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Amy Weintraub
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BIOGRAPHY:
Founder of the LifeForce Yoga® Healing Institute, Amy is a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health. She is the author of Yoga for Your Mood: 52 Ways to Shift Depression & Anxiety (Sounds True, 2021), two non-fiction books: Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books, 2004), Yoga Skills for Therapists (W.W. Norton, 2012) and numerous articles and book chapters. Her spiritual novel, Temple Dancer (Tumamoc Press, 2020) won the Nautilus Silver Award and was a finalist in the Indie Fiction Awards.
Amy has been teaching Yoga since 1991 when she received her first teacher training in Kripalu Yoga. She has studied Advaita Vedanta with Nitya Chaitanya Yati at the Narayana Gurukula, iRest Yoga Nidra, and is trained in Internal Family Systems, Level 2. She collaborates with IFS-certified therapists and offers an IFS and LifeForce Yoga training annually. A sought-after consultant for research on the impact of Yoga on mood, Amy’s evidence-based LifeForce Yoga® protocols for depression and anxiety are used by clinicians and in health care settings worldwide. Her award-winning library of yoga and meditation CDs and DVDs, LifeForce Yoga® for Mood Management is also available everywhere. amyweintraub.com
List of Amy’s Sessions
Title:
Type:
[B] Breath and Energy Work
Level:
All Levels
Length:
1.0 hour(s)
Description:
Brahmana (uplifting) breathing practices will be alternated with calming practices. The intent of this session is, through the practice of pranayama and kriya, to create a strong, stable sense of presence, to elevate the mood and to clear the constrictions, not just in the pranamaya kosha. Your breath can create a window through the constrictions in all the koshas. This session is appropriate for yoga practitioners, yoga professionals and health care professionals. Contraindications will be given for various health conditions, time of day, and setting.
Notes:
Please come with an empty stomach. If you are watching on demand, please do not practice in the late afternoon or evening. Please follow the guidelines for pacing and the contraindications for some of the practices. Follow along in a space where you can sit, stand and stretch your arms wide. I look forward to seeing you on Zoom!
Title:
Yoga Meditations for Mood Management
Type:
[C] The Divine Is Within / Contemplative Spirituality
Level:
All Levels
Length:
1.5 hour(s)
Description:
When we suffer from depression, anxiety or have a history of trauma, there is often an accompanying rumination. When we meditate using a mantra or a mindfulness technique like watching the breath, our negative self-talk can overwhelm us, and we may spiral deeper into our mood imbalance. Mindfulness is a wonderful meditation technique once we have developed enough "witness consciousness" to observe our self-limiting thoughts, feelings and moods, but it may not be useful if we are new to meditation or in the throes of depression. What helps us in these constricting mind states is to "give the mind a bone." Yoga meditation practices can do this by including pranayama breathing, mudra, mantra chanting and bhavana. In this session we will create a portal into a calmer state of mind with these yoga meditation techniques, so that we can build the muscle of mindfulness.
Notes:
Please join with an empty belly.
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