7:00pm - 8:00pm
Welcome to Baptiste Power Flow Immersion

Join Baron Baptiste, many of his most experienced teachers and the Baptiste team at the opening reception to celebrate community, Baptiste Yoga, and to launch the Baptiste Power Flow Immersion

Open to all.

7:30pm - 9:30pm
Baptiste Yoga Rejuvenation Practice

Explore the softer side of the Baptiste Yoga practice in this all-levels asana class with deep and healing restorative poses. Based on the Baptiste Journey into Power flow, this slower vinyasa practice invites you to go inward, release, and rejuvenate. Come, open up, and experience Baptiste Yoga in a new way.

Open to all.

7:30pm - 9:30pm
Africa Yoga Project Panel and Documentary Screening

The Africa Yoga Project operates globally and is changing lives locally through the transformative power of Baptiste Yoga. Baron Baptiste and Paige Elenson, the cofounders of the Africa Yoga Project, have been leading and tracking the powerful transformation of the young people leading the change in Kenya and their communities. Join Baron Baptiste, Paige Elenson, Africa Yoga Project Teachers, and key team members making this amazing project happen, and learn more about the life-changing work of the Africa Yoga Project, which is based on the principles of peace, unity, and possibility.

Open to all.

7:30pm - 9:30pm
DJ Yoga Party and Shiva’s Fire

Let your mat become the dance floor at the Baptiste DJ Yoga Party, featuring a live DJ and freestyle, asana-shaking yoga led by a team of senior Baptiste teachers. This playful, energizing twist on Baptiste Yoga, with soul-inspiring world beats mixed live, creates an energy of camaraderie, fun, and challenge.

Open to all.

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Main Conference Opening Keynote by Sally Kempton

Turning Poison into Nectar: Tantra and the Transformation of the Heart

Open to all.

8:00pm - 9:00pm
Ananda Kirtan--Ecstatic Chanting

Singing and dancing have long been sacred healing practices to awaken the life force, connect us to spirit, and embody an ecstatic connection to the divine force that sustains all life. Following Sally Kempton's opening keynote, join Saul David Raye, Kia Miller, and AKYANNA as we come together as one for a soulful evening of ecstatic chanting, prayer, meditation, dance, and heart wisdom teachings to create a sacred space for connection, celebration, and overflowing love.

AYKANNA is a stunning musical duo created by Sukhdev and Grammy-nominated percussionist Akahdahmah Jackson. Together they merge devotional chants with uplifting Soul music. Sukhdev’s Soul and Jazz upbringing and Akahdahmah’s West African percussive influences seasoned with Afro-Cuban, New York City funk blends into an infectious, inspiring sacred sound system.

Open to all.

1:15pm - 2:15pm
Community Yoga Class with Cara Ferrick

CorePower Yoga: Ready to Sweat?
Experience the challenging and dynamic postures of CorePower Yoga's signature Power Vinyasa flow. We'll explore how the strengthening postures in a CorePower Yoga sequence can awaken your core, create internal heat and energize the body, mind and spirit. Come ready to sweat and flow.

Open to all.

led and organized by

1:30pm - 2:30pm
Goal-Coaching Workshop

It's not about figuring it all out; it's about creation. You have 30,000 days to live. Your life is up to you.

Open to all.

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Dharma Talk by Tias Little

Yoga and the Quest for the Im/Perfect Pose

Open to all.

Sponsored by

6:30pm - 7:30pm
Pre-LUNAFEST Wine & Cheese Reception

7:30pm - 9:00pm
LUNAFEST Film Festival

LUNAFEST, presented by LUNA, makers of The Whole Nutrition Bar for Women, is a traveling film festival of notable and award-wining short films by, for, and about women. Established in 2000, LUNAFEST promotes women filmmakers, raises awareness for women's issues, and supports women's nonprofit organizations. Each season, films tour 150+ venues and screen in front of 20,000 people across the U.S. and Canada. 100% of LUNAFEST proceeds go to nonprofit organizations - 15% are donated to the Breast Cancer Fund, the leading national organization focused on preventing breast cancer before it starts, and 85% to local community nonprofits. To date, LUNAFEST has featured over 83 women filmmakers, raised over $363,000 for the Breast Cancer Fund and over $570,000 for nonprofit organizations.

Learn more about the films HERE

Suggested $10 donation to the Breast Cancer Fund

7:30pm - 9:00pm
Friday Evening Classes

Unwind on Friday night in one of our two evening classes:

• Restorative Yoga Therapeutics for Mental and Emotional Healing with Bo Forbes
• Thai Yoga Massage: Hands-on Healing Partner Class with Saul David Raye

View full course descriptions

$25 for conference attendees; $40 for general public

1:15pm - 2:15pm
Community Class with Eric Paskel

Yoga Rocks Raw

Yoga is not about posing--in fact, yoga is not for posers at all. It is for those who want to strip away facades and reveal their real Self. In this one-hour class, we won't get there entirely, but we will kick some serious asana like never before. This class will be unlike any you have had and is open for all open minds.

Open to all.

1:45pm - 3:00pm
Panel Discussion: Yoga of Relationship

Yoga has a profound affect on not only on your own life, but on the lives you share with others.  In this panel discussion, Seane Corn, Gary Kraftsow, and David Swenson discuss how yoga can bring clarity and greater ease to all your relationships, whether it’s with your partner, your colleagues, or your children. Moderated by Yoga Journal Editor in Chief, Kaitlin Quistgaard

Open to all.

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Aromatherapy & Yoga

Tim Blakley, Aura Cacia aromatherapist and educator, will be teaching a FREE class on essential oils and aromatherapy. He will be covering the basics about essential oils - from sourcing and sustainability to practical, everyday uses including incorporating essential oils into your yoga practice. The first 50 people will receive a goody bag filled with Aura Cacia products. Get ready to experience 100% pure essential oils that are truly Mother Nature's gift to us!

2:30pm - 3:05pm
Movers and Shakers Project - Collective Movement Meditation for YEA - Yoga Energy Activism

catalyzed by Shiva Rea
Be a Mover and a Shaker. Come for a shaking meditation journey to soul-stirring world music with hundreds of shaker eggs. These seeds of change awaken the mover and the shaker in each one of us and the power of collective entrainment. Each egg donation is capable of carbon-offsetting your energy use. Be inspired to take an Energy Sabbath Retreat - a positive challenge towards a day of natural energy, zero waste, and water care towards a green energy future.

Synchronized with Earthdance and 100's of events around the world
Free, Fun, and open to all.

7:30pm - 9:30pm
Kirtan Concert with Snatam Kaur

Join us for an unforgettable event--equal parts chantfest, musical group meditation, and yoga class in melody--that combines Punjabi Sikh musical tradition with a decidedly Western flavor. With Snatam on vocals and harmonium, the concert will be done in the call-and-response kirtan tradition, which builds an energetic momentum that palpably fills each concert space. Snatam often leads audiences in a round of pranayama (yogic breathing) or gets everyone on their feet for a stretching exercise that soon becomes a sacred dance. By the end of the night, you will be let in on a great cosmic secret: devotional music is fun!

$25 conference attendees; $35 general public

8:30am - 9:30am
Main Conference Closing Event with Paige Elenson

Yoga of Service in Action--Lessons from the Africa Yoga Project

Explore ways to empower yourself, your practice, and your community through the yoga of service and self-empowerment. Employing real-life examples from the powerful and life-changing work of the Africa Yoga Project, we'll move through a Baptiste asana practice and discussion that revolves around the Africa Yoga Project's fundamental call for creating service through yoga practice in action.

Open to all.