Receive loving guidance in becoming your own best friend during this online workshop. Learn to cultivate self-love and self-compassion through psychological principles, spiritual wisdom, Yoga, meditation, healing imagery, storytelling, and group work.

Often, we find it easier to offer compassion, kindness, and unconditional positive regard to others. Yet when it comes to ourselves, we are more likely to be highly critical, unforgiving, or unkind. Over time, depriving ourselves of compassion has adverse cumulative effects on our confidence, self-esteem, creativity, productivity, relationships, and overall happiness.

Research has shown that individuals who are self-compassionate are more likely to be resilient, optimistic, creative, and happy.

In this workshop, you will learn:

• The importance of cultivating compassion towards all aspects of yourself
• Loving guidance in becoming your own best friend
• Ways to encourage others to practice self-compassion as well

Live sessions with Sam on Saturday at 10:30 am–12 pm and 2–3 pm, and on Sunday at 10:30 am–12 pm ET.

You will have access to the video recordings for 8 weeks after the program ends, until January 17, 2021.

In addition, you will have access to the Ashram’s Live Hatha Yoga classes at 5 pm ET and access to an online social community to connect and communicate with other participants about this course.

Continuing Education (CE) Opportunities

• Yoga Alliance (YA): Approximately 4 contact hours.
  You can input your contact hours using your YA login information.
• Integral Yoga Teachers Association (IYTA) can provide you a CE certificate with your program’s total contact hours for a $10 fee (free for IYTA members.) For more information, email ce@iyta.org.

Testimonials

Thank you so much for the wonderful workshop! It changed my life! Gave me so many different inspirations about so many things! You were wonderful and warm and funny and brilliant! It has kick-started all sorts of new thoughts, realizations, understandings. — Irina Brook

Sam is very loving and fun. She is a beautiful individual, a light shining strongly. She is an amazingly happy and loving person. Her warmth and generosity in sharing her experiences provided insight that met my needs. — Rivka Cilley

Sam’s joy is infectious. The experiential practices she led us to do caused a psychic shift in me. When the student is ready, the teacher will come. What an amazing teacher! So many valuable takeaways from this weekend. I feel better equipped to “give myself permission” to let things go and accept that all is as it should be at this moment. — Maria Olsen

Sam’s classes are filled with wisdom, compassion, humor, and connectedness! She is knowledgeable and experienced. I left the class with a warm glow and many practical suggestions on treating myself more compassionately. It was a wonderful experience. — Joan Whiteley