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Author: [[Ken Nelson, David Ronka, Lesli Lang, Liz Korabek-Emerson, and Jim White]] Full Title: Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops Category: #books But don’t be fooled. Yes, the building originally housed Catholic Jesuit novitiates, but that was many years ago. Now it’s Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health—the largest yoga-based retreat center in the United States. 40,000 people a year come to this retreat center on the hill—looking for health, healing, wholeness, salvation. For nearly five decades, Kripalu has been a pilgrimage site for hundreds of thousands of contemporary pilgrims of all spiritual and religious stripes. They come searching for their souls, their bodies, their personalities, their most sublime aspirations. They come with questions. Who am I, really? What am I called to in this life? How can I connect with the deepest sources of human wisdom? How can I be a fully alive human being? Here in our mountaintop retreat—in our now-wonderfully-converted Jesuit monastery—these modern-day pilgrims engage in two-, three-, or five-day workshops or month-long retreats with some of the world’s top teachers in meditation, yoga, personal growth, and integrative health. But who are these people? The Wanderer, says Pearson, is in search of her highest self. She intentionally sets out to confront the unknown, taking a journey that, as Pearson says, “marks the beginning of life lived at a new level.”

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Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops by Ken Nelson, David Ronka, Lesli Lang, Liz Korabek-Emerson, and Jim White presents wisdom from the contemplative traditions.

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