In June of 2009 I became a program assistant, allowing me the extraordinary opportunity to experience many different programs. It is an educational experience unlike no other, one I am extremely grateful for. I work along side some of the best yoga, meditation and spiritual teachers in world. The tools I am learning benefit me in every aspect of my personal life, professional life and spiritual life. I am passionate about sharing the gifts of Kripalu with the world around me. It is my intention to guide my students to live their yoga. I want to teach them to bring simple tools into their everyday lives creating an extraordinary life.
I am grateful to say that after all of my educational experiences at Kripalu I have now become part of the staff. I am on the Kripalu Yoga Teaching Team and also on the Retreat & Renewal Workshop Team. I am blessed to be given the opportunity to teach guests from around the world.
Below I have listed the programs, events and teachers I have been so fortunate to assist.
Educational Experiences at Kripalu:
June 19-21 2009 Old Friends, Great Tales Writing Memoir Writers: Natalie Goldberg & Robert Wilder
June 25-28 2009 ~ November 5-8 2009 Energy Intensive: Meditation Yoga & Breathwork Directors Shobhan Richard Faulds & Sudhir Jonathan Foust (Former Presidents of Kripalu)
July 24-26 2009 Rumi & The Way to Ecstasy Directors: Andrew Harvey & Banafsheh
August 7-9 2009 The Wisdom of Yoga and The Art of Extraordinary Living Director: Devarshi Steven Hartman (Dean of the Kripalu School of Yoga)
September 11-13 2009 Cultivating Courage in an Uncertain World Director: Oriah Mountain Dreamer
October 9-11 2009 Vitality, Growth & Awakening Directors: Shobhan Richard Faulds (Former President and Current Legal Representation of Kripalu) and Danna Faulds (Writer)
November 10 & 17 2009 March 9 & 16 2009 Facilitator of Yoga Teachers in Training (Evaluation of Yoga Classes)
Including Teaching Morning Sadhana
November 29-December 11 2009 & January 24-February 5 2010
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Directors Devarshi Steven Hartman (Dean of the Kripalu School of Yoga & Jurian Hughes
December 11-13 2009 Joy of Yoga Directors: Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman
March 4-7 2010 Reconnective Healing Seminar Levels I and II Director: Eric Pearl
March 9 2010 Practice Teach Facilitator YTT 200 Hr Priti Robyn Ross, Sudha Carolyn Lundeen & Devarshi
March 10 2010 Taught Morning Sadhana to YTT 200 Hrs
March 11-14 2010 ~Energy Intensive: Meditation Yoga & Breathwork Directors Shobhan Richard Faulds & Sudhir Jonathan Foust (Former Presidents of Kripalu) ~~~~ Breathwork Coach
March 26-28 2010 Yoga: The Integrated Path Director: Rodney Yee
April 3rd 2010 Buddha and the Body: Meditation & Breathwork Director Jonathan Foust (Sudhir) ~~~Breathwork Coach
April 16-18 2010 The Wisdom of Yoga and the Art of Extraordinary Living Director Stephen Cope (Psychotherapist & Director of the Kripalu Institute for Extraordinary Living
April 30-May 2 2010 Fundamentals of Yoga: Bringing Peace & Power to Life Directors: Dinabandhu Garrett Sarley (CEO of Kripalu) & Ila Sarley (Current President of Kripalu)
May 9-14 2010 Yoga Therapy Intensive: Skill Building for Professionals
Directors:
Nischala Joy Devi ~Transforming Pain
Bo Forbes, PsyD~Integrative Yoga Therapeutics for Anxiety, Insomnia and PTSD
Devarshi Steven Hartman~ Dean of the Kripalu School of Yoga
Gary Kraftsow~ Effecting Change with Yoga Therapy
Judith Hanson Lasater, PsD,PT ~The Shoulder Joint: Anatomy Asana and Therapeutics
Dana Moore, MAR,MA ~Beyond Talk Therapy: Mindful Yoga for Healing Emotional Trauma
Larry Payne, PhD ~ Yoga for Midlife and Beyond
Priti Robyn Ross ~ Learning to Evaluate Musculoskeletal Imbalances
Mukunda Stiles ~ From Structural to Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy
Bessel van der Kolk,MD ~The Neurobiology of Self-Regulation
June 24-27 2010 KYTA ~Annual Yoga Teachers Conference:
Directors:
Dana Moore- The Languarge of Yoga Teaching: Fine Tuning What you Say
Vandita Kathe Marchesiello-Taking Refuge: In Depth Yoga to Nurture Mind, Body & Soul
Cyndi Lee- Teaching as a Practice
Micah Mortali - Inward Diving-High Energy Pranayama
Leigh Fountain-Integrated Positional Therapy
Kajal Mehta and Priya Pandya- Bollywood Dance
Ritu Randya- Make a Mandala
June 27-July 2 2010 The Still Small Voice Within: Meditation, Focusing and Intuition Training Director: Sudhir Jonathan Foust, MA,CSA (Former President of Kripalu & Co- Founder of The Mindfulness Institute in Washington DC)
August 20-29 2010 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training (Module 4) Living Yoga Director: Sudha Carolyn Lundeen, RN (Certified Holistic Health Nurse, Phoenix Rising Therapist, Professional-Level Kripalu Teacher
November 5-7 2010 Tara Brach Radical Acceptance: Buddhist Practices that Heal Difficult Emotions
November 27-December 10 2010 & January 22 - February 4 2011-- 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Devarshi Steven Hartman ( Dean of Professional Training at Kripalu) & Jurian Hughes
March 11-13 2011 Rodney Yee & Collen Saidman Yee: Breath, Bandhas, and Beyond
~ Shadow mentored along side Rodney & Colleen with hands on assisting, 120 of their Kripalu Guests
~Laura has been given the opportunity by Devarshi (Steven Hartman) Kripalu's Director of Professional Development to be a part of all of Kripalu's 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Trainings, to assist, teach and take part as her schedule allows.
March 31 - April 3, 2011 ~Energy Intensive: Meditation Yoga & Breathwork Directors Shobhan Richard Faulds & Sudhir Jonathan Foust (Former Presidents of Kripalu) ~~~~ Breathwork Coach
Kripalu 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training April 3rd-15th & June 5th-17th 2011 Devarshi Steven Hartman and Sudha Carolyn Lundeen
May 22-27 2011 Staff Manager & Assisting ~The Yoga Therapy Intensive:Skill Building for Professionals Where Yoga & Modern Medicine Meet
Stephen Cope, MSW Director of Kripalu Institute for Extraordinary Living and author of Yoga and the Quest for the True Self Keynote The Latest In Yoga Research: an Update from Kripalu's Institute for Extraordinary Living
Bo Forbes Director of the Center for Integrative Yoga Therapeutics in Cambridge, MA Workshop: Crafting a Therapeutic Yoga Practice
Gary Kraftsow Founder of the American Viniyoga Institute Workshop: Breaking the Chronic Illness Symptom Cycle: The Yogic Key to Sympathetic/Parasympathetic Disregulation
Sudha Carolyn Lundeen, RN Senior program presenter at Kripalu Center specializing in Yoga & Ayureda
Dana Moore Faculty member of the Trauma Center Professional Training Institute in Cambridge, MA Class: Beyond Talk Therapy: Mindful Yoga for Healing Emotional Trauma
Aadil Palkhivala Founder of Purna Yoga, a federally certified naturopath, and a certified Ayurvedic health science practitioner Workshop: Healing the Neck, Shoulders, and Upper Back in Purna Yoga
Larry Payne Author and Founding president of the International Association of Yoga Therapists Workshop: Yoga for Midlife and Beyond
Priti Robyn Ross Cofounder with Dr Mehmet Oz of the Cardiac Yoga Program at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in NY City Workshop: Learning to Evaluate Musculoskeletal Imbalances
Bessel van der Kolk, MD Clinical psychiatrist, professor of psychiatry, and medical director of the Trauma Center in Boston, MA Workshop: The Neurobiology of Self-Regulation
Amy Weintraub, MFA Founding director of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute and author of Yoga for Depression Workshop: Giving the Mind a Bone
Joan White ~ Founder of the B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga School of Central Philadelphia Workshop Iyengar Yoga and Blood Pressure.
July 1-4 2011 ~Energy Intensive: Meditation Yoga & Breathwork Directors Shobhan Richard Faulds & Sudhir Jonathan Foust (Former Presidents of Kripalu) ~~~~ Breathwork Coach
October 4-7, 2011 Kripalu's 20th Annual Yoga Teachers Conference Shaping the future, Honoring the Past
Laura Taught Awaken Life Force Yoga at the Conference
Assisted Teachers:
Vidya Carolyn Dell'uomo ~ Light Bearers in the World: Celebrating Our Lineage
Jami Macarty ~ Landscape of the Self: The Koshas
Micah Mortali~ Inward Diving: High Energy Pranayama
Danya Uriel & Rivin ~ Music as Medicine: Scared Chanting
Christa Rypins~ Pelvic Power! How the Pelvis Works in Yoga and Life: A Franklin Method of Imagery Workshop
Danny Arguetty ~ Dynamic Language: Guiding a Sacred Yoga Journey with Skill, Authenticity, and Grace
Seane Corne ~ Embodying Spiritual Activism
Shobhan Richard Faulds ~ Light Bearers Going Forth
October 2011 ~Energy Intensive: Meditation Yoga & Breathwork Directors Shobhan Richard Faulds & Sudhir Jonathan Foust (Former Presidents of Kripalu) ~~~~ Breathwork Coach
October 23, 2011 ~ 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training ~ Teaching Yoga
Upcoming:
January 2012- Warriors at Ease Training - Yoga for the Miltary
I want to honor and send my gratitude to all of the amazing teachers I have the opportunity to work with and learn from. Thank You!!!!