In Person classes & workshops

at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, US

The primary language of the body is silent-felt sensation. This workshop will present a wide scope of views and opportunities to experience the wisdom and creativity of this language of your senses.

Discover the radical possibilities in health and well-being available when you combine the fluid movement practices of Continuum and mindfulness meditation with the principles of osteopathic treatment into the way you care for yourself. Cultivate awareness of internal experience through breath, sound, meditation, and movement, and integrate these practices into daily life, nurturing a renewed sense of devotion to self-care.

Restore trust in the wisdom of your body as you allow yourself to sense deeply. Step outside your preconceived notions about your body and discover your inner resources for resilience, adaptability, and change. This workshop offers the tools you need to access this inner healing realm on your own.

This workshop experience can be valuable both as a form of self-exploration and self-care, and as a way for practitioners to develop and deepen the perceptual skills used with patients or clients.

In this workshop we will explore innovative views of:

• what our senses are and how we can cultivate experiencing sensation more deeply in your life
• learn to support your immune health by being in touch with your senses
• Re-emerge into the post-pandemic world with new self-care skills.
• experience the effects of reclaiming the sensations and functions of your unmasked face, or how to better cope if and when you need to wear one
• the relationship between the brain, the gut, the face, the heart, and health
• perceiving “the field of the senses” in ourselves and in others
• inner resources for resilience, adaptability, and change
• cultivating curiosity as a way of coping with uncertainty
• radically reimagine how you care for yourself
• our interconnectedness with each other and with nature

All “levels” of ability and experience are welcome.

To Register for this workshop visit Kripalu's website. 

Bonnie Gintis offers a unique blend of Osteopathic principles and philosophy, scientific and medical information, poetry, and perceptual inquiry, combined with an opportunity to experience it all through Continuum practice. Utilizing breath, sound, movement, meditative open attention, and perceptual inquiry, this workshop provides an opportunity to experience an embodied understanding of the wisdom of the sensations of the living human body.

at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA

Who is this workshop for?

· People who have presently, or have had a cancer diagnosis in the past.

· People living with cancer as a chronic condition.

· People concerned about cancer in their future.

· Loved ones of people with cancer (partners, parents, siblings, caregivers, etc.)

· Healthcare practitioners who work with people with cancer.

· Anyone willing to explore new ways of living with uncertainty.

Workshop Description:

The Cancer Adventureland workshop offers the possibility that cancer can reshape you and open you to the possibility of infusing adventure into new ways of living. 

Together, we will explore living and thriving with the uncertainty of cancer. To venture into this territory we will cultivate curiosity, courage, resilience, and the ability to view your life through the lens of possibility rather than catastrophe. 

We will explore and develop your relationship to life, and cancer’s role in that relationship. We will consider the many expressions of and doorways to health and healing. You will learn about the common lifestyle practices of people who live and thrive in the presence of cancer. Movement, breath, meditation, and inspiration in the beauty of nature will be our guides to enriching your life. We will cultivate embodied connectedness as our time together reveals your own unique inquiry into the question posed by the poet Mary Oliver, “…what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

Check back soon for more details. This workshop is in the planning phase and is not yet open for registration on Kripalu's website.

Bonnie Gintis, DO, is an osteopathic physician, Continuum teacher, meditation and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher, author, and podcaster, who has been living in relationship with metastatic breast cancer for more than 14 years. 

She synthesized her approach to transformative self-care through decades of study, practice, teaching, and application of all her areas of immersion to her own life. Bonnie offers a unique blend of Osteopathic principles and philosophy, scientific and medical information, poetry, and perceptual inquiry, combined with an opportunity to experience it all through Continuum practice. 

She retired from private practice in 2009 and now devotes herself to teaching, writing, and exploring new ways to foster health and well-being. Author of Engaging the Movement of Life: Exploring Health and Embodiment Through Osteopathy and Continuum, Bonnie is a graduate of the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and has taught the embodied movement and awareness practice called Continuum, meditation, and osteopathic principles and practices worldwide.