Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health
De-stress. Restore inner peace. Nourish your body. Relax your mind.
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“Self-care—the art of attuning and responding to your needs and desires—is a moment to moment process. It’s not about adding something to your to-do list; it’s about cultivating a new way of being.” – Renee Trudeau
Program Details
Do you long to reconnect with who you are? Are you in career or life transition? Do you crave time for quiet reflection, rest, and renewal?
Renée Peterson Trudeau has designed the perfect weekend for women to de-stress, refresh, and rejuvenate in a nurturing, empowering, and supportive environment.
Tap into the transformative power of self-care to nourish your body and soul. Learn how to slow down and access your “wise self.” This retreat will help you:
- Explore your heart’s desire and your soul’s purpose
- Meditate and receive ideas for daily spiritual renewal
- Relax and connect with your needs, your desires, and your body’s natural rhythms
- Learn how to integrate self-renewal strategies into your daily life
- Experience the Divine Feminine through music and movement
- Enjoy meaningful connection with like-minded women

“During a woman’s life, she has the need to retreat, replenish, renew and re-energize. Renée created a safe and sacred space at the ‘New Way of Being’ Retreat and the weekend taught me how to better cultivate—and practice—much needed self-care. This experience allowed me to stop, listen, learn and further blossom. Thank you for all you do to support women Renée!” —Carol O’Neil, Board Member, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Wellness, Lenox, MA
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“Of all the programs I’ve taken at Kripalu over the last twenty years, this retreat spoke most deeply to my heart and helped me more with self-acceptance than any other. Profound.” —Patty
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“Renée has the amazing ability to create a nurturing, sacred space that honors and celebrates each woman. This retreat was transformative. I now get how essential it is to take time to nurture myself. I am still using what I learned at the Self-Renewal Retreat in my daily life.” —Mary K., California
We created the following video to give you a sense of what attending a retreat with Renee feels like.
Kripalu provides a sanctuary for your body and soul. A stay at Kripalu immerses you in an experiential curriculum designed to bring vitality to your life from the inside out. While you are here, we invite you to enjoy daily yoga classes, our world-class natural-foods cuisine, massage and healing arts, hiking and walking trails, a lakefront beach area, indoor whirlpool and sauna, a labyrinth, extraordinary views—all in the natural beauty of the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts.
Cost & Registration
Tuition: $305
Meals & accomodations: $190-$730
Total cost range: $485-$1025 (based on accomodations choice; view room options)
Details/registration: visit Kripalu’s site here
*You are strongly encouraged to book your room today; accommodations are limited and sell out months in advance!
For additional information you may contact Kripalu at 1-800-741-7353 or email us.
Recommended reading: Renée Peterson Trudeau, The Mother’s Guide to Self-Renewal: How to Reclaim, Rejuvenate and Re-Balance Your Life (Balanced Living Press) and Nurturing the Soul of Your Family: 10 Ways to Reconnect and Find Peace in Everyday Life (New World Library).
Note: Bring a journal, wear comfortable clothing for movement, and eat lightly before opening night. Women of all ages—especially those in transition—are welcome!
Renée Peterson Trudeau is an internationally recognized life balance coach, president of Career Strategists, author of the award-winning The Mother’s Guide to Self-Renewal: How to Reclaim, Rejuvenate and Re-Balance Your Life and Nurturing the Soul of Your Family: 10 Ways to Reconnect and Find Peace in Everyday Life. She has certified RTA Facilitators in more than 10 countries to facilitate Personal Renewal Groups/Retreats for women based on her award-winning curriculum. Renée has been creating/leading transformational events for women for 20 years and has been featured in the New York Times, Spirituality & Health and more. She lives in Austin, TX with her husband and 11 year-old son. (Learn more about Renee’s professional background and training.)

(Left) Renee’s lovely Kripalu teaching assistants Jill Perin, Valerie Fagin and Nicole Miller Casey.
Can’t make it in July?
View all upcoming 2015 retreats here. Contact us at 512-459-6700 or email workshops at reneetrudeau dot com to explore having Renée create/facilitate a private retreat for your organization or group. Read Renee’s blog: 5 Reasons I Take Retreats.
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