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These all-levels classes are designed for yoga teachers and teachers in training who wish to inform their teaching with an exploration of new techniques and/or methodologies.
Friday All Day Intensives | Main Conference Classes
| Monday Yoga As Medicine Intensives
Instructor: Sarah Powers
Friday, May 15
9:00am-4:30pm: Friday All-Day Intensive
Code: AIPOWE
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Discover how to use hands-on adjustments to bring a greater awareness to the stable parts of poses. We'll focus on the combination of inner (breath and energy channels) and outer (cohesion within the bones and muscles) alignment, along with the use of touch, to assist yoga practitioners in finding an integral aliveness within yoga postures. Morning session: standing poses; afternoon session: backbends. Bring a notebook and pen.
Instructor: David Swenson
Friday, May 15
9:00am-4:30pm: Friday All-Day Intensive
Code: AISWEN
All Levels, Continue Your Education
Through partner work, we'll develop an eye for alignment and energy flow in the asanas through observation and hands-on adjusting techniques. We'll start with Downward Dog and move through a sampling of asanas from the standing, seated, and closing sequences. Mostly asana with partner work.
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Instructor: Roger Cole
Saturday, May 16
8:00am-10:00am: Session 1
Code: M1COLE
All Levels, Continue Your Education
Learn how to use stretch reflexes and other principles of physiology to safely and efficiently increase muscle length and strength. We'll alternate between physiological explanation and active practice, progressing from the molecular structure of muscles to complex control of movement by the brain. No prior knowledge of physiology needed. Two-thirds slide-illustrated lecture and one-third asana practice.
Instructor: Jason Crandell
Saturday, May 16
10:30am-12:30pm: Session 2
Code: M2CRAN
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The sequence of poses given in a yoga class creates specific emotional, mental, and physical effects. Learn how to awaken the shoulders, legs, and spine in ways that will allow you and your students to find greater depth, ease, and comfort. You'll also learn how to assess your students' bodies more accurately and refine your ability to teach authentically from your own voice.
Instructor: Gary Kraftsow
Saturday, May 16
10:30am–12:30pm: Session 2
Code: M2KRAF
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Experience the benefits of sequencing twisting postures along with Headstand and Shoulderstand. Using the principles of breath, adaptation, and sequencing, we'll create a powerful whole-body experience of twisting and inversion. Mostly asana.
Instructor: Cyndi Lee
Saturday, May 16
10:30am–12:30pm: Session 2
Code: M2CLEE
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Many different asanas have certain common patterns. We'll take some complicated poses and deconstruct them using consistent yoga principles so that you can discover how to teach any body any pose— without causing stress or injury. We'll also look at how to create beginner sequences that will lead toward more-advanced poses. Bring a block, belt, and blanket.
Instructor: Alanna Kaivalya
Saturday, May 16
3:00pm–5:00pm: Session 3
Code: M3KAIV
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Learn the principles of adjustments that can be applied with any yoga student, and practice hands-on adjustments with partners. We'll cover various types of adjusting, from light to moderate, for a variety of poses. Lecture and asana.
Instructor: Aadil Palkhivala
Saturday, May 16
3:00pm–5:00pm: Session 3
Code: M3PALK
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Pranayama focuses mental energy and calms the nerves, but it can damage the nervous system when done improperly. Learn how to safely and effectively teach the basic practices of pranayama so that you and your students breathe easier. We'll cover Ujjayi Pranayama and Viloma I Pranayama. Bring a mat and two blankets.
Instructor: Ana Forrest
Sunday, May 17
8:00am–10:00am: Session 4
Code: M4FORR
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Forrest Yoga gives you the knowledge to sequence your classes for optimal benefits, including healing, self-discovery, and inspiration. With a precise practice of sequencing, learn how to give your students a thorough warm-up, an exciting apex (highlight poses), and a group of relevant warm-down poses for a safe and challenging class. The room will be heated. Pranayama and asana.
Instructor: Marsha Wenig
Sunday, May 17
8:00am–10:00am: Session 4
Code: M4WENG
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Learn to weave character, education, and creativity into the daily lives of kids through asana, meditation, and visualization. Explore how to expand their potential and boost their confidence. Mostly asana.
Instructor: Natasha Rizopoulos
Sunday, May 17
10:30am–12:30pm: Session 5
Code: M5RIZO
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Learn how to practice, teach, and sequence inversions so that everyone in the room has a good time and a safe and enlightening experience. Mostly asana.
Instructor: Desirée Rumbaugh
Sunday, May 17
10:30am–12:30pm: Session 5
Code: M5RUMB
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Anusara Yoga offers an elegant and grace-filled method of teaching yoga that helps instructors train their students to listen to their own inner wisdom. Come and feel for yourself the magical and radically liberating application of the Universal Principles of Alignment, which you can apply to your own practice and teaching.
Instructor: John Schumacher
Sunday, May 17
3:00pm–5:00pm: Session 6
Code: M6SCHU
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Alignment is a hallmark of B.K.S. Iyengar's teaching. Proper alignment optimizes the benefits and safe performance of the poses and refines the quality of awareness. We'll practice observing and correcting alignment in a number of basic poses. Some discussion; moderately active.
Instructor: Beth Shaw
Sunday, May 17
3:00pm–5:00pm: Session 6
Code: M6SHAW
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Everyone learns and retains information differently. Discover how to be a better communicator and instructor by using VAK learning styles. Learn how to find out if your students are visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learners— and adapt your communication style to suit their individual needs. Discussion and asana.
Instructor: Marsha Wenig
Sunday, May 17
3:00pm–5:00pm: Session 6
Code: M6WENI
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Discover poses and techniques that teach children to be calm, compassionate, and clever. YogaKids can enhance academics and learning potential, engage proven techniques that children love, and provide innovative ways to explore and appreciate yoga and movement across the K–5 curriculums. Lecture with some asana.
Instructor: Cyndi Lee
Monday, May 18
9:00am-4:30pm: Yoga as Medicine All-Day Intensive
Code: AMCLEE
All Levels, Therapeutic, Continue Your Education
This workshop is a specialized teacher training for yoga teachers eager to gather critical information and cultivate skills for designing a healing class for breastcancer survivors. We'll look at different diagnoses, treatments, and long-term effects; discover poses that offer specific benefits to people undergoing treatment for breast cancer; and create short, simple vinyasa sequences that provide emotional and physical support. Discussion and asana.
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