- Shared Dormitory: Bottom Bunk – $450.00
- Shared Dormitory: Top Bunk – $450.00
- Private Dormitory – $240.00
- LGH: Full Bed – $240.00
- LGH: 2 Twin beds – $240.00
- LGH: Queen Bed – $240.00
- Shri Nivas: Private Room and Bath – $650.00 (All prices include $240.00 base amount)
Date & Time Details:
Check-in: 4–6 pm
Check-out: 2 pm
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Credits: 
Curb Your Cravings: Overcoming Emotional Eating and Compulsive Behaviors
with Amrita Sandra McLanahan, M.D. and Sampada Desai, M.A., LPC, NCC, E-RYT 500, CLL/CLTT
December 7 - 9, 2018
Comfort foods can be discomforting in the long run. Yoga provides fresh perspectives and many useful tools to help in developing and maintaining optimum lifestyle choices.
Learn the skills to protect yourself from the toxic effects of emotional overeating and other addictive behaviors during this weekend workshop. Pertinent information about the causes and symptoms of addictive behaviors such as emotional eating, excessive shopping, hoarding, emotional and serial affairs, sexual addiction, to name a few, will be presented.
Packed with experiential, mindful exercises, you will learn ways to resist impulses, increase self-control, improve decision making, and harness personal accountability. Specifically, you will learn effective cognitive and behavioral tools, guided imagery, gentle Yoga postures, deep breathing practices, and meditation to calm cravings and dismantle addictive thinking and behaviors.
- Understand the reasons why emotional eating and other addictions develop
- Identify some of the common emotional needs that people attempt to fill with their addictions
- Recognize both cultural and physiological obstacles to overcoming emotional overeating and other addictions
- Learn several experiential techniques to bring about positive change
- Included in this workshop will be great recipes and blissful wellness foods that can replace less healing options.
You will leave informed, inspired, and motivated to start your journey to wellness.
Continuing Education Opportunities
- Yoga Alliance (YA): Approximately 7 contact hours
- Integral Yoga Teachers Association (IYTA) can provide you a CE certificate of your program’s total contact hours. For more information, email membership@iyta.org.
Testimonials
[Dr. Amrita is] my favorite presenter. Wow! She is so full of knowledge and understanding. I could listen to her for hours and hours! Her sense of humor is a bonus! — Gigi
Dr. Amrita McLanahan [has a] great sense of humor and the capacity to marry science to theory. — Crystal Fenwick
Sam Desai is an awesome teacher—compassionate, wise, and very, very fun! I’ve taken many self-growth classes and have taught my own (as a health and life coach + psychotherapist) and I can honestly say that Sam’s class is one of my favorite experiences! — Karen Schachfer
Sam is very knowledgeable and experienced and she teaches with great warmth. — JoAnn Whiteley
Presenters
Dr. McLanahan is a graduate with high honors from Swarthmore College, and she has an M.D. from Wayne University and a family practice specialty from the University of Massachusetts. For 20 years, she served as director of stress management for Dr. Dean Ornish’s research, using Yoga and lifestyle changes to reverse heart disease and cancer. She now practices integrative medicine at Yogaville. Dr. McLanahan has made multiple study trips to India and Asia, where she visited centers that use Yoga and other natural means to prevent and treat disease. She is the co-author of the book, Surgery and Its Alternatives and…
Learn more about Amrita Sandra McLanahan, M.D.
Licensed Professional Counselor and Experienced Yoga Teacher Sam is a licensed professional counselor with over thirty years of clinical experience in various settings such as a health organization, schools, universities, and a mental health agency. She is the founder of Desai Counseling and Yoga and the proud developer of a 2-day Choose Laughter certification program. Sam is highly skilled at integrating Western and Eastern wellness practices. As an experienced Integral Yoga teacher, she has an uncanny awareness and knowledge of how Yoga supports mental health. Sam skillfully weaves in mindfulness practices of physical asanas, meditation, positive visualization, relaxation skills, and…
Learn more about Sampada Desai, M.A., LPC, NCC, E-RYT 500, CLL/CLTT