This workshop will provide you with a wide variety of powerful yet gentle natural tools to help you manage your mood.

For thousands of years, yogis have understood what current research in neurobiology and clinical observations are demonstrating—that working with a body and breath-based practice, we can manage our moods. LifeForce Yoga® interweaves the power of an ancient discipline with current scientific findings to help you release what’s no longer serving you—without a story attached! In this inspiring workshop, you will learn and practice breathing exercises, easy postures, guided meditations, and other experiential yogic tools for managing your mood that are not often taught in regular yoga classes.

We’ll practice:
• Pranayama and kriya breathing techniques that regulate the emotions
• Meditations that lift the mood
• Creating Affirmation (sankalpa)
• LifeForce Yoga Bhavana (Imagery)
• LifeForce Yoga Chakra Clearing Meditation
• LifeForce Yoga Nidra
• Tones that regulate the emotions (mantras)
• Yoga asanas suitable for multilevel practitioners

You will leave this feeling refreshed, renewed, and excited about returning to your at-home or teaching practice with new tools to bring balance to the emotional and physical body.

This retreat is suitable for practitioners at all levels. In addition, psychotherapists, health professionals, and yoga teachers will learn techniques they can use to help their clients focus, relax, and have greater access to their feelings. Yoga Alliance CEU’s.

Suggested Reading: Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books)
Suggested Viewing: DVDs: LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues (Level 1 & Level 2)

Amy is the author of Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books)), the founder of the LifeForce Yoga® Yoga Healing Institute, and a leader in the field of yoga and mental health. She offers professional certification trainings in LifeForce Yoga® for Mood Management and speaks at medical and psychological conferences internationally. Amy is involved in ongoing research on the affects of yoga on mood. Her evidence-based yoga protocol for managing mood is featured on the CD, Breathe to Beat the Blues and the first DVD home yoga practice series for mood management, the award-winning LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues. She edits a free bi-monthly newsletter that includes current research, news and media reviews on yoga and mental health.

Extend Your Stay. We are offering a 25% housing discount for additional nights. Come early and relax before your program starts or stay an extra day or more after this program to savor your retreat experience.

Please arrive between 2 and 5pm on Friday, June 18. Program ends with lunch at 12:30pm on Sunday, June 20. View Detailed Program Information.

Testimonials for Amy

"Lifeforce Yoga to Beat the Blues, Level I, is a rare gem. I love it! Clear and bright, Amy's obvious love of yoga shines through in every moment. This is a DVD that I will enjoy, and continue to learn from, for years to come." -– Richard Miller, PhD author, Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga

"Yoga for Depression is a godsend: beautifully written, medically accurate, and very practical. I highly recommend it!" -- Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause

"Weintraub has written…a sensitive, intelligent, painstaking exploration of the deeper psychospiritual issues that make up the complex experience of depression." -- Phil Catalfo, Yoga Journal