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SUMMARY:LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner Annual Training Retreat For Mood Management - Level 1
DESCRIPTION:Online Registration \nDays begin with self-care in the form of sunrise yoga and meditation\, followed by a silent breakfast. Daily sessions include discussion\, experiential learning\, practice in pairs\, and sharing. Enjoy afternoons walking the labyrinth\, hiking the desert\, or having a massage. Every afternoon includes a Yoga Nidra practice. Spend your lunch and dinner networking with other like-minded practitioners and individuals. After this training and self-care retreat\, you will return home with a renewed daily practice\, a tool-box full of self-care techniques\, and tools to support your clients and students in reconnecting with their wholeness. \nIn the LFYP Training\, you will learn an evidence-based practice for both depression and anxiety\,  as well as ancient strategies from both Tantric and Classical Yoga traditions for self-care. Learn Yoga practices supported by current research in psycho-neurobiology to help clear away the obstructions (chronic tensions\, constricting beliefs\, limiting emotions) that may be keeping you and those you serve from knowing and expressing your authenticity and your fullest potential. \nYou will learn: \n\nTo assess mood from a Yogic perspective\nTo instruct simple tools for managing mood fluctuations\nAccessible techniques for releasing the constrictions of depression\, anxiety\, and trauma\nPortable practices\, appropriate in clinical settings\, that do not require a yoga mat or special clothing\nA practice that augments the effects of a yoga class\, as well as individual and group psychotherapy\nYoga practices not often taught in yoga classes\, or trainings\, that are informed by current research in the fields psychotherapy\, physiology\, yoga\, neuroscience\, and neurobiology\nA pathway from darkness into light\n\nCEUs for mental health professionals and Yoga Alliance & IAYT CEUs available for yoga teachers.\nMore information here on the LFYP Training link. \nPracticing Yoga Nidra in pairs \nFaculty\nRose Kress\,ERYT-500\, LFYP-2\, Director of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute\n\nRose began practicing yoga in 1994 and teaching since 2004. In that time she has focused on the therapeutic aspects of yoga – for the body\, mind and soul. Rose teaches classes and workshops throughout the Tucson area and has been blessed to teach at The Crossings in Austin\, TX\, at Yogaville in VA\, at Kripalu in Lenox\, MA\, and Sivananda Ashram in The Bahamas with the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training Program. She has also presented at a number of Yoga Festivals in Arizona. Rose integrates LifeForce Yoga techniques into therapeutic yoga for back pain\, cancer\, pulmonary disease\, structural wellness\, and yoga therapy. She studies with Rama Jyoti Vernon and has taken the Functional Yoga Therapy Training with Maria KaliMa. Rose is the Dierctor of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute and teaches in LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Trainings. Rose is also the author of 2 CDs\, Mantra Chanting with Rose and Pathways to Relaxation. \nRandy Todd\, LCSW\, MSW\, LFYP-2\nRandy is a trauma therapist assigned to the PTSD Treatment Team at the Southern Arizona VA Health Care Systems (SAVAHCS) in Tucson\, Arizona. He is trained in cognitive behavioral therapy\, motivational interviewing\, hypnotherapy\, EMDR\, acceptance and commitment therapy\, dialectical behavioral therapy\, cognitive processing therapy\, and prolonged exposure therapy. Randy facilitates a weekly LifeForce Yoga group for clients and a weekly yoga nidra practice for mental health professionals at SAVAHCS. \nRandy’s professional career has spanned 35 years. He has worked in community mental health and substance abuse programs\, corrections\, private practice\, and as an adjunct faculty teaching MSW students. Randy has been responsible for directing outpatient treatment programs\, day treatment and day rehabilitation programs\, an emergency crisis services program\, an acute inpatient psychiatric treatment program\, managing a rural mental health clinic\, and a case management and clinical services program for persons diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. He has volunteered facilitating community groups for HIV/AIDS and serving on various boards of a community LGBT organization\, a community domestic violence agency\, a chamber of commerce and a homeowners association. \nRandy has been in a relationship with his life partner for the past 35 year; they were legally married in Iowa 5 years ago. Their family consists of two four-year-old yellow labs. In addition to yoga\, Randy enjoys reading\, running\, cycling\, mountain biking\, and hiking. He has been a regular participant in the annual El Tour de Tucson cycling event. \nGuest Faculty: \nMFA\, ERYT-500\, C-IAYT\, YACEP\, Founder of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute\nAmy is the author of Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books\, 2004) and Yoga Skills for Therapists: Effective Practices for Mood Management (W.W. Norton\, 2012)\, has been a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health for over twenty years. She offers the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training for Depression and Anxiety to health and yoga professionals and offers workshops for every day practitioners. The LifeForce Yoga protocol is being used in residential treatment centers\, hospitals and by health care providers around the world and is featured on the LifeForce Yoga CD Series and the first DVD home Yoga practice series for mood management\, the award-winning LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues\, Level 1 & Level 2. She is an invited speaker at conferences internationally and is involved in ongoing research on the effects of yoga on mood. \nMaria Mendola\, MA\, RN\, ERYT-500\, C-IAYT\, YACEP\nMaria received her Bachelor’s degree in Nursing and Masters in Community Health; taught Nursing Sciences at the College level\, as well as Anatomy & Physiology – all the while focusing on holistic aspects of health and wellbeing. She has rooted her study of Yoga in a more inclusive format\, honoring all of the great teachings of yoga and its insights; finding commonality and a resonance of Truth within all of them. In addition\, Maria has extensively studied Trauma Release\, Feldenkrais Technique\, Kinesiology\, Homeopathy\, Nutrition & Native American Herbology. With this background as her base\, Maria received \n\nher formal yoga certifications from Ananda Yoga\, Mount Madonna Ashtanga Yoga\, Mukunda Stile’s Structural Yoga Therapy\, and LePage’s Integrative Yoga Therapy. She uses her training and experience in the concepts of yoga combined with the structural aspects of the body\, and it’s subtle emotional held patterning to work with clients from a functional perspective.  Maria has also studied richly in the field of Ayurveda with her main teachers being Dr. Vasant Lad\, Dr. Robert Svoboda\, Dr. Sareeta Shresta\, Dr. Carl Rogue & Dr. Paul Dugliss. She has combined the Yoga and Ayurvedic teachings into her private Yoga & Ayurvedic Therapeutics consultation practice; a seasonal Worldwide Ayurvedic cleanse\, and a formal school\, called Functional Yoga Therapy. In addition\, Maria holds Faculty positions with Integrative Yoga Therapy\, Inner Peace Yoga Therapy\, and LifeForce Yoga Therapy.  Maria’s motto is:  “The real yoga begins when we step off the mat.”
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-practitioner-training-mood-management-level-1-2-2/
LOCATION:Desert Redemptorist Renewal Center\, 7101 West Picture Rocks Road\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85743\, United States
CATEGORIES:Amy's Events,Featured,LFYP Events,Trainings
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SUMMARY:Yoga for Mood Management: LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner Training\, Part A - Experiential
DESCRIPTION:This Experiential workshop is open to all with yoga experience and is Part A of a 3-Part certification course to become a LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner – level 1. Learn an empowering\, evidence-based Yoga protocol for self-care and to help students and clients focus\, relax\, and have greater access to feeling states. You will experience all aspects of LifeForce Yoga®\, including pranayama\, kriya\, asana\, nada yoga (sound)\, bhavana (visual imagery) sankalpa (intention/affirmation)\, meditation\, and non-dual self-inquiry. \nThere will also be opportunities for practicing with one and other and receiving feedback from the faculty. For those who are already LifeForce Yoga® Practitioners\, this can be taken as a refresher course/retreat. Yoga and health care professionals and general practitioners will learn strategies appropriate for a clinical setting that can safely release chronically held physical tension and repressed emotion. \nThis Experiential is offered in a yoga retreat ashram setting on a beautiful beach\, where you may attend daily early morning and evening satsang with the ashram residents that includes meditation and chanting. One satsang per day is required\, both are recommended. This program has extended hours. \nStudents of this course will: \n\nDesign one-on-one Yoga sessions for dysthymia (chronic depression)\, anxiety-based depression\, PTSD\, and bipolar disorder\nLearn breathing and meditation practices for addressing dysthymia and anxiety-based depression\nLearn how to add somatic strategies to clinical practice and Yoga classes to increase clients’ self-awareness\, self-acceptance\, self-esteem\, and ability to cope\nExperience techniques you can teach your clients and students to do at home\nPractice asanas (postures)\, pranayama and kriyas (breathing and cleansing)\, mantra (chanting)\, bhavana (development of the mind)\, sankalpa (resolve and intention)\, mudra (hand gestures)\, meditation\, therapeutic long holding of postures and non-dual strategies for working with negative self-talk\nTake home tools and confidence for working with individuals suffering from depression and anxiety\n\nRequired Reading: Yoga for Depression by Amy Weintraub (Broadway Books)\nRequired Practice: LifeForce Yoga® DVDs & CDs\nRecommended Reading: Yoga Skills for Therapists (W.W. Norton) \nCEUs: \n\n35 for Social Workers\n37 for Yoga Teachers\n\nFaculty:\nRose Kress\, ERYT-500\, LFYP-2\, LFY Educator\, Mentor\, Director of the LifeForce Yoga® Healing Institute\n\nRose began practicing yoga in 1994 and teaching since 2004. In that time she has focused on the therapeutic aspects of yoga – for the body\, mind and soul. Rose teaches classes and workshops throughout the Tucson area and has been blessed to teach at The Crossings in Austin\, TX\, at Yogaville in VA\, at Kripalu in Lenox\, MA\, and Sivananda Ashram in The Bahamas with the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training Program. She has also presented at a number of Yoga Festivals in Arizona. Rose integrates LifeForce Yoga techniques into therapeutic yoga for back pain\, cancer\, pulmonary disease\, structural wellness\, and yoga therapy. She studies with Rama Jyoti Vernon and has taken the Functional Yoga Therapy Training with Maria KaliMa. Rose is the Program Manager of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute and travels with Amy to assist her in LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Trainings. She is a lead trainer in the Sol Center’s Yoga Training Program. Rose is also the author of 2 CDs\, Mantra Chanting with Rose and Pathways to Relaxation. \nAmy Weintraub MFA\, ERYT-500\, C-IAYT\, YACEP\, Founder of the LifeForce Yoga® Healing Institute\nAmy is the author of Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books\, 2004) and Yoga Skills for Therapists: Effective Practices for Mood Management (W.W. Norton\, 2012)\, has been a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health for over twenty years. She offers the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training for Depression and Anxiety to health and yoga professionals and offers workshops for every day practitioners. The LifeForce Yoga protocol is being used in residential treatment centers\, hospitals and by health care providers around the world and is featured on the LifeForce Yoga CD Series and the first DVD home Yoga practice series for mood management\, the award-winning LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues\, Level 1 & Level 2. She is an invited speaker at conferences internationally and is involved in ongoing research on the effects of yoga on mood. She edits a bi-monthly newsletter that includes current research\, news and media reviews on Yoga and mental health. \nAlyce E. Wellons\, LCSW\n\nAlyce has been a psychotherapist in private practice in Atlanta for more than 18 years\, working with individuals and couples in short- and long-term psychotherapy. A LifeForce Yoga practitioner\, Alyce leads teaches people to use body-based healing modalities for wellness and healing in work and life. She practices at the intersection of theory and neurobiology with mindfulness and body-based modalities\, inviting everyone to tap into the body’s natural capacity to heal itself. Alyce believes in the respectful use of humor and laughter as a way to connect and navigate difficult passages. \n\nSivananda Ashram Schedule: 36 Program Hours Required for Part A Certification \n\nMar 31 – Apr 3: 8 – 10 am (Inauguration Puja at 8 am on the 6th); 12:00 – 3:00 pm\nApr 4: 8 – 10 am; 12:00 – 4:00 pm (Graduation Puja at 5:15 pm)\nSatsang: 6 – 7:45 am; 8 – 10:00 pm (Once a day is required\, both are recommended)\nSivananda Yoga Class 4:00 – 6:00 pm (Recommended)
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/yoga-mood-management-lifeforce-yoga-practitioner-training-part-experiential-2-2/
LOCATION:Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat\, Paradise Island\, Nassau\, Bahamas
CATEGORIES:Amy's Events,Featured,LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner Training For Mood Management - Level 1
DESCRIPTION:Days begin with self-care in the form of sunrise yoga and meditation\, followed by a silent breakfast. Daily sessions include discussion\, experiential learning\, practice in pairs\, and sharing. Enjoy afternoons walking the labyrinth\, hiking the desert\, or having a massage. Every afternoon includes a Yoga Nidra practice. Spend your lunch and dinner networking with other like-minded practitioners and individuals. After this training and self-care retreat\, you will return home with a renewed daily practice\, a tool-box full of self-care techniques\, and tools to support your clients and students in reconnecting with their wholeness. \nIn the LFYP Training\, you will learn an evidence-based practice for both depression and anxiety\,  as well as ancient strategies from both Tantric and Classical Yoga traditions for self-care. Learn Yoga practices supported by current research in psycho-neurobiology to help clear away the obstructions (chronic tensions\, constricting beliefs\, limiting emotions) that may be keeping you and those you serve from knowing and expressing your authenticity and your fullest potential. \nYou will learn: \n\nTo assess mood from a Yogic perspective\nTo instruct simple tools for managing mood fluctuations\nAccessible techniques for releasing the constrictions of depression\, anxiety\, and trauma\nPortable practices\, appropriate in clinical settings\, that do not require a yoga mat or special clothing\nA practice that augments the effects of a yoga class\, as well as individual and group psychotherapy\nYoga practices not often taught in yoga classes\, or trainings\, that are informed by current research in the fields psychotherapy\, physiology\, yoga\, neuroscience\, and neurobiology\nA pathway from darkness into light\n\nCEUs for mental health professionals and Yoga Alliance & IAYT CEUs available for yoga teachers.\nMore information here on the LFYP Training link. \nPracticing Yoga Nidra in pairs \nFaculty\nRose Kress\,ERYT-500\, LFYP-2\, Director of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute\n\nRose began practicing yoga in 1994 and teaching since 2004. In that time she has focused on the therapeutic aspects of yoga – for the body\, mind and soul. Rose teaches classes and workshops throughout the Tucson area and has been blessed to teach at The Crossings in Austin\, TX\, at Yogaville in VA\, at Kripalu in Lenox\, MA\, and Sivananda Ashram in The Bahamas with the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training Program. She has also presented at a number of Yoga Festivals in Arizona. Rose integrates LifeForce Yoga techniques into therapeutic yoga for back pain\, cancer\, pulmonary disease\, structural wellness\, and yoga therapy. She studies with Rama Jyoti Vernon and has taken the Functional Yoga Therapy Training with Maria KaliMa. Rose is the Dierctor of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute and teaches in LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Trainings. Rose is also the author of 2 CDs\, Mantra Chanting with Rose and Pathways to Relaxation. \nAmy Weintraub\, MFA\, E-RYT500\nAmy is the author of Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books\, 2004) and Yoga Skills for Therapists: Effective Practices for Mood Management (W.W. Norton\, 2012)\, has been a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health for over twenty years. She offers the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training for Depression and Anxiety to health and yoga professionals and offers workshops for every day practitioners. The LifeForce Yoga protocol is being used in residential treatment centers\, hospitals and by health care providers around the world and is featured on the LifeForce Yoga CD Series and the first DVD home Yoga practice series for mood management\, the award-winning LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues\, Level 1 & Level 2. She is an invited speaker at conferences internationally and is involved in ongoing research on the effects of yoga on mood. \nTherapist on Staff: \nRandy Todd\, LCSW\, MSW\, LFYP-2\nRandy is a trauma therapist assigned to the PTSD Treatment Team at the Southern Arizona VA Health Care Systems (SAVAHCS) in Tucson\, Arizona. He is trained in cognitive behavioral therapy\, motivational interviewing\, hypnotherapy\, EMDR\, acceptance and commitment therapy\, dialectical behavioral therapy\, cognitive processing therapy\, and prolonged exposure therapy. Randy facilitates a weekly LifeForce Yoga group for clients and a weekly yoga nidra practice for mental health professionals at SAVAHCS. \nRandy’s professional career has spanned 35 years. He has worked in community mental health and substance abuse programs\, corrections\, private practice\, and as an adjunct faculty teaching MSW students. Randy has been responsible for directing outpatient treatment programs\, day treatment and day rehabilitation programs\, an emergency crisis services program\, an acute inpatient psychiatric treatment program\, managing a rural mental health clinic\, and a case management and clinical services program for persons diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. He has volunteered facilitating community groups for HIV/AIDS and serving on various boards of a community LGBT organization\, a community domestic violence agency\, a chamber of commerce and a homeowners association. \nRandy has been in a relationship with his life partner for the past 35 year; they were legally married in Iowa 5 years ago. Their family consists of two four-year-old yellow labs. In addition to yoga\, Randy enjoys reading\, running\, cycling\, mountain biking\, and hiking. He has been a regular participant in the annual El Tour de Tucson cycling event. \nGuest Faculty: \nMaria Mendola\, MA\, RN\, ERYT-500\nMaria received her Bachelor’s degree in Nursing and Masters in Community Health; taught Nursing Sciences at the College level\, as well as Anatomy & Physiology – all the while focusing on holistic aspects of health and wellbeing. She has rooted her study of Yoga in a more inclusive format\, honoring all of the great teachings of yoga and its insights; finding commonality and a resonance of Truth within all of them. In addition\, Maria has extensively studied Trauma Release\, Feldenkrais Technique\, Kinesiology\, Homeopathy\, Nutrition & Native American Herbology. With this background as her base\, Maria received \n\nher formal yoga certifications from Ananda Yoga\, Mount Madonna Ashtanga Yoga\, Mukunda Stile’s Structural Yoga Therapy\, and LePage’s Integrative Yoga Therapy. She uses her training and experience in the concepts of yoga combined with the structural aspects of the body\, and it’s subtle emotional held patterning to work with clients from a functional perspective.  Maria has also studied richly in the field of Ayurveda with her main teachers being Dr. Vasant Lad\, Dr. Robert Svoboda\, Dr. Sareeta Shresta\, Dr. Carl Rogue & Dr. Paul Dugliss. She has combined the Yoga and Ayurvedic teachings into her private Yoga & Ayurvedic Therapeutics consultation practice; a seasonal Worldwide Ayurvedic cleanse\, and a formal school\, called Functional Yoga Therapy. In addition\, Maria holds Faculty positions with Integrative Yoga Therapy\, Inner Peace Yoga Therapy\, and LifeForce Yoga Therapy.  Maria’s motto is:  “The real yoga begins when we step off the mat.”
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-practitioner-training-mood-management-level-1-2/
LOCATION:Desert Redemptorist Renewal Center\, 7101 West Picture Rocks Road\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85743\, United States
CATEGORIES:Amy's Events,Featured,LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:Half Day LifeForce Yoga Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Take some time for yourself as we head into the holiday season. Learn tools that will increase your ability to cope with stress\, families\, sadness\, despair and/or anxieties. Learn how these tools work and how to select the best one for each concern. Learn to breathe\, settle the nervous system\, and empower yourself. Lastly\, do a little self-inquiry with what matters. Mostly\, relax in an atmosphere of calm\, essential oils\, and of course\, snacks. Fee $55. Bring warm socks\, a mat\, a blanket. \nFor more information contact Kathleen Williams 732-310-0361
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/half-day-lifeforce-yoga-retreat/
LOCATION:AZ
CATEGORIES:Amy's Events,Featured,LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:Webinar Series Launch!
DESCRIPTION:Coming to a Screen Near You! We are pleased to announce a free webinar series on LifeForce Yoga! \nEvery two months\, LifeForce Yoga Director Rose Kress will feature a new guest in a free one-hour webinar open to the public. These webinars discuss LifeForce Yoga tools\, techniques\, and their application in different settings. \nRegister today to reserve your spot\, space is limited! Once registered\, the recording will be available to watch for one week. After that\, the webinar will be available for purchase and download in our store. \nThe Series kicks off on November 16!\nSession 1: LifeForce Yoga & Emotional Regulation in a Trauma Setting with Alyce Wellons and Rose Kress. Emotional regulation is the ability to respond to experiences and stimuli with a range of emotion that is socially tolerable and flexible. Emotional dysregulation is characterized by difficulty in managing emotions and behavior. In this webinar\, Rose Kress and Alyce Wellons discuss LifeForce Yoga tools that support emotional regulation in relation to working with those suffering from trauma. \nQuestions may be emailed to info@yogafordepression.com\, up to 12 hours prior to the start of the webinar. There will be a Q&A period at the end of the webinar. \nFuture Webinar Topics \n\nSound & Mantra\nLifeForce Yoga & Ayurveda\nDeep listening. Can I hear me now?\n\n\nAlyce Wellons\, LCSW\, LFYP\nAlyce is a licensed clinical social worker since 1999 in the State of Georgia and has maintained a private psychotherapy\, supervision and consultation practice for over 18 years in the Virginia Highlands area of Atlanta\, Georgia. She works with individuals and couples in short and long-term psychotherapy. \nShe is a LifeForce Yoga practitioner\, leads trainings for professionals and individuals\, teaching them to use body-based healing modalities for wellness and healing in their work and life.  www.alycewellons.com. \nRose Kress\, ERYT-500\, C-IAYT\, YACEP\nDirector @LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute\, Rose Kress\, is yoga teacher and yoga therapist\, practicing in Tucson\, AZ for over 12 years. As the owner of LifeForce Yoga\, she directs international trainings on using accessible yoga tools to manage anxiety\, depression\, and trauma. \nRose brings an attitude of lightheartedness into her work with individuals and in trainings. She considers herself a lifelong student\, always open to learning more. \n 
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/webinar-series-launch/
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SUMMARY:Yoga Skills for Therapists: Applications for Anxiety and Depression—No Mat Required!
DESCRIPTION:Online Registration \nPractice your clinical specialty more effectively when you offer clients simple\, evidence-based LifeForce Yoga practices to self-regulate\, experience self-efficacy and build resilience. Learn clinically appropriate yoga skills that complement and enhance the work you currently do\, helping clients focus\, relax\, and have greater access to feeling states. \nLifeForce Yoga has been successfully utilized in health care settings with diverse populations\, demonstrating its usefulness in relieving emotional distress and dysregulation. In the process of learning Yoga practices to help clients increase self-efficacy and self-compassion and enhancing the therapeutic relationship between you\, you will be giving yourself the gift of self-care. \nExperience for yourself the transformational power of yoga and let it be the portal to healing for you\, your loved ones and those you serve. After this seminar\, you will feel return to your work\, empowered by your own practices and ready to share them with your clients. \n\n\nYou will learn: \n\nYogic tools to foster the therapeutic alliance and client self-acceptance\nA review of current scientific literature supporting Yoga as a treatment in mental health\nThree evidence-based Yogic breaths and a simple meditation to calm and focus the anxious mind\nThree evidence-based Yogic breaths and two simple meditation techniques to clear the mind and lift the mood\nA Yogic technique to interrupt panic attack\nStrategies for introducing Yoga practices to your most skeptical clients\nMeditation techniques effective with OCD and anxiety disorders\nEmpowering use of imagery\, meditation\, and affirmations that arise from the client’s authentic experience of Self.\n\n\nJack Hirose and Associates has provided quality training to more than 55\,000 mental health professionals in Canada and the United States. The workshops focus on beginner and advanced training\, particularly in cognitive behavioural\, brief therapy\, child and adolescent therapy\, mindfulness approaches\, motivational interviewing\, sensorimotor psychotherapy\, solution focused\, narrative\, emotion focused\, acceptance and commitment therapy\, couples and marriage therapy and others. All of our workshops are approved for continuing education credit (CEUs) through various Canadian associations. \n\nFaculty:\n\nAmy Weintraub\, MFA\, ERYT-500\, C-IAYT\, YACEP\nAmy Weintraub\, founder of the LifeForce Yoga® Healing Institute and author of the bestselling Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books\, 2004) and the ground-breaking Yoga Skills for Therapists: Effective Practices for Mood Management (W.W. Norton\, 2012)\, has been a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health for over 20 years. She trains health and yoga professionals at notable international venues and offers workshops for every day practitioners. The LifeForce Yoga® protocol is being used in residential treatment centers\, hospitals and by health care providers around the world. She is involved in ongoing research on the effects of yoga on mood\, and has produced an award-winning library of evidence-based yoga and meditation CDs and DVDs for mood management. She edits a newsletter that includes current research\, news and media reviews on Yoga and mental health\, archived here. \n\nOcean Lum\, Hnrs BSc\, MA \, ERYT-500\, LFYP-2\nHaving been transformed by the powers of Yoga and Mindfulness to heal depression\, Ocean began teaching yoga (RYT 500) and facilitating meditation in 2001. She is a LifeForce Yoga Therapy Practitioner\nLevel 2. \n\nOcean Lum has an Hnrs. BSc. in Nutrition & Biochemistry and a MA in Counselling Psychology. She is a registered clinical counselor in private practice. She has a special interest in a holistic approach to depression and anxiety by integrating counselling\, LifeForce Yoga and Mindfulness. www.oceanlum.com
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-manage-mood-5/
LOCATION:Wosk Auditorium\, Jewish Community Centre\, 950 W 41st Ave\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V5Z 2N7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Amy's Events,Featured,LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:Yoga for Mood Management: LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training\, Part A - Experiential
DESCRIPTION:Online Registration \nThis Experiential workshop is open to all with yoga experience and is Part A of a 3-Part certification course to become a LifeForce Yoga Practitioner – level 1. Learn an empowering\, evidence-based Yoga protocol for self-care and to help students and clients focus\, relax\, and have greater access to feeling states. You will experience all aspects of LifeForce Yoga\, including pranayama\, kriya\, asana\, nada yoga (sound)\, bhavana (visual imagery) sankalpa (intention/affirmation)\, meditation\, and non-dual self-inquiry. \nThere will also be opportunities for practicing with one and other and receiving feedback from the faculty. For those who are already LifeForce Yoga Practitioners\, this can be taken as a refresher course. Yoga and health care professionals and general practitioners will learn strategies appropriate for a clinical setting that can safely release chronically held physical tension and repressed emotion. \nStudents of this course will: \n\nDesign one-on-one Yoga sessions for dysthymia (chronic depression)\, anxiety-based depression\, PTSD\, and bipolar disorder\nLearn breathing and meditation practices for addressing dysthymia and anxiety-based depression\nLearn how to add somatic strategies to clinical practice and Yoga classes to increase clients’ self-awareness\, self-acceptance\, self-esteem\, and ability to cope\nExperience techniques you can teach your clients and students to do at home\nPractice asanas (postures)\, pranayama and kriyas (breathing and cleansing)\, mantra (chanting)\, bhavana (development of the mind)\, sankalpa (resolve and intention)\, mudra (hand gestures)\, meditation\, therapeutic long holding of postures and non-dual strategies for working with negative self-talk\nTake home tools and confidence for working with individuals suffering from depression and anxiety\n\nRequired Reading: Yoga for Depression by Amy Weintraub (Broadway Books)\nRequired Practice: LifeForce Yoga DVDs & CDs\nRecommended Reading: Yoga Skills for Therapists (W.W. Norton) \n30 Contact Hours  meet the Required 26 hours for Part A Certification.  This program is designed by Amy Weintraub and is based on the practices in Yoga for Depression and Yoga Skills for Therapists. \nFaculty\nAmy Weintraub\, MFA\, ERYT-500\, C-IAYT\, YACEP\n\nAmy Weintraub\, founder of the LifeForce Yoga® Healing Institute and author of the bestselling Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books\, 2004) and the ground-breaking Yoga Skills for Therapists: Effective Practices for Mood Management (W.W. Norton\, 2012)\, has been a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health for over 20 years. She trains health and yoga professionals at notable international venues and offers workshops for every day practitioners. The LifeForce Yoga® protocol is being used in residential treatment centers\, hospitals and by health care providers around the world. She is involved in ongoing research on the effects of yoga on mood\, and has produced an award-winning library of evidence-based yoga and meditation CDs and DVDs for mood management. She edits a newsletter that includes current research\, news and media reviews on Yoga and mental health\, archived here. \nMental Health Professional on Staff:\nAllie Middleton\, JD\, LCSW\, E-RYT500\, C-IAYT\, LFYP-2\nAllie has been practicing yoga and meditation for 40 years. After a diverse business career leading innovative start-ups in New York City\, she began to commit her life and work to energy healing practices.  As a wilderness trainer\, she traveled the world teaching individuals and teams undergoing change to learn and practice deeply integrative and harmonizing ways of living while pursuing their heart’s desire. Knowing that clinical expertise would help her serve others in their personal transformation\, she pursued graduate clinical education\, taught at the graduate level and became a licensed clinical social worker and master coach and trainer in Neuro Linguistic Programming. In addition to being a mental health first responder to the 9/11 disaster\, she served as the clinical director of a community mental health agency and brought yoga and expressive arts into 12 programs. She worked to develop yoga programming for staff and clients at the New York Office of Mental Health and in peer-run programs\, using LifeForce Yoga combined with embodied presence practices from the Presencing Institute. Now\, she teaches widely and supports emerging leaders in health care as well as business with mind-body integration coaching and mind-body program development. She blends LifeForce Yoga with other mind-body integration practices in public and private psychiatric rehabilitation settings and is an experienced leader\, advocate and conference presenter on the integration of mindfulness and yoga into health care reform. Allie integrates LifeForce Yoga into her leadership development coaching in business settings and in her coaching practice and trainings globally. Allie maintains a private yoga therapy practice and teaches LifeForce Yoga internationally at conferences and retreats. She and her husband live in the Hudson River Valley in New York and enjoy traveling to sacred sites\, near and far.
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/yoga-mood-management-lifeforce-yoga-practitioner-training-part-experiential-3/
LOCATION:Soul of Yoga\, 627 Encinitas Blvd\, Encinitas\, CA\, 92024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Amy's Events,Featured,LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:Accessible Yoga Conference San Francisco 2017
DESCRIPTION:Online Registration \nJoin Rose Kress and LifeForce Yoga in San Francisco!\nLifeForce Yoga combines ancient yogic techniques that are informed by current research to support students in managing anxiety\, depression\, feelings of loss\, stress\, low self-esteem\, and trauma. The tools are accessible; they do not require a yoga mat for practice and/or can be woven into a yoga mat practice.  \n\nThrough LifeForce Yoga\, learn how you are so much more than your current mood state and the swing of energy from moment to moment. You will take home practices that can be done anywhere\, anytime to help you cultivate equilibrium.\nDuring this workshop you will practice:\n\n\nBreathing techniques to energize (pranayama)\n\n\nSound techniques to calm (mantra)\n\n\nVisualization for goal setting (bhavana)\n\n\nHand gestures (mudra)\n\n\nMeditation techniques to anchor the awareness\n\n\nDeep relaxation\n\n\nRecommended Reading: Yoga for Depression by Amy Weintraub (Broadway Books)\nRequired Practice: LifeForce Yoga DVDs & CDs \nAbout the Conference\nThe world’s leading adaptive Yoga teachers will gather for a weekend of education\, community-building\, and inspiration. We’ll explore ways to make Yoga available to everyone regardless of ability. All Yoga students and teachers are welcome. Join the world’s leading adaptive Yoga teachers for a weekend of education\, community-building\, and inspiration. We’ll explore ways to make Yoga available to everyone regardless of ability. All Yoga students and teachers are welcome. \nThe mission of the Accessible Yoga Conference is to provide a forum where the Yoga community can come together to connect\, share\, and support those who wish to expand access to the Yoga teachings for people with disabilities\, chronic illness\, seniors\, and people who may not feel comfortable in a regular yoga class. \nJoin us for a weekend program which includes asana classes\, workshops\, and panel discussions with senior Yoga teachers on a variety of topics related to increasing access to Yoga. Topics range from adapting poses to community building. You’ll also get a preview of the Teacher Training programs offered by conference faculty. \n\nRose Kress\, ERYT-500\, LFYP-2\, YACEP\, Mentor\, Director of LifeForce Yoga\nRose began practicing yoga in 1994 and teaching since 2004. In that time she has focused on the therapeutic aspects of yoga – for the body\, mind and soul. Rose teaches classes and workshops throughout the Tucson area and has been blessed to teach at The Crossings in Austin\, TX\, at Yogaville in VA\, at Kripalu in Lenox\, MA\, and Sivananda Ashram in The Bahamas with the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training Program. She has also presented at a number of Yoga Festivals in Arizona. Rose integrates LifeForce Yoga techniques into therapeutic yoga for back pain\, cancer\, pulmonary disease\, structural wellness\, and yoga therapy. She studies with Rama Jyoti Vernon and has taken the Functional Yoga Therapy Training with Maria KaliMa. Rose is the Director of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute and teaches in the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Trainings. Rose is also the author of 2 CDs\, Mantra Chanting with Rose and Pathways to Relaxation.
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/accessible-yoga-conference-san-francisco-2017/
LOCATION:AZ
CATEGORIES:Featured,LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:LifeForce Yoga Grounding Practices for Stress & Anxiety
DESCRIPTION:This 2-hour workshop will introduce participants to the dynamic effects of LifeForce Yoga for grounding anxiety and managing daily stressors. \nBased on the work of Amy Weintraub\, LifeForce Yoga practices work intentionally on balancing the mood\, allowing practitioners to develop their own unique practice to meet the mood as it arrives. This workshop will include some background and research on Yoga & the mood\, and will also move through a LifeForce Yoga class sequence designed to meet and balance anxious states. \nThe class will include:\nBhavana (visualization)\nPranayama (breath practices)\nAsana (physical postures)\nDyana (meditation practices)\nMudra (energy practices)\nMantra (use of sounds for chakra clearing)\, \nand the best part of all… a nice long Yoga Nidra (deep relaxation)! \nThis is also a wonderful workshop to help deepen your personal yoga practice. No yoga experience is required…beginners are welcome. \nFor more information on this workshop\, and for details about other classes and offerings with Deborah Lubetkin\, please visit\, DrDeborahLubetkin.com or call 973-783-0351. To register for the workshop\, please go to JaiPureYoga.com. \nDeborah Lubetkin\, Psy.D.\, RYT-200\, LFYP-2\, C-IAYT\nDr. Lubetkin is a Licensed Psychologist\, Certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher (RYT-200)\, and a Certified LifeForce Yoga Practitioner & Mentor. She is Lifeforce Yoga Healing Institute’s Director of Mentoring and a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT). \nDeborah has been in private practice for almost 20 years. Her office is in Montclair New Jersey. She teaches a weekly LifeForce yoga class at JaiPure Yoga in Montclair\, NJ (JaiPureYoga.com). She is a volunteer for Kula for Karma\, proving free yoga classes to victims of Domestic Violence (KulaforKarma.org). She teaches annually for Yoga Connections\, a program that provides yoga to communities in Israel dealing with anxiety and trauma from exposure to war.  Additionally\, Deborah provides workshops for organizations and groups on LifeForce Yoga® in various locations. Deborah is an active and passionate student of Kripalu Yoga.
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-grounding-practices-stress-anxiety/
LOCATION:JaiPure Yoga\, 575 Bloomfield Avenue\, Montclair\, NJ\, 07042\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured,LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:LifeForce Yoga Meditation Series
DESCRIPTION:Welcome the season and join us for a new series of meditation classes to reduce stress & promote inner calm\, wisdom\, wakefulness\, and joy. Based on the work of Amy Weintraub\, LifeForce Yoga practices work intentionally on balancing the mood\, allowing practitioners to develop their own unique practice to meet the mood as it arrives. \nBeginners welcome! No meditation or yoga experience is required. \nNOTE: This is a free offering to the whole community\, no registration or Y membership required. The series meets from 4:00-5:30pm on 6 Sundays: September 17\, 24\, October 1; November 5\, 12\, & 19. Location is the large studio on the first floor at the Capital District YMCA in Southern Saratoga. \nFor more information on this workshop\, and for details about other classes and offerings with Allie\, contact alliemiddleton@gmail.com. \nSeptember 17\, 24\, October 1\nNovember 5\, 12\, & 19 \nAllie Middleton JD LCSW E-RYT C-IAYT\nAllie Middleton has been practicing yoga and meditation for over 40 years. After a diverse business career leading innovative start-ups in New York City\, she began to commit her life and work to energy healing practices. \nAs a certified yoga therapist\, somatic coach\, advanced yoga and meditation instructor\, Allie’s teaching is geared to classical meditation instruction as a transformational self care strategy. She also offers a natural support to developing a life change using the wisdom traditions. As a licensed mental health clinician\, Allie covers practices for basic mood management (anxiety and depression) using yogic principles and practices. \n 
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-meditation-series/
LOCATION:AZ
CATEGORIES:Featured,LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:LifeForce Yoga® Wednesday Nights in Victoria\, BC
DESCRIPTION:Learn an evidenced-based yoga protocol to manage stress\, anxiety\, and depression. Balance your body\, mind and spirit using poses\, breathwork\, meditation\, sound and other yogic practices. Leave feeling relaxed\,\ninspired and empowered. \nSuitable for anybody wishing a deeper connection to themselves. \nWe’ll practice: \n\nPranayama and kriya breathing techniques that regulate the emotions\nMeditations that lift the mood\nCreating Affirmation (sankalpa)\nLifeForce Yoga® Chakra Clearing Meditation\nTones that regulate the emotions (mantras)\nYoga asanas suitable for multilevel practitioners\n\nYou will leave feeling refreshed\, renewed\, with new tools to bring balance to the emotional and physical body. Accessible for all levels\, including beginners. Also\, psychotherapists\, health professionals\, and yogis will learn techniques not regularly taught in yoga classes to help their clients focus\, relax\, and have greater access to their feelings. \n  \nSeries Schedule:\n6 Wednesdays\, September 13th – October 18th\nTime: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm\n\nFLYER HERE: LFY Sept 2017\nOcean Lum\, RYT-500\, LFYP\, RCC\nVictoria’s only LifeForce Yoga teacher\, Ocean Lum\, YRT-500\, has been teaching yoga since 2001. Her classes integrate yogic wisdom\, positive psychology and mindfulness. Ocean is also a Registered Clinical Counsellor with a holistic approach to anxiety and depression. \nOcean began to practise earnestly in 1996 and has been teaching yoga since 2001. Although she appreciates all styles of yoga\, she is especially keen about Anusara\, Kundalini\, and Laughter Yoga. She’s also practised Tibetan Buddhism since 2001 and finds it the most compelling model of reality rooted in compassion and wisdom. \nOcean aspires to connect and teach from her own wellspring of inspiration. She hopes to inspire others to connect to their own source of wisdom and joy. At its highest level\, her classes become an offering to the divine within and the divine without. A proud presenter at the Victoria Yoga Conference\, 2014 & 2016\, find more about Ocean here: https://oceanlum.com/
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-wednesday-nights-victoria-bc/
LOCATION:mokasanayoga\, #500-3 Fan Tan Alley\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8V 3G9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Featured,LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:LifeForce® Yoga Practitioner Training for Depression & Anxiety - Level 1
DESCRIPTION:Online Registration \nThe LifeForce® Yoga Practitioner (LFYP)Training is open to all and offers certification for health care and yoga professionals.  On other pages on this website you will find mood management support through workshops\, individual sessions\, research\, books and audio visual materials for those with depression\, anxiety\, chronic pain and a history of trauma and for the professionals who serve them. \nIn the LFYP Training\, you will learn an evidence-based practice for both depression and anxiety\,  as well as ancient strategies from both Tantric and Classical Yoga traditions for self-care. Learn Yoga practices supported by current research in psycho-neurobiology to help clear away the obstructions (chronic tensions\, constricting beliefs\, limiting emotions) that may be keeping you and those you serve from knowing and expressing your authenticity and your fullest potential. \nLearn to create and sustain a safe container for students and clients so that learning can occur in an atmosphere of acceptance and love. Learn to assess mood and constitution from a Yogic perspective. Throughout the training\, you will personally experience each exercise and have opportunities to observe your own sensations\, feelings\, and thoughts\, as you are guided and then lead practices in dyads and small groups with supervision from the LFYP Faculty. Distinctions are made between those practices that may be safely led by a Yoga Teacher and those that may be suitable in a clinical setting\, led by a psychotherapist or other health professional. \nCEUs for mental health professionals and yoga teachers. \nFull details on the LFYP Training \nFaculty:\nAmy Weintraub MFA\, ERYT-500\, C-IAYT\, YACEP\, Founder of the LifeForce® Yoga Healing Institute\nAmy is the author of Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books\, 2004) and Yoga Skills for Therapists: Effective Practices for Mood Management (W.W. Norton\, 2012)\, has been a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health for over twenty years. She offers the LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner Training for Depression and Anxiety to health and yoga professionals and offers workshops for every day practitioners. The LifeForce Yoga® protocol is being used in residential treatment centers\, hospitals and by health care providers around the world and is featured on the LifeForce Yoga® CD Series and the first DVD home Yoga practice series for mood management\, the award-winning LifeForce Yoga® to Beat the Blues\, Level 1 & Level 2. She is an invited speaker at conferences internationally and is involved in ongoing research on the effects of yoga on mood. She edits a bi-monthly newsletter that includes current research\, news and media reviews on Yoga and mental health. \nRose Kress\, ERYT-500\, LFYP-2\, LFY Educator\, Mentor\, Director of the LifeForce® Yoga Healing Institute\n\nRose began practicing yoga in 1994 and teaching since 2004. In that time she has focused on the therapeutic aspects of yoga – for the body\, mind and soul. Rose teaches classes and workshops throughout the Tucson area and has been blessed to teach at The Crossings in Austin\, TX\, at Yogaville in VA\, at Kripalu in Lenox\, MA\, and Sivananda Ashram in The Bahamas with the LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner Training Program. She has also presented at a number of Yoga Festivals in Arizona. Rose integrates LifeForce Yoga® techniques into therapeutic yoga for back pain\, cancer\, pulmonary disease\, structural wellness\, and yoga therapy. She studies with Rama Jyoti Vernon and has taken the Functional Yoga Therapy Training with Maria KaliMa. Rose is the Program Manager of the LifeForce Yoga® Healing Institute and travels with Amy to assist her in LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner Trainings. She is a lead trainer in the Sol Center’s Yoga Training Program. Rose is also the author of 2 CDs\, Mantra Chanting with Rose and Pathways to Relaxation. \nRickie Simpson PhD\, E-RYT-200\, LFYP-2\nDr. Simpson is a Board Certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist specializing in individual\, couples\, group and family therapy. She integrates complementary methodologies and techniques to offer a highly personalized faith-consistent approach tailored to each client. She holds certifications as an Imago Relationship Therapist\, a LifeForce Yoga Practitioner 2/Mentor and is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher at the 200-hour level (E-RYT-200) with the Yoga Alliance.  She belongs to the International Association  ofPractitioners of Encountered-centered Couples Therapy and maintains a board certification as a Professional Christian Counselor. Dr. Simpson is also one of the primary international investigators for evaluating the efficacy of Encountered-centered Couples Therapy. She maintains a private practice in Manassas\, Virginia and is on the faculty of Stratford University teaching Nursing Research and Psychiatric Nursing.
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-practitioner-training-depression-anxiety-level-1-2-2/
LOCATION:Yogaville Satchidananda Ashram\, 108 Yogaville Way\, Buckingham\, VA\, 23921\, United States
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SUMMARY:LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner Training For Mood Management - Level 1
DESCRIPTION:Days begin with self-care in the form of sunrise yoga and meditation\, followed by a silent breakfast. Daily sessions include discussion\, experiential learning\, practice in pairs\, and sharing. Enjoy afternoons walking the labyrinth\, hiking the desert\, or having a massage. Every afternoon includes a Yoga Nidra practice. Spend your lunch and dinner networking with other like-minded practitioners and individuals. After this training and self-care retreat\, you will return home with a renewed daily practice\, a tool-box full of self-care techniques\, and tools to support your clients and students in reconnecting with their wholeness. \nIn the LFYP Training\, you will learn an evidence-based practice for both depression and anxiety\,  as well as ancient strategies from both Tantric and Classical Yoga traditions for self-care. Learn Yoga practices supported by current research in psycho-neurobiology to help clear away the obstructions (chronic tensions\, constricting beliefs\, limiting emotions) that may be keeping you and those you serve from knowing and expressing your authenticity and your fullest potential. \nYou will learn: \n\nTo assess mood from a Yogic perspective\nTo instruct simple tools for managing mood fluctuations\nAccessible techniques for releasing the constrictions of depression\, anxiety\, and trauma\nPortable practices\, appropriate in clinical settings\, that do not require a yoga mat or special clothing\nA practice that augments the effects of a yoga class\, as well as individual and group psychotherapy\nYoga practices not often taught in yoga classes\, or trainings\, that are informed by current research in the fields psychotherapy\, physiology\, yoga\, neuroscience\, and neurobiology\nA pathway from darkness into light\n\nCEUs for mental health professionals and yoga teachers. More information on the LFYP Training \nPracticing Yoga Nidra in pairs \nFaculty\n\nAmy Weintraub\, MFA\, ERYT-500\, C-IAYT\, YACEP\nAmy Weintraub\, founder of the LifeForce Yoga® Healing Institute and author of the bestselling Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books\, 2004) and the ground-breaking Yoga Skills for Therapists: Effective Practices for Mood Management (W.W. Norton\, 2012)\, has been a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health for over 20 years. She trains health and yoga professionals at notable international venues and offers workshops for every day practitioners. The LifeForce Yoga® protocol is being used in residential treatment centers\, hospitals and by health care providers around the world. She is involved in ongoing research on the effects of yoga on mood\, and has produced an award-winning library of evidence-based yoga and meditation CDs and DVDs for mood management. She edits a newsletter that includes current research\, news and media reviews on Yoga and mental health\, archived here. \nRose Kress\,ERYT-500\, LFYP-2\, Director of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute\n\nRose began practicing yoga in 1994 and teaching since 2004. In that time she has focused on the therapeutic aspects of yoga – for the body\, mind and soul. Rose teaches classes and workshops throughout the Tucson area and has been blessed to teach at The Crossings in Austin\, TX\, at Yogaville in VA\, at Kripalu in Lenox\, MA\, and Sivananda Ashram in The Bahamas with the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training Program. She has also presented at a number of Yoga Festivals in Arizona. Rose integrates LifeForce Yoga techniques into therapeutic yoga for back pain\, cancer\, pulmonary disease\, structural wellness\, and yoga therapy. She studies with Rama Jyoti Vernon and has taken the Functional Yoga Therapy Training with Maria KaliMa. Rose is the Dierctor of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute and teaches in LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Trainings. Rose is also the author of 2 CDs\, Mantra Chanting with Rose and Pathways to Relaxation. \n 
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-practitioner-training-mood-management-level-1/
LOCATION:Kripalu Center\, Interlaken Road\, Stockbridge\, MA\, 01266\, United States
CATEGORIES:Amy's Events,Featured,LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:Internal Family Systems Therapy Goes to the Mat with LifeForce Yoga®:  3 Days of Healing Body\, Mind\, Heart & Soul
DESCRIPTION:Online Registration \nWe will combine yoga practices for accessing Self energy\, meeting our parts\, with deep self-inquiry and discovery. Through yoga practices appropriate in clinical settings such as: pranayama breathing\, meditations\, mudras\, mantras\, movement\, guided imagery\, deep relaxation\, experiential exercises\, demonstrations and discussion\, participants will explore the combination of Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) and LifeForce Yoga® practices. Throughout the weekend you will experience how the integration of these two models enhances the healing process. \nNurture your parts and your whole being. You will leave feeling relaxed and energized\, confident in your ability to integrate LifeForce Yoga® skills and IFS and with new tools for self-care. This weekend is open to the general public\, yoga teachers and mental health professionals. All bodies and abilities welcome! \nRichard Schwartz\, PhD\, developer of the Internal Family Systems model\, and Amy Weintraub\, creator of LifeForce Yoga®\, are both innovators. Dr. Schwartz developed a new model of psychotherapy from curiosity when his most challenging clients did not improve. Amy Weintraub developed a school of yoga\, focused on attending to the emotional body after she experienced the transformational effect of yoga in her own life\, when she began a daily practice in 1989. Liz Brenner and Laura Orth have developed protocols and practices to integrate these models for optimal healing of individual and collective wounds. \nYoga Philosophy and Internal Family Systems therapy share the belief that all of us have a healthy\, core Self in addition to multiple states of being\, some of whom get stuck in extreme roles due to life experiences. The non-dual nature of LifeForce Yoga® melds with the Internal Family Systems approach\, welcoming all aspects of the human experience supporting the following goals: liberating parts from extreme roles that are no longer necessary\, allowing the wise Self to lead the system\, and re-harmonizing the internal family system. \nYoga is so much more than asana or postures. LifeForce Yoga® highlights practices that are accessible and adaptable for clinical settings\, yoga therapy\, and home use. Some practices are targeted to depression\, others to anxiety and trauma reactivity. \nWe will learn practices that that will help:\n \n\nAccess Self energy\nStrengthen Self-to-part relationships\nUnblend parts\nCare for parts that are not yet unburdened\nSafely tend to exiles who are not yet unburdened\n\nPlease let us know if\, in addition to attending to enhancing your life through personal growth\, you are also intending to enhance your work as a yoga teacher\, mental health or other professional. \nDates\, Times\, and Registration:\n\nFriday\, April 28\, 2017\, from 9am to 4:30pm\nSaturday\, April 29\, 2017\, from 9am to 4:30pm\nSunday\, April 30\, 2017\, from 9am to 3:15pm\nFor more information\, click HERE\nTo register\, click HERE\n\nThis weekend workshop will provide 17 CEUs.\nLimited to 50 participants. \nContinuing Education\nThis training program is co-sponsored by The Center for Self Leadership and The Institute for Continuing Education.  Continuing education contact hours are offered for the professional disciplines as listed below. The workshop  offers a total of 17.00 contact hours\, with full daily attendance required. The CE processing fee is $60. per person.  Applications for continuing education contact hours will only be available at the training\, along with other pertinent continuing education information. \nIf you have questions regarding continuing education\, the program\, learning objectives\, contact The Institute for Continuing Education: 800-557-1950\, or Email: instconted@aol.com. \nPsychology: The Institute for Continuing Education is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Institute for Continuing Education maintains responsibility for the program and its content.         \nCounseling: The Institute for Continuing Education and The Center for Self Leadership are cosponsors of this program. This co-sponsorship has been approved by NBCC. The Institute for Continuing Education is an NBCC approved continuing education provider\, ACEP Provider No. 5643. The Institute for Continuing Education solely is responsible for this program\, including the awarding of NBCC credit. \nSocial Work: The Institute for Continuing Education is approved as a provider for continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)\, through the Approved Continuing Education Program ( ACE ).  Licensed social workers should contact their individual state jurisdiction to review current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal. The Institute for Continuing Education maintains responsibility for the program.  ASWB Provider No. 1007. \nMarriage/Family Therapy: This activity has been certified by the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Associations for Marriage & Family Therapy\, for professional continuing education. Certification No. PC-032685. \nAbout the Instructors\nLiz Brenner\, LICSW\, is the Director of Therapy Training Boston\, providing continuing education that refuels and inspires helping professionals in Watertown MA. Liz’s teaching\, supervision and clinical work are grounded in family systems therapy\, interpersonal neurobiology and trauma theory. She is a Level 2 IFS graduate and LifeForce Yoga® practitioner. Liz finds the integration of LifeForce Yoga® with IFS therapy to be deep\, efficient work\, and is excited to share it. She sees individual\, couples and families as well as providing supervision and agency training. Learn more at: therapytrainingboston.com. \nLaura Orth\, LICSW\, is a clinical social worker who currently provides individual and family psychotherapy and patient relaxation groups at Southboro Medical Group. Level 2 trained in both LifeForce Yoga® and\, Internal Family Systems\, and as a yoga instructor\, she integrates yoga breath work and mindfulness skills in her psychotherapy practice. She is inspired to teach others these practices in an open-hearted and affirming way. Laura is a mentor for the LifeForce Yoga® Healing Institute. \nLearning Objectives\n\nParticipants will experience and learn LifeForce Yoga® practices to address depressive symptoms as well as symptoms of anxiety and trauma reactivity. By the end of the weekend they will be able to take home at least three practices.\nParticipants will experience and learn empowering ways to work with parts to enhance their relationship with Self\, unburden them and re-harmonize the internal family system. They will be able to identify and better understand at least one part of themselves.\nParticipants will begin to learn a model for integrating LifeForce Yoga® practices and IFS therapy. They will understand how to use LifeForce Yoga® practices to enhance Self as well as create more curiosity and compassion toward parts.\nParticipants will learn to use body sensations to organically create practices that meet the needs of parts.\n\n\nLodging\nLow cost place housing may be available at the Walker Center in Newton\, MA where they have simple\, clean rooms for $55 per night with a shared bath and $85 per night with private baths. \nHere is a link to the B & B at the Walker Center: http://www.walkerctr.org/bed-breakfast. \n\nThere are also local hotels\, and Air BnB is an option. Click here for hotels.\nBibliography\nBennett\, S.M.\, A. Weintraub\, S.B. Khalsa. (2008) “Initial evaluation of the LifeForce Yoga® program as a therapeutic intervention for depression\,” International Journal of Yoga Therapy. 18:49-57. \nFranzblau S H\, Smith M\, Echevarria S\, Van Cantford\, TE. (2006) “Take a Breath\, Break the Silence: The Effects of Yogic Breathing and Testimony About Battering on Feelings of Self-Efficacy in Battered Women\,” International Journal of Yoga Therapy. 2006; 16: 49-57. \nSchwartz RC. You Are The One You’ve Been Waiting For. Oak Park\, IL: Trailheads Publications\, The Center for Self Leadership\, 2008. \nSchwartz RC. Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model. Oak Park\, IL: Trailheads Publications\, The Center for Self Leadership\, 2001 \nSchwartz RC. Internal Family Systems Therapy. New York: Guilford Press\, 1995 (published in paperback in 1997) \nStreeter C.C.\, Whitfield T.H.\, Owen L.\, Rein T.\, Karri S.K.\, Yakhkind A.\, Perlmutter R.\, Prescot A.\, Renshaw P.F.\, Ciraulo D.A.\, Jensen J.E. (2010) “Effects of yoga versus walking on mood\, anxiety\, and brain GABA levels: a randomized controlled MRS study\,” Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. 2010 Nov;16(11):1145-52.  \nWeintraub\, A. (2004) Yoga for Depression: A compassionate Guide to Relieve Suffering through Yoga. New York: Broadway Books. \nWeintraub\, A. (2012) Yoga Skills for Therapists. New York: W.W. Norton
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/integrating-lifeforce-yoga-internal-family-systems-therapy-three-days-healing-body-mind-heart-soul/
LOCATION:Whitney Towers\, 275 Main Street\, Watertown\, MA\, 02472\, United States
CATEGORIES:Amy's Events,Featured,LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:LifeForce Yoga Practices for Calming & Balancing Mood
DESCRIPTION:Join Registered Yoga Teacher and Mentor for a workshop including breathwork\, movement\, mantra\, and guided meditation to meet the winter blues!\nCalming and warming practices will be led to bring a sense of balance and ease to get through the winter doldrums. A relaxation guided meditation will close the workshop.\n\nCall to Register: 207 795-8250
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-practices-calming-balancing-mood/
LOCATION:Dempsey Center\, 29 Lowell St\, Lewsiton\, ME\, 04240\, United States
CATEGORIES:LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:Yoga for Mood Management: LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner Training\, Part A - Experiential
DESCRIPTION:This Experiential workshop is open to all with yoga experience and is Part A of a 3-Part certification course to become a LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner – level 1. Learn an empowering\, evidence-based Yoga protocol for self-care and to help students and clients focus\, relax\, and have greater access to feeling states. You will experience all aspects of LifeForce Yoga®\, including pranayama\, kriya\, asana\, nada yoga (sound)\, bhavana (visual imagery) sankalpa (intention/affirmation)\, meditation\, and non-dual self-inquiry. \nThere will also be opportunities for practicing with one and other and receiving feedback from the faculty. For those who are already LifeForce Yoga® Practitioners\, this can be taken as a refresher course/retreat. Yoga and health care professionals and general practitioners will learn strategies appropriate for a clinical setting that can safely release chronically held physical tension and repressed emotion. \nThis Experiential is offered in a yoga retreat ashram setting on a beautiful beach\, where you may attend daily early morning and evening satsang with the ashram residents that includes meditation and chanting. One satsang per day is required\, both are recommended. This program has extended hours. \nStudents of this course will: \n\nDesign one-on-one Yoga sessions for dysthymia (chronic depression)\, anxiety-based depression\, PTSD\, and bipolar disorder\nLearn breathing and meditation practices for addressing dysthymia and anxiety-based depression\nLearn how to add somatic strategies to clinical practice and Yoga classes to increase clients’ self-awareness\, self-acceptance\, self-esteem\, and ability to cope\nExperience techniques you can teach your clients and students to do at home\nPractice asanas (postures)\, pranayama and kriyas (breathing and cleansing)\, mantra (chanting)\, bhavana (development of the mind)\, sankalpa (resolve and intention)\, mudra (hand gestures)\, meditation\, therapeutic long holding of postures and non-dual strategies for working with negative self-talk\nTake home tools and confidence for working with individuals suffering from depression and anxiety\n\nRequired Reading: Yoga for Depression by Amy Weintraub (Broadway Books)\nRequired Practice: LifeForce Yoga® DVDs & CDs\nRecommended Reading: Yoga Skills for Therapists (W.W. Norton) \nCEUs: \n\n35 for Social Workers\n37 for Yoga Teachers\n\nFaculty:\nAmy Weintraub MFA\, ERYT-500\, C-IAYT\, YACEP\, Founder of the LifeForce Yoga® Healing Institute\nAmy is the author of Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books\, 2004) and Yoga Skills for Therapists: Effective Practices for Mood Management (W.W. Norton\, 2012)\, has been a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health for over twenty years. She offers the LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner Training for Depression and Anxiety to health and yoga professionals and offers workshops for every day practitioners. The LifeForce Yoga® protocol is being used in residential treatment centers\, hospitals and by health care providers around the world and is featured on the LifeForce Yoga® CD Series and the first DVD home Yoga practice series for mood management\, the award-winning LifeForce Yoga® to Beat the Blues\, Level 1 & Level 2. She is an invited speaker at conferences internationally and is involved in ongoing research on the effects of yoga on mood. She edits a bi-monthly newsletter that includes current research\, news and media reviews on Yoga and mental health. \nRose Kress\, ERYT-500\, LFYP-2\, LFY Educator\, Mentor\, Director of the LifeForce Yoga® Healing Institute\n\nRose began practicing yoga in 1994 and teaching since 2004. In that time she has focused on the therapeutic aspects of yoga – for the body\, mind and soul. Rose teaches classes and workshops throughout the Tucson area and has been blessed to teach at The Crossings in Austin\, TX\, at Yogaville in VA\, at Kripalu in Lenox\, MA\, and Sivananda Ashram in The Bahamas with the LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner Training Program. She has also presented at a number of Yoga Festivals in Arizona. Rose integrates LifeForce Yoga® techniques into therapeutic yoga for back pain\, cancer\, pulmonary disease\, structural wellness\, and yoga therapy. She studies with Rama Jyoti Vernon and has taken the Functional Yoga Therapy Training with Maria KaliMa. Rose is the Program Manager of the LifeForce Yoga® Healing Institute and travels with Amy to assist her in LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner Trainings. She is a lead trainer in the Sol Center’s Yoga Training Program. Rose is also the author of 2 CDs\, Mantra Chanting with Rose and Pathways to Relaxation. \nTherapist on Staff: Kathryn C. ShaferPh.D.\, LCSW\, ACSW\, CAP\, E-500RYT\, CPT\, LFYP-2\nDr. Kathy is a licensed psychotherapist\, author\, educator\, consultant\, and certified yoga teacher (LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner\, 500RYT)\, certified play therapist\, and certified addiction professional. For 30 years in her private practice\, her clinical work and research has focused on the diverse and special needs all age groups impacted by the addictions\, trauma\, mood disorders\, pain management\, parenting\, and relationships. Her career has won her the reputation of solid scholarship and as the “go to” therapist/consultant. Dr. Kathy is internationally renowned as a dynamic speaker and conference presenter. As a LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner\, Dr. Kathy incorporates the use of sound (mantra)\, movement (asana)\, imagery (bhavana)\, and intention (sankalpa) to assist clients in mood management and daily self-care. Controlling allergies\, chronic asthma\, ACOA issues\, and herself a trauma survivor\, her daily practice of LifeForce Yoga® helps Dr. Kathy remain resilient and strong in her own life\, while attending to the needs of those who seek her services. \nBeth Toomey\, CSW\, LFYP-1\nA licensed\, social work professional with 16 years of direct experience in the demanding fields of addiction\, mental health and child welfare. Owner of Toomey Counselling & Consulting\, I’m deeply committed to the provision of evidence-informed clinical practice and lifelong learning. I actively seek to enhance my clinical and therapeutic skills through ongoing training and supervision. My approach to clinical treatment integrates modalities of both Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy and EMDR Therapy. Therapeutic yoga principles may also be incorporated to support holistic healing and optimal well-being in relation to symptom management and skill development. A committment to principles of social justice and cross-cultural competency informs my work and supports service delivery that is skilled\, effective\, and culturally aware. \n\nSivananda Ashram Schedule: 36 Program Hours Required for Part A Certification \n\nMar 28 – Apr 1: 8 – 10 am (Inauguration Puja at 8 am on the 6th); 12:00 – 3:00 pm\nApr 2: 8 – 10 am; 12:00 – 4:00 pm (Graduation Puja at 5:15 pm)\nSatsang: 6 – 7:45 am; 8 – 10:00 pm (One a day is required\, both are recommended)\nSivananda Yoga Class 4:00 – 6:00 pm (Recommended)
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/yoga-mood-management-lifeforce-yoga-practitioner-training-part-experiential-2/
LOCATION:Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat\, Paradise Island\, Nassau\, Bahamas
CATEGORIES:Amy's Events,Featured,LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:Yoga for Mood Management: Retreat & Training
DESCRIPTION:Led by Rose Kress & Debbie Lubetkin with Kathleen Williams\nFeaturing Saturday night Kirtan with Dalien aka 13 Hands\nTake time to dive into LifeForce Yoga for Mood Management. This retreat offers self-care strategies for stress reduction and bliss building. Students will practice LifeForce Yoga techniques in group setting as well as one-on-one. During this mid-winter retreat you will learn: \n\nBreathing practices to energize and clear (pranayama & kriya)\nSound practices to deactivate the limbic system (mantra & nada yoga)\nVisualizations to enhance affirmation\, intention\, and postures (bhavana & sankalpa)\nMeditation practices to focus the mind – LifeForce Yoga Chakra Clearing Meditation\nDeep restoration (yoga nidra)\nYogic self-inquiry for negative self-talk\nEnjoy the blessing and deep healing of Kirtan with Dalien aka 13 Hands\n\nThis experiential retreat includes a certification track for those interested (counts as Module A in the  3-Part certification course). Yoga and health care professionals and general practitioners will learn strategies appropriate for a clinical setting that can safely release chronically held physical tension and release tensions held in the physical\, emotional\, and spiritual body. For those who are already LifeForce Yoga Practitioners\, this can be taken as a refresher course. \nProfessionals taking this retreat will: \n\nLearn how to apply LifeForce Yoga practices to release the constrictions of dysthymia (chronic depression)\, anxiety\, PTSD\, and bipolar disorder\nLearn breathing and meditation practices that are appropriate and accessible for anyone suffering from dysthymia\, anxiety-based depression\, anxiety\, PTSD\, and bipolar disorder\nLearn how to add somatic strategies to clinical practice and Yoga classes to increase clients’ self-awareness\, self-acceptance\, self-esteem\, and ability to cope\nExperience techniques you can teach your clients and students to do at home\nPractice asanas (postures)\, pranayama and kriyas (breathing and cleansing)\, mantra (chanting)\, bhavana (development of the mind)\, sankalpa (resolve and intention)\, mudra (hand gestures)\, meditation\, therapeutic long holding of postures and non-dual strategies for working with negative self-talk\nTake home tools and confidence for working with individuals suffering from depression and anxiety\nCounts as Module A in the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training – Level 1 in Three Parts\n\nRequired Reading: Yoga for Depression by Amy Weintraub (Broadway Books)\nRequired Practice: LifeForce Yoga DVDs & CDs\nRecommended Reading: Yoga Skills for Therapists (W.W. Norton) \n30 Contact Hours  meet the Required 26 hours for Part A Certification.  This program is designed by Amy Weintraub and is based on the practices in Yoga for Depression and Yoga Skills for Therapists. \nFaculty\nRose Kress\, ERYT-500\, LFYP-2\, YACEP\, Mentor\, Director of LifeForce Yoga\n\nRose began practicing yoga in 1994 and teaching since 2004. In that time she has focused on the therapeutic aspects of yoga – for the body\, mind and soul. Rose teaches classes and workshops throughout the Tucson area and has been blessed to teach at The Crossings in Austin\, TX\, at Yogaville in VA\, at Kripalu in Lenox\, MA\, and Sivananda Ashram in The Bahamas with the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training Program. She has also presented at a number of Yoga Festivals in Arizona. Rose integrates LifeForce Yoga techniques into therapeutic yoga for back pain\, cancer\, pulmonary disease\, structural wellness\, and yoga therapy. She studies with Rama Jyoti Vernon and has taken the Functional Yoga Therapy Training with Maria KaliMa. Rose is the Director of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute and teaches in the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Trainings. Rose is also the author of 2 CDs\, Mantra Chanting with Rose and Pathways to Relaxation. \nDeborah Lubetkin\, Psy.D.\, LFYP-2\, RYT-200\, LifeForce Yoga Mentoring Director\nDeb is a Licensed Psychologist with a private practice in NJ for over 20 years. She became certified as a LifeForce Yoga practitioner\, Level 1 in 2009\, returning to complete her Level 2 certification in 2011.  Deborah was then certified in 2013 as a Kripalu Yoga Teacher.  Deborah’s private practice incorporates Eastern philosophy with the challenges of Western living to create a forum for her clients to develop an integrative plan to address a wide variety of mood related imbalances.    In addition to integrating Psychotherapy with LifeForce Yoga in individual sessions both on and off the mat\, Deborah runs groups and workshops in her community around the theme of “Balancing Mood with LifeForce Yoga.” She also teaches a weekly LifeForce Yoga class at a local studio\, and volunteers with a program called Yoga Connections teaching LifeForce Yoga classes in Israel for one week each year.  Integrating LifeForce Yoga and Kripalu Yoga into her life and psychotherapy practice has created remarkable shifts in the way that she moves through a session with a client\, in the way clients move through the process of therapy\, and in the way Deb moves through her life. \nAssisted by:\nKathleen Williams\, PhD\, KYT\, LFYP2\nKathleen holds a PhD from Seton Hall University and a Master’s degree from New York University. In addition\, she is certified in EMDR and trained in Brain Spotting\, Addictions and Internal Family Systems.   Kathleen is a Kripalu 200 hour Yoga teacher as well as a certified Yoga of Recovery Teacher and trained as a LifeForce Yoga Practitioner. Kathleen has practiced in the field of Counseling Psychology since 1996 independently while teaching as an adjunct professor mostly at the Graduate level at the College of St. Elizabeth and at Rutgers School of Education. Prior to working privately\, Kathleen was the Associate Director for the University Counseling Services at Seton Hall University where she offered psychological services in a range of areas including: drug and alcohol\, eating disorders\, depression\, anxiety and college adjustment concerns. Kathleen’s greatest passion of late is in utilizing Yoga and therapeutic skills toward healing the nervous system with mental health concerns and toward achieving greater peace in daily living. \nKirtan\nDalien aka 13 Hands\n2 time Grammy nominee\, Professor of Yoga at Montclair State University and Sacred\, Sound Shamanic Therapist paying it forward in yoga centers\, retreats\, corporate\, education and other arenas. He has 15 albums\, plays 30 instruments and shares inspiring wisdom on how he cured himself of Crohns\, colitis and other endocrine issues. He’s had the honor to share/teach alongside Shiva Rea to Seane Corn to Krishna Das to Snatam Kaur to Sean Johnson to Jack Kornfield\, Anne Lamott\, Dr. Emoto\, Gary Null and The Dalai Lama.
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/module-a-nj/
LOCATION:Mount Eden Retreat Center\, 56 Mill Pond Road\, Washington\, NJ\, 07882\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured,LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner Training For Mood Management - Level 1
DESCRIPTION:Days begin with self-care in the form of sunrise yoga and meditation\, followed by a silent breakfast. Daily sessions include discussion\, experiential learning\, practice in pairs\, and sharing. Enjoy afternoons walking the labyrinth\, hiking the desert\, or having a massage. Every afternoon includes a Yoga Nidra practice. Spend your lunch and dinner networking with other like-minded practitioners and individuals. After this training and self-care retreat\, you will return home with a renewed daily practice\, a tool-box full of self-care techniques\, and tools to support your clients and students in reconnecting with their wholeness. \nIn the LFYP Training\, you will learn an evidence-based practice for both depression and anxiety\,  as well as ancient strategies from both Tantric and Classical Yoga traditions for self-care. Learn Yoga practices supported by current research in psycho-neurobiology to help clear away the obstructions (chronic tensions\, constricting beliefs\, limiting emotions) that may be keeping you and those you serve from knowing and expressing your authenticity and your fullest potential. \nYou will learn: \n\nTo assess mood from a Yogic perspective\nTo instruct simple tools for managing mood fluctuations\nAccessible techniques for releasing the constrictions of depression\, anxiety\, and trauma\nPortable practices\, appropriate in clinical settings\, that do not require a yoga mat or special clothing\nA practice that augments the effects of a yoga class\, as well as individual and group psychotherapy\nYoga practices not often taught in yoga classes\, or trainings\, that are informed by current research in the fields psychotherapy\, physiology\, yoga\, neuroscience\, and neurobiology\nA pathway from darkness into light\n\nCEUs for mental health professionals and yoga teachers. More information on the LFYP Training \nPracticing Yoga Nidra in pairs \nFaculty\nAmy Weintraub\, MFA\, E-RYT500\nAmy is the author of Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books\, 2004) and Yoga Skills for Therapists: Effective Practices for Mood Management (W.W. Norton\, 2012)\, has been a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health for over twenty years. She offers the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training for Depression and Anxiety to health and yoga professionals and offers workshops for every day practitioners. The LifeForce Yoga protocol is being used in residential treatment centers\, hospitals and by health care providers around the world and is featured on the LifeForce Yoga CD Series and the first DVD home Yoga practice series for mood management\, the award-winning LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues\, Level 1 & Level 2. She is an invited speaker at conferences internationally and is involved in ongoing research on the effects of yoga on mood. \nRose Kress\,ERYT-500\, LFYP-2\, Director of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute\n\nRose began practicing yoga in 1994 and teaching since 2004. In that time she has focused on the therapeutic aspects of yoga – for the body\, mind and soul. Rose teaches classes and workshops throughout the Tucson area and has been blessed to teach at The Crossings in Austin\, TX\, at Yogaville in VA\, at Kripalu in Lenox\, MA\, and Sivananda Ashram in The Bahamas with the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training Program. She has also presented at a number of Yoga Festivals in Arizona. Rose integrates LifeForce Yoga techniques into therapeutic yoga for back pain\, cancer\, pulmonary disease\, structural wellness\, and yoga therapy. She studies with Rama Jyoti Vernon and has taken the Functional Yoga Therapy Training with Maria KaliMa. Rose is the Dierctor of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute and teaches in LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Trainings. Rose is also the author of 2 CDs\, Mantra Chanting with Rose and Pathways to Relaxation. \nTherapist on Staff: \nRandy Todd\,LCSW\, MSW\, LFYP-2\nRandy is a trauma therapist assigned to the PTSD Treatment Team at the Southern Arizona VA Health Care Systems (SAVAHCS) in Tucson\, Arizona. He is trained in cognitive behavioral therapy\, motivational interviewing\, hypnotherapy\, EMDR\, acceptance and commitment therapy\, dialectical behavioral therapy\, cognitive processing therapy\, and prolonged exposure therapy. Randy facilitates a weekly LifeForce Yoga group for clients and a weekly yoga nidra practice for mental health professionals at SAVAHCS. \nRandy’s professional career has spanned 35 years. He has worked in community mental health and substance abuse programs\, corrections\, private practice\, and as an adjunct faculty teaching MSW students. Randy has been responsible for directing outpatient treatment programs\, day treatment and day rehabilitation programs\, an emergency crisis services program\, an acute inpatient psychiatric treatment program\, managing a rural mental health clinic\, and a case management and clinical services program for persons diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. He has volunteered facilitating community groups for HIV/AIDS and serving on various boards of a community LGBT organization\, a community domestic violence agency\, a chamber of commerce and a homeowners association. \nRandy has been in a relationship with his life partner for the past 35 year; they were legally married in Iowa 5 years ago. Their family consists of two four-year-old yellow labs. In addition to yoga\, Randy enjoys reading\, running\, cycling\, mountain biking\, and hiking. He has been a regular participant in the annual El Tour de Tucson cycling event. \nGuest Faculty: \nMaria Mendola\,MA\, RN\, ERYT-500\nMaria received her Bachelor’s degree in Nursing and Masters in Community Health; taught Nursing Sciences at the College level\, as well as Anatomy & Physiology – all the while focusing on holistic aspects of health and wellbeing.  She has rooted her study of Yoga in a more inclusive format\, honoring all of the great teachings of yoga and its insights; finding commonality and a resonance of Truth within all of them. In addition\, Maria has extensively studied Trauma Release\, Feldenkrais Technique\, Kinesiology\, Homeopathy\, Nutrition & Native American Herbology.   With this background as her base\, Maria received her formal yoga certifications from Ananda Yoga\, Mount Madonna Ashtanga Yoga\, Mukunda Stile’s Structural Yoga Therapy\, and LePage’s Integrative Yoga Therapy.  She uses her training and experience in the concepts of yoga combined with the structural aspects of the body\, and it’s subtle emotional held patterning to work with clients from a functional perspective.  Maria has also studied richly in the field of Ayurveda with her main teachers being Dr. Vasant Lad\, Dr. Robert Svoboda\, Dr. Sareeta Shresta\, Dr. Carl Rogue & Dr. Paul Dugliss.  She has combined the Yoga and Ayurvedic teachings into her private Yoga & Ayurvedic Therapeutics consultation practice; a seasonal Worldwide Ayurvedic cleanse\, and a formal school\, called Functional Yoga Therapy. In addition\, Maria holds Faculty positions with Integrative Yoga Therapy\, Inner Peace Yoga Therapy\, and LifeForce Yoga Therapy.  Maria’s motto is:  “The real yoga begins when we step off the mat.”
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-practitioner-training-depression-anxiety-level-1/
LOCATION:Desert Redemptorist Renewal Center\, 7101 West Picture Rocks Road\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85743\, United States
CATEGORIES:Amy's Events,Featured,LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:Yoga for Mood Management: LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training\, Part A - Experiential
DESCRIPTION:This Experiential workshop is open to all with yoga experience and is Part A of a 3-Part certification course to become a LifeForce Yoga Practitioner – level 1. Learn an empowering\, evidence-based Yoga protocol for self-care and to help students and clients focus\, relax\, and have greater access to feeling states. You will experience all aspects of LifeForce Yoga\, including pranayama\, kriya\, asana\, nada yoga (sound)\, bhavana (visual imagery) sankalpa (intention/affirmation)\, meditation\, and non-dual self-inquiry. \nThere will also be opportunities for practicing with one and other and receiving feedback from the faculty. For those who are already LifeForce Yoga Practitioners\, this can be taken as a refresher course. Yoga and health care professionals and general practitioners will learn strategies appropriate for a clinical setting that can safely release chronically held physical tension and repressed emotion. \nStudents of this course will: \n\nDesign one-on-one Yoga sessions for dysthymia (chronic depression)\, anxiety-based depression\, PTSD\, and bipolar disorder\nLearn breathing and meditation practices for addressing dysthymia and anxiety-based depression\nLearn how to add somatic strategies to clinical practice and Yoga classes to increase clients’ self-awareness\, self-acceptance\, self-esteem\, and ability to cope\nExperience techniques you can teach your clients and students to do at home\nPractice asanas (postures)\, pranayama and kriyas (breathing and cleansing)\, mantra (chanting)\, bhavana (development of the mind)\, sankalpa (resolve and intention)\, mudra (hand gestures)\, meditation\, therapeutic long holding of postures and non-dual strategies for working with negative self-talk\nTake home tools and confidence for working with individuals suffering from depression and anxiety\n\nRequired Reading: Yoga for Depression by Amy Weintraub (Broadway Books)\nRequired Practice: LifeForce Yoga DVDs & CDs\nRecommended Reading: Yoga Skills for Therapists (W.W. Norton) \n30 Contact Hours  meet the Required 26 hours for Part A Certification.  This program is designed by Amy Weintraub and is based on the practices in Yoga for Depression and Yoga Skills for Therapists. \nFaculty\nAmy Weintraub\, MFA\, E-RYT500\nAmy is the author of Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books\, 2004) and Yoga Skills for Therapists: Effective Practices for Mood Management (W.W. Norton\, 2012)\, has been a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health for over twenty years. She offers the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training for Depression and Anxiety to health and yoga professionals and offers workshops for every day practitioners. The LifeForce Yoga protocol is being used in residential treatment centers\, hospitals and by health care providers around the world and is featured on the LifeForce Yoga CD Series and the first DVD home Yoga practice series for mood management\, the award-winning LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues\, Level 1 & Level 2. She is an invited speaker at conferences internationally and is involved in ongoing research on the effects of yoga on mood. She edits a bi-monthly newsletter that includes current research\, news and media reviews on Yoga and mental health. \nMental Health Professional on Staff:\nAllie Middleton\, JD\, LCSW\, E-RYT\, LFYP-2\nAllie has been practicing yoga and meditation for 40 years. After a diverse business career leading innovative start-ups in New York City\, she began to commit her life and work to energy healing practices.  As a wilderness trainer\, she traveled the world teaching individuals and teams undergoing change to learn and practice deeply integrative and harmonizing ways of living while pursuing their heart’s desire. Knowing that clinical expertise would help her serve others in their personal transformation\, she pursued graduate clinical education\, taught at the graduate level and became a licensed clinical social worker and master coach and trainer in Neuro Linguistic Programming. In addition to being a mental health first responder to the 9/11 disaster\, she served as the clinical director of a community mental health agency and brought yoga and expressive arts into 12 programs. She worked to develop yoga programming for staff and clients at the New York Office of Mental Health and in peer-run programs\, using LifeForce Yoga combined with embodied presence practices from the Presencing Institute. Now\, she teaches widely and supports emerging leaders in health care as well as business with mind-body integration coaching and mind-body program development. She blends LifeForce Yoga with other mind-body integration practices in public and private psychiatric rehabilitation settings and is an experienced leader\, advocate and conference presenter on the integration of mindfulness and yoga into health care reform. Allie integrates LifeForce Yoga into her leadership development coaching in business settings and in her coaching practice and trainings globally. Allie maintains a private yoga therapy practice and teaches LifeForce Yoga internationally at conferences and retreats. She and her husband live in the Hudson River Valley in New York and enjoy traveling to sacred sites\, near and far.
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/yoga-mood-management-lifeforce-yoga-practitioner-training-part-experiential/
LOCATION:Soul of Yoga\, 627 Encinitas Blvd\, Encinitas\, CA\, 92024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Amy's Events,Featured,LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:LifeForce Yoga Chakra Clearing Meditation
DESCRIPTION:This class offers techniques that combine several strategies to focus and clear the mind. There is empirical evidence that along with anxiety and depression\, this practice helps those who suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)\, characterized by intrusive and repetitive thoughts. The technique engages the mind with sound and breath and hand gestures called mudras. Experienced meditators can benefit from these techniques too.
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-chakra-clearing-meditation/
LOCATION:Soul Movement Yoga Studio\, 3612 S. Southeastern Ave\, Sioux Falls\, SD\, 57103\, United States
CATEGORIES:LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:Integrative LifeForce Yoga Class
DESCRIPTION:This class is a multi-layered practice that meets the individual’s mood\, then helps to shift the mood thus releasing the constrictions… and uncovering one’s true self – the precious being they really are. Through movement (asana)\, breathing techniques (pranayama)\, mantra (sound) and mudra (hand gestures) people get in touch with their bodies and begin to ‘feel’ again.
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/integrative-lifeforce-yoga-class/
LOCATION:Soul Movement Yoga Studio\, 3612 S. Southeastern Ave\, Sioux Falls\, SD\, 57103\, United States
CATEGORIES:LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:Balancing Mood with LifeForce Yoga\, Carolyn Bagdoyan\, RYT 200\, LFYP
DESCRIPTION:This class brings yoga postures\, breath exercises\, visual imagery\, affirmations\, mantra and meditative practices together in an integrated way to help balance mood.  The techniques help relieve stress\, drawing the mind and body into a greater sense of balance\, and a calmer\, more focused state of being.  The LifeForce Yoga protocol is also used by health and yoga professionals worldwide to help treat\, support\, and empower individuals working through symptoms of depression and anxiety. Please reserve a spot with Jan at info@bodygrace.com.
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/balancing-mood-with-lifeforce-yoga-carolyn-bagdoyan-ryt-200-lfyp/
LOCATION:Body Grace Fitness and Yoga\, 215 Mill St. NE\, Vienna\, VA\, 22180\, United States
CATEGORIES:LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:LifeForce Yoga: Live Your Bliss!
DESCRIPTION:Be More Than Your Mood with Yoga.Beneath our aches and pains and shifting moods\, we are bliss. Let the author of Yoga for Depression guide you through a menu of yoga practices to shine through the clouds of unknowing to release whatever blocks you from remembering who you truly are. Come home to the joy that is your birthright. Come home to your radiant Self. At the end of this workshop\, meet yourself shining in the mirror. You will be amazed! CEU’s available. \nAlong with accessible poses\, pranayama breathing exercises\, and Yoga Nidra\, LifeForce Yoga offers yoga practices drawn from Nondual and Tantric traditions not taught in regular Yoga classes: \n\nLove Pranayama Meditation\nLifeForce Yoga Bliss Meditation\nMudras to Awaken Joy\nMantras to Awaken Courage and Strength\nLifeForce Yoga Chakra Clearing Meditation\nSelf-Inquiry in Dyads\n\nMany of these practices are suitable in a clinical setting\, so if you are a healing professional\, in addition to taking care of yourself\, you will learn new tools to support and empower those you serve. This program is designed by Amy Weintraub and based on the practices in Yoga for Depression and Yoga Skills for Therapists. \nSuggested Reading: Yoga for Depression: A Compassionate Guide to Relieve Suffering Through Yoga (Broadway Books)\, Yoga Skills for Therapists (W.W. Norton)\, LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues – level 1 & level 2 (DVD) LifeForce Yoga® CD Series. \nThis workshops fulfills the prerequisite for the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training and CEU’s are available for mental health professionals\, nurses and yoga teachers. \nDeborah Lubetkin\nPsy.D.\, LFYP-2\, RYT-200\, LifeForce Yoga Mentoring Director \nDeborah is a Licensed Psychologist with a private practice in NJ for over 20 years. She became certified as a LifeForce Yoga practitioner\, Level 1 in 2009\, returning to complete her Level 2 certification in 2011. Deborah completed her Yoga Teacher Training program at Kripalu in February 2013. Deborah’s practice incorporates Eastern philosophy with the challenges of Western living to create a forum for her patients to develop an integrative plan to address a wide variety of mood related imbalances. In addition to integrating Psychotherapy with LifeForce Yoga in individual sessions\, Deborah runs groups and workshops in her community around the theme of “Balancing Mood with LifeForce Yoga.” She also provides seminars and workshops for corporations\, to educate employees about ways to manage stress in the workplace. “Integrating LifeForce Yoga into my psychotherapy practice has created remarkable shifts in the way that I move through a session with a patient\, in the way they move through the process of therapy\, and in the way I move through my life.”
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-live-your-bliss/
LOCATION:Kripalu Center\, Interlaken Road\, Stockbridge\, MA\, 01266\, United States
CATEGORIES:Amy's Events,Featured,LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:Yoga for Mood Management: LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training\, Part A - Experiential
DESCRIPTION:Encinitas\, CA\nDaily\, 8:30am – 5:00pm \nThis Experiential workshop is open to all with yoga experience and is Part A of a 3-Part certification course to become a LifeForce Yoga Practitioner – level 1. Learn an empowering\, evidence-based Yoga protocol for self-care and to help students and clients focus\, relax\, and have greater access to feeling states. You will experience all aspects of LifeForce Yoga\, including pranayama\, kriya\, asana\, nada yoga (sound)\, bhavana (visual imagery) sankalpa (intention/affirmation)\, meditation\, and non-dual self-inquiry. \nThere will also be opportunities for practicing with one and other and receiving feedback from the faculty. For those who are already LifeForce Yoga Practitioners\, this can be taken as a refresher course. Yoga and health care professionals and general practitioners will learn strategies appropriate for a clinical setting that can safely release chronically held physical tension and repressed emotion. \nStudents of this course will: \n\nDesign one-on-one Yoga sessions for dysthymia (chronic depression)\, anxiety-based depression\, PTSD\, and bipolar disorder\nLearn breathing and meditation practices for addressing dysthymia and anxiety-based depression\nLearn how to add somatic strategies to clinical practice and Yoga classes to increase clients’ self-awareness\, self-acceptance\, self-esteem\, and ability to cope\nExperience techniques you can teach your clients and students to do at home\nPractice asanas (postures)\, pranayama and kriyas (breathing and cleansing)\, mantra (chanting)\, bhavana (development of the mind)\, sankalpa (resolve and intention)\, mudra (hand gestures)\, meditation\, therapeutic long holding of postures and non-dual strategies for working with negative self-talk\nTake home tools and confidence for working with individuals suffering from depression and anxiety\n\nRequired Reading: Yoga for Depression by Amy Weintraub (Broadway Books)\nRequired Practice: LifeForce Yoga DVDs & CDs\nRecommended Reading: Yoga Skills for Therapists (W.W. Norton) \n23 Contact Hours\, 13 Non-Contact Hours meet the Required 26 hours for Part A Certification.  This program is designed by Amy Weintraub and based on the practices in Yoga for Depression and Yoga Skills for Therapists. \nRose Kress\nERYT-500\, LFYP-2\, LFYE\, Mentor\, LifeForce Yoga Education Director\n \nRose began practicing yoga in 1994 and teaching since 2004. In that time she has focused on the therapeutic aspects of yoga – for the body\, mind and soul. Rose teaches classes and workshops throughout the Tucson area and has been blessed to teach at The Crossings in Austin\, TX\, at Yogaville in VA\, at Kripalu in Lenox\, MA\, and Sivananda Ashram in The Bahamas with the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training Program. She has also presented at a number of Yoga Festivals in Arizona. Rose integrates LifeForce Yoga techniques into therapeutic yoga for back pain\, cancer\, pulmonary disease\, structural wellness\, and yoga therapy. She studies with Rama Jyoti Vernon and has taken the Functional Yoga Therapy Training with Maria KaliMa. Rose is the Program Manager of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute and travels with Amy to assist her in LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Trainings. She is a lead trainer in the Sol Center’s Yoga Training Program. Rose is also the author of 2 CDs\, Mantra Chanting with Roseand Pathways to Relaxation. \nAssisting Faculty:\nAllie Middleton\, JD\, LCSW\, RYT\, LFYP-2\, from Albany\, NY.\nAllie facilitates body-mind techniques and offers energy healing to help individuals and groups learn and practice deeply harmonizing ways of living and being on the planet while also adapting to new demands required for optimal wellbeing\, performance and satisfaction. She loves to help implement systems change using yoga based program development and support emerging leaders with mind-body integration training. She is a practitioner of yoga and meditation for 40+ years. \nAllie left her post as an award winning division leader at a behavioral health organization in the Hudson River Valley\, New York in 2010 where she enhanced traditional cognitive approaches to change management by connecting deeply with people and offering new models of body centered leadership practices\, such as neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)\, yoga & meditation\, Social Presencing Theatre & Theory U as well as other innovative and cutting edge research based mind-body tools and techniques. She received a grant from the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health to start a yoga program for staff and clients there. \nAllie’s organizational clients include the Institute for Extraordinary Living at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health\, the New York State Office of Mental Health\, as well as several businesses and colleges. Her private clients are from all over the globe. She serves on faculty at the Creative Education Foundation annual international conferences\, and has been offering a variety of yoga retreats for over 7 years. She teaches mind-body classes and lectures about LifeForce Yoga at Canyon Ranch Lenox and assists Amy Weintraub as faculty at Kripalu and elsewhere to share the benefits of LifeFoce Yoga.
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/yoga-for-mood-management-lifeforce-yoga-practitioner-training-part-a-experiential-6/
LOCATION:Soul of Yoga\, 627 Encinitas Blvd\, Encinitas\, CA\, 92024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Amy's Events,Featured,LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues with Miv London\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:LifeForce Yoga® is a specific type of yoga that is intentionally designed to work with difficult moods and emotions. In this workshop we will create a safe container in which we explore traditional Yoga practices such as asana\, pranayama\, chanting mantras\, visualization\, and meditation\, with the intention of clearing inner obstructions that keep us stuck in negative moods. You will experience these practices within a compassionate environment that diminishes your sense of separation\, which is the literal source of depression\, and enhances the connection you feel to that which is most authentic within you and your connection to others. This program is appropriate for all levels and abilities.
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-to-beat-the-blues-with-miv-london-ph-d/
LOCATION:Laughing River Yoga\, One Mill Street\, Suite 126\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States
CATEGORIES:LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:LifeForce Yoga Healing Retreat with Rose Kress
DESCRIPTION:Yoga has always had a profound impact on healing the body and mind. Every day\, science corroborates the healing effects of this ancient practice. In the sacred desert of NW Tucson\, you will have the opportunity to dive into the healing paradigm of yoga. You will experience techniques to jump start healing and leave with the tools for a daily practice. \nDuring this healing retreat you will learn: \n\nPractices to balance the nervous system\nBreathing techniques to energize and calm\nMovement to release constriction in the physical and energy body\nSound\, mantra\, practice to transform the breath\, energy\, mind and body\nYoga Nidra for deep relaxation\nLifeForce Yoga tools for deep healing (www.yogafordepression.com for more info on LifeForce Yoga)\nHow Purium\, a superfood rich diet\, can aide the body’s ability to heal with Jennifer Johnston\n\nYou will leave feeling refreshed and renewed.\nCEUs for Yoga Teachers
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-healing-retreat-with-rose-kress/
LOCATION:Desert Redemptorist Renewal Center\, 7101 West Picture Rocks Road\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85743\, United States
CATEGORIES:LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:Mindcamp Creativity Conference
DESCRIPTION:LifeForce Yoga morning and afternoon classes at annual creativity conference
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/mindcamp-creativity-conference/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:LFYP Events
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SUMMARY:Creative Problem Solving Institute 2015 Conference
DESCRIPTION:LifeForce Yoga morning and afternoon classes at annual creativity conference.
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/creative-problem-solving-institute-2015-conference/
LOCATION:University of Buffalo\, Buffalo\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:LFYP Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150530T140000
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SUMMARY:LifeForce Yoga® for Mood Management – The Journey Continues with Mary Somers\, RN\, RYT 200\, LFYP-2\, REIKI MASTER
DESCRIPTION:Moving forward with the teachings of Amy Weintraub\, MFA\, ERYT-500\, in this workshop\, we will continue to explore incorporating Life Force Yoga® techniques into our personal practices\, creating a life that is inspired and joyful! We will carry on with building a stronger yoga practice that includes techniques to lift the lethargic\, depressed mood and calm the anxious mind. Using Pranayama/Breath\, Mantra/Sound\, Mudras\, Meditation and Asana/Yogic postures\, we will create a yoga practice that will provide for you a state in which the body\, mind and heart come into balance\, allowing that which you seek to be achieved. This workshop is appropriate for all levels of practice.
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-for-mood-management-the-journey-continues-with-mary-somers-rn-ryt-200-lfyp-2-reiki-master/
LOCATION:The Yoga Connection\, 3929 East Pima\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85712\, United States
CATEGORIES:LFYP Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150420
DTSTAMP:20260418T012750
CREATED:20141219T211001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141219T211001Z
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SUMMARY:The 13th International Conference on Creativity and Innovation
DESCRIPTION:LifeForce Yoga morning and afternoon classes at annual creativity conference
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/13th-international-conference-creativity-innovation/
LOCATION:Hotel Villa Balbi\, SESTRI LEVANTE\, Italy
CATEGORIES:LFYP Events
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