01/15/2026
Coming this March 14-15, 2026, join us at the Yoga Center of Columbia for a special retreat with Kristine Weber: The Neuroscience and Psychology of the Chakras!
The yoga world has long been both fascinated by the chakras and interested in the scientific application of yoga for improving health, but seldom are these two important areas of study integrated. The chakras are important because human beings are not just flesh and bones. The sūkṣma śarīra or subtle body, precedes and manifests the sthūla śarīra, the physical body. Science is now beginning to affirm what the yogis understood: we are dynamic beings whose physiology and psychology are guided by subtle energy. The chakras represent key organizing centers within this subtle body, and yoga was originally designed to help balance and regulate them. Working with your chakras can help you:
✅ Dynamically improve your health and wellbeing - especially mental health
✅ Develop a stronger, clearer sense of who you are
✅ Deepen your connection to a sense of meaning and purpose
✅ Build greater resilience
Using yoga to improve the function of your chakras can help you face challenges with authenticity, clarity, fortitude, strength and stamina –- and it doesn’t have to be wildly elaborate or complicated.
Kristine Weber is a yoga teacher, yoga therapist, director of the Subtle® Yoga Teacher Training for Behavioral Health Professionals program at the University of North Carolina Health Sciences, the Yoga Therapy representative of the Integrative Health Policy Consortium, and is a member of a research team at Emory University. The author of Healing Self Massage and numerous articles, Kristine has been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Yoga Therapy Today, YogaU, Redbook, BodySense, Women's World, Natural Health, and Lifetime TV.
This retreat includes lectures, practices, meditations, a Q & A session, and small group work, and both yoga teachers and yoga therapists can earn 10 CEs for their participation. Sign up today for an Early Bird discount, available through February 14th! Register on our Workshops page: https://www.columbiayoga.com/workshops
