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Ken Nelson

Description

Ken Nelson, PhD, is dedicated to transforming the ways we serve and lead through yoga-inspired learning. A leader in mind-body practices, he teaches the healing arts of yoga, qigong, meditation, and bodywork. Ken is a former Fulbright lecturer and Kripalu Scholar-in-Residence, and has offered workshops worldwide since 1975. His CD, Yin Yoga, is a Kripalu best-seller. Ken is writing a book about tools that link the heart and mind, creating the conditions for group wisdom. He integrates yoga with his practice of qigong, and Taoist yoga, and he offers a combination of slow yoga (restorative, yin, gentle Kripalu and yoga nidra) with a standing practice of qigong that balances our yin and yang qualities and harmonizes body, mind and spirit. www.powerfulworkshops.com and www.sacredhealingarts.net

Theraputic Focus

Yoga Therapy

Credentials

Ken is a professional level Kripalu certified yoga teacher. He has studied with the modern masters of yoga, including Erich Schiffman, Rodney Yee, Shiva Rea, Gary Kraftsow, and others. He has studied most intensively with Stephen Cope in the Kripalu tradition, Richard Miller in the iRest yoga nidra tradition, and with Paul and Suzi Grilley, Sarah Powers and Bernie Clark in the yin yoga tradition. His meditation teachers include Jack Kornfield, Silvia Boorstein, Joseph Goldstein and others. He has studied qigong with Yang Yang, Robert Peng, Roger Jahnke, Ken Cohen, Rick Wheatly and John Haggerty. He has taught at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health as a senior program director, in the Healthy Living faculty, the Guest Yoga faculty and the Yoga Teacher Training faculty, since 1998. He is a former director of the Kripalu School of Massage.

Address
394 Undermountain Road
Lenox
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Contact Person (if Yoga Studio):

Ken Nelson