Focusing on sensation, Kripalu Yoga connects you
to your experience, be it physical, mental, emotional, energetic, or spiritual.
Kripalu Yoga
is a compassionate practice of inquiry that leads to more ease in daily life and to a fuller understanding
of who you are.
Kripalu Yoga Institute
The Kripalu
Yoga Institute has evolved an experiential paradigm of psychological development
designed to support the ongoing growth of an individual.
The Institute
is part of the Kripalu Center, a pioneer in holistic health, which opened in 1983 in Lenox, Massachusetts.
Kripalu Center was an
outgrowth of the Kripalu Yoga Ashram, established in Sumneytown, Pennsylvania in 1972, and expanded
to Summit Station in 1975.
Swami
Kripalu (1913-1981)
Swami Kripalu is also called Swami
Sri Kripalvanandajior Bapuji. His teachings are the foundation of the Kripalu approach
to yoga.
A kundalini yoga master from the Gujarat province of
India, Swami
Kripalu was invited
to the United States in 1977 by his student, Amrit Desai. He resided at the Kripalu ashram in Sumneytown, Pennsylvania from
1977 to 1981.
Information
about the 3 stages of Kripalu Yoga
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The uniqueness of Kripalu Yoga is that postures, breath regulation, introversion, concentration, and meditation are
all happening simulateneously. ~ Swami
Kripalu, 1913-1981, Kundalini yoga oractitioner & teacher