YogaForDepression.com
Title
Yoga For Depression- How Yoga Can Change Your Life
Description
Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT (500), author of Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books) and founder and director of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute, is a senior Kripalu teacher and Mentor. She is featured on the CD, Breathe to Beat the Blues. She leads personal healing retreats in Tucson and workshops and CEU trainings throughout North America at such venues as the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium, the American Holistic Medical Association Annual Conference, the Integrative Psychiatry Conference, Kripalu Center, Omega Institute, the Crossings, Mount Madonna Center, and the LA Times Festival of Health and Fitness. She regularly writes on the subject for national magazines.
Amy has done many Yoga trainings in the United States and in India, including Kripalu Center in Lenox, Massachusetts, Lakulish Institute in Gujarat, India, Vivekanandra Kendra in Bangalore, India and the Narayana Gurukala in Tamil Nadu, India. Richard Miller, Ph.D., is her mentor.
Amy has won numerous literary prizes for her short fiction, including national prizes from Writer’s Digest Magazine, Explorations and Wind. Her novel-in-progress, and her film documentaries have received awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, San Francisco State University, and many other national competitions. She also edits books on spiritual psychology, including the much-praised Yoga and the Quest for the True Self by Stephen Cope (Bantam, 1999). She holds the Master of Fine Arts degree in Writing and Literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars, Bennington College. She currently lives in Tucson, Arizona with her cat, Smokey.
Languages
English
