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Friday Special Events

8:00am - 8:45am - Morning Meditation with Ganesh Das - Open to all.

Experience a healing meditation that begins with chanting a Sanskrit mantra to calm and purify the mind and atmosphere. After we go over detailed directions on how to sit and relax the physical body while maintaining a state of receptivity and attention, we'll practice the Jivamukti meditation method for 20 minutes. This involves following the breath while systematically letting go of thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations in order to awaken the witness consciousness (sakshi). We'll follow the silent meditation with a period of relaxation and chanting. Finally, we'll close with a reading and a question-and-answer session.

1:00pm - 2:00pm - Community Class with Kay Kay Clivio - Open to all.

Flow through an eloquent sequence of diverse poses in an open level Vinyasa class.

7:30pm - 11:30pm - Get Your Dance On -

Get Your Dance On is a high vibe dance party that welcomes absolutely everyone. Born in NYC, we are festival, house party, tea lounge, and temple. The night begins with a yoga class led by Elena Brower and Dana Flynn, featuring the legendary India-infused beats of DJ Drez, and continues with a trance dance lead by Shiva Rea and Da'Riddim INya Drum Ensemble. Then the party opens up into two rooms: Drez and Da'Riddim INya will keep the high energy dance room going while the Didge Project and House of Waters play mellow grooves and Craig Anthony Miller whips up live paintings in the chill space.

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Yoga Class + Dance Party: $35 advance / $45 at the door (includes Trance Dance with Shiva Rea)
Dance Party Only: $18 advance / $22 at the door (doors open at 9:30pm)

Detox Flow Yoga: How Nutrition, the Environment & Emotions Determine Your Vitality
Seane Corn - Course ID: AFCORN

Friday, April 13 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Therapeutic / Mixed Levels

Each day we are exposed to toxins that affect our energy, health, and vitality. Many of the ailments and diseases today--including fatigue, weight gain, high blood pressure, and depression--can be attributed to poor diet, environmental stressors, lack of exercise, and repressed emotions. Come explore how we can improve our physical health, increase our vitality, decrease our susceptibility to illness and disease, balance our emotions, and develop practical tools for managing stress. We'll practice creative yoga sequences using three internal components for cleansing: abdominal compression, decompression, and twists. The practice will include Sun Salutations A and B, detox standing sequences, inverted poses, breathing exercises, and restoratives. As you examine your habits and become proactive about your health, you'll more easily choose what is best for your physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

Asana practice and discussion. Experience with Sun Salutations A and B is necessary.

Power and Precision
Jason Crandell - Course ID: AFCRAN

Friday, April 13 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

Experience how alignment, attention to detail, and mindfulness cultivate greater depth in your flow practice while you expand your edge and refine your knowledge. In the morning, you'll immerse yourself in Sun Salutations, standing poses, inversions, and backbends. In the afternoon, you'll unwind tension and bring your attention deep into your body with forward bends, sidebends, twists, and arm balances. This will be the perfect day for students to reignite, realign, and re-inspire their practice.

Mostly asana.

The Creative Art of Yoga
Sharon Gannon & David Life - Course ID: AFJIVA

Friday, April 13 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

By quieting the thinking mind, we open to insight and access the realm of infinite possibilities. When the mind touches the source of infinite potential, true creative expression results. Come explore classic yogic techniques designed to tap into the universal source of creativity. Our morning session will include a well-balanced complete practice leading to steadiness and ease. The afternoon session will feature a creative asana problem-solving laboratory, exploring practical ways to achieve more flexibility, balance, safety, freedom, and joy in asanas.

What to bring: A blanket, strap, and block.
Mostly asana but also includes meditation, chanting and interactive exercises.

Tracking Transformation
Ana Forrest - Course ID: AFFORR

Friday, April 13 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

What if you were able to track the process of transformation, becoming aware of exactly what is happening to you during a transformative moment or time? Through breath and asana, we'll learn to create a heightened sense of awareness, bringing awareness of the quality of feeling that lives inside. By tracking what is happening in your yoga poses, you can then apply this knowledge to transformation in other parts of your life.

What to bring: Water, a strap (at least 6'), a block, 2 mats (OR 1 mat and a large beach towel or blanket.)
The room will be heated. Mostly asana.

Prana, Apana, and the Vinyasa of Alignment
Richard Freeman - Course ID: AFFREE

Friday, April 13 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

Prana is the pattern of the inner breath governing inhalation. Apana is the pattern governing exhalation. Linking these two patterns together internally is the very foundation of yoga posture and pranayama. This linkage is also at the heart of the Ashtanga vinyasa system, creating the core postures, bandhas, drishtis, and breathing rhythms. These core techniques are so simple and yet so subtle that most practitioners overlook them. By exploring them, you'll find new freedom and ease in your practice.

Discussion and asana practice.

Lymphatic Yoga: Supporting the Immune System
Tias Little - Course ID: AFLITT

Friday, April 13 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Therapeutic / Mixed Levels

A strong defense system and strong immunity is the ultimate aim of a yoga practice. Come learn how yoga postures affect the lymph channels, serve as a tonic for the glands and membranes, and aid in the irrigation of lymph fluid throughout the lymph nodes and vessels to create a healthy and radiant immune system. We'll look at yoga practice as preventative medicine warding off the flu and respiratory tract infection, and also review the power of "psychic immunity," that part of our mind and body that must mindfully ward off negative emotion.

What to bring: A strap, block, and blanket.
Discussion and asana.

Transform Your Teaching from the Core: For Yoga Teachers of Any Style
Sadie Nardini - Course ID: AFNARD

Friday, April 13 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Continue Your Education

What you know about yoga poses is about to be revolutionized! Come learn how to understand and move from your deeper core muscle meridians and core body in every pose. Get creatively inspired as you gain the knowledge that so many teachers say has doubled their class sizes and saved many bodies from injury and strain. Over the course of two sessions, we'll learn how to instruct from the core, spot misalignments, and sequence in order to build your classes more dynamically and creatively.

Asana and discussion.

Insight Yoga
Sarah Powers - Course ID: AFPOWE

Friday, April 13 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Contemplative / Mixed Levels

Insight Yoga is a body-mind yogic path of awareness that creates a regular vehicle for insights to occur. It draws from the wisdom of yoga, Buddhism, Chinese medicine, and transpersonal psychology. In the morning, we'll focus on a fluid yang practice and mindfulness meditation. In the afternoon, we'll practice Yin Yoga and lovingkindness. Come learn how these practices create an integrated path of awareness and support a healthy quality of being throughout the day.

Asana and meditation practices.

Prana Flow Namaskars: Roots and Evolution
Shiva Rea - Course ID: AFSREA

Friday, April 13 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

Surya Namaskar's origins are in Tantric and Vedic methods for realizing and honoring the life energy that we embody. We'll begin with bija mantras at the heart of vinyasa, or movement meditations, to embody solar energy. From these roots, we'll explore the core teachings of the 27 Prana Flow Namaskars that have evolved from more than 20 years of teaching. Come enliven your practice, teaching, and life!

Asana and discussion.

Anusara Yoga and Fearlessness
Desiree Rumbaugh - Course ID: AFRUMB

Friday, April 13 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

When we are threatened, it is all too easy to react with anger. When we're hit, we want to hit back. There are alternatives that are powerful without being destructive. Love is immensely powerful. Unifying softness and toughness as part of the warrior's path is a key element. If we are willing to be vulnerable, from that vulnerability we can also discover invincibility. Having nothing to lose, we cannot be defeated. Come discover how your yoga and meditation practice can help you develop this inner unity.

Asana and mediation practices.

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