Kripalu Healthy Living

I’m an entrepreneur who has started a bunch of businesses. When I came to Kripalu, I had just sold one, after three intense years. Kripalu’s fitness and yoga program sounded like a great way to challenge myself—and decompress. It was five really extraordinary days— the calm and mellow environment, the phenomenal food quality. Usually I [...]

I participated in the Kripalu Fitness and Yoga Retreat two weeks prior to a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy. Before arriving, I was a mess! Here I was, an otherwise healthy 42-year-old with the same genetic mutation that caused my mother’s death at 41 years old as well as the early deaths of several great-aunts and cousins [...]

I’m down to one pill from three and I’ve lost 16 pounds—and continue to lose weight. Overall, I feel better about myself and my life. At Kripalu, I had a physical, spiritual, and mental experience of what hope feels like. I got in touch with who I really am. And positive changes are happening as [...]

I didn’t expect a transformational experience at Kripalu. I thought that it would be good food, good yoga, and good fun. But my week there wound up being a cumulative “wow.” I came for a fitness program at a time when I was undergoing a number of personal and professional stresses. I felt unhealthy, wounded, [...]