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Yoga Conference


Add fresh insights to your teaching. These classes are specifically selected to support your teaching and introduce new skills to share with your students at home. Appropriate for teachers, teachers-in-training, or advanced students thinking about becoming yoga teachers.

Taking the Seat of the Teacher
Desiree Rumbaugh - Course ID: AFRUMB

Friday, January 18 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Continue Your Education

Take the time to dive even more deeply into the art of teaching yoga and learn how to create better connections with your students and other teachers. In the morning, we'll practice both verbal and manual adjustments that safely and properly align the students and make their experience of yoga more valuable. In the afternoon, we'll discuss sequences, themes, and therapeutics as well as dynamics of the yoga workplace that affect your job.

Discussion, asana, and partner work.




Reading Bodies and Hands-On Adjustments
Maty Ezraty - Course ID: M1EZRA

Saturday, January 19 — 8:00am - 10:00am
Main Conference - Session 1
Continue Your Education / Mixed Levels

Reading bodies and giving hands-on adjustments are fundamental tools for both students and teachers. Come develop your ability to see and touch effectively. We'll learn to be sensitive with our hands, see when a posture could benefit from an adjustment, and make those adjustments safely and effectively. This class will provide essential training for all who wish to deepen and refine their asana practice and teaching skills.

Discussion, asana, and partner work.


Gut Wisdom: Awakening the Intelligence of the Core Body
Bo Forbes - Course ID: M2FORB

Saturday, January 19 — 11:00am - 1:00pm
Main Conference - Session 2
Continue Your Education / Mixed Levels

Did you know that your gut has a mind of its own? The core body not only holds us upright but is also our central intelligence agency. Come learn about the enteric nervous system—your belly brain—and its role as a channel for the mind-body network. Discover the anatomy and actions of the foundational elements of core body strength and awareness. We'll explore the core body through Sun Salutations, standing poses, seated postures, and balancing poses and finish with a brief restorative sequence.

CE credits are offered for psychologists and social workers Elemental Yoga is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Elemental Yoga maintains responsibility for this program (M2FORB) and its content. This program offers one (1) CE hour for psychologists. This program is also approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Provider #886459124) for two (2) continuing education contact hours.


What to bring: A blanket, a strap, an eye pillow, and two blocks.
Asana, pranayama, restorative yoga, and lecture.


Through the Eyes of a Teacher: See the Invisible World of Energy Lines and Flow Patterns
David Swenson - Course ID: M2SWEN

Saturday, January 19 — 11:00am - 1:00pm
Main Conference - Session 2
Continue Your Education

Learn how to begin to recognize patterns of energy flow in someone else. We'll do this through hands-on adjusting techniques to enhance the inherent energy patterns at play within specific asanas. By helping others, students will then try to recognize the same energy flow patterns within their own body and personal practice. We'll explore the dynamics of Downward Dog, followed by a sampling of asanas from the standing sequence as well as some seated postures. Whether or not you teach, it's valuable to learn to recognize and feel lines of energy that pulse within our body and swirl throughout the world around us. **This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for 0.2 CECs.**

Discussion and asana practice with partner work.


Psoas & Hip Flexors
Julie Gudmestad - Course ID: M3GUDM

Saturday, January 19 — 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Main Conference - Session 3
Continue Your Education

They are mentioned often in yoga classes, but where exactly are psoas and hip flexors? And why are they important in yoga poses? After a brief look at them anatomically, we'll practice poses that strengthen and stretch them. **This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for 0.2 CECs.**

What to bring: A mat, blanket, strap, and block.
Mostly asana with some lecture.


AcroYoga Inversions Technique for Teachers
Jenny Sauer-Klein & Jeremy Simon - Course ID: M3SKSI

Saturday, January 19 — 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Main Conference - Session 3
Continue Your Education / Mixed Levels

Explore a linear, progressive system for learning and teaching Headstand, Forearmstand, and Handstand to all levels, creating a solid foundation for new students and key refinements for experienced students. Teachers will learn how to help students build confidence by integrating acrobatic techniques and manifest a greater sense of ease upside down with a supportive partner as a spotter. Give the gift of empowerment by helping each other to overcome fear and balance in the middle of the room. All levels welcome.

Discussion and asana.


Penetrate More Deeply With Props
Janet MacLeod - Course ID: M4MACL

Sunday, January 20 — 8:00am - 10:00am
Main Conference - Session 4
Continue Your Education

BKS Iyengar initially designed props for weak or unwell students to assist them in the practice of asanas. Over the years, this original use has extended into the use of props for all. Skillful use of props can strengthen, stretch, support, open, create resistance, give a sense of direction, develop awareness, and give confidence. Come learn how to use props—and bring your practice to a new level.

What to bring: A mat, a long belt, a block and three blankets


Injury Prevention and Management in the Classroom
Jason Crandell - Course ID: M5CRAN

Sunday, January 20 — 11:00am - 1:00pm
Main Conference - Session 5
Continue Your Education

Helping students manage their injuries in a public class--and, ensuring that you are creating a skillful environment that decreases the potential for new injuries--requires ongoing practice and education. Learn a big-picture approach for dealing with injuries that uses a specific protocol for responding to students' pain in a responsible, appropriate way. We'll also cover common knee, hip, back, and shoulder challenges and provide a few accessible ways that students with these challenges can still thrive in a group class. **This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for 0.2 CECs.**

For teachers. Mostly discussion and lecture, some asana.


Yoga for Arthritis
Baxter Bell - Course ID: M6BELL

Sunday, January 20 — 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Main Conference - Session 6
Continue Your Education / Mixed Levels

Osteoarthritis can affect any joint in the body, from the toes all the way on up through the neck. Come learn more about osteoarthritis and how yoga can help you maintain, and perhaps even increase, your mobility in affected joints, while at the same time managing your pain. We'll move though all the important joints of the body, using simple, accessible yoga asanas to strengthen the muscles around joints and maintain flexibility and mobility while nourishing the joints themselves.

Discussion and asana.


Thai Yoga Massage Assists
Jenny Sauer-Klein & Jeremy Simon - Course ID: M6SKSI

Sunday, January 20 — 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Main Conference - Session 6
Continue Your Education / Mixed Levels

Cultivate self-love with an asana sequence that helps you embody Thai Yoga Massage techniques and stances. From this place of overflowing joy and ease, we'll give and receive a guided Thai Yoga Massage sequence infused with lovingkindness that can assist us in deepening our own yoga practice. Special attention will be given to delightful restorative assists that can be given in Savasana.

Thai massage with partner work. Recommended for teachers.




Teaching Yoga to Pregnant Women
Jane Austin - Course ID: AMAUST

Monday, January 21 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Monday All-Day Intensives
Continue Your Education

Learn how yoga can support women through the transformation of pregnancy, birth, and beyond. This class includes information on pregnancy's physiological changes, posture modifications, therapeutics, and contraindications. We'll also explore yoga as a preparation for birth, focusing on the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of becoming a mother.


The Nonphysical Practices of Yoga Therapy for Healing in Medical Settings
Jnani Chapman - Course ID: AMCHAP

Monday, January 21 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Monday All-Day Intensives
Continue Your Education / Therapeutic / Mixed Levels

Discover the nonphysical practices of yoga that assist people in mobilizing their inner resources for healing when faced with chronic or life-threatening conditions, including cancer, heart, and autoimmune diseases. We'll discuss bringing these practices into medical settings from a body organs and systems perspective. Topics include the physiology of breath and movement, common symptoms and side effects, yoga texts, pratyahara, imagery, meditation and pranayama.

For health professionals and health care administrators, yoga teachers, caregivers, and people who have been diagnosed with cancer or stable chronic conditions. Lecture & discussion interspersed with easy asana, pranayama, imagery, and meditation.


Lymphatic Web: Revitalizing the Immune System, Emotional Body, and Happiness Pathways
Bo Forbes - Course ID: AMFORB

Monday, January 21 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Monday All-Day Intensives
Continue Your Education / Therapeutic / Mixed Levels

The immune system is part of an intricate web whose filaments reach deep into the nervous system and emotional body. Stimulating the lymph boosts the immune system, activates parasympathetic channels, calms the brain, improves sleep, strengthens positive emotional pathways, and builds resistance to negative emotions. Using Integrative Yoga Therapeutics, we'll explore ways to flush toxins from all components of the Lymphatic Web, enhancing physical, emotional, and energetic life force and creating the blueprint for emotional well-being.

CE credits offered for psychologists and social workers Elemental Yoga is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Elemental Yoga maintains responsibility for this program (AMFORB) and its content. This program offers three (3) CE hours for psychologists. This program is also approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Provider #886459124) for six (6) continuing education contact hours.

What to bring: A bolster or two to three blankets, an eye pillow, and two blocks.
Asana, pranayama, restorative yoga, and lecture.


Muscle Imbalances and Back Pain
Julie Gudmestad - Course ID: AMGUDM

Monday, January 21 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Monday All-Day Intensives
Continue Your Education / Therapeutic / Mixed Levels

Muscle imbalances around the hips and spine can contribute to back pain and injuries. We'll study the anatomy of important antagonists, including the hamstrings versus the psoas, and the abdominals versus the erector spinae. Then we'll practice yoga poses and sequences to help correct imbalances, improve pelvic and spinal alignment, and relieve back pain.

Discussion, asana, and partner work.


Stop Tucking Your Tailbone!
Judith Hanson Lasater - Course ID: AMLASA

Monday, January 21 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Monday All-Day Intensives
Continue Your Education / Therapeutic / Mixed Levels

We were meant to have curves in our spine. Learn why (through anatomy) and how (with asana) to stop tucking and begin to love your curved lower back. Tucking in standing does not "strengthen the back." Actually, it weakens it. Tucking does not "tone" the abdominal muscles—it weakens them. Learn the anatomical facts about why virtually no one you know has a "swayback," and how many people have become pain-free when they allow their natural curves to remain.

Lecture and asana practice.


Evolutionary Leadership: Personal Transformation through Teaching Yoga
Jenny Sauer-Klein - Course ID: AMSKLE

Monday, January 21 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Monday All-Day Intensives
Continue Your Education

Calling all trailblazers, truth seekers, and leading-edge creators! Embrace the path of teaching as a reciprocal process of evolution, in which both teacher and student are transformed through mutual reflection and empowerment. In an atmosphere of pure positive support, come discover, reveal, and embody the unique living truth of who you are as your greatest offering and most potent teaching. We'll use guided movement, interactive exercises, contemplation, ceremony, journaling, dialogue, and embodied practices to allow your highest vision to manifest in a way that is meaningful and joyful.

Guided movement, interactive exercises, contemplation, ceremony, journaling, dialogue, and embodied practices.