Laura's Kripalu Experiences
Kripalu has become a second home to me. In June of 08 I spent the month at Kripalu and studied 200 hours under the guidance of Brahmini Liebman and Jashoda Edmunds. Since then I have become a program assistant, allowing me the opportunity to experience many different programs. It is an educational experience unlike no other, one I am extremely grateful for. I am able to work along side some of the best yoga, meditation and spiritual teachers in country. 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 there. 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 descriptions the programs, events and teachers I have been so fortunate to have had the privilege to be part ofas a program assistant.
Educational Experiences
Kripalu Center of Health & Wellness ~ Program Assistant
2009-Present Program Assistant for All of the Programs Listed Below
June 19-21 Old Friends, Great Tales Writing Memoir Writers: Natalie Goldberg & Robert Wilder
June 25-28 ~ November 5-8 Energy Intensive: Meditation Yoga & Breathwork Directors Shobhan Richard Faulds & Sudhir Jonathan Foust (Former Presidents of Kripalu)
July 24-26 Rumi & The Way to Ecstasy Directors: Andrew Harvey & Banafsheh
August 7-9 The Wisdom of Yoga and The Art of Extraordinary Living Director: Devarshi Steven Hartman (Dean of the Kripalu School of Yoga)
September 11-13 Cultivating Courage in an Uncertain World Director: Oriah Mountain Dreamer
October 9-11 Vitality, Growth & Awakening Directors: Shobhan Richard Faulds (Former President and Current Legal Representation of Kripalu) and Danna Faulds (Writer)
November 10 & 17 March 9 & 16 Facilitator of Yoga Teachers in Training (Evaluation of Yoga Classes) Including Teaching Morning Sadhana
November 29-December 11 & January 24-February 5
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Directors Devarshi Steven Hartman (Dean of the Kripalu School of Yoga & Jurian Hughes
December 11-13 Joy of Yoga Directors: Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman
March 4-7 Reconnective Healing Seminar Levels I and II Director: Eric Pearl
March 9 Practice Teach Facilitator YTT 200 Hr Priti Robyn Ross, Sudha Carolyn Lunden & Devarshi
March 10 Taught Morning Sadhana to YTT 200 Hrs
March 11-14 ~Energy Intensive: Meditation Yoga & Breathwork Directors Shobhan Richard Faulds & Sudhir Jonathan Foust (Former Presidents of Kripalu) ~~~~ Breathwork Coach
March 26-28 Yoga: The Integrated Path Director: Rodney Yee
April 3rd Budda and the Body: Meditation & Breathwork Director Jonathan Foust (Sudhir) ~~~Breathwork Coach
April 16-18 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 Fundamentals of Yoga: Bringing Peace & Power to Life Directors: Dinabandhu Garrett Sarley (CEO of Kripalu) & Ila Sarley (Current President of Kripalu)
May 9-14 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 KYTA ~Annual Yoga Teachers Conference
June 27-July 2 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 20-29 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training (Module 4) Living Yoga Director: Sudha Carolyn Lundeen, RN (Certified Holistic – Health Nurse, Phoenix Rising Therapist, Professional-Level Kripalu Teacher