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Monday All-Day Intensives Friday Intensives
Immerse yourself with your favorite master teacher for an entire day, or delve in and explore a new style. Extend your conference experience to a long weekend--choose from 10 topics on Friday; 9 on Monday.

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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.


Yoga for Healthy Aging
Baxter Bell - Course ID: AMBELL

Monday, January 21 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Monday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

Yoga is a powerful tool for fostering healthy aging. In the morning portion of this class, you'll learn how to maintain strength, flexibility, balance, and agility as you age by focusing your asana practice. In the afternoon, we'll focus on stress management and cultivating equanimity. Supported inversions, restorative yoga, and deep relaxation foster physical health and spiritual well-being. Mindfulness practices and yoga philosophy enable us to face life's vicissitudes with grace and composure.

Discussion and asana.


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.


Evidence-Based Viniyoga Therapy for Stress Management
Gary Kraftsow - Course ID: AMKRAF

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

Stress and disturbing emotions play a primary role in contributing to disease. Yoga has tremendous potential for assisting the general population with reducing stress and the effects of stress-related diseases. Come learn the techniques that Gary used in a 12-week multiregion study on stress management for Aetna Insurance Company. The intervention introduced tools for managing stress including asana, breathing techniques, relaxation, mental techniques, and education. The data analysis showed statistically significant results in reducing stress. Through lecture and practice, Gary will cover methods used in the study to relieve musculoskeletal tension and headaches, improve sleep, increase feelings of well-being, and improve coping strategies for dealing with stressful events and the subsequent negative symptoms.

Lecture and practice.


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.


The Science of Willpower
Kelly McGonigal - Course ID: AMMCGO

Monday, January 21 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Monday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

Learn how to create and commit to a yoga practice that strengthens the courage, focus, self-compassion, and mindfulness we all need to overcome challenges and make difficult changes. Explore the biggest myths about willpower and the latest research on how mind-body practices can support everything from weight loss to recovering from addiction, anxiety, and other patterns that can keep you from living your best, most authentic life. Leave with new ideas and practices to support your path of personal transformation, or to share with others.

Active and gentle asana practice, pranayama, relaxation, meditation, self-reflection, lecture, and discussion.


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.





Friday All-Day Intensives
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