Yoga for Mood Management with Amy Weintraub

Part 1 ~ May 9-11th  LifeForce Yoga will help you release what’s no longer serving you—without a story attached! Amy Weintraub, author of Yoga for Depression and Yoga Skills for Therapists, will cover evidence-based aspects of yoga effective for managing anxiety and depression. These timeless yoga techniques are appropriate for home practice, yoga classes, yoga therapy and clinical mental health and medical settings Each day will include accessible postures, pranayama breathing, the therapeutic use of mantra, mudra and bhavana (imagery), as well as meditation and guided relaxation. Along with didactic components and practice, the format will include emotional process from a yoga perspective in dyads and small groups. We’ll practice: Pranayama and kriya breathing techniques that regulate the emotions,  Meditations that lift the mood,  Creating Affirmation (sankalpa),    LifeForce Yoga® Bhavana (Imagery),    LifeForce Yoga® Chakra Clearing Meditation,    LifeForce Yoga® Nidra Tones that regulate the emotions (mantras),    Yoga asanas suitable for multilevel practitioners,    Self-Inquiry through writing and Dyad Sharing.

You will leave feeling refreshed, renewed, and excited about your at-home, teaching or clinical practice with new tools to bring balance to the emotional and physical body . Yoga and health professionals will learn techniques not regularly taught in yoga classes to help their clients focus, relax, self-regulate and have greater access to their feelings.

Part 2 ~ in November  The Practices of LifeForce Yoga can provide moments of clear seeing, beyond the traumas and losses we and those we serve have faced. In this workshop, you will be guided to expand those moments through practice and conscious awareness exercises, so that you can your clients have access to a Self that is whole and healed, beneath whatever mood or story is limiting the vision. You will learn practices appropriate in clinical and yoga settings that are safe, empowering and effective in helping your clients self-regulate, after experiencing trauma. You will learn the important guidelines for working with clients with a trauma history and understand the Principles for Yoga as a treatment for PTSD. We will survey the current research that supports yoga as a treatment for trauma and discuss how yoga is being integrated into mental health care, in individual psychotherapy, in yoga therapy and in group classes for special populations, including those suffering from mood disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder. You will learn the brain science behind both the experience of trauma and its treatment. Throughout the sessions, we will weave in practices, including pranayama, kriya, mudra, mantra, bhavana, sankalpa, and simple movement and discuss the appropriate applications and contraindications.  

Please call Dawn Castillo, Program Adviser at the Soul of Yoga, for pricing and more information!            760.271.7001