
Don’t stay stuck in a bad mood or thinking that limits you. Not only will these practices shift your mood, but they may change your life, as they did for Amy and the thousands of students she has trained. Learn accessible yoga practices that support you and those you serve that help to achieve and sustain emotional wellbeing.
In the workshops, we’ll meet the mood and shift it into balance with yoga breathing, mudras, visual imagery, yoga meditations, mantras and accessible movements.
In her Satsang talk, she will offer offer the scientific evidence that supports yoga as an adjunct treatment for mental health and offer the safe application of the practices for mental health.
Amy experienced firsthand the relief that yoga provides and has spent her career helping others who suffer from mood disorders like depression and anxiety. Now, she offers accessible LifeForce Yoga practices to everyone, no yoga experience required.
You will come away feeling refreshed, renewed, and excited about incorporating new tools into your home, teaching, or clinical practice to bring balance to the emotional and physical body.
This program is accessible for all levels, including beginners. Health professionals and Yoga teachers will learn techniques not regularly taught in Yoga classes to help their clients focus, relax, and have greater access to their feelings.
Offered as 1 satsang and 2 workshops (subject to change).
The presentations associated with this Yoga Vacation Program begin with an 8pm satsang on the first day of the program and conclude with a 90-minute noon workshop on the last day of the program. Click here to read more about the Yoga Vacation Program details and view the ashram schedule for yoga classes and meals during your stay. We suggest you arrive at least one day prior to the start of your program for the optimal experience.
Amy Weintraub will also be offering an additional satsang on March 10th: Temple Dancer: A Historical Review of Devadasis. This presentation is a visual homage to the ancient devadasi tradition of temple service and devotion in South India and also a story about their magnificence and power before their inevitable degradation.

Although best known as a yoga therapist for books and teachings on Yoga and mental
health, including Yoga for Depression (Harmony Books), Yoga Skills for Therapists
(W.W. Norton), and Yoga for Your Mood Deck (Sounds True/MacMillan), Amy’s
passion, from an early age has been writing fiction like her novel Temple Dancer
(Tumamoc Press). This means that given the rejections a creative writer faces, and her
history of childhood trauma, she suffered from depression; that is until she began a daily
yoga practice in the late 80’s.
She founded the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute in 2004, because she is passionate about sharing the practices that saved her life with health care and yoga professionals, thousands of whom she’s trained to integrate yoga-based practices into their healing work. Currently, she teaches Internal Family Systems (IFS) combined with LifeForce Yoga and offers mental health modules in yoga therapy trainings. She thrives in Tucson,
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