Day 1: LifeForce Yoga: Clearing the Space Breathe your way through these challenging times. Learn 3 Yogic strategies to strengthen your emotional resilience. Based on ancient practices and current scientific findings, Amy will incorporate breath, sound, movement and visualization to help you meet and manage your mood. This session created the sacred and safe space...
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Learn LifeForce Yoga techniques to empower yourself to move through life with a greater sense of ease and well-being. Each month includes a different theme, allowing you to dive deeper into LifeForce Yoga for Self-Empowerment. Each class will begin with a yogic centering strategy, move through breathwork, yoga poses, mudras and incorporate mantra. We will...
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I just wanted to share with you today an online yoga course that I’m guest teaching on. It’s a six week course specifically designed to teach you practices to stay calm, centered and grounded, amidst the ups and downs of daily life. In A Daily Dose of Bliss, you’ll receive a new 5-10 minute practice each day...
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New! 14 IFS CE hours approved! Discover a gentle, evidence-based yoga protocol to help you self-soothe, clear your mind, and work with your anxiety from a place of compassionate Self-awareness. Amy Weintraub and Internal Family Systems psychotherapists Laura Orth and Liz Brenner, guide you in practices that access your natural compassion and wisdom. In this workshop, you...
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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...
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Just the other day, I was invited to an exciting interview event called Coloring Outside The Lines hosted by Life and Family Coach, Lianne Dixon. Starting on Tuesday, June 16, Lianne is going to be interviewing parenting, personal, and spiritual experts to create an archive of the BEST advice available for parents who are looking for strategies to...
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Lianne Dixon, a Life and Family Coach invited me to join a panel of 20+ experts who will present their thoughts on the latest heart-centered approaches that parents can easily incorporate. You can listen in on this interview series for free if you register at the link below! The summit experts will discuss how you can connect with...
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LifeForce Yoga morning and afternoon classes at annual creativity conference.
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...
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This is a certification training for yoga teachers and health professionals. Learn and practice simple Yoga tools to empower your clients and students to manage their moods. Amy will be assisted by LifeForce Yoga Practitioners, both Yoga and mental health professionals. If you have questions regarding eligibility, please contact Rose Kress, info@yogafordepression.com. CEUs for mental...
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We’ll explore the ancient wisdom of Yoga with attention to current research, learning evidence-based aspects of Yoga appropriate for a clinical setting. These include body sensing, sound, breath, imagery, meditation, and affirmations that arise from the client’s authentic experience of self. And we’ll practice ways you can introduce Yogic techniques in the treatment room—neither mat...
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LifeForce Yoga morning and afternoon classes at annual creativity conference
LifeForce Yoga interweaves the power of an ancient discipline with current scientific findings to help you release what’s no longer serving you—without a story attached! In this inspiring workshop, you will learn and practice breathing exercises, easy postures, guided meditations, and other experiential yogic tools for managing your mood. We’ll practice: Pranayama and kriya breathing...
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A WEEKEND with Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500, author of Yoga for Depression and Yoga Skills for Therapists. This course is a pre-requisite for the LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner Training. LifeForce Yoga interweaves the power of an ancient discipline with current scientific findings to help you release what’s no longer serving you—without a story attached! In this...
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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...
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To register for this event please email: kathy@drshafer.org. This will be the only time to meet and learn from Amy in Florida this year. In this introduction to LifeForce Yoga, you will experience the power of an ancient discipline informed by evidence-based practices that can help you release what’s no longer serving you —without a...
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11 Yoga Alliance CEUs LifeForce Yoga interweaves the power of an ancient discipline with current scientific findings to help you release what’s no longer serving you—without a story attached! In this inspiring workshop with Amy Weintraub, author of Yoga for Depression, you will learn and practice breathing exercises, easy postures, guided meditations, and other experiential...
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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...
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Amy Weintraub is a guest teacher for this six week course specifically designed to teach you practices to stay calm, centered and grounded, amidst the ups and downs of daily life! In A Daily Dose of Bliss, you'll receive a new 5-10 minute practice each day for six weeks. The online shala is open 24/7 and you'll have access to...
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Amy will be leading a LifeForce Yoga meditation and speaking at Sacred Space in Tucson, AZ. Vasanta Weiss and Savitur will be leading a rousing kirtan.
Encinitas, CA Daily, 8:30am - 5:00pm 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...
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The 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...
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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...
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Let Amy Weintraub, author of Yoga for Depression and Yoga Skills for Therapists, guide you through evidence-based yoga practices you might not find in regular classes and gentle self-inquiry to help release whatever blocks you from knowing your own true nature beneath your aches, pains, and shifting moods. You will experience ever-expanding moments of bliss, as you remember...
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