Have you ever wanted to try yoga, but thought that your body wasn’t the “right” shape or size? Or have you always thought that maybe yoga could help with your body acceptance, but you’re not quite sure how?
If so, you absolutely won’t want to miss this incredible weekend of Curvy Yoga at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts!
This body-affirming retreat explores how yoga can be a powerful tool for accepting and celebrating your body. This retreat is for all levels, including beginners.
Curvy Yoga: Learn to Love Your Body
In this body-positive immersion, explore how yoga can help you accept the body you have right now (yes, even yours!). During this retreat, you will:
- Practice accessible Curvy Yoga poses
- Fill your body-positive toolbox with yoga-informed methods and inner resources
- Discover the role of body-positive meditation
- Show your body the love it deserves
- Take your body acceptance and yoga practices to the next level of loving awareness.
Note: Wear clothes you feel comfortable practicing yoga in, and bring a journal and pen.
Current Dates
Friday November 18th, 2016 – Sunday November 20th, 2016 (click here for the schedule)
Fees
Tuition: $220
Room & Meals Pricing: based on choice of accommodations
Continuing Education
Yoga Teachers (YA) can earn 8.5 credits by attending, $30.00 additional fee
About the Location: Kripalu
We couldn’t be more honored to have this workshop hosted by the venerable Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health! Over the decades, Kripalu has become the go-to place for seekers of all kinds to connect with themselves, their bodies and others. Their mission to “empower people and communities to realize their full potential through the transformative wisdom and practice of yoga” is precisely in line with ours here at Curvy Yoga, and we couldn’t be more excited to be there!
Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to empowering people and communities to realize their full potential through the transformative wisdom and practice of yoga.
For more than 30 years, Kripalu (kri-PAH-loo) has been teaching skills for optimal living through education for the whole person: body, mind, and spirit. It is the largest and most established retreat center for yoga, health, and holistic living in North America.
Programs at Kripalu are led by many of the world’s most accomplished teachers in yoga, self-discovery, and holistic health and are designed to provide people with tools they can apply in their daily lives. Throughout the weekend, in addition to our Curvy Yoga time together, you will have the opportunity to take advantage of the fabulous Kripalu amenities, including sauna, private lakefront beach, delicious meals, walking and hiking trails, labyrinth, bodywork and much, much more!
For more information, please check out these pages on the Kripalu website that should answer your questions:
Meet Your Teacher, Anna Guest-Jelley
Anna Guest-Jelley, E-RYT 500, is the founder of Curvy Yoga, a body-affirming training and inspiration portal offering classes, workshops, teacher trainings, retreats, a virtual studio, and lots of love and support to people of all shapes and sizes.
She is the author of Permission to Curve: Inspiring Poses for Curvy Yogis and Their Teachers and the co-editor of Yoga and Body Image: 25 Personal Stories About Beauty, Bravery and Loving Your Body.
Her work has been featured in the Washington Post, US News & World Report, Yoga Journal, and Yoga International, among many others.