yoga and healing workshops
with Lea Kraemer

igniting the inner flame
Two or three-hour formats:

1. breaking through blocks: a vinyasa practice

Find an immediate ease in even the most challenging asanas. This Vinyasa Yoga Workshop flows from pose to pose focusing on the even-ness and expansion of the breath and ends with meditation and relaxation. Take an ecstatic journey into the mind and body through developing the understanding of how to build a rich, personal practice.

This is a deeply healing workshop to assist you in breaking blocks on both physical and psychic levels. Discover patterns of resistance in your breath (mind) and free you posture (body) by isolating subtle energies and movements. Ground and align your practice with your Sattvic mind, the evolutionary aspect of the psyche.

2. chakra meditation workshop

Chakras are the “wheels” of our psyches. Each chakra has its own unique view of the world. The heart chakra knows no boundaries and expands its love beyond the horizon, while the second chakra at the pelvis is like water and creatively relates to everything. An imbalance in a chakra is either too much or too little energy in a portion of the “wheel”. When the mind-body balance is thrown off, other “wheels” or areas of the psyche are affected as well. But how do we know where our imbalances lie?

We need not go outside of ourselves to see and heal ourselves. Understand your personal tendencies toward imbalance and learn how to create a yoga practice to keep yourself mentally, physically and spiritually sound.

Lea Kraemer teaches pure techniques of ancient Kundalini Yoga. Experience, sense and understand what is happening in your body’s chakra and energy system. You will be guided through a series of beautiful self-reflections and meditations to become familiar with the colors, sounds and qualities of each chakra. The Kundalini Yoga Kriyas, or sets, in this workshop are given to re-balance and re-focus each chakra. We end the session with yogic techniques to raise the Kundalini, the unleashed internal energy!

3. fearless living

This workshop introduces Kundalini Yoga practices for releasing fear and understanding its illusionary nature. There will be time for readings and discussions on the art of neutrality (Sattva) and non-attachment as an integral part of this process. Lea guides meditations to focus on expanding your awareness. In the guided meditation series all sensations are included. There is no judging, labeling or conceptualization of what is important and unimportant.

When we start to release self-judging thoughts, our ideas and perceptions become clearer, giving way to intuition and “true” knowledge, or Self-knowledge. Fear holds little or no energy in this greater state. Kundalini Yoga “kriyas” or series of movements, breath and meditation are given to help you develop an experiential understanding of the state of fear-less-ness. Please come prepared for physical postures as well as dynamic breath work in this workshop.

Open to all levels of students who are interested in living in the freedom of non-attachment. This state is also expressed in Buddhist teachings as the “emptiness” of form. Come learn how to release pre-conditioned responses that no longer satisfy you or your life goals. Become alive in the fearless presence of this very moment.

4. flight! - partnered yoga workshop

Go beyond that which you can do alone. Deepen your practice as you find a steady center, experience magnificent freedom in space, and open your self to an expansive state of awareness. Lea has been creating paired Yoga postures and sequences for over ten years, sharing this work with Yoga teachers and students of all ages and abilities. You will leave with an open heart.

Partnered yoga postures express the harmony and beauty of a heightened sense of awareness. Come to this workshop by yourself and you will work with other students, or you bring a friend and work together. Flight is about moving and breathing in synchronicity. The workshop moves through Lea’s dynamic sequences of partnered-postures, assists and balances to strengthen core muscles, release tension all over the body, to open the lower back and sacrum, achieve greater flexibility, and for keen sense of balance.

strengthening inner peace
Daylong Workshops in a six to eight-hour format:

1. magnificent breath

In this workshop you will explore the “inner vision” of your breath. Discover how improving the quality of your breath creates great strength and peace within yourself. Practice Kundalini Yoga techniques, Kriyas, to “ignite” a dynamic flow of energy and contentment. Learn purifications for your glandular system. Clean and rejuvenate your heart and mind. Lea’s practice sessions in Kundalini Yoga are explorations into the great joy attuning to the rhythm of the mind and body.

Meditations given in this course are not strainful or hard to achieve, but astoundingly do-able and natural. Guided postural instruction enhances the length and support of the body, and correct methodology for breath work leads to subtle skill in the practices. At the end of the workshop, deep relaxation is an important part of this healing process.

If you have never taken Kundalini Yoga before, this workshop will introduce you on to age-old techniques to balance your mind and your nerves. More experienced Yogic practitioners will enjoy refining aspects of asana (posture), mudra (hand symbols) and pranayama (breath control). Kundalini Yoga develops consciousness and compassion, so that you may conquer both your daily life and your greatest challenges with steady ease and serenity.

2. cultivating intelligent faith

This workshop is a wise encounter with your Self, giving you practical, spiritual tools to cultivate intelligent faith. Lea Kraemer guides Kundalini Yoga Kriyas, sets, and meditations which build wholeness, trust and self-understanding. There are so many teachers teaching so many things. But the real knowledge is that we are complete right now. Can anything truly be “learned”?

Yogi Bhajan, who brought Kundalini Yoga to the West, referred to the power of devotional meditation as process of Self-blessing. This divine Self is the source of all love, and has not a thing to do with ego, judgment, “right-ness” or “wrong-ness”. Take this opportunity to evaluate your life with intelligent faith. Move towards alignment with the unlimited source of grace. The workshop is open to all levels and includes physical Yoga and classical breath work as well as seated meditation.

3. kundalini yoga for health recovery

This workshop will be approachable to those new to Yoga, and valuable for students who have participated in Yoga programs in the past. Kundalini Yoga utilizes breath, meditation, posture, visualization, and includes principals of healing used for hundreds of years. Kundalini Yoga works on the immune, glandular, nervous, and cardio-vascular systems to increase overall health and vitality and to conquer areas of fatigue and stress. Kundalini Yoga can help you to re-pattern your ways of thinking so that you are able to direct your life healthfully, and increase your sense of self-efficacy.

Learn to relax in balance and in harmony. Yoga tones all systems of the human body and Kundalini Yoga has been found to be of remarkable value for health recovery. While it is not the intention of this workshop to cover individual health programs, yogic techniques presented here will assist you to build endurance and wellness. Lea uses techniques which support the mind and body in self recognition and acceptance. This workshop is given with respect for individual needs and abilities of each student. All levels are most welcome.

Lea works in private practice with clients recovering from chronic and life-threatening illness. She has designed health programs, classes and case studies in Yoga at many of the major hospitals in the NY Metropolitan area. Classes and workshops for healing are part of the outreach programs of PRANA MANDIRYoga Studio.

the unlimited source
Seven Day Long Retreat:

1. dwell in possibility

Also called “Re-Treat Yourself”, this week long journey moves from challenging physical Kundalini Yoga kriyas, or sets, filled with held postures and flexibility inducing arches, to the most sublime meditations on the vibrating, pulsating beat of our hearts.

The week begins by sweating and working hard, inducing our bodies to release stress and tension in the muscles and internal organs. We end the last meditation of the week in the Naad, the divine vibration of sound. Through Lea’s guidance you will leave utterly transformed, having gained insight into the nature of your own being as well as deepening the skill level of your Yoga practice. All Yogis of all lineages will benefit and students of all levels are encouraged to attend. Lea’s alignment instructions allow each participant to find their most beneficial pose. The week of Kundalini Yoga kriyas concentrates on graceful postural instructions and attention to subtle details needed to hold postures for many minutes at a time. The meditation sessions flow this totality, from an outer to an inner observation and awareness, as a natural, integrated path to Yoga and the Self.