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Yoga Journal Conference with Gary Kraftsow
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800.561.9398
Meditation for Modern Life--The Phenomenon of Attention
Gary Kraftsow - Course ID: FEKRAF
Friday, July 13 — 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Friday Evening Classes
Contemplative, Mixed Levels
Bring the power of meditation into your life by learning the steps to create a personal meditation ritual for insight into the possibility of peace. We'll focus on reducing mental agitation, shifting attention away from distractions, developing the capacity for attention, and breaking identification with past conditioning. Using ancient insights for modern healing, we'll learn how to abandon superficial distractions and become more deeply who we are.
Discussion and meditation.
Evidence-Based Viniyoga Therapy for Stress Management
Gary Kraftsow - Course ID: M2KRAF
Saturday, July 14 — 10:30am - 12:30pm
Main Conference - Session 2
Therapeutic, Mixed Levels
Stress and disturbing emotions play a primary role in contributing to disease. Yoga has tremendous potential for assisting the general population with reducing stress and the effects of stress-related diseases. Come learn the techniques that Gary used in a 12-week multiregion study on stress management for Aetna Insurance Company. The intervention introduced tools for managing stress including asana, breathing techniques, relaxation, mental techniques, and education. The data analysis showed statistically significant results in reducing stress. Through lecture and practice, Gary will cover methods used in the study to relieve musculoskeletal tension and headaches, improve sleep, increase feelings of well-being, and improve coping strategies for dealing with stressful events and the subsequent negative symptoms.
Lecture and practice
Panel Discussion: Empower Your Practice and Your Life with Tantra Yoga
Sally Kempton & Gary Kraftsow & Rod Stryker & Sianna Sherman
Saturday, July 14 — 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Special Events
Tantra is a multi-layered approach to practice aimed at harnessing the energy at the heart of life. Tantric practices help us tune into and channel the energy of Source, so that it empowers our practice, illuminates the mind, and gives a blissful sweetness to daily life. In this panel, four expert teachers, Sally Kempton, Gary Kraftsow, Sianna Sherman, and Rod Stryker, join to discuss some of the many faces of tantric philosophy and practice.
Open to all.
Common Aches and Pains: The Lower Back, Sacrum, and Hips
Gary Kraftsow - Course ID: M5KRAF
Sunday, July 15 — 10:30am - 12:30pm
Main Conference - Session 5
Therapeutic, Mixed Levels
Experience the successful National Institutes of Health--recognized Viniyoga protocol for lower back pain as we investigate the biomechanics of the lower back, sacrum, and hips and learn about the types of problems that can affect these areas.
Lecture, demonstration, and asana.
Foundational Practices of Tantric Yoga: The Secrets of Breathcentric Asana and Pranayama
Gary Kraftsow - Course ID: M6KRAF
Sunday, July 15 — 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Main Conference - Session 6
Mixed Levels
Experience the powerful inner tools of psychophysical transformation esteemed by the Tantric yogis of India. To support the inner journey of yoga, the ancients evolved a little-known system of breath adaptation in asana, not in the service of structural transformation, but in the service of pranayama. We'll systematically examine this hidden science and, with that as a foundation, explore the theory and practice of pranayama. These integrated practices were designed to cultivate and strengthen our vital energy (prana shakti) so that we can direct that energy inward to face the deeper work of mastering our minds.
Lecture, discussion, asana, and pranayama.
Anxiety and Depression
Gary Kraftsow - Course ID: AMKRAF
Monday, July 16 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Monday All-Day Intensives
Therapeutic, Mixed Levels
Explore the yoga-therapy perspective and methods for working with anxiety and depression. We'll focus on psychological aspects of the human system, explore models of the integrated personality that emerge from Vedic teachings, and discover the science of meditation that the ancients developed for reducing suffering and cultivating our higher human potential. Recognizing the direct influence of thought and emotion on biochemistry and knowing that positive states have a deeply restorative impact on the entire system, we are able to develop certain practices to transform negative qualities of mind, promote general well-being, and manage the symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Lecture, discussion, and asana.
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800.561.9398
Meditation for Modern Life--The Phenomenon of Attention
Gary Kraftsow - Course ID: FEKRAF
Friday, July 13 — 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Friday Evening Classes
Contemplative, Mixed Levels
Bring the power of meditation into your life by learning the steps to create a personal meditation ritual for insight into the possibility of peace. We'll focus on reducing mental agitation, shifting attention away from distractions, developing the capacity for attention, and breaking identification with past conditioning. Using ancient insights for modern healing, we'll learn how to abandon superficial distractions and become more deeply who we are.
Discussion and meditation.
Evidence-Based Viniyoga Therapy for Stress Management
Gary Kraftsow - Course ID: M2KRAF
Saturday, July 14 — 10:30am - 12:30pm
Main Conference - Session 2
Therapeutic, Mixed Levels
Stress and disturbing emotions play a primary role in contributing to disease. Yoga has tremendous potential for assisting the general population with reducing stress and the effects of stress-related diseases. Come learn the techniques that Gary used in a 12-week multiregion study on stress management for Aetna Insurance Company. The intervention introduced tools for managing stress including asana, breathing techniques, relaxation, mental techniques, and education. The data analysis showed statistically significant results in reducing stress. Through lecture and practice, Gary will cover methods used in the study to relieve musculoskeletal tension and headaches, improve sleep, increase feelings of well-being, and improve coping strategies for dealing with stressful events and the subsequent negative symptoms.
Lecture and practice
Panel Discussion: Empower Your Practice and Your Life with Tantra Yoga
Sally Kempton & Gary Kraftsow & Rod Stryker & Sianna Sherman
Saturday, July 14 — 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Special Events
Tantra is a multi-layered approach to practice aimed at harnessing the energy at the heart of life. Tantric practices help us tune into and channel the energy of Source, so that it empowers our practice, illuminates the mind, and gives a blissful sweetness to daily life. In this panel, four expert teachers, Sally Kempton, Gary Kraftsow, Sianna Sherman, and Rod Stryker, join to discuss some of the many faces of tantric philosophy and practice.
Open to all.
Common Aches and Pains: The Lower Back, Sacrum, and Hips
Gary Kraftsow - Course ID: M5KRAF
Sunday, July 15 — 10:30am - 12:30pm
Main Conference - Session 5
Therapeutic, Mixed Levels
Experience the successful National Institutes of Health--recognized Viniyoga protocol for lower back pain as we investigate the biomechanics of the lower back, sacrum, and hips and learn about the types of problems that can affect these areas.
Lecture, demonstration, and asana.
Foundational Practices of Tantric Yoga: The Secrets of Breathcentric Asana and Pranayama
Gary Kraftsow - Course ID: M6KRAF
Sunday, July 15 — 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Main Conference - Session 6
Mixed Levels
Experience the powerful inner tools of psychophysical transformation esteemed by the Tantric yogis of India. To support the inner journey of yoga, the ancients evolved a little-known system of breath adaptation in asana, not in the service of structural transformation, but in the service of pranayama. We'll systematically examine this hidden science and, with that as a foundation, explore the theory and practice of pranayama. These integrated practices were designed to cultivate and strengthen our vital energy (prana shakti) so that we can direct that energy inward to face the deeper work of mastering our minds.
Lecture, discussion, asana, and pranayama.
Anxiety and Depression
Gary Kraftsow - Course ID: AMKRAF
Monday, July 16 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Monday All-Day Intensives
Therapeutic, Mixed Levels
Explore the yoga-therapy perspective and methods for working with anxiety and depression. We'll focus on psychological aspects of the human system, explore models of the integrated personality that emerge from Vedic teachings, and discover the science of meditation that the ancients developed for reducing suffering and cultivating our higher human potential. Recognizing the direct influence of thought and emotion on biochemistry and knowing that positive states have a deeply restorative impact on the entire system, we are able to develop certain practices to transform negative qualities of mind, promote general well-being, and manage the symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Lecture, discussion, and asana.
