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SUMMARY:Moving Beyond Anxiety and Depression with LifeForce Yoga Led by Rose Kress & Alyce Wellons
DESCRIPTION:Learn empowering\, accessible\, and evidence-based yoga practices for optimum mental health. This comprehensive LifeForce Yoga courses covers the appropriate use of yoga for all mood issues\, from daily energy swings\, to disorders like anxiety\, depression\, and PTSD. \nCreated by Amy Weintraub\, the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner training that this course is based on is now entering its 18th year\, and continues to grow. This course is open to yoga teachers\, mental-health professionals\, and everyone seeking to learn additional mood-management tools to use with clients\, family\, and in their own life. \nParticipants learn yogic-based assessment of the mind and application of ancient yogic practices adapted for individuals struggling with mood disorders. You will also experience all aspects of LifeForce Yoga\, including breathwork (pranayama and kriya)\, movement (asana)\, sound (nada yoga and mantra)\, visualization (bhavana)\, intention (sankalpa)\, hand gestures (mudra)\, meditation\, meditative relaxation\, and yogic self-inquiry. \nThis LifeForce Yoga course teaches you: \n\nHow to create a sacred container for your personal and professional work\nTools to increase presence and the ability to hold the space for transformational processes\nHow to meet the current mood of a client and help transform the mood/energy to balance\nYoga tools for mental health that are accessible for all ability levels\nBreathing and meditation practices for empowering optimum mental health\nHow to design one-on-one LifeForce Yoga sessions appropriate for stress\, anxiety\, depression\, PTSD\, and all mood states\nHow to add somatic strategies to clinical practice to increase clients’ self-awareness\, self-acceptance\, self-esteem\, and health\nSelf-care strategies for maintaining your energy at balanced levels throughout your work day\n\nUpon completion of this course you will: \n\nBe prepared to work with clients experiencing anxiety\, PTSD\, OCD\, and depression.\nKnow how to design stress-sensitive\, anxiety-sensitive\, depression-sensitive\, and trauma-sensitive classes\, groups\, and workshops.\nHave a multitude of portable\, anytime practices you can use to manage your own mood.\n\nPreparing for the Course: Please read Awakening Your Inner Radiance with LifeForce Yoga: Strategies for Coping with Stress\, Depression\, Anxiety\, & Trauma by Rose Kress.
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/moving-beyond-rose-alyce/
LOCATION:Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat\, Paradise Island\, Nassau\, Bahamas
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SUMMARY:Moving Beyond Anxiety and Depression with LifeForce Yoga Rose Kress and Alyce Wellons
DESCRIPTION:Learn empowering\, accessible\, and evidence-based yoga practices for optimum mental health. This comprehensive LifeForce Yoga courses covers the appropriate use of yoga for all mood issues\, from daily energy swings\, to disorders like anxiety\, depression\, and PTSD. \nCreated by Amy Weintraub\, the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner training that this course is based on is now entering its 15th year\, and continues to grow. This course is open to yoga teachers\, mental-health professionals\, and everyone seeking to learn additional mood-management tools to use with clients\, family\, and in their own life. \nParticipants learn yogic-based assessment of the mind and application of ancient yogic practices adapted for individuals struggling with mood disorders. You will also experience all aspects of LifeForce Yoga\, including breathwork (pranayama and kriya)\, movement (asana)\, sound (nada yoga and mantra)\, visualization (bhavana)\, intention (sankalpa)\, hand gestures (mudra)\, meditation\, meditative relaxation\, and yogic self-inquiry. \nThis LifeForce Yoga course teaches you: \n\nHow to create a sacred container for your personal and professional work\nTools to increase presence and the ability to hold the space for transformational processes\nHow to meet the current mood of a client and help transform the mood/energy to balance\nYoga tools for mental health that are accessible for all ability levels\nBreathing and meditation practices for empowering optimum mental health\nHow to design one-on-one LifeForce Yoga sessions appropriate for stress\, anxiety\, depression\, PTSD\, and all mood states\nHow to add somatic strategies to clinical practice to increase clients’ self-awareness\, self-acceptance\, self-esteem\, and health\nSelf-care strategies for maintaining your energy at balanced levels throughout your work day\n\nUpon completion of this course you will: \n\nBe prepared to work with clients experiencing anxiety\, PTSD\, OCD\, and depression.\nKnow how to design stress-sensitive\, anxiety-sensitive\, depression-sensitive\, and trauma-sensitive classes\, groups\, and workshops.\nHave a multitude of portable\, anytime practices you can use to manage your own mood.
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/moving-beyond-anxiety-and-depression-with-lifeforce-yoga-rose-kress-and-alyce-wellons/
LOCATION:Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat\, Paradise Island\, Nassau\, Bahamas
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SUMMARY:Heartbreak as a Path to Wholeness: a LifeForce Yoga Workshop with Amy Weintraub
DESCRIPTION:Online Registration \nWith dedicated practice\, we grow our resilience from the most difficult moments in our lives. We’ll experience ways we can nourish our spiritual practice so that it opens the channel to the heart\, bringing peace and healing in its wake. This Satsang Talk and Workshops with the author of Yoga for Depression and Yoga Skills for Therapists\, Amy Weintraub\, MFA\, e-RYT 500\, C-IAYT\, YACEP is for everyone\, including students\, yoga teachers and health professionals who want to experience techniques to mend the broken heart. The workshops fulfill the prerequisite for the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training. \nLifeForce Yoga Practices Amy will Lead:\nMudras\nMantras\nPranayama Breathing\nGuided Imagery\nMeditations for the Ruminating Mind \nJoin Rose Kress in the Bahamas May 20-24\, 2019 for LifeForce Yoga Practioner Module A Training to Manage Your Mood. \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.
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-manage-mood-4-2-2/
LOCATION:Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat\, Paradise Island\, Nassau\, Bahamas
CATEGORIES:Amy's Events,Featured,Workshops
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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: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: 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) \nAssistant Faculty:\nRose Kress\, ERYT-500\, LFYP-2\, LFY Educator\, Mentor \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. \nKathleen Williams\, PhD\, KYT\, LFYP \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. \nSivananda Ashram Schedule: 36 Program Hours Required for Part A Certification \n\nMar 11 – 14: 8 – 10 am (Inauguration Puja at 8 am on the 6th); 12:00 – 3:00 pm\nMar 15: 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-for-mood-management-lifeforce-yoga-practitioner-training-part-a-experiential-5/
LOCATION:Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat\, Paradise Island\, Nassau\, Bahamas
CATEGORIES:Amy's Events,Featured
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SUMMARY:Easter Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to experience radiant health and vitality as we explore healing modalities from various traditions and their connection to spirituality. Amy will speak and lead a workshop on LifeForce Yoga for depression.
URL:https://yogafordepression.com/event/easter-symposium/
LOCATION:Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat\, Paradise Island\, Nassau\, Bahamas
CATEGORIES:Amy's Events
GEO:25.0826502;-77.3180836
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150316
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SUMMARY:Yoga for Mood Management: LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training\, Part A - Experiential
DESCRIPTION:Location: Sivananda Ashram\, Paradise Island\, Bahamas\nTime: 5 Days\, 36 hours\nDate: March 11 – 15\, 2015 (5 full days; 6 nights required as we start on the morning of the 11th and end on the evening of the 15th)\nCost: $680 (does not include lodging)\nCredits: 26 CEs for NASW\, NAADAC\, Nurses; 36 CEUs for Yoga Alliance\n\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/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) \nAmy Weintraub will be assisted by Rose Kress\, ERYT-500\, a LifeForce Yoga Educator/Mentor and Functional Yoga Therapist; and Kathy Shafer\, Ph.D.\, LCSW\, ERYT-500\, LFYP-2\, a psychotherapist specializing in addictions and LifeForce Yoga Mentor.. \nSivananda Ashram Schedule: 36 Program Hours Required for Part A Certification \n\nMar 11 – 14: 8 – 10 am (Inauguration Puja at 8 am on the 6th); 12:00 – 3:00 pm\nMar 15: 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-for-mood-management-lifeforce-yoga-practitioner-training-part-a-experiential/
LOCATION:Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat\, Paradise Island\, Nassau\, Bahamas
CATEGORIES:Amy's Events,Featured
GEO:25.0826502;-77.3180836
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