Amy Weintraub with LifeForce Yoga at Jai Shanti Yoga, Atlanta GA, 30307 Jai Shanti Yoga, Atlanta GA, 30307

Jai Shanti Yoga, Atlanta GA, 30307

 

LifeForce Yoga to Manage Your Mood

 

with Amy Weintraub,

 

Nov 21-23, 2008

 

 

Entire Weekend - $225 (or $200 if paid by October 20, 2008)
Workshop space is limited.  Register now online.
  jai shanti yoga, atlanta ga 30307  

Friday 7:30p - 9:30p -  Life Force Yoga:  Assessing the Mood, 
----  $45

 


Saturday 1p-6p- Life Force Yoga:  Meeting the Tamasic (Depressed) Mood, 
--- $100

 

Sunday 1p-6p - Life Force Yoga:  Meeting the Rajasic (Anxious) Mood, 
--- $100

 

     

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Location:  Jai Shanti Yoga

 

 

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For thousands of years, yogis have understood what current research in neurobiology and clinical observations are demonstrating-that emotion particularly traumatizing emotion, is stored in the physical body.  LifeForce Yoga interweaves the power of an ancient discipline with current scientific findings.  You'll learn strategies that can help alleviate both depression and anxiety and methods to safely release chronically held tension and repressed emotion in the physical and emotional body.

 

 

 

You'll leave feeling refreshed, renewed, and excited about your home practice with new tools to work with your mood. Psychotherapists and yoga teachers will learn techniques they can use to help their clients focus, relax, and have greater access to their feelings.

 

 

Suggested Resources: 

 

Yoga for Depression: A Compassionate Guide to Relieve Suffering Through Yoga (Broadway Books),

 

LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues ~ Level 1 (DVD),

Breathe to Beat the Blues (CD). 

 

These resources are available at Jai Shanti Yoga now and during the workshop.

 

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Description of each workshop segment:


Friday Evening: LifeForce Yoga® – Assessing the Mood
Friday evening session will introduce fundamental relationships between mood, your brain, and the breath. You'll learn assessment tools for yourself and others and simple yogic strategies that combine the breath with sound and visualization to meet and manage your mood. The emphasis will be on pranayama breathing and Nada (sound). Please do not eat two hours prior to the workshop.

7:30p - 9:30p $45

 

Saturday: LifeForce Yoga® – Meeting the Tamasic (Depressed) Mood
In this workshop, we will explore ways in which we can work with lethargy and depression. We will explore a yogic method of deep inquiry to help you strip away whatever is blocking the free flow of your energy and your gifts to the world. You'll uncover your vision (bhavana) and the sankalpa (intention) to live it. We'll begin with restorative practices, simple breathing and visualization. Then we'll build to a stronger, more dynamic practice, energizing the body mind and spirit. We'll end with a restorative practice of Yoga Nidra. You will leave this workshop feeling refreshed, renewed, and excited about returning to your at-home or teaching practice with new tools to bring balance to the emotional and physical body.
Please do not eat two hours prior to the workshop.    Poses will be accessible for all levels, including beginners.

1p - 6p $100

 

Sunday: LifeForce Yoga®: Meeting the Rajasic (Anxious) Mood
80% of depression is accompanied by anxiety. In this workshop, we will meet anxiety based depression and other anxiety disorders with a more vigorous practice of asana, pranayama, kriya, sound, and visualization, burning away the anxious mood. We'll then slow down with calming (langhana) practices and Yoga Nidra.
We'll practice the LifeForce Yoga® Chakra Clearing Meditation, a meditation technique that incorporates mantra, mudra and breath to clear the central energy channel of the body. We'll follow with a gentle asana practice that incorporates kriya breathing, mantra, bhavana (visualization), and yoga nidra.     Some Yoga experience required, although modifications will be suggested for beginners.

1p - 6p $100 



 


 


About Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500, author of Yoga for Depression and founder and director of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute, is a senior Kripalu teacher and Mentor, and serves as the LifeForce Facilitator for the Psychotherapy Networker Symposia.  S he leads workshops and professional trainings in LifeForce Yoga internationally, including Kripalu Center, Omega, Mt Madonna, the Crossings, Boston University Graduate School of Psychology, and the University of Georgia Medical School. Amy works directly with people who are suffering, in "LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues" workshops throughout North America and with private yoga therapy clients.  She writes frequently on the subject of yoga and mental health for national magazines, and is featured on the first home video practice to address mood, LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues-Level I (DVD), and the CD Breathe to Beat the Blues. www.yogafordepression.com.


TESTIMONIALS:

"LIFEFORCE YOGA TO BEAT THE BLUES, LEVEL I, is a rare gem.  I love it!  Clear and bright, Amy's obvious love of Yoga shines through in every moment.  This is a DVD that I will enjoy, and continue to learn from, for years to come."  -– Richard Miller, PhD author, Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga

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

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