Rosenberg is the founder and Detect trouble spots early to prevent “runaway” Body’s Own Wisdom (Healing Arts Press). • Guidance in supporting women to birth from their guiding teacher at the Cambridge workshops Note Tuition includes a manual with experience • own empowerment Insight Meditation Center in Recover from slip-ups gracefully guides and educational methodology for creating • • How to use posture, breathwork, vocal toning, Massachusetts. Before coming to Affirm and enhance your natural gifts to lead at your own experiential learning environments. your full depth and capacity relaxation, meditation, visualization, and massage Vipassana, he was a professor of social • Receive practical wisdom and tips to sharpen your • Physiological and emotional considerations of See biographical information for Brahmanand on page 8. psychology for 10 years and practiced language and leadership style pregnancy, labor, and delivery Zen in Korea and Japan. He is also a guiding teacher at • Learn to dissolve difficult dynamics and • Working with women at different stages of October 22−27 the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. pregnancy and experience with yoga dysfunction through role play, fish bowl Matthew Daniell, longtime student • Working with couples for birth preparation Teaching Advanced Pranayama: simulations, case studies, listening exercises, and of meditation, has been teaching • A comprehensive study guide Awakening Energy Through Breath nonviolent communication yoga since 1985. Certified in • A certificate upon completion of the entire Yoganand Michael Carroll • Transform challenges into creative opportunities. Kripalu Yoga and , program. Tuition: $360. Add 5 midweek nights room & You will leave with three clearing practices he currently is training and teaching meals; see Kripalu catalog or website for rates. that promote synergy, seven steps for staying in Janice Clarfield is an inspiring in viniyoga. He is the guiding and relationship, and a host of creative ways to move teacher of yoga and meditation who For yoga teachers. YTT500 elective. resident teacher at the Insight Meditation Center of toward inclusive solutions and sustainable results. trains professionals to work with Newburyport. www.imcnewburyport.com pregnant women and expectant Immerse yourself in the practice and science of Ken Nelson, PhD, LMT, an Doug Phillips PhD, a psychologist couples. She is the author of a study pranayama. This intensive will draw from Swami experiential educator since 1975, with a private practice in Newton, guide for prenatal yoga teachers and Kripalu and Kripalu Yoga teachers’ interpretations is a leader in mind-body learning, Massachusetts, has trained in both Zen sits on the Prenatal Yoga Advisory Committee for of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, a guide to hatha yoga group creativity, and teaching and vipassana and teaches anapanasati Yoga Alliance. www.urbanyoga.ca practice written by 15th century sage Swatmarama. the traditional healing arts. Ken Through instruction and practice, you will learn meditation. A student of viniyoga, he mentors, consults, and offers basic pranayama categories and teaching methods. is currently working on a book entitled seminars worldwide for individuals, workshops You will explore the effects of pranayama and Family Dharma: A Householders’ Path to Awakening. facilitators, and groups. A former Fulbright lecturer bandhas (locks) and how to incorporate them into a deeper, more balanced sadhana. You will also be 20 n 800.741.7353 kripalu.org n 21 registration I’m heading home recharged and energized. I’m lit up about sharing Kripalu Yoga with people in a way that transforms their lives as it has transformed mine. —2005 conference participant

have your brochure handy when making your reservation so you can give the reservationist the correct codes for your workshops. Please make your reservation as early payments things to know as possible to ensure your first choice of workshops and Full payment is due at time of registration and can be made housing options. Preregistration is required. fragrance awareness As some of our guests are with Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover. sensitive to perfumes and colognes, please use naturally program fees Personal checks and money orders (U.S. dollars): Full scented toiletries. smoke free Smoking is permitted in a designated area outside the building. cell phones and main conference fees payment must be received prior to processing your registration. Please call Reservations to arrange. There is a computers To support our retreat atmosphere, cell phone Please add 3 nights room and meals to your conference $20 charge for checks returned for insufficient funds. use is limited to phone booths, the Luggage Room, and tuition to arrive at the total cost of your stay; see your car. Laptops may be used in the Kripalu Cafe, where cancellation policy Deposits will be refunded in full accomodations fees below. wireless Internet access is available. pets Service dogs are reservations and information (less a $50 processing fee) if you cancel 14 or more days welcome. No pets, please. prior to your arrival date. If you cancel between 13 days Online at www.kripalu.org. Tuition for KYTA members and 1 day in advance, a nonrefundable credit (less a $50 On or before 8/31...... $279 kripalu shop discounts Call 800-741-7353 in the United States and Canada. processing fee) will be held for one year from the date of After 8/31...... $330 International and 413 area code, call 413-448-3152. issue. •40 percent off Kripalu-produced products for KYTA members. Reservations hours: 9:00 am to 7:30 pm Eastern time Tuition for non-KYTA members No credit or refund is available if you cancel less than 24 •10 percent off all merchandise during the conference for Monday through Friday (closed Tuesday 2:00–3:30 pm) and On or before 8/31...... $330 hours in advance, on the workshop’s arrival day, if you do KYTA members. 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Saturday and Sunday. After 8/31...... $375 not show up, or if you leave an event early for any reason. •20 percent off certain categories of products for KYTA intensive fees financial assistance Limited partial scholarships will members who are studio owners with a tax resale license in workshop registration Tuition for pre-conference intensives...... $105 be available to KYTA members who are currently teaching. hand. Minimums apply; ask for details in the Kripalu Shop. You must register for your workshops when making your plus 1 night room & meals for each intensive; Scholarship applications must be received no later than reservation. Each workshop has a specific code; please see accommodations fees below. July 31, 2006. Scholarship recipients will be selected by questions? committee. Recipients will be notified by August 15, 2006. Contact the KYTA Office at 413-448-3202 or For an application, contact the KYTA Office at 413-448- [email protected]. accommodations 3202 or [email protected]. accommodations fees Prices include room, meals, and use of all Kripalu facilities for the duration of your discounts We offer 10 percent off to seniors (65+). program. Add to tuition for total cost of your stay. All rates are per person. If you are traveling alone and reserve a Not applicable to Healing Arts sessions or Kripalu Shop corrections policy We make every effort to ensure the shared room, we will provide a roommate for you. purchases. May not be combined with other discounts. accuracy of all of our information. However, changes after accommodations Our facility was formerly a Jesuit Rooms with private bath Guest Referral Program vouchers do not apply to the press time and errors do occasionally occur, and we reserve the right to make necessary changes or corrections. seminary. In the tradition of retreat-style housing, our Standard Plus* modest decor; double- or single- KYTA Conference. accommodations are simple, without the distractions occupancy; full, queen, or twin beds. Some rooms of computers, televisions, and telephones. Kripalu has available with lake view. arrival and departure a range of housing options that allow a wide variety of credit for 500-hour teacher *Please note that while we make every effort to check-in The conference begins at 7:00 pm on Thursday, people to participate in our programs. certification accommodate your requests, we cannot always guarantee a October 19 and ends by noon on Sunday, October 22. Rooms with hall bath full-size or queen-size bed. Check-in begins at 2:15 pm; however, rooms are not The KYTA conference and several of the pre- and post- conference programs listed in this brochure may earn you Dormitory 6–22 people per room; bunk beds. We guaranteed to be available until 4:00 pm. The first activity Solo Travelers If you are coming alone and reserve credit toward 500-hour Kripalu Yoga teacher certification, cannot guarantee lower bunks or dorm size. Please included in your stay is yoga at 4:15 pm. a shared room, we will assign you a roommate. We if you applied for 500-hour certification prior to June 1. choose another type of housing if you cannot use an offer special accommodations for solo travelers who front desk hours 7:30 am–9:00 pm If you are For more information on categories and credit, visit upper bunk. snore; please request such a room when you make your unable to arrive before 9:00 pm, instructions will be left for www.kripalu.org/program/program/proftraining/aytt. Standard* primarily double-occupancy; platform twin reservation. you at the Front Desk. beds, full, or queen-size bed. Some lake-view rooms are Meals All of your meals are included, beginning with guest room check-out Please plan to leave your available for an additional fee. the kripalu yoga teachers association, dinner on your arrival day through lunch on your room by noon on your departure day. Departure day lunch is with more than 2,000 members, provides professional Standard Plus* modest decor; double- or single- departure day. All of our food is made with healthy, included in your stay. If you choose to spend the afternoon, development for certified yoga instructors through occupancy; full, queen, or twin beds. All rooms have a natural ingredients. Meals are served buffet-style and are you may leave your luggage in the Luggage Room. resources and community. Our mission is to foster an lake view. primarily vegetarian, with tuna or chicken salad usually served at lunch. commuters We have a limited number of commuter active network of teachers living and teaching the full spaces available. In addition to tuition, commuters pay $25 depth of yoga. For membership information, contact the per day. This fee includes lunch and full use of the facilities. KYTA office at 413-448-3202 or [email protected], or visit rooms with hall bath rooms with private bath www.kyta.org. Membership is open to teachers from other families with children Children under 13 must be dormitory standard† standard plus standard plus traditions who are graduates of 200-hour training programs accompanied by a parent or guardian who is also on-site run by schools recognized by Yoga Alliance. length of stay Double* Double* Single Double* Range Single Range at Kripalu and must be supervised at all times. If you are special conference rates interested in babysitting services, please call 413-448-3400 ext. 705. The fee is $10 per hour. There is limited availability, 1 midweek night $64 $86 $130 $188 $140 – $175 $198 – $244 so please call ahead. Full-time babysitters who come with guests pay standard R&R rates. Please call Reservations for 2 midweek nights $128 $172 $260 $376 $280 – $350 $396 – $488 more information about children’s housing options and 3 conference nights $216 $282 $435 $630 $468 – $585 $663 – $813 accommodation rates. For commuter rates, see p.23 *Rates are per person based on double occupancy. †A limited number of Standard rooms are available for single occupancy. Please call for rates.

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