Four Words: Purposefulness and Happiness

Be healthy, happy, and have the life you want. The Yoga Sutra teaches us that our bodies are natural sources of vibhuti, or extraordinary powers. Learn through the process of Four Words how ancient ascetic practices can be adapted by everyone as a simple part of day-to-day life with your family, job, and personal aspirations to achieve prosperity, peace of mind and well-being.

Join Kripalu Center for Yoga’s Healthy Living advisor Susan Maier-Moul to discuss and explore how the natural and uncomplicated development of attention, discernment, and focus will prepare you to know what you want, accept what you want, and be willing to give it to yourself.

Participants praise the work:

“Your warm and engaging style along with common sense approach to yoga and life in general resonated with me long after the evening was over.”

“It seems to me that people often espouse one form of yoga or another but there is rarely that level of reflection for people to align what they are doing with what their intent is.”

“Today was just incredible at so many levels. The depth of your knowledge and compassion and experience just shined through so beautifully. You could hear and see that all of us loved it!”

“Thoughtful, demanding, and instructive.”

“Wonderful presence and energy.”

“I LOVED how you put everything so “matter of fact” and in terms that an average educated person will understand.”

“You convey the sense that yoga or love or pain or thinking or breathing are not discrete activities and it is a commitment to that core experience that really distinguishes your work.”

Customize Four Words to meet your group’s needs

The Four Words workshop is built on a flexible framework of interaction in small groups and conversation pairs, with opportunities to integrate during self reflection / note-to-self pauses. Works easily with 10 to 25 people and scales up to 50 for retreats and special events.

- Identify where you are with what you want in life

– Explore cultural and personal messages about having and wanting

- Understand how you can capture and focus “leaking” energy

Participants will know themselves and each other better through guided down-to-earth inquiry without transgressing personal boundaries or brow beating.

In short, it’s fun, it’s eye-opening, and it’s empowering.

Susan Maier-Moul

MA, IAYT, Yoga Alliance 500 E-RYT

Based in New York, Susan is editor-in-chief of The Magazine of Yoga, an online journal which promotes engaged everyday life as the key principle of freedom. She is a founding faculty member for the Healthy Living Program at Kripalu Center in Massachusetts. She has presented extensively on self-perception, yoga, and vitality.

Her workshops and lectures focus on non-esoteric practice, highlighting the everyday benefits of yoga as an integrated physical and philosophical approach to life’s challenges and rewards.

“I have confidence Susan can seed meaningful change in others’ lives,” writes Ila Sarley, President of Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. “Over decades of involvement with and leadership in the yoga community, I have worked with literally hundreds of emerging and established teachers, many of them internationally known. I am delighted to recommend Susan to you as among my personal favorites and among the best.”