Amy Weintraub

LifeForce Yoga: Empower Your Clients to Manage Their Moods
July 20 - 24

Using the laboratory of their bodies and their minds to work with their moods, Yogis gave us a prescription for maintaining optimal mental health. We'll explore this nearly 5000-year-old prescription, learning aspects of Yoga often ignored in a regular Yoga class, such as body sensing, sound, breath, imagery, meditation, and affirmations that arise from the client's authentic experience of self. And we'll practice ways you can introduce Yogic techniques in the treatment room-neither mat nor touch necessary! You'll learn Yogic strategies to help clients focus, relax, and have greater access to feeling states. These practices can provide an alternative or adjunct treatment for clients who are not responding to medication or have received only so much relief from cognitive restructuring strategies.

Every day, in the process of learning Yogic techniques to help clients manage their moods and increase self-efficacy, you will be practicing tools for self-care. Discover for yourself the physiological changes occurring in the body during Yoga practice that produce the immediate "feel good" affect, and experience the shift in your own outlook as we practice simple exercises that can change your life and the lives of your clients.

This workshop is designed for all level of Yoga practitioners, including beginners. Every day will include easy and accessible movement, yogic breathing, and meditation or guided relaxation. Along with didactic components and practice, the format will include emotional process from a Yogic perspective in dyads and small groups. Yoga mats will be provided. Bring your own props.