Amy Weintraub, MFA, e-RYT 500, C-IAYT, YACEP, is the founder of the LifeForce Yoga Institute and has been a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health for nearly 30 years. She is the author of Yoga for Your Mood Deck (Sounds True), Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books) and Yoga Skills for Therapists: Effective Practices for Mood Management (W.W. Norton) and numerous articles and book chapters. Amy's evidence-based Yoga protocol for managing mood is used in health care settings globally and is featured on a number of audio-visual products, including the LifeForce Yoga series, an award-winning library of evidence-based yoga and meditation downloads for mood management at www.amyweintraub.com. Her novel, Temple Dancer was published in 2020.
In addition to her Kripalu Hatha Yoga studies in the US and India, Amy has been trained in Advaita Vedanta Nondualism with Nitya Chaitanya Yati head of the Narayana Gurukulam, iRest Yoga Nidra with Richard Miller, and Internal Family Systems with Dr. Richard Schwartz.
Joy continues to unfold through the compassionate self-awareness that is the foundation of her daily Yoga practice and her teaching style.