• Learn to accept emotions as they arise and process them at their roots
  
• Decode the messages of your feelings to hone intuition and move with your soul’s calling Integrate the instinct/emotion/reason aspects of the mind with knowing/feeling/thinking aspects of the body
• See the emotions in a broader context than outbursts or “reactions” - they have a purpose!
• Discover how you can work with them to make powerful changes in your inner and outer worlds!
  
  

- The wisdom of the body, yoga poses, and relaxation
- Understanding of the koshas (whole person psychology)
- Exploring samskara (emotional patterns and wounds)
- The perspective of karma
- Neurobiology (the workings of the brain and recent research on emotions)
- Creative practices
- Small group processing
- Sound therapy and mantra
- Energy anatomy and the chakra system
- Yoga traditions and philosophy

AGENDA

Friday

6-9pm: Issues in Your Tissues

• Overview of mind-body psychology
• Yoga poses, breathing, and relaxation to experience the connection and begin the healing proce

Saturday

9-11am: Relationship Therapy for the Mind & Body

• Stories of the mind creating sickness and healing
• Decoding the process of change
• Science of mind-body healing
• Personal reflection exercises (relaxation, creativity & other awareness practices)

11:15am-1pm: Science of Nutrition for the Whole Person

• Understand the ancient view of all of our “bodies” (there are 5)
• The wheels of karma turning in the body
• Scars in the brain (Yoga concept of Samskara relates to new neuroplasticity research)
• Bija mantras to water the seeds of energetic health
• Entire session woven with relaxation & healing/mindfulness visualizations
• Asana practice for chakras & mind-body

2-3:30pm: Thinking/Feeling/Knowing

• Interpreting the different areas of the body-mind complex
• Relate to a personal stress
• Practices to understand and remove the stress
• Relate to previous philosophies: more relationships!
• Neuroscience & why we do what we do
• Asanas to experience and integrate

3:45-5pm: What your Right Brain Wants you to Understand

• Entwining expression, science, and personal psychology
• Create direct, measurable actions to cultivate a healthy inner environment
• Full yoga practice to close the day and set tone for restful sleep

Sunday

9-10:30am: Soothing and Realizing

• Understand how to connect the dots of what you realized
• Integrative asana practice
• Guided visualization for mind-body awareness and comfort
• Personal contemplation

10:45-12pm: Moving Forward

• Deconstructing internal hierarchies
• Discover appropriate action
• Psychology, neuroscience, and what your dog knows that you forgot
• Closing circle