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LifeForce Yoga to Manage Your Mood

Saturday, October 2nd and Sunday October 3rd.

Enroll via Yogaville here

Online via Yogaville and when you register via the link above, you help Yogaville support Integral Yoga San Francisco as an affiliate. Thank you! Please register by 5 pm on Oct. 1

Live sessions with Amy: Saturday, Oct. 2, 7:30 am – 1:00 pm PDT
(10:30 am–12:30 pm and 2–4 pm EST)

and Sunday, Oct. 3, 7:30 am – 9:30am PDT
(10:30 am–12:30 pm EST)

LifeForce Yoga® interweaves the power of an ancient discipline with current scientific findings to help you release what is no longer serving you—without a story attached! Join Amy Weintraub, author of the groundbreaking book Yoga for Depression and the new card deck of 52 practices Yoga for Your Mood, for an online workshop that will guide you through evidence-based Yoga practices for managing your mood.

You will come away feeling refreshed, renewed, and excited about incorporating new tools into your home, teaching, or clinical practice to bring balance to the emotional and physical body.

You’ll practice:

  • Pranayama and kriya (breathing techniques) that regulate the emotions
  • Meditations that lift the mood
  • Sankalpa (affirmations)
  • Bhavana (guided visualizations)
  • Mantras (tones) that manage the emotions
  • Mudras (hand gestures) that affect different areas of the chakra system and the body
  • Yoga asanas suitable for all levels

This program is accessible for all levels, including beginners. Health professionals and Yoga teachers will learn techniques not regularly taught in Yoga classes to help their clients focus, relax, and have greater access to their feelings.

Fulfills the prerequisite for the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training.

In addition, you will have access to two 1.5-hour recorded Yoga classes with Amy—one for depressed mood and one for anxious mood—as well as the Ashram’s Live Hatha Yoga classes at 5 pm ET, recorded Ashram meditations, and inspiring talks with Sri Swami Satchidananda. You will also have access to an online social community to connect and communicate with other participants about this course.

You will have access to the video recordings for 8 weeks after the program ends, until November 28.

Continuing Education (CE) Opportunities

Yoga Alliance (YA): Approximately 9 contact hours.
You can input your contact hours using your YA login information.
Integral Yoga Teachers Association (IYTA) can provide you a CE certificate with your program’s total contact hours for a $10 fee (free for IYTA members.) For more information, email ce@iyta.org.
International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT): Approved Professional Development (APD) course eligible for IAYT continuing education credits. (It is the students’ responsibility to request a certificate of completion and submit all required documents, hours, syllabus, etc. on the IAYT website.)
IAYT-APPROVAL-MARK
Fulfills the prerequisite for the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training.

To learn more about Amy’s books, her downloadable video and audio practices on Yoga and mental health, her new card deck Yoga for Your Mood: 52 Ways to Shift Depression & Anxiety, and to see her schedule, please visit www.amyweintraub.com

Testimonials
“LifeForce Yoga is a practice for everyone. If you have a troubled mind and need to relax and find calmness, I highly recommend this program.” — Elaine Cook

“Amy brings such energy and joy to her presentations. She keeps participants engaged through movement, feedback, and her genuine interest in each of us and our questions. She has a wealth of knowledge and experience and shares it all. This was a lovely way to spend the weekend!” — Nora B May

“Amy is clearly the culmination of a lifetime of work and experience. It was a gift to be in her presence as a student.”  — Sarah

 

Amy Weintraub, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT, MFA, YACEP, is the founder of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute and has been a pioneer in the field of Yoga and mental health for over twenty-five years. She is the author of Yoga for Depression, Yoga Skills for Therapists: Effective Practices for Mood Management, the award-winning novel Temple Dancer, the new card deck Yoga for Your Mood: 52 Ways to Shift Depression and Anxiety, and numerous articles and book chapters. She offers professional trainings and workshops for mental health and Yoga professionals and speaks at international Yoga and psychology conferences. Amy’s evidence based LifeForce Yoga protocol is in use in…Learn more about Amy.

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Satsang: Sustaining our Spiritual Vision

Enroll/Online

By donation $0, $5, $10, $15  sliding scale, pay what you can | Please register in advance, a Zoom link and passcode will be provided via confirmation email.
(This workshop was previously offered with an in-person option. This event is now online only).

One of the primary challenges of the spiritual path is sustaining the intention to awaken, even as we encounter considerable obstacles. In this Satsang, we’ll discuss the many roadblocks we encounter on the spiritual path and the benefits of establishing strong habits, spiritual community and the use of affirmations.

Satsang is a special time for us to come together as a community. In Sanskrit, Sat means truth and Sangha means community. Satsang offers an opportunity to come together to share spiritual teachings. The philosophy of Integral Yoga is explored, often, through an informal discussion. Although spiritual paths may diverge, the act of sharing spiritual teachings with others is inspiring and creates a solid foundation for continued practice.
People of all faiths are welcome.

Swami Ramananda is the Executive Director of the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco and a greatly respected senior teacher in the Integral Yoga tradition, who has been practicing Yoga for over 45 years. Ramananda offers practical methods of integrating the timeless teachings and practices of Yoga into daily life, and transforming the painful aspects of human experience into steps toward realizing one’s full potential.
He leads beginner, intermediate and advanced level Yoga teacher training programs in San Francisco, and offers a variety of programs in many locations in the U.S., Europe and South America. Ramananda co-developed the Stress Management Teacher Training program with Swami Vidyananda, has trained many teachers to bring Yoga into corporate, hospital and medical settings, and has taught mind/body wellness programs in many locations. He is a certified Yoga therapist and founding board member of the Yoga Alliance, a national registry that supports and promotes yoga teachers as professionals. He is a co-founder of The Spiritual Action Initiative (SAI) which brings together individuals committed to working for social justice for all beings and for the care and healing of our natural world. His warmth, wisdom and sense of humor have endeared him to many.

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Forgiveness: Freeing the Heart from the Past, 2-part workshop

Wednesday, September 8 ⋅ 5:30 – 7:00pm PDT and
Wednesday, September 22 ⋅ 5:30 – 7:00pm PDT

Enroll

Please register in advance, a Zoom link and passcode will be provided via confirmation email.

$35 Early bird $35  ends August 28th |

$40 Regular

(previously offered with an in-person option. This event is now online only).

Deeply painful experiences can create resentment and anger that are held like protective armor around the heart, constricting our capacity to love and experience joy in daily life.

In part 1 of this workshop, we’ll explore the obstacles to forgiveness, the way forgiveness can act as a healing process that frees the heart from guilt, self-judgment, and the judgment of others. Forgiveness can transform difficult relationships into steps for spiritual growth, allowing us to be true to ourselves and have compassion for others.

On Sept 22, in part 2 of this workshop, we’ll work with unresolved anger and deeply held resentments. We will see how they act as a prison for the heart, and how we can work skillfully to resolve them. We will see how this healing process can be initiated and that over time it frees the heart and mind to be fully present to life.

Swami Ramananda is the Executive Director of the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco and a greatly respected senior teacher in the Integral Yoga tradition, who has been practicing Yoga for over 45 years. Ramananda offers practical methods of integrating the timeless teachings and practices of Yoga into daily life, and transforming the painful aspects of human experience into steps toward realizing one’s full potential.
He leads beginner, intermediate and advanced level Yoga teacher training programs in San Francisco, and offers a variety of programs in many locations in the U.S., Europe and South America. Ramananda co-developed the Stress Management Teacher Training program with Swami Vidyananda, has trained many teachers to bring Yoga into corporate, hospital and medical settings, and has taught mind/body wellness programs in many locations. He is a certified Yoga therapist and founding board member of the Yoga Alliance, a national registry that supports and promotes yoga teachers as professionals. He is a co-founder of The Spiritual Action Initiative (SAI) which brings together individuals committed to working for social justice for all beings and for the care and healing of our natural world. His warmth, wisdom and sense of humor have endeared him to many.

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Swami Sivananda Jayanthi Puja

Enroll/Online

Enroll/In-person

By donation $0, $5, $10, $15 Sliding scale, pay what you can.
ONLINE & In-person (held in the Living Room, max. capacity 10)

This is an in-person offering with an online option. Pre-registration for limited in-person attendance required.

These devotional services are a time to come together for blessings from our spiritual teacher Sri Swami Sivananda, to offer gratitude and ask for guidance. A puja (spiritual service) with participatory chanting will be performed. This service will include our noon meditation.

“Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.”

Swami Sivananda Saraswati (1887 – 1963) was a Hindu spiritual teacher and a proponent of Yoga and Vedanta. Sivananda was born in Pattamadai, Tamil Nadu. He studied medicine and served in British Malaya as a physician for several years before taking up monasticism.

He was the founder of the Divine Life Society (1936), Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy (1948) and author of over 200 books on yoga, Vedanta, and a variety of subjects. He established Sivananda Ashram, on the bank of the Ganges at Sivanandanagar, near Rishikesh. He was Swami Satchidananda’s beloved teacher’s Gurudev and you will find his photograph on many altars in Integral Yoga centers around the world.

Swami Ramananda is the Executive Director of the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco and a greatly respected senior teacher in the Integral Yoga tradition, who has been practicing Yoga for over 45 years. Ramananda offers practical methods of integrating the timeless teachings and practices of Yoga into daily life, and transforming the painful aspects of human experience into steps toward realizing one’s full potential.
He leads beginner, intermediate and advanced level Yoga teacher training programs in San Francisco, and offers a variety of programs in many locations in the U.S., Europe and South America. Ramananda co-developed the Stress Management Teacher Training program with Swami Vidyananda, has trained many teachers to bring Yoga into corporate, hospital and medical settings, and has taught mind/body wellness programs in many locations. He is a certified Yoga therapist and founding board member of the Yoga Alliance, a national registry that supports and promotes yoga teachers as professionals. He is a co-founder of The Spiritual Action Initiative (SAI) which brings together individuals committed to working for social justice for all beings and for the care and healing of our natural world. His warmth, wisdom and sense of humor have endeared him to many.

Diana Meltsner, C-IAYT and e-RYT 500, has been teaching yoga in the Bay Area since 2001. Diana has been a lead teacher trainer for 200-hour Integral Yoga Teacher Trainings since 2012. The classes she teaches include chair/gentle, various levels of Hatha yoga, prenatal, guided mindfulness meditations, and various yoga, pranayama and meditation workshops. She’s been working as a health educator and yoga instructor for Kaiser Permanente since 2014.
She is C-IAYT certified yoga therapist and San Francisco center manager for the Integral Yoga Therapy 800-hour certification program. Diana offers individual therapeutic sessions with focus on physical and mental wellness. Her offerings help people to find a deeper sense of well-being and ability to move through life with increased ease, intuition, and stress resilience.
www.dianameltsner.com

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