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Creating Transformational Workshops
Jul 11-13, [2 nights] 2025 | Kripalu, Stockbridge MA
Creating Transformational Workshops:
An Introduction to Experiential Mind-Body Learning
Ken Nelson, David Ronka, Lesli Lang and the Life-Changing Workshops Team
When you’re clear about your calling and you’ve got the right tools, you’re in a powerful position to serve others. This weekend you’ll harness your dreams and explore your purpose and path as a leader.
We’ll explore these questions:
- How can becoming a workshop leader enhance your life’s work?
- What is a transformational workshop?
- How do you create workshops that change lives
- What are your next steps?
If you lead, or aspire to lead, life-changing workshops, trainings, or retreats, come and find out how to bring what you’re passionate about into a group setting—in a way that makes your heart sing and lights up your participants. Foster your confidence and skills in using interactive techniques to energize, connect, and empower people. Set the stage for creative leaps, deep learning, and fun, by drawing on the wisdom traditions and the latest mind-body science. Experience how original thinking and breakthrough solutions emerge from group synergy—to reveal your strengths, sharpen your vision, unfold your ideas, and help you develop an action plan.
Recommended reading Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops: Creating the Conditions for Transformation in Your Groups, Trainings, and Retreats. (Ken Nelson, David Ronka, Lesli Lang, Liz Korabek-Emerson, and Jim White)
Note This program—suitable for anyone interested in the science and art of mind-body learning—is part of a comprehensive, three-part training series. Each training in the series can stand alone or be taken in any order.
See www.life-changingworkshops.com for more information. Tuition includes a training workbook.
Qigong and Deep Relaxation for Self-Care|Kripalu Online
Aug 2-16 [Aug 2, 9, 16: 9:30-11:00 am EDT | Kripalu Online
Enhance Your Health, Healing, and Longevity
with Ken Nelson
For all levels; no experience necessary.
"Be still like a mountain, and flow like a great river." - Lao Tzu
Do you long to replenish your energy, strengthen your resilience, and slow the arc of aging? Join Ken Nelson for a nourishing journey of self-care rooted in qigong, meditative breathing, and guided deep rest. These gentle, empowering practices are easy to learn and profoundly restorative.
In this three-part online series, you’ll learn to move and breathe with ease, grace, and presence—enhancing posture, balance, strength, and stamina. Discover how to stay rooted and centered while cultivating flexibility and fluidity, both inside and out.
Grounded in the wisdom of Chinese medicine and modern research, these ancient energy practices are designed to:
- Boost immunity and vitality.
- Calm the nervous system and quiet the mind.
- Awaken inner insight and support emotional well-being.
Each session includes a deeply relaxing yoga nidra meditation—practiced seated or lying down—to enhance integration and support healing. Yoga nidra has been clinically shown to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and lift mood.
You’ll take home practices you can use daily to:
- Reduce stress, release tension, and restore energy.
- Support mental clarity, emotional balance, and self-compassion.
- Connect with your life force through mindful movement and stillness.
Let these three sessions be a gift to yourself—an invitation to return home to your body, breath, and inner resources for health and healing.
Accessible to all, regardless of age, experience, or physical condition.
NOTE: You will have access to the video recording(s) for 30 days after the program ends. All recordings will be available within 72 hours of the end of each session.
What students say:
- “I felt energized and relaxed at the same time—a new sensation for me. Ken’s qigong was graceful, powerful, and easy to follow.”—Pam, Putnam, CT
- “I liked Ken's fun sense of humor and open friendly teaching. I'd never done qigong before. It was the perfect way for me to get back in the moment.”—Karen, Boston
- “Ken helped me find peace in my hectic day. I was able to pace myself and share the positive energy and tranquility with all my patients and staff.”—Allison, physician, Baltimore
For more information and to REGISTER please click the button below.
Slow Yoga & Qigong: Relax & Restore|Labor Day Weekend
Aug 29-Sep 1 [3 nights] 2025 | Kripalu, Stockbridge MA
Slow Yoga & Qigong: Relax & Restore RETREAT
Leaders: Ken Nelson and John Haggerty
For all levels; no yoga or qigong experience necessary.
"Be still like a mountain, and flow like a great river." - Lao Tzu
Discover a path to wholeness. Cultivate ease, grace, and freedom of movement through the ancient art of qigong. Enjoy the bliss of deep relaxation through restorative yoga and yoga nidra. Nourish your vital energy, calm your mind, and learn to live in the moment—with a wise and loving heart.
Join Kripalu legacy faculty, Ken Nelson, long-time martial artist and qigong teacher, John Haggerty, and author and facilitator, Lesli Lang, who will guide you through:
- Beginner-friendly meditations to discover stillness and inner peace
- Qigong sequences to enhance posture, balance, stamina, and longevity
- Yin yoga to increase flexibility and release chronic tension in the spine, hips, and lower back
- Outdoor walking meditation and qigong to connect with the natural world
Return home feeling energized, centered, and inspired to establish a daily practice.
Note: This program is suitable for all levels; no prior yoga or qigong experience is required.
Ken Nelson, PhD, is dedicated to helping people heal, grow, and awaken with mind-body practices and the wisdom traditions. He teaches gentle yoga, qigong, and meditation. Ken is a long-time Kripalu faculty member, and a former Fulbright lecturer and Kripalu Scholar-in-Residence. He has offered workshops worldwide since 1975. His CD, Yin Yoga, and DVD Qigong & Taiji for Healing & Vitality are Kripalu best sellers. Ken is coauthor with David Ronka, Lesli Lang, Jim White, and Liz Korabek-Emerson of their best-selling book, Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops: Creating the Conditions for Transformation in Your Groups, Trainings, and Retreats.
John Haggerty has been studying and teaching East Asian martial and energetic disciplines for thirty years. He undertook an intensive study of qigong and Yang style Taijiquan in the tradition of Yang Cheng-fu twenty years ago, and has been teaching the Yang long form, pushing hands, and weapon sets, as well as several qigong sets, for about fifteen years. He also teaches Isshin ryu karate and Chinese hard style martial arts, and has studied widely among other traditional East Asian disciplines and philosophies. John is devoted to sharing the strength and wellness of body, mind, and spirit that traditional internal practices can bring to the sincere student.
For more information and to REGISTER please click the button below.
Facilitating Transformational Workshops
Oct 13-17 [4 nights] 2025| Kripalu, Stockbridge MA
Facilitating Transformational Workshops:
Group Dynamics and the Power of Presence
Ken Nelson, David Ronka, Lesli Lang and the Life-Changing Workshops team
For everyone interested in facilitating the wisdom of individuals and groups. CE credits. Create the conditions for transformation, accountability, and creativity in your groups, workshops, retreats, and trainings. Empower yourself and others to heal, grow, and awaken by cultivating trust—the foundation for safe inquiry and authentic dialogue. Role-plays, fish-bowl simulations, and case studies in holistic learning make this program dynamic, interactive, and unforgettable. Your participants can’t help but succeed when you
- Get clear about your goals, strengths, and challenges
- Use the tools of intention, attention, agreements, and conscious communication
- Hone your skills to listen, reflect, encourage, and ask powerful questions
- Respond wisely to clear obstacles, upsets, and stuck behavior using interventions such as mind-body coaching.
By transforming your own life first, you can practice being present, not perfect, and set the stage for inclusive solutions and sustainable results.
Recommended reading Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops: Creating the Conditions for Transformation in Your Groups, Trainings, and Retreats. (Ken Nelson, David Ronka, Lesli Lang, Liz Korabek-Emerson, and Jim White)
Note This program—suitable for anyone interested in the science and art of mind-body learning—is part of a comprehensive, three-part training series. Each training in the series can stand alone or be taken in any order.
See life-changingworkshops.com for more information. Tuition includes a training workbook.
Slow Yoga & Qigong: Relax & Restore|NEW YEAR RETREAT
Dec 29 - Jan 1 2025-6 [3 nights]| Kripalu, Stockbridge MA
Slow Yoga & Qigong: Relax & Restore RETREAT
Leaders: Ken Nelson and John Haggerty
For all levels; no yoga or qigong experience necessary.
Join Kripalu legacy and leader in mind-body practices Ken Nelson and long-time martial artist and qigong teacher John Haggerty for a profound journey of self-discovery. Experience the bliss of deep relaxation through restorative yoga, guided imagery, and attention training.
With a wise and loving heart, you are invited to explore qigong and move with ease, grace, and freedom while remaining rooted and centered. Through beginner-friendly meditation, yin yoga, and healing qigong sequences, you will learn to
- Relieve chronic tension in the spine, hips, and low back
- Improve posture, balance, stamina, and longevity
- Enhance your flexibility and feel more energized
- Develop a daily practice you can sustain at home.
Nourish your vital energy, calm your mind, practice living in the moment, and embrace the New Year feeling refreshed.
Ken Nelson, PhD, is dedicated to helping people heal, grow, and awaken with mind-body practices and the wisdom traditions. He teaches gentle yoga, qigong, and meditation. Ken is a long-time Kripalu faculty member, and a former Fulbright lecturer and Kripalu Scholar-in-Residence. He has offered workshops worldwide since 1975. His CD, Yin Yoga, and DVD Qigong & Taiji for Healing & Vitality are Kripalu best sellers. Ken is coauthor with David Ronka, Lesli Lang, Jim White, and Liz Korabek-Emerson of their best-selling book, Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops: Creating the Conditions for Transformation in Your Groups, Trainings, and Retreats.
John Haggerty has been studying and teaching East Asian martial and energetic disciplines for thirty years. He undertook an intensive study of qigong and Yang style Taijiquan in the tradition of Yang Cheng-fu twenty years ago, and has been teaching the Yang long form, pushing hands, and weapon sets, as well as several qigong sets, for about fifteen years. He also teaches Isshin ryu karate and Chinese hard style martial arts, and has studied widely among other traditional East Asian disciplines and philosophies. John is devoted to sharing the strength and wellness of body, mind, and spirit that traditional internal practices can bring to the sincere student.
For more information and to register please click the button below.