The practice of yoga asana can take you into unexplored territory of sensation, embodied experience, breath, and emotions. Natasha Judson offers a conceptual map to guide your practice, based on the alignment principles of Anusara Yoga. When you put this map into conscious relationship with your experience of the postures, it serves as a support to your personal practice and gives you ways to work through any challenges that arise.

Explore how your verbal, conceptual understanding of yoga and your experiential, felt sensations support each other synergistically to produce the powerful transformation that yoga offers. The program includes asana practice in each session, along with mindfulness experiences, centering, chanting, discussion, journaling, and contemplation of relevant quotes from the yoga tradition.

Recommended reading Anusara School of Hatha Yoga Immersion Manual; Anusara School of Hatha Yoga Teacher Training Manual; Ellen Saltonstall, Anatomy and Yoga: A Guide for Teachers and Students; Richard Faulds, Kripalu Yoga: A Guide to Practice On and Off the Mat.

Anusara Yoga Map: A Guide to Embodied Experience (YMT-181)

Your Program Session Schedule (Subject to change.):

Wednesday 7:30–9:00 pm

Thursday 8:30–11:30 am and 1:45–3:45 pm

Friday 9:00–11:00 am

General Guest Information:

A stay at Kripalu immerses you in an experiential curriculum designed to bring vitality to your life from the inside out. While you are here, we invite you to enjoy daily yoga classes, our world-class natural-foods cuisine, massage and Healing Arts, hiking and walking trails, a lakefront beach area, sauna, a labyrinth, and extraordinary views— all in the natural beauty of the Berkshires of western Massachusetts.

Arrival Day 2:15 pm Check-in begins Rooms are ready by 4:00 pm. You may store your bags in the Luggage Room until your room is available.

5:30–7:00 pm Dinner

6:45–7:15 pm Guest Welcome Session

Daily Yoga:

6:30–7:45 am Kripalu Yoga classes: gentle and intermediate (optional)

12:00–1:00 pm Kripalu YogaDance® (optional)

4:15–5:45 pm Kripalu Yoga classes: beginner, gentle, intermediate, and vigorous

Mealtimes:

7:00–8:30 am Breakfast

11:30 am–1:30 pm Lunch (including your day of departure)

5:30–7:00 pm Dinner

Evenings 7:30–9:00 pm Evening events and activities or solo time—another great time to schedule a Healing Arts session. Actual times and schedules may vary; please see the Guest Boards or the schedule provided upon check-in.

Please note Book your Healing Arts appointments before your arrival to ensure availability 888.738.1822. View the Kripalu Guest Guide.

Investment for this Program:

Tuition: $226  For more information and to register, please visit the Kripalu website program page for this event.

In addition to tuition, there is either an Accomodation Rate or a Commuter rate.  The Commuter Rate for this program is $110 (Includes dinner Wednesday-lunch Friday).  For more information on accomodation options, please visit the Kripalu accomodation page website.